Bill Nye: The Science Guy Andrew A. Sullivan University of Alaska Anchorage History William Sanford Nye‚ more commonly known as a TV show host on American Broadcasting Company’s (Abc) Bill Nye: The Science Guy. Most people who grew up in the ninety’s think of him as a movie star‚ which is unarguably true‚ however nobody really thinks of how he ended up hosting one of the most famous TV shows and where and what he is doing today. William Nye was born in Washington‚ D.C. on November 27‚ 1955
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history: the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr which ended in the death of the former. When we look at the facts‚ we see that Hamilton did not have any malicious intent of killing Burr‚ making Burr seem like the “bad guy.” However‚ was Aaron Burr really a bad guy‚ or has his reputation just been skewed by outlying factors and common misconceptions? Alexander Hamilton is portrayed as a martyr while Aaron Burr is seen as a villain for killing him. While Hamilton did write that he was not
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Be Happy For What You Have “The necklace” by Guy De Maupassant is a short story about being thankful for what you have. In the story a woman named Mme. Loisel feels very disconsolate because she does not have the luxuries or stature of high society. When Mme. Loisel gets the chance to go to a grand ball she buys a nice dress and borrows a diamond necklace. When Mme. Loisel loses the necklace they spend ten years paying it off. By the end of the story‚ Mme. Loisel learns to be happy for what she
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How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days The movie‚ How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days has always been one of my favorite romantic comedies. In the movie‚ it tells of the crazy relationship between Andie Anderson played by Kate Hudson and Benjamin Barry played by Matthew McConaughey. They have a very strange relationship to say the least. Andie is a writer of editorials for a women’s magazine‚ “Composure”. Her dream is to write what she thinks and believes instead of what her editor thinks and believes will get
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control and power they have‚ when it comes to making decisions relating to their lives and bodies. They are seen as the weakest gender and therefore‚ are manipulated by the society and even their husbands into doing things that they don’t want to do. Guy de Maupassant the author of "A Useless Beauty" explains how women are deprived of the privilege of making their
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choose. Having the choice to either compromise or pursue joy in our lives‚ is what makes being happy more fulfilling. For some‚ compromising their happiness is a way to please other people or the idea of their future. In his short story “Home Place”‚ Guy Vanderhaeghe explores this topic and more‚ as we go through a fathers responsibility in fostering happiness in his son. The short story examines Gil and his son Ronald‚ who rushes through marriage in order to inherit a massive family farm owned by Gil
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horrible as can be./ Yesterday I made a pond full of tears./ Yesterday the world had been crushed into pieces. /Yesterday I had made sure that it wouldn’t come again.” Those words were part of my poetry book from fourth grade. One poem was titled‚ “Bad Guy‚” and I remember it was supposed to follow a rhyme scheme: AABBA. My illustration depicts a frightening one-armed man holding a child’s doll over a roaring campfire. The poem reads‚ “Jayvir is a really bad boy/ He broke all the children’s toys/ He made
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A Trunk Full of Empathy Throughout the years the generation among us has become less selfless. We worry less about those around us and worry more about what we’re going to consume for dinner or how many likes a picture of yourself will get.. In Jeremy Rifkin’s article‚ (published by Los angeles Times) “A Change of Heart about Animals”‚ he describes that animals are more like us humans than we think and that our empathy needs to constantly become stronger towards animals. Rifkin gives us a plethora
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Wal-Mart: Retailing Good Guy or Bully? Sam Walton had an amazing vision. He saw that big businesses were buying merchandise and reselling it for huge profits. They would then take those huge profits and live big. The customers with average incomes were unable to afford very much. Sam realized that he could buy merchandise in large quantities at a much lower price per item‚ and then resell that merchandise with only a slight mark-up. He decided that customers would rather pay as little
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Penetrante‚ Karen Anne O. Creative Writing ABE 3-1 Prof. Belen De Asis Lasting Love By Guy De Maupassant (A Review) “A man can fall in love only once in his entire life because the other emotions are just product of forced attraction.” -Albert Einstein The short story entitled Lasting Love by Guy De Maupassant is a reflection of unrequited love. It also argued if the strong passion among people called “love” can only happen once in a lifetime. The first idea was about
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