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    A World without Work Could the world one day be run by robots due to technological advances? In the article “A World without Work”‚ Derek Thompson writes advances in technology have taken over thousands and thousands of people’s jobs. Published in the July/August 2015 issue of The Atlantic‚ Thompson makes you think what if one day you will be jobless due to advances in technology; just like the 50‚000 lost jobs in Youngstown‚ Ohio. Thompson clearly presents plenty of credible evidence to support

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    World Famous Parabolic Arches “The Golden Arches” McDonalds ARCHITECT: Stanley Menston HISTORY The business began in 1940‚ with a restaurant opened by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bernardino‚ California. The company began as a barbecue restaurant and in 1948‚ they reorganized their business specifically as a hamburger stand selling burgers for 15 cents. Their initial drem was to reinvent the term “Fast food‚ Fast service.” that white castle had created two decades earlier. However

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    Running head: Softball History of Softball Sports has been linked back to the Aztec Indians in the 1500’s. Every culture has had some influence by sports. The Indians played sports‚ the Africans played‚ and Europeans played sports. Sports have been a great impact on the world. I can’t remember what it was like not to be in a sport‚ I have been competing so long. Sports teach adolescents‚ as well as some younger children integrity‚ hard work‚ perseverance‚ and in some cases maturity‚

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    The Most Famous Online Marketplaces A few decades ago‚ the ideas of shopping online were not as popular as today. People talked about it as an unsecure method of shopping. Nowadays‚ it becomes a new trend of shopping. For most people‚ it’s the fastest and cheapest way to buy all the thing that they need. They just need to access the Internet with a computer‚ and then they can easily do the shopping online at anywhere and anytime. As the result‚ thousands of online shopping websites were born. However

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    Famous Abe Abraham Lincoln‚ aka honest Abe was born February 12th 1809 in Hodgenville‚ Kentucky. He married Mary Todd Lincoln‚ and together they had four children; Robert Todd Lincoln‚ Edward “Eddie” Baker Lincoln‚ William “Willie” Wallace Lincoln and Thomas “Tad“ Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States in 1861. Leading up to Lincolns election a law was passed called the Kansas-Nebraska act‚ allowing states to vote whether they wanted to be a slave state or not

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    Thinking Assignment #2 Q1 1. Describe Pavlov’s famous salivating dog experiment. Pavlov introduced a variety of edible and non-edible items and measures the saliva production that the items produced. Salivation‚ he noted‚ is a reflexive process. It occurs automatically in response to a specific stimulus and is not under conscious control. However‚ Pavlov noted that the dogs would often begin salivating in the absence of food and smell. He quickly realized that this salivary response was not due

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    How to become famous One day I became famous .I was not a good singer‚ actress or dancer but when my mom told me to try out for acting‚ singing and dancing I said okay then. So first I try out for singing they said that was a the best audition ever I never seen anything that is fabulous you know what next time we will have a show you will sing on stage ok. Next I tried out for dancing they said that was wonderful! You made I said

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    Famous Chemists and What They Discovered Svante Arrhenius (1859 -1927) - He was initially a physicist but more popular as a chemist because‚ he was the one who proposed the equation now known as the Arrhenius equation. He was also one of the first chemists who proposed that when in a solution the salt dissociates into ions even in the absence of an electric current. Amedeo Avogadro (1776 - 1856) - He is known for proposing the Avogadro’s Law which states that‚ "Equal volumes of gases contain

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    For almost American teenagers‚ having a conversation with their president is considered as a privilege and it’s honorable to have a chance like that. For me‚ in spite of just being a Vietnamese girl‚ not an American one‚ I long to come face to face with the President Barack Obama or have a short conversation with him by the telephone. Obama is a phenomenon as a Black man who became the leader of the most powerful nation in the world. He is also the good model of the excellence‚ persistence and

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    characters from Hamlet it would be the main character‚ Hamlet. For centuries he continues to amaze and fascinate its readers‚ perhaps because of the mysteriousness of his character‚ as well as the relevance of the topics covered in his monologues. His famous monologue beginning with "to be or not to be ..."‚ is probably the most cited page in the history of literature. Hamlet is an enigmatic character‚ and even the most astute reader may say that he/she hasn’t really understood the character‚ and the

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