English 1023 5 February 2012 Social Networking: Good or bad? In a recent poll of 1‚200 registered voters on Poll Position regarding their view on social media‚ 53% voted harmful. (McNamara 1) Today’s world has incredibly evolved around technology‚ especially with the emergence of social networking. Through the sudden rise in social networking‚ the question that has been called recently in concern is whether social media/networking is bad or good? The Bad: the increase in online predators over the last
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Open Source: Good and Bad Introduction: In the following paper I will be discussing the use of open source software as part of a larger project. Example uses of this include incorporating existing publicly available source code within another piece of software. Because the term open source has such broad implications‚ I will attempt to explain it within the context of this paper. Open source code comes with many different licenses such as GPL‚ BSD‚ and MIT. I will describe the most popular licensing
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Conformity to society‚ is it for the good or for the bad? Every human is different we cannot all be the same‚ therefore we cannot allow there to be conformity in our society or allow it to overpower us. As young adolescents and even adults‚ society has high expectations for us that we must meet in order to “fit in”. Society should not have rules or laws for everyone to follow when they are simply told to be themselves but so much is expected of them. No good benefits can ever come from society giving
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Sibling Rivalry: Good or Bad? “Younger siblings often measure their places in the universe against the apparently unbreachable and permanent gap that separates them from their older‚ seemingly more talented and accomplished siblings.” This quote from “Laney High” by David Halberstam describes something very common amongst children in a family: sibling rivalry. Although sibling rivalry is not always a good thing‚ for Michael it definitely was. If it was not for Larry‚ he would not be as successful
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Edna_a bad or good mother? Edna is a main character of the Awakening. She not only acknowledge her sexual desire but also has courage to act on them. (from Analysis of Major Characters). She is really respectable woman in Grand Isle. However. When we consider her as a mother‚ is she a good mother? Edna has a close friend whose name is Adele Ratignolle. Their philosophies and attitudes toward child rearing differ fundamentally. Adele is described “was the embodiment of every womanly
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Wal-Mart: Good or Bad? Wal-Mart has long been a staple in our economy. The store has allowed us to perform most of our shopping in one convenient location‚ thus cutting down the amount of time required to perform our shopping compared to going all over town to shop for what we need on day to day basis. Lately‚ people have been arguing whether Wal-Mart is actually beneficiary or not to the economy‚ and about the way it treats its employees. One such group calls its self the Wal-Mart Watch and they
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October 28‚ 2013 Civics: ISU Essay 2013 Bilingualism in Canada: Good or Bad? Yamna Zia I believe that bilingualism is central to Canada’s identity‚ as well as other languages. Pierre Elliott Trudeau has said that‚ “Bilingualism unites people; dualism divides them. Bilingualism means you can speak to the other; duality means you live in one language and the rest of Canada will live in another language”. Bilingualism is an
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The standardized test was great it was not that bad I was thinking about how wold I do in this standardized test. For me I consider both bad and good test taker because sometimes the test can be a little bit hard to pass and long to take but not all the time sometimes it is not that hard to take the standardized was kind of hard and also long to take but that did not make me feel bad. For a standardized test I prepare by looking over my practise test my work for my classes and also look over my homework
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These things we all know to be one hundred percent true. But there is one thing about Caesar that we don’t know for sure‚ and maybe we never will. So many people have different opinions‚ and it is hard to say who is wrong and who is right. Caesar was a bad leader because he did many things that were either cruel or for selfish reasons such as achieving support and rising in power in Rome. On the one hand‚ Caesar always did his best to please the people of Rome. He spent his time creating games such
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Cocaine is it Good‚ Or Bad? "Snow‚" "Blow‚" "Coke‚" all preferably known as Cocaine a drug that has been plaguing the Americas for centuries. In fact‚ it has been the cause for death‚ life and war. It ’s ironic to mention "death" and "life" in the same sentence. But how could this evil drug‚ which ruins many lives‚ provide life in any way? The answer is easy‚ history. Cocaine is not the drug we all expect it to be. Cocaine is originally from the South Americas‚ cocaine comes from a miniature
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