K THOMPSON 1/12/13 OPINION EDITORIAL 1ST DRAFT YOUR FREEDOM‚ YOUR RIGHTS AND YOUR GUNS On December 14th‚ 2012; 20 year old Adam Lanza‚ entered Sandy Hook Elementary School to carry out the mass murder of innocent staff and children of the school. This shooting as well as others‚ such as the "Batman" shooting in Colorado‚ have sparked the emotions of almost everyone in our local communities. Members of the media as well as government have been left asking how did this happen in our
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March 29‚ 2011 An Obligation Is Not A Choice What defines an obligation? Is it defined as something that one has to do because it is necessary for their living or is it something that one has to do because someone says they have to? I would define an obligation as something that one has to do because it is necessary for their living. What I do not understand is how one person can dodge their obligations. I see people choose to live a life where their obligations are pushed aside as if
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at school in the counselor’s office treated the world as if it were a yardstick and they had tight hold of both ends. Sometimes Susan felt polite with them‚ sorting attendance cards during her free period‚ listening to them gab about fingernail polish and television. And other times she felt she could run out of the building yelling. That’s when she daydreamed about Saleh Hamadi‚ who had nothing to do with any of it. Maybe she thought of him as escape‚ the way she used to think about the Sphinx at
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"Just do your best‚" is the phrase I grew up hearing all throughout my life. But doing my best was always something I couldn’t do lightly‚ I had to be the very best at everything I did. I was taught at an early age that academics came first and were always a top priority. Every night my father would dedicate hours of his time to sit me down at the kitchen table so he could help me with my homework and would take ten words from the dictionary to make sentences out of them so I would be able to
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Singapore National Identity is created by the state.” Do you agree with the statement? Explain your answer. A national identity is a person’s identity and sense of belonging to a state or to a nation‚ a feeling which one shares with a group of people‚ regardless of one’s citizenship status. It is a sense of emotional attachment and as feelings are something that cannot be forced and created by the state but instead must be what an individual truly feels. Hence‚ as the sense of attachment is created
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MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL. DO YOU AGREE? Money is the instrument of exchange. It helps in buying and selling and also in fixing a value on things or services. It may be in metal or in paper. Money is always said to be the root of all evil‚ but I not agree with it. The money is said to be the root of evil because man have a wrong usage on it. Actually‚ money is just a medium of exchange. Money does not have brain to think how to hurt people. It is the thought of human that used money as a
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Ford’s My Life and Work (1923): "We have found in buying materials that it is not worthwhile to buy for other than immediate needs. We buy only enough to fit into the plan of production‚ taking into consideration the state of transportation at the time. If transportation were perfect and an even flow of materials could be assured‚ it would not be necessary to carry any stock whatsoever. The carloads of raw materials would arrive on schedule and in the planned order and amounts‚ and go from the railway
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finding a job became very competitive‚ and everyone should be distinguished to get his or her dream job. One thing that may open many closed doors in front of you is speaking more than one language as we are in open world where countries exchange different experiences and cultures. Learning a foreign language is challenging and it needs a lot of time and effort to be skillful and fuent. For that‚ I believe that it is better for children to start learning a foreign language as soon as they start school
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Support Individuals to Eat and Drink 1 : Be able to support individuals to make choices about food and drink 1.1. Establish with an individual the food and drink they wish to consume Service users should always have the freedom to make choices about food and drink‚ thus the carer has to support them to make these choices‚ also taking into consideration dietary issues (possible allergies‚ diabetes‚ food intolerance) and prohibited foods due to medication (e.g. cranberry when on Warfarin)
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Theory of Moral Sentiments (VI‚ 2‚ 1). “Give and you will be given to.” Luke. Content I. Facts and forms 1. Introduction 2. The evidence‚ scope‚ and pervasiveness of the reciprocity relationship 3. Reciprocity as the quintessential social bond 4. Definitions‚ givings and exchanges 5. Reciprocities: forms and structures 1 II. Motives 6. Motives: the three worlds of reciprocity 7. Reciprocity and other social sentiments 8. Reciprocity in the modes of economic realization
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