In The Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda is a multi-award winning classic musical. The story takes place in the poor neighborhood of Washington Heights and follows Nina‚ an eighteen year old college dropout. She has always made the grade‚ been the best and outshined others in her town. After getting a scholarship to Stanford‚ she is the first person in Washington Heights to go to college. After working jobs and all the homework‚ she wasn’t able to do it all. Now‚ she has to come home to all these people
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The article “Here’s A Terrible Idea: Robot Cars With Adjustable Ethics Settings” by Patrick Lin‚ immediately grabbed my attention because it placed the theory of ethics into the 21st century. The infamous “trolley problem” is the prime example that Lin uses to discuss the moral dilemma presented by robotic cars. After reading and discussing Lin’s article‚ I agree that robotic cars with adjustable ethics settings are a terrible idea. One of the first topics that stood out to me was that 12% of people
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Let me tell you a story about Dan Gable and how he saved wrestling. He was in the second grade. His dad was taking him to a wrestling tournament in Des Moines. All the people in the area were starting to quit wrestling and started to play basketball. It was Dan’s last chance to save wrestling before he would be the only wrestler left in the area. His family had wrestled for all their life. Dan want for his kids and their kids to wrestle like he had‚ so wrestling would still be in their family. The
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Kenaikan TDL‚ Inflasi dan Harga Rokok1 Dwi Arif Kurniawan2 Sebagai karyawan yang sudah bekerja 9 tahun di industri yang mensuply industry Rokok nasional bisa di pastikan harga Rokok akan mengalami kenaikan‚ real kenaikan TDL ternyata bukan 12 % namun energy yang menggerakan Mesin Cigaret paper tempat saya bekerja mencatat kenaikan min 30 % hal tersebut karena harga TDL yang naik adalah harga LWBP (Luar Waktu Beban Puncak)‚ dari sekitar Rp.450 per KWh menjadi Rp.680 per KWh‚ yang memang kenaikannya
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Waylaid‚ Maxine Hong Kingston and Ed Lin both agree that women in China have been treated badly‚ because they are an inferior gender and have to be obedient‚ but authors have drastically different views on the status of women in the American society. Maxine Hong Kingston argues that after coming to the United States‚ Chinese women have lowered their statuses‚ because the isolations from the mainstream society prevent them from adapting feminist concepts; Lin argues that women from a lower socioeconomic
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believe “The American Dream” is not available to everybody is because they themselves are too lazy or unwilling to do the hard work that it takes to achieve your goals and life plans. One of the articles from “They live the American dream” written by Dan Rater‚ in paragraph one about Delores Kesler‚ this story talks about how her determination in having a good business made her successful. The government gave her the opportunity by giving her a ten thousand dollar loan in order to start how own business
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT A CASE STUDY OF: DAN ODIETE & CO. ESTATE SURVEYORS AND VALUERS. Dan Odiete & CO Estate Surveyors and Valuers is an organization that deals mainly on real estate (land and landed properties) registered by the Nigerian Institute of Estate surveyor and Valuers (NIESV) and the Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration board of Nigeria (ESVRBON). Its business activities includes; Buying and selling of landed properties‚ leasing and letting of landed properties
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The short story "Waiting for Dan" takes place in the 1960’s‚ during the Civil Rights Acts. Ever since Dan‚ the woman’s husband had left to go fight for his rights it has changed his wife and two sons‚Eric and Peter drastically. Their father left in the summer and has not yet came home‚ it is currently fall. The action of him standing up for his rights and trying to make the world peaceful and not divided made him end up at a prison in Mississippi. So briefly‚ Dan made a courageous choice and his
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Nicholus Lin 07‚ 26‚ 2015 Positive and Negative Long-Term Effects of the Columbian Exchange Planet earth is the only planet on Solar System where human beings can survive‚ where diseases‚ deaths‚ killings‚ greediness and love are found. There have been great events occurred on earth which changes the society of mankind. Columbian exchange in 15th century is one of the greatest events occurred on earth. There were some positive and negative results which effect long-term to human society such as spreading
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Chronicle Of An American Execution “ Chronicle Of An American Execution”‚ written by Dan Barry‚ is a very powerful and descriptive writing which illustrates an cruel execution by electrocution that took place in the state of Tennessee in 2007. Third person narrative‚ imagery and word choice are the three techniques Dan skillfully uses throughout his essay as a result to create strong and unforgettable impressions and pictures in the reader’s minds; These rhetorical devices not only lively
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