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  • Hmm ok

    im pro choice, so im obviously not your target audience, but this is a powerfully emotive essay. i do agree with you, semantics get in the way a lot of the time. If everyone was as honest as you about their views, i think it would spark far more valid debates. id counter your arguments with the fact that whether or not you call it abortion, murder, killing or any of the other words that might be appropriate, i still belive that every baby born deserves to be loved, wanted and cared for.yes, people can adapt, but some women will never be maternal, people gat raped, or simply cannot cope with a child. still. good essay
    • 22/06/2005
    • 21:49:34
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  • Amazing

    this is really well argued and backed up. a very good argument for such a contriversial topic
    • 22/06/2005
    • 21:36:34
    • Score: 2 out of 2 people found this comment useful.
  • Cool

    the essay just describes the film, but it does a cool job of it
    • 22/06/2005
    • 21:22:52
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  • Fair enough

    i am assuming that you have chosen to write this as an emotive esay, rather than a particularly objective or academic view. Do you really belive that everyone has the rights and opportunities that you've mentioned?Or that masses of technology is actually a good thing, somthing that is not a devisive socital tool?( personally i belive that technology tends to take over the more menial and manual jobs that would normally go to people who struggled in education, therefore forcing these people onto welfare) I would find the title a lot less empty if you could back up your arguments more, but this would definatly work as a basis for more in depth analysis.:-)
    • 13/10/2004
    • 09:38:42
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  • Not bad

    basic outline of some of the problems linked with the subject, but you made a few emotive sweeping statements eg, in an ideal world, all teenagers would be abstinent,that arebased soley on viewpoint, and are not referenced or supported. you also could have added somthing on the theme of alternitive sexualitys being disscussed.I know in Britian we have an antiquted law that means that homosexuality cannot be disscused in relation to sex ed, leaving many teenagers who are questioning there sexuality feeling shameful and wrong.
    • 11/10/2004
    • 06:05:58
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  • Very good

    this essay has some good points, nut you dont point out the most obvious example of the audience creating meaning- in citizen kane, the director hints at a few possibilitys, but ultimatly it is left to the viewer to decide on who or what "rosebud" is.
    • 19/06/2003
    • 03:14:56
    • Score: 6 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • I think voting should be made compulsory

    i think that we should follow australias example, people who do not vote face a fine and even prison, and have welfare rights suspended. If we are not careful, voter apathy could mean the death of democracy , as only the extreamists care enough to turn up and vote.
    • 16/06/2003
    • 03:32:43
    • Score: 4 out of 4 people found this comment useful.
  • Good essay but...

    i dont agree with you either-"antimotivational syndrome!!!" what a joke! show me a drunk who doesnt suffer from that! but we dont ban drink, so the argument kinda falls flat there.
    • 16/06/2003
    • 03:23:42
    • Score: 9 out of 10 people found this comment useful.
  • I still think that it would be better adressed diplomaticly.

    we should lift sanctions and give cuba the chance to prove itself as a country, by leaving nthem in place, we are only encouraging the country to turn in on itself,.Of course there will be widespread corupption and lawlessness when people are desperate for food-this is what we have seen and are seeing in iraq. I often wonder if we dont impose santions to bring about this sort of effect, they create dissary within a country,people steal and kill to feed their familys, particularly if they are given an officail state uniform to hide behind. Then the rest of the world can point the finger and say "what a tyranical regiem, they kill each other mercilessly , havent they messed up their country. oh well, better go in with the guns and show them how to do it our way" hmm.
    • 02/06/2003
    • 04:23:01
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  • Their is also a slight allegorical feel maybe?

    abi-gail (gale) suggests a tempest, and although it is historically acurate to call the wives goody proctor ect, it must be remebered that miller wrote this play as a reaction to mccarthyism, and prehaps a consideration when he was choosing when to set it was that he could use the idea of "goodwife" to illustrate that the acussed were really good, innocent people. just a thought!
    • 02/06/2003
    • 04:12:59
    • Score: 5 out of 7 people found this comment useful.
  • I agree

    this is what struck me about the recent war. Although i am British , i have them same kind of doubts about the goverment, as i feel that our countries are becoming one and the same. I did not vote my goverment in to conquer countries and make Britians place in history, i voted for them to reform and look after public services and domestic problems. In Britian, our health service is crumbling, we cannot afford to pay our striking firefighters, and the pay and conditions of being a civil servant are now so dire that Britsh people are shunning thes jobs to the extent that we are forced to hire in doctors, nures and teachers from other countries to fill our shortfall. Whether or not we "won" in iraq, i think that Tony Blair is failing his people on the promises he was elected on. Controversial, but thats how i feel!
    • 15/05/2003
    • 06:39:08
    • Score: 3 out of 3 people found this comment useful.
  • Proportional representation

    dont forget that it was the voting system of the time that allowed hitler to take control in the first place. By following PR instead of the more traditional "fist past the post system, it allowed extreamist groups of people to gain a foothold, when they wouldnt normally have won seats. It was also this systems lack of a true party of power that forced hasty coillitions, that brought about very little change when drastic measures were needed to deal will the social and finacial problems of the country. So when Hitler turned up, with strong ideas and seemingly the way out of the countrys mess, people were more inclined to listen. All the other points you mention are valid and well described, although a little more elaboration on the injustices of the treaty of versailles wouldnt go amiss!
    • 15/05/2003
    • 06:28:57
    • Score: 4 out of 4 people found this comment useful.
  • I disagree

    i think you have argued your point well, but im afriad that i would still agree with legalisation. It would take away the shame and stigma placed on these girls, with is far more universally damaging to there mental health than the possibility of a client reawakening memories. It would allow them to have a safe comfortable base to work from,and garentees that clients would be made to use a condom. Yes , there will be people who do not adhere to the laws, just as there are people who traffic ciggarettes to escape tax when they can easily be bought, but , seeing as this proffesion will never end, i feel that by legitimizing it, you make it safer for all involved.
    • 15/05/2003
    • 05:16:43
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  • Hmm, i wouldnt agree, for much the same reasons

    the after war period has shown that the war was unescessary- contianment has worked,as demonstrated when the US left, and communism did not spread. You also talk about the political alliances formed during this time, effectivly dividing the world into developed and developing countrys, with oposing agendas. This is the basis for the rise in international terrorism, and , because of the Devolped worlds combined political clout being used to exploit developing countries, the hatred towards the west, that seem particuly aimed at the U.S. thats my opinion , anyway.You must remeber that the legacy of agent orange is still being felt today, with the countries phenomenal rate of birth defects and cancers.
    • 15/05/2003
    • 04:52:47
    • Score: 3 out of 3 people found this comment useful.
  • Institutionalising murder

    murder:premeditated killing, which is exactly what the death penalty is. I find it sinister that the land of the free there are still laws in place that allow suspect to go through a full trial and still be sentenced to death. You mention the innocent live that will be saved, but remeber that there will always be false convictions, and what of their innocent lives? is it justified to kill these people, safe in the knowledge that you get the right guy MOST of the time? You talk about re-offenders, and i conccour that this is a problem, but one that happens for every crime. Should will kill all rapists incase they re-offend? burglars, who hold up old ladies with knives? these are not nice people, granted, but in a supposedly enlightened society, we cannot forgoe these people the chance to rehabilitate-Remeber that everyone hung, electricuted or poisoned on the states behalf is somebodys son.
    • 15/05/2003
    • 04:43:37
    • Score: 3 out of 3 people found this comment useful.
  • Seems like an introduction

    this sounds like the opening to the essay, it needs some kind of focus and exploration. nice start!
    • 07/05/2003
    • 08:06:44
    • Score: 3 out of 3 people found this comment useful.
  • Good points

    i have often wondered where the idea of "sin" originated. If god dosent like sinners, why has he made us capable of sin. To quote ford prefect from the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy`s views on god: someone with that sort of mentality will always get you in the end!
    • 01/05/2003
    • 08:34:36
    • Score: 4 out of 4 people found this comment useful.
  • Extra stuff

    there is a good book , written by M.H Abrams called "the mirror and the Lamp" which uses these two items as metaphors to explain the fundemental differences between Romanticism ( the lamp) and the neo-classical ideas that were present before Romanticism ( the mirror) check it out, its a very impressive thing to quote from ( tutors love it!)
    • 01/05/2003
    • 08:23:16
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  • Got it in one

    the first paragraph metions that america wants to give democracy ( noble enough) and make the middle east part of the modern world. The modern world IS america, and we are so use to this that we cannot belive that people would not choose to be consumers. But what is yet to be seen is what will happen when we give iraqis the vote, and the choose to live as an islamic theocracy,ruled by allotoyas? this seems likly to happen , as the majority of iraqis are shiite muslims, and are very devout.If people still choose religion over capitalism, do we have a right to enforce it as we have done in other situations? (nicruagua,chile,ect)
    • 30/04/2003
    • 08:54:09
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  • Well argued essay

    i do not personally agree with some of the points raiseed, that sept 11 was "for no reason" or that we are the definitive source of freedom and democracy- if we are so democratic, why are we not given any say in our foreign policy making, which is the way that other countries and potential terrorists see our influence. Also, despite the majority of iraq wanting an islamic theocrisy, the liklyhood of the Americans allowing even an elected religious party stay in power is slim. You must also remeber that the us quest to bring "freedom" to many countrys has actually been a round about way of securing our interests and leaving the natives with a despotic leader, the us, after all, was the country that sponsored saddam hussians rebellion into power over the elected goverment of the time, put the genocidal general pinochet in power, sold arms to the isrealis and many other things , that if widley known by the public would be hard to classify as freedom. there is a good web page that has some points on this and the sept 11 reasons athttp://www.dawn.com/2001/10/15/ed.htmIt is ,however well argued and structured, and explored n a manner that is respectful of other points of view.well done!
    • 30/04/2003
    • 08:45:46
    • Score: 3 out of 3 people found this comment useful.
  • Er, interesting interpretation

    definatly in laymans terms and a bit hard to follow,but very funny! i particularly like the idea that japan and america would fight over the vomit thing!
    • 30/04/2003
    • 08:28:56
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  • Other monothesiastic religions

    because of the stucture of the Old testament(torah), new testament(bible) and the koran, christians often forget that a large part of their religion is inatly jewish, and also that their religion is part of the fundementals of islam. These three religions are alway presented in isolation, which seems very strange to me, as they are all part of the same story.
    • 30/04/2003
    • 08:17:33
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  • Treaty of versaille

    i belive the treaty of versaille was definatly the most important factor in Hitlers rise to chancelor, and why the country was so willing for war. It humilliated germany into taking the whole blame for ww1,when really it was much more complicated. The great depression hit germany hardest, as the country still had to pay reparations. I think a quick metion should be given to the proportional representation system used in germany, which allowed hitler to win democratic elections far and square, meaning his position was a lot more difficult to argue with, as all the other countrys invovled respected democracy.good essay, lots of good points raised and well rounded.
    • 11/04/2003
    • 10:21:00
    • Score: 9 out of 12 people found this comment useful.
  • Funny lady though.

