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    and now a young lady‚ but I am becoming a woman who will succeed in life because I have never gave up. Early college has not only shaped me into a better person academically‚ but a better person in life in general. Before I came to Early College High School‚ I was struggling socially‚ emotionally and academically. Coming from a family that didn’t have a lot of money‚ my parents didn’t go to college and eventually being raised by my grandparents‚ it was not always easy for me. In middle school I was

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    I’m going to start by saying that I am a college athlete and it’s very interesting the number of people fighting and defending the topic if players should be paid. The price for college has never been higher and will only continue to grow as time goes on. Going along with that college athletics have never been more popular. The most prominent example would be a division 1 football program. Back in 1906‚ when the NCAA was created‚ a law was put in place to prevent exactly this. This law is called

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    The American people love college football. Imagine being without it. There has been an issue about whether college athletes should or should not get paid beyond their scholarships.One reason college athletes should get paid is because there is a high risk for injuries. Another reason is because there is a lot of pressure to win. Lastly ‚ is because college athletes need extra money for housing and food. These college athletes deserve to be paid because there physical demanding injuries‚ pressure

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    My Experience with Being Away from Home in Italy There I was‚ holding onto my suitcase‚ standing in the airport about to board my plane. I was fifteen years old‚ going into my sophomore year of high school‚ and I was going to Italy for ten days with my best friend and a tour group from his school. For months‚ we had been counting down the days until we leave. The day was finally here and everyone around was full of excitement. Everyone else had been on planes multiple times in their lives. As

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    Topic: College Athletes Should Get Paid. General Purpose: To Persuade. Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that college athletes deserve to get paid. Central Idea: College athletes should get paid because of the unfair lifestyle of a student-athlete‚ these athletes make millions for their universities and billions for the NCAA‚ and the finances are just as up to par as professional sports. Introduction I. Summer time is almost over. I hate to say it but it’s true. Pretty soon we’ll be

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne: An Early Pro-Feminist The Puritan society as portrayed in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is based upon the idea of patriarchal views. Men are the heads of society and women are viewed as lower class citizens. Hawthorne’s personal opinions however‚ do not correlate with the views of the Puritans and he often makes his pro feminist ideas evident to the reader. Specifically‚ Hawthorne’s use of literary devices throughout his novel emphasizes his own opinions on feminism

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    sport is baseball‚ football‚ the Olympics‚ NASCAR or college sports the industry has grown in leaps and bounds. But in order to see this concept fully grow into a big business situation you must first look at its humble and less complicated beginnings. In the beginning the NCAA was just a mere thought in somebodies head. In 1905 a meeting between the then President Roosevelt and 13 athletic institutions directors sparked the debate over college football schedules and who was going to play whom.

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    College students athletes should get paid Could you imagine if college athletes would get paid? College athletes that play sports everyday and don’t have time to get a job and do their academics. Most college athletes that play football or basketball and if they win a championship they bring millions of money back to the college. If you go to college and play sports like basketball‚football you should get paid for how long you stay in college for the sports before you go pro or drop out. Because

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    This is due to an antiquated system called the electoral college. The electoral college (EC) was founded in 1787. The founding fathers set up the system so that the president is chosen indirectly. This was done so that "popular passion‚" wouldn ’t factor in as much. Basically they didn ’t want presidential campaigns to become purely advertisement campaigns. (third party times) But there are a few serious flaws in the electoral college that need to be dealt with. For example‚ the well known

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    Electoral college is a process that is set up by our founding fathers in the constitution; it is a “compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens” (U.S Electoral College). Electoral college is an example of indirect democracy; therefore‚ we do not choose our president directly. Thus‚ electoral college is not democratic. Electoral college is a group of people appointed by each state‚ who formally elect the

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