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    1. Advertising * Should certain kinds of ads be banned in the interest of health/morality/annoyance- alcohol‚ cigarettes‚ prescription meds‚ etc. 2. Airport Security * Should the government use invasive pat-downs and body scans to ensure passenger safety or are there better methods? 3. Beauty Contests * Do they serve any purpose in society? 4. Cell Phones * How have they changed us socially? 5. Civil Disobedience * Is breaking the law for a cause justifiable? 6. Divorce

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    Table-1. Profession of the respondents profession | number | percentage | Student | 2 | 8 | Service holder | 8 | 32 | Business | 9 | 36 | other | 6 | 24 | I interviewed a total of 25 account holders of the Bank and checked their profession. From the above table ( tabe-1) ‚ it shows that majority of the respondents belong to business group and this is 36%. The next group close to business group is service holder and their percentage is 32% which also seems significant. Only 8% of the

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    Horace's Adversity Quote

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    Horace’s quote‚"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."‚ simply means that people behave differently in the face of adversity. Facing adversity‚ it usually brings out the best in people or it leads for them to discover something that they knew not they could do. This quote helps in building a person’s character and may also lead to self-discovery for the person while facing adversity. I noticed how people react differently while

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    The Paradoxity Of Gain

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    God or Gain Introduction In Mark 8:36 it says “For what shall it profit a man‚ if he shall gain the whole world‚ and lose his own soul?” Gain appears 29 times in scripture‚ 13 times in the Old Testament and 16 times in the New. According to Merriam – Webster’s dictionary gain means “resource or advantage acquired or increased‚ an increase in amount.” Gain is term used commonly in our day and age‚ people who have big business‚ even those who work for others. Gain is a business term. The writer

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    Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota in a bill called the "Inclusive Prosperity

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    No Pain No Gain

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    Lance Sataraka Period 2 12-13-12 No Pain‚ No Gain No pain no gain How much of you have had to sacrifice your time or change your plans to go and do something else like go practice or work on something? What is pain? What is gain? In my family my mom‚ dad‚ and sister had to constantly had to sacrifice their time to get to their goal. It took them a lot of time‚ blood‚ and sweat to reach where they are right now. I am the only one in my family that hasn’t worked hard

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    Debt Free Prosperity

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    The Four Laws to Debt Free Prosperity The object of this book is to teach people how to manage their money in order to stay out of debt and plan ahead for the future. This book goes over several suggestions or "laws" but focuses on four main ones. To work with the other "laws" you must first learn and master the first which is "Tracking" daily expenses. By doing this one sees how to ease financial problems by finding money that slips through the cracks. If one pays attention to

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    No Pain No Gain

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    No Pain No Gain The phrase “No pain; no gain.” First came to prominence circa 1982 when actress Jane Fonda started using the phrase in her aerobic workout videos to encourage the viewer to push past the soreness of the muscle so they could gain the result they desire. Although the “No pain; no gain” philosophy is most often associated with fitness‚ it has undeniably become largely used in life in general. Often in life‚ in order to get what we want‚ we have to do things that are not exactly to

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    Adversity Each individual will go through that stage of life where you feel that you have hit rock bottom and wonder what went wrong‚ why am I in this position. I agree that‚ “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.‚” spoken by the Roman poet‚ Horace‚ when one is in a misfortunate situation‚ one’s mentality and psychological state would strengthened. Nonetheless‚ each individual is different and some may be stuck at that stage of

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    matters as well as big ones. What we tend to overlook is that‚ despite this yearning for truth‚ the road to it is a maze through many errors‚ and to reach our destination it is necessary not to ignore those errors but to acknowledge and understand them. We may need to learn to love our mistakes. ’’Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority‚’’ observes Schulz‚ ’’the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw‚ it is inextricable from some of our most humane and

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