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    Would you want to drink blood? Eat termites? How about have your baby tossed off of a building? These are just a few different rituals and cultures that exist all around our world. They might not be what we call “normal,” but to those who are practicing them, they are part of their popular or folk culture, and for them, are completely normal. Perspective is everything. The main difference between folk and popular culture is the impact it has on society. Folk culture is usually practiced within

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    Partial and Late-Term Abortion At the present time, abortion has become a hot topic that has sparked many heated debates in the recent presidential election, with both parties feeling strongly about the subject. Partial-birth abortion can be defined as the removal of a fetus that has already died and a late-term abortion is an abortion that occurs during a late stage of the pregnancy. I chose this topic in order to not only learn more and become better informed about this issue that has sparked such

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    When discussing wrongful birth, life and conception, one must first understand the method of sterilization. Sterilization is defined as a person terminating the ability to produce offspring (Pozgar, 2013). Procedures are carried out to males or females to produce successful sterilization. These procedures are normally completed voluntarily, however there have been circumstances which sterilization can be performed without consent. The debate of wrongful birth, wrongful life and wrongful conception

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    Advantages Of Time Travel

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    Time travel is traveling to another place in time. It can be traveling into pass or the future. Time travel can be the solution to a lot of problems in the world. We will be able to prevent things from happening by going into the past and change our decisions or we can go into the future and prepare for it or try to prevent it too. There are a lot of research going on with time travel but it hasn’t been done by any human yet. Time travel come with challenges like paradoxes, especially when time

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    Time Travel

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    For many years time travel was the stuff of science fiction. This was all just part of the world's imagination until recently. Scientists now believe that the current laws of physics allow us to travel though time. They believe that we can now travel back to see our founding fathers sign the declaration of independence. We could travel to 2999 to witness the birth of the next new millennium. Such travel would require a machine capable of withstanding great pressures and incredible amounts of speed

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    For many years time travel was the stuff of science fiction. This was all just part of the world’s imagination until recently. Scientists now believe that the current laws of physics allow us to travel though time. They believe that we can now travel back to see our founding fathers sign the declaration of independence. We could travel to 2999 to witness the birth of the next new millennium. Such travel would require a machine capable of withstanding great pressures and incredible amounts of speed

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    the car plus 299,792,458 meters per second for the speed of light equals 299,792,483 meters per second for the speed of the light emitted by the headlights of the car." This method of thinking would have been acceptable up until 1881. At this time, an experiment took place that would change physics forever. Albert Michelson wanted to test Newton’s idea of variable speeds of light due to the existence of the aether. He knew that since the Earth moves in absolute space, that the speed of light

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    Although time travel has long been since considered as fable, there have been studies and theories that appeared supporting the time travel. Einstein’s theory of relativity supports time travel and with this scientists have come up with theories of time travel. Other theories and many experiments have been conducted to try and prove the possibility of time travel for humans. Einstein’s theory of relativity determined that the speed of light within a vacuum is constant no matter the speed at

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    Since the beginning of time itself, large objects have been attracted to one another by a mysterious force. This mysterious force led to the creation of all the galaxies, stars, and life in the universe. Humans have been predicted to have existed for almost 6 million years, and it was only 300 years ago that intelligent life had made an attempt to explain the unknown force. In 1687 a man named Isaac Newton published study called “Discourse concerning Gravity and its Properties”. Newton’s paper

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    generations of human thought and culture. Brought about by the way troops are transported in space, time dilation creates an interesting dichotomy between the early soldiers of the war and the rapid evolution of human society and culture remaining on Earth. The Forever War questions the stability of human nature by creating a scenario where its fluidity is exposed through an invariable link to time. The expression of human nature changes as cultural and personal identities adapt to new situations;

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