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    Question: Textile industry is the most significant factor in industrialization. To what extent do you agree? I agree to the statement that the textile industry was the most significant factor in industrialization in the 18th and 19th centuries in Britain to a great extent. The development of the textile industry promoted the productivity of manufacturing textile. The more textile products were produced and they satisfied the marketing requirement. Some of the excessive products were exported overseas

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    Role of the Humanities Northrop Frye states‚ “A society like ours does not have very much interest in literacy” (3)‚ and maybe he’s right‚ but does that mean our society is unable to think? I strongly disagree with that assumption and it is an assumption because he has no facts to prove it‚ but I have facts to prove why he is wrong. Frye says that people need to learn humanities‚ so they can know how to think. People‚ who have developed better verbal skills than others‚ do not have very many

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    Common humanity recognizes the needs of all humans; these needs are what ties people together and what makes them human. There are multiple aspects of common humanity‚ one being the need for respect. Respect is defined by Merriam-Webster as “a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities‚ qualities‚ or achievements”. Every single human being shares the overwhelming desire for respect‚ whether it comes from themselves or others. Many authors choose to incorporate

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    The definition of humanity is not something many students spend much time thinking about. Humanity as a global society has a silent agreement on the definition‚ but it is never clearly stated‚ simply because we do not know how to say it. While the most correct definition is surely made by many facets‚ there is one aspect that‚ devoid of‚ one cannot have a human. To be human is to be able to think for oneself‚ and only to oneself. Sentience is no strange measure of one’s humanity‚ it has been used

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    In the story “The Guest” by Albert Camus‚ the author explores the subject of humanity when one is presented an anomalous situation. In the beginning‚ an old gendarme brought a prisoner‚ an Arab‚ to Daru and ordered him to bring him to prison because he was accused of murdering his cousin. Even though the Arab was a criminal‚ Daru treated him like a guest and the prisoner was very surprised why he acted so humane; by the time it was night Daru made a bed for the prisoner in same room as he was sleeping

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    Does humanity triumph over evil? Based on The Stanford Experiment‚ an experiment where twenty four undergraduates were put in a prison‚ taking on the roles of prisoners and guards‚ it clearly shows that humanity does not triumph over evil (YouTube‚ 2005). Normal people can show their true evil when put in stressful situations. In the documentary‚ the guards took the power to their heads and became mean and mentally abused the prisoners. The "good" guards also did not stop the "evil" guards from

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    Scott although composed over one hundred years apart contain the same perennial concepts on the nature of humanity. This is portrayed through notions of dehumanization‚ monstrosity and redemption‚ of the “indistinguishable” creator and creature relationship. The romanticist Shelly wrote her gothic novel the enlightenment era which posed questions concerning the mystery of life and nature of humanity. Scott on the other hand composed in the post-industrial age‚ where technology and morality played a dominant

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    Ultimately‚ the wolf took one of the fattest sheep (Fables‚ 2012). The moral of the story‚ as told by the shepherd‚ is ‘Nobody believes a liar‚ even when he’s speaking the truth.’ From this story‚ the reader/listener can derive an advisory on what befalls someone who is branded a liar. When one has lost his credibility as

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    interpretation of human nature parallels Barth’s “True Humanity” by which both theologians define ontological significance of humanity as being created by God. She does this by describing seven features of what it means to be a creature in faithfulness to God. Then she describes the seven alternative features‚ or distortions‚ that represent unfaithfulness to God. These dichotomies are

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    In the 1990s article‚ "Is Humanity Suicidal?"‚ Edward O. Wilson is concerned about the extinction of the human species. He believes that humanity’s harsh treatment of Earth will soon have excruciating consequences. Wilson also states that the increasing industrial world is having a very consequential affect on the global environment and that it may be too much for it to handle. He insists that "the human species is an environmental abnormality‚" because human’s negative impact on the earth is likely

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