After retirement‚ many elderly people reflect on their lives‚ they consider their social status‚ job‚ income and current health. Most would say they had a good life‚ but none of them would ever question whether or not they deserved the life they had. The reason is that Americans have a meritocratic society in place that reward for effort and ability. In other words‚ a person will get what they deserve as long as they work hard for it. According to Narmit Arora “we are the authors of our own destiny
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Living in America‚ I came to understand the difficulties of practicing Islam in urban life. There is not enough time to pray five times a day because most of the time I spend is in school. For example‚ waking up at 7 a.m. to get ready and go to school until 3 pm. Also‚ there are no facilities in high school where you can pray during lunch time or breaks to pray unlike in rural areas of Bangladesh. There are other challenges such as types of food that are served in the school cafeteria. I remember
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I am writing to you today‚ asking if you would join me in trying to reduce pollution in the United States of America in 2017. Pollution is incredibly harmful to the environment‚ world‚ climate‚ and even space. Pollution damages our atmosphere which then creates acid rain and toxins in the air. The 2015 "State of the Air" report finds 52 percent of Americans live in counties with unhealthy levels of air pollution. Pollution starts with littering which can harm many things depending on where litter
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in not just freedom and happiness for themselves‚ but in that for other people as well. Governor Terry McAuliffe states‚"They [white supremacists] get out of bed every day to hate people and divide our country… Let’s be honest‚ they need to leave America‚ because they are not Americans.” As Americans‚ we are to work together as one towards a common goal of liberty; not to kill or harm those that you believe are not deserving. To further prove his point of striving to bring people together as Americans
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Voting in America There are many things that people in America can vote on. They range from taxes to presidents to laws. For the sake of simplicity‚ the following will be focusing on the voting of presidents since it is the most well-known and relevant at the time. Most if not all of the things noted in the voting of presidents can be transferred to the voting of anything else. However‚ in order to understand what is wrong with the voting of our president‚ it is essential that the process of how
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Healthcare in America: Financially Subsidizing Cultural Competence in the Healthcare System Introduction Healthcare has always formed a fundamental aspect of any nation. In fact‚ the economic health of any nation can be determined by examining the healthcare sector. Unfortunately‚ many countries are unable to provide comprehensive healthcare to their citizens. Of course‚ there are varied reasons for this in different countries‚ but for the United States‚ one of the most fundamental reasons
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writers also had become very popular‚ such as Margaret Fuller or Catharine Sedgwick‚ who wrote serials for magazines and newspapers or some women had written best-selling novels. Edgar Allan Poe may have been the most whimsical author in the 1800’s in America. His poetry and short stories reflected deeply troubled lives‚ containing abused drugs and worrying constantly about money. The Americans still seemed to enjoy his work. As far as scientific advances go‚ people had taught themselves astronomy‚ developed
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engineering marvels. He built a turntable for 75 to 100 ton locomotives literally on the side of a steep mountain. This was so locomotives with snow plows could be in front of the train while negotiating switch backs. But this man was not alone it seemed America was full of such men in the late 18th and 19th century. As we cover hot metal history we find even more outstanding men like Otto Mears but in the iron and steel business. Another thing was nobody on the planet could dish out cooperate skullduggery
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Thorner School sixth-grader Stephen Bush‚ Reagan School fifth-grader Paityn Boyt and Discovery Elementary fourth-grader Jessica Stump emerged as winners at the annual Bank of America Essay and Speech Contest held (tonight) May 5 at University Square in Bakersfield. The three were the best at their grade levels from a finals field featuring 31 of the area’s top essayist-speakers. Each had three-to-five minutes to deliver their speech from an essay they had previously written on "Traditional Libraries:
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Alfredo Grimaldo HU-101-WL1 10-20-10 Xenophobia There are many factors that need to be observed to determine what causes people to experience xenophobia. Xenophobia is defined as a condition where people suffer irrational fear of strangers or foreigners. The symptoms of people that suffered from this condition are very real and can range from feeling nauseated or excessive sweating to dry mouth‚ heart palpitations‚ a fear of dying‚ and anxiety attacks. Nevertheless‚ what exactly causes people
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