Caught up in our busy lives‚ Americans tend to take things for granted and fail to appreciate the little things in life. These little things have big meanings‚ and are much more important than we care to admit. For instance‚ we often pay little attention to small amounts of currency in the form of coins or more specifically‚ pennies.. We bustle around cities and schools and workplaces‚ fishing for cash to purchase a much-needed coffee or snack. Upon arriving to the cash register‚ we scramble
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Personal experience with ISIS and its predecessors I deployed to Iraq as an infantry soldier on July 4‚ 2010. On May 2‚ 2011‚ at Forward Operating Base (FOB) McHenry‚ near Hawijah‚ Iraq‚ we watched President Obama announce on television‚ that Osama Bin Laden was dead. The September 11th attacks were finally avenged. Soon we handed over the base to the Iraqi Army as we made our way back home. Needless to say many of us were dismayed when we later read the news that ISIS had taken over the entire
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"My house has been destroyed multiple times‚" is the quotes of people who have been affected by tornadoes and hurricanes each year. At up to 150 m.p.h. (Source 4)‚ hurricanes are deadly‚ and definitely with tornadoes who sweep in at a whopping 300 m.p.h. (Source 3)! These storms are life-threatening! Their characteristics‚ cost and damage‚ and their formation have a lot to do with their danger that can approach on you when you least expect it to. If you live in a mid-western state‚ you may be in
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This article is explaining the author Walter William’s opinion on why the Bill of Rights were written. He states that they were written because “Congress could not be trusted with our God-given rights.” The article also explained that the Amendments within the Bill of Rights were written because the “Government was the enemy of the people.” Even though the government was the “enemy” it was still needed to provided the State’s protection.Others think that the Bill of Rights were “unnecessary and dangerous
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It is interesting to think about how television could possibly affect your attention span. In Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” (1985)‚ he states a particular fact that “the average length of a shot on network television is 3.5 seconds‚ so that the eye never rests‚ always has something new to see.” This fact alone shows that your attention is constantly shifting and changing focus to see what else is there or what is coming next. With the coming of the internet age‚ written narrative is coming
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Everything you need to know about in this weekly series: A look at how pitchers throw those amazing pitches in baseball‚ Radiohead performs at Lollapalooza‚ President Obama writes and op-ed about feminism‚ and Rick and Morty recreates the most insane courtroom appearances ever. At Social Underground we go beyond the mainstream stuff and see what’s underneath the surface. What should we get into‚ listen to‚ read‚ eat or watch? If there is something in our culture that needs attention that’s our job:
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In the past‚ animal testing has often contributed to human kind and was most of the time accurate‚ but as we progress‚ we slowly dive into the smaller details‚ that we as humans differ completely from animals. Small intricate things such as single gene markers‚ that maybe both humans and primates have‚ but respond differently to differently things can drastically change the results of a test. A research center called National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS)‚ has recently does a study‚ “Which compared
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Celebrities look like the perfect people‚ right? But just how far do they go to look like gods and goddesses we see in professional photos. Even the beauty of individuals relates back to chemistry. Beauty products contain all types of chemicals‚ although‚ is it worth putting them on? Just think of all the harmful chemicals mixed into the products you buy and then applying it to your body. Most surely there is a tradeoff to being beautiful and being healthy. When you are reading the ingredients on
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Many people in this generation would label themselves as poor‚ but sometimes the line between each class is misunderstood and blurred due to wants instead of needs. Believe it or not there are different levels that describe the underprivileged. Poverty can be divided into about five diverse subgroups‚ which are transitional‚ marginal‚ residual‚ absolute and relative (Carl‚ Page 30). No matter which description of poverty a person may fall into the effects of this social class can be great. A life
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In a modern American culture‚ where ideas often get lost in translation‚ vocabularies shrink to easily abbreviated “words”‚ and only extremists’ voices are heard on social media‚ it is no wonder we have a misconstrued concept of words. When terms and phrases are misunderstood or misused‚ assumptions are made and unwavering impressions are left. Specifically these are words like racism‚ feminism‚ body confidence‚ preaching‚ and of course‚ sexism. How is it that the word defined as the attitudes or
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