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    Rising Gasoline Prices

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    Rising Gasoline Prices Over the past four years‚ Americans have been battling with high gas prices. The price of gas affects everyone’s lives. High gasoline prices hurt many people’s budgets. The prices at the gas pumps are not our only concerns. If gas prices go up then the cost of consumer products will go up. Many people need gas to drive to work. Gas prices continue to increase‚ making people in the United States feel the affects. Gas should be made affordable so it does not negatively interrupt

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    American poets Philip Freneau and Hugh Henry Brackenridge were authors of the poem‚ “On the Rising Glory of America‚” a poem that emphasized that while‚ “Britain’s imperial sun was setting…another was rising in America‚” (12). Poet Timothy Dwight took inspiration from classic epic poetry in his works while integrating biblical elements with notes of American heroism. Another poet‚ Joel Barlow‚ also

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    Obesity: a Rising Epidemic

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    Psy 315 Obesity: A Rising Epidemic Obesity is a rising epidemic in the United States. Since the early 1970’s‚ the overweight population has more than doubled and has become one of the leading health problems in our country (Ogden‚ Carroll‚ Kit‚ & Flegal‚ 2012). With this rising epidemic brings about heart disease‚ diabetes‚ and other disorders that can become deadly if not treated. An astounding two out of every three people are overweight‚ while one out of three people are obese (Linklater

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    cancer. He will die soon and he wants one more job done. This leads to Alex tracking the people that work for Yannis and the multiple devious plans he has cooking including a scientist named Razim. There are many very important objects in Scorpia Rising including‚ the Elgin Marbles‚ a Land Rover and dynamite‚ and salt. The book opens with Zeljan Kurst‚ the member leading this operation‚ walking to Yannis Ariston Xenopollos waiting for him in the British Museum. Yannis has a job for Scorpia. He wants

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    Rising Above Poverty

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    seem never ending‚ but with the right help and effort‚ it can be broken. Some people are born into poverty‚ lose a job and fall into it‚ or have poverty thrust upon them because of an injury‚ mental disorder‚ or abuse. While every story is different‚ rising above poverty is possible with the help of private organizations‚ government aid or training programs‚ or through the power of high quality education options for children. The cycle of generational poverty can be broken. Generational poverty is

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    The gift of magi The story tells of a young married couple‚ James (Jim) and Della Dillingham. The couple has very little money and lives in a modest apartment. Between them they have two possessions that they consider their treasures: Jim’s gold pocket watch that had been his father’s and his grandfather’s‚ and Della’s lustrous‚ long hair that falls almost to her knees. It’s Christmas Eve‚ and Della finds herself running out of time to buy Jim a Christmas present. After paying all of the bills

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    Easter Rising and Yeats

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    Tension between an individual and life experiences is what creates interest in the poetry of William Butler Yeats. To what extent does this statement reflect your response to Easter 1916 and at least one other Yeats poem set for study Yeats derives his poetic strength from the fusion of his life experiences and his perspective of the world. The tension in the poetry is deeply rooted in the troubled political context of his time and the personal disappointment he suffered throughout his life. He

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    Life is a gift

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    It was just a bet. Or was it? From the folly of the undiscerning came the wisdom of the infinite; from the pitiful‚ quite pitiful proud ignorance of the blind quite unexpectedly dawned the vision of perpetual light… And yet who are men to appreciate such celestial‚ divine power?  God created people in His own image and yet we are and will be born with imperfections.  No matter how many bites off the fruit of knowledge of what is good and what is bad‚ “all that the unresting thought of a man has

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    Gift Giving in Societies

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    Many exchange mechanisms can be observed throughout the worlds cultures; these include reciprocity‚ redistribution and down the line exchange. Reciprocity is a form of gift exchange whereby objects have no concept of perceived value. Social gain is seen as more important than any potential economic result in this system. An object would be presented to another and this gesture insure social relations‚ a return object (or gesture) may be presented at a later date‚ but the main aim of reciprocity

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    Journey of the Magi- T.S Eliot Two body paragraphs using PEEAL‚ including 2/3 good examples This poem‚ Journey of the magi by T.S Eliot explores the idea that a journey can involve obstacles and challenges. The magi are faced with difficulties‚ hardships and discomforts such as the hostility from the natural world and humans and sleep deprivation. In the first stanza the line “The ways deep and the weather sharp” an inverted syntax is used to put emphasis on the sufferings and difficulties of

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