Many activities through school can be entertaining‚ but school sports can be really treacherous. Sports can cause many injuries. We are asking Principal Schwanz to add in more non-sport student activities. Me and my companions agree that there should be less school activities that involve head on head contact. We do think head on head sports are dangerous. Please consider the following. Some experts say that kids associated with sports and school often don’t have enough time for both. (Kids) When
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Today’s world is full of pieces of technology that we take for granted‚ the microchip has truly revolutionised the way in which we live and do business. The world we see would not be recognisable to people of a few generations ago and nowhere is this truism greater than in the world of computing. Hence it is important to stay up to date with technology news; while many may think that this type of news is purely for geeks it is clear that all of us should have at least a passing interest in news of
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focuses on the arguments and criticisms on “why American psychology needs to become less American”. The main concept that Arnett argues is that modern psychology is secluded to the United States rather than being based on a broader section of the human population. This idea comes from analysing the current world population and noticing that “psychological researchers in the United States restrict their focus to less than 5% of the world’s total population” (Arnett 2008) therefore resulting in 95%
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The short story I chose to write about is “Little Red Riding Hood” written by Catherine Orenstein. Theme is defined as “a representation of the idea behind a story” (Clugston‚ 2010‚ sec. 7.1). I would summarize the theme of this story as a lesson learned the hard way in the difference between the right choice and the wrong choice to make. Symbol‚ character and setting really stand out in my mind when reading “Little Red Riding Hood” and contribute to the feeling I get of the lesson behind the
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How is the evolution of technology affecting us? There are two essays that discuss this topic‚ Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”‚ and Kevin Kelley’s “Technophilia”. Carr’s view on the evolution of technology is that it is decreasing our ability to deep read‚ and therefore decreasing our deep thought. Kelley’s view on technology is that it aids us in a multitude of ways‚ and desires to be loved. While both men have opposing views on technology‚ they do agree on one thing‚ they can’t live
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Upon reading “The Less Important Myths” in Edith Hamilton’s Mythology‚ it became clear that King Midas and his tale of greed and free will would be the most impactful and interesting to read about. Starting off with the depiction of an old man by the name of Silenus drunk and lost in Midas’s vast and beautiful garden. After falling asleep and being spotted by some of Midas’s companions‚ Silenus was draped in flowers and was awoken to a 10 day celebration full of festivities and entertainment in his
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In his article "Rich People Just Care Less" Goleman speaks out about the social distances between those with greater power compared to those with less. Goleman makes many effective points about the way higher class individuals act negatively towards lower class. Social power can shape certain relationships with people in both a negative and positive way. Having social power influences the behavior of many individuals. Goleman effectively persuades the lower status readers by providing many examples
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Modern social technology is threatening to dominate our lives and make us less human. As media has developed‚ human frantically use modern technology to communicate with each other. Under the illusion of perfect connections between people‚ it indirectly isolates and leads to less socially comfortable human interaction. However‚ social media such as facebook‚ and twitter actually brings out various benefits by sharing commonality of human nature through convenient access of modern technology. In another
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Nicholas Carr In the article by Nicholas Carr‚ "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"‚ Carr points out numerous drawbacks to today’s technology and as well as a useful tool to our society. Of course this topic of discussion has various opinions and viewpoints on whether technology is coming our aid or hurting us more in today’s world. I believe technology is in fact hurting us in some categories‚ but ultimately I believe that it is ultimately helping us grow as people and improving society as a whole. Nicholas
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The article "Why We Should Work Less." explores the idea of how Americans are workaholics compared to the rest of the world. Schiffman builds onto this argument by stating the fact that they work hundreds of more hours compared to the rest of the world. Instead of spending more time with our families‚ time is spent working our lives away with little to no breaks compared to other developed countries. The biggest argument in this article is that working less hours could bring unimaginable amounts
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