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    Finding Our Purpose

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    Krisjian Sabala ENG 846 9/19/12 Essay 1 Finding Our Purpose In "Losing my Cool" Williams uses the hip-hop culture as a motivation to find his purpose in life. “Yo‚ nigga‚yoooo‚ nigaa‚ yoooo-oooo‚ niiiiga…” (2) is what Williams repeated under his breath. In "Losing My Cool" Williams is fiercely motivated by the hip-hop culture introduced to him. The hip-hop culture gave Thomas the purpose to keep it real among his black peers and make some type of status for himself. Beyond what the hip-hop

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    Whats in Our Water!

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    people’s health is the pollution of our underground watering systems. Many steps have been taken to help solve the pollution problem‚ a problem that still hasn’t been completely solved. Groundwater is located under the earth’s surface in soil pore spaces‚ an aquifer is a unit of rock or an unconsolidated deposit that can give a decent quality of water this is how ground water is processed. Many people do not know this but ground water is a prime source of our nation’s water source‚ the irrigation

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    Rethinking Our World

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    Rethinking our world Linguistic analysis: * Claims that almost all philosophical problems can be dispensed with once their underlying linguistic basis is exposed * No matter how hard we try to solve a problem we fail‚ then we are dealing with a false problem/ meaningless set of words * 2 British philosophers = Bertrand Russell & AJ Ayer * Focused on logic‚ linguistic meaning & verifiable facts Help us do: * Think more clearly * Be precise in what we mean

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    The government and policymakers of a country intervenes in the economy in order to achieve economic growth‚ price stability‚ and low rate of unemployment. First and foremost‚ economic growth can be defined as an increase in the country’s output over a period of time. This means there is an increment in her productive capacity hence a rise in national income. A high economic growth is desirable as it represents an improvement in the material standard of living of the society. A rising real income

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    The Fault In Our Stars

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    The conflict in The Fault In Our Stars is when Augustus and Hazel go to Amsterdam to meet Peter Van Houten. They were so excited to meet him‚ but he turned out not to be very nice. You can say he some what ruined their trip. The whole point of the trip was to figure out what happened at the end of An Imperial Affliction so you can see that that was kind of a disappointment . Another conflict in The Fault In Our Stars is when Hazel feels that she is getting to attached to Augustus and begins to push

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    Mary Ann Rupli Student ID= 5837 Title: Saving Our Planet Earth and Protecting Our Future. Can I borrow a few minutes of your time? Good. A few minutes of your time will be long enough to direct your attention to saving our planet and guaranteeing our future. Have you ever wonder what effects population increase has on our environment? At the present time‚ there are more than seven billion people in the world. If these people are properly organized and motivated‚ we can dramatically reduce

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    Our Daily Bread

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    Our Daily Bread‚ as the title suggests this is not about bread‚ as I hoped it was. Rather it’s about people earning their bread‚ their livelihood. The term ‘bread’ is derived from the larger term ‘bread-winner’ as the one who is the primary provider of the household‚ and the ‘daily bread’ is simply referring their daily livelihood. As my time spent in the US‚ I often used to wonder how the different food companies were able to produce mass amount of food to keep the population fed. This movie is

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    Crimes in our society

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    Crime is increasing in our society. We often ask ourselves „why?”. There are many reasons. Firstly the law isn’t strict enough for criminals‚ so many of them aren’t afraid of punishment. Criminals spend too little time in prison and they have too good conditions there. In many countries‚ as in Poland‚ there isn’t death penalty‚ however it would help us to stop increasing violence and crime and it would be a warning for criminals. Another problem is that often the homeless commit crime to go

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    Transparency in Our Government Government secrecy has occurred over time from the 1960’s to the present. Government secrecy is harmful to all citizens in the United States because it has been a reoccurring theme for a far too long time‚ citizens have the right to know the information the government is withholding about their country‚ and be aware of the choices our government is making to fix this problem. Since the Cold War the lack of transparency in our government has effected the population

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    Not In Our Town Analysis

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    The two resources that I picked for my final journal are ‘Not In Our Town’ and the CNN article about Officer Elsokary in New York City. The reason why I picked “Not In Our Town” is because this article shows that people are sometimes really mean‚ rude and obnoxious‚ but it also shows that people are sometimes nice‚ caring‚ kind and supportive. The attacks and this story took place in Billings‚ Montana. The attacks were against people in the town who were Jewish. The reason why I picked the CNN article

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