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Meat was once a necessity, yet over time consumption has now come to represent the meal of the elite. Meat was once required to provide energy to the high activity of our ancestors, yet through the development of agriculture and nutrition, we no longer require it. Yet even though meat is not a necessity, we still desire it, and place a price on different styles of meat. Meat holds power, being seen as a luxury item staple of the first world. Not all parts of the animal that the meat was taken…

should analyse development as discourse. In the second part of this essay, I will…

Nelson Mandela once said, “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner” (Mandela). This quote signifies everything wrong with the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The Israelis and Palestinians have barely worked with each other, so they have not been able to make peace and they choose to remain enemies. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict had been on and off for 100 years. After World War II, six million Jews were killed, and the remaining…

In the Penal Colony - Franz Kafka Short Story, Fiction In the Penal Colony portrays a conventional, human protagonist who ventures through a judicially corrupt colony (the Penal Colony). This character the narrator titles as the Traveler. The Traveler observes the negative impact totalitarianism takes on humanity, as he explores an island community run purely off justice enforced by a single torture apparatus. I believe the main idea revolving around this text is totalitarianism and its issue…

Journey of an apex beast comparing to a normal teenage boy that is living in a normal life until one night, someone takes it too far. Call of the Wild by Jack London and The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton theme are yet similar but their point of view is different. What makes them differ significantly, is the perspective that London and Hinton wrote and their characters. The Outsiders is written in a first person view of a boy named Ponyboy, while Call of the Wild is written in third person limited of…

race would decide the winner of the meet. That news immediately cheered us up and we all decided to try our hardest to win the race. Then the gun went off, the first person had taken off and the second one was getting into place. We were in 4th place by the time the second person got the baton, as the second person finished she managed to catch up to third. Then the third person got the baton. Determined to win, she gave it her best shot and managed to somehow catch up to first place. We were…

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others” - Cicero. Regardless of differences in race, age, religion, socioeconomic status, and geographic location, humans remain alike: the potential for gratitude exists amongst all. The majority of people fail to realize so much exists to remain thankful for. Every individual may have something different to show thanks for and this could vary from region to region. When one thinks about what someone in a first world country…

a small whale. I kept cranking and cranking away feeling as if there is no end in sight. 5 minutes pass and you can tell that whatever is on the other end of the line is just as tired as me. I can see the end of the line in the water, and I get a second wind. I've finally reeled the fish in. The first mate reaches into the water and pools up the rig and on it...are three fish! 2 striped bass and a 35 inch blue fish. The first mate says “that's the biggest bluefish i've ever seen anyone catch.” I…

Title: Which Kind of Ball will Bounce the Highest Aim - what are you going to investigate? To investigate which of the four balls; golf ball, ping-pong ball, tennis ball and rubber ball will bounce the highest after being dropped from either a 100 cm or 50 cm height. Hypothesis - what do you think will happen? A generalisation that links the independent and dependent variables (you may use and IF THEN statement. Compared to 50 cm, when any of the balls is dropped from 100 cm it…

Humans are all unique creatures with different appearances, mindsets and feelings. But we are all connected by one thing- a drive in life to continue on forward. Everyone’s drive may be different, for example, in A Dog’s Life: The Autobiography of a Stray by Ann M. Martin and A Dog’s Way Home by Bobbie Pyron. Two different books by two different authors, but with the same concept: a drive in life. In A Dog’s Life, the story focuses on a stray dog called Squirrel in her struggle through life. A…