The Sin Tax Bill (Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago) The Philippines has scandalously low taxes on two commodities that have been proven killers of individuals‚ destroyers of families and threats to national economic security: cigarette and spirits. At present‚ 25 million Filipino youth who are 18 years old are smokers. If they continue to smoke‚ half of them will die. Santiago is the principal author of Senate Bill No. 3249‚ “An Act restructuring the excise taxes on alcohol and tobacco products
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American Films Chinatown In this essay I will discuss technical‚ stylistic‚ and storytelling from one of the great American noir films of all time‚ Chinatown. The storyline is unparalleled and the portrayal of the characters by Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway are brilliant. Director Roman Polanski and writer Robert Towne created a masterpiece‚ and it doesn’t go unnoticed. The duo captures everything that is film noir from the World War II times while tweaking the rules along the way. Chinatown
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The movie “Radio” is definitely a re-telling of the parable of the Good Samaritan because in the main story line‚ Radio is found‚ on the streets with only his mum left but Coach Jones took Radio in‚ knowing that he was disabled and cared for him‚ gave him a social life and friends. The main story point with the Good Samaritan story is that a man was brutally bashed and left to die on the streets but a Samaritan‚ of a completely different religion helps this man and brings him to an inn where he is
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The Godfather film center on the Corleone family and Michael Corleone’s rise to the head of the Corleone crime family. The movie begins with the introduction of Vito Corleone (born 1892 – died 1954‚ heart attack)‚ the head of the Corleone family‚ in New York at his daughter’s wedding. Vito is a Sicilian born Italian immigrant who is married to Carmella Corleone (born 1897)‚ who is also a Sicilian born Italian immigrant. Vito is best described as calm‚ intelligent and calculated. Carmella is best
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The Seven Sins of Memory Jasey Masoner Oklahoma State University The human brain is a very complex and intricate part of the human body. It is filled with hundreds of functions‚ one of these tasks being memory. Memory is the ability to retrieve and store information over time. There are many ways to use the memory‚ and many ways the memory works. Memory is a great operation of the brain‚ but it also has its disadvantages. A good example of these drawbacks is the famous
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Sin is a terrible thing. It can destroy anything it touches such as relationships‚ a man and his morals‚ and even his will to live. With this topic in mind and through various symbols‚ Poe shows the reader‚ man’s plight against sin and how it can torment him to the point of breaking. In this thrilling insight to the interesting mind of Poe we see how a man can win against his naturally desire to fall into temptation. I believe that when Poe was writing this story he was searching his soul. He wanted
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In literature‚ there are often references to the Seven Deadly Sins. There is greed‚ there is gluttony‚ there is lust‚ there is pride‚ there is sloth‚ there is wrath‚ and there is envy. These so called sins are common attributes within a man that can cause a man’s downfall. In the short story‚ “The Diamond Necklace” written by Henri Ren Albert Guy de Maupassant‚ some of these Seven Sins are examined a little more closely. Guy de Maupassant became a writer after the Franco-Prussian War which he was
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creatures‚ victims of the devil’s trickery as described in Genesis. Allusions or direct references to Adam‚ the Garden of Eden‚ and original sin occur throughout the play. In the first act‚ Shakespeare discloses that King Hamlet died in an orchard (Garden of Eden) from the bite of a serpent (Claudius). Later‚ Hamlet alludes to the burdens imposed by original sin when he says‚ in his famous “To be‚ or not to be” soliloquy‚ that the “flesh is heir to” tribulation in the form of “heart-ache” and a “thousand
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I Totally Agree Lying is something that has to be done depending on the situation. Everyone lies or has lied. So what is the big deal about lying. I don’t understand how people can say "Lying is never the right thing‚" because everyone lies ! I lie‚ you Lie‚ we all lie! Yes‚ unfortunately‚ there are times when you have to lie to do the right thing. I do not condone lying‚ but there are times when a white lie is needed to get by. Working as a street medic‚ there are times when I have to tell a
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what one American man should strive to be like because of his good character‚ his will to do good‚ and his true patriotism. The main character Steve Rogers is a very small and skinny young man. In the beginning of the film‚ he goes to see a movie at the local theatre‚ when the advertisements before the film are on for young men to enlist in the army‚ a man is repeatedly disrespecting the army yelling for them to just start the cartoon already. Baffled by this‚ Rogers then confronts this man
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