“...it was too late to tell them that there was still good in it…” ( S.E Hinton 179). Do Socs really have it worse than The Greasers? In the story “The Outsiders” By: S.E Hinton‚ there are two groups who don’t get along and fight all the time. They’re called “The Greasers” and “The Socs”. The Socs are people who are rich‚ have nice things‚ and live on the nice part of town. The Greasers are people who are more poor‚ their things aren’t as nice‚ and live on the more bad/run-down side of town. There
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CORRUPTION SCANDALS IN THE PHILIPPINES Nowadays foreigners and citizens alike say that the Philippines has the most corrupt leadership and economy. Corruption in the Philippines has become "a humanitarian crisis" and scandals increasingly seem to dominate the news. The worsening corruption has eaten up the right of every citizen to good governance‚ freedom‚ decent life‚ and more importantly his or her dignity. Corruption is a serious obstacle to the social and economic development of a
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Smile – tomorrow will be worse No one knows what will happen tomorrow. We do not know will we laugh or cry. But‚ what we can do is laugh. So‚ just keep laughing. Breathe deeply and live to the limit. This is the time when there are more bad people and things than good. The only thing that we sometimes keep is our smile. Happiness is sometimes very close‚ and sometimes far away from us. When we reach it‚ it tends to run away or just disappear. Happiness is when you laugh and when you fill your
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CORRUPTION Anytime corruption is mentioned in Ghana‚ politicians and especially government ministers become the easy targets. Why not them? Because the impression has been created that it is only when you are a minister or a politician that you can make ill-gotten wealth or be corrupted. As a result‚ many low level officials in governmental institutions and agencies who daily rob citizens of Ghana for services rendered are left off the hook. Just imagine this. A friend of mine who lives in Belgium
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most everyone will face. There are those that place blame on the lover‚ and then there are those that place blame on love itself. The narrator of Love Armed places the blame on both. The verse is written for a lover that does not reciprocate the narrator’s affections. The title produces an image before the poem has even started. Love Armed‚ a larger-than-life figure sits‚ surrounded by weapons as though to protect itself from the pain and heartbreak that love can cause. It is a well-known fact that love
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situation in “Armed & Underage” is more serious than the situation in “The Charge: Genocide” because in “Armed & Underage” written by Jeffrey Gettleman it states‚ “...human-rights experts estimate that more than 200‚000 children worldwide are still being used as combatants‚ usually against their will. And it isn’t just boys: Girls are often pressed into duty as cooks or messengers. Many are subjected to sexual abuse‚ including rape.” This evidence supports the claim that the situation in “Armed & Underage”
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Corruption The word corruption means the destruction‚ ruining or the spoiling of a society or a nation. A corrupt society stops valuing integrity‚ virtue or moral principles. It changes for the worse. Such a society begins to decay and sets itself on the road to self destruction. Corruption is an age old phenomena. Selfishness and greed are the two main causes of corruption. Political corruption is the abuse of their powers by state officials for their unlawful private gain. Over
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Jane has recently been hired as a Payroll Manager for R&S Electronic Service Company‚ a small business that employs 75 people and is owned by Brad. After a few months of relatively uneventful work‚ she discovers activities involving Greg‚ a Service Technician and brother to the General Manager‚ receiving preferential treatment that she feels is in violation of general business standards and practices. She has been instructed by her General Manager‚ Eddie‚ to ignore these potential violations or it
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It has been months since the Sandy Hook school shooting‚ and Americans have been barraged with commentary blaming guns‚ bullets‚ rounds‚ magazines. There is a few realistic solutions that former Arkansas Congressman Asa Hutchinson and a team of experts from around the country have found. The National Rifle Association contacted and asked if he’d head a project that would offer recommendations to policy makers regarding an increase in school safety around the nation in the wake of the most recent
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Asia-Pacific Development Journal Vol. 7‚ No. 2‚ December 2000 CORRUPTION: CAUSES‚ CONSEQUENCES AND CURES U Myint* The paper stresses the need to keep the issue of corruption squarely in view in the development agenda. It discusses the causes and consequences of corruption‚ especially in the context of a least developed country with considerable regulation and central direction. Lack of transparency‚ accountability and consistency‚ as well as institutional weaknesses such as in the legislative
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