The selection of material used heightens the book; it is not literal but representational, it is no less real and has no less value. ... During the book Douglass makes comments saying that Slaves were treated like animals in the sense that they were less then human. He also makes in known that slaves had no idea of their birthday or even of time. ... Also that the plantation it self is like a government, there is the owner then there are his overseers then the slaves. ... He also showed us how there was competition between slaves on the same plantation. ...

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I agree with Wineman because I ask myself all the time that if we (human beings) were created by God, then how was God created to create us? ... No one knows who this intelligent designer could be because there is no proof. ... When Jesus walked the Earth, everyone was to live by his teachings, but there were those who did not live righteously. ... I believe that God is real and he is almighty, but there is still no way of proven that God is real. Faith is the key to believing that God is real and is one is strong in their faith, then no one can tell them that God is not real. ...

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When everyone contributed a little bit then all were successful within society. However, he knew that if scarcity of goods were to occur then some may want for more leaving other's with less. ... Those who were at the top of society were the guardians. ... Because of these three principles, Hobbes believed that a government was necessary to bestow order in society and that all people should relinquish their power and control to this government so that all were created equal in society, and that no one person can know all the truth as well as there is no real division between the strongest...

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Nowadays people believe that if a scientific view is false, then by continuing study and research the truth may be discovered. one may conclude that if no one presented new ideas, then intelligent thought would have no place in a society like that. ... If there were no conflicting views on issues, there would be no gaining of new information. ... If people did not try to advance their scientifically, then no progress could be made in the fields of biology, psychology or any other field of science. On the other hand, if there were no argues or conflicting views the world might be a happier ...

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If someone believes they can live their life, filled with hope, and try and become successful then no one can take away the sense of pride, the understanding of security, and their overall happiness. ... If a person thinks he or she can achieve great things, then their peers should support them in pursuing that dream, not shun them for having a goal. ... There were many cynical people in the world at the time that said it was preposterous, that it was ludicrous that in this lifetime there would be that equality in which he was speaking of. ... No one deprived Mr. ... So if everyone holds on to...

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Hobbes believed that all people did something for a reason, there was no faith in anything, and his distrust of democracy actually had a point. ... No matter if it was good or bad, he figured there was some kind of evil behind every action made by a person. He figured that every action made by humans were for themselves and not for anyone else. ... Hobbes grew up with big businesses ad the ones who were big were the ones that had all the money. ... He thought that with one representative, then no business would ever get too big and controlling. ...

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There were some cases when the rape victim chose not to have an abortion; they felt that the baby did nothing wrong so why murder the human life for nothing. ... The women are limited to a set number of abortions, no more than two. ... If we were to at least limit the number of abortions a woman has then when they reach their limit and are forced to have the baby, and after birth still don't want to raise the baby, then the baby can go for adoption. ... With abortion in full swing there would be no chance for the foster parents to get their newborn baby, so not having an abortion will ben...

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Our lives were absolutely perfect and what better way was there to spend our never ending afternoon than to take up on some friendly conversation about another? ... As a pair my friend and I were able to come together and dissect then figure out their problems without even having to take a step in their shoes. We were amazing! ... No matter how bad things get, it is important to realize someone has it worse. ... Now in these recent years that I have no shoes, I can now point at the people with no socks....

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There is nothing and no one that can help me now. ... There's no running from the government. ... It was pure because there was nothing bad that you could possibly do, for you were too afraid of the PPA. ... Right then there was a connection between the two that could never be broken. ... It was probably a sign for him, since there was no beauty in this world of his. ...

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I do not believe in man forming life but I do believe that fact wise it will do more good then bad. ... No matter what it is there are always going to be good and bad uses for it. ... People believe that bringing a child into this world to replace someone else is inhuman, but is it not too much different from having another baby after one has died, even though there were no plans of it. ... If the government were to regulate and monitor all cloning research and development it would not be as bad as if scientists were to go on with their research and development without the government...

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Arnold tells how these islands were all once connected as a whole, but then were separated and isolated because of diversities and beliefs. ... When everyone can hear that song and forget the differences, only then will man be as one again. These people were all once connected as one society, and there is hope that eventually will happen. ... This image is strictly a secular one, dealing with no religious imagery at all, due to the agnostic views of Arnold. ... He feels that there is no security in anything else within his society other than the faith of Christianity. ...

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You said it yourself "No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other."" ... I think that yes there is something to win in this world. If death is all we have to look forward to, then if one were to say, "Live everyday like it's their last--cliché, then they would have everything to win. ... Yet, if we all lived our lives like they were meaningless, then existence itself would be over. There would be no reason to work, to go to school, to own a job, to keep the world moving. ...

