Summary of "People Like Us" by David Brooks People like us is an article about America’s diversity‚ well actually it’s about the lack of diversity within our diverse culture. Mr. Brooks proclaims that America boasts for being an extremely diverse society; but he shows many examples of how America is still segregated by choice‚ by habits and other measurable categories. Mr. Brooks proclaims that people of the same race and income level tend to flock together and live in the same communities. Some examples
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Tʜᴇ Bᴏᴏᴋ’ꜱ Aʀɢᴜᴍᴇɴᴛ Malcolm Gladwell argues that people do not become successful from nothing. He simply suggests that there are “hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot” (19). In order to prove his claim he discusses a wide variety of seemingly different anecdotes that eventually connect to each other at one point or another. He simply tells a story as if he was narrating a bedtime story
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Instructor: Michael Hermon Do people have a right to end their lives whenever they choose to? While some people feel that ending a life is wrong and that no one has that right only god‚ I too do not feel that people should be able to end their life whenever they feel like it However I do think there should be extenuating circumstances that does allow one to choose to end their life if prior approved by the person that is dying and a professional that is qualified like a doctor‚ and they were at the
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Nowadays‚ according to the social studies‚ people born from 1982 through the present are the generation of the Millennials. You may have heard the knocks against Millennials. They are narcissistic‚ coddled‚ and work-shy‚ not to mention spoiled. But there’s more to their story. It is the largest and most diverse generation in world history‚ and they are goal-orientated/oriented‚ less ideological than their Baby Boom parents‚ and far more tolerant. While their parents and grandparents preferred to
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"People today are too individualistic. Instead of pursuing self-centered‚ separate goals‚ people need to understand that satisfaction comes from working for the greater good of the family‚ the community‚ or society as a whole." The passage suggests that people satisified with egoistic behaviors today but they should have learn that the satisification of altruism is the real one and strong one. I could hardly demur the statement. Indeed‚ it is necessary and fundmental for any one to satisfy their
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Change‚ something we want but doesn’t always come easy to us. Positive change is what can improve conditions‚ lives and in turn increase the happiness of a person. America in 1900 was a place needing improvement. Something needed to be done but people had a difference in opinion of how effectively execute actions that would bring change. The expansion of government power and power of the president caused the necessary change needed in the progressive era. Cooperations were a block to people’s pursuit
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Happiness is something that everyone desires‚ however‚ everyone has a different perspective on what it is and how to find it. For many‚ happiness is elusive. These two articles‚ “Happiness is Other People” by Ruth Whippman for The New York Times and “The Secret to Deeper Happiness Is Simpler Than You Might Think” by Ginny Graves for Health‚ proposes two different paths to find happiness. Graves (2017) claims that happiness resides in the inner-self while Whippman (2017) disagrees and‚ instead‚ advocates
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Supplements can kill people. Today’s world become very fast because of technology. Technology has provided many applications and useful equipment to make people’s life much easier such as‚ cars‚ planes‚ advanced ways for doing researches and new treatments to cure diseases. One of the treatments that is used to treat some diseases is supplements. Supplements are chemicals substances that is taking by patients who is suffering from a decrease in some vital components in their bodies like vitamins‚ proteins
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rotated upon a vertical pivot which had a binding nut whereby it could be held in any desired position. The circumference of the circular turret was drilled and reamed for four tools projecting horizontally from it at angles of 90 degrees with each other. Later the number of tool holes was increased to six‚ and the turret was frequently made of hex-gonal form. Parts of turret lathe • saddle • turret • parting tool post at rear end of carry over • spindle‚ • head stock‚
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1. African-Americans comprise only 13% of the U.S. population and 14% of the monthly drug users‚ but are 37% of the people arrested for drug-related offenses in America. 2. Studies show that police are more likely to pull over blacks or Latinos than whites. After being arrested‚ African-Americans are 33% more likely than whites to be detained while facing a felony trial in New York. 3. In 2010‚ the U.S. Sentencing Commission reported that African Americans receive 10% longer sentences than whites
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