Are We Better Than Our Forefathers? In the 21st century‚ mankind is evolving. Now we live our lives in a manner that our forefathers did not. If our forefathers could see the life we live now‚ they would be very disappointed as we are not as hardworking as they were. They worked day and night to achieve the smallest success. We depend on machinery to do our work and because of that‚ people nowadays have grown obese and lazy. Watching television too long can harm our eyes and it affects our physical
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Are we losing our Mother-Tongue? It is‚ and it’s getting worse. In an increasingly urbanised India‚ mother-tongues are under siege and facing a sustained attack from the three Ms of migration‚ market and mixed marriages. The mother tongue is the true vehicle of the mother wit. Another medium of speech may bring with it a current of new ideas. But the mother tongue is one in which a man is born. It is through the vernacular that the new conceptions of the mind should press their way to birth in
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TOK ESSAY CAN WE HAVE BELIEFS OR KNOWLEDGE WHICH ARE INDEPENDENT OF OUR CULTURE? The main aim of the essay is to find out if we have beliefs or rather knowledge which are independent of our culture. To do my investigation‚ I am going to follow different areas of beliefs and culture that I need. Culture is roughly perhaps a range of activities which are cultivated as a pattern of behaviour in a group of humans over time‚ and the manifest fruits of that behaviour
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Name: Miriam Gauci Student Number: 215253 The Tragic Fate of Our Human Birth Sophocles wrote this particular tragedy play to warn the audience of the dangers and consequences associated with a dictatorial city. The two main characters in the play are Antigone and her uncle Creon who is the king of Thebes. In the play Creon passes a decree stating that Eteocies will receive a sacred and honorable funeral for defending the city against its enemy. While Polyneices body will be left uncovered
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“Can computers replace Human Beings?” What we think computer is ? Many of us think that computers are many times faster‚ more powerful and more capable when compared to humans simply because they can perform calculations thousands of time faster‚ workout logical computations without error and store memory at incredible speeds with flawless accuracy. Human Brain: We can only estimate the processing power of the average human brain as there is no way to measure it quantitatively as of yet
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environment as we know it‚ isn’t as green and luscious as it should be. There are steel monsters that block out the sun‚ huffing out dangerous smoke‚ and leaking out poisonous chemicals into rivers and streams‚ vehicles pumping out harmful fumes‚ people disposing of waste in a way that isn’t safe/right and all other kinds of sources that ruin the planet. With the current environmental issues that plague the environment and planet‚ people need to do what they can to help save the Earth. We cannot depend
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Prof. Arbour October 7‚ 2013 Have We Outgrown Our Government? Given the current government shutdown‚ the crisis and anxiety that the country is now facing has now brought to light a question that many do not take into consideration in our current day. Is the current United States government efficient enough to run our prosperous and quite large country? Although many people believe that our government is a Democracy‚ they would be surprised to learn that our government‚ in essence‚ is actually
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Maureen Roach English 101 19 January 2013 Men versus Women in Society In “The Men We Carry in Our Minds” by Scott Russell Sanders‚ Sanders described how men worked hard all day and the health issues they later on in life. Sanders also show the comments and reactions of women he knew or came across throughout his childhood life. As he got older‚ his opinion changed tremendously. He realized women had it much harder. In the society today‚ men and women are trying to make things equal between
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The author Dave Grossman‚ in his essay “We Are Training Kids To kill‚ talking about how he believes that media and modern day technology and violent video games are reasons for child violence worldwide. Grossman goes on to relate and use his experience in the military to the violence in the youth and younger generation as emphasis. In the article Grossman is very disturbed regarding today’s youth. He starts off by mentioning about the cluster of suicides that occurred in the 1970’s due to local
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Carnage can be defined as “the killing of a large amount people”. It is a fact that over a thousand people were killed during the festive season this year. More recently‚ one hundred people died on our roads this past Easter weekend‚ showing that the danger is not alleviating. What are the causes of this carnage? Can it be stopped? There are many factors which contribute to the large death toll on our roads. Firstly‚ a road traffic accident can happen when the driver’s attention is continuously
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