Topic: Are people’s lives the result of the choices they make? “Our destiny is not written for us‚ but by us” – I still remember this legendary catchphrase used in Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008‚ a period of time in which America was left in a debris of terrorism and economic crisis after Bush’s regime. The catchphrase eased Obama’s way to the Oval Office; it won the heart of Americans by urging them to firmly believe in an undisputed truth about how people’s lives are in their total
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How Place Shapes Us Where we live makes a big impact on our sense of self and our attitude about how “normal” people live. Traveling to different areas of the country exposes us to samples of cultural differences within just the United States. In New York‚ affluence is measured in fashion and dollars. In Boston it is about history‚ who you know and education. In Hawaii‚ the focus is on hospitality‚ "Mahalo"‚ being laid back‚ and the waves. In the Mid-West‚ for some it is about the family farms
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GUN-FREE ZONES DO NOT MAKE US MORE SAFE Columbine High School‚ Littleton‚ Colorado‚ 1999; Trolley Square Mall‚ Salt Lake City‚ Utah‚ 2007; Virginia Tech University‚ Blacksburg‚ Virginia‚ 2007; Westroads Mall‚ Omaha‚ Nebraska‚ 2007; New Life Church‚ Colorado Springs‚ Colorado‚ 2007; Pearl High School‚ Pearl‚ Mississippi‚ 1997. All of these‚ except Colorado Springs were in areas designated as gun-free zones‚ places where state‚ federal‚ and/or private property laws and regulations forbid people
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An Analysis of How The Other Half Lives The massive overcrowding in New York was epitomized by the tenements‚ which by 1880 housed over 600‚000 people within 24‚000. This awful statistic was one of many declared by Jacob Riis in his How The Other Half Lives. His work‚ influenced by other tenement reform advocates‚ synthesized the cause for reform together into this journal to convince those who were blind to the problem to want to also help. This essay will evaluate the methods and effectiveness
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Living conditions for many people back in the late 19th was depressing and an era filled with intensely hard and laborious work that did not offer any future for the average person. In “How the Other Half Lives”‚ Jacob Riis tried to expose and clarify of how harsh the living conditions for many people in New York‚ such as terrible overcrowding and terrible living conditions in tenement houses that many faced‚ the hardship of the working girls‚ and the effects that immigration has had on New York
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oblivious to the conditions that the immigrants had dealt with until the publishing of How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis. How the Other Half Lives was a book that documented the hardships that immigrants faced living in American cities through pictures and observations. Riis gave Americans an opportunity to see what life was really like for an immigrant in living in America. In How the Other Half Lives‚ Riis showed how immigrants were not entirely different from Americans and he talked about which
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brains‚ forced to make life changing decisions within seconds sometimes without a choice. When under pressure‚ some people don’t even realise what they are doing until the situation is completely over and they sit in a pool of regret over what they have done and who they have affected. Human’s moral opinions are demolished to make way for their own survival‚ their body forced into a fight or flight response and their future forever changed after what they have experienced. How I Live Now demonstrates
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Poverty Across the Globe Being in a situation with little or no money has many negative effects on people. Not only in poor countries‚ but many families in the United States too experience poverty. Poverty can mean many different things. Not having a good primary school or health center‚ not having access to safe drinking water‚ powerlessness and discrimination. As years go on‚ poverty will continue to worsen if nothing is done about it. There are many solutions to reduce the number of people living
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How to live in a Doll’s House When a man moves to a foreign place‚ he takes on a shell-shocked quality that‚ while uncomfortable‚ is easily conducive to fast and absolute personal molding. When a youth leaves grade school he is presented with a new plane of freedom that‚ though replete with glass walls‚ offers power enough for deep change to be inevitable. When a child makes his first appearance‚ naked and wet‚ he might as well be alien. The new surroundings are all that matter‚ for the past
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the high demand of entertainment in that time period‚ The Globe Theater became an enormous success. People in Shakespeare’s time desperately wanted some sort of entertainment to take their mind of their hardships and The Globe provided that break. Moreover‚ many of William Shakespeare’s plays performed at this theater‚ helping make The Globe famous not only back then but also today. In London‚ people still flock to a replica of The Globe to watch Shakespeare’s plays. This theater has a fascinating
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