... families and each other, and trying to abolish the act of sex. Orwell imagined a system of public surveillance where people do not have privacy in public or in their own homes. In reality what the government is able to do is more sophisticated. In the case of U.S.A. v. Manuel Cuevas Perez circuit judge Wood said "They made the system that George ... keep national security. This was largely accepted out of fear and because the events of 9/11 were still fresh in Americans minds. In the novel people accept telescreens in their homes because they fear not only foreign dangers, but also Big ...

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... usually people who are in a good physical condition. Among a group of 70,000 participants, researchers determined that vegetarians had a 12% lower risk of death compared with non-vegetarians. The effect held true for other specific vegetarian diets, according to the study, which is published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. For instance, vegans also had a lower risk of death compared to ... animals or wear animals' skins. Do you know that  each vegetarian saves nearly 200 animals per year? Of course, these are animals who won't be torn out of their ocean homes or confined to cram...

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... social media. Since it's beginning, the movement has expanded across the country to Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles, as well as other cities (Bly). One breakaway group called Occupy Chicago held a "huge afternoon march." Another denomination saw 700 protestors get arrested for blocking the Brooklyn Bridge. Occupy Boston marched for "an economy that works for all of us." Occupy Los Angeles ... Wall Street and the rest of us is simply a gap that has become too big," he said. "Millions of people have lost their jobs. Millions of people have lost their homes" (Silverleib). There's been "wa...

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... their payments should the economy take a downturn, which it did. When the housing bubble burst, a lot of those people found themselves paying on loans that were worth more than the homes they had purchased. Furthermore, many of those loans were already at up to 125 percent of the home value. It was simply cheaper for many of those people to declare ... emergencies when the stuff of life conflicts with the stuff of day to day cashflow. It was a shame that bailout funds were required, and there are those who must be held accountable. Banks exist though, for the purpose of loaning money to...

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