    your right. Even though i think our monarchy is a bit usless these days, vicky was one of the better ones. She was well known for her fiesty character, she proposed to albert ( unheard of in the day ) and began to plan her wedding before she recieved a reply. You didnt mention her scandalous affair with her servant, william? Brown in her later years. It is said that when she was buryed she had a lock of his hair and a picture of him in her coffin. She did pass many benificial laws, however, it is interesting to note that when she past laws about homosexuality,she ignored lesbians, because she refused to belive they exsisted.(this gap still exsists in our laws today)!
    • 10/04/2003
    • 08:27:30
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Well done on a controversial topic

    I think the overall message is that all religons when followed at a fundementalist level are damaging and destructive. The bible was a sensible document when it was first written, as it fufilled the societys need for order so they could progress. But the fact remains that it was writted third hand, over 2000 years ago. How can the dogma possibly be relevent today? Most of it is contradictory anyway- you can support almost any point of view if you pick your sectios carfully. Also,nobody has ever satisfactorily answered questions like- if god hates gay people, why did he make them gay in the first place? or if bad things that happen to good people are the devils work, and they make god sad, why did he create the devil? very interesting essay, that i would love to see expanded even further-prehaps to encompass the fact that jews, christians and muslims are all worshiping the same god, and yet we seem to hate each other! anyway , brilliant.
    • 10/04/2003
    • 08:14:58
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  • Rosebud

    I loved this film, but it still annoys me to this day that i cant conclusivly figure out the rosebud bit.What do you think he`s going on about?
    • 10/04/2003
    • 08:00:41
    • Score: 4 out of 4 people found this comment useful.
  • Very well presented

    you put forward a lot of well rounded facts, although it would be nice to look at the reasons why terrorism on the west has become so prevalent.you must remember that ultimatly, saddam hussian and osama bin laden are just figure heads, it is unlikly that they have had a personal hand in every suicide bombing, more that thier follwers agreed with the view of the west as an evil, imperialist force. It seems to me that as a nation, we often hide behind officiality to make ourselves the good guys- like you say , we tend to support the israelis, because their way of life is similar to our own, industrialised and rich. However, when you actually look at the facts, we see the palistinians have lived their for thousands of years, and were rudely kicked out to make way for the israelis that the west decided could have their land. Very balanced, good information, particularly the list of hate crimes commited against muslims.
    • 09/04/2003
    • 08:16:43
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Maybe it is the whole idea of being a gentleman that he wants to show as negative.

    ive always read it that joe is happy with the status he was born with, and that gives him the dignity and strength that pip loses in his pursit of status. Dickens is trying to say that the whole institution of "Gentlemanship" is a usless phalusy , represented in the extream by Drummle. The working men are usually shown to be morrally superior in all of dickens works ( Dickens being born to a working class family had somthing to do with this i guess)
    • 07/04/2003
    • 07:13:53
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Good essay

    well reseacrched and presented. Did you know that the ancient egyptian women used a mixture of crocdile dung and milk as a sponge? i guess it probably killed the mood somwhat!
    • 07/04/2003
    • 06:50:31
    • Score: 6 out of 7 people found this comment useful.
  • Define "parents"

    this is a good essay, it shows the basic needs of children. But the term "parent" is used a little vaguely. Does there need to be two? can the sucessful parents be adoptive? well done, just a bit short!
    • 07/04/2003
    • 06:34:30
    • Score: 8 out of 8 people found this comment useful.
  • Brilliant essay

    wonderfully well researched, stating all of the affected partys. The only improvemet that could possibly be made is to add a little more of your own point of view, wheter you see the falling birth rate as somthing to be remedied ect. very well done!
    • 07/04/2003
    • 06:27:05
    • Score: 6 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • You forget to mention the social effects

    many people from the developing world, see AIDS as a white mans deasise, spread amongst them to quietly kill them all. This antagonises the resentment toward the developed world that already exsists in abundace, and could , in theory, mean international terrorism rises even further.
    • 04/04/2003
    • 07:58:46
    • Score: 5 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • Yes, good answer

    like you say, it is not so much the cars themselves, it is the economy they provide that near enough runs the world(we are already seeing what happens when a world superpower has run out of oil, it attacks another) it may even be oil that ultimatly changes the power balance throughout the world. good essay, well structured
    • 04/04/2003
    • 07:51:35
    • Score: 9 out of 11 people found this comment useful.
  • Good try

    the only real problem with this is that you quote when it is not really necessary and leave big gaps when it is. Prehaps you could expand a little on the history between america and iraq. It would also be interesting if you could use references from papers around the world (pretty easy if you ask your local convienience store to order in) for example, if your local papers have the same views as our british ones. Prehaps a french paper ( you can get a translation off a friendly teacher no doubt) would have some different perspectives. Whats there is very good though!
    • 01/04/2003
    • 05:20:24
    • Score: 6 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • Exactly

    how can we hold ourselves up as a civilised society when we have state sanctioned execution?that we dress it up with jurys and trials doesn't take away from the fact that we are essentialy saying it is ok to kill people.
    • 01/04/2003
    • 05:07:15
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • I like the concept

    the idea you are conveying is lovley, and i do agree. The ryhme scheme is a little odd, but good try. I haven't seen much recent war poetry, which is odd, because it is the one subject that usually gets people fired up enough to want to write about it.
    • 01/04/2003
    • 05:00:17
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  • Current issues

    also a good idea to metion the direct parallels in the current war on iraq- offred mentions, at first, we thought it was the middle eastern terrorists (not a direct quote, i dont have the book with me!) describing the begining of gilead, also ,as you mention the protests, against war and global americanisation have already begun to dwindle in numbers as people realize that goverments are not listening, and a christian fundamentalist leader who has created a military diversion in order to create a sense of emergency in his country to make the undicided voters more complicit. Scarily acurate prophecy by attwood huh?!
    • 28/03/2003
    • 10:09:45
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  • I very much agree

    i think that art is misunderstood- sometimes artists use provocative ideas and imagages in order to make people aware the hate it inspires in them. Art is mearly a reflection of humanity, and humanity has some nasty, evil faces and ugly traits. By censoring the art that contians a reflection of this, we are only trying to escape our own humanity.
    • 28/03/2003
    • 09:50:18
    • Score: 4 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • Who decides?

    everyones interpretation of what is right and wrong is different, depending on culture, age, religion. I think the way laws work now is prety much right- outlaw things that are universally regarded as wrong-murder, rape incest ect, and leave other thing, which are a bit more border line-abortion for example , down to the personal moral choice of the individuals involved.
    • 28/03/2003
    • 09:25:21
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  • Other interesting textual bits

    two points that i think are important:Offreds name - Off red . red is the colour of the handmaids, so do you think that attwood is emphasising from the start that she is a dissadent? and also, i think that it is important that attwood subtly tell us her name at the beggining- in the list of names at the end of the first chapter, we meet all the other characters except june , who i assume to be offred.
    • 28/03/2003
    • 09:00:38
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  • Maybe a different angle is necessary

    the answer is obvious to the question, of course multinationals benifit there country of origin, that why they started in the first place.Maybe the question needs to focus on the global impacts of multinationals, and whether they might have too much influence over world politics.
    • 27/03/2003
    • 08:57:20
    • Score: 4 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Very good!

    well researched paper, if a little hard to read. Interesting fact: did you know that both chloroplasts and mitochondria have there own separate DNA, so are actually a completely different species that crawled into plant and animal cells millions of years ago.and because they are in the cytoplasm, it means that when they change the cytoplasm in an IVF egg cell ( which they do if the mother is older, younger cytoplasm has a higher sucess rate) they are actually creating a baby with three parents. Weird huh?!
    • 27/03/2003
    • 08:37:22
    • Score: 10 out of 10 people found this comment useful.
  • Why distinguish?

    if you can distinguish between a rapists baby and the fetus of a women whos pill didnt work, then isnt it just an arbitary distinction? If your argument is that all fetus` no matter how immature they are are people, then is a rapist baby less of a person? Also, what about early abortion when there is no conciousness, or responsiveness and non of the criteria are fufilled. You must also remember that a babys movements in the womb , for the first few months are not concious, they are reflexes.if you count reflexes as communication, then you must call cancers people also, because they too react to heat, light and touch. And if it is the idea of conception being the point of conciousness begining, then should we ban the morning after pill and the IUD, both of which are designed to expell implanted embyos in very erly development? just a couple of issues that need to be adressed before i am tottaly convinced by the theory of avbortion as an immoral act. Good essay structure though!
    • 27/03/2003
    • 08:28:53
    • Score: 14 out of 15 people found this comment useful.
  • Sort of...

