Amanda Belzowski’s Lemonade Stand A 15 year old girl that is a passionate volunteer‚ philanthropist and inspirational speaker has an unfinished mission to inspire other youths to follow their dreams. Amanda Belzowski’s lemonade stand has raised over $150 000 for the Heart and Stroke Foundation‚ Save A Child’s Heart and Sick Kids Hospital. Her Beginning In 1998‚ at the age of 2‚ Amanda and her family were on a bike ride for the Heart and Stroke Ride in Toronto. After the fundraiser‚ they stopped
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You may have been told that it is important to make your business‚ branding or your personality stand out‚ but do you really know what this term means? The term “stand out” actually originates from the year 1898 when a group of workers decided to stand out or go on strike. Today the term is associated with making yourself‚ or something‚ stand apart from others. In other words to distinguish yourself differently from those around you. Of course standing out from other people is not that easy to
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Stand Your Ground Law One law I will forever remember is the “Stand Your Ground” law. This law has been around for some time now but many people including myself have only recently learned of this law‚ because of a very emotional case in Florida involving ‚George Zimmerman” murdering a 17 year old unarmed boy named “Trayvon Martin.” Stand your ground law was actually passed October 1‚ 2005. Ironically Florida was the first state to pass (Stand your ground law) and now Florida is the state
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The "Stand Your Ground" statute states that “a person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force‚ including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony” (Sherman). Many people will say that
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Taking a Stand Many people try to do the right thing‚ but do they do it out of justice or the hope for fame? Some people strive to be heroes‚ not for the justice or satisfaction of knowing they did a good deed‚ but for the accomplishment of people knowing who they are and praising them for what they do. Taking a stand counts more than if you win in the end or not. It’s not the winning‚ but the taking part and taking action that counts. If someone does everything in their power to do the right thing
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Crash The most powerful scene in this movie is when the Indian man shows up at the end the Spanish mans house still upset his store getting robbed and blaming him for it. The Indian man has a fully loaded revolver. When the Spanish man get out of his work truck‚ the Indian man walks up and pulls out his gun asking him where his money was. The Spanish man not knowing what he was talking about he went in his pocket and told him he could have the fifty dollars that he had. At the same time all this
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How is Iago presented throughout Othello and what do we learn about his motives? From the onset of Othello‚ the audience is unknowingly subject to Iago’s manipulative customs. Despite being a stereotypical Shakespearian antagonist‚ Iago is a complex‚ two faced‚ yet three dimensional‚ character. Despite being an eponymous play‚ suggesting Othello’s importance‚ his absence in light of Iago’s presence allows the audience to be influenced and therefore misled by Iago’s representation of Othello Iago
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Abolish Stand Your Ground An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind said by famous peacemaker Mahatma Gandhi. This law has caused people to kill first instead of trying to avoid conflict. If we don’t change the logistics of this law then we won’t know which side of the law that we stand on. The law is supposed to solve problems‚ not create them. Laws should provide as much clarity as possible‚ not expand racism and discrimination. Laws should always bring about the practical results
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Crucible Essay In abnormal times or times of hysteria‚ one can easily be tempted to seek out a scapegoat‚ and if a sensible place of blame is not found‚ a somewhat ridiculous idea can be resurrected. These beliefs are held to be true‚ especially by those directly affected by these strange events‚ or those with an ulterior motive. The character of Abigail in The Crucible by Arthur Miller exemplifies this. She is also represented in the poem‚ “Witchcraft was hung‚ in History‚”‚ by Emily Dickinson
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could distinguish between the presiding parties in the courtroom‚ and he is able to assist in his own defense‚ hence he is competent to stand trial. However‚ as the prosecutor who took the case on said‚ by the spirit of competency Ralph did not meat the criteria‚ but by legal definition he was competent to stand trial. The 4 experts that the defense called to stand verified that Ralph is suffering from a severe delusion and that he did not know the nature of what he was doing and the consequences of
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