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    Can we be perfect? Well, we all want to be perfect, but everyone tends to make mistakes in daily life. If we were perfect, why are we living in this cold and cruel world? Though we always try to look perfect as we can, but of course, we are not gods. In conclusion, everyone is not perfect. Though a rationalist during the 1780’s called Benjamin Franklin threw an idea, “Bold and arduous project”, which he believed that it can make people morally perfect. He said when we follow this method, we can become

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    While he was not perfect, he does exemplify the qualities of what it means to be American. Through his contributions in inventions, writing, and his practices in managing his time well, he was the perfect American man. With his tremendous intellectual gifts Franklin introduced devices to society that benefited America as a whole greatly. He once stated that, “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” These words of his are most applicable to his various great ideas. The interst that

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    My Perfect Dream Vacation: There's No Place Like Home Almost everyone has their own idea of a dream vacation. It's the perfect place to get away from the reality of every day life and the stress that goes along with it, and the choices and ideas of the “perfect vacation” are as varied as the people who dream about them. Some fantasize about lazing on a warm, sunny beach with soft ocean breezes and a cold exotic drink at their side. Some dream of forests and wildlife, cool running

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    to be perfect, and what we dont see is that our mistakes are what makes us who we are, they make us grow, they make us see things on different perspectivas. Sometimes being a perfectionist can work for us, why?, because this will push us to do our best, make us want to better ourselfs everyday, setting a goal and trying to do the best you can toa chive it its good. Being a perfectionist is not always bad, if you use this idea of perfect as a motivation On the other hand, when being perfect gets into

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    The perfect American family was given to us in a form of a photo, an inspiring photograph dating back to the 1950’s gives us light to the perfect portrayal of the American Family. The media painted them as a middle class, white family standing in front of their perfect suburban home. Neatly trimmed grass lined with a white picket fence, husband and wife holding their infant child. In the twenty-first century the nuclear family is not the only type of family around, on a daily basis we see same sex

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    there such thing as the perfect Utopia? People often believe that there is not such thing as a perfect society or the perfect utopia. People wish for everything they want, and have everything they always wanted. In the short story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin shows the readers a perfect utopia; however, the perfection always comes with a sacrifice because this is how people can really appreciate the beauty of it. A utopia is considered a perfect society where people accept

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    philosophical ideas and his writing talent, was one in which he attempted to make himself into a morally impeccable human. After reading the work he published regarding this pursuit, I was assigned to pick one of the thirteen moral good Franklin identified and myself try to embody one. My task was to perfect a single trait within myself, one that Franklin likewise tried to perfect. Out of Franklin’s thirteen virtues, I chose the virtue of silence to perfect within myself. Over the course of five days, I attempted

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    Failure The idea of a perfect world sounds good on paper, but it does not always work in the real world. A utopia is “any visionary system of political or social perfection” (“Utopia”). The idea of a perfect world is many people’s dreams coming true, before their eyes. While many people have the idea of a perfect world, others have the idea of a non-perfect world. A non-perfect world could include having no freedoms, no rights and a strong, controllable government. This idea of a non-perfect world can

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    The belief in something out of the universe is what helps most people continue on with their day. It may be hard for some to believe that they are only on this planet, living, just to die one day. Therefore, many turn to religion to seek a hope in an afterlife in which they can exist after death. However, believing in most religions means believing in something in charge of the universe. Something, or someone, that is practically supernatural, and supremely powerful. Thomas Nagel, in his text What

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    What makes a good life for individuals and what constitutes the perfect utopian society? These are important questions for all humans living in the modern world and the answers to these questions radically affect the way that we view how power should be used. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, we see the animals come out from under Mr Jones power, they try to make the perfect world but fail because someone is always going to have the strength or willpower to go one step further than you can. In The

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