Smith English 101 Miss Erhardt 12/4/12 Friendship and Facebook Facebook started out as a simple social networking site‚ and has now grown to be one of the biggest companies in the world. One would typically join the site to be social with others‚ but it seems like it is almost distancing people from one another. Facebook users tend to have hundreds of friends‚ but how many of those can actually be considered real friends? The meaning of friendship seems to be forgotten when it comes to Facebook
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In Aristotle’s writing‚ he lists three different types of friendship. The number of the different kinds of friendship is equivalent to the three distinct things that a person can enjoy. The three types of friendship are pleasureful friends‚ useful friends‚ and perfect friends. The first kind of friend‚ the pleasureful‚ is usually pursued by young people. That sort of friend is one who seeks thrills and may like to party‚ get drunk‚ or do drugs. Or he could be pleasureful in other ways‚ like participating
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Perspectives on Merchants The attitudes toward merchants from Islam and Christianity differed; some viewed merchants in a positive light but others thought of them in a negative way. Between 70 CE and 1500 BCE the attitudes changed over time. Islam first viewed merchants with a positive attitude and over time‚ their perspective evolved into a negative view of merchants‚ as for Christianity they first viewed merchants negatively and then over time their view evolved into looking at merchants positively
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sympathy between us‚ so we are very close friends. Mai is one of the best students in my class but she is always modest. She is also responsible and careful. I like working with her. She tries her best to finish her work. I think as time goes by‚ our friendship will be deeper and deeper.Hi‚ please have a look at my essay on describing a friend and give me some feedback!thanks! I think that i am very lucky because i have a lot of friends. Among my best friends is Mai. She is 16 years old. we live in the
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The Crystal Merchant and Englishman’s Development “We make a lot of detours‚ but we’re always heading for the same destination” (77). Paulo Coelho’s novel The Alchemist reveals how Santiago goes about in a journey to achieve his Personal Legend. In his journey Santiago meets several people‚ although not everyone served a role in helping him realize his Personal Legend‚ but the Crystal Merchant and the Englishman served as big part in the realization of Santiago Personal Legend. Santiago had to
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Friendship and Betrayal Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ once said‚ “In the end‚ we will remember not the words of our enemies‚ but the silence of our friends”. Friends can have a lasting effect on someone and their betrayal can cut deeper than an enemy. As the saying goes‚ good friends are hard to come by‚ thus when a good friendship ignites‚ one should return the honor. The Kite Runner demonstrates friendship and betrayal throughout the novel. It first portrays how Amir betrayed Hassan‚ then Amir betrayed
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The Color of Friendship The story begins in 1977‚ Washington D.C. A girl named Piper has been sent an invitation for an "Exchange student" program which allows her and her family to have a student from South Africa to live with them for 4 months. Piper plans to do anything for her father who has a career as a congressman to give permission. Meanwhile‚ Marhee plans to do the same from South Africa. Marhee is also allowed to participate in the exchange program thinking that the American family
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of prosperity and improvement? Merchants and Craft Guilds played a colossal role in initiating and carrying out the economic growth. The Merchants and Craft guilds contributed to economic development by contributing to the government‚ setting up guilds where townspeople could learn trades and crafts‚ regulating production‚ setting laws‚ having a process to become a master artisan‚ acting as a social support system‚ and overall increasing trade substantially. Merchants played a pivotal role in gaining
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As much as humans like to control their own lives‚ there are many aspects that are outside of our control. For example‚ we do not choose the families into which we are born or the places where we grow up. The same is sometimes true of friendships. Some friends we choose because we identify them as people who are similar to us and because they offer us something we want. Occasionally‚ however‚ we make unexpected friends. For example‚ a young person bumps into someone at the library who is crying because
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Mexico but he gave him something so much bigger also. He gave him a lesson in life‚ hope and determination and that really kept him alive on the inside and outside. Andy and Reds relationship made me sure about one thing‚ you really can find true friendship that lasts for a lifetime everywhere‚ even inside of the darkest place of them all. Red: Red can get people whatever they need. That makes him a very popular person inside the prison‚ but despite that I don’t get the feeling that Red abuse
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