Nuclear Power: Cons
.... "the continuity of life support
systems pertinent to survival."
Thus, the environmentalists believe that nuclear energy should not be
used for various reasons. First of all, the waste product, i.e. plutonium,
is extremely radioactive, which may cause the people who are working or
living in or around the area of storage or use, to acquire leukemia and
other cancers. They also show how billions of dollars are spent yearly on
safety devices for a single reactor, and this still doesn't ensure the
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Dress Codes And Hair Restrictions Are Vital
.... is helped to be made more comfortable by wearing similar clothes,
otherwise, people may feel alienated with less trendy or "cool" clothes.
Hairstyles help ease this integration as well by giving each person similar
styles making everyone feel more at ease. The overall integration helps
the students realize that although people may look similar, the idea that
everyone exhibits will be greatly different. These different ideas are
present in everyone, and the dress code and hair restrictions he .....
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Staying In School
.... can be a fun experience if shared with friends and people of
similar age. By waiting an extra year or two, you will find it more
uncomfortable within your classes. The entire college experience involves
parties, football games, and drinking beer with your buddies as well as an
education. As you get into the entire experience and enjoy college, you
will understand and appreciate what a college offers.
The ideal time for college is now more than ever as you also have
scholarships and your parent .....
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It All Begins With Attitude
.... said, "All that we are is the result of
what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts. If a man speaks or
acts with pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never
leaves him." Buddha also said, "It is a man's own mind - not his enemy or
his foe that lures him into evil ways." A person's attitude, what Buddha
was speaking of, is the very foundation on which his or her life's
experience has been, is, and will be built. Every part of reality is the
result of a person's attitudes. In .....
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Culture Awareness
.... nation. The ethnic groups that came in a great flood
of immigrants came to escape the economic oppression of their homelands.
Those groups, too, found a way to become part of the American experience.
They didn't need, nor did they demand, any laws requiring acceptance into
society. Kindness, tolerance and respect are things that can only be earned,
not handed down by legislative decree. Those things mandated by law never
reach into the fiber of our country. They never take root in our psyches.
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Reverse Discrimation
.... Bakke
felt his rejections to be violations of the Equal Protection Clause of the
14th amendment, so he took the University of California Regents to the
Superior Court of California. It was ruled that "the admissions program
violated his rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th
Amendment"1 The clause reads as follows:
"...No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor without due
process of the law; nor deny to a .....
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Notes: Americanization Or Candaisnism?
.... $2.00/bushell. -Most magazines came from
the states and most Canadians immigrated
there. -There were new American films and media in Canada. -Canadian
resistors made a law to migrate any person that was
interfearing with the Canadian opinions and that tried to shape
it. -The group of Seven showed a distinctive American culture. -Groulx
fought children of Quebec cinemas to stop the influence
of American movies on them. He tried also to censor American
imported books and magazines.
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Censorship Of Rap Music
.... player. However , shortly after his graduation from high school,
he landed in jail for possession of cocaine. Recently Snoop was arrested
for murder. On August twenty- fifth Snoop was driving his late model Jeep
in Palms, California. He met up with Philip Woldemar iam, who according to
Snoop's attorney, had a long history of threatening Snoop. Snoop's
bodyguard shot Woldermariam twice in the back, killing him. On December
eighth, Snoop was arraigned for murder, but later found innocent .....
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Censorship
.... Inappropriate Adolescent Behaviour
What is Obscenity? Clearly something hard to talk about constructively.
"Obscenity" is difficult to discuss honestly. After all, what makes a thing
obscene? It is Something too vague perhaps to be defined. It's an elusive
term we use, but can't explain. Different people often see things
differently. Some see obscenity in nude pictures, statues, paintings, etc.
While others find less obscenity in these things. All the same, "obscene"
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find
.... encompasses a sensitive, loving, caring and honest nature. Their awareness of a woman's eminence is illustrated in a positive way. They know that appreciating many women at the same time is ironically showing that they are in fact unappreciative of them. Why else would a man need several women at the same time? Only if he is not grateful for what he has already. Most importantly, these men do not allow the word man to build their male ego but instead uses the word woman to counteract with their ignor .....
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Stereotypes
.... affected by the way people perceive them. Racism usually plays a big part in contributing to a person’s thoughts on a certain group. For example, blacks and whites are affected in that they are perceived by the color of their skin. It is common that blacks and whites do not share many characteristics.
In addition, there are many prejudiced people in the world today. Being prejudiced means having a certain attitude towards a certain group that leads to evaluate members of that group negatively. .....
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Teenage Girls And Eating Disorders
.... to be anorexic until it is too late. Teenage girls often resort to taking diet pills. The girls read the boxes of the diet pills and think because it says, "appetite suppressant", they need not eat. The girl just takes these pills right before a time when they should be having a meal or when they feel hungry. In all three of the disorders teenagers lose nutrition that their bodies need. All of the disorders are dangerous and can cause many problems for the teenage girl.
These new quick wa .....
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Materialism In The 1920’s
.... also brags and over exaggerates when a person asks him where he got his education from and his money. From this he gives a person a length full excuse just to impress who ever it is. Here is an example of Gatsby over talking a subject. “I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west--- all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It ‘s been a family tradition”(pg.69). After he says this to Nick. Nick saw and .....
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Cars: New Or Used
.... been noticeably better in Japanese made cars for many years. American cars have been slower to move from gas-guzzlers to more efficient engines. The most important difference is performance. Japanese cars were the first to offer multi-valve engines, which have only recently come available in American models. Multi-valve engines allow for greater power while maintaining a higher fuel economy. There are other technologies concerning performance indigenous to specific Japanese automakers. Honda offers a .....
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Rationalism
.... genius not less powerful
than deceitful, has employed his whole energies in deceiving me;
I shall consider that the heavens, the earth, colors, figures, sound,
and all other external things are nought but the illusions and
dreams of which this genius has availed himself in order to lay
traps for my credulity… (330)
Ultimately, Descartes discovered what he felt was the one irrefutable truth. He could not doubt that he existed, and he also could not doubt that he was a "thinking thing". F .....
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