Lu Runqiu #1. Summary: The article is talking about three benefits of gun control. The first is to reduce the crime rate‚ if the number of guns is reduces‚ the number of violent criminal is decreased. The second is to provide a proper regulation‚ gun control will decide who has the right to own a gun. And the third is about better management‚ because gun will be registered‚ so we can know which types of guns would be used in some specific area. Response: I totally agree with this
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I first read Jared Diamond’s Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel in the Fall 2003 based on a recommendation from a friend. Many chapters of the book are truly fascinating‚ but I had criticisms of the book back then and hold even more now. Chief among these is the preponderance of analysis devoted to Papua New Guinea‚ as opposed to‚ say‚ an explanation of the greatly disparate levels of wealth and development among Eurasian nations. I will therefore attempt to confine this review on the "meat and potatoes"
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Argument Essay: Nation of Immigrants America is sometimes referred to as a "nation of immigrants" because of the largely open-door policy toward accepting foreigners pursuing their vision of the American Dream. Recently‚ there has been a clamor by some politicians and citizens toward creating a predominantly closed-door policy on immigration‚ arguing that immigrants "threaten" American life by creating unemployment‚ by taking jobs from American workers‚ by using much-needed social
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healthy part of life Teaches that sexual expression outside of marriage will have harmful social‚ psychological‚ and physical consequences Teaches that abstinence from sexual intercourse is the most effective method of preventing unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases‚ including HIV Teaches that abstinence from sexual intercourse before marriage is the only acceptable behavior Provides values-based education and offers students the opportunity to explore and define their individual
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Introduction First‚ we will mention about the purpose of this assignment‚ which is the benefit that we can gain from doing this project. From this project‚ it helps us to know the types of shares available in a company‚ definition of shares and the advantages and disadvantages of shares. From the information‚ this will enable a person who have interest invest in a company‚ purchase the shares that are suitable for them‚ based on the comparison between the advantages and disadvantages of each type
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The AB Steel Plant The Vice President for Production at the AB Steel Plant was giving the Production Department Manager‚ Mr. Singh‚ a hard time for not doing anything about his work group which was perpetually coming late to work and was behind schedule in the performance quotas for several months now. The vice President’s contention was that if the production’ crew was consistently tardy‚ the production process was delayed by about 15 minutes on an average per member per day‚ and this was no
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The nation that my group was assigned was the Seminole nation. My part of the presentation was to talk about the brief history of the nation and the interactions it had with other native nations. While I did not find this part necessarily difficult‚ I did learn a lot of new information. For example‚ while researching the Seminole nation‚ I learned how it all started due to pressure from the Upper Creek nation‚ which forced multiple other nations to move to Florida to start a new life (Weisman). Also
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HOW IS COLLEGE DIFFERENT FROM HIGH SCHOOL It’s pleasurable and exciting to transfer from high school to college but also be very challenging. It’s an important turning point in our life. With many different there are certain similarities as well‚ but college is a whole new world for me. After few weeks study in Quincy College‚ I realized it has the level education system very different from my high school that I used to study in my country. It’s a big different but the notable about curriculums
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Book Essay The collection of short stories‚ In Persuasion Nation By George Saunders‚ has not only changed the way I see things around the world‚ but it has changed my point of view of people in our society. As each short story is told from a different perspective‚ you as the reader are constantly forced to look at the world through a different set of eyes. In his very first short story of the book‚ it is a letter from a man named Rick Sminks writing to Mrs. Ruth Faniglia about his regret to hear
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Smith’s Chapter 1 of the Wealth of Nations begins by stating that the greatest improvements in the productive power of labor lie in the division of labor. Even in the production of very simple products‚ division of labor always increases productivity exponentially. Adam Smith offers three reasons on how the quantity of work increases. First‚ the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly‚ to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another
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