It is easy to “go with the flow‚” so to speak. Don’t argue‚ don’t mess things up‚ and don’t disturb everyone else. That is the way we have been raised and is a point raised in Jim Tarters essay‚ “Some Live More Downstream than Others.” But by doing this‚ are we allowing critical issues to go unnoticed? In his essay‚ Jim Tarter raises the highly sensitive question about cancer vs. environment. Are they connected? Should they be considered on the same playing field? environment. Are they connected
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As the government‚ I fully agree that the SPM examination does more harm than good. The low standard of one of the most important subject in the world‚ English which is without a doubt the actual universal language is insulting and ridiculous. The standard of the questoins asked in the examinations are fixed easily by the ministry so that students from rural areas who are struggling with the language can atleast pass the subject. Approximately 375 million people speak English as their first language
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Simon Jeruchim In the history of the world there are very few events that are more horrific than the Holocaust. The Holocaust started when Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany in 1933. The Holocaust means the destruction or slaughter of people on a mass scale. During this time‚ it was the Jews. Simon Jeruchim was a Jew during this time‚ and he was a Holocaust survivor. (Rice‚ Earle p.38-51) The Nuremberg law was created in 1935. The law said that the German Jews were no longer citizens
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Beautiful‚” does a wonderful job of explaining the differences in the sublime and the beautiful‚ also phrased as feared and loved‚ respectively. Based upon Edmund Burke’s writings‚ he would agree with the statement that it is better to be “feared than loved” as a ruler. Also‚ his answer would not remain the same for males as well as females. These statements are fortified by the definitions and the qualities of both the sublime and the beautiful‚ and the differences between the two sexes. What
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In “More-than-Human Politics: The Case of Plastic Bags” Gay Hawkins argues that culture is anthropocentric in the way that humans interact with objects and matter. Hawkins argues that people should become more aware of the subject-object relationship. Hawkins is attempting to equalize the relationship between object and human‚ and escape from the cultural view always focused on humans. As Hawkins says‚ “My broad aim is to show why socio-ecological humanities research needs to pay more attention to
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The American Flag is the most widespread symbol Americans have. It took a disaster to make me realize how important it is. I would always wave the flag in a parade or on the Fourth of July‚ but I never really stopped to think about what I was doing. The terrorist attacks on September 11‚ 2001 are what changed my view. They caused me to reflect about our country and the value of saying‚ “I am an American.” After September 11th‚ there was an explosion of patriotism. Flags were bought and hung everywhere
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‘Anarchism is more closely linked to socialism than liberalism.’ The core principle and very definition of anarchism‚ is the opposition to the state‚ where individuals are free from any compulsory contracts e.g.- anarchists would go against Locke’ concept of rational individuals going into a ‘social contract’‚ in order to avoid‚ as Hobbes puts it‚ a ‘nasty brutish and short life.’ Some may argue anarchism is a reactionary movement but still it overlaps the two ideologies i.e.- socialism and liberalism
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Why Antigone is Much More Important Than Creon The Tragedy of Antigone is not called Creon because Antigone is more important than Creon‚ she is more controversial‚ and she is more admirable. Antigone played a bigger role than Creon in that she defied the law and started the whole play’s chain of events‚ eventually leading to nearly everyone’s death. When the play starts‚ it starts with Antigone talking with her sister‚ Ismene. She talks about burying her brother‚ Polynices. Even though Ismene
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As a whole‚ the Internet of today is more open than closed. The Internet has considered as a great source of communication throughout the world from the beginning of it. It is a way for us to transfer and obtain information of all sorts‚ and it is the space where the free is mainly concerned. If the Internet gets more closed than at some point‚ human’s freedom will be violated more and more. Yes! We will get crazy if the Internet is more closed than open. The Internet has become a huge part of everything
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childbearing‚ and lack of education‚ engage themselves in direct and allied agricultural activities‚ run small shops‚ sell by-products or handcraft products and thus generate additional income for the family. A government of India study shows that more than 40 per cent of rural women directly or indirectly contribute to the uplift of their families and thereby bringing social change. Harriet Beecher Stowe rightly said‚ “Women are the real architects of society”. In urban India‚ the lowest strata
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