persona. ‘First Ice’ is about “a girl” who has broken up with someone for the “first time” by phone call. The girl was planning to go out to a party with her boyfriend and phoned him to ask him where he was. That’s when he broke up with her. It is a universal poem so it could happen to anyone. The poem was originally written in Russian but translated into English. We know the girl is going out somewhere nice because “she hides a face…..tears and lipstick” and she “wears earrings”. She is dressed up which
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The United States is the only developed nation without universal health care coverage‚ and the current state of affairs is bankrupting millions. the United States spends more on health care per an individual than any other nation‚ the World Health Organization reports that the United States only ranks 28th for life expectancy and 37th for mortality of children under the age of 5. For immunizations‚ the United States ranks 67th - Botswana is 66th. More than 46 million Americans go uninsured each
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Hamlet’ has been commented on as universal.’ Audiences of many different cultures can enjoy Hamlet’ even though it is set in an alien culture to them. The reasons for this are that many people can relate to the play‚ they feel that they are living though a profound experience‚ even if nothing in the plot of Hamlet has ever happened to them. The experience of Hamlet’ is not restricted to the plot and its characters. <br> <br>A large factor in this universal acceptance is that the main character
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Discussions brought up by thinkers such as John Locke‚ Voltaire‚ and Jean-Jacques Rousseau encouraged the political revolutionaries in the development of the birth of the rights of a man‚ beliefs of equality‚ freedoms‚ and liberalism. Along with it came the arrival of the “self-made” man‚ referring to the embracing
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citizens may benefit and cannot afford healthcare without the assistance of the general public’s taxes. Contrary to Canada’s ‘free healthcare’‚ the American government has not inherited the same healthcare system. This means that America does not have universal
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Catholic philosophy during his time period‚ the Enlightenment era. Voltaire himself was known to oppose this theory‚ and employed caricatural figures in his writing‚ such as the characters of Pangloss and Martin‚ to mock the ideas that they stand for. The old woman‚ as a character‚ is not a protagonist nor does she show up particularly frequently in the text‚ but she is significant to the theme of the story. In Candide‚ Voltaire uses the character of the old woman to contradict the Optimism/Pessimism
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Universal Healthcare System Mary was a widowed mother of two kids. She was forty-two years old. She worked at Wal-Mart as a cashier. She earned about $1‚300.00 per month. She wanted to buy health insurance for herself and her family but she could not afford to buy it because she had high-blood pressure and diabetes. If she paid for health insurance‚ she had to pay around $350.00 per month. She could not afford her rent and food expenses if she took $350.00 out of her pay every month. So‚ even
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Throughout the 2008 presidential election and continuing into the current term‚ the greatest and most controversial debate has been centered around one thing‚ a universal healthcare system in the United States. It has occupied the minds of politicians and Americans day and night. Debates and speeches on this topic have taken over rallies‚ city council meetings‚ and more than one State of the Union Address. These debates are heating with concerns of increase taxes‚ decrease salaries for doctors
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Socrates and Voltaire seem to both share the idea that there could be a supreme being in the universe‚ but they differed on opinion for the relationship between reasoning and religion. Socrates‚ though not outright denying the existence of the gods‚ believed that a concept cannot be true if it cannot have definite proof. His belief– infamously known as the Socratic method–was that man’s interpretation of religion could be dangerous to follow blindly due to the numerous contradictions attached. He
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Universal or Core Ethical Values Trustworthiness‚ respect‚ responsibility‚ fairness‚ caring‚ and citizenship are six core ethical values. Using core ethical values as the basis for ethical thinking can help detect situations where we focus so hard on upholding one value that we sacrifice another eg we are loyal to friends and so do not always tell the truth about their actions. 1. TRUSTWORTHINESS Trustworthiness concerns a variety of behavioral qualities honesty‚ integrity‚ reliability
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