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American And Nigerian Culture
Number of Words: 614 / Number of Pages: 3
... lands upon the Uma aya Biafra, or
teenagers of Igbuno. There is no question, it is just assumed that
teenagers were involved. (Unfortunately, Uche, a teenager from Igbuno, has
committed this heinous crime). Also, when the people of Akpei find that
someone is stealing from their huts, again without any evidence, they
surmise that teenagers are to blame. Lastly, Okei's ( Okei is a teen who
lives in Igbuno and is the novel's main character) Uncle Obi Agiliga is
convinced that the teenagers of Igbuno are setting an terrible immoral
example for the upcoming generation.
How many teenagers in our societ ...
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Cellular Phone Hazards
Number of Words: 360 / Number of Pages: 2
... event of mechanical difficulties or other roadside mishaps. Though more research is needed, previous NHTSA studies suggest is a primary or contributing factor in as many as 50 percent of all car crashes (Cellular phone research).
Besides being distracting to drivers, cellular phone radiation is also cause for controversy. Headway National Injuries Association wants mobile phones to be treated in the same way that tobacco is, with public health warnings required until their health effects are known. Some research has shown that use of a cellular phone for more than 20 minutes at a time can increase ...
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Political Correctness In The Classroom
Number of Words: 496 / Number of Pages: 2
... to teachers and parents everywhere. Many educators on
recess duty who have observed children at play have come to believe that rough
play which might look innocent can and often does lead to real violence. The
goodness of teaching political correctness in the classroom is its ability to
protect our children from violence, discrimination, and the unfairness that
exist in this world.
Political correctness is a good thing for kids to learn. I think that
being politically correct is just being polite and considerate for the feelings
of others. I encourage parents and teachers to teach children ab ...
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The Aids Crisis
Number of Words: 626 / Number of Pages: 3
... refused to acknowledge the problem. It was considered a problem of the homosexuals and therefore did not exist. This was the same attitude of the government and yet people were dying and more were getting sick. The word AIDS was like taboo in the whole United States. This attitude also prevented the government from getting involved sooner because the government generally works on public opinion. If government officials started to talk about what people did not want to hear (AIDS and homosexuals), than those officials were in danger of losing their jobs.
Society in general was ignorant o ...
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Topology
Number of Words: 557 / Number of Pages: 3
... rather simple, formula seems to have been missed by Archimedes and Descartes although both wrote extensively on polyhedra. The reason must be that to everyone before Euler, it had been impossible to think of geometrical properties without measurement being involved.
Johann Benedict Listing (1802-1882) was the first to use the word . Listing's topological ideas were due mainly to Gauss, although Gauss himself chose not to publish any work on . Listing wrote a paper in 1847 called Vorstudien zur Topologie although he had already used the word for ten years in correspondence. The 1847 paper is not very ...
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Psychological Doubles
Number of Words: 2052 / Number of Pages: 8
... and many others found this chilling to contemplate.”
The society of men is Stevenson’s main focus and is evident in the number of ways in which he presents Hyde in terms of society. If Jekyll and Hyde is characterized in Gothic fiction’s exaggerated tones of late-Victorian anxieties concerning deterioration of social status, and the idea of ‘criminal man,’, it invariably situates those concerns in relation to the practices and discourses of lawyers like Gabriel Utterson, doctors like Henry Jekyll and Hastie Lanyon, or even ‘well-known men about town’ lik ...
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Fighting For An Innocent Death
Number of Words: 980 / Number of Pages: 4
... and each emptied their sixteen round clips into the body of a 22-year-old immigrant form Guinea. In a period of approximately eight seconds all forty-one shots were fired, and like an animal Diallo was killed, in front of his apartment-his sanctuary. Amadou Diallo was a street peddler who sold anything from socks to videotapes. He was a "shy, soft spoken man" with no criminal record (Robinson). Diallo was in the United States legally on a work visa, which would have expired in April of 1999.
After the execution ended, Carroll went to inspect the already deceased body of Amadou Diallo. Whe ...
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Baseball's New Rules
Number of Words: 342 / Number of Pages: 2
... reached over the wall and caught the ball.
This would be usually ruled no home run but the umpire said it was OK. New York
went on to win the next game to advance to the World Series. The fans in New
York made the little boy a hero for a day and loved him for what he did but most
of the other baseball fans all over the country did not think it was fair to the
Orioles.
In conclusion I do not like the new rules of the game and hope the
commissioner of the league will change them for next year. ...
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The Tyranny Of Choice
Number of Words: 795 / Number of Pages: 3
... their responsibility in their careers, social life and marriage. He supports his main idea by mentioning his own experience in marriage and examines important statistics about single females.
Waldman elaborated that "Choice Leads to Inept Consumption." This describes that the more choices available, the more information the consumer must have in making an intelligent decision. If there are too many choices, the consumer will abandon making rational decisions like safety. Salespeople help urge the consumers in not making sensible selections which can be more frustrating. He concluded that his stressf ...
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Insight On Necrophilia,whats T
Number of Words: 643 / Number of Pages: 3
... 4) With this statement, Barbara Gowdy reinforces the contrast of the story versus the judgement of her society in the fifties.
When the author decided to explore a controversial matter of sexual nature, such as necrophilia, she made a thoughtful decision by choosing a woman as the vehicle of this sin. Society tends to perceive certain sexual behavior with varying degrees of acceptance, based on the gender of the person in question. Masturbation is an example of one such sexual behavior easily accepted when performed by a man but perceived as unhealthy when performed by a woman. I doubt that a descri ...
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