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Rites Of Passage
Number of Words: 1619 / Number of Pages: 6
... meaning in their respective societies.
The Kurnai of Australia have an initiation rite for the sons of married
men in their perspective villages. Within a section by A. W. Howitt, in Eliade's
book, From Primitives to Zen: A thematic Sourcebook of the History of Religions ,
a ceremony known as the "Showing the Grandfather" is described(Eliade, p. 288)
In this initiation the Kurnai have a formal way of bringing a man's son into the
highest, and most secret realm of their religion. By incorporating the use of
the father and son relationship, this particular ritual involves the revelation
of the central ...
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Answer America's Call
Number of Words: 644 / Number of Pages: 3
... without wasting a
single American life. Countries can crumble with the push of a few simple
buttons on a keyboard.
But to understand all of this new technology requires a great deal of
knowledge. Not just anyone can sit at a computer and make a country crumble.
It takes an intelligent person to even turn on a computer. No longer can
America turn to just anyone off the street to help the country. So with this in
mind, we strive to answer Americas call, education.
When forming the government, it was feared people would not be smart
enough to understand the rights and privileges granted to th ...
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Selfishness
Number of Words: 388 / Number of Pages: 2
... in my opinion is too harsh of a word to use for these actions. I mean absolutely everyone seeks happiness and satisfaction in everything they do and therefore it is just human nature to act this way. is a term that can be used to describe people who do things only for themselves and do things solely for their own satisfaction unlike others who do it in part for their own satisfaction but also to actually assist that other person.
This new notion that I've learned took me a while to get used to since for some strange reason anything that people did for me after that I did not really appreciate s ...
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Teen Drinking
Number of Words: 1567 / Number of Pages: 6
... in school. When mom and dad expect their child to get an ‘A’ and they get a ‘B’, things can get pretty tense around the home front. If a kid does not have any way of blowing off steam in a creative way, he or she will likely turn to alcohol to let loose and relieve some tension.
Many of today’s role models drink. I will use the example of the most popular movie of the summer, “I Know What You Did Last Summer." Kids see the high school kids in this movie drinking and having fun. How can you blame them for wanting to drink? Everybody looks up to somebody, and if you are a teen and that somebody ...
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Animal Cruelty
Number of Words: 1084 / Number of Pages: 4
... testing method is the Lethal Dose 50 percent
test or LD50. In this procedure at least half of the animals must die in order
for the government to figure out how much a human can ingest without dying.
In one such test some animals were fed 4. lb. of lipstick and one ended up
dying of intestinal obstruction. In another, 7 pints of melted eye shadow was
fed to rats. In yet another, mice were wrapped in tin foil and grilled in
ultraviolet light to test a sun block cream for a total of 96 hours. The results
of the test were that the longer the mice stayed in the rays, the more sunburnt
they got. ...
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The Hype: Television
Number of Words: 826 / Number of Pages: 4
... lives of intrigue and notoriety. With a touch of a button, the television takes viewers "out of the 'real' world in which [they] reside and can place [them] at a basketball game, the back alleys of Maine, the streets of Bucharest, or the cartooning living rooms of Sitcom land (Hamill, 375). In these places, life is idealized. Rarely do you see television shows characters doing remedial jobs. Scotty, from Star Trek, never left engineering to fix a toilet (Have you ever seen a toilet on Star Trek?). The characters also never have mundane, daily trials (How about a speeding ticket for James Bond?) ...
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Gangs In The Nineties
Number of Words: 653 / Number of Pages: 3
... to him, his out look on life is about to be changed by a drive-by shootings. Although drive-by shooting have occurred in the city they didn’t happen in Ace’s park. They were just something that he had seen in the news and on television. For this reason no one in Ace's group was alarmed by the car before the shooting took place.
When the shot rang out no one was more surprised than Ace. He didn't have a clue to what has happened until he sees the blood running from his forehead. At that moment his outlook on life is about to change forever. In a panic he is sure he is going to die. Had he been alone h ...
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Conformity And Obedience
Number of Words: 547 / Number of Pages: 2
... a imaginary learner that the subject could not see but could hear and the learner was pairing cards but each time he got one wrong he was administered an electric shock each shock higher than the last reaching a shock high enough to kill the learner. and because milgram was hte one giving the orders to shock the learner he was an authoritive figure and genarally even though the learner knew that the shock would kill the learner because they were being told to do it by an authoritive fighure they carried Milgram had 3 prompts to make the subject carry on and in most cases the subject went up to the high ...
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Are Liberty And Order At Odds?
Number of Words: 1084 / Number of Pages: 4
... we will become slaves in our own country. This country has been
suppressing the liberties of people through their thwarting of protests and
demonstrations that supposedly “posed a threat” to the public. This
suppression has been a violation of the liberties of the people and is
making the American people slaves of the government.
2. Not only do people have the liberty to be kind to others, but
also unfortunately they have the liberty to hate. “One of the hallmarks of
a totalitarian society is the imprisonment of individuals for their ideas.”
(Huxtable, 1998) In a free and just so ...
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Why Are There Poor People
Number of Words: 451 / Number of Pages: 2
... family in
the world had breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. He told me that I was
very lucky to have all the things that I had, and that millions of kids in the
world would die to have the life I had. I was still very confused about the
whole situation. Why wasn't every family like ours? What did those people do
wrong? My dad just said that was life . . . some people are lucky, and some
people aren't.
At first, I thought that all poor people were the same, but I later
found out that anybody can be poor. Through the years, I learned that not all
people are born into poverty, that some peop ...
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