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    | Problem:|Solution:|Benefits of Solution:| People always talk about the innocent lives of human beings and animals being killed/diseased/injured while everybody seems blinded towards fruits‚ vegetables‚ and plants when the same things happen to them! The lives of these harmless organisms are never considered while we chow down on salads and apples! The lives of the innocent must be protected!|The solution is simple‚ banning the consumption and destruction of all vegetables‚ fruits‚ and plants

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    In this comic‚ the satirist is trying to persuade President Obama. The cartoon’s has the Obama quote “I’m confident there is a middle ground here on which to base a compromise” to depict how Obama thinks it’s possible to find a middle ground in Congress. This cartoon relates to our in-class discussion of the legislation creation process is‚ and how hard is to get bills passed when neither party wants to negotiate. It’s telling him to stand up against the Republican Party. The message of the cartoon

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    Art Critique of Café Terrace At Night Café Terrace at night is an oil canvass painting by the famous Dutch Artist Vincent Van Gogh. In the Painting‚ Van Gogh depicts the exterior of a side walk café on a starry night. We also see many people wandering on the streets or sitting on the terrace of the café. In the corner‚ we see a tree looming over the cobbled street. As it is taken place at night‚ we see that both of the buildings are illuminated. We also see a horse and a carriage

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    Kim Kardashian On the Issues For the first time since the brave Hilary Clinton‚ we have another woman running for president. Ladies and gentlemen‚ Kim Kardashian. Kardashian has plenty of prior accomplishments she has already made including things like her families reality TV show which has lasted eight seasons with three spinoff shows. Kardashian and her other two sisters also have their own chain of stores named “DASH” which have three locations‚ the first in Los Angeles‚ the second in Miami

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    The entire story line consists of hypocrisy with in the church and the despair that life is without optimism. He writes in satire in order to make a point. All throughout‚ his examples such as the Pope having a child despite claims of celibacy‚ inquisitor hanging Pangloss for different philosophical ideas‚ the flogging of Candide for just thinking about approving Pangloss’ ideas‚ and lastly the church officials have mistresses on each arm and are jewel thieves. Why does he

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    The Human Tissue Act 65 of 1983 regulates all aspects regarding organ transplants. This Act was last amended in 1989. Since then medical science has developed so big in size and to such an extent that organ transplants today are almost routine operations in many hospitals. Unfortunately the current methods of procuring human organs are not supplying the demand. A new approach‚ the commercialization of human organs for transplantation is a possibility with the potential to supply one hundred

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    A French philosopher and writer‚ Voltaire‚ wrote the novella Candide in the late 17th Century. Candide is a dark comedy describing many atrocities and dark events throughout the life of the eternal optimist‚ Candide‚ the main character. A similar masterpiece‚ Tartuffe‚ was written in the 17th century by Moliere as a satirical display of religious hypocrisy. Tartuffe is a production of vice and virtue that involves a witty and brusque family that idolizes a single religious figure who tries to insinuate

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    PART IV. A VOYAGE TO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOUYHNHNMS. CHAPTER I. [The author sets out as captain of a ship. His men conspire against him‚ confine him a long time to his cabin‚ and set him on shore in an unknown land. He travels up into the country. The Yahoos‚ a strange sort of animal‚ described. The author meets two Houyhnhnms.] 1.1 I continued at home with my wife and children about five months‚ in a very happy condition‚ if I could have learned the lesson of knowing when I was well. I left my poor

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    example of an optimist and pessimist view is in Voltaire’s Candide‚ tells the story of Candide an illegitimate nephew of a German baron. He lives and grows up at a baron’s castle. His teacher Pangloss teaches him. Pangloss teaches hint that this world is “the best of all possible worlds”. Candide falls in love with the barons beautiful and young daughter named Cunégonde. One day‚

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    An Essay on Man vs. Candide During the period of Enlightenment‚ many philosophers began a new way of thinking. For philosopher Alexander Pope in An Essay on Man‚ Pope believed that‚ “Whatever is‚ is right” (L. 294)‚ in that God is in control and every human being is a part of a greater design of God. Voltaire later challenged that belief in Candide with the idea that God does not produce order‚ but instead‚ we must produce it ourselves and use reason to give our lives meaning. Pope’s position is

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