Fast Food: The Hidden Cost Eric Schlosser begins his book Fast Food Nation by comparing the secrets Cheyenne Mountain hides as a metaphor for the hidden dangers of the fast food industry. From the outside‚ Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs‚ Colorado appears to be a beautiful mountain‚ just another peak in the wild wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. To an observer‚ there is nothing unusual about it. In reality it hides the North American Aerospace Command‚ the Air Force Space Command‚ and the
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In the article “Hidden Intellectualism” written by Gerald Graff‚ Graff target college students to inform them about a hidden intellectualism that can be found in our everyday society. In the article Graff draws attention to the many types and ways different people can identify with intellectualism. He argues that people are intelligent in several ways and just need to learn how to plug the intellectualism they enjoy into a school-like setting during classes. He exemplifies this by using his own intellect
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Analysis of Gerald Graff’s Essay “Hidden Intelligence” Most people‚ when asked‚ say that a person is intelligent if they have “book smarts.” People that are book smart can write and converse about subjects taught in school. On the other hand‚ people with “street smarts” aren’t seen as intellectuals because the subjects they are knowledgeable about are not traditional. In his essay called “Hidden Intellectualism‚” Gerald Graff insists that schools and colleges are missing an opportunity to translate
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Hidden From History: 300 years of women’s oppression and the fight against it Sheila Rowbotham (Pluto Press‚ 345 Archway Road‚ London N6 5AA‚ 1973‚ ISBN-0904383563‚ 182pp‚ £14.99) While there had been a great deal of history written about men’s activities in wars‚ courts‚ politics‚ diplomacy and business‚ little research had focused on the history of women before the First World War. Sheila Rowbotham‚ in her study of women in Britain set out to examine the “hidden history” of the struggle of women
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Takeyah Wright A place where everything being and how are ancestors came to be many important concepts that we deal with are contingent‚ such as Pan-Africanism and black power The Pan-Africanism means all African American sometime since the black power ‚ or the black consciousness. The connected to Pan-Africanism‚ But Africans spread all over the world and still tied to their homeland‚ not always physically but most culturally and emotionally not to mentioning those who live in the continent physically
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Jayant Agro Organics CMP: 84 MCap: 125cr ROCE: 19.45%‚ ROE: 22.61% 3yrs CAGR Sales: 21.49% 3 yrs CAGR inNet Profits: 43.88% PE: 2.68 (TTM) EV to Sales: 0.25 EV to EBIDTA: 4.13 7 yrs 600% increase in profits and 400% increase in sales ================= Consolidated Sales/NP/dividend numbers. March 2007 Sales 462.49Cr Net Profit: 6.76Cr Div:1.25 March 2008 Sales 605.96Cr Net Profit: 9.51Cr Div:1.25 March 2009 Sales 875.86Cr Net Profit 7.49Cr Div: 1.25 March 2010 Sales 904.01Cr Net
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Often while traveling you want to find a hidden gem:one of those places you will never forget‚ the one with the amazing view‚ intimate privacy or the happening local gathering place. It is a very satisfying feeling and makes you feel like you are in the right place at the right time. I have stumbled upon such places but more often than not it has come about with the help of a local friend I have made or taxi driver I have trusted. When travelling to Jamaica many fellow travellers surveyed tell
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There is an estimate that 70% of people within the UK have a hidden disability and 10% of people that have some kind of medical condition that is considered a type of hidden disability like dyslexia or bipolar disorder which within the UK 1.5 million people suffer with. Having a hidden disability means that either you have a medical disorder that you cannot ‘see’. You could see types of supports like wheelchairs but the main meaning is that you cannot generally see anything wrong with them by looking
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James Truslow Adams once stated‚ “There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.” Through the‚ rudimentary years and the rigorous high school courses‚ I have learned nothing valuable in life directly from reading a textbook; I have also learned nothing specific from listening to the multitude of words that have been thrown at me by the many teachers who have followed the classic path of education. My real lessons have not been taught by learning
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In his essay "Hidden Intellectualism‚" Gerald Graff argues that intellectualism is not something that can only be archived through proper eduaction like school or college‚ but with subjects that people consider non academics as sports and cars. The writer consider "street smart" to those people who learn things outside of an academic environment‚ for example in the streets of their neighborhood. The writer argues that educators should let students decide on the subject that thay are more
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