1/12/13 OPINION EDITORIAL 1ST DRAFT YOUR FREEDOM‚ YOUR RIGHTS AND YOUR GUNS On December 14th‚ 2012; 20 year old Adam Lanza‚ entered Sandy Hook Elementary School to carry out the mass murder of innocent staff and children of the school. This shooting as well as others‚ such as the "Batman" shooting in Colorado‚ have sparked the emotions of almost everyone in our local communities. Members of the media as well as government have been left asking how did this happen in our schools? Some have
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What is More Important: Your Actions or Your Character? In this paper I will argue that neither your actions or character are more important than one another‚ however‚ they go hand in hand. I will argue that your actions reflect your character and vice versa. The obvious place to start would be in our everyday life. There are over 7 billion people on this planet and everyone is different in their own way‚ especially their character and how they do things. Everyone knows someone who has an amazing
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Alice Hocker correctly stated‚ “Your greatness is not what you have‚ but in what you give‚” (“Your Greatness Is Not What You Have But In What You Give”). Alexander was someone who took from others. He had a lot of land‚ money and things he did not need but wanted. Alexander‚ the King of Macedon‚ took thousands of lives and seized land the size of the US. If people judged Alexander on what he gave than he would not be known as Alexander the Great‚ but as Alexander the Annihilator. Alexander was born
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Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home United States Environmental Protection Agency United States Consumer Product Safety Commission United States Department of Housing and Urban Development December 2012 Are You Planning to Buy or Rent a Home Built Before 1978? Did you know that many homes built before 1978 have lead-based paint? Lead from paint‚ chips‚ and dust can pose serious health hazards. Read this entire brochure to learn: • • • • How lead gets into the body About health
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You say I have this one important thing. Is it the way I use my slang? How about the way I spell my name. You claim it as your own‚ but some of us have never known. You’re not the only one trust me. It’s just that some of us have never known our own cultural identity. Cultural identity is not just who you are but how you act‚ what you do‚ or even your family and friends can transmit into your cultural identity. Your cultural identity doesn’t have to just be one thing it can be a mix. My cultural
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Do not ask what your country can do for you‚ ask what you can do for your country "We have to labor‚ and to work‚ and work hard‚ to give reality to our dreams. Those dreams are for the world‚ for all the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom‚ so is prosperity now‚ and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments." A true patriot
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What simple machines did you incorporate into your nifty lifting machine? 1. In the nifty lifting machine Kenny‚ Kaylee and I used three simple machines. We used a pulley system as our first simple machine. The pulleys are what allowed pulling the 600 gram can up the five centimeters. My group also used a wheel and axle‚ which is the crank that we used to pull up the cans. The wheel is the gear and the axle is the dowel rod we used to tie the rope around. Then we used a wedge to stop the gear on
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unhealthy for your body‚ or television hypnotizing the viewer into buying an unhealthy product? According to surgeon general‚ obesity has become a health epidemic that needs to be controlled and prevented. Almost a third of America’s population is obese and growing. Obesity is also now a wide spread topic that has caught the attention of journalists and health activists. Writers all over America have an opinion on the obesity epidemic such as Radley Balko who wrote the article "What You Eat Is Your Business
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What is your purpose in Life? 1. While it’s true some people seem to find their life purpose easier than others‚ it’s also true that God really does have a plan for every single person‚ even if it takes a while to see what it is. a. Jermiah 1:5“I chose you before I gave you life‚ and before you were born I selected you to be a prophet to the nations.” 2. Most people think finding your life purpose means doing something you truly love. It’s an area that just seems natural to you and things just
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What would you do if your principle made your whole school participate in a activity that you dislike or didn’t have time for it‚ would you disagree or agree‚ well I would disagree. Because I don’t understand why the principal wants to make this decision without talking to the parents and the students‚ also because of some people personal lives that are not always as perfect as it seems. Firstly‚ there are many outside of school activities that some students may need to do or complete‚ before
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