    i agree that too much work is a bad thing, but ultimatly, we all live for our routines. We may not concieusly choose to somthing in the same way ( oh, look, its that cool programme i watch every week ) but we use this sort of thing as a basic model of our day, as a reassuring tool.It is only through having a routine that things outside of it become spontaneous. Good essay though. P>S, the shining rules!
    • 27/03/2003
    • 07:40:26
    • Score: 5 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • Very short!

    you dont go into any great detail about these different regiemes, and i assume you werent asked to talk about any other types of goverment. It would be nice to know why you would prefer a capitalist regieme, as i think it would be a good way to add in more detail.
    • 27/03/2003
    • 07:01:12
    • Score: 11 out of 11 people found this comment useful.
  • I agree

    ultimatly, this comes down to a pure case of personal choice, no-one but the mother and father should be involved.
    • 27/03/2003
    • 06:13:19
    • Score: 11 out of 11 people found this comment useful.
  • Simple economy

    the drugs are getting more expensive, because the drugs companies, huge multinationals, realise that they can get monopolies and can charge what they like and we will be more than willing to pay. The real tradgey is that they will not lower these prices for the thrid world, and wont even allow the patents to be used to create cheaper generic drugs.
    • 26/03/2003
    • 07:49:03
    • Score: 7 out of 8 people found this comment useful.
  • Um?

    first of all, the arguments and sentences are awfully constructed, and i would suggest revising them. Secondly, im a little worried to see that youve put cannabis in the same sentence as dangerous, addictive drugs like heroin. No body has ever died as a direct result of using marajuana. Cigarettes and alchol, yes, but not pot. Im sure you know what you are trying to say, and the bits that work, work well. But its probably best to treat this as a draft.
    • 26/03/2003
    • 06:43:29
    • Score: 6 out of 7 people found this comment useful.
  • Good points but,

    if you eatpot, or drink it as tea, then you negate its cancer causing effects, and are left with a drug that is hardly worse thean anything freely available-cigarettes and cafine will raise your heart rate considerably, and even if you are under the drink drive limit, alchol comprimises your balance , memory and coordination. Also, you have to remember that cannabis is not phsyologically addictive, unlike nicotine, which is the thrid more powerfully addictive drug in exsistance, and with certinly kill 50% of its users. ithink somtimes people are in danger of hypocrisy- either ban all these socially acceptable drugs of treat them all the same and decriminalise is what i say.
    • 26/03/2003
    • 06:21:28
    • Score: 6 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • Hmm take a look at this

    a link to an interesting sit explaining the parallels between bush and hitler;http://falloutshelternews.com/BushHitlerLinks.html
    • 25/03/2003
    • 10:27:50
    • Score: 5 out of 7 people found this comment useful.
  • Yes, but a few points

    i would say there was actually less regard for human life in regards to the generals in ww1- they sent people to the trenches knowing that they had no chance, they were just cannon fodder
    • 25/03/2003
    • 10:21:37
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • You still have to look at where the money is coming from

    by spending lottery money on education, you are in effect creating a volentary tax ( yes, one or two people will make money on it, but the majority will not).You must then look at the target audience for lottery tickets; the poor.It has been shown over and over again that the financially secure will genuinly play the lottery for fun, but the poor, who really need the scholarship money in the first place, are much more likley to spend large amounts on, and even become addicted to these forms of gambling.So its essentially a tax on the poor, meaning although the schools will run, they wil struggle for food and clothes.Also, if it is somthing that everyones children need and will benifit from, should it be a volentary tax?
    • 25/03/2003
    • 10:16:09
    • Score: 6 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • Simple truth

    yes, there are just to many of us.Americans may be more healthy and wealthy than ever, but the rest of the world isnt! good essay, although i would definatly like a little more of your own opinion in here, its almost too balanced!
    • 25/03/2003
    • 09:37:36
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Another way of looking at it

    in shakespeares "Henry IV" , a character, falstaff, explains honor;"Well, 'tis no matter, honor pricks me on. Yea, but how if honor pricks off when I come on? How then? Can honor set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honor hath no skin in surgery, then? No. What is honor? A word. What is in that word? honor. What is that honor? Air. A trim reckoning? Who hath it? He that died on Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible, then? Yes, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it, therefore, I'll none of it. Honor is a mere escutcheon, and so ends my catechism."basically , honor is a word. A very dangerous and emotive word, yes.But striving for honor is in itself narcissitic and dishonorable. weird huh?
    • 25/03/2003
    • 09:23:57
    • Score: 7 out of 8 people found this comment useful.
  • Oh dear!

    lets hope, for humanities sake that this boy is being ironic. A brief glimpse into the reality of the american regime that is trying to take over the world. quite appart from that, probably the funniest peice of writing for a long time. Loved the bullhorn farce( just imagine him there, shouting his head off so disrepectfully at ground zero)
    • 24/03/2003
    • 08:32:26
    • Score: 4 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • I agree

    as a devotee of rock, music is not always somthing to wind down to, in fact, quite the oposite! however, as much as i cant stand rap, i feel i have to stick up for its right to be confrontational, it mearly reflects society rather than shaping it. And , of course the good thing about music is, if it offends you, you can alway just not listen!
    • 24/03/2003
    • 06:47:13
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Hmm

    quite badly structured, and you dont really address the "one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter" debate. Some consider the present war on iraq as terrorism, forceably imposing one countrys ideology on another. also , it often happens that neither side really have "right" on their side- take the northern ireland problem for instance. It isnt really a case of "standing up for yourself" , it just appears that way when we are on a side with no other justification than "they started it", (which, of course they didnt, check out they way that we've been bombing bagdad for the last 12 yaers without telling any one)
    • 24/03/2003
    • 06:42:05
    • Score: 7 out of 10 people found this comment useful.
  • Good try

    a fairly good summary essay. I think you meant the symptoms of anorexia are lack of menstration, nt the causes of anorexia!
    • 24/03/2003
    • 04:45:21
    • Score: 8 out of 8 people found this comment useful.
  • Extra research

    you are a little blase about what truly constitutes these conditions. ive added links to the dsm-iv site, the official diagnostic tool of the psychology proffesion.http://www.psychologynet.org/anorexia.htmlhttp://www.psychologynet.org/bulimia.html
    • 24/03/2003
    • 04:35:39
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Good essay

    you explore the reasons why the choice should ultimatly rest on the mothers shoulders. The pro-life groups can do more harm than good to these poor frightened girls badgered into beliving that bringing up a baby they do not want and cannot cope with will not be a living hell for them. Sure, people shouldnt get pregnant in the first place, and i would agree that sex education needs much more funding and prestige. But unfortunatly, this is the real world, and people do get pregnant, and they should have the right to choose wether or not to carry the feotus inside them. good work.
    • 24/03/2003
    • 04:23:34
    • Score: 3 out of 4 people found this comment useful.
  • To be honest, we are all the same

    judiaism started it of, producing the torah, or the old testament, as christians called it. Jesus came along, did some funky things with fish and some of the jews thought theyed take some ideas on board and write the new testament, generally going on about the cool things he did. The rest of the jews were happy as they were. Then along came Mohammed, who did some more things that were nice, humanitarian ect.Oh, and said that he called god Allah, and he would like everyone who followed his ideas to do the same. he wrote the koran, and some of the jews and christians follwed him, and the rest were fine how they were. And thats about it. Allah, jehove, god, our lord. its all the same being. If anyone can figure out why we are all at each others throats,please tell me!
    • 20/03/2003
    • 08:22:19
    • Score: 4 out of 4 people found this comment useful.
  • The interdependecy theory

    we all forget how much we rely on other countries to keep ours going, we are already seeing what happens as america runs out of its own oil and has to fight other countries to supply the outrageous comsuption rates. Good essay, although you missed commenting on the worlds most obvious multi national, MacDonalds. ( how long after the war in iraq finishes do you think it will be before they try and open one there?!)
    • 20/03/2003
    • 07:50:14
    • Score: 9 out of 9 people found this comment useful.
  • Cultural diferences

    throughout this whole middle east debacle, we must remeber one thing. We see all this through our eyes as lilly livered western christians. I know many muslims aho choose to wear burkas, explaining "people who we come in contact with see our brain, and dont make judgements based on physical appearence".The difference between their theocracy and our democracy is that we have different types of freedom;we have freedom to;do what we want, wear what we want ect.they have freedom from; crime, being judged by appearance ect. The doctorines of the religion itself are not inatly opressive or unpleasant, they were mearly twisted and obsessively enforced by the taliban. However i do feel that this war is slowly turning in to a war on islam, because of peoples ignorance.
    • 20/03/2003
    • 07:44:00
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Exactly

    if we are sighting human rights abuses as a reason to go to war with iraq, let us remember that the big gunner, america, is run by a man, who in his job as texasc senator, signed more death warrants than anyone else in the countries history. If thats not a human rights abuse, what is? AT least the iraqi beheading is quick!
    • 20/03/2003
    • 07:32:35
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Confusing

    its a little hard to keep up with which side you are on. I also think its bit rash to call someone "Pro- abortion" that brings to mind someone who would force their ideas upon others. I think "pro-choice", giving the mother the freedom to choose would be closer to what you are describing.
    • 20/03/2003
    • 07:29:11
    • Score: 5 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • I disagree

    you say that between the " golden ages" of drama that you have defined , there was nothing much to watch. I would totally disagree. you eras tottally discount the reatoration, for a start, thet was full of funny comedys. also the rise of the actor manager meant there were many interestingly rewritten shakespeare revivals.
    • 20/03/2003
    • 07:23:18
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Omission

    you forget one of the major benifits of deisel engines, they can run on anything. In fact, one of the most efficent fuels for this engine is used cooking oil, mixed with a little white spirit and left to stand. Obviously, cooking oil is a renewable source ( vegtable oil works best), it give off very few emmisions,and would conserve oil, so we dont have to fight these stupid wars over it . However, it does make the car smell like what ever it has been used to cook (fajitas anyone?!)
    • 20/03/2003
    • 07:13:29
    • Score: 9 out of 9 people found this comment useful.
  • Hmm

