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    microorganisms called germs. When invaders would come into a land with new diseases that the natives were not immune to‚ they would die off from the germs and lack of medicine to heal their bodies with. Now in modern times the transaction is not quite the same. But with the increase in globalization‚ germs and illness are continuing to spread. With the increase of food trade comes the increase of germs on those foods. What does this mean? Should we discontinue our food trades or attempt to slow down this

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    The ethnography The Afterlife Is Where We Come From by Alma Gotlieb (2004) explores the culture surrounding babies in the Beng village in West Africa. Gotlieb situates the Beng village at a place in the Ivory Coast that is somewhat in-between: it exists at the border of two different ethnic and geographic regions. The Beng people are forced to exist within a cultural membrane; allowing the practices of other cultures to flow in and out while containing their beliefs within the boundaries of the village

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    The short story “We Are All of Us Passing Through” is based on Harry Crew’s life experience. After passing his sophomore year from the university Florida and tiered of the environment‚ Crew’s decides to go hoop on his motorcycle and go on an adventure that will consequently inspire his creativity. Also‚ the story “We Are All of Us Passing Through” is written from a first person point of view therefore making Harry Crew’s the main character. Additionally‚ this allows the reader to be enlightened

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    Compare the openings of the first two sections. What do we learn of the context of the time‚ of the gender roles and of how we might perceive the characters of Antoinette and Rochester. The racial tension that carries on throughout Wide Sargasso Sea is established in the first lines of the novel. "They say when trouble comes close ranks‚ and so the white people did. But we were not in their ranks"‚ which sets up an immediate separation between "us" and "them”. However‚ there is another element

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    Inconvenient Truth "What we take for granted might not be here for our children." This is a quote that environmentalist Al Gore uses in his movie‚ An Inconvenient Truth. The movie is about global warming‚ and extreme effects it causes in our planet. The movie demonstrates the effects‚ causes and some solutions to global warming. First‚ there are many causes to global warming. One of the main causes is carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels. Did you know that 40% of U.S. CO2 Emissions come from electricity

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    Our identity is constructed by‚ for example‚ the clothes we wear. Discuss the idea of a construction of identity within postmodernism using recommended texts. During the postmodernist era there was great emphasis on the movement of philosophy and social science as well as new influential styles of architecture‚ design and fashion. It was the development of the modernist era‚ which in the late 1950’s received criticism for being standardized and no longer suiting peoples lifestyles. The Machine

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    needed initiative. As we travel from Kashmir to Kanyakumari or Gandhinagar to Guwahati‚ we find the roadsides or public places littered with garbage‚ people spitting and peeing in public places. This leaves us with a feeling that the whole country has been turned into a garbage dump. How have we allowed this state of affairs as a nation? It is truly a matter of concern. This has happened when India has been rising at unprecedented economic growth rates during the past decade. We Indians are personally

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    What Could Our World Be? What would life be like today if the federal government had absolute control? No freedoms for anyone whatsoever. The government controls when citizens may sleep‚ eat‚ do a job‚ and even control when citizens are allowed to speak. Would life really be worth living? We as readers are able to gain a small taste of what this would be like after reading the classic novel 1984‚ written by George Orwell. In the lonely‚ lifeless setting it is clear that the government has gained

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    Do we love our pets too much? My ten year old pitbull mix was having problems with her hips. She barely got up‚ but when she did‚ she would skid on the floor. From doing so‚ she had scrapped off a piece of her skin on her forearm. It got infected after we would clean it and wrapping the wound‚ she wouldn’t stop opening it. She eventually couldn’t get up anymore. We all knew it was her time to go. According to Burkhard Bilger in his essay “The Last Meow” in the New Yorker‚ he explained what people

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    Do We Learn from our Mistakes? Architecturally speaking‚ I think we learn very little from our mistakes‚ as there are so many thousands of mistakes to make in architecture without repeating a single one. A child may learn not to touch a hot stove‚ but that is because the child receives an immediate response for doing so. This is not true with the mistakes we make as architects. Sometimes years go by before we learn the results of our errors; mostly our ethical errors. Most of the time this

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