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Our World Essays and Term Papers
Is Our Society Becoming Post-literate?
Thousands of years have passed since our culture invented an alphabet to allow spoken words to be permanently recorded. This 'great leap' from orality to literacy had many consequences that will be discussed here. However, many other technologies have come into existence since the ...
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Winter Celebrations Of The WorldChristmas- is a Christian holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. No one knows the true date of his actual birth, but it is observed on Dec. 25. Christians and others celebrate this holiday by attending church, or partaking in religious ceremonies unique to year. Most popular: the ...
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Descartes 2It took Descartes a long time before he realized how many false beliefs and assumptions he had from his childhood.
To start over with a new mind set, he had to totally rid himself of assuming things been true or things that he had not questioned but had rather accepted as a truth.
Descartes ...
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Cultural Standards Are All That We Have
Our world is a melting pot of different cultures, each one unique in its own respect. Who we are, and what we generally believe to be true or right is a product of what our society values. Because our way of living is what we were raised to believe as “right”, it is often hard to ...
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The Case For The Existence Of GodIntroduction
Either God exists or He doesn't. There is no middle ground. Any
attempt to remain neutral in relation to God's existence is automatically
synonymous with unbelief. It is far from a "moot" question, for if God
does exist, then nothing else really matters; if He does not exist, ...
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A Healthy PersonalityThe road to is like a road itself. It has many curves and blind corners. Ones ability to adapt to this constantly changing road is one of the most important components of . That is, the ability to adapt to a changing world. Another important component is the ability to handle stress. We are ...
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Stranger Than Fiction Brave NeThe task of predicting the future is as impossible as finding a needle in Texas. Huxley’s predictions of the future has proven to be eerily accurate in several areas; his predictions with regards to sex, our obsession with youth and beauty closely resemble societies' views on these issues ...
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Conformity In TeensConformity in Teens
“You must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, ‘Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.’ Don’t be resigned to that. Break out!” John Keating The Dead Poets Society.
Although ...
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The Current State of AffairsThe Current State of Affairs
Shirin Dey, Grade 9, CHS
The Mumbai massacre, the Wal-Mart stampede, piracy on the high seas, and the recession: so much had happened on the week of Thanksgiving, 2008. The question is, “Do you know the current events?” If you asked my generation, you’d be ...
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Spirituality and Higher EducationThe Need for Spiritual Learning in Higher Education
B. Williams
University of Blah Blah
Abstract
Spiritual learning has been something that was once considered a principle in higher education, yet has since become a social taboo. The secularization of colleges and universities gave rise ...
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The Sociological PerspectiveThe Sociological Perspective
The sociological perspective consists of both the ability to see relationships between individual troubles and historical change, and the capability to see how social origin functions in the world. In our world today, we grow up learning what is accepted in society, ...
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Ending Nuclear Proliferation“The spread of nuclear weapons …could lead to the exterminations of any city on the planet… America as the only country to have used nuclear weapons has a moral responsibility to act” This was said by President Obama. The fact that our President has to come out and stop what was supposed to be a ...
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Manic Depression in Our Teen GirlsManic Depression in Our Teen Girls
Stephanie Bourne
PSYC 1010
Michelle Gipson
08/25/2011
Manic Depression in Our Teen Girls
In our society today our ...
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Plastics Pollute Our OceanBinh Nguyen
Professor Jackson
English 110-81611
5 May 2011
Plastics Pollute Our Ocean
Within the last few decades, plastics have revolutionized our daily lives. The use of plastic has now become very controversial because of the major environmental impact it is having. Plastic is ...
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Betrayed by NatureBetrayed by Nature
SparkNotes, a website that provides a study guide for poetry, gives a summary of the meaning of poems. But since poems are interpreted on an individual basis, reading the summary does not equate with the experience of reading the actual poem. Reading and analyzing a poem on ...
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Divorce Rate in AmericaDivorce rates over the last century have steadily increased at an alarming pace. There is a simple explanation for this. As the world evolves, the people in it adapt and change as well. Present-day citizens' point-of-views and morals have clearly changed since the idealistic view of a household ...
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Environmental Science and SustainabilityChapter 1
Introducing Environmental Science and Sustainability
Lecture Outline:
I. Human Impacts on the Environment
A. Increasing human numbers
i. Although several million species inhabit Earth, the human species is the most significant agent of environmental change on the ...
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Our Life Is Better Than It Was For Our Forefathers?Our life is better than it was for our forefathers?
Do you think our life is better than it was for our forefathers? To answer this question, we had better go back the period of the middle of the 18th century. It is the period before the great changes that have been done to shape the world as it ...
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My Experiences With Race, Gender, Religion, and Social ClassPersonal Essay
As a thirty-something white woman, I have had many experiences during my lifetime with race and the social class structure of our society. This country is a vast pool of colors and cultures, however we are all for the most part locked into our own niches of reality, peering ...
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Descartes' Skepticism From His DreamsRenée Descartes raises a particular problem in skepticism when he turns to his dreams for evidence of the value of his perceptions when awake. Descartes sees his dream analogy as potent evidence for skepticism, but many philosophers and academics since have disagreed. Consider why Descartes saw ...
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