been interested in the art of buying‚ and selling clothes. I could spend hours rummaging through the racks of Salvation Army‚ or scrolling through listings on various sites. There is one app in particular that stands out to me; Depop‚ is a new way to buy‚ sell and share different items like‚ clothing‚ art‚ music‚ and electronics. This free app is so lovable because it provides an easy buying and selling platform‚ and it creates young entrepreneurs. Think of it as a hybrid of Instagram‚ and eBay. After
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Power is always there in society‚ and along with power comes corruptness. Through careful characterization and spare dialogue‚ Gabriel Garcia Marquez develops the idea of power and corruption through a dentist and a mayor in his South American country of Columbia. As a poor dentist‚ Aurelio Escovar’s voice is often unheard until he meets directly with the mayor. The dentist is characterized as poor because he is a ‘dentist without a degree’ therefore he has a weak position. The Mayor‚ on the other
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Even with violence occurring all over the world‚ Pinker argues that violence today is at an all time low. In order to support his position‚ Pinker first takes on the preconception that the hunter-gather society of the past lived peacefully compared to modern times. Utilizing a graphic on percentage of male deaths due to war‚ Pinker shows that the percentage of contemporary hunter gatherer deaths is by far higher than that of people living in the US and Europe in the 20th century. Also along the lines
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Nothing is Impossible! I used to think things i wanted to do were too impossible‚ or too extreme‚ or to unrealistic‚ but I now know that if you set your mind to something‚ you can do it. i learned that nothing is impossible because my Aunt had cancer. I thought ’she is gonna die‚ it’s impossible that she is gonna keep on living.’ To this day she is living out her life to the fullest cancer free. She told me i could do anything‚ i now know i can do anything. I wanna make a difference in the world
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glory by Christ Jesus” Philippians 4:19. Money does not buy your happiness. Experiences make you happy‚ not how much cash you have. Buy experiences not objects. Money makes you happy to a point‚ but what about after? Eventually all of that money will run out and then where would you be? I believe that money can’t buy happiness. Money can buy experiences and the experiences are what make us happy. A lot of people believe that money can buy extravagant objects‚ like fancy cars or a big house‚ and
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INTRODUCTION In completing the assigned case study for this course‚ I decided to study and analyse the movie entitled The Divergent as it captivated my intention in studying youth from the perspective of globalised world. In this modern society‚ youth has been discussed as a subject matter in comparative researches all over the world. It is vital for us to study youth because of its complexity in sociology studies. Youth is known as a group of people who have passed the childhood phase and yet to
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Since the eighteenth century‚ scholars have researched‚ “Who wrote the Pentateuch?”‚ and more specifically who was the author of Deuteronomy. The Documentary Hypothesis asserts that the Pentateuch was not written by Moses‚ but was composed from four distinct narratives and woven together into one final version centuries after Moses had died. When these documents were put in chronological order‚ it appeared as the following: The Yahwist (J) The Elohist (E) The Deuternonomist (D) The Priestly
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common belief‚ courage is not just doing everything possible to help people because even helping others can cause damage. Aspects of true courage include control‚ including giving up control‚ as well as the ability to give it your all or even give nothing. In its purest form‚ courage is the ability to assess a situation and decide whether standing up and fighting or standing down and letting go of control is the best thing to do to for the greatest good. This definition of courage can be seen when
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AP World History Summer Reading Assignment - Day OF Empire Amy Chua believes that for a country to become a world dominant force‚ the country must be tolerant. A country that is tolerant isn’t promised a path to world dominance‚ but tolerance is a required characteristic for a world dominant force. Tolerance does not mean that all races are treated equally but that the races can coexist together and work to make their nation better. Intolerant acts such as ethnic cleansing prohibit a country to
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Michael Bloomberg‚ former mayor of New York City‚ once proposed a ban on super-sized sodas as a solution to the cities growing obesity issue. He believed that government interference was the best way to improve the health of citizens. New York City is not the only place to propose this idea. Boston is currently trying to ban sugary drinks and San Francisco is launching a campaign against Happy Meals in their city. These attempts of the government to restrict our diets are unnecessary and will cause
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