1. Why do we have states? Would it be possible for people to live without them? If they disappeared in the future‚ what would replace them? We have states so that the general public can be protected from external‚ as well as internal threats. States have armies to protect citizens from other countries who might invade or who pose some other sort of threat. States also have some sort of police force to protect citizens from criminals who wish to do them some kind of harm. The social contract theory
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In the article "Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?" by Mark Edmundson narrates the experience of studying at college. Mark Edmundson says‚ that the first day of college is a major achievement not just for the students attending to their classes also an achievement for parents‚ grandparents‚ uncles‚ and aunts who helped to get at college. He says‚ education in America is a fight against the drugs‚ violence‚ slime-based culture and big fight against the institution and education is about finding
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the one answer with confidence. The basis of this concept is so simple‚ but it is pretty interesting to me. In the article it describes this concept in a very basic way by saying‚ “Suppose we have four pigeons but only three pigeonholes. No matter how we assign a hole to each pigeon‚ at least two pigeons will have to share the same hole.” This alone seem like it would be
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Australia and New Zealand‚ held its first summit in the year 2005. Since 1978 with the introduction of economic transformations‚ China today has turn out to be the world’s rapid-growing key economy. China is the world’s second-largest economy together in term of its nominal total GDP and purchasing power parity. As of 2013‚ China ranked at number 91 at ‘Doing Business’ provided by the World Bank. Its GDP per capita currently stands at $6‚075‚ while the total GDP sums up at $12.405 trillion. Although
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Why should we have good manners? Good manners are important to live happily among people. Without good manners we are only slightly better than animals. The modern society consists of more people than it did in the past. These people are of various cultural‚ racial‚ religious and professional backgrounds. It therefore requires great powers of endurance and abilities of mixing with people. Good manners enable one to tolerate the disagreeable attitudes of others to a great extent. They also help
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High School students either feel upset‚ mad or violated not being able to wear what they want to school. Students should have the right to wear what they please to school. At many schools‚ the dress code is unfair. It’s mostly only directed to females when it should be directed to males as much as it is to us girls. We should go to school to learn‚ not to be told we can’t wear what we want. This is causing students to get more and more angry about not being able to wear what they want. The
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Do we have a throw-away society? A Swedish proverb says “don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water”. The sad story is that most of us today are throwing away so much‚ it is very likely that there will be no resources in the future. Many of our practices today are putting a lot of stress on future resources and we might soon find many of our needs unsatisfied because of our throw away attitude and careless practices. There are many reasons as to why we are subject
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The novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing can be found for sale on Amazon.com‚ which is an easily accessible way to purchase books among other things. Do Not Say We Have Nothing is the type of novel in which people can gain valuable insight into the different lifestyles of people from around the world‚ which is why it’s fitting that the book is easily accessible. For instance‚ in the article The Magical Matter of Books..‚ it discusses how The Tales of Beatle the Bard wasn’t originally going to be released
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learning at school. If the reason we go to school is to learn‚ then why let school uniforms distract us from it? Children should be able to choose what they wear for school without the government’s influence and make it as comfortable as they feel like. By the child not being able to dress themselves for school‚ it may delay their transition into adulthood. Ninety percent of seventh and eighth graders disliked uniforms (procon.org). Why force
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In todays time most schools have a dress code. Most schools believe that dress codes help kids stay modest. Most students would beg the differ. Dress codes are not needed because they are a violation of student rights‚ distraction from the learning environment‚ and dress codes are sexist towards woman. Dress codes are offensive in a lot of different ways. Telling children how to dress is a violation of students rights. Students should be able to freely express themselves without
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