Speech Contest “Peace was not made for the sake of justice‚ but justice for the sake of peace - Martin Luther” Imagine being woken up in the middle of the night by a phone call. Imagine there’s someone on the other end telling you that they have one of your family members kidnapped. Now‚ what would you do? I’m guessing most of you are thinking that you would call the police. Well‚ in Mexico that’s something you cannot do. It’s been 5 years since the “drug war” started‚ and since then‚ there
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Sales Contests Work if they are implemented correctly Sales contests provide a great tool for the sales manager to motivate his sales force in both the short and long-term. However‚ in order to work for the sales manager and provide value to the sales force the objectives of the sales contest must to be carefully defined. Pitfalls‚ like a "coin operated sales force" and unmotivated salespeople can be the result of a thoughtlessly designed sales contest. Lastly‚ there are a great variety of sales
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Truth Beauty in American Society In the today’s society‚ Americans‚ especially women‚ are eager to be slimmer because thin defines the American standard of beauty. For example‚ advertisements‚ called Lipo-6‚ are used to promote the use of diet pills that burn body fat. Naomi Wolf ’s "Beauty Myth" explains about how women are obsessed about their appearance and are dying to look better. “[C]ontemporary standards of feminine beauty have devolved to a point that can only be described as anorexic
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Like any other high school student I have always put much thought into my future. Where I will be in a few years? How will I get there? What are the steps and sacrifices I would have to take to reach my full potential? These terrifying unanswered questions have driven me to work my hardest throughout my high school career. With longing for a bright future I was aware that I would be sacrificing hours of leisure time in favor of spending time studying‚ but I was undaunted by this realization. I acknowledged
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is usually associated with the country Africa and with the extensive media coverage on the poverty problems in African countries. People are becoming less aware of the such problems occuring in their home country. However‚ it is a fact that every society has its own poverty problems regardless of how industrialized or rich it is. There are various causes of poverty‚ with inadequate education and unemployment being the major contributors. Firstly‚ monetary aids given to poor countries and poor
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Are the poor an inevitable feature of any society? Poor is a rather subjective terminology‚ which co-exist with the term rich. Within most of the society‚ it is not surprising to have the poor‚ as agreed by the poor themselves. Because being rich or poor is all dependant on how much people want to pay for and sometimes‚ what kind of family one is born to. In most part of the world‚ people get ahead by hardworking and whatever talents they have. Hence‚ those who are willing to put in lots of
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In the short stories‚ “The Good Corn” written by H.E. Bates and “The Great Leapfrog Contest” by William Saroyan techniques such as characters‚ point of view‚ setting and structure work together to explore the issue of personal conflict and establish tension between the main characters in each story. An examination of these techniques allow a more enhanced reading of the texts and in turn evoke a particular response from the reader. In the short story “The Good
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In "Serve or Fail‚" Dave Eggers argues that college should consider instituting a service requirement for graduation. Eggers gives us some purpose of college education to link with volunteering that help students getting beneficial effects. He gave some good points in terms of helping others out. He explains that college is too short to sit back and become the best foosball player and waste your time with no commitments to any after school obligations‚ etc. I think that everyone should be able to
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improved‚ stayed the same‚ or gotten worse at the skill of an overhead volleyball serve‚ over a period of time. The process undertaken to complete this report includes a visual feedback video system‚ different methods of practice‚ and a variety of feedback‚ both internally and externally. With the help of the visual feedback video system‚ the motor program I used can be broken down into a subroutine for my overhead serve. I Begin with one foot forward‚ preferably left. Hold the ball in your left hand
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Race and Beauty in a Media Contrived Society Throughout Toni Morrison ’s novel The Bluest Eye‚ she captures‚ with vivid insight‚ the plight of a young African American girl and what she would be subjected to in a media contrived society that places its ideal of beauty on the e quintessential blue-eyed‚ blonde woman. The idea of what is beautiful has been stereotyped in the mass media since the beginning and creates a mental and emotional damage to self and soul. This oppression to the soul creates
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