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    Prison has been around in human society for many millions of years. Having someone who disobeyed the law of that village‚ town‚ city or country punished in some form of institution‚ cutting them off from people‚ is a common concept – a popular and supposedly "needed" process society has taken to doing for many years now has been put under the spotlight many times by many different figures and people in society. The question remains – do prisons only make people worse? Many articles have been published

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    "How Shakespeare Changed the Sonnet World" Although sonnets have been modified by individual poets and adapted to changing literary expectations‚ they usually still retained certain characteristics of the traditional Italian sonnet. Especially in terms of subject matter. Those early modern poets paved the way for Shakespeare’s sonnet‚ which diverges significantly from the traditional sonnet subject matter. His sonnets mark a turn towards a more sincere interiority‚ and take on many more subjects

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    INFLATION vs UNEMPLOYMENT Which is the Bigger Evil ? Firstly‚ what is inflation and what is unemployment ? Unemployment occurs when a person who is actively searching for employment is unable to find work. Unemployment is often used as a measure of the health of the economy. The most frequently cited measure of unemployment is the unemployment rate.This is the number of unemployed persons divided by the number of people in the labor force‚ while inflation is the rate of change in the general level

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    Who is Lawrence Tureaud? Most people in the world don’t know this name. The world knows him by his nickname‚ Mr. T. People know him by his role in Rocky III as Clubber Lang‚ but Tureaud wasn’t just a movie star. Tureaud was a military veteran‚ professional football player‚ and was apart of wrestling mania. As a small town boy‚ Lawrence Tureaud pushed through a tough childhood into a life of stardom and fame‚ and may have changed the world of entertainment forever. The childhood of Lawrence Tureaud

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    How Has American Business Changed In the Last 50 Years? In the last fifty years America has encountered more changes than ever before. The prosperity of our county driven by American consumerism has enabled businesses and individuals to branch out beyond the corporate‚ business as usual‚ models. Consequently‚ individual creativity sparked the entrepreneurial drive that facilitated the technical revolution of the 1970’s and beyond. Sure some could argue that the industrial revolution of the

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    Why the world needs introverts Rosa Parks: an introvert who changed the world. Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS Rosa Parks: an introvert who changed the world. Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS Read by 53‚277 people Remove from timeline Tuesday 13 March 2012 Shy‚ unconfident‚ solitary: there are many popular conceptions of introversion – most of them negative – but the reality is far more complicated Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important

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    Miguel P. Paul McCartney: The Man Who Changed the World Paul McCartney is one of the most recognizable icons since the 60’s. Through his work with “The Beatles‚” His solo career‚ or his works for animal right‚ he is one man who has changed society as we knew it. “I was born in Walton hospital on 18th June 1942‚” (McCartney 2000) in Liverpool‚ England. In 1953‚ at the age of 11‚ Paul started attending the Liverpool Institute. Later on he met George Harrison on a bus ride home. They both attended

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    The compass‚ steel‚ paper‚ the printing press‚ and the kite are all inventions from Ancient China. All of these inventions have a huge impact on the world today. Ancient China has had many inventions that have impacted and changed the world. The invention that has the greatest impact is gunpowder. Gunpowder was made by accident by Chinese alchemists were trying to find the elixir of life. They discovered it when they mixed sulfur‚ charcoal‚ and potassium nitrate. The Chinese started to use gunpowder

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    The Chinese Exclusion Act   The United States of America is a typical country that stresses fairer for people. Americans advocate that everyone should be free and equal. They emphasize the basic rights of humans. In the Declaration of Independence‚ it says people have three unalienable rights‚ life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness. Nobody can despoil these rights without suitable reason. But‚ after a hundred years that the Declaration of Independence was passed‚ the American government passed

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    anyone can make it into a world of prosperity and prestigious heights in the social class of the United States? If an example is necessary‚ one may think of people associated with big oil companies or mobsters during the 1920s. Although this may be correct‚ there is someone who arose just as fast and made a life and name for himself. Henry Ford is the man behind these words. He had changed our modern world and put us all one step closer to a more advanced and sophisticated world. Henry Ford was a pioneer

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