Down With Community Service Dear Editor‚ I have recently read an article in the newspaper that concerned young people doing community service after they graduate high school. It stated that they should do two years of community service. I disagree with the article for many reasons. Many people will agree with me about the community service matter. I recently spoke to the counselor of my school about the subject of community service. He said that most young people mainly think about going
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mark on the younger generations to come to view war as the only answer to our problems and that because my grandpa was in the war that means I need to carry on the tradition and join to that war is the only way we can be free. In the book “the Moon is Down” By‚ John Steinbeck. It starts in a town that has been invaded with little to no casualties! Six of the towns troops were killed in the process and now the corell is talking to the mayor about why they are there and how they only want coal and don’t
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The book “Child of the Dark” is written from Carolina’s point of view. She begins writing on July 15th‚ 1955‚ the birthday of her youngest child and daughter; her daughter’s name is Vera Eunice. The story continues to detail her life during 1958 and 1959. Carolina wants to buy her daughter new shoes for her birthday but they are poor. They live in the favela (ghetto) and Carolina struggles everyday to manage to feed her family. She has three children total‚ two sons and one daughter. Her sons’ names
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As my character‚ I decided to analyze the Joker from the movie The Dark Night‚ because I believe it is a character that has a very disturbed and complex personality to explore. Psychological disorders are psychological or behavioral patterns‚ potentially reflected in behavior‚ that is normally associated with distress or disability‚ and which is not considered part of normal development in a person’s culture. Many people talk about his character and consider him a psychopath‚ which is actually not
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Breaking Down "The Metamorphosis" Franz Kafka’s beginning of his novel‚ "The Metamorphosis‚" begins with what would seem a climactic moment: "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect." From this point on‚ the reader is determined to make sense of this transformation. However‚ the reader later comes to realize that Gregor is actually not an insect‚ but this metamorphosis into a vermin was purely symbolic. It symbolizes
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The Ups and Downs of the NYSE Abstract This paper uses an online dataset provided by our Econometrics class that shows the fluctuation in price as well as the return on investments found in the New York Stock Exchange over a certain period of time. In this paper I will demonstrate through the use of Gretl how the return on investment affects the future price of the investment. As well as why fluctuations in price are directly affected by the returns of the investment. Keywords: Price‚ Returns
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In Jane Eyre Bronte uses descriptions of the inside of Thornfield Hall to create a Gothic atmosphere in which Jane feels uncomfortable. The isolation and large uninhabited spaces of the manor remove it from the outside world. Strange entities and details as well as metaphor make the house seem unknown and plagued with the supernatural. It becomes a place stopped in time and detached from reality‚ in a way Thornfield Hall comes to represent Jane’s life. The first device Emily Bronte uses is a portrayal
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Advantages and Disadvantages of the Activation of Top-Down Processing in Speech Comprehension Speech comprehension is how we interpret messages that we hear. This is often presented to us in dialogue where we can see and interact with the other party‚ but we must also be able to understand speech in other mediums such as over the telephone‚ through the media‚ or over a tannoy announcement in a supermarket or on public transport for example. Top down processing describes how we infer meaning when information
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Hawk Down When the movie “Black Hawk Down” was first released I immediately wanted to watch it. Once I had the opportunity to see this film I was not disappointed and it instantly became one of my favorite movies. I particularly liked this film because I found it to be a captivating movie that provided a glimpse into the minds of American military leaders‚ especially the elite forces during a controversial conflict. In the years leading up to the conflict portrayed in “Black Hawk Down” the
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proficient and probably ‘dumber’ human being of the 21st Century” The current developments in technological devices‚ media‚ education systems‚ medication and foods have created a claim: that they are the main contributors to the dumbing down of the human species of the twenty first century. This claim has created a controversy where some people agreed or disagreed that the surge of these factors has been negatively affecting the intelligence of human beings. This controversy began around
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