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    English paper essay [HELP!]

    I need some help on ideas and points to make for an english paper. The essay is:
    Explain the importance of being open to new ideas...

    A very broad and horrible topic. If anyone could offer me some good points or any help I would be grateful.

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    Try to do your own work and not waste our time whining about it.
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    brentl, one of the most influential reads I have come across comes to those by Ralph Waldo Emerson. In "Self-Reliance," he writes of labeling no one else's ideas superior to your own (in the end it's all thinking, right?), but remaining open-minded, and, not entirely accepting others' ideas, but considering them seems wise. Good luck!

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    Quote Originally Posted by brentl
    Explain the importance of being open to new ideas...

    A very broad and horrible topic.

    This are the new ideas i could think of relatd to this post:

    It's not that broad
    It's not horrible

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    Quote Originally Posted by brentl
    I need some help on ideas and points to make for an english paper. The essay is:
    Explain the importance of being open to new ideas...

    A very broad and horrible topic. If anyone could offer me some good points or any help I would be grateful.
    Maybe you can start with making a list. What would happen if you are not open to new ideas? Try to remember the times you have tried something for the very first time. Like sushi for example. Or a sport.
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    Quote Originally Posted by brentl
    I need some help on ideas and points to make for an english paper. The essay is:
    Explain the importance of being open to new ideas...
    I'd go the other way and assert that it's NOT important. You might discuss the current President of the United States as an example.

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    what's so new about that? I mean such issue was on some time ago..

    ok the importance of new ideas...well if we didn't consider new ideas as important, we wouldn't have pc, we wouldn't have fast food, we wouldn't have MTV, etc etc..

    there's no progress in human civilazation if we didn't open to new ideas..

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    well even the thread is asking for new ideas [for new ides].. so u can see how important it is to the thread starter lol..

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    I think that gets me point across.

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    ....is this thread some kind of a test? Does the moderator just sign in with a new name, post one 'Please help me!!" and sit back to watch the inevitable fireworks??

    ...if so......pretty funny stuff...... ( :

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    well what a noble man then...

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    Indeed, I don't think admin would stoop so low!!!

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    Well I did help. I posted two posts regarding the importance of new ideas..
    here's another:

    being open to new ideas will indeed improve you as a person. If you're not open, You will always think that you're the greatest person on earth, you'll think that you're already compelete, and this will make you find other people annoying when they're trying to tell you about new stuffs
    Last edited by subterranean; 12-07-2004 at 12:39 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by subterranean
    what's so new about that? I mean such issue was on some time ago..

    ok the importance of new ideas...well if we didn't consider new ideas as important, we wouldn't have pc, we wouldn't have fast food, we wouldn't have MTV, etc etc..

    there's no progress in human civilazation if we didn't open to new ideas..
    You call fast food the progress in human civilisation?

    Or was that just irony?
    If you believe even a half of this post, you are severely mistaken.

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    Close down this thread admin... no one seems that they can follow the advice of ignoring posts that annoy them. What a bunch of idiots.
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