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    Prostitution or women trafficking (so called) is one of the oldest trades known to man and even at the present time‚ while it is illegal in most areas of the United States‚ it is still employing many women and is solicited by even more men. Prostitution should be decriminalized because we are paying too high a financial and social cost for the ineffective enforcement of laws against it. The money and the law enforcement personnel freed by legalizing prostitution could be better spent if used to protect

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    Lilian Sun Maczynska The Literary Imagination 20 August 2012 ArtsMan on Wire‚ and Bomb the Suburbs Pan to Houston‚ Texas at night. On an episode of Stephen Fry in America‚ produced by Andre Singer‚ standing on a stage in a dimly lit room‚ surrounded by Houston’s elite‚ actor and comedian Stephen Fry speaks of the importance of the arts. “Oscar Wilde quite rightly said‚ ‘All art is useless’. And that may sound as if that means it’s something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about

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    Art and Culture Liliana Gonzalez ART/125 May 11‚ 2015 Joseph Blomer University of Phoenix Abstract Art has evolved in ways only one can imagine‚ however; their imagination does not have to go far because all one has to do is turn on the computer and connect to the World Wide Web to get information on everything. Architecture‚ sculpture‚ and painting has been around for ages‚ then photography made its way on to the art scene in the 1820’s and has taken leaps and bounds to establish itself

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    In On Habit‚ Alain de Botton writes about how people become habituated and believe there is nothing left to see or learn about the certain location they are in. In this essay‚ Botton discovers an attitude to approach places we think we already know‚ and no longer find interest in. This mindset is intended for the environment you are in‚ but can also be apply to styles of reading and writing. Botton had arrived to London from a trip to Barbados only to realize his home city hadn’t changed one bit

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    world with their own unique cultures which include their own customs among other things. Rice University is a great example of a college with its very own unique culture compared to other universities. E.B. Tyler defined culture as “…that complex whole which includes knowledgebeliefartsmoralslawcustom‚ and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society” (Howe “Culture” lecture 2011). This is only one of many definitions of culture that have been thrown around

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    File Structure Course: COSC513 Operating Systems Name: Deyong Xu ID: 103816 PREFACE This article is just an introduction of Unix operating system to people who don’t any knowledge about Unix operating system . Generally speaking ‚ people don’t need to understand too much about the details about a software or a system ‚ the most important thing is people should know how to use these software or systems as a user . So what

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    CAN SOCIETIES EXIST WITHOUT LAW The question whether society can exist without law is somewhat an interesting question‚ because depending on which context you may want to look at this question there may be views and arguments that tends to differ because of how individuals view the law and society‚ indicating for or against whether society can indeed exist without laws. This could be a great debate but first we need to answer questions like what is society? What is law?. According to Black’s

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    Spanish cinema largely focuses on the attempt to regain the memory of the Spanish tradition culturewhich was destroyed in the Civil war. Spanish culture once consisted of the forgetting‚ and the moving on ‚ to forget the trauma caused by the violence of the war. The ‘turning the blind eye’ to the horrific events of regime began a movement in cinema to make any focus on anything but the Spanish Civil War‚ Spain was traumatised by the effects of the war caused by Franco.During the 1960s the

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    the human brain and processes can be equally complex and wondrous. The human ability to reflect‚ to understand and to choose is one of our greatest evolutionary achievements. The modern human age affords us with a multitude of choices. Thankfully‚ our brains are also energy efficient organisms and are adept in finding ways of saving space and processing power. Thus‚ the formation of the habit. That autonomous routine that allows for more complex issues to take up the majority of our mental

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    The role of media in any society is to reflect and reinforce the dominant ideas of that society On a surface level‚ genre theory can be seen as a means of “the division of the world of literature into types and naming those types” (Robert Allen). These divisions in the realm of media cater for numerous factors such as audience expectation and commercial viability. Richard Jameson encapsulates the familiarity that accompanies media genre when he states that “name one of the classic bedrock genres

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