...committed are done by teens but they aren’t. If a teen gets caught after hours and the cops get called then that is just wasting that cop’s time. One reason why the government shouldn’t be able to mandate teen curfews is that there are people who also think that the curfew doesn’t help out with the crimes. Like in the article “The Trouble with Youth Curfews” there was a quote that really stood out to me it says “Most of the research has found that curfews are not effective in reducing crime or promoting public safety,” and that quote is saying that the curfews don’t help reduce crime or help out with public safety (Berg). So there are people who agree that the curfews don’t help reduce the amount of crime in the city. In...
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...Assignment 5 Paper Both freedom and equality are political issues that have yet to be fully resolved and understood despite our nation being founded on both. Although we as a society have glamorized our country as being the “Land of the Free” and where “Everyone is created equal,” there are still social issues that give reason to believe that we as citizens of the United States aren’t so equal and not exactly all that free. In the Dialogue readings, I have selected four of which I feel could be strongly applied to the political beliefs of both freedom and equality. In the “Self and Society” book complied of different readings and philosophical authors, I have chosen Albert Camus, B.F. Skinner, Horace Miner, and C. Wright Mills as comparisons to the ideas on freedom and equality. In Camus’ reading entitled “The Guest,” the schoolmaster named Daru is visited by a horseman, Balducci. Alongside Balducci is his captive prisoner, an Arab who remains nameless throughout the reading. Balducci instructs Camus to take the prisoner to police headquarters to face accusations against a supposed crime he had committed. Throughout the story, Daru is seen living well in his furnished and heated home that looks over an impoverished, cold and often corrupt land. This demonstrates quite obviously that not everyone is considered equal, as the rest of the land is cold and freezing while Daru is kept warm. Daru, who goes against Balducci’s orders, and remains true to his own personal freedoms...
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...“Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love?”(line). Henry is telling the colonist to really acknowledge the fact that the British are lining up their fleets and armies yet they want peace with us. He's using rhetorical questions because he knows the colonist will know the answers to them and they will think about it more than him just telling them. “But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?”(line). Henry's saying that it's idiotic to not do anything now that it's not that bad, also that if they wait a little longer it's going to be worse. He used rhetorical devices to show the colonists that nothing's going to get better if they just sit around and do nothing. Patrick Henry used rhetorical devices in many ways to show the colonist that they should stand up and fight for what they need and...
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...Reflective Paper Teresa A. Sigler BSHS 345 August 30, 2015 Chelie Byerly Reflective Paper Generational Poverty There is a strong family bond created within the family environment, especially when that family is struggling with generational poverty issues. There is a bond created between the parent and children that is so strong that generally most of the time the children will not break that bond and they will refuse to leave home. A majority of the children that are raised in generational poverty are lacking in several areas of education which is due to an extremely high dropout rate which is due to either considerably high rates of teenage pregnancy, or the student becoming frustrated with trying to learn. Coming from generally from single mother homes where the mother has to take whatever jobs that they can find, which tend to be low-paying and limited to no flexibility in scheduling, make it difficult at best for the mother to provide proper if any kind of structure for their children or for them to spend any kind of quality time with them. The older children that have dropped out of school are treated by the parent more like they are their own possessions now. Instead of teaching them the life skills and the other skills that they will need in order to survive in the real world on their own and to be successful for themselves. Instead, they have them taking care of the younger children so that the parent can go to work and put in more hours. This makes the older...
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...in? We specialise in high quality event catering, pre-packed wholesale food products and bespoke private dining experiences. What gave you the incentive to start the company up? I was on my gap year in Australia driving up the east coast and I stopped to get something to eat at this sushi bar right by the beach. It was the most delicious sushi I have ever had and it gave me the idea to start y own company. What is the unique selling point of your business? The unique selling point of lovsushi is that the market for sushi in Scotland is not very saturated like it is in London. As the market is unsaturated with other companies it makes us more demanded to the people. Who are your main competitors? There are no real competitors for sushi apart from restaurants, of which there are very few around Scotland. Our main competitors are probably other moveable food companies at large events such as festivals. This is because people who go to those events aren’t looking for good food and don’t want to spend more on an exotic and unique food stand. What advantages do you hold over them? The main advantage for us is that we are on the move and do deliveries around a certain radius where we make the sushi. What changes could you make to be more efficient, and why haven’t you made them already? We could do with more advertisement around the counties and we could do with more food units so we can be at multiple events/places at the same time. We haven’t yet done this...
