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    World’s Worst Place To be Gay - BBC Documentary In Uganda‚ men and women who are homosexual goes trough every day with fear of getting beaten or even killed for being attracted to people with the same sex. Here they see homosexuality as an actual disease and death penalty for being gay is debated. We watched a documentary to get a new perspective of the life of a homosexual in Uganda. We followed this man named Scott Milles trough his trip to – what could be - The world’s worst place to

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    world had yet seen. One might have thought it was a civilization destined to continue essentially unchanged for centuries. But that’s not what happened. In the 14th century‚ a series of disasters shook Western European civilization to its foundations‚ eventually forcing major changes in Europe. The first disaster to hit Europe was famine. Some of the agricultural success of the High Middle Ages had been due to improved weather conditions‚ what’s called the Medieval Warm Period (800-1300). Around

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    Medieval Europe The middle ages were the worst period in history‚ this was for many reasons including the black plague and the peasants revolt. The black plague was one of the most painful and deadly disease‚ the plague killed millions of people. These worst jobs in history were the most disgusting and most brutal jobs. These jobs were leach collectors‚ archer and arming squire. The medieval Europe had the harshest and brutal law and order. if a person was caught for murdering or stealing‚ they

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    Video Games and the Benefits They Bring Since the mid 1980’s the popularity of video games has spread like wildfire. With updates to current technology we have gone from the very basic games such as Pong‚ Mario‚ and Tetris to the vast lifelike expansive worlds of games like Mass Effect‚ Skyrim and Diablo. As our technology grows‚ so does the realism in our video games. We have gone from a ball and a stick moving back and forth to a vast list of choices that a player can make while exploring

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    The short-term effect of the radioactive contamination in Fukushima nuclear power disaster A nuclear power disaster can result in terrible radioactive contamination. According to the report of Nuclear Safety and Security Institute‚ radioactive level in the central control room of Unit 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Station was 1000 times higher than its normal level after the earthquake. The communique reported that the amount of radiation around the gate of the nuclear power plant was increasing

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    Do you remember what your worst job was like? My worst job was working at 4200. 4200 is a production warehouse‚ located in Atlanta‚ Georgia‚ that manufactures various hair care products for a company named Bronner Brothers. It is owned by my father‚ Nathaniel Bronner‚ and his four brothers: Bernard‚ Dale‚ Charles‚ and James. 4200 is open five days a week‚ for ten and a half hours daily. I spent last summer at 4200‚ where I worked on an assembly line and packaged hair care products. Working at 4200

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    My Worst Day Ever Something’s banging inside my head and I wake up to the ugly sound of the fire alarm. When I realize where the sound was coming from‚ I run to my parent’s bed to only find out that they’re not home. I remember them telling me that they were staying at my uncle’s house and wouldn’t return till the next day. I run downstairs and call the fire department and then my parents to tell them the news. The fire department arrives first‚ and my parents are right behind them. They inspect

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    Tragedy Brings Family Together On the morning of October 21st‚ 2009‚ my family got a call from the Reno‚ Nevada Police Department saying Kristin‚ my sister‚ had been in a car accident and was immediately taken into the hospital. They did not give specific details as to what had happened; only that she was going to be okay‚ but a family member needed to get down there as soon as they could. My father got on the next flight he could and I was sent off to school for the day with thoughts racing through

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    The social construction of disasters evolves throughout the years due to political and economic factors as well as education and technological advancement. One thing is that disasters are commonly understood to be limited in both time and effect (Hills‚ p.163). When analyzing and interpreting past‚ present and future political synergies‚ it is necessary to include a human dimension that encapsulates and embraces socio-cultural appreciation and understanding of man and his environment (Trim‚ p. 218)

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