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    430‚000 people died last year. They all had one thing in common; each one of them spent an estimated $ 3500 dollars a year on the cause of his or her death. Which is SMOKING. Weather you smoke or not smoking affects everyone in this room. You can be affected by either getting taxed for the medical bills or as simple as second hand smoke. Obviously‚ the number one reason to stop smoking is health‚ it is not just bad for you but it is also bad for the people around you. Like your spouse‚ friends

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    com/journalsPermissions.nav Identification as a Mechanism of Narrative Persuasion Communication Research 39(6) 802–823 © The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0093650211408594 http://crx.sagepub.com Anneke de Graaf1‚ Hans Hoeken2‚ José Sanders2‚ and Johannes W. J. Beentjes1 Abstract To provide a causal test of identification as a mechanism of narrative persuasion‚ this study uses the perspective from which a story is told to manipulate

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    Are newspapers necessary nowadays? Can you imagine world without any newspapers? As far as I am concerned‚ they are the main source of information in our daily life. They educate readers on current event of our life. For this reason people became aware of global and local issue. So can be no doubt of newspapers necessity. In the first place‚ newspapers are very important in our society‚ due to the fact that they supply us the latest news and keeps us informed about the changing events of the

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    Advertising - a necessary evil? By Brigitte Heyer "Advertising is the art of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it." Stephen Leacock Every business needs advertising‚ like it or lump it. Although there are some geniuses around who have the knack to get it right‚ for most people effective advertising is a long‚ and often costly‚ learning experience. You soon learn what does and doesn’t work‚ and try bravely to withstand the lure of clever‚ well-trained reps working under

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    balanced use of it is also necessary. Too much skepticism would make it very difficult for a scientist to arrive at a conclusion. Too little skepticism and said scientist would agree too readily with a proposed conclusion. Charles Lewontin‚ in his book The Doctrine of DNA: Biology as Ideology‚ lays out a case for why it is reasonable to be skeptical of science. I agree that the practice of science is largely controlled by social forces‚ and that therefore a critical eye is necessary when interpreting its

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    documentary which featured the problems of overpopulation in The Third World countries. After watching the programme‚ I realise that it is everybody ’s essential responsibility to confront and address the problems of an expanding world population. This is necessary because we live on the same planet and share the same resources‚ both renewable and non-renewable. Population control is defined as the systematic regulating of the number of people in any given country to redress the problems of overpopulation

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    8 November 2011 ENG 221 Dr. West A Government is a necessary evil Authors have debated the role of governments for hundreds of years. Two of these authors‚ are Thomas Paine and Henry David Thoreau. "In Common Sense by Thomas Paine‚ he expresses his opinion on how the government is a "necessary evil"‚ and in the 21st century the government still appears to be evil." Thoreau also expresses his concern with a government in “Civil Disobedience”. Both of these authors had valid opinions‚ and

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    city of Hiroshima‚ Japan in 1945 of August 6. This devastating bomb killed around 135‚00. There was also a second bomb that hit Nagasaki on August 9th that killed approximately 50‚000. But the question remained was this necessary? In my opinion YES! Dropping the bomb was very necessary‚ it was also reasonable considering the fact that US lost a total of more than 418‚000 both military and innocent civilians. I also think Japan deserved to be bombed because they committed the same act at Pearl Harbor

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    Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience‚ or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task‚ but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience’s attention.[1] Although people’s attention is held by different things‚ because individuals have different preferences in entertainment‚ most forms are recognisable and familiar. Storytelling‚ music

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    The Use of Persuasion in The Communist Manifesto Written in 1848‚ The Communist Manifesto is a foundational document of Communist ideology. The document describes the rise of the bourgeoisie as elite actors in the capitalist system while asserting that class struggle between the proletariat‚ or working class‚ and the bourgeoisie will lead to a worldwide Communist revolution. In the manifesto‚ authors Karl Marx and Friederich Engels share their critiques of the capitalist economic system with

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