Victor Rodriguez 12/17/13 CP English 11 P.7 Why we shouldn’t be someone we’re not We all have a personality‚ but several of us have multiple. Why is it that so many of us have more than one? Could it be because we want to seem nice to other people when we present ourselves‚ or because we want to hide one side of our personality from people and show off the other? Well‚ this is the case for many of us. We all want to fit in with a group of people and be accepted
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Why Do We Dream? No one knows the true answer as to why we humans dream. Probably no one ever will truly know but there are many theories concerning this topic. One theory brought about by famed psychologist Sigmund Freud is that dreams are secret wish fulfillments of the dreamer. Another is the information-processing theory. A third theory is called the activation-synthesis theory. All three are valid theories that deserved to be looked at and discussed with a little more detail. Sigmund Freud
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We Fought‚ We Won‚ We Are Free “We hold these truths to be self-evident‚ that all men are created equal with certain unalienable rights‚ that among these are Life‚ Liberty‚ and the Pursuit of Happiness.” In this excerpt for the United States Constitution‚ it states that all men in the United States are created equal with certain unalienable rights. Through the past few years the black community has been taking a stand‚ and saying that they were not getting the same treatment as everyone else. The
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Why do we Dream? It has been said by researchers that everyone dreams during sleep and it is thought to be a universal psychical feature of our human lives. However‚ many of us are unable to recall vividly what happens throughout our dreams‚ if anything at all. Due to this clouded unique nature that is dreaming‚ most of the knowledge why we dream is largely inconclusive. Nonetheless‚ after many years of theoretical debate on the subject‚ three arguments have remained prominent of which I will
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College education being free‚ has been a topic that many debates‚ or come across often. Several countries do provide free college education‚ but this system won’t work in the United States especially in the highly populated regions. Therefore‚ making Community Colleges free‚ our taxes will rise‚ we will have overcrowded classrooms‚ and underpaid professors‚ all leading to poor quality of education. As stated by Mary Clare Amselem in her article ‘Free Community College is a bad deal for taxpayers
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People marry to get company that they would not get if they were single. Nobody wants to return to an empty home‚ which is what happens if you do not marry. Isolation can be killing. Studies have shown that isolation can be harmful to health as heavy smoking or drinking. It is only in the movies that bachelors look young and carefree. If you see men who are single‚ after the age of 28 or so‚ you will find that they look older and more worn out than married persons of the same age. Scores of studies
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In the essay‚ “Work Rules” by William Grieder he talks about what it is like to be an American worker in our society. He poses a question‚ “are Americans really free?” (Greider) This is a tough question to answer‚ what is our definition of free and how is freedom accomplished? Do we have more freedoms than the older generations? What roads have been paved for us and what disadvantages are we facing now? Grieder’s bottom line in this article was that communication is key for a successful business
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Emile Durkheim‚ a French sociologist‚ established the concept of anomie in his book The Division of Labor in Society‚ published in 1893. He used anomie to describe a condition of deregulation that was occurring in society. This meant that rules on how people ought to behave with each other were breaking down and thus people did not know what to expect from one another. Anomie‚ simply defined‚ is a state where norms (expectations on behaviors) are confused‚ unclear or not present. It is normlessness
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Do We Have Duties to Others? I saw an article from the news a few days ago; it says an old woman slipped down on the street in china‚ most of the people wouldn’t help‚ and others of them tried to get so close but still wouldn’t lend any help. Therefore the old lady was lying there for over 20 minutes in the cold and wet street and waiting for someone “brave enough” to get her to the hospital‚ only because they all worried about been getting blamed and take the responsibility of all the money for
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to catch a glimpse of possibility in their life. But what would they do if they do if they were told who they were to become? In Macbeth‚ by William Shakespeare‚ Macbeth is posed with that question. He is able to see his fate through with the help of witches. He fulfills one of the requirements for being a tragic hero‚ learning something‚ by realizing his individual influence on fate by hearing the witches’ prophecy and deciding what to do and believe after. When the witches revealed Macbeth’s future
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