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    Cheating Culture

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    university. David Callahan ’s Cheating Culture websites contained an article about the other side of cheating in which Claremont McKenna College lied about its students’ SAT scores to increase its place in the annual ranking of colleges by the U.S. News and World Report (Callahan‚ 2012). University officials are legendarily fanatical about these rating‚ and Claremont McKenna College is not the first to confess to altering data‚ nor will it be the last. The rationalization for lying about SAT scores

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    Broken promises Thanks in great part to its "green" image British company Body Shop has prospered in the 80s. In the 90s the firm tried to increase its world visibility linking its image to Brazil ’s rainforest and approaching the Brazilian Kayapo Indians with a program they called `Trade Not Aid. ’ The association generated a barrage of free and laudatory media stories about the activities of Body Shop. More recently however this image has been bruised. Is the Body Shop social conscience just

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    Dmt: the Skeleton Key

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    DMT: The Skeleton Key Have you ever gazed up at the night sky and pondered the eternal questions left unanswered by our seemingly secretive universe? Have you ever wondered what it may be like to travel to a faraway realm? Do you ever wonder what it might be like to make contact with other worldly entities? What if I told you that the key to unlocking all of that could‚ potentially‚ be hiding in your head? Many cutting edge psychedelic researchers are posing the question if DMT really is the psychedelic

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    built that house of cards know that it is a house of cards. We have a great phobia about the mind and hesitate when first principles are questioned‚ Rarer than corpses are the untreated mad and this is because we cant come to terms with it. As Terence McKenna says in a lecture on this subject: “a shaman is someone who swims in the same motion as a schizophrenic but the shaman has thousands and thousands of years of sanctioned technique and tradition to draw upon…” in a tribe if a child shows ‘schizophrenic’

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    Robb Hall Mr. Dickau English 11A‚ Period B 15 March 2013 Gattaca and the Illusion of Limitation A dystopia is a society in which an illusion of perfection is maintained through oppressive control. Mediums of said control include corporate empire‚ bureaucracy‚ technology‚ and morality. In the film Gattaca (directed by Andrew Niccol)‚ an imaginary dystopian world shows the potential of genetics and technology to control and forever change society. Eugenics is the primary means of discrimination

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    “The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet….” Terence McKenna. This quote is the essence of the work of Achebe as it reflects the words of Yeats. Yeats‚ an Irish poet whose poem “The Second Coming” tells of the evils the world will experience with the second coming of Christ‚ is the inspiration for the Achebe’s novel‚ Things Fall Apart. However‚ instead of building upon further prediction‚ Achebe uses the literary device of allusion

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    Naloxone Addiction

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    Abuse. New York: Infobase‚ 2008. Print. Davis‚ Tom. "Cape May County Town One Of 45 With The Most Heroin And Opiate Abuse." Patch.com. N.p.‚ 7 Feb. 2014. Web. 21 Mar. 2017. "History of Heroin." Narconon International. 24 June 14. Web. 14 May 2017 McKennaTerence K. Food of the Gods. New York: Bantam‚ 1993. Print. 188 207 Singh‚ Maanvi. "Today’s Heroin Addict Is Young‚ White And Suburban." NPR. NPR‚ 28 May 2014. Web. 14 May 2017 Smack in Suburbia | America’s Heroin Crisis. Dir. India Rakusen. BBC.com

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    An Interlude

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    descriptions of Margie and Terence‚ and describing the setting they are in. The writer’s main tactic is simple literary narrative‚ as he illustrates the short interactions between the young boy and girl who like each other. In one of Dr. Polnac’s comments on the excerpt‚ he says “Gardner creates verisimilitude…” throughout the narrative between Terence and Margie using physical‚ characteristic‚ and setting description. At the beginning of the narrative‚ Gardner introduces Terence Parks in a bedroom fiddling

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    Terrance Parkin

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    Terence Parkin was born on April 12th‚ 1980 in Bulawayo‚ Zimbabwe. It took his parents 18 months to realize he was unable to hear‚ and doctors would soon confirm their worst fears‚ Terence was Deaf. At the time there were very few educational opportunities or a support system for Deaf children in Zimbabwe so the Parkin’s‚ and then three-year old Terence‚ decided to move to Durban. There Terence found himself knee-deep in the stuff he liked best‚ water. Terence Parkin: “I just love swimming‚ I

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    Alexis Tapia BUS 103 Sec 022 April 17‚ 2015 Marketing is Everything Reading Notes Mckenna‚ R. (1991). Marketing is everything. Harvard Business Review‚1-10 Main Idea: This article discusses the transformations of strategic marketing. Marketing is not what one initially assumes it is‚ and with the technological changes and innovations coming about‚ marketing has faced several barriers and future impact. Choice is being influenced by the transformation of technology and business is being transformed

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