I think climbing Mt. Everest is not worth climbing by risking life even though some people say that when you reach the summit‚ there is a big feeling of accomplishment. I never understood why people risk their lives to climbing the mountain. Even if it’s their hobbies‚ there should be safer and more exciting activities than climbing mountains. When I watched and read the works about Mt. Everest in the class‚ I felt that climbing Mt. Everest is more dangerous and complicated than I thought. For example
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Is John Green’s ‘Looking for Alaska’ worth the read? Looking for a good book? Stop looking in the libraries and start ’Looking for Alaska’! This book is one of my personal favorites and I keep finding myself reading it over and over again. The book starts out with Miles Halter’s going away party‚ where only 2 of his classmates show up. He’s starting school at a private school‚ Culver Creek‚ as a junior. Back home‚ he never had many friends‚ but at “the Creek” he instantly connects with his roommate
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Survival That’s Worth the Cost In life people make hard choices -- difficult choices -- but sometimes to survive people don’t have a choice at all. During “The Cost of Survival” the author talks of two groups of people‚ separated by accountability. The first group of survivors ended up in life-or-death situations because they got the wrong end of the stick‚ so to say. The second group of survivors ended up in life-or-death situations because of risk taking stupidity. People in survival circumstances
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Question: select a character from the text you have studied. Explain how and why the character develops or changes. Support your points with evidence from the text. Marina is a 14yr old girl‚ and not surprisingly the main character in John Marsdens ’So much to tell you’. It is through Marinas journal that the audience can see her changes & bit by bit she reveals her past. Marinas feelings towards her parents-a mother by whom she feels betrayed & abandoned ’& only cares for herself‚’ and a father
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No matter how much we try we cannot change who we are. No matter how much we try we cannot change who we are. A change is defined as the act or instance of making or becoming different and is very difficult to achieve‚ however not impossible. Our physical characterisitcs and how others perceive these characteristics and what we post online affect our identity and are generally impossible to change. On the other hand people can change who they are‚ such acts can be seen with gender changes or plastic
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PEEL: How Benedick’s view of love has changed between his two soliloquy’s Benedicks view of love at the beginning of Act 2 Scene 3 is a negative‚ spiteful view. Using a series of imagery and comparison‚ Benedick talks about how love has made Claudio weak. ‘I have known when there was no music with him but the drum and the fife‚ and now had he rather hear the tabor and pipe.’ The drum and fife are music of war while the tabor and pipe are music of peace. Musical imagery is used to show a comparison
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Date: 11-19-2014 Student or Team: Kurt Kroeger MKTG 4470 Negotiation Skills Negotiation Log Sheet: 1 How much time was spent in relationship-focused talk or “schmoozing”? Approximately 20 minutes or 3 e-mails. 2 Were any pre-procedure guidelines set? No guidelines were set. 3 Which team presented the problem to be negotiated? Twin Lakes. I expressed to Briona my concern about governmental regulations‚ finances‚ and taxation. 4 Which team was first
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Dear readers‚ with your current income‚ how many years does it take to earn 114‚000? Does it take 10 or 25 or 50 years? If you answer 1 day‚ you must be Cristiano Ronaldo because it is the amount of money he gets DAILY. I bet everyone already knows about how big is the footballer income and moans how it unfair is the life. You maintain the order‚ defense the motherland‚ save people by risking yours‚ developing technology for better future etc.‚ but your income is nowhere near the person whose job
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ever wondered how much sugar it takes to overflow a mug in different water temperatures. I thought it would be cool to find out so i did an experiment. I used five diffferent temperatures of water 1.) cold tap water 2.) refrigirater water 3.)freezer water 4.) hot tap water and 5.) boiling water. I filled up a 2 cup mug with 1 3/4 cups of each type of water and added sugar until the mug overflowed. Purpose: I chose this experiment because I thought it would be fun to find out how much sugar was needed
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Rehabilitation of Criminals: A Waste of Time or Worth The Effort? By: Heather Rose Since 1960‚ the number of violent crimes committed per capita in the United States has increased by more than 450%. More than 24‚000 murders took place in America in 1991.. With each passing year‚ rapes‚ robberies‚ murder‚ and other forms of extreme violence has become a way of life for some individuals who fall short of society’s norms; however‚ it is only a small portion of criminals who commit the
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