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    reasons. To begin with‚ choosing gender for new-born baby encourages sex discrimination that clearly targets women. Sadly‚ this trend has spread widely in every country and region. For example‚ the great improvement in China‚ especially in second half of this century‚ cannot deracinate totally discrimination against women that has existed for a long time (Purewal‚ 2010). It is clear that if sex selection becomes legal‚ discrimination against women will flourish unexpectedly all over the world because

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    What are some examples of bias‚ fallacies‚ and specific rhetorical devices in the speech? In the speech kane uses a variety of bias which include political bias in which he is doing against Jim W. Gettys. He also uses different types of fallacies which are scapegoating‚ and apple polishing‚and ad hominen ‚ and using straw man fallacies and he also two others ones false dilemma and slippery slope plus begging the question too . He also uses a few different types of rhetorical devices in his speech

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    Theme of Bias in “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst Acceptance of an individual is important regardless of disabilities and other disadvantages. This idea is perfectly presented in James Hurst’s short story‚ “The Scarlet Ibis.” In the story‚ it is introduced that the narrator’s brother‚ Doodle‚ is born with an ailing condition‚ but unexpectedly survives. However‚ his luck goes just as far when misfortune intervenes as he is diagnosed with serious health problems and is disabled. In Doodle’s childhood

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    How Racism Effects Society Racism and other prejudices effect the moral views of society as a whole. The ways the prejudices effect society are easily seen in the Martin vs. Zimmerman case‚ in the Paula Deen scandal and with the Little Rock Nine. For instance‚ in the Martin vs. Zimmerman case‚ most of the reason for the hype over the case was because of Trayvon’s race. Had he been white‚ it would not gotten as much publicity. The way this changed the moral views of society is because it made

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    great difficulty is to gain confidence in the buoyancy of the water‚ and‚ when that is once acquired‚ nothing else is needed but regular practice. A similar difficulty of gaining self-confidence renders it hard to make the first beginning in many other physical accomplishments. When a child in its first efforts to walk has learnt to keep its balance for one or two steps‚ it has thereby got over the great impediment in the way of further progress. In learning to skate and ride a bicycle the great

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    cognitive ramifications of anxiety are of significance as they can lead to the development of an attention bias towards threat. (Cisler & Koster‚ 2010). As indicated by previous research‚ threat bias manifests in multiple forms (e.g. oversensitivity to perceived threat‚ near inability to disengage from threat) (Cisler & Koster‚ 2010). Notwithstanding the various manifestations of threat bias‚ the overall heightened sensitivity to threat arouses the autonomic nervous system (ANS)‚ specifically the

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    Could the United States have become half-slave and half-free and not fought the Civil War...Why or Why not? The United States could not have been half-slave and half-free without fighting the Civil War. I say this because the North and South had quite a bit of things going on between the two. It is too much of a contradiction to be half-slave and half-free. In a perfect world‚ this might have worked‚ but in the real world‚ it has to be one or the other. During the development of the thirteen colonies

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    are affected to some degree by egocentric biases. One cannot think clearly about what one is wrapped up in. —Holmes Rolston Egocentrism can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Two common forms are self-interested thinking and self-serving bias. Self-interested thinking is the tendency to accept and defend beliefs that harmonize with one’s self-interest. Almost no one is immune from self-interested thinking. Most doctors support legislation making it more difficult for them to be sued

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    Thoreau felt like he had a need to live in the woods because he felt like it was the best choice for him. He felt like he didn’t really need anything at all so he lived in a cabin. Thoreau has a lot of assertions about man ‚nature and society and although some of them may be a little extreme he had valid points. Thoreau states we as people have to stand on tip-toe to read and devote our most alert and wakeful hours to. He is saying that if you are going to read something that is more difficult

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    The implicit bias survey represents an individual’s unconscious bias. I believe these results to be unreliable because there were many factors which could alter the results. Factors that could have altered my results were being right handed or left handed and the way the questions were worded. I found some of the question difficult to understand. Before I took this quiz‚ I expected questions on the type of people I surrounded myself with‚ family backgrounds and questions pertain to race and disabilities

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