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Slavery
Number of Words: 632 / Number of Pages: 3
... would travel to Africa bringing manufactured goods, capture
Africans and take them to the Caribbean, and then take the crops and goods
and bring them back to Europe. The African people, in order to communicate
invented a language that was a mixture of all the African languages
combined, called Creole. This language now varies from island to island.
They also kept their culture which accounts for calypso music and the
instruments used in these songs.
Slavery was common all over the world until 1794 when France signed
the Act of the National Convention abolishing slavery. It would take ...
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Importance Of Priority In Today's Society
Number of Words: 534 / Number of Pages: 2
... these events that I described
could occur in the near future.
Many people are in belief that chaos, mayhem, and even anarchy will not
occur in their lifetimes. And most possibly what they think is true, but they
don't show helpfulness towards they younger generations. By making a large
pothole, it may be very difficult to fill it. By ruining the world today, it
seems as if we are striving to mayhem. In our society we are not working to
help other people and just help ourselves. If we all worked together, and not
thought so much about ourselves we would therefore show that we can work as a ...
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Increase In Violence In Video Games Targeted At Children
Number of Words: 658 / Number of Pages: 3
... in real life, but would kill over the Internet in a multi player situation and gave them aggression relief (Video Game Violence 1).
In another survey done by the Internet Wire in 1999, it showed that sixty eight percent of the people who took the survey thought that game violence was an acceptable form of entertainment. However, only five percent said that it would likely lead to violent tendencies and seventy three percent said that violent games had no impact on their behavior. The survey showed that gamers believed that it was more appropriate to kill fantasy monsters in the game then killing hu ...
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Australia Day
Number of Words: 438 / Number of Pages: 2
... city streets.
Personally, does not mean a lot to me. As I was not born in Australia and only received my Australian citizenship in 1995, I have never really seen the significance of the public holiday; however one thing I do believe in, is that the date should be changed. The government must find a day on which everyone can feel included, in which everyone can participate equally, and can celebrate with pride our Australian identity. I believe acknowledgement of the past is the first step towards reconciliation. That includes recognition that since white settlement (or invasion, as indigenous people ...
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Different Types Of People In Our Society
Number of Words: 514 / Number of Pages: 2
... just look around. Another example of a
reserved person is one who doesn’ t talk to people that he or she doesn’ t
know. They also do alot of observing in different situations.
The last type of person that is very noticeable in todays society
is the sociable person. This type of person is the one that is always
agreeable and just about always very easy to get along with. Another
example of a sociable person is one that is almost always trying to help
another person in any way that they possibly can. There can also be a such
thing as a harmful sociable person. This kind of sociable person does not
try t ...
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The Horrible Truth Of Child Labor
Number of Words: 2031 / Number of Pages: 8
... All humans have the same rights, but an astonishing number of them are not aware of them. It is this lack of knowledge, and lack of power to do anything about it, that is the cause of the continued child labour workforce. Therefore, to abolish child labour, the general populace must first be aware of the harsh reality, and then create and implement solutions to ameliorate the problem.
Most people around the world know little of the horrible truth, if they did a large part of the anti-child labour battle would be won. More people being aware of the inhumane activities occurring, could help in the figh ...
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Cosmetic Testing On Animals
Number of Words: 1712 / Number of Pages: 7
... a substance into an animal’s eye and watching the results.(All for Animals Newsletter, Issue 1) This test is usually preformed on albino rabbits, and it is done by clipping their eyes back. The painful results of this test include swelling of the eyelids, inflammation of the iris, ulceration, bleeding, blindness, and death resulting from broken necks.(the animal breaks their neck in an attempt to get free). The LD50 or Lethal Dose 50 is preformed by force-feeding a substance to a group of animals until fifty percent of them dies. Substances may also be pumped into the animals stomach, injected und ...
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The Different Ways Of Raising Children
Number of Words: 949 / Number of Pages: 4
... than just stay at home. In addition, most of the children in Hong Kong have no human rights than the children who are raised in the United States. Traditionally, many parents in Hong Kong punish their children by hitting when they make some mistakes. Because of there are no formal laws to protect the children from getting hit, some parents even hit their children without any reasons. On the other hand, the parents in the United States do not hit their children easily because they all know this is not a way to discipline. There are some laws to control the parents who hit their children because ...
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Swinger's Not Just On Playgrounds Anymore
Number of Words: 1774 / Number of Pages: 7
... is that people come just to have sex. However,
this is an option at Dave and Dawn's club. Their club is known as an ‘on-site'
club. This means that Dave and Dawn provide bedrooms for their members'
enjoyment.
"Ours is an on-premise club. We have bedrooms where sex does take place,
but only if it is consensual. We do not force our activities on anyone," Dave
said.
Dave adds that having sex is something most people associate with a
swing club, but often this is not true.
Bob McGinley, whose self-given title is the grandfather of swing,
believes many people have misconceptions about swi ...
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Effects Of Youth Crime
Number of Words: 741 / Number of Pages: 3
... things,
they paint graffiti on the wall. Crime is worse than it ever has been. It used
to be the mob that people were scared of, now it's the gangs. If you cross a
member of a gang, you can bet that his friends will get you back for him. Gang
wars are especially dangerous, it starts with just two people, one from one gang
and one from another gang. One of them does something to the other, like stab
him, and then the victim's friends will get the attacker. It continues to
escalate until it is all out war. Stopping gang wars is just one small step to
stopping youth violence.
Gangs are not the ...
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