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    To most people the Holocaust is one of the darkest periods of time in history. The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. It ended in 1945 when Allied forces defeated the Nazis. During this time a genocide occurred that slaughtered 6 million people of the Jewish faith. Throughout this era of darkness many people risked their lives to do what is best. Although‚ with all of the bad things people do‚ it may be easier to think that there is evil in everyone’s heart. I strongly

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    Thurber (1894-1961) Funny how people despise platitudes‚ when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879-1944) Integrity needs no rules. — Albert Camus (1913-1960) The price one pays for pursuing any profession‚ or calling‚ is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. — James Baldwin (1924-1987) Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does. — Anne Roe (1904-1991) The people who think they are happy should

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    have your ever thought about why do people have these beliefs? Why do these beliefs even exist? Take a look at the history you might say people created religions just because they wanted to rule the rest of people or to secure their own social status. These stories may be true but they are not the root cause. Actually early religion was created just to explain natural phenomena and had nothing to do with politics. So nobody had enforced a belief‚ on the contrary people spontaneously needed a belief

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    Why Do People Want More

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    Why Do Always People Want More? Throughout the history of time and even mythological stories and fairy tales‚ people have always seemed to want more than want they have. They have never been able to satisfy their unlimited wants for money‚ power‚ or even just materialistic items. This greediness has and always will be the downfall of many wealthy and powerful individuals. No matter how advanced we are in society‚ people will always find a way to question what they have and not appreciate what they

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    Why Do Guns Kill People?

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    On average over 100‚000 people are killed by guns in murders‚ assaults‚ police intervention and accidents ("Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence."). Many people say that it isn’t the guns that kill people‚ it’s people‚ but this is incorrect because if people didn’t posses guns they wouldn’t be able to murder people in a simple quick way. The debate on the second amendment and gun control laws has been going on for the past couple decades in the United States. Recently deadly mass shooting have

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    Why Do People Drink Milk?

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    A shocked fact about milk for most people‚ as it turns out that consuming much milk is not good for people’s health as they think. Milk has many beneficial components that make people drink it every day in order to be healthy. Vitamin D and calcium are the most known components on milk. Even if asking a kid why he is drinking milk every day‚ his response directly would be because it has calcium which helps strengthen bones. Moreover‚ milk provides really useful nutritious other than vitamin D and

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    Latin. Behind each language is a culture‚ the expressive richness of a living tongue and its infinite capacity to reflect a distinct mode of thought. So‚ when a language dies‚ it truly diminishes the capacity of our world to think‚ to know‚ to be and to do differently – to be truly other than the dominant culture. As John Sutherland pointed out in The Independent on Sunday: There is no mystery about the root cause of the linguistic holocaust that we’re living through. Take a holiday anywhere in the

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    People change because of their experiences. The Scarlet Letter demonstrates this exceptionally well‚ as writer Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts what happens to a person when confronted with sin. Hawthorn shows this by focusing on two of the main character that are most affected by their sins‚ Hester Prynne and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. On one hand there is Hester Prynne a woman who has sinned but instead of running from it faces the problems head on; with a scarlet letter on her chest and a child on

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    physiologist Arnold Adolph Berthold and Dr. Leopold Ruzicka‚ steroids have been advancing athlete’s physical performance. When people hear the word Steroids‚ the automatic response is always negative. As well as illegal‚ steroids are still being used even with all the restrictions and that it is banned. Coupled with words like juicing‚ freak‚ meathead‚ and monster is used to describe people using steroids. Positive results have resulted from steroids including their impact on bodybuilding‚ baseball‚ and the

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    experience that happens between two people. So why do people fall in love? Professor Arthur Aron from State University of New York at Stonybrook has been exploring the dynamics of what happens when two people are falling in love: Q:  What motivates people to seek out love? A:  Our primary motivation as human beings is to expand the self and to increase our abilities and our effectiveness. One of the ways we accomplish this is through our relationships with other people. We have learned in our research

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