I have never been a fan of the phrase “You couldn’t understand”-especially when it was directed at me. As a young girl‚ I loved asking questions‚ as many kids do‚ until the dreaded words were said to me directly. “What makes someone gay?” I asked my Mom. I had heard the word tossed around before‚ but I wasn’t quite sure what it meant. “Where did you hear that! Don’t ask me that again. You couldn’t understand.” After that‚ I never asked many questions. I had this idea that I would figure most
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AIDS‚ and there is thought to be as many as 40‚000 new infections each year (Vital). It does not matter how old a person is‚ anyone is susceptible to catching the HIV virus. Any one person could be sexually active for years and never catch it‚ and someone else could be abstinent for a very long time and contract HIV from only one sexual encounter. The HIV/AIDS problem is growing rapidly in our state and local area because Katrina has displaced many people from New Orleans who are sexually active‚
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“Tell us what you don’t like about yourself‚” Dr. Troy and Dr. McNamara ask patients at the beginning of each plastic surgery consultation on the Emmy Award winning series Nip/Tuck. The patients‚ predominately Caucasian women or aspiring models and actresses‚ then give a detailed list of what they dislike about their bodies and the procedures they would like to have done. Dr. Troy will even go as far as to peruse Miami’s most popular bars and nightclubs for beautiful‚ insecure women in the entertainment
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The last time I tried to persuade someone‚ what the time when I tried to convince my brother to leave the gang life and his so called friends alone. It was the summer of 96’ when I heard that my brother was locked up for breaking in a car with his so called friends and they got caught. The judge gave them 6 months. He was the last one to come out for some reason unknown. I was thinking that his friends had put the whole thing on him. This was the first time I tried to talk to him in leaving his friends
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What makes someone a hero: What makes my dad a hero Father is the first person who I remind of hero. My father gives me a live‚ as human in order to see the social world. He protects me and take cares of me with his love and his sincere. He instructs me to be a good person. So‚ my father is my hero. When I was young‚ my father took care of me as well as my mother. I was showered‚ dressed me up by him. After school my father always asked about my homework. And when I had a problem
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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? A person should never make an important decision alone. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. We make many decisions in our life‚ whether it is a big decision‚ such as what career to study‚ or a small decision‚ where to go in the weekend‚ the choices we make could affect our life in different ways. Most of the people thought that making an important decision alone is high risk action. Other people feel that they are the
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Key Terms and Concepts 1. Democracy - a form of government in which all eligible people have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. 2. Elite class theory - posits that a select few individuals control decision making. 3. Government - The government is a system that decided the state of affairs for our country‚ state‚ and community. This is where new rules and laws are made. Not all of them are passed‚ but this is where it starts. 4. Gross Domestic Product - Gross domestic
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reading this book if I saw someone like Auggie I would have definitely reacted differently. The character I think I would have reacted similar to would be Charlotte. In the book August says when he meets Charlotte “she gave me a quick wave‚ a smile‚ and said nice to meet you”. If I were to meet someone like Auggie I probably would have done something similar. Normally when meeting someone I would shake his or her hand but I would most likely be a little shy around someone like August. Charlotte was
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Being self-employed vs. working for someone else Self-employment and working for someone else has many of the same benefits and disadvantages. Although self-employment will allow a person to be his or her own boss and have endless financial possibilities‚ it also can be harder than working for someone else. Just because a person is able to work for their self‚ it does not mean that it will be any easier than working for someone else or even be more successful. Self-employment allows
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In fact‚ a being that exists as an idea and also in reality is considered to be greater than a being that only exists only as an idea. In this case we can imagine someone who is greater than that idea in our mind. So‚ according to the superiority that being should be God but according to believes and ontology we cannot imagine someone greater than God because God is the greatest possible thing that can be imagined. When we look at the complexity of earth‚ stars‚ solar system and everything around
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