and appreciate the trouble you’ve taken to provide me with a platform today. I am also appreciative of the work you have done with the RSA since you took over – under your leadership the Society has flourished as never before‚ and leads debate in social policy‚ in science policy‚ and on educational reform. And talking of leadership changes… It is just over two years to the day since Gordon Brown took over as Prime Minister. Many of you I know will have chosen to mark the occasion quietly‚ in your
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Why Recycle Paper? “I recycle because I feel like I’m being a good person and contributing to society‚” says Amanda Enclave of suburban Los Angeles‚ California. About 30% of people in America recycle regularly and there are questions to ask about it. Why recycle? What are we gaining by recycling? Does recycling actually help the environment? Hopefully this paper will show recycling for what it is: useless. John Tierney writes in the New York Times‚ …recycling programs aren’t good for posterity
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Why Men Lie (and always will) by Vince Passaro Before I pulled my Roberto Duran‚ before I moved out‚ before I lost the ability to go forward in what had been a long and rich and difficult and painful and profoundly rewarding marriage with three great children—before I lost the strength and desire‚ to put the matter more precisely‚ to try to be the person I was supposed to be and hide the one I’d become‚ I asked my wife: “Why do men lie so much?” I can see now that the long pondering I’d been doing
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Why Abortion Is Wrong Abortion‚ the easiest way to fix one’s mistakes. If one is going to be promiscuous‚ why should they have to be responsible for the outcome? Why not just murder the unborn child. That is what goes on daily‚ the slaughtering of young‚ innocent children‚ that if born‚ would easily find a home. What did they‚ the unborn children do wrong? Nothing‚ it’s just that the mother and/or father are just so lazy and irresponsible that they would rather see their child be butchered than
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controversial as America ’s involvement in Vietnam‚ it is difficult to understand why soldiers would choose to fight and why they kept fighting for so long. Through a series of letters written by the soldiers themselves‚ one can see multiple motivations for soldiers in Vietnam‚ such as believing in the cause‚ self-preservation‚ and comradary amongst the men. This is all brought together in Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam‚ an adequate volume edited by Bernard Edelman for the New York Vietnam Veterans
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Assignment 5 – 3rd Reaction Patper – Marriage and Family: Why is marriage important March 24‚ 2013 Hameed Law Concordia University – Irvine SOC101 Introduction to Sociology Professor: Ernie Hernandez‚ Ph.D. Abstract Why is marriage important? A question asked continuously and has been across time. There are those that see it as a necessity‚ needed to instill the values for a child; to appreciate the woman and the family
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Importance of Family Life Shelia August AUSOC 101.11.1 Prof. Maxey November 9‚ 2011 Why is Family life important? I am employee for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. I work on death row and I can’t help but to ponder how someone at the age of 27 or younger can be on death row for years; what have we done wrong as a society to produce people who so young but who are unfit to live in society. I know that this is a question without an easy answer. But it’s one we all should ask and strive
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former‚ which excludes the other nations in the Americas. Now‚ it has been mentioned before‚ no country is perfect or free from error‚ but the foundation of the United States of America is unparalleled in contrast to other nations. There is a reason why every nationality‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ and other backgrounds from every corridor of the world has travelled far to come to the United States of America‚ it is because it is the "land of opportunity." You want to start a business‚ at any time‚ go right
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La Tisha Johnson October 10‚ 2010 Civilization 1 Why does the flood happen? Why is Utnapishtim singled out to be saved? Why does the flood happen? The flood happens because the counselor Enlil wanted to kill off all humans that lived in Shuruppak. He wanted to punish all of the humans for their sins and crimes they have committed. “It is right to punish the sinner for his sins‚ to punish the criminal for his crime”(pg 189-190 book xi. ) Five of the Gods in secret agreed to flood Shuruppak
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An essay on Why are bananas yellow Are you sitting comfortably? There are many factors which influenced the development of Why are bananas yellow. Until recently considered taboo amongst polite society‚ it is important to remember that ‘what goes up must come down.’ It is an unfortunate consequence of our civilizations history that Why are bananas yellow is rarely given rational consideration by those most reliant on technology‚ who are yet to grow accustomed to its disombobulating nature. Here
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