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Did Immigrants Have To Leave Behind Their Cultures?
608 Words - 3 Pages.... should not let that tear them away from their own ways.
America took advantage of the naïve character of the immigrants. They knew that these people that came from different parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa would settle for substandard living and working conditions. The twelve to sixteen hour days may have left no time for the immigrants to focus on the family values that they had always know, yet they were in a new country now and they needed to learn to carry on traditions and cultures where they were the minority. On the other hand, these immigrants added their cultures to the American society; thus none were forced to give up their roots.
If immigrants were not ....
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Communication With Teenagers
1925 Words - 7 Pages.... is a teenager and the brother is in the
first of his teenage years. Their father is on the floor in the living room
taking an old television set out of the stand and replacing it with a new
one. The sister sits down on the couch, slouches and lifts her feet on to
the coffee table. The brother moves from one piece of furniture to the
next. The sister is eyeing the brother, who is younger by a few years and
at least five inches shorter than her. The brother is eyeing the sister
now and at times glancing at the television. The sister wears a frown as
she sits down and the brother has a blank, half-smiling, almost mocking
look upon his face as he stares at the sister.
Th ....
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Knights And Chivalry
935 Words - 4 Pages.... woman, usually another man's wife. Veneration for
the Virgin Mary played a part in this concept. Chivalric ideals influenced
the founding of religious military orders during the period of the Crusades,
among them the Templars and the Hospitalers, the Teutonic Knights, and the
Spanish orders of Alcantara, Calatrava, and Santiago. In the late Middle
Ages, rulers formed secular orders of chivalry such as the English Order of
the Garter and the Burgundian Order of the Golden Fleece. By this time,
however, chivalry had become largely a system of etiquette. Tournaments, in
which knights had originally risked their lives in jousting combat before
the ladies, became simply ....
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Why People Dye Their Hair
921 Words - 4 Pages.... class. It's immediately the way
you're first described by your peers. This attracts attention to you, and
makes you more known around your school. Everyone's talking about your new
hair color, about how "crazy" and "cool" it is; or maybe how "gross" it is,
depending on how it turned out. You could look like a way cool punk rocker,
really trendy, or like your hair grew some major mold. It can depend on the
dye or the way you dye it, or sometimes on pure luck.
Sometimes people dye their hair because they need a change. They're
sick of the brown-haired, boring old person they see in the mirror every
day, and want to add a little spice to their look. It's really hard to be
bo ....
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The War Of Freedom Of Expression
1959 Words - 8 Pages.... outline of one skirmish that has taken place (Keegstra ). Those who
fight on the side supporting freedom of speech do so for several reasons. Braun
declares that it is a basic democratic right to voice your own opinion .
Douglas Christie has gained notoriety for his vigorous representation of high-
profile, controversial clients, charged under the hate laws. He advocates
freedom of speech for two main reasons: a) he finds it abhorrent that the state
can legislate thoughts and words, and b) he often agrees with the views held by
his clients. Others such as Noam Chomsky, a brilliant intellectual, argue not
for the views expressed, but the ability to express them. Lining up ....
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Censorship Of Books: Freedom Of What?
1181 Words - 5 Pages.... school and their parents don't like it, many parents
automatically go ballistic. Many try to get rid of it before they have
even taken the time to read it. If a parent feels that certain material is
inappropriate for children to see, then they shouldn't let their chi ldren
read it, but they shouldn't be able to decide what their neighbor's child
should and should not read. That would clearly violate our first amendment
right. The first amendment, in part states that Americans have freedom of
the press (to publish any material they want.) This also means that we can
access any of these materials. It doesn't mean we have the freedom to
control what others access, that wou ....
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Diversity On Campus
957 Words - 4 Pages.... accept, and others are more challenging. These differences are a great source for learning, but should not be the only primary focus. Between some people the differences may be infinite, but the similarities are still present among every human. To go a step further you can say all animals have similarities as well as differences. So the skills and values acquired by college students is imperative to the world's survival.
The attitudes and values are well defined concepts that are appropriate for college students to acquire have been described as: "1. Appreciation of similarities and differences. 2.Utilization of techniques that exemplify the best traditions of true democra ....
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The Problem Of Evil
910 Words - 4 Pages.... that good cannot exist without
evil. Not a bad argument, but faulty. With evil existing you have something
to compare it to, which is good. But, If God was really all-good the word evil
would not exist because everything would just be good. If God is so good and so
powerful than why does he let so much evil exist? I could understand a little
bit of bad people and things to make the good stand out, but there is so much.
All the time in the news you hear about someone being murdered, children being
molested, a natural disaster striking a area and many people suffering and
dying, etc... This also shows that God cannot be all-powerful if lets all this
evil exist in the ....
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