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The Media
Number of Words: 452 / Number of Pages: 2
... story for filler, I wouldn't be too happy.
It should be the tribe's leader that should have to get the tribe out of
trouble in any way that he could. It is not our business to send them our money
to get food for the people that got themselves into trouble, but I think it
makes people feel good to donate things to needy people. I just think that the
media isn't telling people the whole story. Maybe the starving people spent all
their money on drugs? I doubt that many people would send their hard earned
cash if they knew that the person was just going to buy more drugs with it.
I think that the me ...
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Curfews
Number of Words: 749 / Number of Pages: 3
... days will just rebel. We teenagers have a point, why should we go home if a police officer tells us to, if our parents let us go out and we are not doing anything wrong.
Another thing that gets to me is why the curfew law applies to teenagers sixteen and seventeen years of age. An average teenager gets his or her licenses at age sixteen. Usually by the time you are sixteen you are mature and responsible enough to drive and stay out with friends or even family. Drivers go places to have fun and these curfew laws take this opportunity away from us. Even if you are younger than sixteen and your ...
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The Use And Abuse The American Language
Number of Words: 708 / Number of Pages: 3
... I enjoy watching television; it’s an entertainment for me when I’m bored. I spend about five hours watching television, while I’m eating, doing my homework and talking on the phone. This is an example how I rather spend my time watching at a screen with pictures and not paying attention to the language, rather than sitting down and reading a book. By reading a book we learn many things, not only to picture the images in our heads but we also learn how to enhance our grammar and our language Reading was a form of entertainment before television was invented. People would spend their time ...
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Meeting A Girl
Number of Words: 594 / Number of Pages: 3
... bashful. The worst of all, she is not interested.
Let us imagine meeting someone for the first time. The girl you are dying to ask on a date is finally alone, without her friends. This is your opportunity; you are nervous and afraid of her respond. Act casually, and keep total control of yourself. This is the big step, the going process of a tactical move. Be brave and remember the Estonian proverb: “The brave beginning is half of the victory.” Get yourself together, and get your words together as well. Be very tactful about what you want to say, and how to address your words.
Females do n ...
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Cross-Cultural Ethics
Number of Words: 2250 / Number of Pages: 9
... take place. Even rational action is subject to the cultural definition of what is a meaningful goal and what are available means(16). Culturally determined responses are built into the very physiology of the organism.
Second, culture pervades social activities and institutions. There is a strain toward consistency in culture—consistency of perception and style, as well as of values and ethics. This is the thesis of McGann’s discussion of integrating themes in three preliterate, relatively simple societies. McGann based her analysis on the following postulate:
A culture, like an individual, ...
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On Campuses, Students Confront A Growing Racial Divide
Number of Words: 307 / Number of Pages: 2
... a big role on campus. One example is at the
Metropolitan Institution of Technology where a group of African Americans took
over three dormitory floors and named it “chocolate city.” It is clear when an
ethnic group of any kind says that their group can live there and nobody else,
that is Institutional racism.
One thing that is being done about racism and more specific,
institutional racism, is the leniency of the Scholastic Aptitude Test(SAT). It
is said that the SAT is discriminative against minorities. Critics say that the
SAT assumes the knowlege of the middle class white culture. ...
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Moral And Ethical Dilemmas
Number of Words: 1975 / Number of Pages: 8
... possibilities. Even the opinions or
actions of friends faced with similar dilemmas may not be helpful. Often you
feel pressured by piers that say, "it's no big deal", or "you'll understand
later". It's important that I understand why a particular action or resolution
is correct or incorrect. If I can't or don't it's difficult to feel I've been
honest with myself. That for me can be a good measure of ethical behavior, my
conscience.
The ideal way to deal with difficult questions is to have a foolproof
formula. Find steps that will always lead to correct decisions. Unfortunately
I do not yet h ...
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Arguments Against The Relativists Theory
Number of Words: 2299 / Number of Pages: 9
... logical and
practical consequences, and negligible benefits.
The first logical consequence of relativism is that the believer must
contradict himself in order to uphold his belief. The view states that all
ethics are relative while putting forth the idea that no absolute standard
of rightness exists. If this is the case, then what is cultural relativism
relative to? From a purely logical point of view, this idea is absurd, for
in assuming that something is relative one must first have some absolute by
which it is judged. Let the reader consider this example to reinforce the
point. A y ...
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An Explanation Of Terrorism
Number of Words: 1143 / Number of Pages: 5
... (The Terrorists 146) Atkins states that one of
the reasons it took so long to do anything about terrorism is that it is so hard
to define, and therefore just as hard to enforce. He also says Declarations and
conventions from the UN have lacked effective enforcement mechanisms, so they
have been ignored by member states and have been characterized as ‘largely
cosmetic. Basically, the UN is doing this to satisfy the public and little
else. This lack of understanding of the meaning of terrorism has also been a
hindrance when law 8:56 PM 12/14/96enforcement was actually implemented. Police
aren' ...
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Reality Is Perception
Number of Words: 706 / Number of Pages: 3
... eyes and yet can still maneuver around in there environment by
sensing ripples in their area with special sense organs on their body. Birds
also seem to use the magnetic lines of the earth to navigate south for the
winter each year. It would be foolish to make the statement that all sensory
perception of the world is circumspect and is exactly the same for all creatures.
All animals on the planet earth live in a hermeneutic spiral meaning
that we all live in the past. Humans as with other animals can only sense a
cause after it has made an effect. The assumption is made that if we sense an
effec ...
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