Say No To Smoking There are drugs in the world that are hurting us all. The drug that I am going to talk about is the drug found in cigarettes: nicotine. Although some good people do no think that smoking cigarettes will directly affect their lives‚ they are wrong because smoking is nothing but a shortcut to dying. Smoking is not a joke‚ although we see it on TV‚ in comics‚ and maybe right in front of our faces‚ it does affect our health. Did you ever take a close look at the bottom of the cigarette
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3rd of February‚ 1991 Dear Carl‚ I’m sorry. I’m sorry for leaving. Sorry for sending you away. Sorry for everything. I just couldn’t stand it. Mum had left and I didn’t know how to cope. I didn’t want to. I just had to get away. I know you despised her for leaving. But this is different. It’s for your own good. I couldn’t stand it. I’d have to put you and Harley in a foster home‚ and I almost did. But I saw you listening. I knew you were there. So I sold the house. Talked to Beryl. She didn’t
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The United States alone has an overwhelming amount of stray animals‚ do to pet overpopulation. Stray animals are wandering the streets each day just trying to survive‚ but not all are successful. People will chase them‚ beat them‚ and do not care about them just because there is no owner to tell them to stop. These animals have to learn the hard way and fast‚ on the streets to survive. No one cares if they hit a stray animal on the road‚ but once it is someone’s pet they feel like they just committed
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Cited: Kosinski‚ Jerzy (1970). Being There. New York: Grove Press The Roaring Twenties (2005). A Historical Snapshot of Life in the 1920s.Web. 24 Apr. 2012. < http://www.1920-30.com/>.
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Saying Goodbye Is Hard to Do In my teen years‚ Flutter was a daydream. During high school‚ I had a part time job at the movies. While I made popcorn in the lobby concession stand‚ my guy friends made out with girls inside the theater. In my small southern hometown‚ a girl taking another girl to the movies didn’t seem like a possibility so I daydreamed about what it would be like to be a boy. I watched how boys were treated better than girls in school‚ at the movies‚ everywhere. When I moved to
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Being Single or Being Married There are many differences between life as a single person and life as a part of a married couple. some of these differences are obvious‚ while others are more subtle. The key to make the dicision is the answer of the following question: Do you prefer life of going home to an empty house and a cold bed alone‚ but which seems easier; or do you prefer life of coming home with considerate family and warm atmosphere‚ but which seems more complicated? Sometimes‚ the soceity
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In John’s gospel he records the seven great “I AM” statements of Jesus‚ each one used to give insight into His person‚ His deity‚ and how He relates to God in the OT. “Seven times John records Jesus saying‚ ‘I am…‚’ attaching it to a metaphor. These seven statements give special insight into who Christ claimed to be…He was identifying Himself with Jehovah of the Old Testament”. The “I AM” statement that I will be focusing on is “I AM the true vine”. Jesus says this in John 15:1 “I
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email? How many times have you been in a meeting and experienced the entire meeting being momentarily disrupted by a phone call‚ even if you or the other person didn’t actually answer it? Just the other night I got and deserved a lashing when I picked up my mobile to check email while waiting for dinner to arrive. Are the new modes of communication and social networks available to us making us more anti-social and rude? Today we have the choice of voice‚ video‚ text‚ instant message‚ social networks
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Active Listening Makes all the Difference With reading Saving Civility: 52 Ways to Tame Rude‚ Crude‚ and Attitude for a Polite Planet‚ and experimenting its hypotheses‚ I have discovered that my positive behaviour can easily shape the way others act. I ran a simple experiment on being an active listener‚ to see what the effects are. I concluded that being a good listener encourages those you are talking to‚ to also be more concentrated on the conversation. The first thing I did as I prepared
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English 23 September 2013 Being handicapped or disables isn’t always the best lifestyle to have‚ but it isn’t up to you on what “gifts” you get. Nancy Mairs knows a lot about that‚ because she is crippled. In the essay‚ “On Being a Cripple‚ Mairs writes for readers‚ disabled or not‚ about what it’s like to be crippled. She describes it in a sarcastic tone with seriousness and repetition with some very interesting word choice. Mairs suffers from being cripple‚ but uses the word with such
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