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    Drug Obsession

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    Drug Obsession Most teenagers tend to want to try new things because it’s shown on TV in a cool or unique way. Drugs are a popular topic for TV shows‚ movies‚ music‚ and music videos for this generation. TV shows‚ movies‚ and music show that it’s okay to do and or sell illegal substances clearly this is wrong. Showing drugs in this capacity give the illusion that it’s okay to take or do them. This makes teenagers assume that it is alright to take the substance even though it is not. Drug

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    Aminata Siby March 3rd‚ 2013 English 10 (F Band) Perfection or Society’s embedding? Society embeds a view that one has to be perfect‚ in order to fit in. This standard of perfection causes one to drift away from the real world‚ thus‚ causing one to become materialistic. Because Ivan Ilyich lives in a society where perfection matters‚ in The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy‚ he does everything to live in a world of flawlessness. He does this in order to fit into this community‚ causing him

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    What is "Perfection”? Currently in our society‚ looks mean everything. People care so much about their appearance that they are going above and beyond to achieve the look the media makes us believe is perfect. Women are going to the most credited plastic surgeons and men are going to the gym and taking muscle growth supplements more than ever before. But who is to blame? The celebrities demonstrating perfection‚ the media exposing their flawless pictures‚ or our own insecure minds? Not only is

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    Suzanna Arundhati Roy[1] (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author and political activist who is best known for the 1998 Man Booker Prize for Fiction winning novel The God of Small Things (1997) and for her involvement in environmental and human rights causes. Roy ’s novel became the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author. Contents   [hide]  1 Early life and background 2 Career 2.1 Literary career 2.2 Early career: screenplays 2.3 The God of Small Things 2.4 Later career

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    From Charlie Sheen to the Queen; we follow them‚ we love them. But has our obsession with celebrities gone too far? So ask yourself: why are we “infected” with this viral disease? Does celebrity worship syndrome affect us? What type of celebrity do we classify as a one we would follow? Why has the Twitter revolution changed our views of celebrities? And most importantly‚ who do we blame for our addictive behaviour? We must turn away from our celebrity driven life and be our own mind controllers.

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    a selection of those that are patrolled to create the heroine. However; every hero has their enemies. The darkness that seeks the light forever has a shadow to cast it back…so as my mother taught me before her passing. This role of “Queen of Perfection” has

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    When you hear the word perfection‚ what is the first image that pops out of your mind? Is it the bright‚ shiny‚ twinkling smile of Ian Somerhalder or is it the sexy body of Megan Fox? Or perhaps is it just the cute face of your crush in one of your classes? Or maybe the simple concept of having complete and functional limbs is enough for you to be considered perfect already. For Merriam Webster‚ perfection is the freedom from fault or defect – or just plain flawlessness. As for most of the people

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    compulsive disorders. The most common type is contamination obsession. It is a fear of any disease or contact any subject. As a result of this‚ the person starts to over-clean‚ such as often hand washing. Excessive hand washing can sometimes even lead to a complete deep skin destruction. The person can spend most of their day at home by washing themselves or isolating themselves from being out because of fear of contamination. Another common obsession is ‘’ checking’’. The person may repeatedly check to

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    creating this near-impossible to achieve standard for beauty by which everyone should be judged‚ women‚ men‚ children‚ and now the dead not excluded. And what is not attainable in life‚ is made attainable‚ and almost mandatory‚ in death. Western obsession with beauty is reflected in how they prepare the body of the deceased. On the first page of the essay‚ it is said that that practice of embalming and primping a corpse for its burial has become so “universally employed in the United States” that

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    achievements. Technology evolution has always been very precise and important. This has been driven people obsessed with vanguard technology. In the past‚ people hadn’t the chance to be surrounded by technology as we are now (accessibility). So human’s obsession with technology has its own reasons and consequences. Individuals get obsessed with technology because of necessity‚ to improve lifestyle‚ to get a better life‚ to have a simple and easy life. This kind of mania exists because people can afford

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