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    to me or anyone else. I did not try my best in anything‚ I gave up too fast at everything‚ I never tried to push through anything. My carelessness‚ at the time‚ did not do any good for me or my future. I struggled too much at the time and I did not try anything to push through in any way‚ shape‚ or form. During this time I reached one of the lowest points in my life where I never would want to end up again. During this time I grew up with many household problems‚ which included: domestic violence

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    or pictures. Uncle Clinton had a funny cartoon giggle when he laughed and love to eat all kinds of junk food. We always had fun together. We watched cartoons and played video games. He was almost as old as my mommy and I never thought that a grown up would ever understand us kids. One day my family decided to have a barbeque. At every family gathering the adults like to sit at a long rectangular‚ wooden table and play dominoes. My uncle liked to play too so he sat down with the adults as well

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    Rank | Name | Net Worth | Age | Source | Country of Citizenship | 1 | Carlos Slim Helu & family | $69 B | 72 | telecom | Mexico | 2 | Bill Gates | $61 B | 57 | Microsoft | United States | 3 | Warren Buffett | $44 B | 82 | Berkshire Hathaway | United States | 4 | Bernard Arnault | $41 B | 63 | LVMH | France | 5 | Amancio Ortega | $37.5 B | 76 | Zara | Spain | 6 | Larry Ellison | $36 B | 68 | Oracle | United States | 7 | Eike Batista | $30 B | 55 | mining‚ oil | Brazil | 8 | Stefan

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    In chapter eight‚ “The Future of the Ghetto” in American Apartheid‚ Nancy Denton and Douglas Massey argue that residential segregation is a threat to society’s well-being because of its social‚ political‚ and economic consequences. As a result‚ the authors call for structural change and the creation of regulations along with the overall understanding that segregation is detrimental to all‚ to sustain a desegregated society. The authors begin by addressing the problems with how race and class are

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    I grew up with a father who knew best how to take a pill. The night he died‚ the forty xanaxes went down easily. It was the rum that burned his throat a little bit‚ but that burn meant he was still alive‚ didn’t it? Somewhere in between the sips of fire‚ he passed out‚ and eventually he passed away. I would like to tell you I am angry with him‚ but I will not be angry anymore. I sobbed this over his still warm body one hundred times until my throat burned a little‚ too. My dad was a drug addict.

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Trying to Grow Up Throughout history‚ child prodigies have been celebrated as objects of envy and adulation. Rarely‚ however‚ have they been understood. Often taunted by peers‚ hounded by the press‚ prodded by demanding parents and haunted by outsize expectations of greatness‚ they are treated as wondrous curiosities. But their stories are often a sad and captivating one‚ marked by early achievement and the promise of something greater. The letters exchanged between Mozart

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    The only time a problem in the ghetto gets addressed is when a cop murders a black male. Which by the way “every 28 hours a African American is killed by a security officer” according to alternet.com. Police brutality is a very big problem in ghettos all around the world. “Although black men make up only 6% of the U.S. population‚ they account for for 40% of the unarmed men shot to death by police this year” according to WashingtonPost.com.The officer that committed the murder usually gets just a

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    Ghettos‚ 1910-1970 After the Emancipation Proclamation was passed‚ most of the black population scattered to find their families and friends. About ninety percent of African Americans lived in the confederacy and around 1970 more than fifty percent lived outside of the south. Millions of African Americans sought to escape poverty in the south by moving to Northern cities where they hoped to find better lives‚ also seeking bigger opportunity and racial tolerance. Most of the migrants

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    Growing up in a Christian household my family has always instilled in me that I am in the world‚ not of the world. This means I live in this world because God as placed me here‚ but I do not act like unbelievers of the world. When believers and unbelievers see me‚ they should know that I am Gods child. This relates to Walter in the video because he is betraying hatred to blacks and interracial marriage and using the bible and the law in the wrong context to back him up. My earliest years of remembering

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    Causes of Child Obesity "Many of today’s kids are engaged in sedentary pursuits made possible by a level of technology unthinkable as recently as 25 to 30 years ago. Computer‚ video‚ and other virtual games‚ the ready availability of feature films and games on DVD‚ plus high-tech advancements in music-listening technology have come down into the range of affordability for parents and even for the kids themselves. These passive pursuits have produced a downside of reduced physical activity for the

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