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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hospital I came home to just two siblings‚ an older brother and an older sister‚ not so bad. Throughout the years the family kept growing‚ and growing‚ and growing. Today there are eight of us‚ four boys and four girls. There are a million characteristics that separate brothers from sisters; some good‚ some bad‚ and others are just plain weird and annoying. The Good To begin with every sibling has his/her good qualities. I can always go to my brothers just as fast as I can go to my sisters if I ever
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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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The Good‚ Bad and Ugly of Fracking There is a gold rush going on right now. Man is breaking the earth‚ looking for natural gas. It’s a mad scene‚ with hucksters on every side of the issue. There is a lot going on underground and that process is called Fracking. The word alone can stir up controversy. The process of extracting natural gas through hydraulic fracturing or “fracking‚” might summon in someone’s imagination an environment and damaged communities. Natural gas hides from sight it is invisible
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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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