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    live in the suburbs whether they feel isolated, stressed, or try to find ways to spice up their lives. Many view socializing difficult, but it is important to realize people brought together by social gatherings can be relaxing and enjoyable. Edward Scissorhands can be interpreted as commentary on the social faults of the American suburban environment. The suburbs in America can be more united instead of an environment where people hide in their homes. Most housewives that live in the suburbs find

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    Don DeLillo’s short story, “Videotape” presents a cynical, social commentary on the overexposure of heinous acts by means of new media outlets, such as the videotape, which contributes to the commercialization of tragedy for viewers and the resulting desensitization of the public that occurs. The story is focused on one of many homicides committed by the Texas Highway Killer, which has coincidentally been recorded by an unknown 12-year-old girl playing with a video camera in the back of her family’s

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    Bradbury’s short story Usher 2 is an outrageous social commentary that is set within the rebuilt House of Usher. The main character, Mr. Stendahl has moved to Mars where he is having a replica of the Usher manor rebuilt. In it, he stores books previously thought to have been burned in the Great Fire of 1975 (Bradbury, pg 347). The plot moves along to where Mr. Garrett, who is a part of the Moral Climate, is sent to investigate the strange house sprouting up, and inevitably the story leads up to the

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    As Lorber explores in her essay “Night to His Day”: The Social Construction of Gender, “most people find it hard to believe that gender is constantly created and re-created out of human interaction, out of social life, and is the texture and order of that social life” (Lorber 1). This article was very intriguing because I thought of my gender as my sex but they are not the same. Lorber has tried to prove that gender has a different meaning that what is usually perceived of through ordinary connotation

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    mothers, I will argue that Medea is not a bad mother. I will do this by proving that: Medea defies the social conventions of motherhood in three ways; she kills her children in order to protect them; and, that she rebels against her husband’s control and male domination by depriving him of his “immortality” by killing his sons and ending his bloodline. There are three ways in which Medea defies the social conventions of motherhood. Firstly, she does this by not being a stay-at-home mother. Secondly, she

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    will be for a prospective student, I gathered that the experience will be like being a part of a community inside and outside of the classroom and this is achieved through academic and living encounters. As Wataugans we spend time in academic and social environments together, our spirit of learning is shown through the times we spend together academically and socially. And by socially I mean we have lunch together, and when there are opportunities we volunteer together and take recreational trips

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    As much as I regret to admit it, I’m attached to my phone. I’m constantly reaching into my pocket to check the time, make sure I haven’t gotten a new update, or to send a message. I do this even when I’m not talking to anyone! It’s become an addiction, having to make sure I’m not missing anything, and I'm not the only one who has this problem. Seventy-five percent of the world population has a cell phone, and that number will only increase. With the creation of new technology portions of life have

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    had a goal of giving us a decent and comfortable life, and she made us proud of her. Again, she impacted me with love and respect to other people. Since she was compassionate and empathetic, I inherited an attribute of loving anyone despite their social background. In fact, I wondered how she managed everything perfectly. She also surprised me of her kind nature. Sometimes I could offend her, hurt her, but she still had that parental

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    people, in general, thought of as living together in more or less organized communities with shared laws, traditions, and values. It is based on relationship among people, and if more than two people are gathered, it can be a society. and Furthermore, social life may refer to an individual's interpersonal relationships. Each individual in the world belongs to a society and has a responsibility not to derange the order of the society as a part of it. People label themselves to identify themselves; compared

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    states along with the District of Columbia that have allowed marijuana for recreational usage since 2012. Colorado is the Christopher Columbus of this social experiment and has spurred numerous opinions, both good and bad. Recreational marijuana has had many benefits for Colorado such as economic growth, improved safety through regulations, and overall social unification. Make sure your thesis makes a claim that is arguable. To begin with, Colorado benefitted from economic growth through taxation and

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