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    What Is Unschooling Wrong

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    lives and treated as equals. [They] wouldn’t tell them what to do‚ but left them to make their own decisions.”(I LET MY CHILDREN DO WHAT THEY WANT) They believe that they are permitting their children to make their own choices when it is quite the contrary because the decision has been made for them. Children have no say in how they will be educated. Although school may not be a favorite among children‚ they do not have the chance to explore what it is like even if they wanted to. It goes both ways:

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    Evaluating Adultery Bonnie Steinbock in her essay “What’s Wrong with Adultery?” starts by quoting the data from studies to show that the number of women who have committed adultery has significantly increased. Despite this increase in female adultery‚ it is in some degree due to the attitudes changing toward sex and sexuality‚ but Steinbock thinks that people should use rational justification to evaluate the disapproval of adultery. Then in the rest of the parts of Steinbock’s essay‚ she is generally

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    there’s a fine but distinguishable line between doing the right and wrong thing. Sometimes‚ decisions are made without entirely knowing what the situation is and how it came about. W. Clement Stone once said‚ “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right.” Hale follows these expectations to good integrity. When everybody fell in line with the court he saw they were wrong‚ and he broke away to try to save who was left. Throughout the story

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    What Is Graffiti Wrong

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    Graffiti is a crime. It’s wrong. It is wrong to plaster negative manifestos in the public eye‚ it is wrong to abuse our surroundings and it is wrong to deface -to destroy the environment we share. However‚ this destructive infection that I refer to as graffiti is not done in spray paint. Graffiti is not gang names on subway walls‚ nor is it murals done without permission. I am here today‚ to unveil the truth of what real graffiti is. But first‚ allow me to define art. I have come to realize that

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    What’s Wrong with the World and What Can I do about it? I believe what’s wrong with the world is that‚ we as people don’t accept others for who they completely are. We are constantly in competition with the next person or belittling the other because they are not like use. We are not all made the same. Yes‚ all of our brains are constructed alike but we all think differently. As William James believed “All activities of the mind serve to help us survive.” This is true‚ but we must remember that

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    What is wrong with Killing? Apparently‚ the killing of human beings whether people accept it or not‚ exists within our ever growing society. Obviously it’s against the law‚ however does this make it wrong? The answer to this question is no. From a religious perspective killing another individual is wrong. For those who don’t believe in God‚ killing is wrong as well because it takes away a person’s autonomy. As long as someone believes in God’s teachings then the act of killing is a violation

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    EBONICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE In December of 1996 a national controversy erupted when the Oakland school district suggested that "ebonics‚" which is also known as Black English‚ was a genetically based second language. Since Oakland California’s decision to allow the teaching of ebonics in its school system‚ ebonics has become a national issue and has sparked a heated debate form coast to coast. A large part of the ebonics controversy is the fact that many of today’s students do not get a good

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    "What’s Wrong With Cinderella?" In the article “What’s Wrong With Cinderella” written by Peggy Orenstein a feminist mother and writer for the New York Times amongst other newspapers. Several issues and concerns are raised regarding the physical and mental impact that the younger generation might have from the excessiveness of the princess theme toys‚ clothing and animation. The writer belief that young girls are being influence to think that beauty is determined by their physical appearance. Many

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    Being discriminated is wrong‚ and especially where there are A lot of people with different race‚ country‚ color‚ cast. In U.S.A a lot of people from different countries‚ Even though this is free county but still there is racial Discrimination going around everywhere. Furthermore‚ I was working in the pharmacy company; there so Many people with different race were working. One time there were two people talking one was white and other was Indian. And the manager was white person. She told the Indian

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    Dr. Williams and a group of Black scholars first coined the terms Ebonics in 1973 when referring to the language spoken by African slaves and their descendants. Ebonics‚ which is derived from the word ebony‚ which means black‚ and phonetics‚ which means sound‚ was adopted as the new term for Black English and African-American Vernacular English. Mary Rhodes Hoover states‚ "Many who condemn Ebonics refer to it as "bad grammar‚" "lazy pronunciation‚" or "slang." However‚ linguist Dell Hymes notes

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