are roughly 326 million U.S. citizens right? 765 thousand of those are police officers and 1‚160 thousand more of them are firefighters. Makes you feel pretty secure. But think about this. What if we all of those people were controlled by the government. That we were a communist country and all of your decisions were made for you. Not so secure anymore are you? That is why we need to realize how lucky we are to be able to have these freedoms. We get to choose a new president every 4 years correct? We
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the person I am today‚ and I will continue to carry on these values my whole life. Just a few of these values are honesty‚ appreciation‚ and integrity. Honesty is one of my values‚ and in fact is one of the most important one out of my values. Why you may ask. Well when I was younger I was pretty ornery‚ just ask anyone. I thought I could get out of things by telling a little white lie‚ but we all have to learn the hard way with some things‚ right? This is something that I had to learn from the
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How I define success What is success? If someone would look in the dictionary‚ they will find success as a favorable or desired outcome‚ the attainment of wealth‚ favor‚ or eminence. After moments of thoughts they will be convinced that the question is not an easy one to answer. We always hear people talking about successful persons‚ but we never know what they mean by it? If someone has houses‚ land‚ has large bank accounts‚ and has many apparent friends is accounted successful. If someone has
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for roughly one-third of the human-caused global warming effect (Lappé 854). Further aggravating the situation‚ the food we consume is processed leaving it with fewer nutrients and proteins. Anna Lappé in the essay “The Climate Crisis at the End of Our Fork” and Michael Pollan in the essay “Why Bother?” explain the ongoing
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Will You Help Save Them Today? Today there is only about 3‚200 of them left in the world‚ but that was all very different in 1990 when their population was immensince. Then the population decreased by over 100‚000 in the span of about a year. People have poached and hunted them for not only as food and for their fur‚ but sometimes just for game too‚ and now because of this they are going extinct. The tiger population is dwindling without most of the world even realising it. They would normally be
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This quote comes from We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby‚ particularly the essay titled “Fuck It‚ Bitch”. Stay Fat.” Throughout this chapter‚ Irby discusses things like keeping track of calories in her “little notebook full of lies‚” her first time at a Zumba class‚ what her expectations were of the crowd‚ and how this was not exactly the case once she showed up. Her description of the women she saw there can be seen in this quote‚ she expected to see picture-perfect size-zero models
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Are You Insane? by Cassidy Meade “The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they’re ok‚ then it’s you” said Rita Mae Brown. The definition for ‘insanity’ is the state of being seriously mentally ill. There are most likely multiple different definitions‚ but this was the most broad. Insanity can‚ in a way‚ have benefits. For example‚ a person accused of a crime can admit that they committed the crime‚ but may
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You Decide: Susie Marks vs. City of Elsewhere and Officer Ruthless Susie Marks caught a ride to Elsewhere City Park from Orson‚ who then dropped her off and left. She met her friend Jerry and his girlfriend Kate. Orson was to return for Susie at 11:00 p.m.‚ which is the park’s curfew. Around 11:00 p.m. Officer Ruthless of the Elsewhere Police Department‚ approached the three minors and informed them the park was closing and instructed to leave the park immediately. Unfortunately‚ Orson had not
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Aiwen (Hurphy) Zhang Fall 2013 11/1/2013 Unit 3 Assignment: “How Do You Say It?” Final Draft Language and Translation Language is the basic tool people use to communicate with each other‚ including verbal language and non-verbal language. Language is used to announce‚ to persuade‚ to queries‚ to express emotions‚ to transmit complicated ideas or even to hurt people. Generally speaking‚ using the language correctly allows people to communicate better‚ compared
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what we call junk food. Who is responsible for this‚ is it the people who consume it or is the companies that produce and promote their food. I think they are both to blame and there is always a good and bad in everything. If you are twenty percent over your normal weight you are considered obese. We have to make the right choices when it comes to food because we decide what’s good and bad for us and we are free to choose but not from the consequences. In our society we all know that McDonalds and
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