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Capital Punishment Death Penalty
823 wordsIn the past, people have invariably felt that if they had been wronged in some way, it was his or her right to take vengeance on the person that had wronged them. This mentality still exists, even today, but in a lesser form because the law has now outlined a person's rights and developed punishments that conform to those rights, yet allow for the retribution for their crime. However, some feel that those laws and punishments are too lax and criminals of today take advantage of them, ie. organiz...
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Early In The Morning Stressful Situations
763 wordsStressful Situation There is no doubt that every person is subjected to psychological stress, in one way or another. I am not the exception. Being a student, I have to cope with stressful situations on everyday basis. For example, after classes, I am expected to do some additional research on the subject of study. This is does not correlate with the chronic lack of time, on my part. It is physically impossible to succeed in academia, while leading a healthy life style. Therefore, I usually feel ...
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Ideals Of Beauty Physical Beauty
725 wordsBeauty as Power There are many definitions of what the concept of beauty stands for. However, most of them suggest that beauty only has a decorative function, which points out to the fact that these definitions lack depth. Once we become aware of the degree to which society is obsessed with the concept of beauty, it will appear that this notion has much wider implications than what it is commonly assumed. We can say that beauty is power, because it is impossible to talk about it outside of evolu...
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Analysis Of The Atomic Cafe Documentary 1982
1,226 wordsAnalysis of The Atomic Cafe Documentary (1982) Atomic Cafe can be thought of as the example of a new genre in the field of documentaries. Some critics refer to it as observational grotesque. It is clear that producers strived to expose the sheer futility of duck and cover tactics, when it comes to protecting people from the effects of nuclear explosion. However, Atomic Cafe would never be able to become critically acclaimed, if it was only providing viewers with the historical insight on how did...
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19 Th Century Division Of Labor
1,643 wordsAdvantages and Disadvantages of Bureaucracy (1) The rise of bureaucracy, as socio-political phenomenon, has been strongly associated with the increased rates of division of labor, which can be thought of as the trademark of nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Industrial Revolution created preconditions for the process of manufacturing to become more efficient, because it brought about the notion of production specialization, which it its turn, allowed capitalists to rationalize this process....
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Violent Video Games American Psychological Association
880 wordsArgumentative/Persuasive paper Nowadays, it became a statement of good state, on the part of Bible thumper's and those who refer to themselves as conservatives, to think of violent video games as such that encourage young people to indulge in anti-social behavior. For example, the article Violent Video Games can Increase Aggression, which is available on the web site of American Psychological Association, implies that it is such games that result in more and more young Americans being deprived o...
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Brave New World Social Control
1,087 wordsBRAVE NEW WORLD BRAVE New World was published in 1932. It is a remarkable piece of science fiction for both its time and our own. It seems to withstand the intervening 65 years, primarily because of its depiction of a tightly controlled, rigidly stratified homogenous society. Issues of social control are as relevant today as in 1932, perhaps more so. Reproductive technology plays a key role in the social control of Brave New World. Reproduction takes place in a Hatchery. Excised ova are inspecte...
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Brave New World Huxley
1,110 wordsHuxley? s Brave New World is definitely new and is something that is difficult for a person living in a 90? s world to imagine for it is so very diverse compared to our society and customs today. The odd world and lifestyle that was prophesied by Aldous Huxley in the first half of the 20 th century has much of the same basis of customs but they are just performed different ritually in these people? s everyday routines. If anyone from our time and our world were ever to spend any given amount of ...
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Brave New World Science And Technology
1,163 wordsAldous Huxley's Brave New World paints a grim picture of what the future may hold. Through many scientific and technological advances, the lifestyle of the people in the novel has been changed dramatically from that of today. Although technological advances are currently seen in a positive light, Huxley warns us of the perils which can accompany these innovations if they are not controlled. This leads to the question of whether science and technology can improve our lives. In Brave New World, ge...
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Educated Person Medical Experiments
1,002 wordsDo You Have What it Takes? A Breakdown of the Educated Person by Thomas Burkhardt An educated person is a well rounded person. To be educated is to knowledgeable in many areas. Diversity is essential in the sense that many different things inspire thought, which then derive permanent conclusions from these experiences. Anyone who has the audacity to call themselves educated needs to have a firm grasp of many different areas. These categories span through Science, Technology, Language, Art, Feeli...
