Battling Ignorance Ignorance will be the death of this country. We cannot prosper for much longer as long as ill-informed people keep making decisions they deem ’acceptable’. People don’t take the time to understand a situation and usually use information taken from false data and others’ biased opinions. Ignorance effects the rich and the poor‚ the powerful and powerless‚ and the famous and common people across the globe. As Emma Goldman said‚ "the most violent element in society is ignorance." Picture
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Political ignorance only poses a problem if the politically informed continually dismiss the politically ignorant as‚ figuratively speaking‚ an embargo to freedom- an entity that must be dispelled and whose words must be muted or whose products must go unconsumed. Political ignorance only poses a problem if the politically informed settle on submission‚ on subservience‚ and throw the politically ignorant into the pit when it comes time for a sacrifice to be requested by perpetrators of tyranny‚
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through life without looking at the fine print. “Ignorance is bliss” is the mantra that these people follow‚ and the underlying reason for why people decide to choose this path of life is closely linked to how basic human nature is programmed in everybody. This is in reference to how the human brain will naturally rationalize negative situations in hard to detect‚ discreet ways‚ all in the name of your brain trying to protect your emotional system. Ignorance‚ may‚ in fact‚ be bliss. Naturally‚ your brain
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There is a hidden aspect that has been a huge part of every election since John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. It is something that the common folk are unaware of‚ contributing to the issue‚ and many politicians prosper from. The answer? Political ignorance. Political ignorance is the lack of information and knowledge regarding political issues. Many believe that politics don’t apply to their daily lives or that since they read the news every once in awhile‚ they aren’t guilty of it. The reason why
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Ignorance and Stupidity are words that are commonly used out of context and either word is often mistakenly used in the others rightful place. Ignorance is commonly mistaken for stupidity in society. Just as commonly‚ stupidity can be denied and termed as ignorance. To say that these words are one in the same is ignorance in and of its self‚ that is if one is uninformed of the true definitions of either word. When one has been informed of the correct definition
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The Ignorance Towards Autism The average person tends to stare‚ or look away from a person with a disability. The average person is ignorant about the condition that every 1 in 88 people are diagnosed with‚ which is autism. The average person considers autism to be a disease that a person may “suffer” from‚ and tend to label these people as “unfixable.” Like the well known character Lennie‚ from the novel Of Mice and Men‚ written by John Steinbeck‚ people cannot seem to understand the reason Lennie
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Hardy’s “The Man He Killed”‚ he writes the poem as if it is something he had heard‚ giving the story have an unknown narrator‚ strengthening the poem greatly. This strengthens the poem by the making it more of a story from one person to another‚ rather than words straight from the others pen. Hardy’s narrator gives a first person encounter that he had with another solider. His diction used contributes to making the story informal and seems more like a story being told from a common man in the Army’s
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“Everything that Rises Must Converge”: Ignorance Does Not Discriminate The short story “Everything that Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor describes how ignorance has no boundaries. The story of a young man named Julian and his prejudice mother living a time following the end of segregation. Julian despises his mother’s need to feel superior and pities her ignorance. Julian is conflicted by the fact that his mother will never change and toys with different ways to teach her a lesson and end
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Jesse Bass Comp Lit 2‚ 6 p.m. Prof. Ehleben June 13‚ 2013 A World with Collisions In life‚ one’s own ignorance can trump any truth presented to them‚ if‚ and only if they choose to not keep an open mind. The key to avoiding these tragic and usually unnecessary casualties of the self is to understand when these truths are about to‚ or already have appeared onto a person’s path as they go through life. Once the truth is noticed then it is up to the person to verify and accept it‚ this is where
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“Ignorance is a poison that kills love‚ friendship‚ and all the good feelings.” ~unknown. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet ‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ a pair of star crossed lovers take their life. Romeo and Juliet take their own lives because of the man they trusted the most‚ Friar Lawrence. Lawrence’s carelessness and ignorance in his actions cause the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Friar Lawrence’s carelessness was very evident when he was trying to help the lovers get back together but
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