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Being polite in today's society is a must. Common phrases or questions like "How are you?" are used all over the world to communicate politeness. Many people think these words are "empty" or "meaningless", but I think polite words are much more than that and reflect how things get done in a society. People use these words to show their relationship with the other person or to achieve their goals. A commonplace to use polite speech is an educational place like college or high school. Those polite phrases are used in hallways, classrooms, etc, but they really just serve one purpose. When 2 friends walk by each other the hallway and say "what's up" to each other, that is a way for them to show the other person they treat each other like friends. Or when a teacher asks a student "how are you" in the classroom and the student asks her back, a respectful relationship is shown, where the student respects the teacher. These examples

In this week's awkward seminar on "A Measure of Constraint", we discussed how human inventions cause harm to ourselves even though it was branded as a cure or had many uses that benefit humans. Things that appear as beautiful or helpful like Cesium-137 all ended in death and new diseases. I think that this argument made by the author can be applied to many things we use in today's world. For example, in the medical field, some doctors or health professionals advertise the use of antibiotics and their benefits. This advertisement led to the overuse of antibiotics without seeking professional medical help. I have seen people mindlessly use antibiotics for acne or diarrhea even though they would worsen the conditions instead of improving it. Another bad result caused by the overuse of antibiotics is the mutation of bacterias. This result is feared among the medical field because a bacteria would eventually evolve to a point where no antibiotic can kill it or slow its

In Sanders's article about migration, he highlights the disadvantages that migrants bring to the land and opposes Rushdie's claim about migration being good. As an immigrant, I would also agree with Sanders's claim; there are many bad things that migrants bring to the new land such as diseases like the coronavirus, and bad institutions like slavery. However, I think that Sanders did not bring up the most important thing that people need to consider before migrating which is how migrations can break up bonds between families and friends.  Many migrants nowadays move because of education, religion, education, etc. There is not a single person who moves away from their homeland or country just because he/she has a bad family that he/she hates. It could definitely make the decision easier but usually, no one will hate his family that much. Personally, I loved my grandparents and they pretty much raised me as a kid because my parents had work. I had a strong bond with them, a