society. The evidence presented here will show that the written word and literacy are in fact declining‚ and the statistics strongly infer that the rise of the image can contribute to intellectual decline. But in order to see the issue more clearly‚ we must look at two of the main culprits in this evolution‚ television and the Internet‚ and see their effects on literacy. In the 1930s television was introduced to the United States as the first form of the moving image. Since then the television
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Final when I was a kid I was the type who was curious of everything and when I couldn’t figure what it was or where it went I would have a puzzled look on my face. Since I’ve grown up there were a lot of things that I was curious about but there’s not a things that I didn’t figure out the awnsers to except for one‚ and that is on the subject of welfare‚ should you be drug tested or what are you spending your check from the government on. I could rant and rave for hours on all the subtopics
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What am I eating? Food is one of the great blessing by God for all his creation. We need food and water to be alive. From the beginning of the world the demand of the food is increasing day by day. The global food chain was already quite extensive by 1701- to the point where affluent English consumers could be oblivious to the costs of sweetening their tea and peppering their sausage.
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I will Leave No One Behind Extended Essay of We Were Soldiers The Vietnam War was a nightmare for many soldiers. It re-defined the meaning of war to an entire generation. As the conflict grew it became known around the world that this was a war that could not be won. After this was realized by America the main focus became to "get out" instead of "getting a victory". In the 2002 film We Were Soldiers‚ directed by Randall Wallace‚ a true account of the first major battle in Vietnam is given
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Should we legalize euthanasia to a person who is in a vegetative state? Many people in many countries are suffering for no reason at the end of their lives. They cannot die even though they want themselves to be killed painlessly in the situation that they will never get better. Euthanasia is the practice of terminating the life of a person or animal in a painless or minimally painful way‚ usually by lethal injection. Euthanasia is a controversial issue in these days because of conflicting moral
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Stephen Henriquez Mr. Nelson IB TOK 01/24/10 When should we trust our senses to give us truth? Our senses should be trusted in certain circumstances. Our senses can only provide us with raw information‚ but in order to gain knowledge and understanding of the information we need to implicate other ways of knowing. There is a limitation to trusting your senses because our perception will only go as far as our sense organs will allow us‚ but other ways of knowing such
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The question advocates that we can from time to time trust our emotions in the pursuit of knowledge. And generally we presume that it may be possible to know when to trust emotions and that emotions can help us in the acquisition of knowledge. And you may challenge these presumptions. Maybe it is not possible to know when to trust our emotions‚ and maybe our emotions have a limited value in the pursuit of knowledge‚ but to what I aim to analyse is to what extent do our emotions play a role in the
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Can we know when to trust our emotions in the pursuit of knowledge? Consider history and one other area of knowledge. When I make a painting‚ I use the knowledge I’ve gained from studying art‚ for example‚ combining colors‚ the uses of different media and different surfaces‚ and how to represent something so that it is recognizable to others. This means I use knowledge to implement the “how” of the painting. But what about the “what” of the painting‚ the content? For example‚ I draw faces
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Professor Coan ENGL 135 29 October 2006 Are We Alone? Since humans first walked the earth we have looked up and wondered if it is possible to be alone in the vast universe in which we inhabit just one small planet. Often while gazing up the skies man has seen things he could not explain‚ and for the last fifty years or so these things have taken on the label "UFOs." As years passed‚ sightings and other extraterrestrial encounters became progressively more common around the world; igniting the
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responding with surprise and shock‚ however‚ Joy Harjo’s poetic contribution‚ “When the World as We Knew It Ended‚” displays a remarkable sense of expectation‚ as if 9/11 was a depressing inevitability. Viewing the event through the lens of a Native American‚ Harjo composes a unique historical narrative and motivation
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