“America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race” (Ralph Waldo Emerson). Most people take pride in being an American‚ as America has provided greater opportunities and has fostered economic success for its’ citizens to be successful. By coming to America‚ people are able to take advantage of the better opportunities presented to them. The majority of people would interpret living in America as a privilege‚ as America
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Although the boy did told they were Canadians but he was a minor so it didn’t count‚” stated Stella Pratt‚ a American border guard. “I met them a few days ago and they said they were Blackfoot. I understand why she said Blackfoot‚ I’d be proud of being Blackfoot if I were Blackfoot. But they have to be American or Canadian for me to let them through‚” said Carol Nel‚ a Canadian border guard. Peta Lewis and Apisi Davis went to Coutts hoping to cross the American border to Salt Lake city to visit
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Starting your own business vs Employment Hassan Gujjar 08-0244 Muhammad Awais 08-0346 Uzair Munawar 08-0368 Start your own business Running your own business is a rewarding but engaging career and life choice. It demands your time and focus. Start by expecting to live your work until it is established so it can get off the ground. There are many different opinions about how to start a business from researching and writing a detailed business plan -- to organize it all -- to just jumping
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where we have challenges being thrown at us and are expected to get through it or we’ll end up dying. A survivor in my eyes is someone who stays alive after a traumatizing experience‚ doesn’t matter what it could be. However‚ being a survivor after a terrible experience isn’t always a good thing. The amount of impact that it leaves at the end is the hardest to let go of. It replays in your mind and it gets you afraid to try anything related to your traumatizing moment. Being a survivor could be such
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Superhero The debateto be or not to be a superhero has gone on for many years. Various factors have caused the age long debate on whether being a superhero is truly worth it. The popular tendency to see the good over the bad continues to outweigh and sway the opinion of many. While yes there are plenty of great benefits to exemplify the good of being a superhero‚ there are also a few bad reasons as well; reasons that have mostly taken the back burner to the good reasons. Although some people
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Being colorblind is something that we should strive for because running awayfrom the issue isn’t going to help‚ or solve the problem its only going to make thingsmuch worse. We as a society should be working together to help others instead oftearing each other down. Acting in violent ways isn’t going to solve anything eitherpeople who do these things only make themselves look bad and uneducated. In thisessay there will be reasons and opinions of why we should be colorblind and notacknowledge and
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Being a corpsman was a dream job. Meaning I was getting paid to have fun for nearly a decade. I loved being in a position to help people‚ it’s my calling. So‚ what happened? I got married and we had a child on the way and in an instant‚ rappelling out of helicopters and surviving suicide bombers scared the hell out of me. I wanted to live! Danger was fun‚ but not so much now and I didn’t want to be gone from my family 26 months out of 32 anymore. I made the easy decision to transition out. I
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When asked the question “what is an american?”‚ almost every single person would provide a different answer. This question is very open ended‚ and there are infinite possibilities for a response. Being an american is not something that can be decided by a few physical criterion‚ it is something more. To be an american is‚ according to Patricia Fernandez‚ “a state of mind‚” based on a person’s beliefs rather than their tangible features. Therefore‚ I believe that an American is someone who considers
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doing something that doesn’t interest you the slightest bit. Some even dread being bored. But according to an article on usatoday.com‚ “Research suggests that‚ rather than a feeling to be avoided‚ boredom (in moderation) should be embraced”. In an article written in 2014 on bbc.com‚ the author‚ David Robson‚ writes that a psychologist by the name of Sandi Mann has done research on boredom‚ and can conclude that maybe being bored isn’t so bad after all and is more important than some think. In fact
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I think students takes the standardized test because they are being tested to see how much they know and that how much they learned in school. I think it’s useful because they want to see how much we learned and they want to help us with the problems we are struggle with. I don’t really think there is a problem with
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