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    These stereotypes can cloud good people’s judgement of others just solely based on appearance. This prejudgment of a person can hurt them various ways in the “real world” such as applying for a job. A man that wants to be a nurse can hurt his “manliness” because nurses are thought to be a job for women only. The gender stereotypes in this world are not making anything better, just worse. In order to get one step closer to gender equality we as a society need to eliminate stereotypes as a whole. Now

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    Now of Infinity Lastly, the discovery of Infinity comes to the now of Infinity. Regarding the applications of Infinity in the real world today. Andrew Hendrickson pointed out a poignant thought by Einstein, “only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former (2016).” Therefore, infinity, as discussed before is not a number, it is not a physical object, that we know of today, but as time has presented, infinity is under constant discovery. Fields have

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    anyone they’re just by-standers. In the age of technology a new form of bullying has arisen, cyberbullying, where people can bully other and keep their identities a secret. They do it either for fun or many of the main reasons why people bully in the real world do it. Bullies don’t think about the negative effects that can happen on a person being bullied. Victims to bullying can get anxiety, depression, have lowered

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    According to our textbook, The Real World: An Introduction to Sociology, authors Kerry Ferris and Jill Stein define sociology as “the systematic or scientific study of human society and social behavior”, or more simply put “the study of society” (9). As well in the The Real World: An Introduction to Sociology, the authors explain the definition of social science to be “the disciplines that use scientific method to examine the social world” (10). In essence, sociology is a factor of the social sciences

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    The author in the articles relates the advancement of technologies with the alienation of human being with the real world. The author acknowledge the reason of our alienation from real world as not being because of the dimensional scales but because we have been substituting dimensions for the things that count. The author believes that technology does not alienate us from the world it mediates. The author uses an example of a telescope, a scientific instrument used to observe galaxies, stars,

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    Within the natural world good and evil simply does not exist. The framing of your reality is based solely on your perception. Good and evil is the result of that perception. If you distinguish something as good, than it is. If you distinguish something as evil, than it is. Some swoop in at the last minute to save the baby stroller rolling into oncoming traffic from its impending doom! However who is the villain, as far as, the mother who just pushed that baby stroller into oncoming traffic is concerned

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    “Is the real world frightening and hard?” Is the question I ask to my parents all the time. On my birthday they always tell me the story about how hard it was for them when I was born and now I am about to tell you the story. My parents had me at a very young age. They did not finish college, imagining what they went through while telling me the story was having me put in a lot of knowledge about the real world. You make one little mistake and it is over for you because, you cannot go back and fix

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    control. As a fifteen year old many people would hear me say this and scoff saying I don't have 'real' problems, or I don't know what the 'real' world is like. On one hand they're right, I shouldn't know what the 'real' world is like, most fifteen year olds are thinking about what picture they Instagram is a 'real' world problem. But being the not-so-average teenager, I do know what this so called 'real' world is. My heavy eyelids opened this morning to a bitter nurse who clearly thought I was intentionally

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    So far this year i have learned about line's, line segments, angles , ray's, surface area,etc.For of all a line segment is a line with two endpoints.One way you could use a line segment in the real world is when you are measuring book a piece of paper,because both a book and a piece of paper have two endpoint.Another topic I have learned about in geometry this year is angles. Angles are figures formed by two rays.There are different types of angles like a acute angle, right angle,and an obtuse angle

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    person’s life and can range from moral ideas such as values, beliefs, and laws to physical traits like specific objects, behaviors, and symbols. Kerry Ferris and Jill Stein further explains, in The Real World: An Introduction to Sociology, that culture “acts as a lens through which one views the world” (73). Culture allows people with similarities to come together, and others with different cultural views to experience different perspectives. Giving people a sense of belonging, culture defines people’s

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