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» Miscellaneous Essays and Papers
American Dream 2
<view this essay>.... it has become a necessity. Today there is almost no way to escape advertisements. The radio, television, and magazine ads make sure of that. The more we view these advertisements, the more we are persuaded toward the American dream. With a television in almost every household and magazines an arm=s length away, advertisers basically have us on our knees. We must digest advertisers= views so frequently that you would think it was necessary to sustain life. Advertising=s main goal is to persuade. They want us to see the American way through their eyes. They tell us what to eat, drink, wear, drive, and think. Advertisers start this form of brainwashing on u .....
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Schools And Tests
<view this essay>.... the renewal and renovations of schools comes into question.
Should the harried taxpayers of Cobb and Dekalb counties, for instance, bail out incompetent or corrupt school boards in other states? Should New York City be rewarded for failing to build new schools in a timely manner?
This is the fallacy known as the circular argument. A circular argument is where the premise and the conclusion repeat each other using different wording. The premise in this fallacy would be the first question, while the second question is the conclusion. The idea in this statement is that cities with rundown schools are being paid for by taxpayers in other cities. In these c .....
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Tocacco And Its Effects
<view this essay>.... such progress, tobacco use remains widespread. About one in four American adults mokes, and each more than 400,000 Americans die from effects of cigarette smoking. Nonsmokers subjected to the smoke of others also suffer: Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke causes more than 50,000 annual deaths among nonsmokers. Smoking by pregnant women is responsible for about 10% of all infant deaths in this country. Smokeless tobacco and cigars are regaining popularity. The use of smokeless tobacco tripled since 1972; cigar smoking has increased 66% in the last 5 years.
Given the overwhelming evidence against tobacco, why would anyone today begin using it? How .....
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Sex Is For Marriage Only
<view this essay>.... understood, sex is knowing a person at the deepest level possible, at the maximum level of intimacy. From God's view- point, to have sexual intercourse with a person is to "know" that person in all dimensions. Sexual intercourse is intended by God to be an act that is enjoyed within the context of the commitment of marriage, and only within the context of marriage. In this one verse there are two very important principles:
Marriage is to be the ONLY context for sexual intimacy. Eve was Adam's wife - not his girlfriend, his mistress, or a casual acquaintance. He was married to her.
Children are to be conceived ONLY within the sexual intimacy of marriage. When .....
Number of words: 1829 | Number of pages: 7 |
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Law: Gideon Vs Wainright
<view this essay>.... the accused shall enjoy the right...to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence." A first reading of this phrase one might be think that this right, that which gives a person accused of a crime to have lawyers for his defense, is common knowledge being that it is among the most basic rights given to the citizenry of the public. However, the simple manner in which this amendment is phrased creates a "gray area", and subject to interpretation under different circumstances. The legitimacy of the right to mount a legal defense is further obscured by the Fourteenth Amendment which states, "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the .....
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Antony Flew: The Existence And Belief Of God
<view this essay>.... to the "Sceptic" that he was right, barbed-wire, electrifying
fence, patrolling bloodhounds. But no gardener was ever found. Still the
"Believer" was not convinced. He gave the "Sceptic" many excuses as to why they
couldn't see the gardener. The "Sceptic" told him that he was crazy because
what started out as a simple assertion that there was a gardener, turned into
"an imaginary gardener".
This parable that Flew is using is clearly an analogy to the existence
and belief of God. The garden represents God, "…invisible, intangible,
insensible…". The "Sceptic" says there is no gardener, just as an atheist
denies the existence God. The "Believer" say .....
Number of words: 1776 | Number of pages: 7 |
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Psycological Effects Of Sport Teams And Their Fans
<view this essay>.... were asked about their predictions for the team in the present
year, they would be a lot higher than they probably could acheive. Finally
they would have them make predictions of their preformances of the future,
and see if there was any pattern among those people. To accomplish this,
Wann and Dolan used 106 subjects. Fourty four were male and sixty two were
female, student volunteers, whom took part in the study for extra credit.
At the time of this test the Murry State basketball team was first in
their conference with a 4-1 record. The study consisted of a packet with
many different questions in it that would help rate the people. The first
page ra .....
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Biblical Analysis On Genesis And Exodus
<view this essay>.... read book of all time. Morality, creation of time, and the purpose of life associate and form the backbone. These themes incorporated, through poems, hymns, proverbs, and dictation's, enrapture the reader, even atheists, for the styles utilized gives the moral book a place on the shelf of every individual who can read and write.
Genesis, Exodus, Job, and Matthew are a few selections that begin to explain the creation of time into the lineage of Jesus Christ. Now what prompts a sensible individual to believe that Eve was created by Adam's rib or the devil took form into a snake, which lost it's upright standing, in more ways than one? The use of allegorie .....
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