State‚ India.[8] Modi is a vegetarian.[9] During the Indo-Pak war in the mid sixties‚ even as a young boy‚ he volunteered to serve the soldiers in transit at railway stations.[10]As a young man‚ he joined the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad‚ a student organisation and was involved in the anti-corruption Nav Nirmāṇ ("Reconstruction") Movement. After working as a full-time organiser for the organisation‚ he was later nominated as its representative in the Bharatiya Janata Party.[11] As a teenager
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Nerves and freshly straightened hair‚ I walk into the first house party I have ever been too. House music blaring‚ the haze of cigarette smoke and the scent of cheap wine and bear entice me into an epitome of teenage angst. Hormones are raging at the same pace as the fierce bass notes dropping. God help me. It’s a pale autumn morning and my mum and I awoke to the prize of empty bottles scattered across the kitchen. A small pool of stale leftovers of my father’s evening gathers at the bottom of the
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Great public speakers are remembered in history by their influential and charismatic attitude towards their peers and audiences in a public setting. One man who had the ability to create such a profound motivational confidence among his followers is Malcolm X. Malcolm X an African-American leader and figurehead of the Nation of Islam became a Civil Rights Activists during the 1950 & 60’s to battle the issues about race and black independence. Born on May 19‚ 1925 in Omaha‚ Nebraska‚ Malcolm X was
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used to judgment. In The Saints and the Roughnecks‚ William J. Chambliss depicts and exposes the inequality that exist under the eyes of the community towards adolescents. In his two-year research‚ Chambliss observed two different social groups who attended Hanibal High School. The two social groups were perceived and treated differently under the community’s eye‚ yet both committed similar crime. His observations depicted how The Saints‚ eight upper-middle class students‚ were seen and considered
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Who knew at its start in 1791‚ a slave revolt in Saint Domingue would lead to the first Black republic that continues to have global implications on the rest of the world? The African slaves that were viewed as being socially‚ culturally and intellectually inadequate more than proved their worth by defeating their colonizers. Now the Republic of Haiti‚ the country’s revolution serves as a symbol of Black intellectual and social greatness that continues to contradict the standard‚ set by a White oppressive
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Melissa Duffy’s essay titled‚ “Inspiration” is an excellent example of how an individual’s attitude toward a certain subject‚ in this case‚ writing‚ influences the way the preform. As I read‚ it dawned on me that the approach our teacher take in teaching us have an immense impact on our attitude towards it. Duffy tells her story of “Inspiration” in a periodical format to lay out the moments in time that shaped her as a writer. During Duffy’s freshman year of high school‚ she was assigned to write
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One of today’s fashion bellwethers is Stuart Trevor the progenitor and designer of AllSaints. AllSaints is a British fashion retailer headquartered in Spitalfields‚ London‚ UK. AllSaints now sells menswear‚ womenswear‚ footwear‚ and appurtenants in 35 department stores and 65 stand-alone stores across the UK‚ Europe‚ Canada and the Amalgamated States. AllSaints is kenned for offering sharp edge‚ directional habiliments with a muted palette dominated by blacks‚ browns‚ whites‚ and grays. In
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Saint Louis University (Company Profile) | Saint Louis University is regarded as one of the Philippines’ respected and leading educational institutions that has grown with the demands of the current and future environments for its students and faculty alike.Around two hundred fifty kilometers north of Manila lies Baguio City‚ known to be the "Summer Capital of the Philippines" that enjoys temperate climate all year round. From a village resort established by the Americans‚ Baguio has become the
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Aldo Rossi regards reason and memory as the backbone of his work‚ which is why he admires the 19th century rationalist Adolf Loos so much. Both of them want to capture the reality of their works by avoiding the use of ornaments (Adolf Loos wrote "Ornament and Crime") and emphasizing on the relationship between architecture and the society whilst maintaining historical and traditional values. Aldo Rossi also admires Loos for his concept of having reason behind everything he does with his projects
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During my life my career goals and aspirations have changed several times. I’ve wanted to be a teacher‚ someone who works with babies and a veterinarian. As I have gotten older my dreams and career goals have changed. Now my career goals are starting to become more of a reality. I’m looking to pursue a career in law‚ medicine‚ or neonatology. If I go on to pursue my law career I would want to be an attorney. To become an attorney I would roughly have to complete 4 years of college and 3 years
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