December 5‚ 2012 A Joke Is A Serious Thing Alain de Botton is reasonable in his theory that humorists are capable of mentioning societal problems an/or solutions through comedy‚ “serving a vital function in society.” Humorists can expose their messages indirectly because they are not entitled to invade social matters in serious situations‚ and are therefore understood and accepted. According to Rory Bremner‚ a humorist must be “brave‚ but not foolish.” If a humorist does so‚ their point will
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Have you ever lived in a perfect society? In the book The Giver‚ it is a world without color‚ pain‚ suffering‚ feelings‚ or love. It is a very limited‚ but also controlled society. Nobody has choices to do anything‚ only to strictly follow the rules. People living in the community cannot make choices on their own‚ or else they will choose wrong‚ and create suffering. People do not have love‚ because they do not know what love is. They have never experienced any feeling or emotions in their lives
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Medieval Europe or the Middle Ages‚ is a time period during c.500 AD to c. 1500 AD. There are many societal aspects that can be observed during this time period that served Medieval Europe’s function and growth‚ two of which are crime and punishment and towns‚ cities and commerce. These two societal aspects contributed to the functioning of the feudal system‚ the power of rulers and prosperity of nations. Feudalism was introduced to England and Europe when William the Conqueror successfully invaded
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The idea of perfection can be viewed in so many different angles of one’s perspective. Society has a huge impact on teens‚ and leads people to have a deceived image on the true meaning of perfection. To add the world into this idea of perfection is very difficult to understand or to even think about. A perfect world is shown as being “happy” with materialistic objects‚ for instance‚ a common thought in society is; one can be at their happiest state and success with tons of money. However‚ many do
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Medieval Education: The Histor Higher education plays a major part in today ’s society. Expected to continue their education beyond high school‚ many students attend four-year universities and colleges. The emergence of such higher education was first recorded in Europe during the Middle Ages. The origins and characteristics of these medieval universities as well as details of the students and their masters (professors) will be thoroughly discussed in the following paragraphs. These universities
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me recognize how I wish to be like them. I too want to help children realize their full potential. I want to be a person in their lives that they can look back on and say she helped me hope and strive for the best that I could be. In today’s society there are so many distractions in students’ lives. They have to deal with family traumas‚ drugs‚ extra-curricular activities‚ making their place in the world‚ peer pressure‚ jobs‚ etc.. When all these things are on someone’s mind it’s often hard to
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The English in medieval times‚ utilized torture to extract information or a confession from a certain person (generally performed on infidels and church priests because of how religion was very important Medieval English society.) Torturers would torture someone with great skill by preventing the victim to not pass out and receive life-threatening damage but still deal excruciating pain to reach success in the torture. There were a large variety of tortures in medieval England but the particularly
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Medieval Universities The English universities were one of the most significant creations of Medieval England. The scholars who attended eitherOxford or Cambridge Universities set an intellectual standard that contrasted markedly with the norm of Medieval England. Oxford University came into being some 20 years before Cambridge University. The church had a major impact at Oxford. The town came within the diocese of Lincoln‚ yet Oxford had its own archdeaconry. It was the input of the church that
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double-attached house through out the week. Upper floors were used for social gatherings and community meetings. The population of this church grow and forced the Diocese to send yet another priest to assist Father Matthews. Father Thomas Judge along with Father Matthews continued as plans for a church were underway. The new building would serve as a church‚ school‚ and convent for the Dominican Sisters of Kentucky who had taking on the mission of educating the children of the parish. Later
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then we can use that money to buy products that we need. According to that‚ money support economic efficiency by reducing much of the time waste on exchanging goods or services and permits us to trade with each other uncomplicated. The second role of money is to provide a unit of account which means that it is used to measure value in the economy. Normally‚ we measure the values of goods and services in terms of money. Imagine how hard it would
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