    I did this exact same essay for my GCSE`s, but im sorry to say that this one looks like a set of notes. A lot of it is dedicated to retelling , and it is safe to assume whoever is marking this for you will have already read the story. The facts presented are unessary- yes, of course detective storys have a detective in them for goodness sake. And yes the first sentence has 77 words. well counted. But what of it? sherlock holmes is "superb and clever" HOW? what evidence supports your statment? I sugest you think about it and try again with this as a very basic starting point. sorry.
    • 20/03/2003
    • 07:01:58
    • Score: 7 out of 7 people found this comment useful.
  • A little waffelly

    this is a very nice piece of creative writing but you fail to define this elusive "posititve attitude".The essay is more a glorification of franklin than a factual document, so in effect it is just telling us what happened rather than why or how.
    • 14/03/2003
    • 09:48:28
    • Score: 9 out of 9 people found this comment useful.
  • Great!

    im currently doing a module on ww1 poetry, and this essay has helped me a lot! it raises a couple of interpretations i hadnt even thought of. thanx loads!
    • 14/03/2003
    • 09:40:48
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  • There is a new theory about HIV

    it goes somthing along the lines that it is poor medical hygine by the aid workers ,not promiscuity causing the pandemic. This ufortunatly has always been suspected by the people of zimbabwe, who belive HIV to be a blight from the white man, the health workers. Its a bit long winded , so to read about it , go to http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993417 . it could revoultionise infection rates and help countrys get the outbreak under control.
    • 13/03/2003
    • 08:53:21
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • What exactly is this?

    what stimulus where you given and what were you trying to achieve, because i cannot make head nor tail of this!
    • 13/03/2003
    • 08:45:31
    • Score: 30 out of 39 people found this comment useful.
  • So?

    the media is all around us and we cannot just make it disappear.You make a lot of good points about why it is bad, but this is all for nothing if you have no plan on how to change this. It also needs a good proofread to sort out the spelling and grammar.good try
    • 13/03/2003
    • 08:42:40
    • Score: 10 out of 10 people found this comment useful.
  • ALL your facts are wrong.

    i have just bothered to do some reasearch on this subject( heard of that? it only takes a few seconds)- senior citizens are 31% less likley to have a car accident than any other age group. And to be honest, every time some loser swerves in front of my car, its an idiot teenager(myself not included) imposing the tests you mention on everybody but senior citizens would probably dramaticly bring downthe death toll. This essay is ignorance, and i bet you'll be after the women drivers next( dont bother, we cause far fewer accidents)
    • 13/03/2003
    • 08:36:50
    • Score: 6 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • Well done

    nice essay, if a little informal!
    • 13/03/2003
    • 08:27:00
    • Score: 8 out of 10 people found this comment useful.
  • How would they cope with 50million tourists?

    how could eygpt cope with doubling its population through tourism? Think of the catastrophic enviromental effect of catering to all the extra people in one of the worlds most precarious natural enviroments? not to mention the dillution of their culture in order to present it in a consumer friendly fashion. If tourism really takes off, land prices will rise dramaticly ,particularly in urban and suburban areas, pricing the natives out of the market. Good essay, i just dont agree with the ethos of the content.
    • 13/03/2003
    • 08:22:01
    • Score: 9 out of 9 people found this comment useful.
  • You dont mention assisted suicide

    assisted suicide is an interesting devision of euthanasisa.it is when someone gives their full informed consent to die but cannot achieve it themselves,eg because they are paralysed. In britain, there have been many cases of spouses being jailed on manslaughter charges for helping terminally ill husbands or wives die, even when clear, witnessed consent is given.I think this is stupid. You also dont distinguish between withdrawning treatment and actual killing, is one morally preferable to the other? nice try at this subject, but i feel that facts are a little thin on the ground.
    • 13/03/2003
    • 08:16:13
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • No point being made

    lovly interview, very touching, but what are you actually trying to say about immagration? that the us's laws are just right, that they are to strict or too lenient? did you father mind having to swear alligence to the country that sold his opressors arms? but a nice piece of expressive wriying, if a little sentimental
    • 13/03/2003
    • 08:08:11
    • Score: 8 out of 8 people found this comment useful.
  • Good argument

    very well researched and prsented essay, with good point being expressed. Unfortunatly, capitlism works because the other models dont account for human nature. I guess we are just inatly greedy. nice work!
    • 13/03/2003
    • 06:23:40
    • Score: 4 out of 4 people found this comment useful.
  • A little brief

    god start, but this feels more like n introduction than n essay. These points you raise re very good but need a bit of expansion
    • 13/03/2003
    • 06:15:30
    • Score: 13 out of 13 people found this comment useful.
  • Exactly

    a very obvious argument, well expressed and delivered with enthusiasm.I challange someone to argue with it!
    • 12/03/2003
    • 08:16:16
    • Score: 9 out of 9 people found this comment useful.
  • What about specail cases?

    What if you are living with a rapists baby inside you ? or the result of incest? A cancer relies on your body to survive, it is genetically disinct from its host, and many are sensitive to heat and touch(ovairian cancers often jerk when touched). If the argument is that thing must be seen through to a natural conclusion, then by removing a cancer, you are defying that rule- it was gods will to have you die from it. Food for thought.
    • 10/03/2003
    • 07:41:35
    • Score: 8 out of 8 people found this comment useful.
  • Essay structure

    You need to break this essay up a bit, the paragraphs seem to ramble on for ever, as do some of the longer sentences. Prehaps longer spent planning what you are trying to say would help?
    • 10/03/2003
    • 06:22:31
    • Score: 6 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • Exactly - a war for oil

    all this war is about is getting in, divying up iraqs oil so the american consumer can keep burning it without concequences, and generally extending the American Empire. If we are going to worry about everyone who runs there country differently, go after Korea, we no they have bombs and have sevre religous intolerence problems ( they banned "schindlers list" for being pro-jewish). Or if its human rights problems they are avenging, why not go after Saudi Arabia? they stone people to death for stealing! is that not a human rights infringment? but no, beacause by sucking up to them, america can garuntee oil supplies. It tried this trick with Saddam, who didnt want to know, so they bombedthe hell out of him and his people, taking out sewage plants in order to start massive waves of typhiod and cholera, whilst simultaneously imposing medicine sanctions. They then sat back as if to say " so are you going to play along now?" Saddam still dosent want his peoples economy to relie on american oil money, so they are trying to find another excuse to bomb him into submission, or better still, put a more compliant thug in charge(remeber, it was the americans who supported Saddams election in the first place!) good essay
    • 10/03/2003
    • 06:16:16
    • Score: 7 out of 7 people found this comment useful.
  • Hmm

    this essay is very repetitive without much evidence to back it up. It also would have been nice to see you had considered other sides to her personality- the media savy side that set up paparazzi shots and manipulated the press, or the way she defied the royal family in subtle ways, sitting in front of the taj mahal alone ect. a little more reaserch would go along way,but not bad for what you have.
    • 10/03/2003
    • 05:55:40
    • Score: 8 out of 8 people found this comment useful.
  • Sanctions on the middle east will never work

    they are a bad idea because;1)They are coming to late(America has already sold enough arms to terrorists around the world to kee them going for years, including the guns for the IRA who periodicly bomb my home town of London, so ta for that!)2) they just affect the ordinary people. you can never directly target the few fanatics they set out for ,besides,America greatly misunderstands where terrorism comes from-our mistreatment of the middle east for the last one hundred years. If you put sanctions on countrys, like the medicine sanction you put on iraq, it just gets passed on to the peopl, who have to suffer and die,leaving a whole generation of people who are seriously peeved with the us and prone to terrorism-because you must always remeber that one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.The US also agravated the people of iraq+afganistan when they "knocked out the terrorists infrastructure" obviously, infrastructure belongs to the people, so when during the gulf war, we started bombing the sewage works and water reserves, it was the people in general who suffered the massive typhiod and cholera outbreaks.Rather nastily, these outbreaks co-incided with the first of the US medical sanctions, leaving the people to die nasty, unesscessay deaths.Anyway, thats my argument. Good essay!
    • 07/03/2003
    • 10:53:02
    • Score: 6 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • Brilliant

    excelent essay! i would have like a litle more of your opinion on its overall effectiveness no that you can speak with hndsight, but generally well research, thought out and constructed. And as an English woman, i am very happy that you picked up on the fact that the rest of the world is getting a bit tired of America bleating on about being "the best in the world" in England, it is probably true to say the people are more concerned about bushes megalomania than saddam!
    • 07/03/2003
    • 10:36:43
    • Score: 10 out of 10 people found this comment useful.
  • In reply

    being devils advocate, this is what i would reply;First of all you need to define "classic literature" - is it the true meaning of "the classics" ie roman and reek epic poems, plays and prose? Is it more recent- dickens, shakespeare ect? Because i would argue that a good book is a good book no matter how old it is.You think that the language in them is hard to understand, for this i am assuming some kind of shakespeare-esq writing. Yes, the manner of writing is not conversational, but that is its beauty. The language of these types of books and plays are beautiful- they are meant to be studied rather than understood at the first try, many different meaning and layers can be found in them if you read them again.In all honesty, i dont think anyone truly understands every nuance of this type of writing at the first try, and just because somthing is not immediatl acsessable , does not make it an unworthy task.You think that they do nt contain themes that are relavent today, and i would disagree- Dickens portrayl of the working classes struggles still hold true today. Shakespears romeo and juliet has been the basis for many hollywood films.You also think the the language contained in these book will not benifit you n talking properly-i think that the older language used in these texts allow to understand where todays colloquial words come from. Also,I dont belive that modern texts are all that different.If you get a book written by someone from another culture, that too can be hard to understand.Classics teach of the beauty and power that words can have , and they teach them from a young age to give you a head start, so by the time u get to my 18 years old, you will be able to appriciate litery history.
    • 07/03/2003
    • 10:28:08
    • Score: 6 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • Underdeveloped

    this seems like a list with no reasoning behind it. A lot of the inclusions do not seem to have justification-yes you do have a high drop out rate, but college is never going to be right for everyone, and people should maintian the right to leave if it is not for them.
    • 07/03/2003
    • 10:10:43
    • Score: 9 out of 9 people found this comment useful.
  • Is it really worth it?