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...is something society is yet to accept for obvious reasons. The idea of someone taking your newborn child from your arms, and not being able to fight back is absurd. As horrific as such scenario sounds, we are contributing to these dreadful acts. Factory farming is when large quantities of animals such as cattle, pigs, and poultry, are housed together for mass production for the pleasure of our consumption. As a consumer ask yourself, is the murder of an animal justified? Is wanting a hamburger more important than the suffering and torture of the animal which it came from? Though a large amount of people are for animal rights, most are uninformed of the suffering behind factory farming. If people knew the true conditions in which the animals live, the unacceptable lifestyle these creatures have, and the torturous process that contributes to having food on your plate, we would all be hostile to the practice. Factory farming is unacceptable and it should be abolished....
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...Being in the 21st century, with technology and world so advanced, we still talk about this subject, “Are Women Safe, in India, especially?” With surveys and understandings of what is happening around us, it is time that the country joins hands together to realize that – ‘Women are NOT SAFE in any means in India’. There have many cases that have been reported and many unreported for the torture a woman undergoes, yet there has been nothing done to change the law or the system to the way a woman is being looked at. Women have been advancing, progressing and have proved that they can beat men in any sector they are in. Be it sports, arts, science, politics, service or for that matter any where, she has stood at par with what a man could do. Yet, she still fights for equality. No matter what, the old thoughts and upbringing culture still lay cluttered in the minds of men that women should not be above men, but below them. It is sad to understand that women are the better halves of the society, yet they are the ones who face the maximum tortures in many ways in their lives. Time has changed, yet attitude towards women have never been changed. To understand better, one has to get to the root cause of the problem. It has all started ages ago, where men are thought to be gods and powerful and women to be just like slaves for household works. Even today, leave alone villages where people are uneducated, the educated society or who claims to be in the high class society, opts...
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...besides each other’s names, yet they are already discussing getting married the next day. In addition to falling in love quickly, both Romeo and Juliet are very quick to kill themselves. They never think about the consequences of taking their own life; they only think about the minor problems that they are facing in the moment. After Romeo killed Tybalt, he learned from Friar Lawrence that he was banished and without hesitation he says, “O, tell me, friar, tell me, / In what vile part of this anatomy / Doth my name lodge? Tell me, that I may sack / The hateful mansion” (Shakespeare III.iii 114-117). Being banished is better than being dead yet Romeo thinks it is the end of the world and immediately wants to end his life. These lines from Shakespeare’s play prove that teenagers are very impulsive and choose to make actions without thinking them through. As long as humans have existed, teenagers have been impulsive. Even modern day teens are as impulsive as Romeo and Juliet in the 1600s. Many scientists and doctors have done research on this topic and a neuroscientist named Dr. Frances Jensen has found an answer. In an interview, Jensen said, “What we know is that the frontal lobes — which are the seat of executive function, decision-making, empathy, judgment, insight and impulse control — are the last places that hook up to the rest of the brain during development” (Gregoire). With the frontal lobes being the last parts of the brain to develop, teenagers aren’t capable of thinking through...
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...babies that never even get the chance to leave their mother’s womb or better yet, they don’t even get a chance to develop. Abortion, it causes more harm than good and should be illegal. It has been widely debated over when life truly begins whether it starts at conception or when a baby first sees the light of day as it comes into this world. In worldnetdaily.com staff writer Jon E. Dougherty’s article, Life begins at Conception, he states “Life begins at conception, not birth. Birth is simply one stage of ongoing human development…Life is as real and as tangible as death; consequently, we humans are "viable" the moment we are created in the womb. Barring death by natural causes, everyone has the potential to eventually become a senior citizen someday — as long as they aren't butchered before birth. In fact, some have said we begin to die the moment we are conceived because our lives always reach that inevitable conclusion. The "not viable life" excuse doesn't hold up because, if all life is not "viable" life, then what is the purpose of having an abortion? If these human beings weren't viable and would not — if left unmolested — mature into "born" children and adults, then the abortion would be unnecessary to begin with. Also — and this is key — we humans are never "fully-developed." We're not born "complete"; we grow, change, mature and age constantly, which means we're always "developing," and we develop though the first nine months of our lives Finnigan 2...
