Useless Facts

... quoted as saying,What are we going to do with 100,000 Jewish children?? Those children, whom were so useless to Great Britain were murdered by the Nazis. It is easy, when faced with all of these facts, to recognize that the image of the world as having German wool pulled over their eyes is fallacious. ... quoted as saying,What are we going to do with 100,000 Jewish children?? Those children, whom were so useless to Great Britain were murdered by the Nazis. It is easy, when faced with all of these facts, to recognize that the image of the world as having German wool pulled over their eyes...

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... passive unthinking work force, therefore the employers could manipulate their minds, doing whatever they were told. The system forces the pupils to intake pure hard facts, nothing else, therefore not exercising the imagination at all. Leading the pupils to be lost in the surrounding world when a difficult problem requiring experience ... happen to even have the slightest hint of fantasy or fiction it would be immediately be destroyed by their father who was a teacher of facts and facts alone. This is proved when Louisa and Tom were caught by their father peeping into a circus ring. When t...

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... firmly in the idea of utilitarianism. Everything about Mr. Gradgrind exemplifies his convictions, even his name. Grad and grind both suggest that he is "grinding" the facts into these children's minds. The children are mere "vessels" for transporting information. The man has even got a square finger. "The speaker's square forefinger ... from its shining surface. All covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside. His tie exemplifies the system of education he so firmly believes in; "his very neckcloth, trained...

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... learns comes from Socrates overflowing a car's gas tank and saying: "Dan, like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold to many facts and opinions, yet you know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank" (Millman 15). Socrates ... is pointless. The knowledge Dan learns from his teachers at school, for example, constantly fills his mind with facts about history, science, math, and other subjects but what Dan fails to realize is that knowledge limits our tolerance. Because Dan accepts all the ... facts...

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... camps, the process of dehumanization started. Children were kidnapped from their homes and sent away to camps, and the children that were useless were killed by starvation, lethal injections, and disease. "Hitler initialed an order to kill institutionalized, handicapped patients deemed incurable." (THE CAMPS) Everybody who ... was thought to be useless was killed in some way. By the late 1930's there were hundreds of camps scattered throughout Germany; and camps were quickly being established throughout ... "We walked over pain-racked bodies. We trod on wounded faces. No cries. A few g...

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... the media. Television shows such as "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" and "Doogie Howser, M.D." portray them as "crazy criminals " and "useless and lazy human beings. Television shows like these are excellent examples of how uneducated some people are about the homeless culture. The first misconception about the ... hospital would rather see their names on a plaque for paying for new equipment rather than for "providing healthcare for people who were lazy and useless to society" (Every Dog"). The statement made in this television show is an example of the media portraying homeless c...

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... of the workingman's hard earned money. (Crapped Out, 49) There are two sides of gambling that people argue. Gambling devastates the economy. With facts, data and second hand accounts, one would see that there should only be one side; gambling hurts the economy. There are some aspects of how ... produces nothing is most definitely a sin. Even if someone argues that the nature of gambling is innocent, one cannot disagree that gambling is useless. It is morally unethical because it hurts practically everyone within the nation. Even distant people that one does not know personally are affec...

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... need for the arts. So why do we continue to fund the arts and what is the virtue of planting the rose? But is the rose useless as Plato demands or is there a need for it in this world. The rose is just as necessary in this society as the cabbage. The ... to. Art is able to encapsulate the emotion of a situation like nothing else can. Where a written account may only explain the objective facts of the particular situation, a work of art is able to place you inside the situation and the circumstances. A work of art doesn't bombard you with tedious ... Through this transportation, we gain a...

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... evolution is a science-based issue rather than a religion-based,I ought to stress that to evaluate his main points we mustn't attribute them to his beliefs or ideologies but to scientific facts only. Having stressed the fact that his scientific observations seem can not be but in fact must be interpreted by without focusing on religions, we can go into detail in ... that if there would only one miss nerve cell in the eye,animals wouldn't go less-quality sight,they would go blindness.And about the flagella of a bacteria seen as useless and naturally turned to leg gradually,it is known th...

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