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    There are a lot of people in the world‚ who spend their time in different ways. Some of them enjoy watching films‚ but others enjoy reading books‚ and also there are people‚ who like both: watching and reading. How do you think what is better: watches a film or reads a book? There are some differences between them‚ for example‚ watching a film takes less time than reading a book‚ espacially‚ if a book is large. If you read a book‚ and then you watched a film‚ you could notice‚ that a film did

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    Why Do We Read Literature?   First‚ Literature Defined: * "The creation of literature is a uniquely human activity‚ born of man’s timeless desire to understand‚ express‚ and finally share experiences." * Literature is "a concrete artifact -- a story‚ a poem‚ or a play" * "The medium of translation‚ of course‚ is language‚ the written and spoken word." * "When we speak of literature‚ however‚ we have in mind a special kind of language that differs from the ordinary discourse with

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    Read - Why College Matters to God‚ and answer the following questions: 1. What two (2) important results are liberal arts courses attempting to produce? Liberal arts was expanded to include natural and social sciences such as biology and psychology. Second colleges allowed students to select a particular major or course study. 2. In considering the two (2) recent books‚ what do each of them have to say concerning the liberal arts? 2.1 Daniel Pink‚ A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will

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    Should be illegal & is immoral Many people believe that abortions should be legal because women should have the right to choose whether or not they want to bring a baby into the world. They believe a woman should have property rights which include the body and the fetus. They also believe a woman should have privacy rights which means the state should not interfere with private matters. These people are called pro choice. At the same time many people are anti-abortion because they believe “Life

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    Nowadays nothing is private: our culture has become too confessional and self-expressive. People think that to hide one’s thoughts or feelings is to pretend not to have those thoughts or feelings. They assume that honesty requires one to express every inclination and impulse. Adapted from J. David Velleman‚ "The Genesis of Shame" Assignment: Should people make more of an effort to keep some things private? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your

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    Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Patillo Beals‚ is a memoir of the events involving the Integration at Little Rock Central High School. The story took place in 1957‚ but it is still told today. This book is still important because it shows how far we have come‚ and it shows how everyone was affected in the past. Everyone had a different view of the integration‚ but no one will ever forget what happened. For the nine African American students‚ going to Little Rock was full of bullying‚ racial slurs‚

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    feeling that the government is taking over and people are being suppressed. The image is able to give a sense of what the situation is like in Ferguson. The picture contains a man with his arms raised as policemen march towards him. The cops are wearing camouflage uniforms‚ while bearing automatic weapons and an excessive array of accessories that are not needed for the present situation. The mailbox that the cops are marching past has graffiti that reads “Fuck The Police‚” which gives the viewer a

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    People didn’t like Scorpius Malfoy. It was an accepted fact of the universe‚ just like how the sky was blue and you couldn’t see stars in the day and Russia was the biggest country on earth. Just like those facts‚ this was also a concrete fact: no-one liked Scorpius Malfoy. If people grew up in the Wizarding World‚ they were brought up to hate the Malfoys for being prominent Death Eaters‚ against all those who weren’t pure-bloods. Muggle-borns quickly learnt to hate Malfoys too‚ as they were told

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    People of different race have been segregated because they had different colored skin. Even though people wanted to keep races bellow them. Many people even helped get people’s rights. Many of colored people had to use different bathrooms‚ water fountains‚sit in the back of the bus‚and eat in different places.segregation has been going on for a long time. Just because someone has different colored skin does not mean they are any different‚ so segregation is wrong. People should not be judged

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    Nick Gonzales “Don Quixote” Cervantes novel “Don Quixote” was written back in 1500’s. The main character Don Quixote is from the region La Mancha located in central Spain. While he was a man of a sound‚ mind‚ and reason. His reading of many books about chivalry had a very strong effect on his mentality. Don Quixote reveals himself thru a mental process in which the real world has been distorted in his perception of impractical mental behavior. Don Quixote sets out with Snacho on a chivalric

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