Be Clever‚ Not Beautiful If you can be 20 pounds (about 9 kg) slimmer or get 20 points higher on your IQ test score‚ which would you choose? Intelligence or appearance? Intelligence‚ which humans distinguish themselves from other species‚ refers to the measurement of how wise a human is in respond to difficulties‚ while appearance‚ whose importance has recently escalated‚ refers to how good-looking an individual is. We should make people understand that intelligence instead of appearance can truly
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Beautiful Boy In the book Beautiful Boy David Sheff the father describes his and his family’s experience dealing with his son Nic who is addicted to the drug crystal meth. In telling his story David takes us down memory lane to the beginning of his life with his first wife who gives birth to his son Nic. In this book I think that David Sheff lays down a great foundation into the life of his son Nic. He tells us how brilliant Nic is‚ that Nic has a great imagination and that all of his teachers
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The first three stanzas show us the soldiers relaxing before the battle and appreciating the nature around them‚ before the fighting begins in stanza 4. The men who are left then return to where they came from. The title itself is quite ironic as spring is a time of new life and growth‚ and war is obviously a time of death and destruction. Structure • The majority of lines are composed of 10 syllables – but not all of them. This breaks the rhythm up‚ as does the sometimes irregular rhyme
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Arab Spring: The first wave of the Arab revolution has been broken out in the Tunisia on 19th December 2010. An unemployed under graduated man‚ hopelessly set himself to fire in order to attract attention to the rise of unemployment within the country. After some other protests that have been followed this event the Tunisian leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali‚ have made a declaration which has informed that his regime will do everything in order to deal with the unemployment issue all over the
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January 25‚ 2014 AP European Qualifying Assignment Arab Spring The revolutionary performances of anti-government protest and counterdemonstrations performed in the Arab World that commenced on December 17th‚ 2010 are well known as The Arab Spring. Violent and non-violent actions done by citizens of different nations have caused outbreaks on governments and civil wars affecting all. These disturbances originated
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November 13‚ 2012 A Beautiful Mind This is a true story about John Nash who unfortunately was discovered in his adult life as having a terrible illness‚ paranoid schizophrenia. John Nash was a student at Princeton. He tries to portray himself as being really smart‚ but right off you can tell there is something wrong with him‚ by the look in his eyes. This theory is thought to be incredible and he is offered a job at M.I.T. He gets married and has a child. This is when his world is turned upside
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Spring festival In China‚ New Year’s Day is a solemn occasion. Every family performs religious rites at the family altar. In order to rejoice at the New Year‚ people wished others a happy new year and blessed heartily. Some stick calligraphies full of joy on doors‚ most of them were antithetical couplet‚ phrase‚ individual character‚ such as: blessing‚ longevity‚ luckiness‚ propitious New Year and so on. Whereas‚ some people pasted paper-cuts for window decorations to do away with the old
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Beautiful Nature By Dora Molina This painting by Pat Steir Figure 129 Pink Chrysanthemum is three panels of flowers. The background of these paintings is pink and the flowers are white. The first panel of the painting has three flowers in a green vase. The flowers are kind of blurry the way that the light shined on them‚ and are centered. The second panel has just a close up of a single flower. Its closer than the first panel and has way more detail of the flower. You almost feel
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In the movie "Life Is Beautiful"‚ a Jewish man and his family are put into a concentration camp during the Holocaust. The movie gives an inside look at the horrors the Jews were faced with during the Holocaust. "Life Is Beautiful" should be incorporated into a unit on the Holocaust in schools because it shows everything the Jews were faced with‚ it handles expressing the horrors of the Holocaust without being too graphic‚ and it would help students get a more personal feeling of what happened to
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Arab Spring: Yemen The Arab Spring of Yemen began with protests in 2011. Both violent and non-violent events had occurred in the Yemeni Arab Spring. A whole chain of key events took place within the year that it lasted. On January 27th of 2011‚ thousands‚ led by many individuals all over Yemen‚ flood the streets of Sana’a and other cities in the southern region. These protests took place in order to urge President Saleh to end his presidency. There were weeks of mass protests to follow this
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