Christmas be banned? My mother always makes a point in making sure I know never to lie to her. But that made me think‚ is it right for her to lie to me for the first 9 years of my life? Tricking children into behaving well in order to receive presents. Isn’t that bribery? Parents say that you should never lie and always tell the truth‚ but the way I see it is‚ they have gone against their word and become a hypocrite. On the other hand they could be enhancing enjoyment. But I know‚ even now Santa
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What do you understand by the term “Lancefield groups”? History In the early 1930’s Rebecca Lancefield recognized the importance of serological tests for the identification of organisms. The system is based on specific antibody agglutination reactions with cell wall carbohydrate antigens (C polysaccharides) extracted from the streptococci. Lancefield also showed that further sub division of group A into specific serological types was possible using type-specific M (protein) antigens. The groups
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The essay was about Tony Hawk “do what you love” is about how he never let what anyone said stop him from doing something he loved. That even when people talked about how skating boarding had a bad stereotype even those over the years skating has gained more mainstream. It talks about how Hawk has been skating professionally for over twenty four years and that he has overcome people telling him that he won’t ever make it in the skating world. And how he prove to himself and everyone that said he
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What is a reactive attitude? What bearing does it have on the problem of free will? A theory that has attacked the validity of discussions on freedom in modern philosophy is determinism. In these discussions‚ questions have arisen as to how the truth or falsity of this theory should affect our lives. In this essay I will discuss the formal implications‚ illustrated by Peter Strawson‚ that come about from this. This will mean discussion of our reactive attitudes on: our moral considerations and on
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The Witch of Colchis As she was ferried ’cross the River Styx‚ what thoughts too harrowing to contemplate came coursing madly through her consciousness? Her children whom she killed with her own hands as vengeance for their father’s faithlessness‚ ensuring they would not be reared as slaves? The hapless rival she engulfed in flames— a marriage of political convenience kindling blind rapacious jealousy? Her husband’s cousins she enticed to cast a heinous spell of mutilation‚ thinking they’d
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levels… Godzilla may rise from the deep and wreak havoc on humankind… And such are just some of the outcomes that air pollution may bring… Hold it! I know-we ’ve heard this all a million times! But as dreary as the conversation may be‚ it is nonetheless a conversation worth having. The harsh reality is that air pollution is a great problem‚ and the way in which we can solve it is through dramatic change in the use of fossil fuels-the most significant cause of air pollution. After considering that "nearly
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What do you think is unethical? The countrywide approved everyone to get their loans‚ no matter they have jobs or not‚ no matter they have income or not‚ no matter they have assets or not. The criteria they use may be unethical. They don’t care whether the documents are valid‚ whether they can verify the income‚ whether the appraisal is any good. They just care about getting the loan closed‚ in order to do another loan. The underwriters/ contractors looked through the loan as quick as they can.
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It is indeed important that rights are considered with responsibilities. In every human undertaking‚ it is understood that rights are given because of the responsibility that a person has adopted. Rights cannot be given to irresponsible people. It is true that people who are given rights often abuse them and make society pay the price. Certainly‚ teenagers are old enough to make decisions about things that concern them. It is at the end of the teenage that a lot of decisions are made. Decisions
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organisations and scholars. This most likely is‚ as Leigh (2005) discusses‚ an increasing acceptance that such ecological disasters affecting mankind has been one of “the most critical turning points” that the world has ever encountered. Such crises are experienced when our environment is modified in ways which undermine our continued existence. As the environment and its ecosystems are in a constant state of being damaged‚ its quality is vastly ruined and this has major effects on the lives that
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that sharpens ones skills and mind‚ enhance ones personality and create a strong and wise men ---- a normal student like me may find it hard to do some extra-curricular tasks and be involved to other organizations actively participating in school-related activities and all; I do not consider joining and participating to some ORG or clubs important. What I value the most is to complete all my enrolled units‚ attend all my subjects and be a normal student‚ I suppose‚ most of students here in Bicol
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