Simon Benlow’s “Have It Your Way: Consumerism Invades Education”: A Summary Students are being seen as consumers when it comes to their education and the university they choose. Benlow argues that companies are buying access to student’s brains. The phrase “Have it Your Way” is used to describe how the universities keep the students happy and to decide to choose the certain college that pertains to the students’ needs in the best way. The phrase‚ “Have it Your Way” promotes the idea that the university
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The industrial revolution brought success to the civilized world but it also brought a nightmare called "pollution." In the past decade we’ve become more environmentally conscious of our planet‚ but for almost a century we’ve been a "throw-away" society with an out-of-sight‚ out-of-mind mentality. Industrial smoke has polluted our air‚ whole communities have been built over nuclear waste landfills‚ fish and wildlife have died in our once pristine streams and rivers and our rain forests are being
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challenges of a new kind that question the traditional conceptions of order. Our society is based upon orders of justification that privilege some with certain legitimations and the power of representation. This authority is questioned by an increasing number of people. The proposal of the artist Tania Bruguera to put Duchamp`s urinal back into the restroom describes very metaphorical the claim that socially engaged art has: This way of understanding art has nothing to do with decontextualization of objects
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battles fought by the Americans and Canadians against the Nazi Germans in WWII. These major battles had a huge impact on who would win the war. The bloody battle on Omaha beach‚ the specific naval ships used to bring supplies and troops to the battlefield‚ and the many difficulties the Allied soldiers faced in battle‚ all greatly affected the outcome of the war. To begin with‚ the Allies ships played an important role on D-Day. One of those important ships were the LST’s. These giant ships were
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Slavery During the Civil War In 1861‚ America was on the brink of a Civil War. This was a fight about several issues‚ but most prominently American slavery. Slavery was a very controversial topic‚ and every American citizen would have had an opinion on the topic. Many Northerners believed it was wrong to own human beings‚ period. The Southerners believed they had no choice other than to own them. People back then couldn’t afford to hire men and keep the plantation running; it was too costly
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<i>Every society has mythology. In some societies‚ it ’s religion. Our religion is consumerism.</i><br>Ellen Weis‚ San Francisco ’s Museum of Modern Mythology<br><br>Consumerism fuels the capitalist fire. In a capitalist society‚ the goal is to make money‚ by whatever means possible‚ exploiting whichever potential weakness that might exist. The human race is one with a wild imagination‚ and this wild imagination‚ though a great strength‚ can‚ like all great strengths‚ serve as a potential weakness
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treated? Following World War I‚ many nations agreed the treatment of prisoners was unacceptable. As the community of nations worked to address the horrible treatment of prisoners‚ they drafted changes to the international treaties known as the Geneva Conventions. Many nations agreed to these standards of treatment for prisoners of war‚ including the German government. World War II was the first major conflict where these new standards of treatment were used. During World War II‚ the Germans under
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Pearl Harbor and her entry into the Second World War? World War II began in September 1‚ 1939. German tanks and planes had begun a full-scale invasion of Poland and keeping their pledge Britain and France declared war against Germany. However‚ it wasn’t until December 8‚ 1941‚ the day after the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese did the United States “officially” entered the war. The United States had declared neutrality before they had entered the world‚ but through President Franklin Roosevelt’s
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warriors have been recorded as significant figures in Medieval history. To understand the knights of the Medieval period‚ a person should become familiar with the origins‚ the culture‚ their tools and training‚ the influences of literature‚ and the decline of the knighthood. The origins of the knight date back before the 9th century. The word “knight” was is connected to the beginnings of this Medieval figure. The name knight comes from the word "cniht" or "cnoeht"‚ which is Anglo Saxon for young man
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This Fleeting World This Fleeting World takes about two hundred and fifty thousand years worth of history and compacts it into a one hundred and twenty page book. I believe Christian did a stellar job of doing so. Although short‚ it is very rich in knowledge about how our world came to be. His points are powerful and well put. This book definitely stands out in all the black and whiteness of history books. This fleeting world ties the start of humanity‚ to current life very efficiently.
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