express their opinion in academic writing is highly speculative. Fish claims that the students are not expected to show their opinion in academic writing because writing is all about influencing reader’s view. According to Fish‚ the purpose of writing is to “expand the possibilities of thought and action—that‚ not self-expression” (Fish). Therefore‚ writings should lecture new knowledge or perspective about certain topic to readers. Based on this quote‚ Fish shows that student’s opinion is not so important
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Discontent may have foreshadowed the outcome of the 1979 general election. However “Callaghan might have won if he had gone for an election in 1978”(Chris Rowe‚ Source 9) at this time Callaghan was ahead of Thatcher in the opinion polls‚ this shows his government were gaining support. Although his relaxed attitude did have its attractions previously but this was not ideal when the country were experiencing economic crises; when asked about the crises he declared “Crisis‚ what Crisis”. This attitude may
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‘The only reason to be moral is because it is the right thing to do’ Discuss. Morality is defined as the principles of distinguishing between good and bad behaviour. We call the murderer an immoral person because they have committed a ‘bad’ action. We also stereotype charity workers as moral because they are devoted to helping others. But what motivates our moral behaviour? In an attempt to answer this‚ I will assess several key theories and thinkers to prove that morality is a means of achieving
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might disagree with their parents’ views later on in life and resent being baptised. They might also believe that if someone is baptised when they are a baby‚ they feel pressurised to be confirmed when they are a older and go ahead with it even if they do not really want to. I disagree with these views because I think it is right to baptise babies because then they are being properly welcomed into God’s family‚ and become a child of God‚ which means more than the welcoming ceremony that the Baptists
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‘In the 21st century‚ gender inequality is still prevalent in the world.’ Do you agree with this statement? Answer: 1. Gender inequality is still prevalent in the world in the 21st century. Employment inequality is present in the societies today. In terms of employment as well as promotion‚ most women are usually at a disadvantage as wage discrimination exists between the male and the female gender. Most women generally have fewer opportunities in getting a job as compared to men. A country
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Where do you fit politically? Before starting this assignment I have always thought that I would be in a party that had nothing really to do with Republicans or Democrats. Why should I relate to something that in my opinion always either has a strong left or right brain about something that could easily be just in the middle. Since 2004 I have been able to vote for whomever I felt could be the President of the United States and since then I have tried to vote for people like Cynthia McKinney (Green
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these events started through his foolish banishment of Cordelia however this is momentarily and he later seems to go back to his mad ways. It is only at the very end of the play‚ when him and Cordelia are reunited with Lear carrying her body in his arms‚ it is at this point when Lear realizes his wrong doing to Cordelia "You must bear with me. Pray you now‚ forget and forgive. I am old and foolish". It is in Act 1 when Lear’s mental stability is questioned through subjecting his three daughters Cordelia
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Every coin has two sides. There is also a group of people who support the moral objectivism. According to their view‚ morality is based on some general facts‚ such as happiness is better than suffering‚ punishing people for the crime that they did not commit is wrong‚ and so on. In their theory‚ morality refers to the rightness‚ wrongness‚ goodness or badness‚ and morality is there to determine if an action or decision is correct or not. Morality is not related with the profit of an individual or
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Do you want to be famous? Being a celebrity/famous person comes with its’ advantages and disadvantages which can make living life very difficult at times. Let’s look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of being a celebrity/famous person. Some of the advantages of being a famous person are as follows: Famous people have everything they can possibly want such as fast cars‚ big houses‚ money‚ women etc. They can go wherever they want on holidays or any other day of the week and do not
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For our stats project we decided to analyze how the characteristics of the person asking the question changes the answer. To do this‚ we asked two randomly selected groups of people the exact question: “do you like pugs?” However‚ one group was asked the question by someone wearing a pug shirt‚ and the other group was asked by someone in plain clothes. We believed the most submissive class to the charastric bias would be the freshman‚ so we used them in our experiment. To ensure this Simple Random
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