READY TO DIE In 1994‚ Hip Hop artist Notorious B.I.G released his debut album Ready to Die under the Bad Boy Records label. This was marked as the first release on their label. Ready to Die made the Notorious B.I.G. a star and vaulted Sean "Puffy" Combs’ Bad Boy label into the spotlight as well. It’s recognized as one of the greatest hardcore rap albums ever recorded. The album reached quadruple platinum with infamous tracks Juicy‚ Big Poppa and One More Chance. In June of 1995‚ the single
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Changing the Minimum Legal Drinking Age in the United States Over the past twenty years the minimum legal drinking age has been twenty-one in all US states‚ but that has not stopped citizens of the United Sates from attempting to lower the age. Following the end of prohibition in the United Sates during the Great Depression‚ all states agreed on a set of twenty-one to be the legal drinking age. For almost forty years there was no change in the drinking age until a decrease in the age for voting occurred
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Intro Academic summary: In “Let Teenagers Try Adulthood‚” Leon Botstein argues that the “American high school is obsolete and should be abolished.” He explains that this obsolescence is because high school does not represent the way real life works‚ that real life is not a popularity contest dominated by the best athletes like the hierarchies that he claims exist among students and teachers in high schools. Botstein suggests that our society sequesters teenagers in high schools because adults “don’t like adolescents
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choose just one moment that determines adulthood when many little moments make up this journey. Going to a restaurant and finally having your feet touch the floor. A monumental moment for me as child when I felt I was finally becoming an adult. Sitting in the front seat of my moms car for the first time. Finally getting those braces off after three terrible years. Making a phone call and sending a real email. These moments marked achievements into adulthood. They taught me to challenge myself with
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Now and Then Interview “Times sure have changed” is a quote that comes to mind when thinking of the different between being an adolescent today compared to being an adolescent sixty years ago. To find out more about the differences I was able to speak with a male‚ currently age 82‚ and a female age 18. I am familiar with both of these individuals one‚ a close friend of the family‚ and my cousin’s daughter was able to answer some questions for me also. These two people both grew up in the United
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Why Should the Legal Age for Tattooing be Lowered? Would you prefer your child/grandchild have a safe tattoo or a potentially life threatening disease? A tattoo may be a scary thing for the parent of a teenager‚ but in the heart of a parent who loves their child the possible dangers of a tattoo achieved through the ambition of a teenager should far outweigh a little bit of ink-stained skin. Legal tattoo parlors are required to be licensed‚ provide a safe and sanitary environment‚ follow proper
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2 Operations Strategy Defining how firms compete Chapter Objectives • Introduce the concept of operations strategy and its various components‚ and show how it relates to the overall business strategy of the firm. • Illustrate how operations strategy pertains to adding value for the customer. • Identify the different ways in which operations strategy can provide an organization with a competitive advantage. • Introduce the concept of trade-offs between different strategies
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stories are why most students are not suited for a high school environment the way it is situated now but they have to deal with it until something is done to change things. Leon Botstein explained most of this from his perspective as the President of Bard College and as the author of Jefferson’s Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture. The article called “Let Teenagers Try Adulthood” first appeared in the Op/Ed section of the New York Times in 1999 after the Littleton (Columbine)
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Minimum Legal Drinking Age Should be Lowered “Adults under 21 are deemed capable of voting‚ signing contracts‚ serving on juries and enlisting in the military‚ but are told they are not mature enough to have a beer.” ("Amethyst Initiative: Rethink the Drinking Age"). The causes behind the minimum legal drinking age standardization nationally has not been alleviated in the past couple decades and should be repealed. The minimum legal drinking age should be lowered to the age of eighteen which is
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yourself in order to be accepted‚ but a rite of passage is about a more personal acceptance into your own life. And in my opinion the passage into adulthood is the most important one in a person’s life. Since the earliest times there has always been a line drawn between an adult and a child‚ they are always classified as two different types of people. Now when one thinks of the differences between a child and an adult they often think about the physical ones; in the poem "rite of passage" when the
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