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    The world and its people are always changing, always finding new ways to move forward, and always inventing new technologies to make all of our lives easier. This has been true for hundreds of years, with technologies like the printing press and automobiles changing the world into a better place. The problem is that lately, the evolution of technology has drastically increased, and has lead some people to question whether the goods, of our new digital world, justify all the bad that it has brought

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    clips from the olden days I witness a movement of world peace and companionship that was trying to excel into the generation of today. However, somewhere along the lines that dominant message of world peace in media has slowly disappearing into entertainment that conveys the exact opposite of peace.Now there is a strong desire of money,status, and respect shown through the media. Watching old school throwbacks was my escape from the reality of the worlds approach to what is the new social norm. Cosby

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    Cosby Show Analysis

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    episode 2.22 (“Theo’s Holiday”), 1986, is about a parents teaching a lesson to their son Theo about money management and what it’s like to be out in the Real World. They set up an extensive role-playing game that the whole family partakes in it. On this episode, Theo was taught a financial life lesson by turning the house into the real world. Theo's Holiday is the 22nd episode of Season 2 of The Cosby Show, also the 46th overall in the series. The episode was directed by Jay Sandrich and written by

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    It transports us into different worlds and cultures, as well as, it informs us about ancient civilizations and lore. In addition, it helps us to learn about new technologies and literature. It allows speaking languages fluently and to communicate spontaneously. Therefore, the book can be faithful friend and the nearest into us which can

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    Northern lights and the institute comparison essay Contrasting worlds, similar stories. One way which dystopian authors take an idea to an extreme, to highlight issues within our own society. And to warn future generations. Discrimination is prominent throughout both ‘Northern Lights’ and ‘The Institute’. In ‘Northern Lights’ children are kidnapped by a scientific church agency known as the general obligation board. The agency then goes on to conduct secret experiments on the children, adding to

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    dresser and fell asleep every evening in the surreptitious murmuring of Voices from America from a small radio by Grandpa's pillow. By fourth grade, I figured out that the two stations often reported the same events from opposite standpoints, using different words and tones, and thus projected contradictory interpretations onto the same events. Eager to share this revelation with my grandparents, I pointed out the differences between the two stations by singing their respective theme songs and by imitating

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    scenarios of my own imagination. Hence, I was not contented, I wanted to experience the world outside of those city walls, the cities I saw and heard about on TV, I wanted to experience a different world, because I simply reckoned that everything would get better once I left. As I got older, those dreams, of moving aboard and starting all over, only got more insane. On some days, where I felt like my world was breaking apart again, I came home, crying and begging my mom to take a job aboard. To

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    “If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas,” stated Steve Johnson in an interview with Salon Media Group. In a surrounding with many different networks of people, ideas will be enhanced with the knowledge of other perspectives. Also, the new ideas will encourage debate and conversation. Not only will other people’s views enhance ideas, but also is crucial for writing on a topic. Acknowledging opposing

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    we get more knowledgeable and wiser we get, thus becoming better selves. Literature represents part of this knowledge, it has been a fundamental part of understanding our society, and has archived and developed the events and thoughts that made the world in which we live today. The more we read, the more we understand about us as well as learning from other peoples’ experiences. Literature has gathered all the information we know so far and has brought us out of the cave by showing us how humanity

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    Children and adolescents are growing up in a different world than adults and college-aged students did. They are constantly surrounded by people using advanced technology in their everyday lives and assimilate this behavior as normal. Social media is quickly evolving, and it is impossible to reject or hide from it. Not only is it an important part of socialization within peer groups, but now it is used to market and motivate people to become a part of a larger community. It is undeniably changing

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