101 Evan Harrison 8 November 2011 Smart Girls In Susan Jacoby’s‚ “When Bright Girls Decide Math Is a ‘Waste of Time‚’” she begins to explain how a 16 year old girl decided not to take physics and calculus as a Senior in high school‚ replacing them with electives. Her parents approve because she expects to major in Art or History in college. However‚ this limits her in the future. This choice is referred to as a self-inflicted limit girls place themselves‚ which seems to relate to social
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that we do not have to worry about what we should wear every day. Often times‚ a lot of time is wasted before coming to the college because people are deciding what to wear. However‚ for those students who have to wear their uniforms‚ they have only one or two choice. So‚ it saves a lot of time for them in the morning and thus‚ they can get to school faster. Some uniform also gives people confidence‚ like the police uniform. When a student wears a police uniform‚ they feel more confident and responsible
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A Female for the First. Although a very respected female journalist‚ Susan Jacoby was labeled as a "First Amendment junkie" by many other women for her personal views concerning the censorship of pornography in society. Ultimately‚ she believed that censorship of any kind against pornography was wrong. Feminists were infuriated that another female acknowledged pornography ’s right to exist. Susan Jacoby did not necessarily agree with pornography‚ but she felt that its rights guaranteed under the
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Ariel Okech Diana D’India ENGL 101 055 31 October 2014 In "A First Amendment Junkie" Susan Jacoby argues that censoring pornography goes against the First Amendment. She believes that the First Amendment should be absolutely interpreted. She states that people will never be able to agree on what should be censored. She points out that censoring pornography will lead to censorship of other topics that need to be discussed and brought to attention in American society. She believes that pornography
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summer’s day. The second line Shakespeare jumps right into answering the question describing his love as “lovely” and “temperate” (ln 2.) The word temperate has a few different meanings. It could mean self -restrained‚ a mild temperature‚ but also in the time of Shakespeare people would have thought the word meant a balance of the humours. This pretty much means that they believed human behavior was decided by the amount of certains types of fluids in the body. So temperate meant someone had the right amount
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Homework‚ a waste of time? According to a new study‚ more homework assignments do not translate into better grades. Researchers looked at transcripts and data of more than 18‚000 tenth grade students‚ in a study carried out to find what difference extra study at home makes. They found homework doesn’t necessarily help children to get more grades‚ but may help them achieve better standardised test scores‚ the ’Daily Mail’ reported. The findings by researchers from the University of Virginia in
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Jeff Jacoby‚ a columnist for the Boston Globe‚ is the author of an article called “Bring Back Flogging” that suggests the reinstatement of flogging as a criminal punishment. Jacoby argues that the use of flogging is a better form of punishment for criminals because it would not only help save money‚ but also provide a better form of punishment for some criminals. In his argument‚ Jacoby fails to address issues at the point they are presented while also stating some irrelevant facts‚ which does somewhat
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We all tend to procrastinate and waste time doing something else other than what we should be doing or just to help pass time by. This often happens when we are having difficulty doing something or when we are just wanting to be occupied by something. Some like to watch television or get onto their phones but personally‚ the best way I waste time is browsing through different types of websites. A type of website that I use to waste time are shopping sites because it is like eye candy for me. There
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In her article "College Is a Waste of Time and Money"‚ Caroline Bird attempts to pursued her readers that colleges are overflowing with students who don’t belong there. Her article first appeared in Psychology Today (May 1975). Since this material is outdated‚ I find it hard to believe that most of the responses by students and parents quoted in the article still hold true. The author has set out to pursue the readers that college is a bad and unnecessary choice for today’s youth. Yet the author
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Mythology is pointless and a waste of time. But if you dig a little deeper there are a lot of lessons that can be learned from it. Athena is known as Zeus’s favorite child and is the goddess of warfare and wisdom. She was the guardian of the Athens and protected many people. Athena was a very ruthless‚ fierce‚ and caring individual who fought a lot but also helped a lot of people with her undeniable skills. Athena’s strength and abilities were visible since day one when she was born in a miraculous
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