Below are essay prompts from the most recent SAT administration in January 2012. Prompt 1 Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below. Most people tend to trust others too readily. To avoid being taken advantage of‚ however‚ it is generally wise to be doubtful and suspicious of others’ motives or honesty. Many people would agree that if you find yourself doubting other people’s sincerity or questioning their intentions‚ your instincts are probably
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Can prejudice ever be eliminated? What exactly is prejudice? Contrary to popular belief‚ prejudice is not the same as discrimination‚ even though both terms are usually tossed into the fray together. Prejudice refers to the prejudgment; where people make assumptions or decisions even before being aware of the relevant facts. On the other hand‚ discrimination refers to the treatment or distinction in favour or against a particular person‚ group or class. That being said‚ prejudice would certainly
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technology of abortion. The circumstances are similar with regards to political leaders speaking out concerning the issue. If this is a fair representation of society‚ then the morals dictated by this are confused and unclear. Is abortion morally wrong? Can it ever be justified? In the UK abortion became illegal in 1861 under ¡¥The Offences Against the Person Act¡¦ when the penalty for ’procuring a miscarriage’ was life imprisonment. This was backed up in 1929 in the Infant Life Preservation Act. Women trying
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We Can But Should We? Your name Your College NR-361: Information Systems in Health Care Instructor: your instructor Spring xxxx Introduction The digital age has given us the opportunity to store all sorts of information about ourselves electronically. Let’s take a look at one of the current trends in technology that may help emergency responders enhance the care they give to us in the event of an emergency. Review of QR Codes Quick Response codes‚ or QR codes‚ were developed by an automobile
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Can war ever be justified? War is an inevitable part of the history of humankind. Unlike natural happenings‚ war is an action of people inflicted of other people. This issue has raised ethical problems‚ which are still problematic till today. War is by common sense evil‚ but can it ever be less evil? There are a number of varying options when discussing the issue of a ‘justifiable war’. Some people argue that war is always justifiable while others argue that it can never be. Some maintain that
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the House of Lords in A(FC) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [2005] UKHL 71 and the article by W.L. Twining and P.E. Twining ‘Bentham on Torture’ at vol. 24 Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 305‚ what is morally wrong with torture? Can it ever be morally justified? If so‚ when? If not‚ why not? Torture is not a popular practice amongst any developed society. To some‚ it is an extremely emotive word‚ the mere utterance of which brings to mind feelings of disgust and hatred towards
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What We Leave Behind---On Chapter 1 Battle Royal of Invisible Man In 1619‚ the first shipment of African slaves arrived in Virginia. Until the slave trade was abolished in 1807‚ a half-million Africans were brought to the United States as slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation signed by the President Abraham Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment passed by the Congress put an official end to the slavery system in the United States in the mid-19th century. During the following century‚ the burgeoning
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Can We Talk Jeremy Mitchell COM200 Instructor: Linda Atkinson Jan. 21st‚ 2013 Can We Talk Divorce in the United States is very common and excepted. With powerful words like till “death do us part”‚ and “Adultery” being said. Communication is a must to make the marriage work with affective affirmation and self-disclosure making the words can we talk mean more now than ever before. I can relate to the article “Can We Talk” in my current new marriage for the first 1 year we never argued
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Greg Oberschelp CAS 137 1 PM Dr. Freymiller “Yes We Can” The word rhetoric is widely thrown around by many different people in today’s age. Many people don’t understand the real context of the word‚ but that does not mean it is not any less common. Rhetoric is all around us‚ whether it is on television‚ in a paper‚ or‚ just in an advertisement. For most people‚ rhetoric is most widely seen during election season‚ especially during the Presidential election. Candidates rely
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price of living for us. Moreover‚ even though we barely had enough to provide for ourselves‚ we always did what we could‚ above and beyond‚ for others. Recently‚ much like most families in this nation‚ mine was affected drastically by the crisis we are in now. Although my family was not one to live in wealth before‚ we had to reconstruct the way we lived our lives. Even though my mother and I did not have much‚ there were many opportunities given to us. We were offered the chance to excel and flourish
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