Samantha Merlin October 14‚ 2012 IGE 120 MWF 11:45-12:50 Reading Response: Being Wrong: Chapter 5 by Kathryn Schultz At the beginning of chapter 5 “Our Minds‚ Part Two: Belief” Schultz informs us that Alan Greenspan testifies before congress on October 23‚ 2008 because of the financial crisis. The chapter then leads on to expand on the“Greenspan moments” which is basically when beliefs fail us. Belief in casual conversation is a conscious belief‚ such as morality‚ politics‚ ourselves or
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they target people based on their race‚ ethnicity or their religion. Somebody assuming you are doing something wrong based on your race or the color of your skin. Me personally I have never been racially profiled‚ but I was once with my friend that is black and she was accused by the owner of the store for stealing when she was not really stealing. I think that racial profiling is wrong‚ you should treat people the way that you want to be treated. Racial Profiling is destroying the mindset of people
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think burning books is a very wrong act. Burning books is wrong because it is not only ruining hard work and dedication that the author put into it‚ but also‚ the author’s ideas and thoughts. When the nazi’s burned books about the Jews‚ I thought this was extremely cruel. It was bad enough that they killed millions of Jews‚ but burning their thoughts and ideas is something that people should be very ashamed of. My overall thoughts of burning books is that it is very wrong. I agree and disagree with
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Uniforms are the Wrong Answer Some schools are beginning to consider making school uniforms mandatory for all students in every grade. However‚ I believe this is the wrong choice for our school‚ and uniforms should not be enforced. It is easy to see how school uniforms may be an effective form of bully prevention‚ making our school a safer learning environment for students and an easier place for educators to work. However‚ the negatives do outweigh the positives. School uniforms force children to
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In the play The Crucible there was a character that was afraid to admit they were wrong. In this particular case‚ Governor Danforth was afraid to admit he was wrong when accusing people of witchcraft. In the play‚ Danforth was the judge that determined who was a witch in Salem and who was not. If someone was accused of being a witch and they admitted to it they got to live. However if someone was accused of being a witch and denied it they were hung or killed. In the play‚ Danforth had already made
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A life so difficult that one would rather die‚ than to live in such a creation. Physical‚ emotional‚ and spiritual devastation has been tied to the slaves forever haunting them in life. Who am I? One might ask‚ unsure and unable to desperately seek for an answer. A human so damaged‚ they are unaware of who one’s self is. Loud screaming in the background‚ can’t decide if the screaming is coming from himself or from someone else. Used and traded like a typical object‚ loss of humanity and compassion
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begin of time‚ humans believe they have authority over any living organism. As a result of their thought process they also believe that it is okay to test harmful material and chemicals on animals because they are not human beings. Animal testing is wrong and should be illegal because it is cruel to the animal‚ the tests are not always accurate and there are alternative ways to test products that do not need to be tested on animals. Testing on animals is cruel. It is cruel because it is subjecting
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being debated all over the country. Sweatshop; a shop or factory in which employees work for long hours at low wages and under unhealthy conditions (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweatshop). Personally‚ I think that sweatshop labor is wrong‚ because people are being taken advantage of‚ even if they do not know it‚ or see it that way. If a company would not have their workers work in an unsafe environment here in America‚ why would they allow it to happen in another country? There is a
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‘Radical feminist theology is inspirational but wrong’ Some would argue that radical feminism was inspirational and it was not wrong as it was necessary in order to achieve equality for women. Harriet Taylor forcefully set out the arguments in Enfranchisement of Women for the right to vote and also for ‘equality in all rights‚ political‚ civil and social‚ with the male citizens of the community’. She argued that true partnership between men and women would also mean equal pay and financial independence
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The Declaration of Independence 1.) There is a list of 18 wrongs presented in the Declaration of Independence. The list presents the beliefs of the colonist on how to make America great. A mission of the list was to strengthen the royal control over the colonies. The purpose of the list was to declare the wrong doing of America and how to make it a well organized and successful country. It presented many good things for America‚ such as‚ the rights to liberty‚ life‚ and the pursuit of happiness
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