    it is true that todays america is a product of its power hungry past but is that somthing you should really be proud of it? the british history i have is just as shameful, we invented concentration camps and built the empire that america is trying to emulate, but in the end it just wasnt worth it.Do you think that maybe america should now be learning from our shared mistakes?
    • 05/03/2003
    • 08:07:35
    • Score: 12 out of 12 people found this comment useful.
  • Confusing title

    it would be nice to know what these are the chapter summarys for!
    • 04/03/2003
    • 09:57:48
    • Score: 7 out of 7 people found this comment useful.
  • More detail

    you have given the causes of the crash a very vague treatment. You should mention the lassaiez-faire attitude of the republican goverment towards bussinesses that allowed spiralling debt to go undelt with and the isolationist policys which meant that america placed taxes o all foriegn goods.This caused a rise in the economy for a short while, until a saturation point was reached where by no-one needed any more of the new white ggods and machines that had kept the economy afloat,so businesses went bankrupt, and the chain of events leading to the crash and the depression.It continued for so long, because having turened its back on the rest of the world, america didnt really have any allies to bail it out. there you go, a few extra marks!
    • 04/03/2003
    • 09:48:31
    • Score: 13 out of 13 people found this comment useful.
  • You still dont answer your question

    you need to define the term terrorist more clearly, after all, one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter. For example, the rebels in the american war of independence fufil all your criteria as terrorists against the goverment, but history would have been a lot different if they had not taken over. like wise, the suicide bombers in isreal from both sides, isreali and palistinion both think they re doing gods work.Prehaps you should focus your essay on why countrys are becoming more isolationist, encouraging segregation and therefore terrorism (*perpetuating a sense of them and us)
    • 04/03/2003
    • 09:39:57
    • Score: 18 out of 19 people found this comment useful.
  • Nice try

    although this is a nice if a little smaltzy piece, i cant see what the purpose of the essay was. What was the stiulus you were given, and it what context is it meant to be seen? Is it pursusive, a magazine article ect.
    • 04/03/2003
    • 09:25:46
    • Score: 12 out of 12 people found this comment useful.
  • Bit too factual

    i agree that this is too much of a list. You make sweeping staments without justifying them, the most glaringly obvious is that you start out with the assumption that romeo and juliet really were in love- this needs some evidence to back it up if that is what you belive
    • 04/03/2003
    • 05:42:22
    • Score: 13 out of 13 people found this comment useful.
  • Hypocritical essay

    the facts contradict everything youve said in this essay. If Bush suddenly has become the worlds "protector" and will not tolerate terrorism, why has he allowed the spanish ETA terrorists to continue? Or the isreali and palistinian suicide bombers? Why is he not bombing the I.R.A out of Northern ireland? The fact is this is a war for oil.The americans have 6% of the world population and burn 25% of the oil. And far from "teaching the terrorists a lesson" by going and bombing iraq or afganistan or wherever this magical Axis of evil is, you kill husbands, fathers and sons, leaving a whole new generation of people who hate the destructive nature of america. You say that they should seek out "the enemy". Bush will be able to show figures on how few civilians he has directly killed, yes, because he will copy his fathers stratagy; bomb the power plants and sewage factorys, so there is no power for the hospitals, and the sewage leaking into the water supply will cause massive outbreaks of cholera and typhiod.Coincidentily, the mediciene sanctions imposed by the US started as these outbreaks began, leaving thousands of iraqi civilians to die horrible preventable deaths. Is it any wonder they hate us?
    • 21/02/2003
    • 09:00:37
    • Score: 6 out of 8 people found this comment useful.
  • Very well researched piece

    I am very impressed at the level of research that has gone in to this. I assume this is just a factual piece, not an anylitical one, which could have been very intresting considering your sources.Very Good!
    • 21/02/2003
    • 08:42:25
    • Score: 7 out of 7 people found this comment useful.
  • I agree

    i cannot understand how killing a murderer makes you morally any better than them. Good essay, although you did repeat a few points. You also didnt deal with the fact that no matter how much it costs for a death sentence trial, the combined cost of a trial and then life imprisonment is much higher (65 years of food, board, medical bils ect to be provided by the state).It has been proved in most cases that people who genuinly commit murders are psychologically disturbed, in this case death penalty will not deter there irrational urges. any way, good work
    • 21/02/2003
    • 08:37:53
    • Score: 7 out of 7 people found this comment useful.
  • Hmm,not all the aspects are cvered

    you dont list any of the negative social and enviromental impact that Starbucks has. Along with macdonalds, starbucks is one of the cheif deforesters of the amazon rain forest, where it strips down trees to grow coffee beans. This also happens in forests around the world. Starbucks is also responisible for leaving the coffee farmers bankrupt; it is a key price fixer- all the coffee companys have clubbed to gether to ensure the price they are willing to pay keeps fallig, in fact coffee stocks are at there almost at the lowest prices ever seen at the moment. This means the farmers must grow more coffee ( an cut down more rainforest) in order to support themselves. Meanwhile, retail coffee prices are stedily rising. I Make a point of actually boycotting starbucks myself. It leaves my concience in a better state to sit at home and have a fair trade cup of coffee. But a good argumentitive essay, if that was its intention.
    • 21/02/2003
    • 05:53:42
    • Score: 9 out of 9 people found this comment useful.
  • Excellent essay

    wonderful argument and well presented, although it would have been a little more effective if backed up with factual evidence,of say deliberate lies to the public ie, the association of 9/11 to iraq
    • 20/02/2003
    • 06:32:09
    • Score: 9 out of 13 people found this comment useful.
  • How we do it

    i live in england where the universal policy we have is uniforms until we leave secondary school (at 16,im not sure of the american equvilant) This is good for another few reasons. First, it means that the pupils economic status is not exposed, all uniform is pretty affordable, so low income pupils do not get teased for not having the latest fashions. Also, it lulls them into a false sense of rebellion; in england, turning up with a colour of nail varnish not permitted will raise a murmmer of respect and aproval from your classmates, whislt making you feel cool.This ,of course is exactly what teenagers thrive off. With no uniforms, you would have to turn up naked, or with a face full of peircings to get the same effect. Just a thought!
    • 17/02/2003
    • 07:48:54
    • Score: 6 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • Personal view

    i think guns are nasty,evil things that sum up the worst of humanity. Living in england, we enjoy relative peace from gun culture, owning a gun is all but illegal, and we only have a few special forces policemen who are allowed to posses guns. However gun crime is on the increase, because american culture and clubs like the NRA gloyrify gangs and gun culture. Incidentally, a massive percentage of guns in the uk are directly traceable to the US, with particularly high numbers found in the I.R.As arsenal. think about that before you start the "War on Terrorism"
    • 17/02/2003
    • 07:41:46
    • Score: 3 out of 3 people found this comment useful.
  • Scientist say that?

    if scientists think life begins when a sperm enters and egg, they must have a very depressing job- in 50% of cases, the egg will not do anything when combined with sperm, just sit there without dividing even once, then die. Of the ones that do divide into a zygote, only one in six will implant in the wall of the uterus. Even if they get that far,and it registers on a pregnancy test, the mothers body will check for any defects and spontaniously abort 15-20% of all babys. If life begins when egg hits sperm, then surly nature is the biggest killer of all.
    • 17/02/2003
    • 07:29:10
    • Score: 4 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Look at this

    there is a cool website about hemp, its uses and the education of the masses to it atwww.thehia.org/
    • 17/02/2003
    • 07:19:33
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Other factors

    people cite an increased risk of cancer because pot smoke is inhaled for longer. Well of course it is. If tabbacco cost as much as pot and was illigal, people would probably hold that down until all the nicotine was gone!
    • 17/02/2003
    • 07:17:33
    • Score: 4 out of 4 people found this comment useful.
  • 18 year old drinking

    i live in england , where we are allowed to drink at 18. In reality, you can buy drink from about 17 with good fake ID (err, so ive heard!) the accident levels are no higher here than in america, but there is still a culture amongst young teenagers to drink in excess. To combat this i would sugest that we follow the example of the french, where they bring up there children from about 7 with a glass of watered down wine with supper. This means that the novelty and taboo of drinking doesnt exsist by teenage, and so they actually have remarkably low alchol abuse amongst young adults.
    • 17/02/2003
    • 07:08:20
    • Score: 12 out of 12 people found this comment useful.
  • I agree

    it would stop all the horrible drugs cartel and side culture, by just making it a recreational pastime, like having a drink. One thing though, hemp is a slightly different strian of plant to cannabis, and because the two get mixed up, we are not allowed to legally grow hemp and get the benifits of the food, tioletries and fabrics it can provide. You would have to smoke a joint the size of a telegraph pole to get high from hemp. This is a website that explians it a bit better if your interested http://www.thehia.org/
    • 17/02/2003
    • 06:57:32
    • Score: 6 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • Hmm you forget

    it is funny how people who take a hardline stance against drugs manage to justify socially acceptable drug use- we already have drugs that affect our perception, memory and co-ordination, caffine, nictotine abd alchol, available from your local shop. You dont seem to realise that drug use is an inate part of human nature, we seek things that give us pleasurable feelings, the ancient romans smoked opium, and even on the amazon rainforest, the native tribes use psychoactive drugs.The truth is , even if you got rid of every last bit of what you would call an offensive drug, people would rvert to smoking banana skins to get high. Prohibition not only didnt work, it crippled the country and allowed drinks barons to rule the place, just like drugs barons do today (look at the terrible state afganistan and columbia are in whilst they are ruled by massive cartels) to deny drug use is to deny human nature. sorry, thats just the way it is.
    • 17/02/2003
    • 06:47:47
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  • Very good essay

