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Term Papers on Miscellaneous
Social Stratification
Number of words: 2126 - Number of pages: 8.... kin such as in Spanish, primo refers to a male cousin and prima is a female cousin. Affinity is the distinction mad on the basis of connection through marriage. Collaterality is the distinction made between kin who are believed to be in a direct line and those who are ‘off to one side,’ linked to the Ego through a lineal relative (mother and aunt or father and uncle). Bifurcation is a distinction used to refer to the kin on the mother’s side and kin on the father’s side. Relative age refers to relatives of the same category may be .....
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Why I Have No Hero
Number of words: 684 - Number of pages: 3.... when
they are needed most. They should not have to feel guilty about the negative
effects of something they have done if the good it causes out weighs the bad.
Honesty is a good trait to have if you want to be a hero. A hero needs
to be honest with the public so that he/she will get the public's support to
retain that hero status among them, and possibly gain that status with more
individuals. Being honest is a quality that is never usually overlooked in
naming someone a hero. This includes being honest with one's self. Honesty
with yourself is a very impo .....
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Mill's Utilitarianism: Sacrifice The Innocent For The Common Good?
Number of words: 1329 - Number of pages: 5.... individuals be considered equally.
Quantitative utilitarians would weigh the pleasure and pain which would
be caused by the bomb exploding against the pleasure and pain that would be
caused by torturing the terrorist. Then, the amounts would be summed and
compared. The problem with this method is that it is impossible to know
beforehand how much pain would be caused by the bomb exploding or how much pain
would be caused by the torture. Utilitarianism offers no practical way to make
the interpersonal comparison of utility necessary to compare the pains. I .....
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Fahrenheit 451 And Brave New W
Number of words: 1489 - Number of pages: 6.... it may be rendered useless and discarded. Unlike Bradbury, Huxley includes in his book a group of people unaffected by the changes in society, a group that still has religious beliefs and marriage, things no longer part of the changed society, to compare and contrast today's culture with his proposed futuristic culture.
But one theme that both Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 use in common is the theme of individual discovery by refusing to accept a passive approach to life, and refusing to conform. In addition, the refusal of various methods of escape fro .....
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The Simpsons - A Cartoon Portr
Number of words: 1219 - Number of pages: 5.... a constant festival of disrespect, has graced television (if "graced" is a word that can ever be applied to the cartoon family) and the United States with a greater impact than most television series ever created. No wonder such a debate has arisen around the characters, their lives, and, most importantly, their attitudes.
Artist-cartoonist-writer Matt Groening's animated family began life as disruptive little drawings tucked in between the sketches of real actors on "The Tracey Ullman Show" in 1987. Groening says that he created these bright yellow, bulgy-ey .....
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Knowledge
Number of words: 529 - Number of pages: 2.... no incline to accept p as true, than it is not known. To make a belief a justified true belief, it must be purely public and objective. Having those two qualities make it "truth". The truth also must be eternal. If it is true for me than it must be true for you. Last, S must believe that p. P is true. S is completely justified in believing that p. If all of these qualities are posed than the belief is no a justified true belief.
The information above is the standards in which a justified true belief can be a strong, verified notion. For example, if the .....
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Higher Education
Number of words: 714 - Number of pages: 3.... to enlighten a national culture on traditional
values that were established in the past may they be good or bad. In
Virginia Woolf's case she was locked out of a male dominated university
lifestyle where women were considered unnecessary of attaining knowledge.
In her time period, at the University of Oxbridge, Woolf witnessed how only
male students were taken seriously about education and even when a young
woman tried to enter the library alone she was taken for a ignoramus and
sent on her way. A civilization cannot further advance at any kind of
distan .....
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Condom Dispenser In Highschool
Number of words: 582 - Number of pages: 3.... young adults, there are a lot who would refrain from experimenting with sex because of not having protection. By putting a condom dispenser in high school bathrooms, this gives that percentage of teens nice, easy, and anonymous access to condoms. Thus possibly resulting in an increase of sexually active students. Why not leave condoms at the local drug stores, and make it as hard as possible to comfortably buy protection. The embarrassment alone, might keep a few teenagers from having sex.
Not only would putting condom dispensers in high school allow anonym .....
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