Live fast and die young. They say age ain’t nothing but a number‚ but in this instance‚ the “they” that comprises the clichéd masses have it right. I’ve seen ageism permeate the thought patterns of my brethren and I’m here to put an end to it if it’s not already too late. I’ve heard brilliant youth told that they’re too young to know their shit and sage elders marginalized to irrelevancy. I’ve known cats in their sixties with their finger on the pulse and eighteen year olds that put the “L” in lame
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Preview: Menand’s article “Live and Learn” covers the idea of the educational system and higher education. Trying to answer the question: what is the most appropriate system for higher education? He answers this first by describing three theories that higher education runs off. The first is that education should be ran by the book and by a grading scale‚ the second is using the pass fail incentive‚ and the third and‚ the most important to our modern society‚ is the ideal that college is more for
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What is the rule that you live by? We all live in the world of rules. I would classify all the rules into two big groups macro and micro. Macro rules are the rules that were formed by government’s institutions‚ religion‚ culture and society. Micro rules are settled by each person for himself of herself depending on the way he/she was brought up and educated. I have a few personal rules I use in my live actively. They are very simple and based on a very elementary foundation. First of them is
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In Mike Rose’s “Lives on the Boundary” he describes the lives of two students outside of the classroom. The first student he talked about was Marita‚ who was accused of plagiarism by her English professor on her first writing assignment. Mike Rose‚ her counselor‚ then talks about the circumstances in how she plagiarized when she did not mean to. The next student‚ Lucia‚ who was a nontraditional type of student. Mike Rose talks about the many different things that have to come into place for her to
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How to live a greener lifestyle With the development of the society. More people have paid attention to sustainable environment. This essay will introduce how to live a greener life which can be applied by each person living on earth. The behavior of greener lifestyle includes food‚ clothing‚ living and transports. These 4 parts also regarded as 4 basic need of human. First‚ food and clothes make a great difference for both saving source and reducing waste. Food can be divided into 2 parts
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Public Figures and Private Lives Publicity; it is umently a big deal. Everyone wants to be a celebrity. They want to be a famous actor‚ singer‚ etc. However‚ the real idea people need to be thinking about is‚ are you willing to give up your privacy and freedom? Once one becomes known to the public so does their entire life‚ whether one likes it or not. Take a look at Britney Spears; there is nothing about her life that is not public. Should this be a bad thing? Or should these public figure have
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The Butterfly Theory in our Lives It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world. The butterfly effect is a tenant to the Chaos theory. Chaos can be described as disorientated or random behavior based on initial circumstances. In scientific jargon the term “chaos” does not carry a negative connotation‚ instead the unpredictable behavior that it relates with is desirable. The Chaos Theory is a mathematical
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Synopsis of the project. Live Video streaming using HTML5 Statement about the Problem The project aims to develop a live video streaming application using HTML5. HTML5 equips organizations to leverage open standards and stream videos without depending on a third-party player or plug-ins. An MPEG/H.264‚ Ogg/Theora‚ or WebM/VP8 video can each be played in the standard web browser‚ whether it is a PC‚ Mac‚ Linux‚ iOS‚ or Android device. HTML
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microphones boomed with motivating speeches. Everybody there had some motivation‚ a passion to create change. Most importantly‚ the crowd consisted of people of all races‚ all ethnicities‚ and all professions. Whether it was the families of those who lost lives speaking through the microphones or the supporters rallying in the crowd‚ we were all there for one reason. That reason was change.
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Alexie Saves Lives Sherman Alexie’s essay “Superman and Me” is about how Alexie changed his life‚ and the lives of others‚ by learning to read. “Sherman Alexie‚ a Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian‚ grew up on a reservation surrounded by poverty‚ alcoholism‚ and disease. . .” (About Sherman Alexie)‚ though his family was poor‚ his father loved to read; and Alexie adopted that love of reading at an early age. Alexie soon started to see the world around him like paragraphs. He would read anything and everything
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