major issues that Texas and the rest of the States governments are facing right now is the debate on Marijuana‚ whether or not to legalize it or decriminalize it. The questions are being asked and discussed‚ what are the effects? Will legalizing marijuana lead to increased use? Is it a gateway drug? And how many people are getting arrested for minor possessions each year? The illegality of marijuana in Texas is a problem because it is causing users to resort to supporting the black market; it’s a drain
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Barbie vs. the World I’ll admit it; I absolutely loved playing with Barbie’s as a child! I must have had like twenty of them. She had everything: a dream house‚ Ken‚ plenty of friends‚ and a slender body with all the right curves‚ everything I dreamed of having when I grew up. “En Garde‚ Princess!” by Mary Grace Lord‚ challenges why every girl loves Barbie. Her article appeared in the online magazine Salon under the “Mothers Who Think” department on October 27‚ 2000‚ before the launch of a new
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Wal-Mart We all must admit that when we walk through the doors of Wal-Mart on the grocery side‚ we actually get excited when we see the people who are promoting a food or beverage product for us to “test”. We immediately try whatever it may be and then continue looking for the other stands that are setup as well. The test products may vary from soups‚ smoothies‚ hot foods‚ or cold foods. In this worldwide store‚ there are many ways that Wal-Mart may advertise different products by using gimmicks
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The ego should not be faulted‚ it is merely designed semantically‚ to make rhetoric out of sense; sense created from the metaphoric episodically etched in memory. The feeling of hurt‚ the thought of harming oneself‚ comes from the pain the self endures the further that its alterity does not separate‚ but differentiate itself. This is why this phrase may be understood universally: ‘I don’t know why I feel like this’. Such questions are deemed threats by the ego‚ cause anxiety in feeling‚ and are confused
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Foreword- Every time Michael wakes up he goes and gets his slaves to make sure they are working by the time he’s up. And if they are not he really hurts them and it’s not fair to the slaves and he is very hard on them. He doesn’t pay them anything even though he is one of the most richest Americans. He owns 100 slaves‚ 3 houses‚ and 10 plantations‚ and has 600 million dollars. At auctions he spends lots of money on these slaves and he purposely separates people from their families cause he is just
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Mrs. Logic’s Message Six feet was too tall: Equality 7-2521 stood head and shoulders above the crowd and his brothers in society looked down on him because of it. In the novella Anthem‚ author Ayn Rand explores the dangers of a Collectivist society and the freedom that comes with escaping such a place as she chronicles the life of her main character‚ Equality. Part of Rand’s motivation for writing her novella was her desire to further develop the philosophy that she created that is known as Objectivism
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Facebook in Mache’s eyes was never at the top of its game. It was a spiral downwards towards the impending loneliness of society. Technology has never run as rampant‚ and for so long‚ such as Facebook has. It is a cancer of society‚ and instead of making us closer together it is making us much farther apart. Mache starts off his essay very strong with an enduring story that catches the readers eye. Mache makes it a goal to play on people’s emotions and uses examples that do just this in his essay
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Not everyone has the ability to control whether they have a peaceful death or not. Dr. Philip Nitschke‚ pro-euthanasia activist and author of “Euthanasia: Hope You Never Need It‚ but Be Glad the Option Is There‚” feels it is every human’s right to have a serene death. The primary goal of the article is to promote the idea that denying one the ability to die peacefully‚ excluding those under the age of 18 and with mental illnesses‚ is unethical. The author firmly believes there should be laws in place
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When one confronts an opportunity to steer one’s life into a beactic‚ colourful field from the endless‚ desolate tunnels of routine‚ one must break the wall of consistent monotony that stands between the two fates. Harold Crick‚ a man of numbers‚ inhibits an abyss of calculations and tasteless décor. As he stands outside Ana Pascal’s bakery on his regularly timed coffee break‚ he gazes through the circular window at a life contrapositive to his wearisome one. One‚ with communication‚ relationships
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Anyone who’s read the Giver knows that Jonas’s society if different than our own. Better read people‚ however‚ understand the book enough to realize that this is because his city is a dystopian society. Causing the banishment of emotions was a colossal mistake for “the community‚” as he called it‚ because the project caused more harm than good. Deluded readers might say that they feel lesser emotions; in truth‚ they don’t even know the meaning. Even items other than emotion were taken out eventually
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