Recycling: Is it Just a Bunch of Garbage Americans produce 4.34 pounds of garbage per person per day (United States Environmental Protection Agency‚ 2010). Most people just bring garbage to the curb and just forget about it. Local governments employ numerous ways to remove a growing amount of garbage. The most common way is to ship it off to a landfill and bury it. Another way that has been gaining popularity is recycling. Communities have been struggling with waste removal for generations‚ raising
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Dan Kassel Just War Theories in the West Sinkwan Cheng 10/15/04 Since the beginning of time‚ strong nations have taken over weaker ones without any consideration for the indigenous people of those lands. Some claim that because many of these peoples are inferior intellectually and/or physically to the conquerors‚ than by nature they are slaves and‚ as stated by Aristotle‚ "it is better for them as inferiors that they should be under the rule of a master (Aristotle‚ Vitoria 239)." However
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that during his nightly walk people thought that he was so dangerous that their was a possibility that he would rob their car. This quote is deemed important mainly because the true colors of society bleed out and are exposed for everyone to see. Just by the fact that the people felt the need to lock their car because he was crossing the street in front of them‚ it can be implied that they assumed that he was a criminal or that he was going to do something criminal like. It also implies the nature
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A man by the name of Gary Mark Gilmore spent most of his life either in trouble or in jail being punished for it. He was born December 4 1940 and he grew up in Portland‚ Oregon. He was abused by his father and when the family moved to Salt Lake City‚ he started on a life of crime. When the family moved back to Portland‚ Gilmore became a neighborhood tough and dropped out of school at the age of 14. His involvement in a car theft ring opened his long criminal record. He was arrested a second time
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War is Hell A review of chapter 2‚ ’The Crime of War’ in Michael Walzer’s book‚ "Just and Unjust Wars: A moral argument with historical illustrations." Allen Lane 1997. In this chapter‚ Walzer discusses the cruelty of war and whether there can be any justification for such cruelty. He begins by distinguishing between the justice of war (jus ad bellum) and the justice in war (jus in bello). "War is always judged twice‚ first with reference to the reasons states have for fighting‚ secondly with
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the reading claims that it is just a myth that Greek people in one of its port cities defended themselves during a war with Romans by using an equipment called burning mirror and presents some reasons to support this claim. However the lecturer finds all the reasons dubious and provides some explanations to refute them all. first the reading brings up the idea that Greeks did not possessed the technology that was needed to make such a large curved copper sheet and explains that for using a sheet
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In E.E. Cummings’s unrhymed poem‚ “[in Just-]‚” Cummings emphasis on the importance of the start of spring‚ children‚ and innocence-filled world. In addition‚ Cummings symbolizes spring to youthful children and their innocence throughout the whole poem‚ because spring is the season after the chilly and empty atmosphere of the outside during winter. Spring is often visualized as a colorful‚ warm‚ and bright season‚ where children are playing from “running from marbles and piracies” to ‘hopscotch and
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deserve‚ if anything they are often the ones who deserve it the least. A just God would not put undeserving through the pain they receive. I started this essay on the opposite side‚ claiming that there had to be a plan in existence that we would never comprehend or know of‚ but in lieu of recent events my mindset switched completely. This Saturday my father’s best friend took his own life‚ leading me to question how a so called “just God” could possibly justify taking away our closest ally‚ ourselves
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Running head: JUST SAY NO TO LEGALIZATION Just Say No to Legalization of Marijuana Your Name Your University Legalization of illicit drugs is a controversial topic. Proponents approach the issue from many vantage points. This paper will address two main arguments proponents of drug legalization put forth. First‚ they claim illicit drugs such as marijuana should be legalized due to medical value this drug is alleged to possess. They also claim that legalization would reduce crime. The
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getting involved in sports? We have you covered for that‚ too. Our mascot‚ Wolfie Seawolf‚ proudly represents 20 NCAA Division I sports teams. Intramural and club sports‚ including flag football‚ volleyball‚ bowling‚ and more‚ are also options. Plus‚ we just opened our new 85‚000-square-foot Campus Recreation Center. 2 Stay current on what’s happening globally. It’s a great big world out there. While you spend hours doing schoolwork‚ do you really know what’s going on outside of your textbooks? Keeping
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