present in a variety of gaming media‚ all of which were promoting online programs and colleges where you could basically become a professional gamer in a few short years—something that at the time seemed something of a fantasy job. As I got older‚ I stopped gaming‚ and G4 eventually went to the wayside; but I was quite surprised to recall these ads from the past while reading the article “You Can Sleep Here All Night.” Its assessment of the gaming industry suggests that the endemic labor practices
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Acts of kindness that you can practise in your daily life. Being kind is a way of living that keeps giving long after the kind thoughts‚ words‚ and actions have taken place. Kindness is a force without force‚ and it goes well beyond manners to the very heart of how people respect and treat one another. Being kind is a vital way of making our own lives‚ and the lives of others‚ meaningful. Being kind allows us to communicate better with others‚ to be more self-compassionate‚ and to be a positive
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Can you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar ? Positivity or optimism is something observed in the field of psychology that refers to two phenomena: That people tend to observe a neutral situation as mildly positive‚ or that people feel good at any given moment and this is easily observable to other individuals around a person. With 8th graders thats an important factor for school work and social life as the work 8th graders do in school is critical for their grades and it is very important
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Have you ever wanted to give to a charity? How about giving half of your earnings to a charity of your choice? In Peter Singer’s book‚ The Most You Can Do‚ that is exactly what people are doing. People such as Matt Wage‚ Julia Wise‚ Rhema Kokama‚ Celso Vieira‚ and Priya Basil are just a few of the many people who follow this type of lifestyle. According to these people‚ they are living ethically as effective altruist. To sum up effective altruism‚ Peter Singer (2016: vii) states that “effective altruism
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The article “Yes‚ Sitting Too Long Can Kill You‚ Even If You Exercise” by Susan Scutti claims that sitting for long periods time can lead to death. Many people and I included sit too much. Many people have to sit in school or at work all day long. The article states that “people who sat for less than 30 minutes at a time had the lowest risk of early death”(Scutti). However‚ students in our school have 56 minutes of sitting time before they travel to their next class and then sit again for another
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help me know what to change in my writing. When I read and hear other classmate’s essays and journals it gives a lot of information that I didn’t even know. When peer editing‚ it helps me understand what people think about my writing and how they think I can make it better. The comments that are given to me by the editor tells me what to change. Also when you peer edit‚ the editor tells you what grammar or spelling mistake you have made‚ so you can change it. I believe that when you peer edit‚ it
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2nd draft‚ Ms.Tidarat K. (Jel) 563050570-1 How can alternative sources of energy be harnessed effectively? Our modern life today needs energy. World energy demand is more than available energy sources. Fossil fuels are running out every time it is used. So we need to provide new energy that can be harnessed instead of fossil fuel for today and tomorrow. Alternative energy This problem can be solved by LCOE‚ national grid‚ and new technologies like Crystal Solar and optimizing battery storage.
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Have you ever wanted to live on the Moon‚ or Mars? Well I’m going to explain why this is a bad idea. Our technology isn’t advanced enough to let you travel planet to planet at a low cost making space travel very expensive. So now I will give you multiple reasons why claiming land on other planets is a dumb idea. Claiming land on Mars or the Moon may or may not be illegal. In the newspaper article "Can You Own Land in Outer Space" by Teresa Anjou‚ it talks about a treaty involving hundreds of countries
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Although Kingsolver focuses about how cultural or social factors have affected many peoples’ eating habits‚ especially the vegetarians who dislike eating meat of a killed animal because of their value for life‚ she believes in the organic methods of food production and processing. For example‚ Kingsolver states that the products from animals raised in open pasture are better and enhance a sustainable environment (Kingsolver 189). She
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children are called to choose a toy from the isle of the toy store that is labeled and colored accordingly to fit the differences of their sex and not their entertainment needs. Children are not the ones to blame for the belief that every aspect of this world is categorized according to genders because this idea has been in our society for ages and there has always been a debate on this topic. In Christina Hoff Sommers’ article “You Can Give a Boy a Doll‚ But You Can’t Make Him Play With It” published
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