academic discipline we alter the way we perceive the world. As intellectual neophytes we tend to polarize what we see as either right or wrong‚ or as either good or bad. We also tend to interpret what we see by way of our emotions. Once educated‚ we gain the capacity to see a broader spectrum of opinion and perspective‚ and to see our own culture and even ourselves as a tapestry-like product of history. Through the earnest pursuit of knowledge--particularly in history and literature--we reveal to ourselves
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The Price We Pay - Is It Worth It? Junk food has crept into the lives of the American people. There are over 160‚000 fast food restaurants in the United States of America. (Static Brain‚ Source Pew Research Center) With that many sources for junk food and soft drinks‚ Americans make poor choices everyday. In hopes of creating financial stability in our economy‚ men and women are busy pursuing their careers. People are working longer hours than their elders did in the past. Time to fix proper
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As the sentence suggests the poem “We real cool” is about teenagers who identify themselves as rebels. On the first read‚ the poem seems to be defiant statements made by black Americans. It has an element of bravery that seems defensible and almost desirable. There is a pride in the tone. Pride in rebelling the conventional ways of the society and disobeying several legal structures. They escape the drudgery and dullness of being in school thus opening many possibilities. There is however a change
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understanding and skills we gain after experience play significant roles when gaining knowledge. They frame and lead us into imagine before we experience. Our five senses let us see‚ smell‚ taste‚ feel and hear. People think that we believe what we see. However‚ we see what we believe. Lipman’s suggestion criticises the false of our senses and perspectives. This leads to the idea that our five senses aren’t much different from our so-called sixth sense‚ premonition‚ which is not scientifically supported
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Commonwealth Essay Competition! ! Topic: “United we stand!”! Name: Ho Wye Yew! Class: Sophomore Cempaka! School: Cempaka Damansara Heights‚ Malaysia.! ! ! ! Cacophonous fireworks illuminated the pitch black London sky as we stepped into the Olympic stadium to represent Malaysia. Kaleidoscopic bright lights boasted its everlasting flamboyance as it shone throughout the stadium. The applause from the audience deafened me and the scent of hard work and determination lingered in my nostrils. One
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We Live in an Unheroic Age Ladies and Gentlemen‚ I am here today to convince you that we do not live in an unheroic age. It is clear to me that whether we like it or not‚ and we can deny it all we want‚ there will always be heroes in some shape or form. I hope that by the end of this speech‚ I will have convinced all present of this reality. What qualities should a hero have? Should they be big or small‚ strong or weak‚ good looking or ugly‚ male or female? Well I guess that depends. Because everybody’s
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“We Built This City” by Starship is considered one of the worst songs to ever chart. Many critics claim that it makes no sense and is only popular because it sounds “catchy”. However‚ the song in reality has a very subtle meaning that rarely gets picked up on. The song is critiquing the music industry as a whole‚ using metaphors and imagery‚ claiming that it’s completely disregarding its roots and only using artists as a way of making money. The chorus of the song does so most cryptically. “Marconi
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“We Were Liars‚” by E. Lockhart tells the story of a teenage girl named Cadence Sinclair Eastman. As the book begins‚ it is revealed that Cadence suffered from some sort of mysterious accident‚ from which she is still recovering. No matter how hard she tries to remember‚ or how many questions she asks‚ she can never find the answers to what happened that night. In recent years‚ her life has changed drastically. Her father abandoned her‚ and Cadence is extremely torn up by this experience. Her parents
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How important is that we are certain about what we claim as knowledge? According to my opinion‚ it is crucial to identify what we claim as knowledge. The world has a lot of information but not all of them can be claimed as knowledge that is suitable to. Everything from your opinion to the life changing decisions you make are dependent on the knowledge that you identify as your own through your own perspectives and also through your experiences. To me‚ unnecessary knowledge is something a person
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Are We a Mind‚ a Body or Both? Of all the topics that are currently occupying the attention of philosophers‚ the Mind-Body problem is at center stage. It is one of the classical metaphysical issues concerning the relationship between that which is mental and that which is physical. The simple question asked is: what are we? Are we a mind‚ a body or both? The issue has its origins in the ancient dualism of Plato and since then many solutions to the problem have been offered. D.M. Armstrong s The Mind-Body
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