Shall We Walk? by Pura Santillan-Castrence This essay was written during the Japanese Occupation but it is as relevant today as it was then. I wrote an article some years ago on the benefits of walking. My automobiled friends praised the article politely enough‚ they liked it (at least they said so); the points were well taken; people should really walk more; it took someone like me to show in such graphic terms what could have been clear to everyone before… then they went on their morning-till-night
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of many reasons. From your own point of view‚ give three (3) reasons why people commit crimes? A crime is an illegal action or activity for which a person can be punished by law. Some people define crime as an act of offence towards the morality of humans. Others might regard crime as an act that harms the universal human rights. Therefore‚ why do people still commit crimes? There are many reasons why people commit crimes. Some crimes were committed because of hunger‚ need money‚ hatred and anger
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The “We Shall Fight” speech was delivered by one of England’s greatest orators‚ Winston Churchill (1874–1965)‚ shortly after becoming Prime Minister amidst the crisis that was the fall of France to the Nazi Germany. This was a time of crisis; the USSR had signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact‚ the US was holding to its policy of non-intervention policy‚ and mighty France had fallen. Britain itself barely escaped a total rout‚ when her troops were miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk at a great cost in
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The debate on whether parents should be held responsible for their children’s misdeeds has been going on for ages and people are divided on the issue. I believe that parents should be held responsible if their children commit any crime. A number of arguments surround my opinion. To begin with‚ if parents know that they will be held responsible for their children’s inappropriate actions‚ they will see to it that their children are well supervised and well cared for. Parents are responsible for
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Our life is a collection of events and their corresponding experiences. Some of these experiences are ephemeral and the rest sometimes puts an everlasting impact on our life and lifestyle. In these experiences‚ there are some that mark the achievement of our maturity. These are those points of our life that mark our transition between different phases of age. I have had such one event in my life that had a lasting effect on me and transformed me from a child to an adult. That event came from nowhere
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A worldwide situation in criminal justice is the youth‚ who are being tried as adults for their wrongdoings. Although juveniles commit heinous crimes such as robbery‚ murder‚ or even rape‚ they are not mature enough to understand what they are doing. In the article “Kids Are Kids-Until They Commit Crimes” a 12-year-old boy got sentenced life in prison after he beat a 6- year-old girl to her death (Lundstrom). The boy did not know the girl was going to die because he is not mature enough to know what
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Rapping Rapping (or emceeing‚ MCing‚ spitting bars‚ or rhyming) is "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The components of rapping include "content"‚ "flow" (rhythm and rhyme)‚ and "delivery". Rapping is distinct from spoken word poetry in that it is performed in time to a beat. Rapping is often associated with and a primary ingredient of hip hop music‚ but the origins of the phenomenon can be said to predate hip hop culture by centuries. It can also be found in alternative rock such as that of Cake and
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On December 13‚ 1973‚ Jones was arrested and charged with soliciting a man for sex in a movie theater bathroom known for homosexual activity‚ in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles.[98] The man was an undercover Los Angeles Police Department vice officer. Jones is on record as later telling his followers that he was "the only true heterosexual"‚ but at least one account exists of his sexual abuse of a male member of his congregation in front of the followers‚ ostensibly to prove the man’s own homosexual
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Running Head: ONLY DEPRESSED PEOPLE COMMIT SUICIDE‚ OR? Only Depressed People Commit Suicide‚ or Are There Other Reasons? Assignment Two Only Depressed People Commit Suicide‚ or Are There Other Reasons? I conclude there are plenty of other reasons associated with suicide. Suicide has been prevalent amongst human kind ever since the intelligent humans. Suicide is not necessarily a bad thing in some cultures‚ at least throughout the past. Many suicide were
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Why do people commit crime? The reasons vary from social and those as a result of the economic conditions that an individual is going through. Certain people also have got psychological issues that prompt them to do such things. The genetic make up of people could also make them desire to commit certain types of crimes‚ (Pavao‚ 1998). Children not well looked after in terms of parental care have a higher chance of committing a crime in their early years. In the same way children who are assaulted
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