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    America. Instead of treating girls with respect, young men are now making the assumption that they (young ladies) ought to be used as sexual toys, here to entertain and please. Unacceptably, the crux of this repulsive issue leads straight back to the growing acceptance of super-physical relations between young people. As Jeffrey Zaslow explores in his article, “Some Date: How Homecoming Is Losing Out To Hanging Out,” young people, particularly young men would rather spend their nights “hooking up and

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    scene even deeper. "The drums rose to a frenzy. The people surged forward. The young men who kept order flew around, waving their palm fronds. Old men nodded to the beat of the drums and remembered the days when they wrestled to its intoxicating rhythm." (Page 47) There is a lot of excitement here, everyone is really showing how they all enjoy the show. Achebe makes the mood a happy one and he even talks about the old men who used to fight as well, it's

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    learned that both our parent’s biology and our environment influence us fairly equally. Our surrounding societal expectations, and religion also have a great deal of impact on development. Something that immediately stuck out to me when hearing the young actress’s question was the man’s response. The movie is an older film and times have changed quite a bit.

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    This is very stressful for Daisy since only her beauty and wealth can bring attention of men. She cannot truly be herself because everyone loves admiring Daisy’s appearance and voice rather than who she is internally. For Daisy, she is expected to always be happy, and act like nothing negative is happening. As Nick first sees his distant cousin

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    nothing to help these people. Vietnam decided to draw men back to back , more and more ,black and white.The war was a persons and poverty's enemy . Black men who had been harassed and judged in America were sent eight thousand miles to south

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    narrator is explaining what has been left after all the dead bodies have been removed. The birds who sang in Flanders Fields before the war continue to do so today despite the violence and bloodshed which has happened there. For the natural world, the thing is unchanged. So too, human beings have moved on from Flanders Field and the First World War. The dead who had been alive and had hopes and had been loved are now dead and buried and their heroism all but forgotten. This is the initial emotion from

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    Many people do not understand the true meaning behind certain quotes or messages and that is not a good thing at all. At first thought, the quote, “Well-behaved women seldom make history” can be interpreted in a negative way, but it really is not. It is easy to believe that the quote is trying to say that a well behaved women will not make history or be recognized, but that is entirely wrong. Well behaved, educated, and respectful women are actually more appreciated and accepted by society than

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    Police Force Speeches

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    I’m pretty sure that almost all of America has heard of how abusive the police force has been lately. From beatings, damaging people’s car, to killings. So let me begin to tell you my reasons of why I think that the police force has abused their power and broke the law more than the citizens. To begin with I’m positive we have all heard of Mike Brown from Ferguson, Missouri in 2015. Mike Brown was a normal african american kid walking down the street with his friend. They were just on the way

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    Victim or Angel? Asma Amin Out of all the characters in the play Othello, Desdemona is the most victimized because of how she is treated as a woman in the 16th century. In addition she shows us what it is like to be a woman in that time, and she brings a lot of questions to surface, for the viewers. Shakespeare wrote this play Othello to show us how the Moor Othello gets deceived and lets jealousy take the best of him all because of the evil one, Iago. While this is all going on, the Moor’s wife is caught

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    Sexual Double Standards

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    casual sex, one would most likely assume that tolerance is geared more in the male gender favor… if that is the case, you are correct. Society has built this notion that allows men greater freedom of sexual expression than for women. Why is it that when women express their sexuality with men they are deemed ‘sluts’, but the men who do the same with women are granted increasing power? This sexual double standard is mercilessly oppressing women of their sexuality. In the study reported by Paula England

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