280 OL1 – Feature Story Final Draft July 30‚ 2013 Off the Grid Clocks never seem to move faster when I stare at them. Everyday this summer has felt like clockwork. I wake up‚ go to work for eight hours‚ go back home‚ do homework‚ go to sleep and the cycle restarts. Today‚ however‚ is different. July 24th‚ 2013 is the day my old high school friends and I decided to hang out together and catch up on things. Every summer we decide on one day to go out and do something together‚ just the five of
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2012 Essay #2: “In what ways are women objectified and what are the consequences?” On any street corner or at the turn of a page there are advertisements showing men‚ women and children for various products. Whether it is trying to sell a simple beauty product or lingerie using a scantily clad model‚ the images depicted somehow catch your attention. But have we ever stopped to think what that ad is really trying to accomplish? While evaluating that photo‚ has it ever made you feel somewhat inadequate
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When you chance the way you look at things‚ the things you look at change. The most fundamental and mayor decision you have to make in your life is this: Do I live in a friendly or A hostile universe? Is it the universe‚ where people want to hate each other‚ kill each other. Is that what you see? Because when you see the world that way‚ that is exactly what you create for yourself. The interesting thing is that this is not just a clever play of words: When you change the way you look at
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A Critique of Jill Dubisch’s You Are What You Eat Before reading Jill Dubisch’s article You Are What You Eat‚ I had many presumptions regarding how Dubisch would connect the health food movement to Geertz and his definition of religion. When thinking about the supposed “premise” of religion‚ I had always believed the vague and obscure definition that religion is a set of beliefs and practices that center around a divine force. Because of my ignorance regarding religion‚ my views were incredulous
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What Are You Proud Of? By: Mulki Abshir Certain things happen in your life that you never forget; sometimes they’re happy moments‚ other times sad moments and sometimes they’re even powerful moments like when it’s your turn to be bullied. I’ve always thought that when your friends or you get bullied‚ by ignoring the bully would make them leave you alone but I realized it just makes things worse. It was 3rd grade in Elementary School‚ a year that I realized something important. So far
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How one responds to a situation is a huge factor that contributes to personal happiness‚ for the state of happiness is achieved from accomplishing a certain goal. In the 18th century‚ the 13 colonies was in feud with its mother country‚ Britain; refusing to pay taxes without representation. George Washington‚ the General of the Continental Army‚ was hopeless and at the brink of surrender. Yet through the motivational articles such as Paine’s Common Sense‚" the establishment of the Declaration
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What Are You Proud Of? By: Mulki Abshir Certain things happen in your life that you never forget; sometimes they’re happy moments‚ other times sad moments and sometimes they’re even powerful moments like when it’s your turn to be bullied. I’ve always thought that when your friends or you get bullied‚ by ignoring the bully would make them leave you alone but I realized it just makes things worse. It was 3rd grade in Elementary School‚ a year that I realized something important. So far
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What Motivates You? Everyday we pursue things. We move from one place to another; one goal from another. This is to satisfy our needs‚ wants‚ things that could pleasure and please us. So‚ what drives us? What motivates us to do such things? The answer is simple: the need to be satisfied and superior. As what was stated in the hierarchy of needs‚ one must satisfy the lower level needs before climbing one step higher in the hierarchy. This is rational because as one is contented with his
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ENGL 100.58 9/11/13 THE PERFECT DATE What exactly is a perfect date? It can be as simple as a candlelight dinner or as outgoing as a trip to an amusement park. Some dates last a few hours while some are all day long. My perfect date would last all day with my significant other of 10 months! As we drive along I-73 to Myrtle Beach in his sleek black Nissan Altima‚ we blast our favorite rap and R&B songs with the windows down. We approach the beach about 2 hours later and park at the first spot
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J. D. SALINGER A PERFECT DAY FOR BANANAFISH The aim of the lesson is to teach you to see the details that help the author to intensify the dramatic effect and to evaluate the philosophical background of the story. 1. Some critics consider that Salinger wrote his Nine Stories within the paradigm of traditional Indian poetics‚ one of the main conceptions of which is that the genuine value of a literary work consists in the implications created by associations a word gives rise to. Only a person
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