Have you ever thought of the effects ISIS has on us and the military? In the article “A Case for Kill switches in Military Weaponry” by Johnathan Zittrain we notice that he mentions ISIS and how they stole our weapons. He also mentions that he believes that the only productive way to about protecting them is to create a “kill switch.” Despite lacking a ton of evidence Zittrain has an effective argument because he uses ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos making it clear to the audience that he knows what he
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Child Protective Services Each year‚ more than 3 million referrals for child abuse and neglect are received that involve around 6 million individual children (Committee on Child). Does that concern you? What do you think we should do about it? Do you think Child Protective Services (CPS) are vital in lowering these numbers? Well‚ Child Protective Services’ (CPS) job is to ensure that children are safe and healthy through monitoring families‚ working with school and counselors‚ making phone calls
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Narnia....a land of fantasy and adventure where magic and a Great Lion prevail. A land where so many people wish to be‚ a land from start to finish in The Chronicles of Narnia. Seven books written by Clive Staples Lewis have proven to be the most enchanting and mesmerizing books of all time. Pure beauty and amazing imagery allows the reader to become an explorer of Narnia and take part in the fascinating adventures bound to happen. Readers become one with the pages‚ not wanting to put the book down
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Intimacy without commitment‚ like icing without cake‚ can be sweet‚ but it ends up making us sick. -Joshua Harris‚ I Kissed Dating Goodbye In relationships‚ commitment should come first before intimacy. Joshua Harris compared it an icing on a cake‚ and how those two things should go together and balance. The intimacy you give in a relationship should be dependent on the current state of commitment that you have as a couple. Nowadays‚ especially in America‚ it has been very popular in their culture
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“Money breeds money” ‚ In other words ‚ money creates money. Have you ever heard the expression ‚ “You have to spend money to make money” ? Well ‚ it’s the same approach. Dana Gioia’s poem “Money” appealed to me for this same reason. It seemed so ironic to me that the greatest necessity we need like money is recyclable. In Gioia’s poem ‚ he pretty much summarized what we all do with money. Every stanza describes a different perspective of how we look at and spend money. The poem is basically a
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In the article “A Good Education”‚ the author poses the question of whether a good education is a broad one‚ with traditional subjects‚ or a specialized one‚ providing practical skills. The author states that in the XVIIIth and XIXth century a good education was a broad one‚ which provided men the possibility to pursue any career. However‚ he/she contends that since the latter part of the XIXth century‚ workers were required to have a more specialized training because the world was more complex‚
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You’re not ready to have a child if you’re still a child yourself. Teenage girls are too young to be thinking about having children because they’re not mentally or physically ready to become parents. Some teenage girls want to have children‚ but they don’t know the reasonability’s of taking care of a child. Many teenagers get pregnant for the wrong reasons. Every year 750‚000 teens get pregnant. Hispanic girls have the highest rate of being pregnant. A lot of teens get pregnant‚ but out of 750
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A Worn Path is the story of an elderly woman who takes a long path to town in order to get medicine for her grandson. The elderly woman‚ Phoenix Jackson‚ is the main character of the story and she overcomes many trials and tribulations to reach her goal. The story seems simple‚ an old black woman walking through the woods towards town on some errand‚ but layers of symbolism add meaning to every part of this story. Take for instance the name Phoenix Jackson: The Phoenix is a bird of legend from ancient
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А first-person nаrrаtive told by Pаul Edgecombe‚ the novel switches between Pаul аs аn old mаn in the Georgiа Pines nursing home shаring his story with fellow resident Elаine Connelly in 1996‚ аnd his time in 1932 аs the block supervisor of the Cold Mountаin Penitentiаry deаth row‚ nicknаmed "The Green Mile" for the color of the floor’s linoleum. This yeаr mаrks the аrrivаl of John Coffey‚ а 6’8" powerfully built blаck mаn who hаs been convicted of rаping аnd murdering two smаll white girls. During
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Mean Girls is a 2004 American teen comedy film‚ directed by Mark Waters. The screenplay was written by Tina Fey and based in part on the non-fiction book Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman‚ which describes how female high school social cliques operate‚ and the effect they can have on girls. The film stars Lindsay Lohan and features a supporting cast of Rachel McAdams‚ Amanda Seyfried‚ Lacey Chabert‚ and Lizzy Caplan. The film is produced by Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels. Screenwriter
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