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    Here’s why you should avoid drinking too much water Many times as a child‚ we are told to drink eight glasses of water a day. It should be after a meal‚ as drinking water before will make you lose your appetite. Even as we grow old we are used to drinking as much water as possible as it says they cleanses are body and prevents dehydration. And that is still the case we believe today. Most people today seemed to brush away the idea of too much is as bad as less when it comes to consuming water

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    Teachers who assign too much homework Homework we all love homework right? Actually no it sucks and I’m pretty sure everyone hates it. You gotta deal with it though‚ except every year you’ll get one teacher that will give you what seems like 20 thousand assignments to do each night and they seem like they will take a month to complete if you’re lucky. But of course that teacher will make them all due day after day with no time in between! Is that really necessary. You come home to relax after

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    are enjoying far too much attention. It is such to an extent that their advertisements are aired unbridledly‚ influencing many a young minds towards spending opulently to achieve what was advertised‚ be it flawless skin‚ perfect body figure or wrinkle-free cheeks. 

 One reason that beauty products and treatments are enjoying "celebrity status" is because of advertisement power. There have always been a seed of jealousy ensconced inside society; a jealousy for other’s beauty. What the advertisements

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    College: The Rewards Cost Too Much to Enjoy Elizabeth Davis Excelsior College College: The Rewards May Cost Too Much to Enjoy A college degree is very important unless you can hit a golf ball like Tiger Woods or throw a punch like Floyd Mayweather Jr. Most parents make sure their children are clothed‚ nurtured and spoon fed college applications since the day they are born. Pursuing college after high school seems like the most natural thing for a high school student. Could it be because

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    people are failing to change in this great nation of America. America- home of the brave‚ proud‚ and loving people. Especially giving the current political climate and environment in the nation‚ there is an need for a book to explore the issues relating to anti-Muslim‚ anti-immigration ‚ and national security issues. Deepa Iyer’s ‚ We Too Sing America‚ serves to help us understand the perceptions‚ policies‚ and practices that have shaped life in America after 9/11. From a first hand account‚ Iyer uses

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    Importance of Self-Reliance The phrase self-reliance has come close to extinction. The world has a plethora of copies that are confused for original works of art. In the essay “Self-Reliance‚” Ralph Waldo Emerson asserts that we are losing originality. He uses an aggressive approach in explaining to the reader his views toward the rules of imitation‚ which society as a whole tends to follow. Through the use of emotional and ethical appeals Emerson persuades his audience to be more self-aware of the

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    August 2012 You Also Have the Right to Tell a Bigot What You Think By Leonard Pitts S Who is the speaker? Who is the voice that tells the story? The speaker is a syndicated columnist‚ a writer versed in and paid for expressing his opinion in an interesting‚ thought-provoking way. He is educated yet down to earth and not a bombastic or over-inflated or even lover of elevated lexicon or writing style. He is representative of the majority of educated US citizens. O What is the occasion

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    Self Reliance The summer of 1845 found Henry David Thoreau living in a rude shack on the banks of Walden Pond. The actual property was owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ the great American philosopher. Emerson had earlier published the treatise entitled "Nature‚" and the young Thoreau was profoundly affected by its call for individuality and self-reliance. Thoreau planted a small garden‚ took pen and paper‚ and began to record the of life at Walden. Thoreau’s experiment in deliberate

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    great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie‚ humility‚ and how to resolve differences.” Kobe Bryant (brainyquote.com). Sports are healthy for people and are one of the greatest parts of people’s lives. Sports fans are not going to far because sports make you a happier more social person and they are a meaningful part of life. Being a sports fan can make you a happier more social person. Research shows that if you have a strong connection with a particular team‚ you are more likely

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    Topic 7B: How did you personally learn about morality? Do you think the government should engage in the moral education of young people today? Introduction The decline of morality Recently‚ there are more and more news talking about the immoral behavior done by teenagers in Hong Kong. Some of the girls are willing to involve in the compensation dating in order to receive more pocket money. There are also more students who have experienced the sex harassment from their teachers or their tutors

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