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Who's Right Is It Anyway?
Number of Words: 538 / Number of Pages: 2
... the impact would be recognized. Another popular argument
for stoppers, people who want to prevent suicide, is that nothing can be bad enough. Yet how do
they know this? They do not have to put up with the same stuff the suicide victim does everyday.
How could they possibly know what the potential suicide victim feels. Just as a severely burned
victim may wish to be allowed to die in peace, the suicide victim wishes the same. To die in
peace with no argument from others.
The argument of "look at the people you will hurt" also does not hold. Immediate family
members will be the only ones ...
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Diversity Within English
Number of Words: 1409 / Number of Pages: 6
... Atlases. Many linguists can tell where a person is from just by
knowing whether a person carries groceries home from the supermarket in a paper
bag or from the grocery store in a paper sack (Yule 184). And the person who
comes home from the supermarket with a paper sack serves to remind us that
language variation is not a discrete, but rather a continuous variable.
Characteristics of the dialect are more pronounced in the center of the speech
community and tend to be less discernible at the outer boundaries, where they
often overlap other regional dialects.
Within, and between, thes ...
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Japan: Social Customs
Number of Words: 470 / Number of Pages: 2
... vow their marriage to the Japanese God, as well as many rooms to celebrate their wedding in Western style after the vow. A bride wears a pure-white Japanese Kimono (Shiro-muku) in front of the God at first. Then she changes it to a colorful Kimono at the beginning of the wedding party, then again to a beautiful Western-style in the middle of the party and finally to a pure-white wedding dress (Western-style). Changing clothes in the middle of the party is called oiro-naoshi.
However, recently some people prefer the tendency of simplification, so they choose the way in simple styles, sometimes without ...
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Sibling Rivalry
Number of Words: 529 / Number of Pages: 2
... the older brother resent the
attention his younger brother receives even more.
In this situation my personal belief is that a person should calmly
explain to the older brother that what he did was wrong, but forgivable.
You should also explain why it was wrong in a way the child can understand.
In my opinion the worst thing a person could do in this situation is to
force the child to apologize. It will reestablish that what he did was
wrong, and, since his baby brother is not able to respond, will make him
feel even more guilty. The apology will also be insincere unless it is
explained to the chi ...
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Racism And The Ku Klux Klan
Number of Words: 1540 / Number of Pages: 6
... was the birthplace of future misery and despair and the beginning of a new era( Oneline pg. 1).
On an evening in May 1866, a few young men met with one of the most prominent member’s office at a Pulaski bar. In the course of the evening’s conversation, one of the members said, “Boys, let us get up a club or a society of some description” (Lester and Wilson pg. 53). The group of men were called the “Pulaski Circle” which included six members. One founding member was Captain John C. Lester, a soldier in the third Confederate Infantry, and later a lawyer, member of Tennessee legislature, and an ...
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Cigarette Companies Should Not Be Able To Advertise
Number of Words: 515 / Number of Pages: 2
... companies could lie like that to people that didn't know any better, for they were uneducated on the subject, what other lows could the stoop to.
Another reason cigarette companies shouldn't be able to advertise is because they are making a prophet on killing people. Cigarettes are accountable for 430,700 deaths out of the 2 million that happen annually. Also many of the deaths are slow and painful. Letting cigarette companies advertise is like advertising suicide. Cigarettes are even dangerous for people that don't smoke them. Studies show that 37,000 to 40,000 people die from secondhand smoke each y ...
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Sexual Harassment
Number of Words: 1335 / Number of Pages: 5
... or not getting fired. Condition of work harassment, also known as environment or workplace harassment, is less direct, and arises when an employee is subjected to requests for sexual favors, sexual comments or sexual insults, but no negative employment consequences follow from the employee's refusal to accede to the demands made on her. can be defined as an unwelcome sexual advance, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. These constitute when submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly based on a term or condition of an indivi ...
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A Review Of "The Outsiders Club" Screened On BBC 2 In October 96
Number of Words: 1834 / Number of Pages: 7
... Indeed, it is only in the last few years that disabled people
themselves have been in the forefront of this debate, and the leading
protagonist have usually been activists within the wider disability movement,
who are well aware of other social and sexual issues such as gender, sexism,
homophobia, and so on. The Outsiders was set up (and is still fronted by) an
able bodied woman who for many years has been well known in the controversial
arena of sexual liberation and soft-core pornography, so it is hardly surprising
that her group has both supporters and critics. A recent BBC-2 documentary
ser ...
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Teen Drug Use
Number of Words: 230 / Number of Pages: 1
... third straight year in 1995. Since 1992, the smoking rate has risen by more
than one-fifth among seniors, with one in three (34 percent) now saying they
smoked in the 30 days prior to the survey.
Use of marijuana among seniors has also increased since 1992, reversing a 14-
year trend. Among 1995 seniors, 21.2 percent said they had used marijuana in
the last 30 days, compared with the low of 11.9 percent in 1992. During the
same period, students' perceptions of the risk of marijuana use has declined,
from 78.6 percent who perceived igreat riski in regular use in 1991 to 60.8
percent in 1995.
S ...
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Incest
Number of Words: 1341 / Number of Pages: 5
... intimately kissing can be considered incest. This is not all true for
the law's definition. In Georgia, incest is defined as any sexual intercourse
between known relatives, by blood or by marriage, (meaning a step-parent and
step-child.) Incest laws basically exist to prohibit marriage or inbreeding
between family members, and the sentences are almost never carried out. (Kosof,
pg 53) So incest is stated as wrong, but not enforced. The Bible states that
incest is wrong, just as the law does. ACursed be he who has relations with his
father's wife... Cursed be he who has relations with his sister or hal ...
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