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    Don t Do Drugs

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    Don´t Do Drugs The drug empire is growing is an article that New York Time pubished in may 11th 2012 and it says. People use drugs in societies around the world more than ever before. Why is it this way? Is it cheper to buy drugs today than 40 years ago? Or is it just easier to reach drugdealers who are selling drugs? I belive it is the last mentioned cause. That is why I also belive we must have stricter laws cocerning druguseing as well as drugdealing to make people stop use drugs. If you ask

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    We aren’t racists‚ yet we buttress a system that acts in racist ways.” stated Nicholas Kristof in part 3 of his series “When Whites Just Don’t Get It”. This series involves five different articles in which Kristoff explains that even though we have come a long way from racism in the past‚ it is still very much alive. A black household has on average about 6 percent as much wealth as a white household‚ black students are less likely to attend schools that offer advanced math and science courses‚ and

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    Kozachok Zoriana “We reporting it‚ no matter truth it or not” John Pilger’s documentary movie you can’t see because of war he showed in it. It is not a new report about war cruel or lies in mass-media‚ it is a scream in a silent society about extent of our information blindness. It is a movie you can’t see‚ you don’t want to see‚ but you must see. “The war you don’t see” shows us a huge difference between what we expect from mass-media and what we really get. And we always get a lie. How big and

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    Tannen’s “Fighting for Our Lives” touches on how our culture is seen as an argument culture where there are two distinct sides to an argument seen as being either right or wrong‚ without a middle ground. The argument culture‚ Tannen explains‚ urges us to approach the world in an adversarial frame of mind: the best way to approach any sort of idea‚ dialogue‚ or conversation is to set it up as a debate. This tactic does not solve any residing problems‚ by ignoring what the other person has to say

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    Each American president has had to deal with controversial issues and sometimes scandals during their administration terms in office. How they address‚ or avert the issue impacts the perception to their leadership capability for our republic. Their policies are sculpted often by public opinion and historical context. President William Clinton is no exception and his handling of the “Don’t ask‚ Don’t tell” controversy indicates that his policies‚ openly excluded gay and bisexual people from military

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    communication‚ they put all their focus on accuracy and none on not being boring (Olsen 8). In the academic community the worst thing you can do is be incorrect‚ if one small detail of your research is wrong it can bring your entire presentation into question. In the world of mass communication‚ the worst thing you can be is boring‚ if you bore your audience it does not matter if what you have to say is accurate or not the audience will not listen.

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    Do you want to stand out? Do you want to be better than the rest? Channel Ten‚ this is your chance to do that! Good morning‚ representing Heirs Productions I am Humda Zainab. [CLICK] Over the past few years‚ your channel has been struggling with ratings and viewership; receiving only 17-19% of the TV market shares. [CLICK] I’m here today to present to you‚ the executives of Channel Ten‚ with a fresh‚ new‚ and unique TV show. A show that will provide you with an opportunity to re-gain your ground

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    College students often receive a great deal of advice‚ from many different people‚ concerning their career. There are many people that give the advice‚ “Do what you love‚” while‚ in contrast‚ other people will give the advice‚ “Do what makes money.” These two pieces of advice are very conflicting and it brings up the argument - should you do what you love or what makes the money? For both sides of the argument‚ there is support and reasoning that is very valid and persuasive. By looking at the argument

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    Tannen Summary

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    In the essays “There Is No Unmarked Woman” by Deborah Tannen and “Ways Of Seeing” by John Berger‚ the authors try to convey a similar point‚ but in two different contexts. Tannen describes a conference meeting and how she views others around her (Tannen 444). Berger on the other hand uses European oil paintings to show how only women are judged by the male eyes in society‚ Unlike a man‚ a woman has two elements to her identity‚ “the surveyor and the surveyed” (Berger 5). He also goes on to note

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    The book "You Don’t Know Me" is not your average book. It has many twists and turns in it. It has to do with a teenager who finds himself in a lot of crazy situations. The main characters are John‚ Gloria‚ Violet Hayes‚ Mr. Steenwilly‚ the man who is not John’s father (that’s what John calls him)‚ and his mother (she is not names either). You Don’t Know Me is about John and his confusing life. If you don’t read it‚ you should since it’s an amazing book. John is a fourteen year old boy who lives

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