In “Let Athletes Love Their Country in Their Own Ways” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar‚ the author references Sam Kendricks’s and Colin Kaepernick’s public displays of political expression to explain that true patriotism is when a person is willing to make sacrifices to their personal gain in order to promote their problems with the government. This article was published on August 30th‚ 2016 in the Washington Post. The United States in currently encapsulated in various civil rights issues such as problems
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From the reading “How We Listen”‚ I found the ideas that Aaron Copland presented are interesting. I was entreated by his explanation of listening to music. There are three layers in listening to music‚ they are the sensuous plane‚ expressive plane‚ and the sheerly musical plane. I found myself mostly in the expressive plane‚ but lack of the awareness of listening music through a more technical mean. Music is a form an expression‚ it cannot be defined by an exact word or description. Certainly‚ there
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In the excerpt from all the light we cannot see‚ by Anthony Doerr‚ the author is trying to show the world through the eyes of a blind child‚ and shows that even with no sight she is able to have a rich life full of color. One instance where Doerr develops this idea is in line 18‚ “color that’s another thing people do not expect. In her imagination in her dreams everything has color. The museum buildings are beige‚ chestnut‚ hazel.” This shows that even though she cannot see the buildings and the
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Sea of Flames: A Play on Fate or A Curse From The Past The Sea of Flames has an important role in the way the characters behave and think in the novel‚ All the Light We Cannot See. This beautiful‚ priceless diamond known as the Sea of Flames is an object that drives the plot forward for a simple reason that many characters want it due to its “power”. The diamond is rumored to give eternal life to its owner but causes all its owners loved ones to die. The legend behind the stone involves a price from
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object to the argument in favour of illegalizing the production‚ sale‚ and consumption of porn based on the premises used in Susan Brison’s essay “The Price We Pay”? Pornography and Harm. Her argument cannot be used for such grounds as it would set in place the wrongful duty of the government to prevent any influence that could potentially‚ in any way‚ instill negative views in people about a particular group of people in society. Brison argues there to be no moral right to pornography given the harmful
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In We Are All Ninjas: Sympathy‚ Solidarity and Evolutionary Ethics the author‚ Maria de Lourdes Borges discusses empathy‚ solidarity and sympathy being wired to the human brain and if they are a natural behavior for humans or animals. “I will discuss one the thesis of evolutionary ethics‚ that is‚ that empathy and sympathy are innate. I ask whether these are natural/innate features of human beings and other animals‚ such as primates. I investigate whether there is a natural altruistic behavior and
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In the book why we love‚ author Helen Fisher attempts to understand the idea behind the human romantic love by studying the mating behavior of animals. Thus‚ she firmly believes that romantic love is a phenomenon arising from ‘human nature’. Which shows itself in the different forms in the animal kingdom. The book begins by presenting the results of a scientific study in which Fisher scanned the brains of people who had just fallen madly in love. She proves‚ at last‚ what researchers had only suspected:
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The excerpt we read of Kath Weston’s Exiles from Kinship. In Families We Choose: Lesbians‚ Gays‚ Kinship is a description of something immediate to my family. Weston describes the alienation of homosexual individuals within their own families and how generic family structures and values are different for homosexuals because of the low tolerance for that lifestyle that families sometimes have. The people described have to leave and find their own family or kinship groups to rely on for support instead
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Should We Celebrate Columbus Day? When I was younger I was taught in school that Christopher Columbus was a brave and determined man who set sail in 1492 in search of a water route to Asia‚ resulting in him being the first man to discover the Americas. Since then I’ve come to realize that is he anything but that. Higher education schooling has taught me that he in fact did not discover the Americas‚ and instead was a ruthless ethnocentric man who’s greed led to slavery‚ torture‚ and mass decline
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WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR? - WILL YOU FIGHT FOR ME? This semester we have analyzed the issue ‘same sex marriage’ by three different articles and we were asked to select one of them to examine one more time with merging our own opinions. In his piece “What Are We Fighting For?” author‚ Ralph Wedgwood focuses on the issue that general view of people all around‚ about the acceptance of legalized gay marriages. By legalized Ralph Wedgwood does not only bringing up the legal aspects that
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