Patriotism‚ to me‚ simply means love for one’s country - a supportive‚ respectful love that is big enough‚ and secure enough‚ to also question‚ challenge‚ and face the shadows of the past or present‚ without fear of rupturing that deeper connection. If your love for country‚ like your love for a person‚ is based mostly on ideals and images‚ it is unstable and therefore needs to be rigidly defended. It may be loyal‚ but it isn’t wise. For me‚ healthy patriotism is somewhat like the healthy‚ intimate
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Perfect: an individual having quality‚ or characteristics that are good as it possibly can; “a state of flawlessness without any defects” (Schwartz). The word perfect was derived in 1250-1300 in Middle English‚ Latin‚ and Old French‚ all across the same meaning was that perfect means to “bring to completion” (dictionary.com). Perfect is a simple word‚ yet everyone strives for it and many fail. Individuals may be in denial‚ thinking they do not want to be perfect‚ but looking at the media and society
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What does it mean to be German? an essay by Max Zöfeld This is a hard question‚ which may sound a bid jingoistic in the wrong ears. A blonde person with blue eyes‚ well organised and every time punctual is that kind of person‚ which comes to the mind of many people in other countries when they here the word “German”‚ but the question is why? Maybe they are influenced by the Aryan standards which became known in the time of the national socialists. However my own opinion distinguishes from this
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woods with his father. This affected Hemingway and shaped his views on masculinity. In many of his short stories there are the reoccurring themes of racism‚ sexism‚ and coming of age which can all be lead back to the idea of being masculine. What does it mean to be masculine? Hemingway used his view on these topics to create many short stories.Two of his short stories‚ “Indian Camp” and “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife”‚ explores the views of men‚ during this time‚ on racism and sexism. There are
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Yen Trinh Writing I Saturday‚ 23‚ 2014 What does it means to be human? There is something deeply and mysterious in this question that we cannot explain. Being a human of course is to have fingers‚ head‚ heart‚ mouth‚ legs‚ hands‚ etc. But what is really meant by saying “to be human”? Does it mean that humans need to be able to speak? Need to have legs‚ hands? “What does it mean to be human?” The answer really depends on who will answer it. The meaning of being human is always being questioned
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the English language Hi and Lois‚ a comic strip Hi (kana)‚ Japanese character Hi (magazine)‚ teen lifestyle publication Hi Records‚ in music‚ a Memphis soul and rockabilly label Hi River‚ Ili River Hi territory‚ Yining City Hi‚ mobile phone brand of Dutch company KPN Hindi‚ an Indo-Aryan language (see list of ISO 639-1 codes) Hydrogen Index‚ the ratio hydrogen/carbon used in Van Krevelen diagrams by petroleum geologists for the assessment of kerogen maturity. See also Rock-Eval pyrolysis
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summed up in the Bill of Rights. You have the freedom of speech‚ which is where you have the ability to speak your mind and give your opinion. You have the freedom to practice religion how you want to. You also have the freedom to bare arms‚ which means you are allowed to own a gun for your own protection. According to‚ Bill of Rights Institute‚ the Bill of Rights was “created to give people the freedom they deserved”. This is why America is known as the land of the free. If you are an American citizen
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What is an American? Americans are self-spoken individuals full of radical ideas and egotistical spirits. This spirit has created the supreme economic monster that is America today. America is about freedom of speech and press‚ freedom of religion and most importantly freedom of choice. These three key components make up what it means to be an American. Freedom of speech was granted to Americans in the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This freedom can be in the form of a peaceful protest
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What does it mean to Learn? Learning is an incredibly complex process that does not have a clearly defined biochemical or physiological mechanism of action. I suspect if you asked a cohort people what it means to learn you would get many divergent‚ yet similar definitions. In my opinion learning can be many things: instant‚ gradual‚ external‚ or internal. Yet beneath these straightforward criterion there is one unifying principle about learning –it results in an intrinsic change in a subject. Once
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importance of our cultures. How does our cultural identity define us‚ if at all—and what exactly does it mean to be an American? Throughout history‚ and despite a past peppered with racial discrimination‚ America has always been an amalgamation of countless cultural identities. With this in mind‚ it can be safely said that in today’s society‚ race most definitely matters. Before the reasons of why race matters can be determined‚ we must first define what it means to be an American‚ the concept of
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