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    Richard Bach once said “A tiny change today brings a dramatically tomorrow” This quote means that without the Industrial Revolution or the Agriculture Revolution, the world would completely be different. “The Industrial Revolution grew the world's population from 375 million people in 1400 to around 1 billion people in the early nineteenth century. (Strayer 828) The Agricultural Revolution grew the world’s population from 6 million people to 50 million people.” (Strayer 20) This fact would prove

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    Evil In Lord Of The Flies

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    children have seen from the world war, influence them to adopt evil traits. Moments after the plane crash, Ralph is optimistic and informs Piggy the people at the airport will report that they are missing to his father. In response to Ralph, Piggy states, “Not them. Didn’t you hear what the pilot said? About the atom bomb? They’re all dead’” (Golding 14). The children are exposed to the horrors of society, and the immoral deeds that the members of their society commit. When Piggy tells Ralph about the

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    Janusz Korczak's Orphans

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    people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have the right to be treated by adults with tenderness and respects, as equals. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be- The unknown person inside each of them is the hope for them future,” (az quotes). This shows how serious a child should be taken, no matter how rich or poor they are, for they are humans too. When a Jew was living a normal life, suddenly it was all put to an end when these

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    “I was persuaded then, and I remain persuaded now, that the war was wrong. And since it was wrong and since people were dying as a result of it, it was evil(O ' Brien 272).” Tim O ' Briens If I Die in a Combat Zone is based in the Vietnam war with the main character being Tim O ' Brien. He explains what it was like to be drafted into the war and the hardships that he went through fighting the Vietcong. The changes that happened before his eyes to people he was fighting with being turned into a deranged

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    • “I’m the only man in Africa who can say whatever he likes to say within the ambit of the law and get away with it.” (Ojukwu’s Diaries) • “War is not fought by saints. If you get caught up in Mother Teresa’s exultations, you’ve never achieved your objectives.” • “I saw the Biafran war as an indispensable consequence of the bestiality, brutality and Northern hatred for the Igbos…I saw the decision to break away as a surgical necessity for my race” (Ojukwu’s Diaries) • “Do we have too many nymphomaniacs

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    In 1954, William Golding wrote his book Lord of The Flies in response to the book, The Coral Island. The story takes place in World War 2, and in the middle of a wartime evacuation of English schoolchildren, the plane crashes on an island of the Pacific ocean. The pilot dies, leaving the only survivors to be middle childhood or preadolescent boys. Two of the survivors, Ralph and Piggy, find a conch which Ralph uses to call the other survivors together. The group elects Ralph as chief, and they work

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    this did not stop them. The men pridefully sat at the restaurant counter until closing.  This event was unsuccessful but it did start the act of sit ins to protest during the civil rights movement. Sit ins became more and more successful after time when more and more people started participating. Students put together a whole systems for the sit ins so they stayed non-violent. By august of 1961 there was over 70,000 participants in the sit ins. Sit ins made a great impact on the civil rights movement

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    Family: Now and Before

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    simply a name that her mothers liked …" "Many same-sex couples who were married" These quotes show the familiar and wide common people characters of contemporary life. Life has changed. At least, it is not the same life like fifty or sixty years before. Many reasons and motives led to huge and unusual changes in the human life, especially the American family life. Mainly, these changes came as a result of the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement and the anti-gay legislation including legalities of marriage

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    Standardized testing first began in the mid 1800s, testing the amount of knowledge that a student knows when it comes to the three main subjects:; math, science and history. The question is whether or not standardized testing accurately tests the knowledge of the student and is beneficial to the school system. Both sides provide a lot of evidence stating why standardized tests do or do not provide what the school system needs or wants. Those for standardized testing argue that testing is the only

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    wealthy man and ultimately following the “American Dream”. Gatsby while stationed it St. Louis falls in love with a lively blonde named Daisy Fay who is coincidentally cousins with his West Egg neighbor Nick Caraway the narrator of the story. Before the war, Daisy attracted the attention of many young soldiers and one of those prominent soldiers was Jay Gatsby. Daisy fell in love with Gatsby and she promised to wait for his return in aims for a healthy long-term romance. However, Daisy’s parents didn 't

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