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    Pete Benck Ms. Finnegan AP Literature 28 October 2005 An Essential Theme in John Gardner’s Grendel In art museums‚ there are ageless paintings and sculptures. On the radio‚ classical music and classic rock is still played. These are some of today’s ways of carrying on the past through art forms. The painter and the rock legend are artists immortalized through their works. The artists in Grendel are the Shaper and the court harper. Their singing of great men’s deeds‚ no matter how inflated or

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    Should Cloning Be Banned

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    Discursive essay – Should cloning be banned? The subject of human cloning is a very controversial topic. The cloning of Dolly the sheep in 1997 by scientist Ian Wilmut generated a very unexpected reaction around the world. However these reactions were not all positive. Cloning refers to the development of offspring that are identical to their parents genetically. While it is referred to as an unnatural process‚ it can occur quite often in nature. Identical twins‚ for example‚ are clones. However

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    Should Boxing Be Banned

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    ISSUE – Should Boxing Be Banned CONTENTION – Shouldn’t be banned Recently there has been a debate on whether or not boxing should be banned. There are people who agree with the idea of boxing being banned and claim that it is dangerous and life threatening. However‚ there are others who disagree and argue that there are more dangerous sports. This issue could lead to unexpected consequences‚ such as boxers having brain injuries. I believe that boxing shouldn’t be banned because it is the boxers’

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    Smoking In Public: The Reasons Why Smoking In Public Should Be Banned Nina Marie Maldonado Post University Smoking In Public: The Reasons Why Smoking In Public Should Be Banned There are many reasons why smoking in public should be banned. The three main reasons to ban smoking in public are because of the health risks‚ offensive smell‚ and environmental risks that are the cause of cigarette smoke. Secondhand smoke is smoke from a cigarette‚ cigar‚ or pipe that is involuntarily inhaled‚ especially

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    Catcher In The Rye Banned

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    someone disagreed with how a story presents itself. A lot of the time it’s the parents who challenge the books because they feel their children should not read such books. Which is somewhat understandable considering most of the time the books that get banned share the topics of promoting and or encouraging profanity‚ explicit material and homosexuality. Banning a book does not do anything but give the author some bad cred. Eventually‚ sooner or later the children will hear about or see such things‚ so

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    Books shouldnt be banned

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    them or banning them. The reasons are usually because it has sexual content or witchcraft and the encouragement of violence. Book banning has become so common that the last week of September is known as Banned Books Week. There have also been lists of frequently banned authors‚ as well as banned books. What is interesting about these is that many of the books are classics. The First Amendment of the Constitution guarantees our right to free speech‚ which includes the right to read and write books

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    Good Morning/ Afternoon‚ Ladies and Gentlemen‚ Cigarettes have caused around 5 million deaths‚ which is 8 people dying each minute. Therefore cigarettes should be banned as they don’t just do physical damage but also moral damage. However banning cigarettes might lead to more criminal offense. Cigarettes have become a serial killer and have brought to people several different illnesses. The ingredients in a cigarette are so bad for you that they can kill a large rat in a matter of minutes

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    Should the Mma Be Banned?

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    Andrew Del Genio March 4‚ 2013 Should there be a ban on MMA? MMA is banned in 4 different U.S states‚ and many others want it banned nationally. This is to show those people who think it should be banned that they are wrong and that this sport can bring good business to America. Many people believe this sport is very is brutal‚ they use words describing it such as “barbaric” and “Human Cock Fighting” when this sport is nothing like that at all. Fighters don’t even take excessive blows

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    In the novel Grendel‚ John Gardner depicts the life of the Anglo-Saxon monster Grendel through the monster’s eyes. Grendel is a Sartrean existentialist‚ and he is skeptical towards his experiences and observations of the civilized world. In his experiences‚ he encounters an omniscient dragon that bestows a charm of invulnerability on him. Gardner employs the dragon to represent Grendel’s nihilistic tendencies. He demonstrates this through Grendel hearing the Shaper again‚ raiding the meadhall‚ and

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    What compares a monster and all-around hero? The monster in this story‚ Grendel‚ is a big and powerful creature that destroys the village and people of Danes. However‚ Beowulf is a hero that everyone looks up to because of his great‚ powerful‚ and courageous actions. After all‚ the two are similar because they both fought to destroy each other. So‚ what else distinguish the similarities between Grendel and Beowulf? Grendel and Beowulf are similar because they both fought for what they believe in

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