    Excelent arguments that i fully agree with. Isnt it scary that we live in a world where the most powerful man in it can nearly kill himself on a pretzle. The only slight piont of contention ( and this is just my picky british sensibilitys coming out) I wouldnt use the word "Bull" in a formal essay, it makes a powerful statement , but people are more inclind to listen to reasoned arguments than a hot head. Well done
    • 17/02/2003
    • 06:31:27
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  • This isnt everything

    a very brief and slightly repetitive essay on what is a very complex subject, they also left to escape the poverty and famine in there own countrys.but you have done a little research and whats here is good.
    • 17/02/2003
    • 06:24:38
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  • Stealing essays

    just because youve changed a few words dosnt make it different fromwww.downloadessays.com/cgi-bin/ nav.cgi?start=35&cat=Biographies
    • 14/02/2003
    • 09:04:16
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  • You stole this essay

    fromwww.angelfire.com/realm/shades/ demons/biblic/crusades.htmdont do it again, the rest of us have to write them ourselves.
    • 14/02/2003
    • 09:01:05
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  • Why would they avoid the test?

    why do you think that pregnant mothers would avoid the test? i should imagine that people fill themselves with romantic notions that they will be thrilled with there baby regardless, but evidence from downs syndrome testing shows that the high risk mothers that refused the test and hoped for the best actually felt a lot more disapointment towards the fact their child was born with downs than the mothers who had had a positive test and kept the baby.
    • 14/02/2003
    • 08:57:37
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  • Prestige

    a lot of the very famous explorers were just glory hunters- they obtained a mythical type of standing by exploring when they could (in the eyes of the layman) fall off the edge of the world!
    • 14/02/2003
    • 08:51:58
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Hmm, just a thought for you

    I belive everyone has a right to an opinion, so this is mine. i do belive in the choice for early abortion. You talk about life begging at 46 chromosomes so heres a comparison to make you think( this is not that i dont think having a baby is a wonderful thing).A fetus is not, in my eyes a full human being- it is a potential human. A cancer has 46 chromosomes, and due to the mutation that allows it to replicate out of control, it is entirly distinct from its carrier. A cancer, particularly of the sex organs, can also often respond to light heat, cold, and touch, some even jerk away whilst being operated on. If removed from your body, the cancer will die. If a fetus is removed from your body it will die. We have the right to remove this geneticly distinct,feeling cancer, for the same reason we can remove the fetus; we have the choice not to be used as an incubator to somthing that will harm or cause disstress. just a thought that maybe isnt expressed too well, but there you go.
    • 14/02/2003
    • 08:41:48
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Hmm

    by copying someones dna into another cell arent we just doubling up on something that god has already created and approved?
    • 13/02/2003
    • 09:02:02
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  • Hypocrisy

    abortion is not the lack of respect for human life, its the death penaltys and wars we have in our name that do that. Also, we do not throw back small fish because they are defenceless- hunting in its nature picks out the defencless,usually the very old, very young, sick or weak. we throw them back so they will breed.
    • 13/02/2003
    • 08:58:58
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Good work

    i agree entirely. The issue of killing a baby doesnt really exsist- it is a ball of cells in your body over which you should have control. if you choose to remove that ball of cells, it will not survive, and that is natures choice. In blunt terms, the sentimentalitly attached to early abortion (before the fetus is sentient) is misplaced- you have the right to remove a cancer from inside you, that, when outside the body, will not survive.If the argument against abortion is that its gods will that the fetus will become a baby, then it is surely gods will to allow the cancer to kill you. food for thought.
    • 13/02/2003
    • 08:48:51
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  • Tax

    the problem is that the public are not taking enough responsibility for problems they want solved. You want better schools and education? then be prepared to pay more tax. Thats just the way it works;. Or maybe , try and stop the goverment spending all its budget on bombing other countries.........
    • 13/02/2003
    • 08:37:25
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  • Well done

    this sort of history is often sanitized out of the stuff taught in schools, which is a shame, because it through learning true history, we avoid repeating its mistakes
    • 13/02/2003
    • 08:31:13
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  • Good argument

    i agree with the argument , mainly because it helps teach financial independence. However, you yourself seem to be worringly money minded for a teenager! i cant imagine myself charging my dad intrest for not giving me his money on time. Are you trying to teach your parents the value of the dollar?!
    • 13/02/2003
    • 08:27:40
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  • Another point

    are you suggesting america as a theocracy? because thats what the taliban forced on its people. be very careful that you dont start making the same mistakes under the guise of patriotism
    • 13/02/2003
    • 08:23:21
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  • Wilde

    Do you think that wilde`s presentation of women as silly and mindless has anything to do with the fact he was gay? he intentionally write women that were never deeply explored on a psychological level. Maybe this reflects wildes estranged feelings from the oposite sex?
    • 13/02/2003
    • 08:18:56
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  • Choice

    every human being has a right to their religion of choice and by specifying the name god, you marginalize the people who were instrumental in building your country, all the spiritualist negro slaves, and the thousands of hindu indians, buddist chinese and multicultural muslims who put the actual labourious work into the running of the country. You also forget that americans trampled on the ancient culture of the native americans in order to destroy them. If you are really that bothered, take the choice to leave it in next time you make the pledge of aligence. Just dont make pledging to a god part of the legal necessitys to being included in your country.
    • 13/02/2003
    • 08:01:53
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  • Good essay

    well constructed and with well backed up, rational arguments.well done
    • 13/02/2003
    • 07:24:01
    • Score: 6 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • Hmm

    good persusive argument, however it does give off a slight air of moral superiority. I personally belive it is an infringment of human rights and will simply encourage kids to seek out drugs that dont show on the test (even things like smoking bananas can get you high). Also you would have to define a pass or fail. Is smoking ciggarettes drug abuse? What if they found youve taken a large dose of codine cough syrup that morning,should they pull you up on it? good ideas, but alittle emotive without actually explaining how it would work.
    • 13/02/2003
    • 07:19:41
    • Score: 3 out of 3 people found this comment useful.
  • Good essay style

    good essay but made incredibly hard to understand by not properly introducing it, i didnt know who you were talking about!
    • 13/02/2003
    • 07:10:54
    • Score: 2 out of 2 people found this comment useful.
  • Fantastic!

    i totlally agree,its so nice to find someone inteligent enough to look past the propagander machine. Ive got a couple of ideas that could strenthen your case further: War on iraq is a diversionary tactic for somthing else, i bet everyone in america has forgotten by now that bush was not legally elected- he actually had the minority in florida, but due to a recount BY HIS BROTHER! he got in.scary.Also in proof that he is after saddams oil, i live in london, where we get theatened by the I.R.A (we treated the irish pretty appalingly for years) as yet, there are no plans to bomb northern island, which has got nuclear capability (power stations every where!) or the E.T.A terrorists in spain. Why not? because what could bush do with a load of plundered potatoes and olives? How will that profit america?.The last and most scary thing is that america is almost certainly in breach of the very contract it is using as an excuse- In a programme shown here(i think its been banned in america)a journalist gained acsess to the american bases in england posing as a tourist. He then found doucuments detailing the various chemical wepons research occuring within the base.Americas loophole is that they are allowed to produce chemical and biological weapons for domestic purposes i.e the police. but he found evidence to say they were being loaded into standard issue missile shells! anyway fab essay, keep up the good work!
    • 13/02/2003
    • 06:38:58
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  • Oh dear.

