Arvin J. Giva SS 550 – Intro to Soc. Sci. March 17‚ 2012 A Reflection on the Street Names of Zamboanga City Every day‚ I ride on my motorcycle in going to work and as well as going home. There are times that I pass through the city proper for a joy ride and unwind a little after the heavy school work. The historical landmarks of this Asia’s Latin City are just too good to see and give me an ambiance of the past. The first route which I take is La Purisima
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Vjhvhjvhkkhbkcbbxcvxz t can be said that‚ for a while‚ traditional desktop application developers have been spoiled. This is not to say that traditional desktop application development is easier than other forms of development. However‚ as traditional desktop application developers‚ we have had the ability to create almost any kind of application we can imagine. I am including myself in this grouping because I got my start in desktop programming. One aspect that has made desktop programming
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Trauma It was December 15‚ 2007‚ My daughter’s birthday. I was stuck in afghanistan fighting a war. We were patrolling through a town heading back toward our extraction point. I was travelling with the commanding officer‚ and 4 others we walked for several miles and it was scorching hot. i was just ready to get back to base to get to some food. we hopped over a small wall heading down a road that lead to an abandoned town‚ machine-gun fire started up‚ echoing all around me. The thing about being
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to the beach on the first day of spring. On our way‚ we drove down Gateway Avenue‚ a street that happens to be lined with scads of Japanese flower trees. “Those are cherry blossoms. It is sometimes called the sakura after the Japanese. During World War 2‚ the cherry blossom was used to motivate the Japanese people”. I told my friends. Of course I received the inevitable question from the back seat‚ “How do you know that?” I had to ponder about that for a minute and then I knew; when I was in the second
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yourself but for society. A leader doesn’t only stand up for themselves but for others and what is right. A leader has high self esteem and an overall positive attitude about life. As a leader it is important to be passionate about your beliefs. One personal belief I feel strongly about is equality for all under the laws of The United States. Having aspirations to be a lawyer has come so naturally to me since I could remember. I believe everyone deserves to be treated equally regardless of race‚ color
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Katrina Myers Mrs. Wiedmann English Per.5 24 September 2012 A Separate Peace Essay (Topic 4) The novel‚ A Separate Peace‚ is about a group of boys that live at a boarding school in New Jersey during World War II. It centralizes around the two main characters‚ Gene and Finny. Throughout their story‚ there are several recurring themes that evolve over time. One of these themes is rules/rebellion. Throughout the novel‚ the boys continue to rebel and break rules at Devon. It shows their
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World History 25 February 2013 War is unjust War is defined as a conflict battled between two political communities. Although some may say that fighting in a war creates peace and settles problems‚ it truly only causes death‚ brings countries into debt‚ and does not always conclude in what was expected. Many precautions can be taken to prevent opposing forces from advancing into war. Even if there are no other possible ways to approach the problem at hand‚ war is unjust on all levels. The disputes
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John Knowles novel‚ A Separate Peace‚ portrays wars on three distinct levels. These levels could be described as outer‚ inner‚ and world. There is a very good definition of these wars at the closing of the novel which shows us the levels: ’I could never agree with either of them. It would have been comfortable‚ but I could not believe it. Because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities‚ but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the
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The war poets Wilfred Owen‚ Robert Binyon and Alec Waugh make powerful use of language features to not only portray their views on war‚ but to intensify the reader’s emotions as well. Binyon uses euphemism to glorify war‚ and in essence‚ serve his propagandist purpose in the poem For the Fallen. However‚ both Owen and Waugh use graphic‚ hard hitting language to reveal the gruesome truth of war through the poems Dulce et Decorum Est and Cannon Fodder. The poem For the Fallen by Robert Binyon was
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that some see as being premature. The Norwegian Nobel Committee saw it fit to reward Obama with the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. At this point‚ not much had changed in America during Obama’s time as president. Many people saw the award as a strict political act by the Committee. Others simply see the award as something that Obama has not done anything to deserve. The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama is considered to be a political act that was not deserved. Shortly after the award was
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