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    An Inconvenient Truth

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    Climate change‚ to put it simply‚ is a change in the world’s climate. In Al Gore’s documentary‚ An Inconvenient Truth‚ he talks about the dangers society faces from climate change. It is a slide show that Gore has presented over 1000 times worldwide. In this report‚ the keeling curve that Gore showed will be discussed and so will the glaciers‚ temperature‚ hurricanes‚ personal stories and the CO2. Figure [ 1 ] Figure [ 1 ] The Keeling Curve (Figure 1)‚ as Gore presented in the film‚ is a graph

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    Truth in the Crucible

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    Truth In The Crucible The play “The Crucible”‚ written by Arthur Miller contains many underlying truths about human behavior and thought. One of these truths that seems particularly relevant to the play reads‚ “To explain the unexplainable‚ the human mind reaches into a supernatural domain.” This statement is one that explains much of the dilemma that occurs in the play and in the real town of Salem Massachusetts. The aforementioned truth is exemplified even in the very earliest stages of the play

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    Truth and Facebook

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    become involuntarily a part of your life. Also pictures can be printed out and saved. So you have to be careful what kind of information you share. Furthermore you can’t control which person is in front of you and if he’s telling the truth or not. On Facebook you can pretend to be another person and give yourself another name. Sure the 100 million users have the total control over who can see what but you can’t be sure if people you have accepted as friends are really friends

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    Some were left wondering if this could be the real thing‚ given what is known of Ellison’s famed ego‚ and because the wide circulation of the 1997 Kurt Vonnegut commencement speech hoax had prepared the way for this piece to sound plausible. In truth‚ Ellison did not give a such a speech at Yale‚ nor anywhere else. The article was the fanciful creation of Andrew Marlatt‚ a writer for the satire website‚ SatireWire. It was reprinted (with SatireWire’s express permission) on BBspot‚ another satirical

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    The Truth of Hamlet

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    The Truth of Hamlet Hamlet the Prince of Denmark is a play consisting of a lot of revenge. This masterpiece of literature was created by William Shakespeare. Hamlet the Prince of Denmark is a tragedy. The play Hamlet is most likely written between 1600 -1602‚ which is a period when tragedies were very popular. Hamlet the Prince of Denmark is a realistic play. This means that the events that took place in the play could take place in real life. Since this play took place in the 1600’s‚ many things

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    the right and wrong. Atticus clarifies in the courthouse that the lie of “ all negroes lie‚ that all negroes are basically immoral beings‚ that all negro men are not to be trusted around our women”(232) is “ a lie as black as Tom Robinson’s skin” (232) and that the truth is that “some negroes lie‚ some negroes are immoral. some negro men are not to be trusted around women- black or white.” (232). Atticus states that this is a “truth that applies to the human race and no particular race of men”(232)

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    about the truth

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    AN INCONVIENT TRUTH The Earth�s atmosphere is pathetically thin when compared to the size of the earth�almost nothing.� That is why humanity can have such a devastating impact on it.��� What is global warming (aka �greenhouse effect‚� �climate change�)?� Sunlight arrives here on earth‚ giving us light.� Some of the light hits the ground‚ readily penetrating it‚ and then gets converted into heat radiation.� Now‚ the air has just a little bit of CO2 in it. That CO2 acts a bit like the glass in

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    I would like to talk about statistics. The word “statistics” is using in at least four different sense. First of all‚ it can indicate a whole subject or discipline. Secondly ‚ the term may use the methods to collect quantitative data. Thirdly ‚ the collection of data‚ gathered by those methods‚ can apply the term. And the last one ‚ it is an average. Statistics is when we observe people‚ things and events in the world around us. We notice their similarities and differences ‚ their pluses and

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    benefits to the public. For instance‚ weather forecasts‚ they can predict the weather based on the pervious data. Before a heavy storm happens they are able to warn people and prepare for the storm. Nevertheless‚ statistics do not always tell the truth. Sometimes the statistical results mislead people. The main problem with statistics is that people like favourable numbers to back up a decision. For example‚ when choosing an Internet provider‚

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    Inconvenient Truth

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    Assignment 3. An Inconvenient Truth. NOTE: This assignment requires viewing a DVD - "An Inconvenient Truth." You have four options. 1. Go to the CSUDH Library Instructional Media Center (LIB C121) and ask to view “An Inconvenient Truth”‚ which is posted on their web server. Note that the IMC is closed on weekends and certain Fridays. 2. Most public libraries will have the video for checkout. 3. You can also rent the DVD (check Wherehouse‚ Blockbuster‚ etc.). 4. Go the following website (foreign

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