...Nick Taupier GEO Persuasive Speech on Truth If you say no to your boss, or your girlfriend or boyfriend, or your mother, when it needs to be said, then you transform yourself into someone who can say no. If you say yes when no needs to be said, however, you transform yourself into someone who can only say yes, even when it’s very clearly time to say no. If you ever have wondered why ordinary and decent people end up doing terrible things like the camp guards at Auschwitz, you have your answer. By the time no seriously needed to be said, there was no one left capable of saying it. One way of conceptualizing yourself is that you're one speck of dust among 7 billion. And when you think that way you might say, well what difference does it...
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...In his article “The Moment of Truth,” former vice president Al Gore argues that global warming is a genuine threat to life on earth and that we must act now to avoid catastrophe. Gore points out that in Chinese two symbols form the character for the word “crisis.” The first of those symbols means “danger,” and the second means “opportunity.” Gore calls our situation a “true planetary emergency” and cites scientific evidence of the greenhouse effect and its consequences (170-71). “What is at stake,” Gore insists, is the survival of our civilization and the habitability of the Earth” (197). With such a grim predicament at hand, Gore questions why so many political and economic leaders are reluctant to act. “Is it simply more convenient to ignore the warnings?” he asks (171). The crisis, of course, will not go away if we just pretend it isn’t there. As with the Chinese symbol for crisis, however, Gore claims that the danger we face is accompanied by what he has termed “unprecedented opportunity” (172). Gore contends that throughout history, we have won battles against seemingly unbeatable evils such as slavery and fascism, and we did so by facing the truth and choosing the moral high ground. Gore’s final appeal is to our humanity: Ultimately, [the fight to end global warming] is not about any scientific discussion or political dialogue; it is about who we are as human beings. It is about our capacity to transcend our limitations, to rise to this new occasion...
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...ENC 1101 3-23-2011 Final Draft The Bottled Water Deception Have you ever thought twice before taking a sip of that refreshing purified bottle of water? I never did, until the day I learned the truth. Bottled water is everywhere; it’s convenient, and manufacturers have made it their mission to make sure you buy their Natural Spring Water. The quality of the water we drink is essential for a healthy life. Yet the quality of water used for bottled water is only required to be as good as tap water, but it is often worse (Strand par 2). On top of this, the plastic that water is stored in can leach synthetic chemicals into the bottled water, making it even more harmful (Strand par 4). The most saddening part is the fact that averages of 60 million plastic water bottles are disposed of every day, in America alone (Strand par 10). Not only is America and many other countries drinking unhealthy bottled water, but many of them aren’t recycling their used plastic bottles, causing our landfills to be filled with huge quantities of plastic waste. According to BottledWaterBlues.com, columnist Charles Strand, CEO of Sun Water, and Author of “All About Water”, “It requires 3 times as much water to make the bottle as it does to fill it... it is an exceptionally wasteful industry.” The most valuable health information anyone can learn might very well be the significance of healthy water. Water makes up 70% of our bodies; this fact tells us that the quality of the water we put into our bodies...
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...society, each author produced a powerful satire and an alarming vision of future possibilities. Although the two books are very different, they address many of the same issues in their contrasting ways. Huxley's novel sets out a world in which society is kept carefully balanced, with the means of reproduction just as closely controlled as the means of production. Human beings and the goods they make are tailored to one another: people are created in order to fulfil particular purposes, and are encouraged to consume so as to maintain the cycle. The society presented in 1984 is less comfortably balanced. The population is kept content with a rather meagre lot because of the constant war, which, as is explicitly stated in the Book, is a convenient means of maintaining the status quo, and the Party keeps a very close watch on those members of society who are deemed capable of disrupting it. Although set in Orwell's future, 1984 does not put great emphasis on technological advance—indeed, within the society of Oceania, there is effectively none any more, because the methods required for proper scientific enquiry are antithetical to the demands of the Party, and thus real science has been abolished. Orwell posits a certain level of technological advance—the two-way television screens and the ever-present surveillance equipment, the novel-writing machines,, but not much else. His purpose was not to imagine the details of such technologies, but to present the use to which they are put...
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...EG 372 – Written Analysis Project Part 5 March 2, 2013 Do we have a throw-away society? Who is impacted by the problem? A throw-away society is one that ultimately affects every person on the Earth. However, the greatest impact is upon the developed, industrialized countries; as they are the greatest producers of products that may be discarded. This is not to say that less developed, non-industrialized countries are not affected also. These countries are also affected by polluted land and waterways. The polluted waterways are more of a health risk because of either a non-existent purification systems or inefficient systems. The amount of trash that has been thrown away in the years since the Great Depression, will have an impact on the lives of everyone on Earth for generations to come, unless something is done to exponentially reduce our production of garbage. What is the problem? According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s website, in 2010 (the latest figures available), the United States alone created over 250 million tons of trash. An interesting fact; the total volume of solid (this includes construction, demolition and non-hazardous industrial) waste produced in the United States each year is equal to the weight of more than 5600 Nimitz Class aircraft carriers, or 247,000 U.S. Space Shuttles, or over 2.3 million Boeing 747 Jumbo Jets (Beck). In an August 2008, ABC Good Morning America report it was stated that there is a massive area...
