This is the album’s first track and it discusses killing Jay-Z’s ego. This track was written by Shawn Carter known as Jay-Z‚ Producer No I.D.‚ Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson. No I.D. was also a producer in this single. This single samples Alan Parsons Project’s song "Don’t Let It Show". In this track‚ Jay-Z discusses important events that have affected his life and were highly publicized. The first occurrence was the shooting of his crack addicted brother when he was twelve years old. Although
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English homework‚ by Chloe Brehony 10J. Don’t get me started on . . . the youth of today. In response to this over opinionated segment I would like to express how outraged I truly am. Being a young person today I feel that the majority of us normal everyday youths are being stereotyped into a hood wearing‚ crime committing and drug abusing association. Throughout my response I am going to voice my perception of your youth hating statement‚ and give you an insight into the aspiration filled youths
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Who should be responsible for what people eat? Some people believe that the government must create anti-obesity strategies and help people to keep good health habits. Others instead believe it is the individual’s responsibility. In the article “Don’t Blame the Eater”‚ David Zinczenko states that eaters should not be blamed for what they eat‚ and that the fast food industry is to blame because they do not provide healthy food choices. While some people believe that it is our liability what we choose
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In David Zinczenko’s Don’t Blame the Eater article‚ he blames the fast-food industry for starting the rising obesity problem because of the failure of providing the facts and warnings labels about their high calorie junk food to the consumers. Zinczenko argues that kids are drawn by the cheap‚ high-calorie junk food that the fast-food chains like McDonald’s‚ Taco Bell‚ Kentucky Fried Chicken‚ or Pizza Hut are happy to supply because with lots of parents working all day‚ they do not have time to check
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Every citizen has the right to vote‚ yet so many people don’t vote‚ "with the turnout at just 64% for the 2008 presidential election‚ and voter turnout rates decreasing steadily in most established democracies." My parents just can’t do it because they’re too busy and sometimes they just don’t want to vote. It would be fun to vote because of the freedom we have on voting for which president we want to have‚ but some people just don’t think that way. As a consequence‚ voter turnouts during presidential
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TEENAGERS: CLASSICAL MUSIC YOUR CHILDREN SHOULD KNOW (AND WILL ENJOY!) Many parents‚ when faced with the teenage years and teenage musical tastes‚ buy their child a headset and hope that their child’s hearing will survive the next ten years. (The generation gap can often be measured in decibels!) And yet‚ while schools provide the counterbalance to popular reading matter with good literature and a talkshow view of contemporary society with courses on history and current events‚ it is left to parents
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Is Junk food the problem? Junk food has always been a hot topic‚ when they first created fast food it all seems to be good‚ until they notice that the rates of obesity were increasing. They also realize that the number of children that were diagnosed with diabetes was increasing. In the other hand fast food seems to be cheaper than the food you prepare in your home. Also fast food as its name says is faster to prepare than normal food‚ which means that fast food adapts better to people necessities
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The rebellion against the tyrant Harkin’s brutal regime has come to an end. The rebels and I had won the war after six long and bloody years. But at what cost did it charge us? Tens of thousands of our people either lay dead or wounded‚ hundreds of thousands more are homeless‚ entire cities have been destroyed in the process‚ and large amounts of farmland were rendered infertile by the rivers of the blood that were shed. I had personally lost my entire family to that man’s insatiable madness and
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1. What did you learn about your procrastination habits and your reasons for procrastinating? Provide examples. I learned several things about my procrastination habit. I only have one thing that I would procrastinate about and that was going back to school. I would procrastinate because I was afraid of fear‚ afraid I would not succeed‚ and afraid I would make a fool of myself‚ and most of all afraid I would fail. 2. If you do procrastinate often‚ why do you think you do it? If you do not
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Don’t Let the Scissors Cut You The tone of the memoir Running with Scissors is best epitomized by a single quote from the book: “The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do‚ I understood‚ is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.” (264) The author‚ Augusten Burroughs‚ throughout the novel‚ wasn’t sure if his life was the one he wanted‚ which he expressed through his persistently negative and casual diction‚ his hard to follow chronological organization‚ and his highly expressive
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