    You miss the entire point of why terrorists attack, they are fighting for freedom from us. We have exploited and abused the middle east for hundreds of years, somthing that im sure your goverment is quick to cover up.If we fight another war and kill saddam, what will it actually achive in the long run? we will slaughter so many iraqi fathers and husbands, we will have a whole new generation of people who hate the destructive nature of the west: therefore we`ll have more terrorism, and another war in 15 years time. You ask when the last time my city was bombed; a few years ago. I live in london, where we get threats from the I.R.A, because of the disgusting way we treated the irish for hundreds of years. Funny, you dont see bush leap to bomb northern ireland, or spain, with its E.T.A terrorists.Why go for iraq first if not for oil? You speak of 9/11 as if it had a connection with iraq- this is another worring thing, in his quest for "freedom" he is actually misleading the public into this baseless, unproved idea. People who dont look behind the propagander and "patriotism" are destined to make the same mistakes that lead all your war heros to their needless deaths. Besides, who died and put america in charge of the world? if bush wants to show off his weapons of mass destruction, lets pray he does it with out dragging the sensible countrys down with him into world war three.
    • 13/02/2003
    • 06:17:17
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  • I disagree

    I would say that Miss Spears is the antithesis of a good role model- for the younger girls who look up to her, she is a message that in order to sucessful and liked by boys, you have to wear skimpy clothes and writhe around on men. Also, whilst it is true, she does have a brilliant voice, her songs and image are manufactured for her, showing little girls that no matter how much talent as a musician or song writer you have,you wont get anywhere with out blue eyes, blond hair and big boobs.I guess you are pretty young, so maybe you might change your views. But very well argued opinion, keep up the good work!
    • 12/02/2003
    • 08:14:40
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  • I dissagree

    i find that many people who are pro life are very mysoginist in their views, and do not consider the mothers haelth and feelings in their quest to maintain the ball of cells inside her. If prolifers wish to keep their babies, i fully support them. However, it is wrong to take away the informed consent of others. In my opinion.
    • 10/02/2003
    • 08:58:41
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  • Hmm

    if a girl get raped its her fault? if a girl is involved in incest in her fault? if the condom tears, its her fault? i find your views very mysoginistic. Women who have to endure a full term unwanted pregnacy have awful mental scars, and put themselves at risk from all of pregnancys complications, ie,injury ,infertility and even death, all of which occur at much higher rates than with abortion.
    • 10/02/2003
    • 08:52:26
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  • Very strong opinion

    yes, ideally, no-one would have an unwanted pregnancy in the first place. But you do you not see situations such as rape or incest as different? also, you speak of the complications of abortion. It is wrong to say "most are serious" , most side affects are along the line of heavy bleeding for a few days, however, you suggest the woman should give birth to the child- which carries a far higher risk of injury, infertility or even death, than a quick procedure under local anethstetic. The idea that giving the baby up for adoption is an easy option is ridiculous. Having to carry a baby that you do not want anything to do with inside your body for 9 months must be horrific. Then to have the knowledge that your child is out there, growing up must be constant torment. Early abortion, in my eyes, ensures that every baby born is wanted and loved,and, with the worlds population at 6 billion, there are quite enough uncherised children in the world already.Thats my rant done! you put across your ideas very logically and with good structure. Good essay, i just dont personally agree!
    • 10/02/2003
    • 08:44:28
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  • Trent reznor rules!

    what a bizzare comment above this! any way i just wanted to congratulate you on an incredibly well researched essay, and on a more personal note, say that nin is a genius band. ta
    • 10/02/2003
    • 08:27:17
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  • Excellent!

    I am thorughly impessed! very well reserched, one small thing- the correct way to descibe an amino acid is comprising of Hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon and an "R" group, which is basiclly any set of molecules that attaches in order to specialise the protien ( there is a picture of it on http://www-structure.llnl.gov/Xray/tutorial/protein_structure.htm) anyway, brilliant!
    • 10/02/2003
    • 08:06:14
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  • Hypocrisy

    unfortunatly, people do tend to use what is essentialy are loving and benign messages found in the bible to start wars and fights (northern island, israel ect) . ironic really when you consider the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" (unless they are annoyingly in "your" country?)
    • 10/02/2003
    • 07:49:49
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  • Good ideas

    the essay stopped short, but iguess this was a pasting error. I think the problem is that you cannot make parents and adults in general understand that teenagers ARE having sex. If we could establish this fact we could stop concentrating on stopping them having sex at all ( a friutless task, tell a teenager they must not do somthing, it will be the first thing they want to do!) and concentrate on makeing it safe sex. If the taboos about birth control are broken down and disscussed more freely, then the pregnancy and desease rates will fall. In britain there is a massive taboo and ignorance about condom use, and we have disgustingly high pregnancy rates, and 1 in 9 of our teenagers has chylamidia. conclusive proof i feel!
    • 10/02/2003
    • 07:43:48
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  • Labelling as a positive device

    i understand your concerns about the mental health tag causing a stigma for the sufferer, but i feel that in some cases a diagnosis is a great redeemer. I myself suffered terrible mood swings and depression at certian times of the year, and often felt like i was the only person in the world to feel this way. When i was diagnosed with sesonal affective disorder, and shown statistics as to how common it was, a hugh weight was lifted. It is true that many illnesses are a cry for help, but i suppose for those people, a dignosis serves as an accknowlegement that their crys have been heard. Just a thought. counselling is also a very positive thing , and you are compleatly right in campaigning for more funds to extend the good work all ready done. Well structured essay
    • 10/02/2003
    • 07:35:00
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  • Teletubbies

    i would disagree that the teletubbies is not a valid form of eductional viewing. It has been proved that baby talk towards youn children helps them understand the way that language is constructed and encorages them to emulate speech sounds. It also teaches about sharing (everybody gets some tubby custard) respect for ethnic diversity (red,purple,green and yellow live in harmony) and acceptance of sexual orientation (tinky winky carries a handbag, although i think they changed that in the american version) ok, it also teaches that people live in astro turf houses surrounded by real rabbits where peiscope talk, but that probably has more to do with what the writers were smoking at the time than intentional educative intention! Good essay!
    • 10/02/2003
    • 07:25:45
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  • American portrayls

    it is true that the concept of "being american" has changed through theatre throughout the years, but one thing has always remained- americans are portrayed a the "winners". Hollywood has now got to the point of falsifing history in order to feel good about itself ( if you wathed the recent u-boat film, you might think america fought ww2 single handedly!) the depths of human nature, and the failings of america or humanity in general are not shown in commercial films, although some portrayls are coming through the independent films,i.e, american history x. Overall, the "typical American" in mainstream films is a shallow notion, with personality traits moulded to suit the film rather than having a strong character in mind before the script is written. Good work on the gangster films, (there my favourite too!)this is one genre that is begininng to show true human nature in its characters, particularly with the fabulous direction of tarrantino an scorsese. good work
    • 10/02/2003
    • 07:14:18
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Stienbecks social realism

    stien beck often gave his charaters a wider social context, and seeing as curleys wife is the only woman, she represents the way women were viewed by society as a whole. In this sense it is interesting to see that all the languge used towards her by the men is violent,dismisive or derogatory. she is seen as being a temptress, when actually she just craves attention. It is also interesting that steinbeck uses this languge himself, during her discription, the "sausages" of her hair being a particularly nasty image to connote her too. good thoughts, well stuctured
    • 10/02/2003
    • 07:03:27
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Another view

    i would consider myself a feminist, and would also never get married, due mainly to a lack of religious belifes and the silly notion of ownership it concurrs. But i must beg the question of whether it is Marriage as an isolated idea you do not feel afinity with or relationships themselves. Do you think it is impossible to spend a long time in a relationship with somone who does show you the upmost friendship and respect, and is prepared to let you fufil your dreams of travel and writng? also, if you wish to be all you can , surley, to experience the full range of humanity, you must experience love as part of your self discovery.Is it also a case of the male influence? I have several lesbian friends who exsist in, for want of a better word marriages and are compleatly happy. What is your view on this? very good essauy, thouroughly researched and expressed. Well done!
    • 10/02/2003
    • 06:55:35
    • Score: 3 out of 3 people found this comment useful.
  • Modern art

    it is precisly this function that "modern" more abstract art exsists. Art has stopped being about how well the artist conveys his themes and messages, and more about what the viewer themsevles can extract from it. This is shown in work from the pop artists onward, where artistic ability in the tecqnical sense was not necessary to produce art that evoked feelings- warhols campbell soup tins for example exsist to make us question the way we see soup, with all its homly connotations. Mordern art , in this sense, is the ultimate in democrasizing art. Good essay, well sturctured
    • 10/02/2003
    • 06:43:20
    • Score: 6 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • Very one sided

    You dont balance your own view with the physical and mental trauma of a woman left to deal with having to carry and give birth to a baby she does not want and cannot provide for. Abortion casualtys are still a lot lower than casualtys during childbirth. The mental scars from adoption are, in my opinion much larger than the ones left from removing a non-sentient ball of cells. Also, with the worlds 6 billion people, is it advisable to encourage 40 million unloved, unwanted children to be born when there are quite enough already in the world? You also dont mention if you see the victims of rape and incest in a different light.Abortion is, i agree an extream measure, that sould never be taken for granted. I think that th 40 million reflects less on the women having abortions , but more on the society that is not teaching proper contraception and attitudes towards sex in the first place. Any way, good arguments, well structured!
    • 31/01/2003
    • 07:24:21
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Good try

    I would have prefered a little more research and expanded ideas, but what you have is well structured
    • 31/01/2003
    • 07:11:17
    • Score: 7 out of 7 people found this comment useful.
  • Weapons

    The reason the murder rate is so high in America, is that guns and weapons are so freely available. If the youth did not have acsess to these, then violence would not escalate to murder quite so often
    • 31/01/2003
    • 07:06:09
    • Score: 6 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • Hmmm

    You miss the piont. War is a self fufilling profecy. It is precisly because britain were so eager to attack anything that offended its ideals that hilter was the monster he was. He Idolised the british empire and wanted to be just like them. It was the british who invented the concentration camps he was so fond of , so they could round up the Boaers. Essentially, the second world war was the result of the treaty of versille, which ended the first world war, which was caused by a series of alliance from earlier wars , and so on.On the idea that War promotes technological advancement; weapons used for war have no good purpose; are we really advancing the human race by finding new, more efficient ways to slaughter our fellow man?
    • 31/01/2003
    • 07:02:11
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • Interesting fact

    There is a shop in britain, The Body Shop, which sell a range of hemp toiletries ( and very nice they are too), when they first came out there was a big fuss, before the owner pointed out that you`d have to smoke a joint the size of a TELEGRAPH POLE to get high from hemp. What is the goverment trying to pull by calling it a drug when you can get cigarettes and alchol over the counter?
    • 31/01/2003
    • 06:49:24
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  • Nature/nurture

    Not all the mental health problems and behavioural traits you mention have been proven to have a genetic cause. The offsping of sufferers may have a higher incidence rate because they were exposed to the behaviour from a young age.
    • 31/01/2003
    • 06:43:09
    • Score: 7 out of 8 people found this comment useful.
  • Little point!

