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    What is Life Without Love? What is love? How does one know they are in love? Is love real? These are questions that scientists and mankind have been discovering and questioning for years. Some people feel as if they need love to survive because it gives them a sense of self-worth. Others feel as if there is no such thing as love. People are simply infatuated with one another or they are just in lust. In the novel A History of The World in 10 ½ Chapters‚ the chapter Parenthesis‚ Julian Barnes discusses

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    Negative Effects Of Ww2

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    WW2 was a very bloody war and it was kind of good for America because it gave women the chance to have jobs and not just be a stay at home mom/wife. On september 16‚1940 congress passed the first peacetime military act‚ This act ordered men from the ages of 21-35 to be trained for battle in 12 months but that was before Pearl Harbor had gotten attacked. After Pearl Harbor congress passed the Selective Service Act which extended drafting to 18-38 years to join the military‚ But men 18-65 had no

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    Multitasking in my opinion can be a good thing but also a bad thing. Researchers say many teens and children under the age 18 are more likely to multitask compared to mature adults. Technology has been the cause of young teens not paying full attention. Teenagers feel that they will miss out on important information so this messes with teen’s concentration. The brain cannot be at two places at one time. “Not only can people not process two tasks simultaneously‚ but it also takes longer to multitask

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    Is The American Dream Dead

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    The American Dream Is Dead. Poverty is a factor in the United States and the people should not be to blame for the poverty in America. The people of different groups are having a harder time getting out of poverty. both children and adult are being affected by poverty. Is the American dream an impossible One‚ of course‚ it’s impossible because the more and more people are in poverty according to research. People truly don’t know what poverty is and how it is affecting America with factors like

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    The American Dream is a philosophy that start in the 19th century referring to migrating to a place where rich men and poor men could stand on the same footing. In the 19th century many German immigrants were coming to America in hopes of settling where ever they please without a passport and pursue a living. Most were fleeing Germany to avoid the “right of birth” or royal hierarchy and the corruption that lied within it. In the 20th century the American Dream became known as the California Dream

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    Taliban Negative Effects

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    Taliban‚ a Muslim group took control of Afghanistan’s government in 1996 to 2001. Taliban is known for publicly executing people and taking away the rights of women which including the right of education. Afghanistan under a new leadership control‚ which put the country in the worse place . The relationship broke between U.S. and Taliban after 911 when Mullah Omar providing a refuge to Osama Bin Laden. When the Taliban comes to power in Afghanistan‚ it negatively effected the people. Taliban‚ Students

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    Science is a great boon to mankind. At the same time it is a big curse also. It is as destructive as constructive. It has given state-of-the-art weapons and warheads in the hands of mankind which cause mass killing and destruction at a far-off place merely at the trigger of a button. Science has produced hydrogen bomb‚ nuclear bombs‚ fighting aircraft‚ nuclear submarine‚ missiles‚ laser bombs‚ etc. These things of warheads are highly destructive. They can wipe this planet of the existence of mankind

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    the American Dream The American Dream is an idealism born out of the earliest settlers of this country. These people strived for discovery and individualism‚ and embarked on the pursuit of happiness‚ in which a healthy homestead with a steady career was the embodiment. However‚ this “dream” experienced a shift in the early 20th century after the conclusion of World War One. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ placed in the post-war early 1920s‚ depicts this shift from an American Dream based

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    The American Dream or the American Failure? When people think of a classic American novel‚ the one most referred to would be Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ by Mark Twain‚ first published in December of 1884. Twain writes about a young boy named Huckleberry Finn‚ who rebels against the American society during the 19th century as he faces many trials and tribulations that he refers to as bad luck. Finn is without a mother‚ who passed away earlier in his life and his father is a disorderly alcoholic

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    2013 The Futility of the ‘American Dream’ The ideal of the ‘American Dream’ has hardly changed over the past century. The dream is a unique American phenomenon. It represents a nebulous concept that is exemplified by a number of American values. Many deem wealth and success to be the means to this paradigm. When stability‚ security and family values also become part of the suburban lifestyle‚ the American Dream comes close to becoming reality. Nick Carraway‚ the candid

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