What sets humans apart from any animal, insect or being on this planet is our awareness of this inevitable end. Furthermore, what sets Americans apart from many other societies is the extensive amount of information available everyday within our country. ... Specifically, the fear of death seems to be based on two things: the presence and certainty of death and the uncertainty of what follows. ... As anthropologist Ernest Becker argued, we have survived in part because we can ponder the past, plan for the future and imagine and make real things that may not exist. ... In "The Fall of the Ho...

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Otherwise, if they do decide to give into the traditional way and become a full-time housewife, they are more than likely to fall into depression or loose their sense of importance. ... PLECK) As the spouse's role take turns and changes, the mothers doing most of the child care while the fathers earns most of the money, they grow apart. ... Family happiness comes by loving one another within the family and that is best found by having the roles of the family set so that the kids, along with the parents are happy with the way things are. ...

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However, while tolerance has increased for such things as race, gender, and culture, it has simultaneously increased for immoral acts such as sodomy and pornography. ... The families of today are themselves falling apart. ... They say that when someone is always pessimistic about the future of morality they are unable to see the good things in life. ...

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Many of her classmates said that "God is apart of our graduation because he has blessed us and given us the chance to make it this far." Unnfortunatly some people don't see things in that perspective. ... I can sit in a History class and talk about the rise and fall of Hitler and the Klu Klux Klan but if I speak of the word God I can be condemned. ...

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Popular culture, with its shallowness, rudeness, and lack of intellectual seriousness, is almost always seen as a fall away from these standards. ... As the Granger Movement fell apart, the Farmers' Alliance was established. ... This does two things: gives them immediate credit and the opportunity to hold their crops until the market improves. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate