Getting to Know You In the summer before 7th grade I broke my right wrist and I didn’t know if I would be able to play football‚ so I went talk to my great grandma and she told me to keep my head up and not to worry because I would be ready… My life has been full of events that have helped me develop goals and values. The week before 7th grade started I got my cast on my right wrist off and we started try-outs and I went in thinking I got it‚ but I struggled and it was bad I did so bad
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Gay Marriage Love Knows No Gender All people have the right to make their own choices on who they love‚ right? Wrong. Think about all of the people who are homosexual. There are laws prohibiting them‚ telling them that they can’t marry the person thy love because of their sexual. Orientation. They can be together‚ but they cannot make it official because of a law. That would be like telling heterosexual people that they can’t marry the person they love for some reason. It’s a violation of
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the world? I n Alison Motluk’s essay ”Supersize Me”‚ she claims that living an unhealthy lifestyle has become the norm due to the prevailing culture in the United States that promotes obesity. She comes to this conclusion through various observations of the changes in American society. She justifies this statement by pointing out that in a ten year period‚ the number of people considered clinically obese has doubled in some parts of the country. Alison Motluk asserts that one reason
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plaintiffs contended that the defendant was liable to pay the plaintiffs a total sum of RM1‚592‚074.89 as liquidated damages. In opposing the plaintiffs’ application‚ the defendant raised two legal issues for the determination of the court‚ namely: (i) whether s 56(3) of the Contracts Act 1950 (‘the Contracts Act’) would operate to exclude a claim for liquidated ascertained damages and (ii) whether the terms of the sale and purchase agreements can be said to operate to entitle the plaintiffs to liquidated
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Mr. Know-All by W. Somerset Maugham This story deals with prejudice‚ hasty judgements and stereotypes. The story examines the relationships that develop when people are confined to a ship (which is a small sample of society) for an extended period of time. The writer criticizes the racial prejudices and snobbish attitude of the British people. He tries to show why people are disliked and prejudiced against and at the same time makes the reader look closely at the character of the narrator‚ who
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In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ Maya Angelou describes her experiences growing up as an insecure black girl in Stamps‚ Arkansas in the 1930’s and later moving to California in the 1940’s. Maya’s parents divorced when she was three years old. Her older brother‚ Bailey and Maya were sent to Stamps‚ Arkansas to live with their grandmother‚ Anne Henderson. Anne‚ whom they called Momma‚ ran the only general store in the black section of Stamps‚ Arkansas. Momma became a strong moral female
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A recent problem that I encountered was when I was trying to create an entry for the Get to Know contest‚ which is an annual contest that encourages young people to create original works of art‚ writing‚ photography‚ videography and music inspired by nature. As an artist‚ I was drawn to the art category‚ especially since I was brimming with ideas after a year where I spent much of my time outdoors‚ camping and hiking. The possibilities seemed endless at the time. But as I drew sketch after sketch
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Susan Keith and Michelle Martin’s essay‚ Cyber-Bullying: Creating a Culture of Respect in a Cyber World‚ describes the cyber-bullying in today’s youth and convinces people to address it as a significant form of child violence and harassment. The introduction describes modern concerns regarding youth violence and goes on to include cyber-bullying as a new form of social harassment that has risen with the popularity of the internet. Susan and Michelle then go on to define cyber-bullying and provide
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KNOW YOUR CUSTOMER (KYC) NORMS / ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING (AML) STANDARDS (RECENT UPDATES) Shell Bank: Shell Bank is a bank which is incorporated in a country where it has no physical presence and is unaffiliated to any regulated financial group. Shell banks are not permitted to operate in India. Banks should refuse to enter into a correspondent relationship with a ’shell bank’ Money mules: “Money mules” can be used to launder the
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1) The first woman president of India -- Smt. Pratibha Patil 2) The first lady to become "Miss World" -- Rita Faria 3) The first woman judge in Supreme Court -- Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi ...4) The first woman Ambassador -- Miss C.B. Muthamma 5) The first woman Governor of a State in free India -- Mrs. Sarojini Naidu (1925) 6) The first woman Prime Minister -- Mrs. Indira Gandhi 7) The first woman to climb Mount Everest -- Bachhendri Pal The first woman to climb Mount Everest
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