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    Pursuit of Ambition

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    The Pursuit of Ambition in Macbeth Due date 15/03/2013 What fuels Malcolm ’s interest in defending Scotland? Do his actions up to the final battle indicate that he ’s prepared to be King? Is he ambitious? What is the difference between him and Macbeth‚ if they’re after the same throne? Ambition: an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction‚ as power‚ honor‚ fame‚ or wealth‚ and the willingness to strive for its attainment. Mainly three themes: lady Macbeth‚ Macbeth‚ Malcom

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    The Pursuit of Happyness

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    In Pursuit of Happyness With a terrific central performance by Will Smith‚ this is a well-made‚ sharply written and ultimately uplifting drama. “In Pursuit of Happyness” is about setting goals and achieving them. It is not about happiness‚ it is about money. The movie celebrates people who toil for better life by building the perfect career. Chris Gardner is convincing as a man who may have been stripped by his dignity but who still believes in himself. His strong human relationships skills

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    Our Culture Define Us

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    Our Culture Defines Us How does our culture define our personal identity? Our culture ultimately makes us who we are. The activities we do‚ the way we speak‚ the way we think‚ the people we socialize with‚ the traditions we take apart of all form our identity. I come from a Africa background. Our culture is unique to any other culture in the world. Since our traditions are very important to us‚ it has shaped me into a man that defines Africa America culture. spend time with my family as much

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    Bussiness Not Pleasure

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    In 1918 women over 30 got the vote. There were a number of reasons why this happened and people disagree about what the most important reason was. The first reason is the war effort the suffragettes put into the war. On 14th August 1914‚ Britain declared war on Germany. After that the NUWSS (national union of suffrage societies) decided that all political activity would be suspended until the war was over. Some leaders of the women’s social and political union such as Emmeline Pankhurst and her

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    Problem Is about Us‚ Not Them” by Jo-Ann Pilardi was published as an op-ed in the Baltimore Sun (2006). Journalism is not Pilardi’s professional field‚ in reality she is just another reader. This particular selection deals with immigration in the United States. The author goes on to talk about the importance of this group for the economy and the country overall. Pilardi also discusses the fact that immigrants do not progress on their own; they do so with the help of those that employ them. This selection

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    Pursuit of Happiness

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    the right to pursue happiness but not the right to happiness. That being said‚ folks in our society need to follow what pleases them. People in different areas of the world have various ideas of what makes them happy. It is true that money does not buy happiness. Normally humans are happy with just a few of the basic living attributes. To live a prosperous life of pleasure one must surround themselves with what promotes their happiness and well-being. There is a large variation of the definition

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    What exactly is the societal definition of "normality"? In this personal essay "Us and Them" by David Sedaris‚ the author not only brings this thought into the mind of the reader but also manages to make an eye-opening point about how in today’s modern society‚ we often single out and sometimes even shun people whose habits are different from those that we may consider "normal" (while not really understanding just how subjective the concept of normality is itself.) Sedaris explores this exact idea

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    MOTIVATIONS FOR PLEASURE VACATION John L. Crompton Department of Recreation & Parks Texas A&M University‚ USA Crompton‚ John L.‚ "Motivations for Pleasure Vacations‚" Annals of Tourism Research‚ October/December 1979‚ VI(4):408-424. The study is concerned with identifying those motives of pleasure vacationers which influence the selection of a destination. It also seeks to develop a conceptual framework capable of encompassing such motives. Empirically nine motives were identified. Seven were classified

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    opinion‚ I believe that society is more than people in the U.S; it is the people that is living on this world. I strongly believe that society is slowly getting worse today because majority of people are afraid‚ politics‚ and their mortality. Everyone is afraid of someone or something because of what happen to them or what they have seen in the past. In my opinion‚ I feel like that people are feared by not knowing what the possibilities of that fear. If many people give that fear a chance to be study

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    tHEMS

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    causes people to be overeaters‚ thus‚ making them overweight. However‚ not only can some people be genetically predisposed to overeat‚ but most Americans have a different mindset in their eating choices. Most of them think that just because a yogurt has a little bit of calories‚ it is automatically a healthy snack. You can’t judge someone because they are overweight or obese because you don’t know what their reasons are and you don’t know what they are going through. There are a myriad of

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