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...Terrorism in Punjab and J&K is endorse and encouraged by the religious fanatics. Religious places have become the convenient place of refuge for the terrorists and threat to religion is the justification to terrorism. Terrorism in Punjab and J&K is endorse and encouraged by the religious fanatics. Religious places have become the convenient place of refuge for the terrorists and threat to religion is the justification to terrorism. Do minded people condemn the induction of religion in politics whereas religious diehards believe that religion is the basis of politics? Is the latter view consistent with the secular character of our State? The answer to this question will decide the acceptable relation between religion and politics. Gandhiji used to say “My religion is my politics and my politics is my religion”. If religion stands for moral qualities like love of truth, faith in God, love for human beings, it would moralise politics. This is what we need today. In a world where respect for human life is at its lowest ebb where politics is identified with cheating and political leaders are oblivious of moral considerations we need politics imbued with morality. But religion is nothing more than a bundle of outdated rituals, hackneyed customs and irrelevant practices. As it divorced from practical life, it is not in touch with the realities and demands of the present day life. It suspends the reasoning power and makes human thinking pointless. It is today a...
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...world we live in? The truth is it has transformed drastically over time. It has reformed the way we communicate, how we receive our education, and not to mention how health careers have improved because of it. Initially, the internet has changed how we as societies communicate, interact, live, work and play. The internet is used virtually by everyone who has access to a computer. It has changed how fast information gets from place to place, like emailing and chatting with one another. Once someone emails or sends an IM to an legit email it is received instantly. Social media is a big part of everyone’s life, from young to old. We have also been introduced to web cams. With web cams and the internet we can actually communicate and see the person we’re talking to. People can use Skype or ooVoo to see someone who is 200,000 miles across the world. The internet is now taking the place of mail, magazines, and newspapers. Overall the internet has become essential to almost everyone’s daily life. Furthermore, the Internet has impacted and will continue to impact education and health related fields. The invention of iPods, smartphones, tablets, iPads, and e-readers, has made it easier and convenient for students. Students can now buy books offline, and look up information very quickly, all at their fingertips. School systems are also putting iPads and tablets in classrooms. They may read from them or even do math work on them. These items are also very convenient to those who work in...
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...reader to make an opinion. Therefore, research but be open and persuasive. 3) "To write a synthesis, Shirley may or may not need to quote, summarize, or select material from her sources; to evaluate the sources for bias, accuracy, or select material from her original ideas; or to persuade a reader." Kantz underlines what is included in synthesizing a paper. Basically it is students citing a source to understand their research better. We use the text to back up our arguments while taking a stance in this persuasive research paper. It requires citing, quote, summarizing, paraphrasing, rhetorical reading. 4) "In addition to reading texts as stories, students expect factual texts to tell them 'the truth' because they have learned to see texts statically, as descriptions of truths, instead of as arguments." We tend to read things as narratives because...
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...behaviors will be considered acceptable, and which not.Such generalizations are, in essence, stereotypes. They allow us to put people into a category, according to the group they belong to, and make inferences about how they will behave based on that grouping. There will still be differences between individuals from one culture, and with the same individual in different situations. But the stereotype is reasonably accurate, so it is useful. Stereotypes are only a problem when they are inaccurate, especially when those inaccuracies are negative and hostile. 2. Stereotyping provides a view which may be based on some truths/facts, but is often limited and biased. They tend to be a neat and convenient capsule summary slanted toward a view point of the creator. Other non-critical thinkers can be seduced by stereotypes which simplifies the world. The small element(s) of truth contained in the stereotype seem so obvious and create a hint of credibility. Non-critical thinkers accept the stereotype and may intentionally or unintentional perpetuate and spread it. Part 3 1. Prejudice is a feeling someone may have, simply means to "pre-judge" someone in your mind, due to a characteristic, religious or national origin element; an adverse opinion formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge. A stereotype is the actual character or oversimplified image of a particular type of person or thing. 2. The relationship between stereotype and prejudice, is that one is having...
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...Fox stands firm in his opposition against fracking, but lacks concrete evidence to support most of his claims. One of the most obvious examples of this is in FrackNation when the dirty water crisis is disproven. People who claimed to have dirty water could not produce it when asked to on film. When the water is sent for further testing, their water tests clean. The authenticity of GasLand is questionable after more truth is revealed. In GasLand, another main assertion is that fracturing has caused tap water to become flammable. To counter this, McAleer uncovers that the phenomenon behind the flaming water resides in reports of methane gas in the water supply over the last few hundreds of years. Fox seems to know of this information as well, but refuses to provide a straight answer when questioned about it by McAleer. Clearly, the facts presented in GasLand hide the whole truth and have been proven...
