Hobsbawm‚ Eric. The Age of Extremes: The short twentieth Century 1914-1991: 1995: Abacus‚ London. The Age of Extremes: The short twentieth Century 1914-1991 provides a succinct review of the middle three quarters of the 20th century. The book trails world history from the outbreak of World War I to the collapse of the Soviet Union & explicitly witnesses author’s profound interest for the world history. The Author Eric Hobsbawm‚ (1917 – 2012) was a British Marxist historian of the rise of industrial
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United States Constitution gives denizens the right to possess and carry guns. It is understandable that Americans would optate to possess guns such as shotguns and rifles for the popular sport of hunting. However‚ it is ridiculous that our regime would sanction people to carry handguns in public. Handgun possession should be stringently constrained‚ because they are made solely to kill people‚ they have incremented the murder rate‚ and they have even enabled children to facilely injure another child.
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No‚ I don’t believe sports should be coed. Today sports are separated by gender‚ this should stay that way. Humans of the opposite gender tend to have different physical abilities‚ this can lead to higher rates of injuries. With the different skill level of teens and children your child will most likely get little to no playing time. One reason for this is that sports teams are often divided by skill level‚ age‚ and weight depending on the league. Barbie Carpenter from Livestrong.com states men
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took more of a physical and offensive position in the tricky game of slavery against the South. At the time‚ violent acts of abolition probably seemed to be doing more harm than good‚ but having a hindsight view today allows us to see that these extreme abolitionists did more good than harm by taking one
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will end world hunger‚ but it is killing us rather than saving us. If food companies continue to advertise GMOs as the savior of America’s hunger problems‚ the country is in for a surprise. Any food product being sold to the general public should be removed and banned because GMOs contribute to the rise of illness‚ contaminate the plants in our organic farms‚ and humans were not made to play god. If we continue to consume GMOs‚ the numbers of Americans conceiving illnesses‚ like autism‚
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Alcohol will be banned when people will understand that alcohol is bad. The damage alcohol does to a person is indeed considerable. Like all drugs that have an effect on the brain‚ alcohol soon has one addicted. The side-effects of alcohol consumption are poor health‚ impaired judgment‚ violence‚ broken careers‚ broken families‚ lost opportunities‚ lost fortunes‚ incoherence and disorientation in society. I doubt that talking and preaching about the evil effects of alcohol will have a substantial
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regularly are fans of golf‚ with 24.1 million people that play. Yet so many of them are fighting with each other about golf being a sport and in the near future it might lose its right to be called a sport. The reason is that it doesn’t fit the definition of a sport in many dictionaries. To some it fits game better than sport. There are many subgroups of “golf” should it even call golf that if its so many subgroups? Some people agree that athletes that are in the long drive contests are definitely
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“Social Network sites should be banned as they cause a breakdown in real-life communication.” Do you agree? Social network sites can be defined as web-based services that allow individuals to construct a public or semi-public profile in a bounded system. One can articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection and also view their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature of these connections may vary from site to site. A social network service
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THE EXTREME FUTURE: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World for the Next 5‚ 10‚ and 20 Years by James Canton‚ Ph.D. “Canton’s background in future-planning consultancy began when he studied under Alvin Toffler in the 1970s-and it shows in this big-picture take on the world of tomorrow…” —Publishers Weekly The Midwest is beach front property‚ the workforce is largely dominated by women‚ and genetic engineering gives rescue workers gills to better save lives according to James Canton
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athletes. Cheerleading should be considered a sport because cheer squads can compete and they are required to maintain a healthy lifestyle. To begin‚ cheerleaders have competitions and can win trophies and medals. Competitive cheer squads show commitment with two to three hours of practice varying in intensity depending on the day. There are squads that only train to compete and do not cheer for other sports teams. However‚ squads that cheer for sports can still compete. Other sports like football and
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