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A Separate Peace - Artificial Vs. Natural

Someone once said that being yourself, being who you are, is a successful rebellion. Gene Forrester, one of the main characters in John Knowles's novel, A Separate Peace should have taken this advice. Throughout the novel, Gene acted artificially, disguising his true self. He lived in fear of ...

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Youth Violence

In the book Toting a Gun for Tomorrow by Jonie Michel, a fictional world is created where it is an accepted fact that occurs, and where teens kill teens in large numbers. The main idea in this book is that changes need to be made in order to deter teen violence, and when these changes do not ...

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Teen Pregnancy

E-mail: misty_rogers@hotmail.com Thesis statement: Teenage pregnancy is a major concern in today's society; there are many ways to prevent , many people to get advice from, and many decisions that a teen parent must make. Outline: I. Introduction II. Teenage Pregnancy A. Concerns about Teenage ...

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Lives Of Dystopia Can Be Changed

Dystopia can be defined as a place of utter wretchedness. This definition is a perfect description of the lives of Winston Smith in 1984 and Offred in The Handmaid’s Tale. Both characters live lives that would not even be thought of as an acceptable way of life today. These two books were ...

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Obesity

America has become a society obsessed with appearance, especially weight. We are conditioned at a young age to believe the only way to be normal is to be thin. This norm is projected to millions of Americans each day through television, magazines, billboards and every other form of media and ...

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Legalization Of Marijana: For

It's time we put to rest the myth that smoking marijuana is a fringe or deviant activity, engaged in only by those on the margins of American society. In reality, marijuana smoking is extremely common, and marijuana is the recreational drug of choice for millions of mainstream, middle class ...

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Abortion

If you had a fifteen year old daughter and she got pregnant either by some stupid kid or, heaven forbid, she was raped, what would you do? Would you want her to drop out of school to raise a illegitimate child? We all know that is wrong and not a birth control method, but consider it once if ...

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Birth Order

Sigmeund Freud was the first psychotherapist to say: "a child's position in the sequence of brother and sisters is of very great significance for one course of his later life" (Richardson 12). One's position (whether born first, second, last, etc.), one's sex (male or female), and the sex of ...

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Psychoanalysis Of Fairytales

Examine one or more fairytales from a psychoanalytic perspective. How valid, in your view, is such an approach when applied to fairytales in general? The psychoanalysts' view of the fairy tale varies greatly between individuals. Tales are, to the general public audience, a mode of entertainment. ...

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Euthanasia And The Robert Latimer Case

Euthanasia is undoubtedly an issue that plagues the minds of those living with children or adults who are severely disabled. Rarely is one found to have a ‘ neutral' outlook upon it; that is, a side must be chosen, for or against. It is too delicate a topic to be ‘in the middle' about. Over the ...

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Governmentality and the Radicalization of Terrorists

Introduction This paper is exploratory in nature and proposes to provide an account and discrepancies of the theory of governmentality, and the radicalization of terrorists. In the first section, the historical roots and broad and ambiguous nature of governmentality will be explored. A brief ...

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Cell Phone Argument

Over 110 millions Americans own and use a cell phone, and have become dependant on them while going through their normal day to day life. Increased concerns on health, destruction of the English language from texting, and dangers of cell phones on the roads have begun to immerge and raise ...

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Illegal Immigration

Yadira Torres Doris Veach English 101 March 21, 2011 Illegal Immigration Immigration in the United States has been a major source of population growth since the “discovery of the US in the 15th century. Since then, the economic, politic, and social issues stemming from immigration, has ...

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Mercury in Public Systems

Identification and Best Management Practices of Mercury-Containing Equipment at Public Drinking Water Systems (Adapted from Idaho Department of Environmental Quality-Dec 28, 2004) Identification and Best Management Practices of Mercury-Containing Equipment at Public Drinking Water ...

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Why HKU Students Skip Meals

Parents are still important: a study on why HKU students skip meals Chen Zihan UID: 3035130749 1. ...

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Causes Of Juvenile Delinquency

Statistics show that the number of children who engage in juvenile delinquent or antisocial behavior is growing exponentially. Even though estimates of the amount of youth with conduct disorder have been cited at 2 to 6 percent of the population, or 1.3 to 3.8 million, some researchers note that ...

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Bulimia

No matter what she does she can no longer control this disorder that has taken over her life. Slowly she walks down the hallway leading to the torture that lies ahead. Stumbling into the bathroom, she calmly talks herself into another episode as a desperate attempt to stay thin. Finally, she ...

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Silent Nightmare

On the night of April 25,1986, what was later described by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D,Ver.), as "by far the worst nuclear reactor accident known to mankind... beyond even the worst nightmares of nuclear scientists," occurred in the Soviet Union. At first, the Soviets said nothing about it. ...

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Teen Drinking

At least eight million American teenagers use alcohol every week, and almost half a million go on a weekly binge (or five drinks in a row). This was proven in a survey don by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. This is an alarming number. Of course we know some teens will drink, but ...

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All Quiet On The Western Front

Paul and the other members of the Second Company are resting after being relieved from the front lines. When they went to the front, their company contained one hundred and fifty men. Only eighty returned. The quartermaster requested rations for a full company, but on the last day, they suffered a ...

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