• Religions make people bad. While consciously pursuing your spiritual development is commendable‚ joining an established religion such as Christianity‚ Islam‚ or Hinduism is one of the worst ways to go about it. In this talk I’ll share some reasons why you must eventually abandon the baggage of organized religion if you wish to pursue conscious living in earnest. Examples: On Easter Sunday of 2008‚ 11-year-old Kara Neumann of Weston‚ Wisconsin‚ suffered waves of nausea as she lay motionless
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be most unhappy if people really did lose weight. If their diet plans worked‚ we would surely have a population of fit‚ healthy‚ and slim women; and the industry would be self-terminating. It would have served its purpose. Instead‚ we have two and six week diet plans which help women to lose a small amount of weight (usually less than 10 pounds) to soon regain it with even more. This is actually part of the business plan‚ for the money of this industry is made from people being unhealthy‚ and
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Poverty makes People Suffer Many people suffer every day and wonder how they are going to survive. If they have enough strength to continue through the day. Poverty is something that some people have to deal with an everyday basis. Even Jo Goodwin Parker suffered poverty. Jo Goodwin Parker states that poverty worn out all your pride because of the things these kind of people have to do‚ to be able to survive. For example‚ many people eat off the trash cans in the street because they got no
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Causal Analysis We live in a world full of different types of people‚ and each has his or her own attitudes. However‚ when people starts working and collaborating together‚ unconscious reactions start appearing. These reactions might please some people‚ but not all people accept those reactions. The actions of people with each other always affect them; we may act kindly and that is what most people like‚ and we might act unconsciously in a really bad and unkindly way that might unpleased and depress
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The Toulmin Model of Argument (adapted from: http://schoolnet.org.za/twt/09/M9_argumentation.pdf) In his work on logic and argument‚ The Uses of Argument‚ Stephen Toulmin indicates three major‚ necessary parts of an argument‚ along with three additional‚ optional parts. The three major parts are the claim‚ the support‚ and the warrants. Claim: This is the disputable assertion for which a speaker argues. The claim may be directly stated or the claim may be implied. You can find the claim by asking
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Should parents allow teenagers to make their own decisions? A highly debatable topic indeed. Young adults or still children? I think there would be several schools of thoughts on this particularly controversial issue. Parents in different cultures tend to follow specific sets of instructions usually passed down generations. They believe‚ the moral values they were taught were for the good enough. Those times were tough but they lasted them their entire lives. They don’t remember how they could
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Good Deeds Can Make a Wonderful Difference Everyone has heard of good deeds and Karma‚ but does doing good deeds for others actually make a difference? I believe so‚ because doing good deeds not only feels good to one’s self‚ but also makes a positive impact on whom the good deed was affecting. Also‚ if others see good deeds taking place‚ it may inspire many to do a good deed for someone else. As much as doing good deeds for others may help them‚ it also might give the person doing the good deed
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Title: Let’s Be Lefties for a Day Melanie Poundall DeVry University Lets Be Lefties For The Day Today I participated in an assignment designed to help the student to “accept that discrimination exists “ (DeVry College‚ 2014‚ week one lecture‚ p.3). In our society the majority of people are right handed therefore everything is constructed to accommodate that‚ versus the small minority of people whom happen to be left-handed. Spending the day as a left-handed person was a challenge and
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Kent Luong The Social Differences of the Afghanistan People In Afghanistan‚ there are many ethnic groups among whom segregation exists. Imagine being a part of one that’s really looked down upon. The life of that person would be so cruel that nobody would be able to even imagine the misery and the pain that they have to endure. Afghanistan is a country with immense diversity due to the different ethnic groups that it has had for a very long time. Despite living in the same country for hundreds
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always make the best grades‚ but sooner or later they are the ones who make most of our lives a lot easier. There seems to be a time when they have become very innovative in their society and make many accomplishments in the future. These people strive to make a difference in the society that they sometimes feel unwanted in. In the movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs‚ Flint Lockwood tries so hard to find a way that the people do not have to keep eating sardines. Flint then decides to make a machine
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