complex emotions and critical thinking skills. Reading controversial books like the Hunger Game will help children to build their "empathy muscles and exercise their brains. (Livescience) Ever since the Hunger Game was published‚ the book that has been adapted to movie and translated to more than 20 languages has lead to quite amount of discussions. Regarding the book itself‚ it is not surprising that it has been put into such a controversial position‚ receiving comments from opposing sides. The
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individuals understand WWI in that it focuses solely on the war rather than the narrator‚ gives a realistic‚ yet controversial‚ description of Canadian soldiers role in the war‚ whilst also continually highlighting the vanity of war. Barnes diary entries tend to err towards a more conservative outlook on the war‚ while the unnamed narrator of General’s Die in Bed addresses more controversial issues that were prevalent during WWI. Issues such as war crimes‚ false intel being fed to the troops from higher
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Kurosawa used sound effects to further elevate the quality of his film. He uses the natural disasters such as thunderstorms‚ rainstorms‚ and monsoons to develop the chaotic theme of the film. The ominous wind within the Spider Web Forest served as a paranormal factor. The trees would move back and forth as if a ghost were present. This scared Washizu and Miki while they were trapped within the Spider Web Forest. A memorable sound is found in the opening act. The men singing and the playing of flutes and
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Is ‘Modern Science’ making the world a better place or is it missing something very essential? It’s a question we often come across and the answer is usually inconclusive or controversial. To answer this question better we need to study the history of science. During my course of study‚ I got the opportunity to study and analyze the texts of ancient philosophers like Plato and Aristotle‚ and determine what have we lost and gained during the transition to ‘Modern science’. There is no denying that
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information to be considered true science? Label the following practices as science or pseudo science: Astrology: Science of the stars Biology: Science of the cell and living creatures Phrenology: Science of the brain and skull. Paranormal Investigation: Investigating the paranormal; Philosophy: Science of fixing problems Physics: Science of matter. 2. How do scientific laws and theories differ? Scientific law cannot be experimentally disproved‚ Scientific theory is required to be challenged‚ to
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ether‚ also known as aether‚ was believed to occupy all of space with a material that was considered to be a mechanically structured substance. It would be composed of particles that move in particular ways so as to produce the forces found in the phenomena of electricity and magnetism. This was on the basis of the work achieved by James Clerk Maxwell‚ who in the first developed the theory that predicted the existence and the means of producing radio waves in the 1850s. Before Albert Einstein’s special
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amount of curiosity and an exceptional sense of intuition. To be a successful scientist you must posses these critical attributes. A hypotheses is an educated guess of what one expects to happen after observing an experimental phenomena. People may reason many phenomenas by proposing different hypotheses. For ones experiment to be successful a hypothesis must be proven right (to whichever extent) or wrong (inaccurate). A hypothesis is a posed statement of‚ IF this were to happen‚ THEN this will
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You are on a sandy beach‚ watching the waves crash on the shore as the sun beats down on your face. On the horizon‚ you notice a small shape gradually getting larger and larger. Suddenly‚ you find yourself on the deck of a frightening pirate ship – not knowing how you got there. You look around and see a few familiar faces...is that your co-worker in the crow’s nest? Then a pirate with a large hat‚ presumably the captain‚ begins to walk toward you in a menacing way. A shock of fear courses through
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Reflections of culture in Nigerian video films • Emmanuel Alozie‚ Governors State University • For more than 25 years‚ Nigeria has emerged as one of the world’s leading video film producers. Since its inception‚ the cultural messages and values contained in these films have been a subject of interest. Several studies have been conducted to examine the contents. This study relies on a collection of these studies to extract the most common themes that have emerged. It uses the information and communication
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Outline the arguments for and against life after death? Questions of life after death have intrigued the dawn of mankind for millennia. This is one of the fundamental questions that none of us escapes. At some point in every person’s life‚ they must come to grips with a universal principle - all living things inevitably will die. Even in the brilliant and celebratory moment of our conception‚ we are already cloaked in the mantle of bodily death‚ and we know it. Although much in life has changed
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