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    as Americans are becoming increasingly lazy and gradually isolating ourselves from our everyday surroundings due to technology. Technology is detrimental to society by corrupting our minds and consuming our lives. Although technology allows us to efficiently communicate with one another and helps to make life a little amenable‚ it has made the population alarmingly lazy. Instead of going outside to play with friends in the beautiful fresh outdoors‚ one would simply stay shut in the confines

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    Without a society integrated with technology‚ communication and productivity would be hindered not only on a person level‚ but a global and commercial scale. Bill Gates‚ an American entrepreneur‚ found success from being the co-founder of Microsoft and designing and developing software for the Personal Computer (How to be a Billionaire). William Henry Gates III was born on October 28‚ 1955‚ in Seattle‚ Washington. He was the second child and only son of William Henry Gates Jr. and Mary Maxwell Gates

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    How is it that English has become such a dominant world language? It is estimated that in the world today about two billion people have some working knowledge of English‚ and the language is spreading rapidly. It is safe to say that English has become the global language. Colonization under the British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries spread the English language around the world. English became the main language in many of these countries‚ for example Canada (where French was

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    just the fear of continuing life without a loved one. The main cause of teen suicide is not listed above because it is kept secret by many children who have become or been victims of it. It is bullying‚ bullying has become the main cause of teen suicide across the nation even across the world. (“Teen suicide 2014”) Bullying has no longer become a physical thing but with our advances of technology bullying is now more relentless than ever. Bullying can now be sent via text message so now bullying won’t

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    way of thinking about an idea and so he‚ along with the Nazis began a huge propaganda campaign against mentally and physically disabled Germans. As the disabled people did not fit into the Nazi stereotype of the pure Aryan society‚ they were then viewed as a burden on the society because Nazis

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    in technological history. However‚ with such enormous advancements in technology‚ some of us have questioned that our privacy has quickly become a thing of the past due to a number of factors‚ and I agree with them. The Internet is the perfect stalking device due to our lack of privacy. Today‚ we have over 100 social networking sites‚ and 56% of the world’s population has admitted to using at least one amongst the many. In a seven-year Carnegie Mellon University study of Facebook shows that when

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    Assess the view that secularisation has been a feature only of modern European societies. Sociologists have minor differences on secularisation‚ whether this is the extent of secularisation or what is happening to society due to secularisation. A definition given by Wilson of secularisation is the process whereby religious beliefs‚ institutions and practices have lost their social influence. Other sociologists such as Bruce and Gill further add to Wilson’s research by adding more evidence and expected

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    Media performs very important functions in the society. In modern democratic nation‐state system it is considered as the fourth pillar of the state whose functions are indispensible for the smooth and effective functioning of a society. It is the dire need of today’s globalized people to be aware of their surroundings. Therefore everyone gets information through easy accessible sources of media. Mainly mass media is involved in providing latest information about whole world‚ national‚ and local events

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    “Advertising has gone too far and is now a necessary evil.” This essay will discuss the topic “advertising has gone too far and is now a necessary evil”‚ especially referring to advertising directed at children. For the sake of this essay‚ “advertising” is defined as any public promotion of something‚ mainly products directed at children. “Gone too far” is defined as crossing the line of moral values and is now harming the safety and welfare of society. “Necessary” is defined as needed and inevitable

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    2.Employees consistently rank oral and written communication at the top of the list of skills they seek in job candidates‚even ahead of honesty‚integrity‚and computer skills.Why are communication skills so important to employers? Communication promotes motivation by informing and clarifying to the employees about the tasks to be done‚the manner they are performing thetask‚and how to improve performance if it is not up to the mark. Communication is a source of information to the organizational members

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