Modern Technology – Good or Bad? As I scroll through the daily Facebook status updates of all my friends‚ I noticed yet another friend of mine declared her yearning for an Iphone‚ promoting and ranting the many uses of it and how will the gadget improve her life. Notifications and ringtones indicate the overflowing of messages and emails into my inbox. One particular email catches my attention. Rather than the usual advertisements and spam mails‚ this one is special‚ bearing the title: “Modern Technology
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Girls just want to have fun; but often they don’t think about the consequences. Rebecca Martin’s feature article "Girls Gone bad" utilises specific techniques in order to persuade the reader to share her point of view. The issue of modern teenage girls losing respect and misbehaving is shown through the conventions of anecdotes and omission of detail. The reader is made to feel that parents must regain control over there teenage daughters‚ before society is damaged. Anecdotes play a pivotal role
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Article Outline – Why Bad Multiples Happen to Good Companies The article suggests that rather than focusing too much on having the highest multiples with regards to the companies’ performance‚ managers and executives will be better off focusing on the amount of value they create with regards to growth margins and capital productivity. One example of this was the US household-products manufacturer Church & Dwight‚ although the company’s growths on EBITA margins (+13.9% points compared to the
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Good Germs Bad Germs Author: Jessica Snyder Sachs January 21‚ 2013 We live in a world full of bacteria‚ in fact‚ bacteria is all around us. They are tiny‚ one celled creatures that get nutrients from their environments in order to live. In some cases that environment is a human body. But not all bacteria are bad. Some bacteria are good for our bodies; they help keep belongings in balance. Good bacteria live in our intestines and help us use the nutrients in the food we eat and make waste from
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Male Circumcision: Good‚ or Bad? Circumcision of males involves the removal of the foreskin of the penis. It is practiced in many cultures‚ ethnic groups and religions as a ritual or just as a social expectation. Some groups circumcise males for religious or cultural reasons‚ but there are also hygienic reasons that other groups circumcise male infants. In uncircumcised males‚ “if good hygiene is not practiced‚ smegma‚ secretions from small glands in the foreskin‚ can accumulate‚ causing a foul
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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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Julius Caesar was born on July 12‚ 100 BC in Rome. He was a great leader of the Roman Empire. Some people believe that Caesar wasn’t a great leader or man. Experts say he was greedy and a megalomaniac. They also say that he bribed the people to love him and he cheated the system. Other experts say he was a great leader because he was for the Roman people unlike previous leaders. I believe that Caesar was a great leader for the Roman people because he created reforms to help the people‚ created a
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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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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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