Is it important to question the ideas and decisions of people in positions of authority? I believe it is. While rules are meant to be followed‚ there should always be a reason behind that rule. There are instances where the rule is deemed by society as "unfair" or "bias." There are other instances where the rules can be detrimental to the people following them. Let’s take a trip back to the 60’s. Remember Rosa Parks? She was arrested for refusing to give up her seat. Remember Ruby Bridges? She
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and statistics show that one in twenty people have extreme obesity. How many more people must be a victim to obesity before we take action? Washington Post journalist‚ Robert Pearlberg wrote “Our Inequitable Obesity Fight”. Pearlberg’s article is about obesity growing in an alarming rate. Pearlberg argues to place junk-food taxes‚ and regulate food commercials to fight obesity. Moreover‚ Greg Crister‚ an authority on the subject of food politics wrote “Let Them Eat Fat”. Crister’s essay is the topic
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In the article‚ “Let them eat fat”‚ the Author‚ Greg Crister explained how fast food have grown aggressively targeting customers for their product in the poor neighborhood‚ where most of their customers are young black kids. He further explained how these fast food incentive their customers to eat the super-size meal for only a few cents more‚ and also points out the bad quality of food they serve and the high number of calories a meal has. The author studied that most inner-city consumers are cheerfully
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A more nuanced perspective can now be introduced in opposition to imposing an ethics onto comedy: that offensive comedy makes us think about hard topics and restricting humor can mean these topics are not brought to surface‚ but these issues are still there. This argument is often joined with a distain for political correctness. In ‘Moral Licensing: When Feeling Good Frees Us to do Bad’‚ Merritt‚ Efron‚ and Benoit through a series of studies found that being political correct removed moral inhibitions
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“People should have the right to choose when they die” This statement creates many interesting points. It is written about taking your own life‚ be it suicide or euthanasia. On that subject it has clearly been written by a person with pro-choice ideals because it states “should have the right to choose.” This gives the meaning that they believe it is a basic human right to have a choice. A further meaning behind this wording is in the phrase “should have” this shows that the subject of choosing
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Ngan Thanh Ngo ENGL 1302 Prof. Wood 02/20/2014 The State of Gay Marriages Marriage is the formal union of a man and a woman‚ typically recognized by law‚ by which they become husband and wife. However‚ in an article “Gay Marriages: Make Them Legal” by Thomas B. Stoddard is talking about the marriage of gays and the author try to argue for gay marriages. Just only reading title‚ we can see how strong of this argument‚ because Stoddard have showed us many evidences that can support his
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3) Critically assess the claim that people are free to make moral decisions (35) Libertarians support the view that people have free will and so we are free to make moral decisions. For a Libertarian‚ the key evidence for this is the act of decision making in our daily lives. Hume states that “experience is what we see to be true”‚ each human being experiences the feeling of being free to make a decision. If experiencing any other action constitutes it to be true‚ then why not the same for free
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Change makes our world go round. Change is what creates progress in society‚ what moves us forward‚ both individually and holistically. In other words‚ the world needs change‚ and change is undoubtedly a good thing. However the paths to change may not be seen by all as "good" things‚ but nevertheless‚ are necessary evils. Paths to change most always involve conflict‚ a clash of ideas‚ a challenge of tradition‚ but from the storm‚ the budding flower of change will emerge. So indeed we must question
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Chris Dente Modern Europe 1684-present Professor Whelan If They Are Hungry Then Let Them Eat Cake: The Extremities of the French Revolution Throughout history‚ many civilizations started out with some form of a monarchy‚ that type of government in which one person rules a country. The most common monarchy was a royal family. Monarchies have proven to be successful where the ruler has been competent‚ rules in a way which strengthened their nation‚ and acted in the best interests of its citizens
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How do people make judgements and decisions? Decision and judgment-making are normal human activities and people make a high number of these every day‚ so you could assume that psychologists have been studying this area for many years but it wasn’t until the 1950’s that psychologists began their exploration into this subject. Behaviourism set the belief that psychology should be scientific and objective and should observe similar criteria to the natural sciences. The mathematicians and economists
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