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...The Effects of News Media Kristina Smith Jarvis McMichael Eddie Tart Stetson Manuel March 25, 2014 University of Phoenix Jolene Baker The Effects of News Media Reporters, journalists, editors, and any other person that reports news media has a social responsibility to report accurate information on any story that they are reporting. The news media need to use the truth in each situation and not just write or report something that “sells.” Unfortunately, many times the media stretches the truth or just makes up information in order to make a report more interesting which makes for a larger audience. However, stories like this can cause harm to the credibility of the news source and defamation of the person or people that the story is about. The news media should have a social responsibility to report the truth and facts in all situations ranging from local current events to covering political campaigns. Having different ways to access news has become more convenient over the past century from newsstands to an individual’s computer or mobile device. But with the internet evolving and making it easier to have access to it, individuals have turned to the internet to receive their news without spending a dime. The internet has also become a new thing for journalism, too and giving them power to get their story out there not just to a local town but to the world. “In 1998, the internet flexed its muscle by breaking a story before any major print publication”, according...
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...Shopping When we want to buy something, we usually go to a shop. There is no doubt that there are many kinds of shops in every town or city, but most of them have a food supermarket, a department store, men's and women's clothing stores, grocery, bakery and butchery. As for my family, my parents like to do shopping at big department stores and supermarkets. As a rule, they sell various goods under one roof and this is very convenient. A department store, for example, true to its name, is composed of many departments: readymade clothes, fabrics, shoes, sports goods, toys, china and glass, electric appliances, cosmetics, linen, curtains, cameras, records, etc. You can buy everything you like there. As far as I know there are also escalators in big stores which take customers to different floors. The things for sale are on the counters so that they can be easily seen. In the women's clothing department you can find beautiful dresses, costumes, blouses, skirts, coats, underwear and many other things. In the men's clothing department you can choose suits, trousers, overcoats, ties, etc. In the knitwear department one can buy sweaters, cardigans, short-sleeved and long-sleeved pullovers, woollen jackets. In the perfumery they sell face cream and powder, lipstick, lotions and shampoos. In a food supermarket we can also buy many different things at once: sausages, fish, sugar, macaroni, flour, cereals, tea. At the butcher's there is a wide choice of meat and poultry. At...
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...leave a pseudo-official impression that we aren't skilled enough, we're bad goods, we just can't hack it; but this is inaccurate. It also psychologically convinces us to negatively label ourselves. The hidden truth is we're approaching yet another recession. Many Americans are taking lower paying jobs to make end's meat. In other words, every proprietor presently cherry-picks from the cream of the crop, only examining the extraordinary. An increasing number of employers only hire workers with more skills, more abilities, and more accolades than what is required; somebody who in reality is overqualified for the position. How are we to gain experience without an opportunity to do so? One must assume that we are all unfairly expected to take on an amoeba-like skill set in order to...
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...Seemingly, omniscient leaders run the societies in both texts; in 1984, he is known as “Big Brother” and in Equilibrium, he is known as “Father”. Both figureheads use fear, indoctrination and punishment to sustain their power of everyone and everything. Winston said “...one thing alone mattered: to keep still, to keep still and not give them an excuse to hit you”. Winston conforms out of fear of punishment. “Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.” In both texts the power of the institution is sustained by demanding no free will and no individual thought or emotion. In Equilibrium the things that trigger emotion (such as literature, music and art) are outlawed. This is witnessed in the opening of the film where John orders the burning of Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”. This emotive painting symbolises rebellion against “Father”. Father and Big Brother’s laws are administered by enforcers. In 1984 they are known as the Party, and in Equilibrium they are the Tetragrammaton Council. These enforcers seek out any rebellion against their leaders and make sure that those that digress are severely punished publically through torture, reconversion and/or death. In Equilibrium, Preston’s partner Brandt said, “You heard Father’s orders, they are either to be shot on site or incinerated without trial”. Such public displays of power through punishment makes the people afraid of rebellion and life outside of the society, outside the rules. They sustain their hold on...
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...critical thinking and not thinking that you really need to even use it to get by. Beginning critical thinkers often tend to do the things exactly the way they want, or how other friends and family do them and they do not commonly think outside the box. Average level critical thinkers are a very moderate critical thinker. They may have had little or no training on the subject and they tend to only think critically when the situation is convenient for them. They do understand that there might be more involved to their thought processes but they might not have learned just how to deal with things with critical thinking just yet. The average critical thinker has a thinking level above the beginner and not quite to the advanced, but there is an opportunity for these folks to learn and become advanced. The advanced critcal thinker is the not so common person who has learned all of the steps to critical thinking and has also learned how to apply those steps in order to solve problems. These are the people who have the ability to tell most truth from non truths and are always questioning everything. This is the ultimate level of critical thinking that we all wish to achieve. I would place myself on the average critical thinking level. I am not always critically thinking, however, I do have a very questioning mind naturally. I have not chosen to follow in the footsteps of my friends and family when it comes to my thinking and my beliefs (political or...
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