Associate with people of good quality‚ if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. ~George Washington I agree with George Washington. What I agree with the most is that it is much better to be alone than in bad company. The company that you keep can also act as a reflection of you. Bad company stresses you out. It does not bring out the best in you or the people around you. What’s worse‚ is that people get the wrong impression of you. Everyone knows
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Alexa Huang EN135 New York City Literature Professor Burke Theme #1.1 In and Out of Washington Square From P42 to P43‚ the novel depicts the first private conversation between Dr. Sloper and Morris. At Mrs. Almond’s house‚ Dr. Sloper first accuses Morris for not requesting his permission before start dating Catherine‚ then Dr. Sloper aggressively points out Morris’s unemployment and idle condition‚ while Morris purposefully misinterprets Dr. Sloper’s words as an offer of employment. Soon
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Alphonse Capone was the most infamous mobster in the 1920s. He was “like any other man. ‘All I do is supply a demand’” (brainyquote.com ). During the prohibition era‚ Capone was the boss and co-founder of the Chicago Outfit. Although he is known for the horrific things he was involved in‚ his childhood was not all that amazing either. He was born in Brooklyn‚ New York in 1899. Capone and his family were hoping for a better life when they moved to America. He eventually stopped going to school after
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Last year the opinion post by the ombudsman of the Washington Post about the Post being ‘pro-gay’ have raised many voices. In his writing he has discussed and talked by the evidence of an email conversation between a reader‚ the ombudsman; Patrick and a reporter of the Post. The reader claims that the Post only caters to a special class of the Washington and wants appreciation from them. The main issue the reader had was that the Post is very much Pro-gay and gives a lot of exposure to the gay couples
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Christopher Columbus and George Washington were considered strong admirable men during their time. They both had to push through many obstacles that they faced throughout their life to accomplish the goals that they wanted to embrace. Although they had a few similarities in the way they overcame those challenges‚ they did however accomplish these ambitions with separate mindsets and had difference’s in their ideas to succeed. One of Christopher Columbus’s main goals that he wanted to achieve in
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the first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture and to become a famous world-class entertainer. After dropping out of high school at the age of 12‚ Baker became a very successful street performer‚ and soon accepted positions in American‚ and later French‚ vaudevilles. Josephine Baker was a major figure in the American Civil Rights Movement‚ during which she adopted 12 multi-ethnic children and refused to perform for segregated audiences. At the March on Washington‚ led by many high
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Washington being an astute observer‚ realized that being steadfast in the positions he expressed‚ the views of the time in which he lived would not allow him to achieve his goals. He realized he had to be flexible in the positions in which he took. Washington was a study in contradiction and a master of compromise. Although his actions were a reflection of the times in which he lived‚ his self-held beliefs in many cases did not reflect the times. An example of this would be that he owned slaves but
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THE HOLOCAUST The Holocaust was the systematic‚ bureaucratic‚ state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis‚ who came to power in Germany in January 1933‚ believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews‚ deemed "inferior‚" were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. During the era of the Holocaust‚ German authorities
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I chose Washington Heights because that is where I was raised and The Upper East Side because that is where I want to live when I am older. When I arrive in Washington Heights‚ I can expect to hear music blasting‚ smell the many different kinds of food and a very crowded place; likewise in the Upper East Side‚ I expect to see many fancy‚ tall buildings and expensive stores. Washington Heights is a part of Manhattan primarily full of Dominicans‚ though this was not always the case. Back in the early
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justice have been acting without any restraint against them. Not all officers are bad and act without restraint‚ but the ones that do are the ones that need to be charged with the same crimes others would in civilian clothing. In a article on The Washington Post‚ titled Thousands Dead‚ Few Prosecuted; a post analysis found that among the thousands of fatal shooting at the hands of police officers since 2005‚ only 54 officers have been charged. I think this should be a very different number given the
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