The House I Live In was an amazing documentary. I was saddened to hear Nannie’s story and the stories of others that I witnessed in the film. I was blown away by how much the war on drugs is really a war on blacks more than anything else. It disgusted me to see the stereotyping of blacks by police officers under the guise of "probable cause." The police aren’t about doing real police work‚ only placing cuffs on blacks and low-income civilians and sending them to jail. It’s mind blowing to me how
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Once upon a time‚ I was walking through the field beside the old abandoned building in my neighborhood. I found a body‚ I didn’t know if the body was a man or a woman but as I got closer I see that the person was struggling to breath‚ I didn’t know what to do so I turned and ran‚ About halfway to my house I Knew i couldn’t just leave the person there so I turned back around and went to find them. When I found the person I found out that it was a young woman. She struggled to tell me that she had
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NTT DoCoMo: Marketing i-mode Why was NTT DoCoMo so successful? What is the most critical reason for its success? DoCoMo’s i-mode delivered a service that met the incipient need of a large target group in the market‚ namely a world wide web-like content service on a mobile phone‚ and rapid easy messaging; this was the critical driver of its success. Most of their strategic and marketing decisions‚ such as its choice of content‚ advertising‚ pricing‚ technology and hardware‚ revolved around
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President If all wishes were horses‚ then I would wish to be the president of the United States of America. My wishes to be the United States president are not self-centered but are based on the need to make America a better place for generations to come. In the eyes of the world we are limitless but‚ I believe there are things that are necessary to change to reflect the fame and superiority associated with America in the eyes of the world. If I was president‚ I would strive to accomplish three major
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The Historical fictional book novel ‘I Am David’ (1963) by Anne Holm conveys ideas of loss of freedom and sustained hop. The book ‘I Am David’ revolves around a young boy who is twelve years old‚ barely younger than the children reading this book is surviving in a concentration camp in Bulgaria. One day he is given a chance to escape the camp and experience freedom independence and hope. David is clenching on to hope that he can escape the concentration camp and flee to Denmark and find his mother
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I Believe in Sunshine Vanko SiTu I believe in sunshine. Sunshine as magic‚ sunshine as a headband and sunshine as water for life. Sunshine is magic. One time a girl came to me suddenly and said that I had showed up in her dream last night. At that time‚ I had just entered primary school for a short time. We joined the painting training class and she said my painting was so bad. That was our first time communication. After‚ she said she dreamed about me and I said: “I didn’t know you before
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As I was reading throughout the packets of all the poems‚ one really stood out to me. Even though it was the first poem on the first page of the packet‚ it was very powerful. I felt like I could use it and understand it more than the other poems. The poem I read was “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou. It is an incredibly powerful poem written by someone with such a rough background. It really shows how she pushed through life and what she did to get through everything she went through. What this poem
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I believe..... in honesty I strongly believe that honesty is the best policy. Let’s not go overboard and think that I never tell little white lies‚ because I do‚ but usually it is to spare someone’s feelings. I have learned throughout the course of many years that telling big lies only leads to more lies. What will happen when you tell those lies? You will usually end up telling one lie to cover up another lie and eventually‚ you will end up telling on yourself. I remember this story so vividly
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Who am I? I am just a normal junior high school student who is working hard to chase my dreams. This dream is a mist to me before‚ but‚ now‚ it is concrete because of everyone around me. The dream is to spend my life for the sake of my love ones who I can never repay. One of the most important people who influence my life and makes me me today is my brother. No matter when I got into troubles or seem to get into one‚ he has always been there to help me. He gets really strict with my
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I AM PERSISTENT By: Princess Jones October 4‚ 2012 2A In the video of Lance Armstrong‚ a cancer survivor and seven time Tour de France winner‚ a question is asked‚ “Who says we can’t do it?” Lance Armstrong replied‚ “You may only get one chance‚ so go for it!” Whenever I make reference to Lance Armstrong‚ the word persistent comes to mind. He embodies a persistent characteristic‚ and that’s the word I use to describe myself. To me‚ the quote is saying‚ you may only have one chance to
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