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    What Is True Beauty?

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    What is True Beauty? There are a thousand definitions of beauty. And there are many degrees of each. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. There is sadness in beauty. Beauty can be ugly. It is a concept that has haunted poets‚ artists and academics for centuries. Males are visual creatures. In their minds’ eye‚ like the posters teenage boys hang on their bedroom walls‚ men have an inflated idea of beauty. But to see how he really finds beauty in his surroundings‚ look at the girl with whom he spends

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    The Claims

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    January 9th‚ 2013 Books have been necessary for hundreds of years to the people of the world and still are. However‚ Ray Bradbury has the world of the novel Fahrenheit 451 think differently. Beatty‚ a fireman in the story‚ has an overall message to Montag‚ another fireman‚ which is that books create so many problems in the world and they do not do anything good. He explains this to Montag by stating three claims that all support his opinion. These claims are: the need for intelligence was cut down

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    The experiment was about people will respond to authority. In the experiment the teacher who is to obey the order of the authority who was the experimenter also the learner who was the recipient of incentive from the teacher. The teacher was given lists of words to teach the student‚ (learner) and the teacher have to read the original word given him also‚ read the four answers. What the learner would do was to press a button to show his answer. And‚ if the answer was wrong‚ the teacher would shock

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    Authority

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    Authority People in charge are flawed human beings as well as the rest‚ so they do not always make the right moral decisions. Authority figures tend to make mistakes when choosing what actions to take when necessary‚ therefore their ideas should always be questioned. Hitler is a great example of someone who should have been questioned. Jack from Lord of the Flies is also another instance in which someone’s decision’s should be investigated. Even though someone is in charge‚ does not mean they always

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    and Saward (2009 P. 361) defines the state as ‘An organisation that successfully claims a monopoly of the legitimate use of force in a given territory. The word legitimate also appears in the question for this essay‚ so legitimacy appears to be the key word‚ and its definition is‚ “able to be defended with logic or justification” (Oxford dictionaries online). In a democracy the Government is voted in by the people‚ and it could be argued this process makes it legitimate. But not all states in the

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    Critically assess the claim the claim that the conscience has ultimate moral authority Thobeka Kellett Conscience is said to be a voice or feeling that dictates a persons moral decisions this feeling of a sense of right and wrong has no definite definition and its argued among psychologists‚ philosophers and religious believers what the true origin of this feeling is. Some psychologists argue that we are born with this and this part of our personality is created by our social surroundings and

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    BONDS OF PEOPLE IS THE TRUE POWER Here I am‚ sitting on the floor and my body slumping on the mattress. The wind coming from the stand fan behind me silently whispers in my mind the words “Go to sleep.” The clock’s short hand points on that bulky number 3 while the other points between 1 and 2. Roughly two hours left before my usual waking time. But why am I still awake? The answer is right in front of me. A glowing light amidst the darkness surrounds me‚ making me defy the urge to grab my

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    right way. However‚ education is a big challenge for young people in Asia. For a start‚ a lot of children cannot go to school because their parents cannot afford that‚ so they have to work to help their parents at the early age…The curriculum focuses so much on theory rather than practical knowledge and skills‚ thus it is hard to apply to reality. Nowadays‚ a lot of students have to take extra classes from the teachers at school. The teachers sometimes raise their grade or let them know the exam

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    Authority Authority‚ power and legitimacy are perceived as fundamental elements of contemporary society for the sole reason that these are the defining features of a culture with political and social organisations and hierarchies. The term ‘authority’ is commonly misused by academics as a synonym for ‘power’ or ‘legitimacy’ which has led to confusion regarding the entire concept of authority. Authority is generally defined as a person (or group of people) who has the power or right to give orders

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    Critically examine the claim by states to be the legitimate governing authority in a territory. This essay will first define ’the State ’‚ and then look at evidence to examine the above claim. The state is a set of institutions that possess the authority to make the rules and laws that govern the people within a defined territory. Max Weber‚ cited in “Exploring Social Lives”‚ defined the state as claiming “a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory”‚ (Bromley

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