virtually harassed us to accompany him. Both Karim and I are basically couch potatoes and have no enthusiasm for such a sport. But we did not want to disappoint Jamal and reluctantly agreed to go hiking with him. But it turned out to be the most interesting weekend I ever had. i did not live to regret it ! It was a Sunday and the three of us were dressed in our hiking attires‚ much to the surprise and amusement of Karim’s parents. we told them that their perspective of us as lazy bones and unadventurous
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What’s the coolest job ever? One that allows you to express your personality while doing something you love and getting paid for it (otherwise‚ it’s a hobby). That’s the conclusion reached by David Rosen author of What’s That Job and How the Hell Do I Get It?: The Inside Scoop on More Than 50 Cool Jobs from People Who Actually Have Them. Rosen believes “coolness” is subjective. Everyone interviewed in his book thought they had a cool job‚ but that doesn’t mean they wanted any of the other
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While the conquest of the moon was in the offing‚ although the limelight was on the astronauts manning the space ships‚ yet the ultimate glory was not theirs alone. It equally belonged to others who had risked their lives in the quest. In an equal measure‚ it also belonged to men like Euclid‚ Archimedes‚ Copernicus‚ Kepler‚ Newton‚ Tsilkovsky‚ Oberth and many others who had blazed the trail with ideas and experiments which made the feat possible. And in the ultimate analysis‚ it was a victory
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Eng 110 9/27/10 Prof. Courington An Interesting Journey I’m lying in bed thinking how much I sometimes hate my longtime friends Brandon and Steve. I hate them because it’s seven o’clock in the morning on a Saturday‚ my cell phone is ringing‚ and it’s them calling‚ and no one should ever call
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differentiate between the upbringing of human labor: Mary Jemison and Olaudah Equiano. Each individual had been transported to separate regions of Colonial America from their origin countries to participate in labor. With discrete past lives‚ each person had acquired a different assimilation into their new culture‚ emphasizing the extents of impact that labor in America had dealt. Without the establishment of Colonial American
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The autobiography of Olaudah Equiano telling his experience during the slave trade compared to The Amistad shares many similarities as well as differences. As a whole‚ both of these historical stories emotionally and mentally tells the struggle of slavery including how they were treated as well as how big slavery was. In both stories it described how slavery affected African Americans so badly that death might have been better than being treated as nothing by being chained and thrown together‚ taken
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United Nations held a climate change conference‚ commonly known as COP15‚ in Denmark in 2009 as an attempt to adopt a plan of action. In that connection Helen Simpson wrote the short story “Diary of an Interesting Year” for the American magazine The New Yorker. “Diary of an Interesting Year” is a humorous post-apocalyptic story that begins in February 2040 from where it extends over nearly one year where the reader gains an insight into a world that has sustained the severe consequences
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Compulsory Voting Essay Americans are very individualistic‚ they never get to see the big picture about elections. When the country was founded only caucasians with properties could vote‚ nowadays from women to immigrants can vote. Voting is determined by federal and state law. Through voting citizens can choose the next leaders for their government‚ which may affect sectors like educations‚ jobs‚ the economy etc. Voting should not be mandatory. Voting should be optional‚
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-Chaucer was basically involved in espionage and also fought in and was ransomed in a war. -Milton was blind when he wrote Paradise Lost. -John Bunyan spent more than 10 years in jail which is when he started writing Pilgrim’s Progress. -Daniel Defoe‚ first novelist (as we know them today)‚ invented modern journalism. -John Dryden‚ writer of great satire‚ was Jonathan Swift’s cousin. -I didn’t know Dickens was an actor (and accomplished at that)…I don’t really know much about him
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experience is viewed in society in the 21st century. Olaudah Equiano was the first African writer to reach a sizable American audience. His journey to America wasn’t glamorous‚ as it was full of heartbreak‚ torment‚ and suffering. Equiano was born in West Africa (now Nigeria) and was taken from his home to be put onto a slave ship. By age 11‚ he and his sister were kidnapped and then separated for seven months. They were reunited when
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