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Female Genital Mutilation Rite Of Passage
1,167 wordsital Mutilation in Sudan In the country of Sudan, in Northern Africa, there is a procedure that is tradition and is performed on most women called female genital mutilation, or FGM, which used to be known as female circumcision. It has been a normal practice for generations, but is now the subject for international controversy on the morality and safety of this procedure. It is now known that 82 percent of Sudanese woman have an extreme form of genital mutilation done on them, normally at a youn...
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Studies On Hysteria Brother In Law
1,824 wordsAristotle once stated in Metaphysics that, All men by nature desire Knowledge. If one accepts the claim that knowledge is power, then it will be logical to assert that all people want power. The person or persons that have knowledge also acquire the power of that knowledge. In Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish he clearly shows the power-knowledge relationship that is prevalent in society both on the large and small scale, and how these affect society as a whole. Whereas, Sigmund Freud who ...
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Lived Happily Genetic Variation
1,028 wordsLizards to Snakes Many millions of years the planet was dominated by lizards great and small. It was a place ruled by the laws of natural selection where the only way to survive was to be able to defend yourself with what you had. It was a constant struggle for food, shelter, and supremacy. It was about survival of the fittest, because only if you were best suited to your environment would you have a chance at living to reproduce. Sometimes adapting to ones environment could create a whole new s...
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Communications Decency Act Form Of Government
1,002 wordsInternet Censorship Young Jonathan was surfing the Internet on his mom and dads personal computer when he accidentally stumbled onto a website with pornographic pictures. It just so happened that his mother decided to walk in and call him for dinner at this very moment. She is horrified at what her eight year old son has found. The ease of which a young person using the Internet can find pornography has sparked serious debates over censorship. On one side people see it as the governments job to ...
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Inter Sexuality Intervened Person People
1,136 wordsPeopleIntersexualism Hermaphrodites INTRODUCTION People known in the medical literature as true hermaphrodites have a mixed gonadal structure, ovo-testis, or sometimes one ovary and one testis. It was stated in this interview that the politically correct word for hermaphrodites is now intersexual's because of the mythological origins of hermaphrodite. Most intervened people have a very, very, hard time with personal issues which surround being born intervened. There is a relatively small group o...
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Sense Of Morality Moral Code
1,439 wordsWhen reading Niccolo Machiavelli s The Prince, one can t help but grasp his argument that ordinary morality and politics cannot exist in the same forum. However, when examining Machiavelli s notions in depth, one can conclude that perhaps a moral end fuels his suggested use of force and violence. First and foremost, one must have the understanding that this book is aimed solely at describing what conditions and actions are necessary for a would-be prince to take in order for him to obtain and ma...
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18 Th Century Natural Disasters
1,264 wordsThere is said to be no greater figure who has summed up the Enlightenment age than the French philosophy Francois Marie About who worked under the pen name Voltaire. Voltaire was not only a philosophy of the Enlightenment, but was a playwright, historian, poet, and writer as well. During his career which lasted about 60 years in 18 th century, his writings consisted of essays, poems, satires, and philosophical tales, all of which carried the same theme of Ecrasez l income, or crush infamy. This ...
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Smoking Marijuana Marijuana Plant
1,111 wordsWhat s illegal, Marijuana Marijuana What s illegal, friendly to the environment, not supported by the powers that be, and gets you banged up in nick for possession of it? Well the answer can only be the green bud, the Buddha, the wacky back or the puff, well what ever you call it it all boils down to the simple name of marijuana. So how come this plant has gained such a cult following over the thousand and odd years it s been subjected to us? Well I suppose you I could spout out the useful purpo...
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Gangsta Rap Interpersonal Violence
1,218 wordsThroughout history the human populous has been attracted to music. Whether it be part of a ritual, an emotional release, religious reasons, or just for listening pleasure music has been at the center of our society. We have used music to express ourselves, tell stories, and let others into our thoughts. However, we often wonder whether what we are saying has an effect on the listening audience. Recently, in the 1990 s references have often been made to link violent and deviant behavior to music ...
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Child Labour Pre Industrial
1,506 wordsThere was once a time when children born into this world were given the same name in hopes that at least one child would survive to pass the honor of that name down through the bloodlines. While the birth of this newborn child would mean that the limited supply of foodstuffs a family possessed would have to be rationed more carefully, this child was as an investment in their own futures. As the child grew to about the age of eight, he or she could start becoming an active component of the househ...
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