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    What are my personal beliefs and values regarding diversity? Good question. By having different influences in my life‚ mostly positive‚ it has shaped my outlook about diversity and my beliefs. These influences and beliefs can help the children in my care to begin to shape their own cultural identities. I have always thought of people as humans. I do not see or care about race‚ gender‚ ability‚ or differences. I guess I was brought up with the think that if you are not hurting anyone or yourself

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    Christian Camargo Susan Glaspell: A Woman Committed to Every Woman In the process of women’s emancipation as autonomous entities in a male-dominated society‚ literature‚ as the powerful mean of conversion that it is‚ has been one of their most strong weapons to successfully launch their critical‚ social comments against the oppression of their male counterparts. Female writing emerges out of this struggle to be acknowledged today as a separate category of scholarly interest. Among many important

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    more person is being added every eleven minutes. Many people on this list will die before they receive a transplant due to lack of organ donors. This does not have to happen. We can help by donating our organs.    There are many misconceptions regarding organ donations.  Many people believe

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    Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles”‚ takes place in an abandoned farmhouse‚ where the owner‚ Mrs. Wright‚ had allegedly murdered her husband. The play is mainly based around Mrs. Hale‚ the wife of the man who found Mr. Wright‚ and Mrs. Peters who is the wife of the sheriff‚ who is investigating the murder. The women mainly stay in the kitchen‚ while their misogynist husbands investigate‚ however the women are the ones who solve the crime. Susan Glaspell’s theme of “Trifles” was how marriage can strip

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    to Torture Suspected Terrorists to Gather Information” by Vincent Iacopino and “The Case for Torture” by Michael Levin both use different techniques to defend their stance against torture. However‚ both authors use deductive reasoning to defend their opinion on torture and both authors have similarities through out their essays and use some of the same examples to explain their argument. Both essays make a strong argument against torture but I feel Michael Levin’s essay “The Case for Torture” is

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    letting the enemy know where the rest of your brigade is hiding‚ is a common torture tactic. In most cases you just want the pain to stop‚ so you give false information. This is why I feel ‚no‚ torture should not be a tactic to retrieve information and should be abolished in this country. In the essay The Torture Myth written by Anne Applebaum‚ torture is discussed and evaluated by the writer. Applebaum focuses on whether torture is a good vice to gain information from a person and it is insinuated that

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    relating to the use of torture against any person whatsoever. As such‚ there are different perspectives on the ethics of its usage as well. While some believe that the use of torture becomes necessary at times‚ others believe that whatever the circumstances are‚ torture can never be justified. Some very pertinent issues related to the use of torture are‚ “Suppose a child has been kidnapped and a person has been suspected of committing the crime. Is it justifiable to torture that person in order to

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    The Potential Broken Link in the Torture Chain An American political theorist‚ Michael Walzer wrote that “just like strategy‚ generals must understand morality‚ they must understand cruelty and take actions to avoid it.” While sound military strategy‚ following the September 11th attacks‚ successfully expelled Al-Qaeda from Afghanistan and removed the Taliban from power‚ failures in morality continue to hamper the global effort to eradicate terrorism. The torture of suspected terrorists at Abu Graib

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    a regular country with regular soldiers. This war was one in which our brave men and women took on a radical religious band of terrorists who hide in caves‚ hide behind women and children‚ and strap bombs to themselves just to harm and terrorize others. These people continue to threaten American safety and liberty each and every day and were responsible for the most bloodshed on American soil in a single act of war. These people want nothing more than to harm innocent people and their families and

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    It is my belief that the essay “The Case for Torture” is flawed and that Torture is impermissible whatever the case. This is as torture is fundamentally immoral. The text states that the perpetrator aims to obtain valuable information which could potentially save thousands of lives‚ and what is the damage or loss of one life compared to this? However‚ torture achieves this goal through inflicting excruciating pain to the powerless victim‚ which cannot ever be justified. All religions take this

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