Money in our live Money in our everyday life is very important indeed. We need money to buy food and to pay our bills or lesures. In this modern world‚ most of the things that we want‚ material or otherwise‚ can be obtained in exchange for money. Without money‚ one’s life can become a misery. It is thus not surprising to find that many people place money making as their top priority in life. This attitude is fine as long as they remember that there are other facets of life in which money is not
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Marie hoover Prof. orgier ENG 4/23/2012 The Children Are Our Future What the world needs now is for the parents of today’s children to step up and teach their children to be respectful‚ caring‚ and compassionate children‚ which will one day turn into adults. One of the problems is the laws on child abuse and the way children are raised today‚ compared the way children are raised today to thirty years ago or even before that‚ is not the same. Kids today
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Our Town‚ written by Thornton Wilder in 1938‚ is known as one of his best works. It is usually referred as beautiful and remarkable‚ one of the sagest‚ warmest and deeply human his scripts. One of the themes captured in the play is the one of family relations. We can trace this particular theme though the whole play. In the 1st act we are introduced to 2 families of the Gibbses & the Webbs. Charles and Myrtle Webb and Frank and Julia Gibbs give us a possibility to have a look at the day-to-day
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The Future Is In Our Hands The article “A Walk in the Woods‚” by Richard Louv was published in April 2009 by Orion Press. This article mainly involved the aspect of deforestation and how today’s youth does not spend enough quality time outdoors. This malicious destruction of our natural habitat has been quite the controversy over the past few decades because it has a devastating impact on the environment. This negative impact does not only take a major toll locally‚ but on a global scale as
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Our Vanishing Night Most city skies have become virtually empty of stars. By Verlyn Klinkenborg If humans were truly at home under the light of the moon and stars‚ we would go in darkness happily‚ the midnight world as visible to us as it is to the vast number of nocturnal species on this planet. Instead‚ we are diurnal creatures‚ with eyes adapted to living in the sun’s light. This is a basic evolutionary fact‚ even though most of us don’t think of ourselves as diurnal beings any more than we think
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once wrote: "There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it." Clearly‚ Shaw had his heart broken once or twice. Shaw was right. As we strain to grasp the things we desire‚ the things we think will make our lives better: money‚ popularity‚ fame... we ignore what truly matters‚ the simple things‚ like friendship‚ family‚ love. The things we probably already had. This year‚ I got everything I wanted and everything I wished for. But in a way‚ I lost even
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Preserving Our Past Preserving Our Past We are blessed. I believe this because being of the younger generation we have not had to endure some of the hardships that older generations have. I being African American can attest to this. I have the right to vote‚ the right to attend school where I want‚ and the ability to walk into businesses without any hassle. But it wasn’t always like this‚ Elders fought hard for our equal rights. And as being part of the present and future generations‚ I feel like
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Gangs In Our Society By Emmanuel Moorer Gangs are becoming prevalent in today’s society and within our schools. More and more young people are turning to gangs in an attempt to escape their everyday lives and the future‚ which they perceive as dismal and bleak. They are initially attracted to the prestige and cash flow‚ which is glamorized by the street gang. Many gangs are actively involved in criminal misbehavior‚ such as drug and gun trafficking‚ burglaries and homicides
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Technology is our enemy. Technology is also our closest ally. It is the darkness to humanity’s light‚ the chaos to its order‚ and the yin to its yang. Humanity and technology cannot exist without one another; they are forever entwined. Humanity’s actions shape technology‚ yet it is technology that shapes humanity’s actions. People believe that every advancement will revolutionize and benefit all aspects of society. However‚ people often ignore the darker‚ more dominant characteristic of progress
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THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Hazel Grace Lancaster‚ a 16-year-old teenager with thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs‚ attends a cancer patients’ support group at her mother’s behest. During a support meeting‚ Hazel meets a 17-year-old teenage boy named Augustus Waters‚ whose osteosarcoma caused him to lose his leg. Augustus is at the meeting to support his mutual friend‚ Isaac‚ who is losing his remaining eye to cancer. The two bond immediately after the meeting and Augustus invites Hazel to his
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