In a society in the midst of war‚ when faced with an issue related to the battlefields‚ people often need to decide whether they should pursue their own personal desires or choose to conform. The difficult decisions of whether or not a loved one should be sent off to join the war is an issue that the majority of civilians came across during WWI. Perhaps joining the army is something that some people were proud of but yet again many others wanted to keep family members away from the life threatening
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When the Sleeper Wakes by Herbert George Wells First of all I chose this book not only because it was the first book I found that had 100 pages or more‚ but because the title interested me. I would say this book is a fiction story because no one can sleep for decades and then wake up. The story “When the Sleeper Wakes” is about a man that lives in London and has insomnia. Graham then falls into a strange sleep while he was at a friend’s house. When he wakes up 200 years later‚ he is immediately
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Lying Isn’t Bad If The Lie Is Justified Did you know the usually when people lie they are pressed for time? What lying is all about is to not tell the truth to someone‚ for example to get out of trouble or to not hurt somebodys feelings‚ but lying is sometimes ok because it can be good and sometimes bad. Lying can only be ok sometimes when you’re saving others. For example‚ in the article‚” Tell The Truth”‚ by Brad Blanton it states we shouldn’t manipulate the truth except for rare times. This
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" When people succeed‚ it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success". Do you agree or disagree with quotation above? Use specific reason and examples to support your opinion. Hard working is the main key to every step of success but luck has also some role to achieve those successes. So many people’s are there in this world who work very hard but still do not meet their basic need. They are below the line of poverty and are dying of starvation. From my everyday experience and
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WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE Ron Young Bryant and Stratton College Phil 250 Ms. Obradovich February 8‚ 2013 In August 2005 there was a massive storm brewing and growing into a storm like no other storm‚ Hurricane Katrina. In the days before the storm hit‚ there were many agencies gathering information and trying to give a good guess on when‚ where‚ and how bad this storm was going to be. Some people listened and prepared and some did not. Why? Why didn’t some people even
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In the blink of an eye‚ your life can change when you least expect it and sometimes set you on a course you never have planned. Their life changed in a blink of an eye when they least expected it. Although they experienced anxiousness‚ sadness and also comfort because they found each other‚ they chose to hold on despite the trauma they may have gone through. Sometimes in life‚ just like them‚ you feel like you are in a full blown tsunami with no escape. What do you do then? All you have to
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The day when it rained The sound of the rain tapping my rooftop woke me up. I looked outside the glass window blurred by rain droplets and the sky looked really gloomy. I sat up and yawned. It was 8 sharp. I stood up and dragged myself to the washroom. The reflection in the mirror made me giggled. My hair looked like as if I just got electrocuted. I turned on the tap and splashed the water on my face. The coldness of the water sent chill down my spine. After I spent some time grooming myself‚
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is how the United States should be based on. After I read this book‚ I realized that freedom and individual responsibility walk together and you cannot separate them. These two topics‚ freedom and individual responsibility‚ are really important when analyzing the importance of ethics. Starting with freedom‚ I realized after reading the book that without freedom‚ our society would not work in the same way that it works right now. An individual must have the freedom to choose what he wants for his
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Roxanne May Libatique ABCA When Sex Sells We all know that humans are sexual beings. This is a fact used by business owners and advertising companies to their advantage and now that technology becomes more advanced with each passing year‚ it is now easier for media to creatively put sex in advertisements. I’m not going to talk about using sex and other erotic objects for advertising purposes though. I’m going to talk about sex and other pornographic materials that are actually being used and sold
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(When it rains gasoline) The script that I have chosen is from the internet (http://www.dramaticwriter.com/Alysa.html) About an obnoxious and a spoiled teenage girl named Alyssa who shares her feelings about her parents‚ her friends and how she thinks she’s going to be treated at the dance. It’s prom night for her‚ the most important night of her life according to her. This monologue comes from a play called ‘When it rains gasoline’. This play was first
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