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Education Vs. Corrections
<view this essay>.... by spending more on jails and prisons than public schools your just clearing the path for more people to be entered into these facilities. That is not a solution. That is adding to the problem. Also the fact that public education and technology are not perfect by far, indicates that there does need to some improvements. This coincides with a quote from Does money matter? By C. Wood “It is far wiser as a public policy to spend millions of dollars on an imprecise attempt to educate than to spend hundreds of millions in a vain attempt to clean up the social consequences of failing to educate.”
It is obvious that the state of California agrees with this mentality .....
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Aristotles The Poetics
<view this essay>.... personal interests and makes the sacrifice and the reader (audience) immediately feels pity for Iphigeneia and Agamemnon. Iphigeneia was a young innocent child that did nothing to deserve death. Aeschylus makes the audience feel pity for Agamemnon who lost his daughter (although he was the person that made the choice to sacrifice her) by making it know that he was thinking of his people's welfare. By making that choice, Agamemnon becomes a tragic hero.
Aeschylus makes the audience feel for the tragic hero because Agamemnon had to endure the pain and suffering of sacrificing his daughter and then watch, his people die at a war fought over a woman. The trage .....
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The Need For Federal Government Involvement In Education Reform
<view this essay>.... has greatly expanded the bounds of the "community" to
almost anywhere in the country or anywhere in the world for that matter.
Advances in transportation and communication has made the world a much smaller
place then the world we knew as children. The skills our children need to
realize parents' perpetual dream of "their children having a better life" are no
longer limited to those seen in the local area. It is becoming more and more
apparent that the education system of yesterday cannot adequately prepare
students for life and work in the 21st Century. These concerns have prompted
people across the country to take a hard look at our education system and to .....
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The Real World Of Technology B
<view this essay>.... into their world. In the book, Franklin’s argument urges people to come together and participate in public reviews and discuss or question technological practices that lead to a world that is designed for technology and not for society. The Real World Of Technology attempts to show how society is affected by every new invention that comes onto the market and supposedly makes life more easy going and hassle free while making work more productive and profitable. The lectures argue that “technology has built the house in which we live” (Franklin, p.1) and that this house is continually changing and being renovated. There is very lit .....
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Veterans People To Remember
<view this essay>.... the tradition of the citizen soldier is deeply imbedded in our Nation's history. Most Americans are privileged to have friends, family members, and colleagues whom they can personally thank, on this significant day, for their military service.
Since the birth of our Nation, American soldiers, sailors, Marines and pilots have showed heroism, courage, and daring during wartime. Veterans' Day is a reminder to the rest of us of the sacrifices they have made on our behalf.
Veterans' Day is also an opportunity to recognize the challenges faced, and sacrifices made, by those who serve during what passes for peacetime in today's, and tomorrow's, ever-changing the un .....
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Cigarettes: The History
<view this essay>.... the cigarette companies producing cigarettes at a faster rate
because the demand, became much greater. The cigarette rolling machine and
the advertising combined together made the tabacco companies stronger than
they had ever been. Early in the nineteen fifties there were some
scientific tests that had taken place involving mice and the correlation
between cancer and cigarette smoke. A top executive from Liggett & Myers
(F.R. Darkis) Who had seemed excited about the project, wanted to perform
tests on mice to see whether or not the cigarette’s from Liggett & Myers
Also known as the Chester Company would cause cancer in mice. All of the
studies tha .....
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The Cybernetic Plot Of Ulysses
<view this essay>.... that there is a cybernetic plot to ULYSSES -- a constellation or
meaningful pattern to the novel's many images of people sending, carrying,
and receiving -- or distorting, or losing -- signals of varying import and
value. This plot -- the plot of signals that are launched on perilous
Odyssean journeys, and that reach home, if they do, only through devious
paths -- parallels and augments the novel's more central journeys, its
dangers encountered, and its successful returns. ULYSSES works rather
neatly as a cybernetic allegory, in fact, not only in its represented
action, but also in its history as a text. The book itself, that is, has
reached us only by .....
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Argument
<view this essay>.... far more important than the length of life, therefore I am for legalizing of euthanasia. The reason I am for legalizing of euthanasia is because I don’t like the feeling of pain. I don’t think anyone likes that feeling. I hate seeing other people suffering from all kind of diseases. People should try to enjoy their lives as much as they can. Disease such as AIDS, there is no medication or any method can cure that disease. The legalizing of euthanasia can actually minimize the suffering of those patients. Legalize of euthanasia doesn’t simply mean that we encourage people to die. We just want to minimize the suffering of the people.
Legalizing of euth .....
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