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Women's Fashion And Cosmetics
Number of Words: 653 / Number of Pages: 3
... use for other
things. Like pursing a career, reproductive rights, or equal pay for work
of equal value. Or maybe just having fun." It is also money consuming.
Make-up and hair products are expensive. The money used to buy cosmetics
and hair styling products could be spent for more important things. If one
has that much money to give away, why not save it for a college education
or donate it to a charitable organization? The time and money spent on
cosmetics and hair commodities imprisons women by preventing them from
doing more constructive things.
Next, billboard images of waif models c ...
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Anti-Affirmative Action
Number of Words: 594 / Number of Pages: 3
... are "not the best pick, but only the best pick from a limited
group." Another article I found, "Affirmative action: A Counter-
Productive Policy" by Ernest Pasour also on the W.W.W., is one example
which reveals that Duke, a very famous and prestigious university, adopted
a resolution requiring each of it's department to hire at least one new
African-American for a faculty position the 1993 date. More proofs of
Affirmative Action in action is the admission practices at the University
of California Berkeley. In the same article by Pasour, it states that
while whites or Asian-Americans ...
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Slavery
Number of Words: 587 / Number of Pages: 3
... author of the Encyclopedia, brought up the fact that the Christian religion was fundamentally opposed to Black but employed it anyway in order to work the plantations that financed their countries. All in all, those influenced by the ideals of the Enlightenment, equality, liberty, the right to dignity, tended to oppose the idea of .
Differing from the philosophes, the political leaders and property owners tended to see as an element that supported the economy. These people believed that if and the slave trade were to be abolished, the French would lose their colonies, commerce would ...
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Female Dominance Or Male Failure?
Number of Words: 1195 / Number of Pages: 5
... and thus justifying the relationship that “
none of the females of any species she created cared very much for the males.”
(p 340)
Thurber compares the similarities of courtship to the complicated works
of Encyclopedia Brittanica. A book which is full of wonders and within lies
mysteries of the unknown and unpredictable. In comparison to the Encyclopedia
Brittanica the female is alike in many ways, such as its perfect construction
and orderly appearance seeming as if they replicate one another like a clone. I
believe Thurber views all female species as being similar to one another with
respe ...
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Dignity Of The Human Person
Number of Words: 723 / Number of Pages: 3
... of his pure capability to think and reason. In man’s history he has achieved many victories and still he searches for more truths.
In the depth of man’s soul he finds a law that he cannot understand and doesn’t know where its from and still this law holds him to search out good and avoid evil in his life. This law was placed and written by God; to obey it is the very dignity of all man kind. Our conscience is the most secret and private place we have within ourselves. Here we are able to talk to God and share with him our inter most secrets and problems. Conscience is what conveys to us this dignit ...
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Teens: Obstacles In The 90's
Number of Words: 605 / Number of Pages: 3
... put in juvenile hall or be kicked out of school. An alcoholics lifestyle also leads into other things such as drugs and sex.
Once a teen gets into this party lifestyle it can lead them into stronger stimulants such as pot and stronger drugs. Now a days more and more kids are trying drugs and liking them. Almost every kid once in his or her life will try drugs. Most kids that try drugs like them and will continue on with drugs which will sometimes lead into stronger drugs. This drug abuse can lead into trouble in school and with the law. They can start to ditch school to do drugs and the drugs can ...
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Pollution And Its Consequences
Number of Words: 1883 / Number of Pages: 7
... smoking incinerators, exhaust fumes from automobiles are the cancer of modern society. Poisoned by carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide is the air we breathe. Our rivers are filled up with industrial waste, trash and broken bottles, and stained with oil. Each and every year the pollution of the air and water takes its toll, causing diseases, and shortening lives. The economic cost annually is several billion dollars.
Perhaps this sounds easy that, the huge pollutants corporations are, they'd be willing to sacrifice a little bit but the almighty dollar is much too much for them, as evi ...
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Transition From Adolescence To Young Adulthood
Number of Words: 653 / Number of Pages: 3
... many students, attending college immediately after high school permits them to grow and develop intellectually and personally. I feel that attending college plays a very important role in gaining experience for the real world, acquiring knowledge beyond my career field, and growing cognitively by thinking in new ways. College is the perfect time to learning to think cognitively because although learning continues through adulthood, it becomes more laborious the older a person gets (315). In support of this idea, Perry found that first-year students tended to depend heavily on the advice of a ...
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Sexual Harassment
Number of Words: 2046 / Number of Pages: 8
... husband. Kraszewski sued the company and won her case, after a nine year
battle, in late January 1988. She was given what may be the largest sex-bias
award in history: up to two hundreds of millions for 1,113 other female State
Farm employees with similar complaints, and $433,000 for Kraszewski her-self.
Ann Hopkings was one of Price Waterhouse's top young executives. She
had the best record for getting and maintaining big accounts, but when she came
up for a partnership in 1982, she was denied because several male partners had
evaluated her as "too macho." They advised her to walk, talk, and ...
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How To Win An Argument
Number of Words: 885 / Number of Pages: 4
... argument, it is
helpful if the truth is on your side, but as we've learned from our politicians,
it is not necessary. However, if the truth does eventually get out you may end
up looking like a fool. In a multi-sided argument, an argument which is not
dealing in absolute truths, but rather different opinions, it is preferable to
believe in the side you for which you are arguing, but isn't necessary if your
background is strong enough. In simpler terms, don't get into an argument you
know “nothin” about.
It is important to know with whom you are arguing. If you are in a relationship
(guy - girl), and y ...
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