    Creating a designer baby is altering its genetics,not making a clone. I think you might have got these two concepts a little mixed up.And cloninig wouldnt create more animals as such, the birth rate would stay the same because all the animals still have to be gestated and given birth to in the same way as usual. Good try
    • 23/01/2003
    • 07:23:43
    • Score: 7 out of 7 people found this comment useful.
  • Not bad

    very breif touch on what is a deep subject. Incidentaly, the gas was generally Zyklon B, a Nazi invented nerve gas.
    • 20/01/2003
    • 07:56:07
    • Score: 5 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • Hmmm

    I don`t think you really understand why people who self harm feel they need to do so.A little more research would help.Also, if self abuse is "deliberatly destroying body tissue", is having a mole removed self harm?
    • 20/01/2003
    • 06:28:59
    • Score: 5 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • Good essay

    Nice structure and well resoned arguments. Which catagory would you put Bush in though?
    • 16/01/2003
    • 08:38:01
    • Score: 6 out of 7 people found this comment useful.
  • So does parliment!

    Parliment does represnt the people and take action.All local M.Ps hold meetings open to the public to disscuss the bills they want to put forward.I agree that the focus is on voting for a party, meaning that people vote on pricipals, not who has the most dazzaling personality (hopefully!) another issue is accountability- almost all debates can be watched by members of the public from the viewing gallery or on a special cable channel we have. We also have "Priministers Question time" a half hour programme brodcast live on the BBC, where M.Ps can ask the PM any question ( they are not always ones he wants to answer!) im not sure if you have that in the US. It would be interesting to find out actually.......
    • 16/01/2003
    • 08:24:24
    • Score: 7 out of 7 people found this comment useful.
  • Classic example

    in Britain,there was a rather slow news week, and the media found someone who would say that the exam boards who mark our A levels (the equvilant of a college diploma i guess) were marking them down so it didnt look like the exams were getting easier. In the following media scramble tens of thousands of papers were remarked and the education secretary resigned.When the remarks came back, only 10 people got a better grade (2 were actually marked down) Just goes to show, dosn`t it?!
    • 16/01/2003
    • 08:12:21
    • Score: 7 out of 7 people found this comment useful.
  • A few sweeping statments!

    "Drug related violence usually results in fatal injuries or death" really? when two alcoholics have a fight in the street it ends with fatal injuries and death?. Also, if you stop the supply, the demand will increase dramatically, prices for drugs will shoot up, meaning addicts must perpertrate more crime to pay for their habit. Very good argument for the stance you were taking though
    • 16/01/2003
    • 08:04:04
    • Score: 7 out of 7 people found this comment useful.
  • Er, some british history

    Sorry to dissapoint, but the pilgrims WERE puritains. They were strict protestants who belived in simplistic lives and no frills worship (a bit like the Amish people) They left England in protest at the fact that the monarch was reintroducing some of the more fancy aspects of catholosism in the churches, and attedance to these were mandatory. So the founding fathers very much belived in these things when they first sailed into plymouth. just being picky cos Im english!
    • 16/01/2003
    • 07:57:47
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  • Hmmm

    Well, thats America sorted,what about the rest of the world?America has weapons of mass destruction as well, but nobody inspects them. Its also rather intresting to notice that the first campaign agiasnt "terrorism" is the country with massive oil fields and not the STILL communist (and doing very well) cuba, which is as you say, close to home, and offends Americas ideology.Hey ho.
    • 16/01/2003
    • 07:48:01
    • Score: 7 out of 7 people found this comment useful.
  • Very good

    excellent essay. The culture of male domination is still among us in 2003 , though, the first doctor to decide cellulite was "evil" probably wasn`t a woman!
    • 16/01/2003
    • 07:38:00
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  • Dissagree

    well structured argument- but i have a few points-You say "drugs ruin peoples lives".if this is true, why aren`t you mentioning the most addictive and destructive drug of all- nicotine. A drug that WILL kill 50% of its users and is currently available to all who look old enough to buy it. The cost of healthcare for smokers far outstrips art funding.Would you consider one glass of wine "destructive behavior"?. so if this is legal, what is the difference with one joint? it is simplistic to belive that people cannot control themselves.In Amsterdam, marijuana has been legal for many years and no problems have yet been reported.It is true also that their will always be people with addictive personalities who will abuse these freedoms,but should the law run for the benifit of the lowest common denominator?You speak about the cost of policing the drug trade, well, if marijuana was legalised, its sales would be liable for tax, and therefore make the country money.The most obvious argument is that people,especially teenagers, try drugs becauseof the allure that they are illegal. Take away the allure, and they are actually less likely to indulge in the fist place as Amsterdam figures show.WHEW! anyway, good essay!
    • 16/01/2003
    • 07:31:03
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  • Steinbecks intentions

    What do you think steinbeck is saying by comparing Casey to Christ? Maybe that the migrant people are the "special ones" the persecution of the joads mirroring the early christians Percecution. Does casey actually "save" any of them? and what does that say about steinbecks veiw of god?
    • 16/01/2003
    • 07:12:57
    • Score: 5 out of 5 people found this comment useful.
  • What do you think the country has done?

    Do you think that 9-11 has forced Americans to face up to the way they treat the middle east? or that America has turned inwards and clung to patriotism in order to avoid responsibility?Tastefully dealt with, if a little emotive and un-supported for an essay.
    • 16/01/2003
    • 07:04:45
    • Score: 7 out of 8 people found this comment useful.
  • Well done

    capitalisms a pig ain`t it? Its not just within america, but throughout the world these models apply. America and the other developed countries are the reason the third world is so desperatly poor, even though it contains most of the world natural resources, because if one country dosnt offer its people for pitifully paid manufacture, we will go elsewhere and they will have nothing,because we have left them no seperate syste to exsist in. Good essay, very well resarched
    • 16/01/2003
    • 06:54:58
    • Score: 8 out of 8 people found this comment useful.
  • Emotions

    You miss the point of why people are annoyed by late-comers ; being late shows a lack of respect for those you keep waiting. It is rare that people are one-off late comers, and yes these people are easily tolerated, but most people who are late are consistanly so....Well it anoys me any way! Nice structure of arguments.
    • 16/01/2003
    • 06:47:22
    • Score: 11 out of 11 people found this comment useful.
  • Well done

    The structure needs a little work, and the language could be a little more formal at time , but overall a very wel researched piece.Incidentally, did you know that Hitlers reason for so suicidaly invading russia was that (alledgedly) he was high on cocaine?!
    • 16/01/2003
    • 06:42:51
    • Score: 9 out of 9 people found this comment useful.
  • Points to mention

    shame all the essays posted at once!- on the death penalty - i totally agree with you, but i have a couple of points to be the devils advocate and make you think.You say that it is expensive to keep a prisoner on death row,However, it would be much more expensive to pay for the up keep of death row prisoners for the rest of their lives (food,healthcare,wardens ect)You cite the bible as the basis for the law system, but later mention a line from the bible -"Tooth for a tooth , an eye for an eye" and dissmiss it as wrong.Also, ufortunatly, you have to deal with the fact of public opinion. Dont forget that you live in a country ruled by a man who, as governer of Texas, signed more death warrants than any other governer in history.well structured and well though out.Good work.
    • 16/01/2003
    • 06:36:30
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  • Structure

    The first part of the essay is a simple retelling of the story and dosn`t answer the question at all. Also " a bit harsh on Juliet" isnt really formal enough for the essay style. The body of the essay is good though, well tried.
    • 16/01/2003
    • 06:23:21
    • Score: 6 out of 6 people found this comment useful.
  • Good try

    the pionts are a little bit convoluted and badly structured and the essay sounds very emotive rather than a reasoned disscusion.good but could be better with conciseness
    • 15/01/2003
    • 08:34:25
    • Score: 9 out of 9 people found this comment useful.
  • Other funny themes

    do you think that the interaction between freddie and pam+bri and sheila in the second half turns this section into a comedy of manners? Pams obvious disgust of joe is actually very funny, as she hides it behind her middle class sensibilitys, in the play of this i saw, the actress made a point of never letting a massive smile off her face, even though she was talking about killing disabled people in gas chambers. Just a thought...
    • 15/01/2003
    • 08:27:20
    • Score: 8 out of 8 people found this comment useful.
  • Link

    this is a great biography of el greco with links to a picture of the painting in question.The site itself is good for all painters (i use it loads!)www.artchive.com/artchive/E/el_greco.html
    • 14/01/2003
    • 10:01:41
    • Score: 9 out of 9 people found this comment useful.
  • Other gender issues

    Thereis an inherant assumption that certian occupation names are linked to specific gender ie "Doctor" is asumed to be male and "nurse" ( with a coresponding lower status) is assumed to be female.Another major point that illustrates language gender bias and the subjugation of woman is slang-the way sexual organs are refered to-male slang words are usually positive and dominant, female words are usually negative and offensive (we actually use some of them as swear words) also, all slang words for promiscuis persons ie slut are refering to women
    • 14/01/2003
    • 09:53:24
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  • Language points

    Maya angelou uses colour imagery to convey what is "good" and "bad", throughout the play. She links, good things, that she respects with being white (she wants to wake up a white girl, and shudder at the thought of being black) and negative things with black connotatiions (she talks of hate as bubbling molasses) towards the end she begins to lose the colour distinctions- a sign of her growing self respect and dignity as a black woman?
    • 14/01/2003
    • 09:37:01
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  • Link?

    This site offers a biography of the artist and some pictures of his workwww.artchive.com/artchive/B/brancusi.html
    • 14/01/2003
    • 09:27:27
    • Score: 6 out of 8 people found this comment useful.