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I Hate Verbal Aggression!
<view this essay>.... people. Oblivious to the fact that it can destroy someone's life, we carelessly tease and cut others down
Think of the world as a big corporate ladder. Each step could easily put you ahead or behind the next person. Therefore everyone of course is trying to get ahead of the next person. In their attempts to get to the top, we pull others out of the way. Eventually, this happens to us, and we are caught in a never-ending cycle of aggression. We achieve success momentarily, but quickly pull back to where we were as others do the same to get to the top.
What exactly is verbal aggression? Richard L. Weaver, professor at Bowling Green State University, says .....
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Th Threat Of Terrorism
<view this essay>.... biological weapons, which can produce mass devastation, getting into terrorist hands. This is a serious international problem that all countries need to work together to eliminate acts of terrorism. Otherwise, terrorism is going to get more and more brutal.
Terrorism by definition is the "use of violence, or the threat of violence, to create A climate of fear in a given population."1 Terrorist violence targets religious or ethnic groups, governments, political parties, corporations and media enterprises. For the most part these terrorist are fairly small in size but demand for more power to effect political change on a local or an internationa .....
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Racism In America
<view this essay>.... Incidents like the Rodney
King beating and the O. J. Simpson verdict have practically split this country
into two sides. “ When white policemen routinely stop black people for traffic
violations, they feel a deep resentment for the O. J. Simpson verdict and look
for any reason to take out their anger on the unlucky black victim” ( Kennedy
72). The only solution to this problem is to eliminate racism.
No one can deny the effect racism has had on America; so we must do our
best to stop it.. to end racism we must be able to understand each other. “ In a
recent poll, 11% of whites thought that blacks were lazy, yet 76% of blacks
think whites think they a .....
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Important Factors In A Romantic Relationship
<view this essay>.... He gives his friendship unconditionally as a
foundation in the relationship. Friendship takes love and kindness, as do
romantic relationships. When a couple starts out as friends, they build a
stronger alliance. This is why romance usually starts with friendship.
Courtship is very important in romantic relationships. Amorous
companions need to feel wanted and appreciated. Courtship keeps the romance in
a relationship. It helps one lover show the other how he feels. "Show your
love with flowers " is frequently used in the flower industry to get people to
buy flowers. Buying flowers shows one's affection. Holidays such as
Valentine's Day emphasize .....
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Greed
<view this essay>.... were depicted as pure evil. Vanderbilt stole from the poor. Rockefeller was a snake. But the name-calling did not come from the consumers; it was the competing businesses that complained. The newspapers expanded on these comments, calling them "robber barons." These are inaccurate terms for these businessmen. They were not barons because they all started penniless and they were not robbers because they did not take it from anyone else. Vanderbilt got rich by making travel and shipping faster, cheaper, and more luxurious. He built bigger, faster, and more efficient ships. He served food on his ships, which the customers liked is a selfish desire for more th .....
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Family Values: Importance
<view this essay>.... and even before, the very beginning of our civilization,
and certainly since the founding of the United States of America. Theories
suggest that even the primitive caveman was very loyal and respectful to his
particular family unit. People of our time have followed these beginnings of
the ideas of family values and citizenship up until the present day. Today
however people are more diversified and separated in their ways but they all
share similar values of the family. A nation, being of mostly socially
compatible people, functions in a similar way as a family. The nation selects
its “national family values” by legislation which becomes law. Civiliza .....
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Blacks: Indirectly Enslaved
<view this essay>.... which southern whites did not receive. However, the president was lenient on the southern whites and because of this, the southern whites were able to do what they pleased. Consequently, they then passed the black codes. The black codes were laws that took away black’s privileges. An economic privilege taken away from the blacks was their right to vote. Without the black’s rights, they were kept enslaved because they were not able to do anything and had to depend on the whites. They were now dependent on the white southerners because they had no land and couldn’t vote to do anything about the land they lost. They had to depend on the whites for survival. Later, .....
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Racism
<view this essay>.... the two races, why does racism continue? The
answer is simple. Racists from many years ago raise their kids in clans
and white supremacy groups and teach them the ways of hatred. These kids
grow up "brain-washed" that black people are their enemies and, taught by
example, will continue this trend (The Volume Library; 1988).
The Ku Klux Klan has been around since the end of the civil war. It is a
roller coaster of a history. From extreme power, to rapid decline, and
slow reemergence (Software Toolworks Encyclopedia; 1992). The clan, who is
notorious for its violence, has a relatively innocent beginning. It was
formed from some veterans from the confeder .....
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