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...So here I am, at the end of grade 12, the end of my high school life and I ask myself “Did I make the most of it? Did I try hard enough? What should I have done differently?” My head fills with thoughts of regrets of the past and disdain for the future, but also welcomed thoughts of freedom and nervous excitement for changes and independence. The years have gone by and although I wish I had done some things that I missed out on, I wouldn’t change the experiences I’ve had for anything in the world. For it is these experiences that shape us as individuals and define who we are. All of our triumphs and failures are what build us up to be the person we are. And we made it through the ups and downs of high school life and are coming out of it as adults. “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated”, these words were said by Maya Angelou who in turn personifies them. Maya Angelou suffered an incredibly hard childhood and faced discrimination...
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...witness. Although Scout’s formal schooling is disappointing, she learns many valuable lessons from real life. Scout learns many valuable lessons based on things that she and other characters in the novel get to experience. For example, in the novel, Scout and Jem get air-rifles, yet Atticus will not teach them how to shoot them. This leads to Miss Maudie explaining that their father said “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy...they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a...
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...Donald Trump will protect this country and whoever threatens this country will have to pay a consequence. He will send armed forces in that country. We also will destroy them with our arm forces, no country should be threaten. We will fight them tell they want to surrender. I’m sick and tired of Obama say ‘’That he will get things done with ISIS’’ did it happen yet? No it didn't happen we need a leader to get things done. And we need a leader that sticks up for this country and not sit around and kid around with Joe Biden. And I hope that America gets better and we have a good president that sticks up for us. Also i think Donald smells the coffee and he wants to get this country on track. Donald Trump is also a christian and we need one...
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...value of human life. A baby is considered a gift from God and it is believed that every living being has a purpose behind his/her birth. After all, abortion implies depriving a child the chance for a well-deserved life. Advocates also argue that by terminating a life, how can we justify our acts? Aren’t we acting against the creator of the world? Pro-choice advocates claim that the fetus is not yet a real baby to justify their beliefs when in actuality, from the moment of conception, the fetus is truthfully a living, breathing human being. There are three major issues that have been associated with abortion legalization: 1. The abortion decision is often made by minors or young adults, who lack the maturity and life experience to make good decisions. 2. Women who have abortions often suffer major psychological damage from the experience, whether it is right away or years down the road. It’s also been said that the father of a child aborted can suffer psychological harm as well. 3. Abortion exposes women to various health risks and the danger of losing fertility. The first issue is a common sense approach to the issue of abortion legalization. There’s a good reason why we do not allow people to drink alcohol, smoke or drive until they are of a certain age. It’s because most young people lack life...
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...argues that all human actions are determined as they apply to natural laws. However, to say actions are determined means that human action isn’t free and we do not have free will. Free will is the term given to the idea of human ability to do what we like whenever we like without restraint. I disagree with the claim that human action is not free and I will put forth arguments in this essay to discuss this conclusion. Firstly, libertarians would argue that we freely chose our actions as we have an overall feeling of freedom. This relates to our common experiences of choosing and deciding and when we have to make choices we are open to all other alternatives before making a decision. Surely, we only have the ability to freely choose something if we have free will to do so and if our actions were causally determined then we wouldn’t have other alternatives to decide from. Therefore this strong feeling of free will and freedom to do as we choose to would prove that human actions isn’t causally determined. However, determinists would claim that this ‘feeling’ of freedom is not sufficient evidence to say that we are free since it is possible for us to feel free even when we are not. For example, if I had a brain tumour that I didn’t know of which caused me to drink repeatedly then I am unaware that the tumour is making me do so yet I feel as if I am freely choosing to drink. It may seem as though it is my desire to drink however it isn’t and the action is causally determined by an...
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...an individual as living on less than USD1 a day. This measure has been criticised for not taking many factors into account, and aiming for a nice round number instead, but let's take this at face value anyway. Recently, it was reported that in Penampang, Sabah, a young boy killed himself after he could not afford to buy ice cream in school, and his classmates called the food he packed from home "dog vomit". According to the New Straits Times, the boy's mother (who suffers from thalassaemia and a heart problem) is supporting a family of six (after his death) on RM70 a month from the Welfare Department. After the son's suicide made headlines, the Welfare Department upped it to RM150. Perhaps we aren't as great a country as we'd like to think. We think we've made great strides forward, but yet there are people virtually dying of starvation. True, they might not die directly of hunger — but if they are committing suicide because of poverty, the consequences are exactly the same. RM150 a month works out to less than USD1.5 a month for a family of six. How can such a travesty take place in a country which can fritter away taxpayer money on sending "astronauts" to make teh tarik and play batu seremban in space? It occurs to me that part of the problem may also be psychological; why, for instance, the need to buy ice cream? But the New Straits Times' reporting is less than...
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