Girls Like Us Girls Like Us is an intimate portrayal concerning four girls who grew up all with different ethnic backgrounds and various forms of parental guidence. Anna Chau is Vietnames with strict parents and good beliefs‚ Lisa Bronca is a Caucasion Catholic‚ De’Yonna Moore is African-American with strong goals who lives with her Grandma and Raelene Cox is a young white girl who comes from a broken home with little parental guidence. Girls Like Us shows examples of structural functionism
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Anni Abariowei Professor East English 1101‚ section 37 January 21‚ 2013 Think Like a Man If you want to watch a movie based on love‚ romance and comedy then paying $10.50 at any movie theatre near you is worth it. “Think like a man” is at the top of the charts for best movie of the month even possible for the year. Comedian Kevin Hart stars in this movie‚ which made the movie even more hilarious. This movie has a total of laughs‚ advice and romance which could have you in tears from laughter
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“Going green” has become increasingly popular. Solar panels are used throughout the world‚ but don’t produce nearly enough of the energy that they potentially could. The U.S. Department of Energy reports that the efficiency of current commercial solar panels hovers from 11-15%‚ making it costly to produce enough energy for the world’s needs. The main barriers to widespread adoption of photovoltaic technology are installation costs‚ low efficiency and the limited number of peak hours (maximum amount
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Describe the most difficult decision you have made and its personal effect on you In 2011‚ I joined Company ABC as a business development manager. A mining company‚ this experience gave me the opportunity to expand my knowledge and experiences beyond the realm of marketing. I enjoyed my work there greatly and learned a lot about both the mining and energy industries. In 2012‚ Company ABC transferred me to a sister company that was solely focused on coal mining. I accepted the transfer
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Black Like me The book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin is a moving true story of how a white man manages to experience what it is like to be a “Negro” or black person in the 1950s. The author did this social experiment by taking medication and dying his skin a deep brown. He wanted to really experience the challenges and changes a black man in this time would go through. By traveling through the far south‚ Griffin got a taste of what real life was for a Negro. The experiment starts in the
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The most beautiful place (Alex) The most beautiful place for me is Spain. When I was eleven years old‚ my mother and I first went abroad. Mom and I both love to travel. Before that we visited several neighboring countries that were part of the USSR‚ because we do not need a visa to travel there. Those countries are almost the same as my Kazakhstan‚ everywhere people understand the Russian language‚ architecture and lifestyle in them the same. But I knew that in Spain‚ everything will
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Potatoes are an excellent metaphor for Angus Buchan’s book‚ Faith Like Potatoes. A good-looking stalk may hide a rotten crop under ground. As is taught by Christianity‚ you may be successful in this world without God‚ but there will always be that Christ shaped empty space in your heart that only God himself may fill for any one person to be happy. Angus Buchan was born into Southern Rhodesia‚ which is now modern day Zimbabwe. He grows up as a Christian and is slowly drawn away from Christ as
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Faith like potatoes Although it might be a cliché inspirational movie on the outside but in the inside there’s much more than that especially because it was based on a true story. The movie titled “Faith like potatoes “is an eye-opener to those people who are lost in their own way and that too many things kept them busy enough to forget God. From the start of the film‚ I wondered why the title was like that. Why is faith compared to potatoes? So when I learned about Angus’s life‚ from the
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What is it like to be an inmate? Many people have pondered on that question‚ especially those who are getting ready to be incarcerated. Thanks to the new resources created that question can now be answered by actually inmates. Many inmates say that it is boring. They claim that most of their day is spent in their cell with little to do. Most are allowed to read books‚ but those books are purchased off of a cart that is occasionally brought around. The inmates have to have the money available on their
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Deborah‚ Your analysis of ‘Not like the Movie’ was good but leaves one to wonder why Van Rensburg lacked the drive to accomplish her childhood fantasies. Little wonder she was only able to fulfil the dream of becoming a nurse. The essay even suggests that she doesn’t know the career path to take till her mum told her to do nursing which contradicts her childhood fantasies. The writer also thought nursing to be a romantic rather than a life-saving profession which is awkward. Van Rensburg dwelt on
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