Giving Back to My Community I dedicate many hours of my time to significant community service activities. Through my participation in such service projects and activities‚ I have learned many valuable lessons about the significance of each individual in the community. As a literacy volunteer‚ I am given the opportunity to see the glow on a mother’s face when she realizes that her son will finally be given the gift of the ability to read. I am given the satisfaction of knowing that my time
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Ebola virus is back‚ this time in West Africa‚ with over 350 cases and a 69% case fatality ratio at the time of this writing (Baize). The culprit is the Zaire ebola virus species‚ the most lethal Ebola virus known‚ with case fatality ratios up to 90%. The epicenter and site of first introduction is the region of Guéckédou in Guinea ’s remote southeastern forest region‚ spilling over into various other regions of Guinea as well as to neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone. News of this outbreak engenders
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Intro: Throughout history‚ there have been many famous people from around the world who took a stand. They took a stand into what they believed in and what they wanted to change in the world. Many people believed in Cesar Chavez and for what he took a stand for. One individual‚ goes by Cesar Chavez he stood up for civil rights and he also believed in nonviolence. Cesar was a Mexican-American farm worker that worked very hard for better water‚ restrooms‚ and better pay. When: Cesar Chavez decided
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racial discrimination have figured prominently in our history. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s won the passage of important legislation; decisions of the Supreme Court and regulations of federal agencies have contributed greatly to fighting discrimination‚ yet it is obvious that a great deal more needs to be done.
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Fighting A War Within America "The beauty is we don’t need to be 100% of the way there. If we get 20% of the way there‚ we will change the health status of our kids for a generation.” These were Michelle Obama’s words assuring Americans that with government involvement‚ change is possible. According to the National Institute of Health‚ obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Currently‚ nearly two-thirds of Americans are overweight and 34% of those are obese
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COMPARING AND CONTRTASTING ROMEO AND JULIET WITH WESTSIDE STORY COMPARISONS: First of all (obviously) they have the same overall idea over the story. I guess that would be the plot… in Romeo and Juliet‚ Romeo and Juliet fall in love in Westside story tony and Maria fall in love. One thing that is alike in that is in Romeo and Juliet they meet at a party and in Westside story they meet at a ball. In Romeo and Juliet‚ Benvolio gets Romeo to go to the masquerade; in Westside story Riff (Mercutio)
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My Reasons for Attending College College is many things to many people. For some it is a time for fun and socialization. For others‚ it is a time for personal and professional development. In my case‚ (a husband‚ a father‚ and a proud member of the U.S. Navy) college represented an opportunity for both personal and professional development. The purpose of this narrative essay is to examine my decision to earn a college degree‚ specifically examining my three main reasons (higher earning potential
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Women –The Disenfranchised in Nigeria Tension is building in Nigeria’s largely Christian South over reports that Muslim women are being asked to take off their hijab or deny the right to register for the April presidential elections. The women are asked to remove their headscarf and she refuses to because it is against their religion. The Muslim Rights Concern said that it has received a flood of complaints from Muslim women being denied the right to register
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Never Back Down Review A) Event Synopsis and Theme 1. The film opens in the middle of a high-school football game‚ with Jake Tyler helping his team to win. Frustrated‚ one of the players from the opposing team taunts him about the death of his father from drunk driving. Known for his hot temper‚ Jake immediately begins a brawl with the opposing player. The brawl is captured on the crowd’s mobile phones and personal video cameras‚ and soon is downloaded to the internet. This is in fact the last game
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WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR? - WILL YOU FIGHT FOR ME? This semester we have analyzed the issue ‘same sex marriage’ by three different articles and we were asked to select one of them to examine one more time with merging our own opinions. In his piece “What Are We Fighting For?” author‚ Ralph Wedgwood focuses on the issue that general view of people all around‚ about the acceptance of legalized gay marriages. By legalized Ralph Wedgwood does not only bringing up the legal aspects that
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