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Money And The Way It Alters The Mind
<view this essay>.... cultures of the world with
Americans to demonstrate the westerners idiocy. The Greeks would have
seen Americans as “insane,” because of the loyalty and devotion to money.
The commercial world is overflowing with money. The loyalty that people
have is due to the manipulation of how the businessmen choose to portray
what is necessary for consumers to possess. Unlike Americans, Germans
find a “University professor,” more of a commodity than a “celebrity.”
Unfortunately, Americans loose their focus on reality because the ones with
the power are the ones who are money hungry and run the world. It is
insane how the majority of Americans see celebrities .....
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Development Of Communist Theory
<view this essay>.... splitting up into the great hostile camps, or opposing classes; the Proletariats and the Bourgeoisie (Engels, Marx 58). Political power, property so called is merely the organized power of one class oppressing another (Engels, Marx 95). "Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation (Engels, Marx 86)."
Communists do not form a separate party opposed to other working class parties. There are ten measures needed to convert to communism (Engels, Marx 94). 1. Abolition of property in land and application of all .....
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Rights, Responsibilities, And Growing-up
<view this essay>.... of the press, of religion, assembly, and redress of grievances, it’s first among equals. Soon after a tragedy involving young people with firearms, President Clinton proclaimed, “A gun in the hands of a young person is a crime or accident waiting to happen.” Now, no matter how much publicity he got from saying that, it doesn’t reflect reality.
I’d like to remind our president, with a father or uncle, older brother, or friend, that “A gun in the hands of a young person” is probably the most effective tool available for teaching personnel responsibility, sportsmanship, safety, ethics of hunting, and the achievement of marksmanship, and much more. For many .....
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The Homeless: What Has Been Done To Decrease The Problem?
<view this essay>.... in Canada's wealthiest city, Toronto. When it comes to
the affairs of the people, it is the government who should intervene. When
I look at what the government has done with regard to the homeless problem,
I have to doubt that everything is being done to eradicate it. The United
Nations implemented a universal declaration of human rights. Article 25
Section 1 of this declaration states:
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health
and well being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing,
housing, and medical care and necessary social services, and to the right
to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, d .....
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Women In Math And Science
<view this essay>.... is easy to see that there is a distinctive roll that instructors play that influences women in their desires and abilities concerning math and science.
Teachers can help women excel in science fields but research shows that most science classes send messages that discourage female students who then often stop taking science classes. "Young women may feel unwelcome in science classes for a number of reasons: examples and applications are most often masculine, interactions sanction male dominance, science content appears to have no connection to women's experience, and competition is emphasized over collaboration (Taylor and Sweetnam). So what do the teachers w .....
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Freedom
<view this essay>.... The press can write stories but each story must contain factual information, which they get from sources. They cannot print a story on a rumor or a hunch because that will effect other people. These are the limits one must obey when using this type of
Another type of used in conjunction with purchasing is economic . People can buy whatever they want when they want it. This is mostly often used when people decide to spend the extra to buy a sports car or a luxury item. Unfortunately this also has its limitations, because certain people don’t have the money to buy whatever they want. For example a person making $30,000 cannot buy a million-dollar house .....
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The "Invisible" Problems Of Racism
<view this essay>.... our friends house, even our homes. We hear a racial slur, oh well, it's just a joke. Hardly. If you think racist joke are harmless than you should take a reality check. Racist jokes are just the start of it. Many people think the jokes are funny. Maybe they are, but they still hurt the people the jokes are about.
Some of the worst racists are the ones who think that they are not racist and really are. They really have to come to grips with reality. Why are they some the worst racists? They are, because they can't comprehend what is happening. They don't realize what they are saying and doing are racist. Until they come to grips with it there is no problem. .....
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Class Systems In Ancient History:
<view this essay>.... to have such
established and meaningful classes that were based as powerful as the law
in our very own society. Four separate levels of social standing were used
with an additional class outside of the system. This class was the
"untouchables," the lowest of class with no power what so ever. Working
its way up from servants to peasants, warriors and the last and most
powerful being priests and royalty. The Hindus set up their city so that
the most powerful (priest) would be closest to the center of the city
nearest the temples of worship. Each step down lived farther away. A
common rule for many civilizations and religions (although not as strict in
ot .....
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