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    Professor James Essay #1 Final Draft Living in a Morally Corrupt and Market Driven Society Our society is a corrupt one‚ without a doubt. Built on morals and ethics that have lost prominence and importance‚ our society and the people who it is composed of have quickly made our market economy something awful that was never intended. A market economy is essentially a harmless‚ productive way of organizing activity and trade; unfortunately‚ society has lost sight of the good intentions and has “drifted

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    Morally: Since rationalism is based on using our mind to make reasonable judgment‚ I think what has happened about the leaking of information about the NSA program of recording information is morally acceptable. As John Locke’s philosophy about “natural law”‚ which included moral equity and nature freedom‚ citizens have the rights to not be watched. What Snowden did was based on a personal point of view that represented the moral aspects of the culture‚ which is freedom. From this‚ I can understand

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    Gabrielle McConnellAre We An Overmedicated Society? COM 220Dr. Rich Rice2/10/2013 | ARE WE AN OVERMEDICATED SOCIETY? Are we an overmedicated society? Have you ever opened your medicine cabinet‚ and really looked at its contents? Have you ever stopped to wonder exactly what is in those bottles‚ and what it is doing inside your body? Do we really need all of those drugs? These are the questions I began asking myself a few years ago‚ and I feel most people should be questioning these things

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    Should Society Act Now to Forestall Global Warming? Teri Woods Science 207 Ashford University Instructor Eric Gaskill January 30‚ 2011 Global warming is not a new concept; we attribute this to “greenhouse gas” emissions. We see the effects of greenhouse gases on the environment as each year passes. It is assumed that the Earth will continue to warm as time goes on. Do we need to do something about this now or should we do nothing? There are issues to be considered including‚ “If

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    draft Yi Chen Should we lie? What is the conversation? In the class we did talk a lot about that. Some said very simply‚ “it’s talking”; some other used dictionary and said “it’s the exchange of information.” They are all right but my definition for the term “conversation” is that it’s basically the one of the connections between human beings‚ which is considered as the most important one and serves as the cornerstone of the human society. Dances and antennas‚ which are bees’

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    evil people‚ only evil acts. Terrorists‚ banks robbers and serial murderers‚ these are just a few examples of the evil people in our world. People that don’t change. It’s been proven that the over-whelming majority of all murderers go on to commit more homicides in their lifetime; a chilling fact. The thought that there aren’t sick‚ conniving individuals out there is ludicrous. Let’s take someone like Osama Bin Laden. He is consistently planning and setting up evil. These evil acts of terrorism

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    What are the pros and cons of being the only child? There are some options in this subject. Some children feel well withouth siblings but others dream about a brother or a sister. One of the main advantages of being the only child is that your parents pay attention only to you. You are the most important person in their lives. Parents do everything for you. For example‚ if you want a new toy or some clothes they go to a shop and just buy it for you. Moreover‚ you have everything for yourself.

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    value or meaning that comes from difficult times and/or catastrophic events. “ That which we obtain too easily‚ we esteem to lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value.” Thomas Paine is reflecting his belief that people tend to naturally care more about things that come or seem easy. Any human being will value only what they struggle for. People do value for what they struggle because struggle means fighting with self ill confidence to achieve success “No pain‚ No gain.” This

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    DEHUMANIZATION OF SOCIETY - TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENT. So what does it all mean?  Dehumanization “To deprive of human qualities such as individuality‚ compassion‚ or civility”. Being less human  Modern human society is paradox  More faith on technology than human being  Detachment in the world’s most precious relation  “Technology is a fire if you control then it is ok but if it controls you then it is a trouble” Education Technological awareness Knowledge Research

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    and disagree on? Both Wesley and the author of “ Society of the Friends of Blacks” believe that slave trading must be out to an end. The way the slaves are being treated is unacceptable and inhumane‚ which is not how we should treat a fellow human. They both want everyone to be treated with kindness‚ since they are part of the human race. The author of “Society of the Friends of Blacks”‚ however‚ does not want the slaves to be emancipated because it will be too much freedom all at once‚ which in

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