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Selecting A Home
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on that person that takes all day in the bathroom to come out. I especially
like the fact that you can decorate as you please. If you want your rooms a
certain color, just paint them. If you want wallpaper up, go right ahead
and put it up. If you want ceiling fans in every room, that is up to you.
If you would like a garden in the front lawn, plant your favorite flowers.
With most houses there is a garage for your car. You do not have to worry
about the sun fading your car paint, the hail denting your car, or the rain
dirtying your car, after you just washed it.
However, a major disadvantage would be having your own yard. This
means cutting the grass, ra .....
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Impact Of Television On Society
<view this essay>.... issues is of concern. At first glane their is an abundance of choice in television. This is especially so , now that cable television has arrived in Australia. However with the system of networks as currently exists their are only a few program produces who determine what most of us watch and at what time of the day or night. This schedualing is important for the commercial television stations which rely on advertising revenues to exist. Television ads can be highly sophisticated and highly creative. Tremendous amounts of time and talent and resources are devoted to producing such images which are typically more expensive than programs. One of the gigantic .....
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Cigarette Companies Should Not Be Able To Advertise
<view this essay>.... space away from honest companies. Cigarette companies are dishonest and plain out lie to the public. They didn't admit that smoking was bad intill about 20 years after the industry started. If you look at the old television commercials, they lie, one that comes to mind is the old Philip Morris commercial, that advertised smoking his brand would give you energy make you healthy, and give you a great feeling inside. Now, in today's age, this would be considered false advertising. But if cigarette companies could lie like that to people that didn't know any better, for they were uneducated on the subject, what other lows could the stoop to.
Another reason cigaret .....
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"I Do" Or "Please Don't": Hawaii's Same Sex Marriages
<view this essay>.... to not recognize a man and man or a
woman and woman as a man and wife.
What is marriage anyway? Isn't it the union of two people who love each
other to prove their commitments to one another for the future? Yes, but there
is more. Webster's Dictionary defines marriage as:
"a) the state of being joined together as husband and wife, b)
the state of joining a man to a woman as her husband or a woman to a man as
his wife." Legally, however, marriage is more than just a statement of love.
Marriage comes with economic and legal benefits that one cannot receive alone.
For example, joint parental custody, insurance and health benefits, the ability
to file jo .....
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Cults
<view this essay>.... cult members because it is a removal from the exterior society. Cult recruiters prey on those who see themselves as alienated from the rest of society, and give these people the sense of conformity that they desire. A common method of recruiters, to obtain new members, is through chat lines on the internet. A recorded conversation between a member of the Divine Light Mission, Fire-Shade, and an 18-year old boy, Jay 18, was obtained off of the site, IRC Teen Chat.
Jay18: I am a really great poet, but all of the kids in my class are pretty warped about it. I basically hide it from them because I don't need that hassle.
Fire-Shade: My family has a great resp .....
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Homeless In America
<view this essay>.... on the streets. They have no family to help
them and they are left with no other choice. People with mental illnesses
also become homeless quite often. These people are incapable of handling
the stress of living on their own. These people get kicked out of their
homes and are to ashamed to go to their families because of their illness,
so we see them on the streets struggling to stay warm. Teenage mothers
are also forced to live on the streets because their families will not
help them. The fathers are not there and that forces them to live on the
streets. So they must resort to prostitution to pay for the food that
their young ones need to stay alive. .....
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Animal Experimentation
<view this essay>.... and advances in the medical technology like blood transfusions, kidney dialysis, and heart lung machines, but what about the animals that are being tested on. The animals go from a stable to a unstable condition, or have a condition far more worse than which they started from. Lets say Mike, the lab mouse, was in good health and could function properly on his own. After a week of testing on his body, Mike could not walk, feed himself, or function properly due to the experimental test performed on his brain. Mike would have never had to experience the change in his body if he would not have been tested on.
Death is another extreme case in . This may deter .....
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Advertising - Good Or Bad
<view this essay>.... to the cost of the product.
Advertising is designed for one purpose - to sell. To acheive this goal,
advertises are willing to stretch and distort the truth, just to convincing
people to buy their product. For example, an advertiser may convince buyers to
purchase their product by stating that has been tested and found superior. In
reality, the product is not likely to be beter than any other - the tests
themselves doubtlessly conducted by the promoting company - conducted to ensure
at least something is superior about the product, even if it is only the colour.
These advertisments are worded carefully so that they are telling the "literal
truth" - the t .....
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