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US Border Patrol: Pros & Cons
Number of Words: 663 / Number of Pages: 3
... is spent on healthcare for illegal
immigrants. CNN says that the care of illegal immigrants in one hospital
in Jacksonville, Florida costs taxpayers $44.5 million. A Federal
Government estimate says that $1.6 billion dollars is spent on the
education of illegal immigrants each year in California alone. Just think
of how much money is spent on illegal immigrants across the country. Now
this is just the cost of the immigrants that get through the border patrol.
These costs could be greatly lowered if the Border Patrol would do its
job. Let alone the cost of the illegal immigrants that manage to ge ...
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Illustrate How The Way People
Number of Words: 615 / Number of Pages: 3
... of the house, or the unrest souls will lure them to dead. Visiting the beach would not be allowed also, since there are many tragedies have taken place in the waters, and evil ghosts may be eager to take more lives. Besides that the people who is having a wedding or moving into new house during this period is considered bad luck and should never be practiced and God forbid that one should die during this month!
Another example is during the Chinese New Year, they are not allow to sweep the floor because they believe that if they do so they will 'sweep' away all the good luck. They also prohibited from ...
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Array
Number of Words: 1072 / Number of Pages: 4
... went to a family estate in Euboea. He died there the following year.
Aristotle, like Plato, used his dialogue in his beginning years at the Academy. Apart from a few fragments in the works of later writers, his dialogues have been wholly lost. Aristotle also wrote some short technical writings, including a dictionary of philosophic terms and a summary of the "doctrines of Pythagoras" (the guy from the Pythagorean Theorem). Of these, only a few short pieces have survived. Still in good shape, though, are Aristotle's lecture notes for carefully outlined courses treating almost every type of knowledge an ...
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Television 2 -
Number of Words: 1398 / Number of Pages: 6
... and in the world of advertising. But television cannot yet be said to have enriched our civilization. For that to happen it must become interactive, so the viewers may cease to be just absorbers.
In the flood of images from the silver screen the less good accompanies the best, just as in cinema or in literature. The factor which distinguishes television from the cinema and books, however, is that the full quality range, down to the very worst, is offered to us round the clock, in our own homes. Unless we take particular care to preserve our sense of values, we let it all soak in. We have not yet ...
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Secularization
Number of Words: 552 / Number of Pages: 3
... to adapt.
There are several conceptions of .
2. Differentiation of institution, practices and activities from religion
3. Transposition of norms from religion to the world
4. Desacralization of the world
5. Conformity of religion to the world
There are also causes of
1. Industrialization
2. Urbanization
3. Some beliefs and practices in Christianity may have fostered some forms of secularization
The Three separate moments of secularization
The core and central thesis of the theory of secularization is the conceptualization of the process of societal modernization as a process of functional diff ...
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Monasticism And Intellectual L
Number of Words: 795 / Number of Pages: 3
... the buying of clerical positions, was common, as was the practice of priests being married. In 910, Duke William of Aquataine wanted to do something to correct this problem. He founded the abbey of Cluny, which was an independent monastery. Cluny was kept independent from any kind of secular control. It sought to bring back the ideals of the original monasteries. This came to be known as the Cluniac movement. With the new relative stability in the church, cathedral schools developed. These were schools attached to cathedrals where religious and secular men could be trained. By the thirteenth c ...
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Breakfast Club Character Evaluations
Number of Words: 1371 / Number of Pages: 5
... possessions (earrings) and by social standings (prom queen), and he judged himself against her and that led to him wanting what she has (earrings and virginity). First he tried being more competitive with her by calling her names and putting her down so that he could seem higher and “cooler” than her. Then he became envious and jealous of her, wanting what she had. This two then lead to greed. Fortunately for the both of them, they got beyond the achievements and fell in love. They learned to judge each other by the quality of their relationships and their lives. On the outside, Andrew thought that Bri ...
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An Explanation Of
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... becomes evident that the boy’s inexperience with money will lead to his downfall when Jesus tells that he gathers all together and takes “his journey to a far country” (9). He is out to live the good life as he wastes “his substance with riotous living” (9). This sinful life he is living would bring shame to his family, especially his father. This father/son relationship can already be associated with the God/man relationship. Man lives a sinful life that brings shame to God-- man’s creator, or father-- but it is the forgiveness God has that gives man hope.
Jesus goes on to show the Pharisees how ...
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Theories Of Selective Attentio
Number of Words: 1349 / Number of Pages: 5
... does not know the meaning of unattended information, this would mean that it has been discarded before it has been processed for meaning. One of the first approaches to this question was attempted by Cherry (1953, in Parkin, 1999) who carried out an experiment in which subjects were required hear two different messages simultaneously, one in each ear, but only pay attention to one of them. To make sure that subjects were not attending to the other message, they were asked to shadow the attended message, that is to recite aloud everything they heard. Subjects could report the physical characteristic ...
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Growing Up GAY
Number of Words: 2566 / Number of Pages: 10
... Gay adolescents often feel forced by parents to pass as “heterosexually normal” (Herdt 2). As a result, homosexual teens hide their sexual orientation and feelings, especially from their parents. Limited research conducted on gay young adults on disclosure to parents generally suggests that disclosure is a time of familial crisis and emotional distress. Very few researchers argue that disclosure to parents results in happiness, bringing parents and children closer (Ben-Ari 90).
The debate over homosexuality as nature or nurture dominates most topics about homosexuality. People often confuse ...
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