I belong to the opposing group‚ who opposes Jose Rizal as the national hero‚ and affirms Andres Bonifacio‚ who truly owns the throne to the so-called title of "National Hero" which currently belongs to Jose Rizal. First of all‚ let me get some facts straight. His complete name is Andres Castro Bonifacio‚ and he was born on November 30‚ 1863 in Tondo‚ Manila and died on May 10‚ 1897 at a very young age of 33 in Maragondon‚ Cavite. Like Abraham Lincoln‚ his formal education was very
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affecting your health. Cigarettes are expensive and if you quit you could save money now and for future health costs. One pack of 25 cigarettes costs $16 and the prices keep rising. You could do much more with your friends and family if you saved that money and didn’t smoke. Research has shown that smoking reduces life expectancy by seven or eight years. Some of the risks caused by smoking cigarettes are: high blood pressure‚ heart attacks‚ strokes‚ worse asthma and the blood vessels in your eyes. Smoking
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Introduction The beginning of 2009 marked the end of over a decade of economic decline in Zimbabwe. The economic indicators decline cut across all key sectors‚ despite Zimbabwe’s rich resource endowment. Inflation‚ initially at 100 percent annually between 2001 and 2006‚ increased to over 1500 percent (McIndoe‚ 2009). According to IMF estimates‚ real GDP growth recorded a cumulative contraction of 48% (nearly 5% per year) between 2000 and 2009. Agriculture value added contracted by 86% during the
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never thought about it. I didn’t ever think the question would come up in my everyday life‚ and when it did today‚ I was stumped. After thinking about it‚ it seemed like I was living my life without a any blueprint what so ever. I was making my own mistakes without looking to see what people in the past had done. It all started in speech class...We had to do a speech on a person that we admired most. I thought this would be easy because most people have someone they admire. Well I was wrong‚ I
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John Werynski Werynski 1 Mr. Crooke English 1 23 May 2013 Glorious Frienship “ There is nothing on this earth to be prized more than true friendship”‚ said by John Steinbeck in the book Of Mice of Men. Steinbeck’s book portrays friendship through the characters of George‚ Lennie‚ and Candy. Throughout the book they constantly pick each other up after mistakes and make living that much easier. Lennie has George’s back‚ and George has Lennie’s back and that’s all that seems to matter
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People under the age of twenty one are not psychologically fit to go to war. Eighteen is the youngest age you can be to join the war without a parents’ permission‚ which is still a very young age in this society. The legal drinking age is only twenty one in America. If young adults can not drink legally they should not be allowed to go overseas and experience the terrorizing war scene. In the book NAM the author writes “Next I had to kick one dead body in the side of the head until part of his brain
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claims that the Christian deity created the universe and placed humans in it that they might be in awe of his power. If this is so‚ why is worship the correct response? The meaning of the universe as created by God is the entertainment of God‚ but what is the meaning of the larger system containing God and his creations? We could conceive of an even greater being‚ but that simply takes us all the way back into the wall of infinite regression. <br><br>When I first read the Bible‚ it struck me as neutral
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Destiny Maxfield Mrs. Collar Engl. 1302 19 November 2012 A Critic’s Opinion of A Doll’s House In Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House many views could be seen from both sides of the gender world. Critics will argue about the true meaning of the story and why Ibsen wrote the story. The main points of the play that critics discuss are sexuality i.e. feminism‚ the wrong doing of the father figure‚ and spiritual revolution. I believe these critics are each right in their own way from my understanding of the
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So‚ unless all the Mexicans and other illegals in this country want to start a coup to over throw our current system and make the native language Spanish‚ then they need to learn some English or leave. I have been to Mexico and if you are outside your resort then you are not expected to be understood by anyone‚ the same should apply here. All immigrants coming in on vacation that don’t speak English should have resorts set up in certain parts of this country and if they wander outside of them or
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Pressure groups are common place within the contemporary political system; Collins English Dictionary defines such an organisation as "a group of people who seek to exert pressure on legislators‚ public opinion‚ etc‚ in order to promote their own ideas or welfare." There are many different forms of pressure group; they can be insider or outsider‚ sectional or causal. It is important to distinguish between pressure groups and political parties; pressure groups do not seek political power‚ instead
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