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There is always a risk involved when trying to change things, especially when there is no need to. ... The human life can be viewed as an ongoing set of cycles, a baby is born, when they reach of age they get married to produce offspring which start new cycles, they then grow old until they begin to deteriorate physically, and then they die. ... There is wide debate on the ethics involved in cloning. ... Let it proceed, say opponents, and you have crossed a line toward the manufacture of humans as tools, and there is no going back"(Time Magazine). ... If you are born you must die; it is s...

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In the beginning, according to Aristophanies, there were three types of people instead of the two we know today. ... Following the split there were obviously twice as many people as there had previously been, and thus the number of sacrifices was also doubled. ... Zeus saw this and became concerned because if these creatures died there would be no one to offer him sacrifice and praise. ... Zeus hoped beings would have sex then return to tend to the things in their lives. ... It is important to remember that the soul is greater then the body, and while sex provides the method for two people...

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Who Needs the Death Penalty Anyway There is no way any person could tell me that the death penalty is a form of justice. ... I also feel as humans we have no right to take a human life. ... There are also those out there who believe that the death penalty is a deterrent. ... If that is true then we all are contributing to the death of a human being, that's a scary thought. ... Gutierrez 3 While doing all this death penalty research I often wondered if there were really innocent people on death row? ...

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This child would have no memories of you and won"t even know who you are. ... Through cloning we can now clone endangered species so that they are no longer endangered. ... If there are so many things that are helped by cloning, then why is it banned? ... This would also take the excitement out of child birth because the family knows what it is getting, there would be no genetic variation. Also people wonder what mental and emotional problems would result if a clone were to find out that he or she was cloned. ...

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Each person has their own unique individual experiences that no other person may have the same exact one. ... For example, in Mohammad's situation, he experienced some miracle that no other person had ever experienced. ... We would be in search of reasons and answers pertaining to questions such as; why is the ocean blue, why are the clouds white, or why is there water falling from the sky? ... Our meanings continually change because were faced with different experiences daily; thus, our construction for the meaning of life is never permanent; it is always being revised. ... Without ex...

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If you are not taught as a young child how to become a successful human being then you will not be successful. ... There are only a group of people that I would recommend this book to, and that is those who don't understand the amount of importance that there is in raising your young with the proper manners. If you treat your kids as though they have no importance in the world and don't teach them right from wrong, or allow schooling then they are going to grow up with the exact same knowledge as they had the very first day they were born. This book was easier to read than I thou...

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But what happens if you put that same stop sign that everyone thinks is normal and put it in the middle of the street where there is no intersection? ... You thought they were going to win, but they didn't. I think the Burnhams were expected to be a normal family. ... This is true with any family, no family is like the other. ... There are always areas of people or objects that can fit the description of being normal, but if you look at the whole story about that person or object then it's not ordinary. ...

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If this is the case, then the decisions to either pursue or abandon our pharmaceutical endeavors is contingent upon searching far and wide for answers and truth on the topic. ... If we didn't, and there was a contingency factor, we could never arrive at a conclusion. ... In other words, the most net happiness would be created if the seals were tested on and killed, thus fulfilling the greatest happiness principal. ... For example, if the tests are conducted and no cure is found, there could be potentially bankrupting repercussions due to protests, stockholder insecurity, and bad advert...

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Going into an art gallery and looking around, there are only 5% of exhibits whose artists are female, while 85% of the exhibits were nude pictures or sculptures of women. "Why are there no great woman artist?" ... A group of feminist activist artists refused to conform to the pro-masculine way of expression, and the concept of "men are better then women", yet they were surrounded such a way of thinking. If they wanted to overcome this restraint, then they would have to discover a world which belonged wholly to women. ... Assisted by 21 female students of Art, they turned a derelict Hollywo...

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In the 1600's, white men used Africans as slaves and treated them as if they were not human. "Black" people were not even allowed to use the same drinking fountains as white people until the mid-1900's. Hitler and his men killed over five million people because they were Jewish or were not their definition of "normal". ... If we raise our children to believe all people are equal from the start, then prejudice will slowly vanish over time. ... Parents and schools need to teach children that people need to have courtesy and kindness towards others, no matter what. ...

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"If there were no God, it would become necessary for mankind to invent one" (Voltaire). ... It's incredibly depressing that there could be no life after death and that maybe we just return to the void that was there from when before we were born. ... " "Then God can help you," he said. ... In death, there is no difference to who you were as a person. There is no fame, fortune or any sense of achievement. ...

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In life we as humans would like to believe that there is good in every single person no matter what their past may have been like. ... In the story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" there were signs of foreshadowing, symbolism, irony and motifs that stood out to me more than others. In this story the colors red, gray, and black showed up a few times as motifs that were in the short story. ... In the story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" there were signs of foreshadowing, symbolism, irony and motifs that stood out to me more than others. ... I believe that if the grandmother never realized who the ...

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Our human life is always there. ... Some things we do now will definitely not matter in a million years, like if we had a good day, if we cried, or if we were hungry. ... So then is going to church absurd? No, I believe that it is not. ... We have no control over them so then why should we let them run our lives? ...

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