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    When our country’s founding fathers created the constitution‚ they gave us the second amendment declaring that we had the right to bear arms. Lately‚ our modern government has been attempting to deprive us of this right by creating and/or passing laws that make it more difficult to purchase and carry firearms. With the recent outrage of shootings and murders in the US‚ many of our citizens have been rallying and protesting‚ demanding more gun control laws to protect us. However‚ will that really

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    We Do Abortions Here

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    What surprises me most about “We Do Abortions Here” is the level of imagery she employs. After reading the text‚ I feel as if I could act on the old cliché and ‘paint a picture’ of this particular abortion clinic. I can walk in the locked glass door and see the receptionist look at my bag skeptically. In the waiting room‚ I see and hear the dysfunctional mother‚ or “girl with maternal benignity‚” yelling at her kids in the waiting room. I can see the fear the woman’s face as the ignorant‚ hot-headed

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    Why do we need bees? We seem to see that bees are just annoying or scary‚ yet do we ever sit back and wonder what would happen if we no longer had these little black and yellow pollinators. Would the world die if the bees were gone or would we all be okay? Well to be honest we are not a 100 percent sure what would happen but there is an idea. Could you imagine a world without apple pie or even just apples? A world without bees seems like a dull one without beautiful flowers‚ lovely fruits and

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    Having courage‚ a caring personality and integrity are the qualities possessed by a “hero”. Andrew Carnegie was an industrialist who supported capitalism‚ and Social Darwinism‚ free enterprise and economic competition. He favored the idea that the most superior people in society naturally rise to the top. He was born in 1835 in the attic of a weaver’s cottage in Dunfermline‚ Scotland. Carnegie´s family faced poverty‚ which caused him to begin work at the age of 12 to contribute to his family’s responsibilities

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    Are we happy and why?

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    Contents Abstract This research investigated the hypothesis that there is no difference between Australians and international students as far as the causes of happiness are concerned. For the study‚ a questionnaire consisting of 12 questions about happiness and life satisfaction was created. A survey was conducted among 25 female and 25 male students to solicit the responses of a sample group of 50 international students in Navitas Academic English classes. Their responses were recorded

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    Lungs do you know any person that has only one lung or more than two because if you know someone like that then you need to be aware because they are not from the earth. Did you know that lungs are making energy with the respiratory system‚ are lungs one of the more important organs that living organisms need? why do we only have two lungs and not more? Can lungs evolve? Can we survive without lungs ? Can lungs evolve like humans lungs are in part of the body without lungs many species or organisms

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    English 1301-203 September 2013 The Things We Do for Freedom “Learning to Read and Write” sounds like a step by step introduction of learning how to read and write. Just reading the title makes the chapter seem tedious and mediocre. As if it were nothing except another chapter that was just sitting there gathering dust never to be read. After having read the chapter it become apparent that it was describing exactly what was happening. 1The chapter was saying that a person should always find a

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    who was raised from the deeps of racial discrimination to being someone who gave people dignity. They looked up to him‚ seeing change. He would be the one to alter the world. Muhammad even called himself‚ “The Greatest‚” but was he? Was he truly the hero that everyone believed and trusted in? Muhammad had won a gold medal during the Olympics of 1960 in Rome‚ Italy. It was for boxing 81 kilogram men. He was eighteen at the time‚ battling against incredible boxers‚ but as soon as he returned to

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    Why do we stress about small problems that are irrelevant? Because we were taught to try a solve our everyday problems. Levitin discusses about how‚ psychologist Gary Klein‚ described a term‚ pre-mortem‚ as a way look ahead and solve all the problems that could go wrong and try to figure out how to prevent those things from happening. Personally I’ve lost many things because I didn’t know where I last put them‚ sometimes even more important things like a birth certificate‚ or even a social security

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    Odysseus and Polyphemus

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    island of the Cicones. At the island of the Cicones Odysseus and his men stormed the beach but didn’t press any attack on the people there. The Cicones rallied back up and prepared for an attack on Odysseus and his men‚ from horse back. In a large battle that Odysseus inevitably lost‚ six rows of Odysseus’s men were killed and Odysseus had to flee the island The Lotus-Eaters When Odysseus and his men landed on the island of the Lotus-Eaters‚ Odysseus sent out a scouting party of three or so men who

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