Should animals perform in circuses? Traveling circuses have captivated audiences for decades‚ but the hype surrounding these spectacles disguise a serious problem. Whilst the circus performers travel in comfortable automobiles and sleep in warm beds‚ the animals they employ in their acts stay in cramped cages that constantly jostle around in some dark dingy trailer. Even when they actually perform‚ these animals suffer stress and abuse. The use of animals as entertainment in the circus should
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Reduce the consumption of cigarettes and alcohol‚ thus decreasing the health and healthcare costs of tobacco and alcohol use; and (c) Finance a universal health care program to improve accessibility to quality health care. This version of the sin tax bill contains the following reforms: (a) Removal of the price classification freeze on cigarettes. The current classification of cigarettes is still based from a net retail price survey done in 1996. It’s been 16 years and prices of cigarettes have definitely
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Republic of the Philippines HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Quezon City‚ Metro Manila Fifteenth Congress Second Regular Session House Bill No. __________ ________________________________________________________________________ Introduced by AN ACT TO STRENGTHEN THE RIGHT OF CITIZENS TO INFORMATION HELD BY THE GOVERNMENT. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled: SECTION. 1. Short Title. – This Act shall be known as the “Freedom of Information
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media does not always inform the people with the complete truth. The information may be partially correct‚ but each news source tends to ignore what it disagrees with and reports only what is beneficial to it. In the video “Dealing With Media Bias‚” Bernard Goldberg explains how the media sources are all filtered through different prisms. Goldberg also concludes that people simply do not have the time to sit down and read the newspaper nor to watch enough television to be able to gather their own opinions
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5 Life Style I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community‚ and as long as I live‚ it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)‚ the Irish literary Critic‚ Playwright and Essayist A life is what is given to us; a lifestyle is what is given by us. A lifestyle goes through a life cycle. As we grow‚ we go through our life‚ we travel through a series of institutional communities: first our family‚ then our school and university‚ then workplace‚ then
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George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)‚ a prominent playwright‚ was born of an impoverish middle-class family in Dublin where he attended a college. In 1876 he started working as a journalist in London. He become a socialist in 1882 and in 1884 joined the Fabian Society‚ an organization of petty bourgeois intellectuals. In 1887 G. B. Shaw took up writing plays‚ in which he criticized the vices of bourgeois society. Bernard Shaw is famous for his brilliant dialogues‚ full of witty paradoxes and often bitterly
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’m not in favor that Divorce will be legalized in the Philippines. I believe its illegal and against the law of God. Philippines is a Christian culture country and we are the largest Christian Culture of all Asia. I don’t like Divorce at all and it has many disadvantages‚ of course Divorce ends your marriage that invest nothing at end‚ Divorce cost money and hurts children and also it changes personal relationships. Many people just don’t know the real importance of marriage even
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Scientific and Technological advancement has developed in more ways than one. The development of tools‚ transport system‚ use of technology and daily mechanical use‚ has make working easier and in so doing has also changed the ways of governing. Before understanding the importance of science and technology‚ it is important for us to understand that science and technology are closely associated with our lives. They are closely linked aspects of society and the studies and developments in both of
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Passion is what drives to care about something or to accomplish great things. In the myth “Pygmalion‚” author Bernard Evslin uses literary devices to demonstrate Pygmalion’s unwavering devotion to perfection and beauty. A literary device used in the first segment in which Pygmalion is talking to Aphrodite is repetition due to Pygmalion keeps saying “you.” For example‚ a couple of quotes in Bernard Evslin’s version of Pygmalion in which it displays the literary device of repetition showing Pygmalion’s
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appiness Rests on Luckiness Moral philosophers‚ beginning with Bernard Williams and Thomas Nagel‚ have recently broached the topic of moral luck in the philosophical literature. They limit their discussion however to considerations of how luck affects our ability to carry out actions or how it affects the consequences of our actions. I wish to suggest that luck is also an important factor in determining our actions as ends in themselves. What actions we may choose to perform for their own sake
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