Taking Risks What I Already Known/What I Want to Know While reading Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air‚ I began to wonder why individuals take extreme risks. Over the course of this novel‚ a team of highly trained mountain climbers attempts to climb Mount Everest in 1996. Several die‚ get injured‚ and go missing. Death becomes very familiar to the team of climbers. In the book‚ Hall and Hansen get stranded‚ Hansen runs out of supplemental oxygen and cannot continue; Fischer also gets stranded‚ Hansen
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Collections: Why do people collect and how the design of Urban Vinyl toy revolution brought a new era of collectors. ‘Not just objects are collected we are collected…empire is a collection of countries and of populations; a country is a collection of regions and peoples; each given people is a collection of individuals‚ divided into governed and governers- that is collectables and collectors’ Eisner and Cardinal (1994:2) This essay will firstly define what collecting is. Then it will look why people
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WHY PEOPLE KEEP PETS Today owning a pet is a widespread phenomenon and is also becoming a trend in our society. Pets always have something to offer whether it is companionship or protection. Some people even have pets just for the sake of it. As stated in the dictionary‚ pets are a domesticated or tamed animal or bird kept for companionship or pleasure. The reason why people keep pets is pets can improve your health‚ a source of exercise and provides companionship. There are many benefits from
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Why People Use Social Networking Sites Petter Bae Brandtzæg and Jan Heim SINTEF‚ Forskningsveien. 1‚ 0314 OSLO‚ Norway pbb@sintef.no Abstract. One of the recent popular social media platforms is the social networking site (SNS). Thus far‚ few previous studies have empirically investigated people’s motivations for SNS usage‚ especially not outside the U.S. This study combines a large-scale quantitative and qualitative research design‚ by asking 1‚200 SNS users an open question regarding their
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Why do people become criminals There are so many reasons in the world which make people become criminals. The world is full of criminals. I think that the most important factors are bad educations‚ the conditions in life‚ and the bad friends. One of the most important reasons which make people become criminals is bad educations. The person who doesn’t have a good education can’t know what is right or what is wrong. I think that education is very important in the life of human to know the difference
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good because the people have acts of kindness‚ art & beauty and also heroism. Most people in the world show this characteristics and give the world knowledge and creative ideas to one another. People are good because they show act of kindness by helping one another. They show this in many ways by showing that they care for each other and also how they treat others. In the article teen soap charity‚ the boy selling the soaps is demonstrating act of kindness to help the people that were injured
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society say about people who try to be unique. Being unique is the same as being different‚ and being different is not seen as a good thing in our world. Why do we hate people who are different? Well it’s simple because we like to have friends that have the same likes and dislikes as them. There’s a reason people aren’t all trying to be different‚ and that’s because people are afraid of things that are. So how can people like to be different when it might make people hate them for it
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The human race is made up of people of all kinds‚ from all walks of life‚ don’t you agree? From different nationalities‚ religions‚ genders‚ ethnicities‚ races to lifestyles‚ philosophies and classes. We are so wonderfully diverse yet we don’t seem to realize or appreciate this. We choose instead to embrace discrimination‚ racism and prejudice‚ towards others that we perceive as different from us. This should not be so as Dorothy Height once said‚ “We cannot afford to be separate…..We have to see
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ever thought why do people fight instead of talking to each other? Well they are many different reasons why people fight but i will be talking about the three most important ones. First is the pride and they are many causes like they think that they are strong enough to start a fight with a random guy for no reason and the effects of this can get worst because he or her beats you up or you beat him and then his friends come and start punching. You well the solutions are really easy‚ do not start a
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Why do people get tattoos? Tattoos are expensive‚ they are painful and they are permanent. Many people find them unattractive‚ or even repulsive‚ others see the beauty in them. If you get a tattoo‚ you will be judged by others because of that tattoo. You may be labelled a criminal‚ a thug‚ uneducated and immature and you most certainly have some underlying psychological issues that you are trying to compensate for. People think that tattoos are just a cry for attention‚ a rebellion against society
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