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    Shine Bright Like a Diamond. How Daimonds Changed The World. When a man wants a women’s hand in marriage he offers her a diamond ring but was it all ways that way? Before diamond rings men gave there brides a rock as a signal of love and marriage. The history of diamonds goes way back‚ all the way back to 1867. Diamonds composed of carbon are the hardest natural substances in the world. The reason we have diamonds id due to volcanic activity. Until the 18th century the only diamond mines where in India

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    Jared Loughner

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    Jared Loughner. On January 8‚ 2011 U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot along with eighteen other people at a public meeting in a grocery store parking lot near Tucson Arizona. Six of the eighteen people shot that day died. This included Arizona District Court Chief Judge John Roll and nine-year-old Christina-Taylor Green. Gifford was Holding a meeting called "Congress on Your Corner" in a Safeway store when she was shot through the head at point blank range. 22-year old Jared Loughner

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    All We Know - Chainsmokers The song ‘All We Know’ by the Chainsmokers is a song‚ (assisted by a music video) showing the idea of sorrow and anger after losing someone important in your life. It follows an unknown character in the video‚ a young man. It begins with him receiving a phone call then proceeds to follow him through pain and anger‚ the phone call is in darkness‚ the person on the other end of the line is muffled and is unable to be interpreted. The key idea expressed in this text is that

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    End World Hunger: Create World Progress In 2015‚ researchers asked a group of children that belonged to low income families to describe in words a certain sensation that that particular group of children knew well. Children overall mentioned fatigue‚ loss of motivation‚ and painful stomach aches. One girl described the sensation as sad‚ and that she felt like crying as the sensation took its course. Another boy said that he would drink heaps of water to alleviate its adverse effects. No child had

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    The end of the world (of the cockroach) The day began was not a normal day but something unique‚ plenty of gray smoke into the air‚ fire‚ earth and sand everywhere and a silence‚ only can hear the wind blow. Everything was different and Andy the Roach had realized he had survived a disaster‚ but if he wants to live would have to find food and water in a desolate world. Walking disoriented to some direction in search of shelter and food. On his quest he encounters a wounded ant and the ant said

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    Thompson BBB4M0 June‚ 10‚ 2012 Diamonds There are many different kinds of valuable gem in the world; however‚ diamonds is the most precious and favorite stone all the time. As the hardest known naturally material‚ diamond can be used to polish‚ cut and become a jewelery. Consumer claim that diamond is forever‚ that’s why diamond wedding ring represent for the endless love. This is a reason why diamond always become a “hot topic” in the market all over the world. However‚ because of the deep and

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    Trust is one of the few key ideas that Caroline Macdonald‚ the writer of ‘Lake at the End of the World’ has defined. The story is told from two sides of two different adolescents‚ Hector and Diana. They have to trust each other and try to live in a world where there is no certainty of what will happen tomorrow. Hector comes from an underground community where they all believed in a charismatic leader named John Smith (The Counsellor). When he promised a safe and well subsidized accommodation along

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    As Shakespeare once stated‚ “We know what we are‚ but not what we may be.” (Hamlet) And by this statement‚ the celebrated playwright opened up the concept that anything‚ or anyone‚ has the capacity to be anything they choose. However‚ it has been argued by Anti-Stratfordians for decades that‚ because of his deficiencies in certain aspects‚ such as proper education and means of attaining knowledge‚ Shakespeare could not have been the author of the works which have been heralded for centuries. But

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    “A diamond‚ is the symbol for love‚ commitment‚ and a joyful new beginning‚” said the TV commercial. Many of the world’s diamonds‚ are mined using practices that exploit workers‚ children‚ and communities. A million diamond diggers in Africa earn less than a dollar a day. Miners are dying in accidents‚ child labor is widespread‚ and corrupt leaders are depriving mining communities of funds badly needed for economic development. In extreme cases‚ diamond mining can cause entire ecosystems to

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    Do We Know Ourselves

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    of the ancient Greeks‚ the significance of the dictum‚ ‘Know Thyself’‚ has penetrated religious and secular philosophies. Yet‚ frequently‚ situations arise where we are surprised or puzzled by our own behaviour‚ confused by our emotional state or unsure of the accuracy of our memory regarding a specific experience. In his essay on the unconscious‚ Sigmund Freud addressed this phenomenon: ‘In our most personal daily experiences we encounter ideas of unknown origin and the result of thought

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