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    Your identity is a part of you. It is basically who you are as a person. It is important for a person to know their true identity because it lets you know who you are as a person and know how it can help others. Everyone has an identity even if they don’t know it. April and Hercules don’t know their true identity and they struggle to find it. Hercules and April are very similar in different ways. In the beginning of both stories‚ both characters didn’t have many or any friends before they found

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    Jennie Pascua Professor Michelle Johnson English 1B Summer Online July 31‚ 2014 Essay # 2 “The Lame Shall Enter First” The Power of Faith Human nature perceives good and evil as two different realms. Good is perceived as manifestations of love‚ purity‚ salvation and goodness in the lives of people. Lesser good is judged to be evil. Frequently‚ the perception of good and evil is based on our own frame of acceptance. When we judge other people‚ we create a separation between good and evil. Such people

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    Nothing that Nick Freeman has written is true. Will bringing back the cane restore discipline in school? He wants the cane to retrieve in schools because teachers are losing respect from their students. He is bestowing an opinion as if it is a fact because not all students disrespect their teachers. Firstly‚ Freeman states that he desires to ‘re-establish order in the classroom’ and he is annoyed by the students of disrespecting their teachers. The reason he writes the article is because

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    " Is there such a thing as innate talent?" is the question that is asked by the author Malcolm Gladwell‚ in the text. In the text the author presents evidence to help us understand his claim. Which is that there is such a thing as innate talent. He tells us how ‚ not every hockey player born in the winter becomes a professional hockey player‚ only the one with innate talent. However‚ the Gladwell also makes another claim. it is that‚ natural talent is not how you achieve greatness. Gladwell

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    To begin with‚ Maris successfully uses the emotional strategy of argument to convince the reader that she chooses to name herself a “cripple” not to seem harsh but to best describe her condition. Maris openly chooses the undesirable word in order to manipulate the reader’s feelings by making the reader feel unsympathetic toward her condition “Multiple Sclerosis.” Maris believes that the word “cripple” is “a clean word‚ straightforward‚ and precise.” She appreciates the accuracy of the word that

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    We might as well re-name Human Beings to Human Doings. What does it mean to be a human rather than do things humans do. Are actions an innate response or do actions stem from emotions and feelings accumulated by unique individual perception. At what point does reason morph into moral obligation and justified response. Philosophers have been tracing the roots of human nature to gain information to educate society on how best to govern the species. I will be analyzing David Hume’s work‚ A Treatise

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    Lord of the flies written by William Golding and Gattaca produced by Andrew Niccols‚ 1997 are both speculative fictions as they forewarn humanity by creating a reduced but parallel reality to our own society in a way that highlights humanity’s problems‚ creating a microcosm of society. In each text the theme of Utopias/dystopias are used to display to mankind how what seems to be a prefect world is really the opposite. Discrimination is also highly evident in both texts as well as identity which

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    The Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire The Enlightenment and the values it promoted are really nothing less than the infant version of twenty first century America. Its emphasis on reason‚ freedom of speech‚ religion‚ and assembly‚ and its desire to secularize government all appear in the Bill of Rights and represent the core beliefs which have been shaping U.S. culture for over two hundred years. Voltaire‚ a leader among the French philosophes‚ embodies much of the Enlightenment sentiment in

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    Philosophical Contributions of Gandhi’s Ideas Introduction A lack of an interdisciplinary approach to peace and non-violence that fails to include philosophy and education exists in part because the issue of non-violence considered as a philosophical and educational concept is under-explored. Ideas of non-violence often emerge from action‚ and therefore it is often thought that non-violence demands a need for action- a demand that many believe is not met by philosophy. These explanations are

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    GATTACA’ Film Summary Vincent is destined to be a second class citizen‚ conceived naturally‚ rather than in a laboratory. He is born into a world which discriminates against genetics‚ rather than religion‚ race or gender. In order to gain access into the Gattaca Corporation and reach his dream of going to Titan he takes on the identity of Jerome Morrow‚ a person with ideal genes but crippled from an accident. He uses Jerome’s hair‚ blood‚ urine and skin to pass all tests and is set to reach

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