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    science‚ politics and metaphysics. Aristotle believed that human beings are “featherless bipeds”. This has to do with his theory of politics because Aristotle’s view on politics is essentially fascist. I personally don’t agree with Aristotle on the fact that he thinks most human beings are just featherless birds who can be forced into slavery so that the philosophers can sit around doing nothing but arguing all day. A better theory of society would be that people are all equal and unique‚ just like

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    had opposing views towards human nature. Writers such as John Locke and Karl Marx believe that humans are naturally good and put their trust in human nature. However‚ writers such as Machiavelli oppose these views and does not put trust in human nature because he believes humans are naturally evil. Locke focuses his writings on human rights‚ Marx describes the influences of the economy‚ and Machiavelli details his beliefs of government. Their perceptions of human nature influence their writing and

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    Back to the Dreamtime

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    Based on the short story “Back to the Dreamtime”‚ I would like to write a journal about the relationships of the two main characters. Two main characters that I choose in this story are Richard and Tom. This is because there are many things that Richard and Tom doing together. Richard‚ a teenage Aboriginal boy raised in white Australian society‚ is compelled to come to terms with his past by forces outside his control. He was adopted by the McDonalds. His father died when he was two years old.

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    Although genetic testing can benefit society in numerous ways‚ such as the diagnosis of vulnerabilities to inherited diseases and ancestry verification‚ it also has the precarious capability to become a tool in selecting a more favorable genetic makeup of an individuals and ultimately cloning humans. Genetic testing will depreciate our quality of life and may result in discrimination‚ invasion of privacy‚ and harmful gene therapy. In 1993 a pamphlet by National Heart‚ Lung‚ and Blood Institute

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    Sometimes‚ humans make mistakes‚ some are small but never the less they are still mistake. It is a part of having humanity‚ along with learning from those mistake and taking that knowledge learned and applying it. Although not all of humankind may understand that concept‚ it is a big part of being human. Humanity is the qualities that make us human‚ like having the ability to love‚ have compassion‚ be creative‚ and not be a robot‚ or alien. In the novel‚ Frankenstein written by English author Mary

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    Looking Back...

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    LOOKING BACK……… Surrounded by four grey walls‚ I lay here on my concrete bed and I think …….Why? Did he deserve it? Am I really the monster that I was portrayed to be? My name is Katherine Pierce. I am 25 years old and I have been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for the murder of the man I once called …..my dad. The birth of any child into a family is a joyous occasion. And yes‚ my entry into this world was a dream come true for my parents. As a baby‚ I have fond memories of being

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    Nature

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    Essay Nature‚ in its core function‚ is the cause and effect relationship offered to things with "ascertainable objectivity"‚ happening without cause. From this we can easily conclude that the state of the nature of something that something being an object with “thing-hood”‚ as humorously described in class is its beginning purpose and generality. There are a few debatable definitions of nature‚ which at first glance are very similar. On hand‚ we have nature that is described as

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    Back to the Dreamtime” wrote by H. Q. Mitchell showed that a teenage Aboriginal boy‚ Richard‚ who was a boy raised in white Australian society‚ however he never forget to claim himself as an Aboriginal. Therefore‚ he never give up to find his father’s burial ground. Richard‚ his brother‚ and his best friend on a journey of self-discovery‚ mystery and adventure through the Australian outback. In this novel “Back to the Dreamtime”‚ there are several main characters‚ but I would like to choose Richard

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    In You Can Go Back Home Again‚ Eve Tushnet starts off her article with a scene with her and a guy friend coming back from a party‚ this scene reveals the overall theme of “its perfectly fine with going back home” . The guy friend starts of by saying that he use to live in a gentrified neighborhood but he could no longer afford. The key word in his sentence is “use to” he was ashamed for going back home but Tushnet disagrees with him by saying “Good for you” and “I think that’s great”. Later on

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    shows how young and innocent she is. Even though she doesn’t have any friends because all the children in society outcast her and she doesn’t even question it. She is naïve as to why they are marginalizing her. | P:79 “She knew that her deed had been evil; she could have no faith‚ therefore‚ that its result would be for good. Day after day‚ she looked fearfully into the child’s expanding nature; ever dreading to detect some dark and wild peculiarity‚ that should correspond with the guiltiness to

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