Georgetown is a diverse community‚ the Admissions Committee would like to know more about you in your own words. Please submit a brief essay‚ either personal or creative‚ which you feel best describes you. Sunday: Confessions of a Type A Political Junkie It’s 6:30 in the morning on my favorite day of the week‚ Sunday. I spring out of bed to make my morning coffee and grab a box of crayola markers to make my color coded to do list. I have never been able to sleep much past 8 in the morning. This is
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Op-ed: Freedom of Religion Freedom of religion‚ as guaranteed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution‚ ensures that separation of church and state. Many believers point out that faith plays a unique role in lives‚ and that is ofter true. But for atheists who dismiss belief in God as no more credible than belief in Santa Claus or in fairies miss the point. More many religious believers‚ religion is an intellectual exercise or matter of logic. In my opinion‚ religion should be
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Carmencita Gonzalez Professor Orzeck‚ Ph.D. English 102.051 October 28‚ 2011 Should Flogging Be brought Back? Jeff Jacoby a columnist for the Boston Globe published an essay “Bring Back Flogging”‚ on the op-ed page on February 20‚ 1997. Jacoby states that flogging people is better than “Locking them up in cages.” (para. 4) He goes on to say that flogging will teach people moral and educational values‚ while “Prison is a graduate school of
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photography can be traced back to the invention of the camera obscura‚ an optical device used by artists in the 16th century‚ even though knowledge of the principle goes back to antiquity. Photography evolved into the form we are familiar with‚ during the first decades of the nineteenth century‚ when
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Susan B. Anthony Justice is defined as a concept of moral rightness and fairness. In the 1800s‚ gender inequality was a huge conflict. Men were able to own land and open businesses‚ while women weren’t even given the right to open up a bank account. However‚ the uprising of reform movements was beginning during this time as well. One enormously great movement that came to be‚ was the woman’s suffrage movement. Susan B. Anthony was a crucial member of this historical endeavor. She dedicated her
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as someone who is tired of how their gender is being treated and wants equality between both genders. Born Susan Brownell Anthony on February 15‚ 1820‚ is known to be one of the first feminist during her time. She had many contributions in fighting for women’s rights during her entire life. She is one of the more famous and well known women through out her generation and will continue to
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Susan Bordo an author who writes about how the American culture has always shown and used women’s bodies throughout our history and to most is considered completely normal. In the print “Beauty Rediscovers the Male Body” Bordo states “naked female body became an object of mainstream consumption”(Bordo 168). She explains that the female body was completely normal for people to look at while on the other hand showing a naked male body was considered a taboo that most people were afraid to break. Over
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The Right of All Citizens: What Makes an Effective Argument for Women’s Rights? On November 5‚ 1872‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ a well-known leader in the women’s rights movement‚ along with several other women‚ entered the West End News Depot and cast their ballot. The women had all registered in the previous days; Anthony had registered to vote November 1‚ 1872 at a local barbershop‚ along with her three sisters. Even though the inspectors refused her initial demand to register‚ Anthony used
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legislation.” Was the final goal of the nearly century long battle between the women rights activists and the rest of the nation to make the right to vote equal for all who live under the colors of this great nation. Ratified on August 18‚ 1920‚ the 19th Amendment granted American women the right to vote‚ a right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded‚ its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men‚ including the right to vote. It was not until 1848 that the movement for
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occurred or been related to every person in some way considering that “One baby is aborted every 26 seconds in the United States.” (Minnesota Citizens) Christopher Jacoby tells us in his article‚ “Side Effects of Abortion‚” that “The thought of abortion for some
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