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    Lost the Pageant But Discovers the Hidden Truth In Cindy Bosley's essay, How I Lost the Junior Miss Pageant, she reflects on a childhood memory of her experience with a beauty pageant to expose how society pressures everyone to be perfect. Bosley enters the beauty pageant after Bridget, her friend, suggests they enter the local Ottumwa Junior Miss Pageant. By entering the contest, Bosley gains the opportunity to fulfill her “mother’s secret hopes” that her daughter will win a beauty pageant (33)

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    The definition of society says, “the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community”. Our society now thinks that everybody has to have the same religion, same taste of clothing, and same color of our skin to be treated equally. People think that you have to be perfect or else people won’t like you, which that is completely wrong. I like people that are unique, and everybody should be unique in their own way. I am religious but I don’t shove my religion down peoples throat

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    Truman Capote wrote In Cold Blood after the murder of the Clutter family, a tragic event which shook the Holcomb community. In his book, he uses syntax, imagery, tone, and more devices to convey his perspective on Holcomb and the Clutter Family. The book begins Holcomb shown as a seemingly bland and ordinary city, but contrasts it into with a complex and multilayered Holcomb with the help of Capote’s use of rhetorical devices. One such device he uses to portray the ordinary Holcomb is syntax. He

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    The Down Syndrome Information Alliance states that, “ We envision a community where people with Down syndrome are empowered, respected as individuals, and accepted as valued participants in neighborhood schools, community activities, and the business world.” Transition: Now the real question is, what can you do to help? III. Conclusion (Call-To-Action) A. Review of main points: Today I have discussed why the Down syndrome community needs support, how the DSASTX provides means of support, and how this

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    Gattaca Movie Essay

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    Film and Social Position Social position refers to the class of an individual in the society. It is noted various communities have different ways of measuring the social status of an individual. For instance, wealth, level of education and genetic character of a person. The paper is critically analyzing a film Gattaca and the social measurement of the characters in a given community. Gattaca is a film by Andrew Niccol. The main character Vincent Freeman was considered to be a looser on his arrival

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    It's hard to imagine yourself ever being vulnerable, but everyone will face it at some point in their life some sooner than others. Benji Wilson was the number one basketball player in the country around the Michael Jordan era. Everyone in the community knew Benji they looked at him as he was the Messiah, or the ticket out of the hood. Benji faced is vulnerable moment way too young, when he was just 17 his life was cut short after being shot while walking home with his girlfriend one afternoon. After

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    excessive effort to become perfect can be counteractive and lead to dysfunctionality. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, characters live in a dystopian society that sprouted from the human yearning for perfection. Although the citizens in Brave New World are genetically engineered to be perfect individuals and are on soma constantly to keep them happy and efficient, they lack individuality.. Brave New World is a novel that clearly demonstrates that trying to create a perfect society can result in loss

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    most common and the indisputable form. Moreover, the author believes that it is necessary to speak about eternity. Set up in the Confucian way the observer immediately noticed that of the two, as it were by the nature bestowed more than "natural" communities - the family and the state - is a much more stable family, and because it pushed all Confucius and his followers on the main

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    powerhouse in battle due to their immense military power. Each war occurred for the sole purpose of capturing victims for sacrificial ceremonies. Due to their obsessive nature over war, body counts were considered to be of vast important in this community and it was a huge ordeal for the warrior who performed a capture,

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    Sameness Essay

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    society. Jonas is chosen as the new receiver of memory, means an old man called him the Giver, who has the all the memories from the past, transfers his memories to Jonas, who shows him love, pain, color, and snow. Sameness is the element of their community where all people follows the same rule. It is basically a total control over everything in order to make it the same and it feels like it is comfortable for everyone and everyone is happy about it. The aim is to establish a peaceful and stable society

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