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Knights And Chivalry
<view this essay>.... Also incorporated in the ideal was courtly love, romantic devotion for
a sexually unattainable woman, usually another man's wife. Veneration for
the Virgin Mary played a part in this concept. Chivalric ideals influenced
the founding of religious military orders during the period of the Crusades,
among them the Templars and the Hospitalers, the Teutonic Knights, and the
Spanish orders of Alcantara, Calatrava, and Santiago. In the late Middle
Ages, rulers formed secular orders of chivalry such as the English Order of
the Garter and the Burgundian Order of the Golden Fleece. By this time,
however, chivalry had become largely a system of etiquette. .....
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Child Abuse
<view this essay>.... best defined as any non-accidental physical injury
by a person who has care, custody, or control of a child. The definition
contains two key aspects, the act is intentional or willful, and/or the act
resulted in physical injury. Accidental does not qualify as child abuse.
(Wallace,29)
Physical abused children do not fit any type of stereotype. Abuse
occurs in all neighborhoods. Also, abusers come in all shapes, sizes, colors,
and sexes. There are many signs of physical abuse.
First the location and types of injuries, many time the parent or care
takers will deny any wrong doing or the child has suffered any physical injury.
There are always tho .....
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Capital Punishment
<view this essay>.... population in states that had abolished the death penalty. In death penalty states without executions, the homicide rate was 6.0 per 100,000. The highest rates were in death penalty states with executions: 9.7 homicides per 100,000. The people who are pro death penalty say this is because states have differences. These differences include, the populations, and number of cities. Strongly urbanized states are more likely to have higher crime rates than states that are more rural, such as those who lack . They say states that have the death penalty have it because of their high crime rate, not because they have the death penalty. During the temporary s .....
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Racism
<view this essay>.... to eat to-day?", another hooted.
"Just leave me alone.", Little Jimmy said
"Oh no, Jimmy's really getting pist off!?", the first boy retaliated.
"Just shove off and let me be," Jimmy answered.
It is like this everyday, everywhere, and everytime, people suffer
discrimination. All because they have differences amongst each other.
Different beliefs, different cultures, different skin colour, all of these
act like building blocks to help construct what we know as Racism.
Racism has become one of the many burdens amongst multi-cultural
worlds like Canada and the States. Racism is a part of each and every one
of us. No doubt, we are all ra .....
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The Hutu Tribe
<view this essay>.... about what is going on in their section of Africa.
I have learned lots of new information from doing this report, not only about
the Hutus' and the Tutsis' culture, but about the whole continent of Africa.
The first topic that I will cover is about the people that make up the
tribes of the Hutu and Tutsi. The total population of the country of Rwanda,
where most of their events have taken place is 7,800,000. The population of the
Hutus is 3,000,000 and the Tutsis number only 1,000,000. The physical traits of
the Hutus and Tutsis are very different from each other. The Hutu have larger
noses and larger all around facial features than the Tutsis. Most .....
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Ways People Dress To Attract Attention
<view this essay>.... wear dresses and skirts so short that when they sit they don=t have nothing to sit on. Short clothing attracts a man because he can see everything underneath. People talk about the way you are dress while you are thinking that you are attractive. This is one reason why males are always raping women and being accused of sexual harassment. If women would dress professional then that would stop some of the rapist. If you are going to show everything you got then a man is going t take advantage. Women gives themselves a bad name.
Third we have expense clothes are usually clothes that makes a person seem more intelligent. People wear expensive clothes for .....
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Personal Freedoms
<view this essay>.... not allowed to let their hair down in front of anyone but their husband. In India, some people still have arranged marriages, certain Methodist men have three or more wives living in one household and in some parts of the world you are only allowed to bear one child. Most other cultures would find these practices outrageous and a violation of their freedom.
However, there are still certain universal freedoms, like the right to voice your own opnion, to wear clothes of your choice and freedom to get a good education. Some of these things are so important that there is laws to enforce them. Like school for instance, you are legally required to attend regular c .....
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Life Is But A Choice
<view this essay>.... time efficiently and making clear rational
choices, one can achieve a healthy mind, body and spirit.
One important choice in life is having a healthy mind. The key to
achieving a healthy mind is to be open minded. Since the day we are born, we
are bombarded with information from television, radios, books, magazines, and
what we observe personally. The world is filled with a vast amount of
information and each individual is responsible for obtaining, understanding, and
making value judgments on this information. One must understand the world around
him before he can understand himself. Making the choice of obtaining a college
education is extremely .....
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