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    What Are We Teaching Young Girls About Life? As a woman in society I have always had a hard time dealing with my body image and the pressures to fit in. There are so many burdens within society for women to fit a certain criteria to be accepted. The media has a lot to do with the way women perceive the way they "should" look and act. Friends and family are another source from which this perfect image stems from. It’s not healthy for young girls and women to be stick thin and starving themselves

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    DEALING WITH DRAGONS In the story Dealing With Dragons‚ Patricia Wrede tells the tale of an unsatisfactory princess who ignores the regular social norms of the day. In this fictional story set in medieval times‚ it is expected to marry whomever her dad tells her to marry. First‚ Cimorene is justified in ignoring her expected social norms of her day.For example ”All in all Linderwall was a very prosperous and pleasant place.Cimorene hated it”(Wrede 1). This shows that cimorene hated

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    What Would Life Be Like Without Music? Life without music would be as boring as a T.V. that only shows one color or a house that has only one room. In other words life without music would be dull. If there were a choice to have music in our lives and not have music in our lives I would definitely choose to have music in my life. I would choose to have music in my life for many reasons: to have something to enjoy whenever I want to‚ it can prepare me for anything‚ and I can turn it off whenever

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    What was life like for the soldiers at Gallipoli? Soldiers in Gallipoli during the First World War had it very hard‚ they were badly trained‚ badly fed‚ had horrible living conditions and were led to a massacre within the first few hours after landing. The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at ANZAC cove during the First World War faced such problems as lack of food‚ not enough clean water and no proper shelter. During the Gallipoli campaign at Anzac Cove a lot of troops were almost starved

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    Alina Haseeb Mrs. Smith AP Lang 11-2 4 December 2012 Fat Girl; A True Story Raymond Hull once wrote‚ “He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away”. Never change to satisfy another. The way other people voice their opinion should not matter‚ be true and be live happily. It is nearly impossible to please everyone. In Fat Girl; A True Story‚ Judith Moore tells her story. She tells an epic story about how she overcame fear of being herself. Sometimes it is not about fighting

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    It’s Good Business: Robert Solomon In “It’s Good Business”‚ Robert Solomon‚ a philosophy professor at University of Texas‚ explores the fundamentals and significance of practicing good business ethics in decision making. He tackles the correlation between understanding ethics and doing a better job‚ and the direct implications of not taking the value of right moral into account. In addition‚ he explicates the myth of amoral business. Lastly‚ he presents the three C’s of Business ethics and the eight

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    If I could repeat the past like Gastby wanted to with Daisy five years ago. I would of been in the eighth grade 5 years ago. I was in middle school and didn’t have a care in the world except for going to high school the next year because I was terrified. My life would be different in the 1920’s as of then because in middle school was around when technology was coming out i we were in the 1920’s we would not have as big as technology we were beginning to have. All though the 1920’s was known as the

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    What Life Would Be Like If I woke up one day and I was in the early 1930’s living with 2 kids‚ a slave and a single father that was a lawyer‚ I think that it would not take me long to realize that the household would be hectic. During this era the great depression was happening which is not good for a single father. Even though he is a lawyer it would still be hard to make enough money during the great depression to feed 2 kids and a slave. Even though slaves don’t usually get fed much or fed as

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    Humanities – Black Death (Essay) “It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.” ― Charles Darwin. The immediate pains of the Black Death were worth the long-term gains. Without this catastrophic event we may never have experienced the freedoms we enjoy today. Because of the Black Death‚ people became less restricted by the rules that the church and the feudal system enforced. This allowed the people freedom and choice. Also‚ without the

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    Michelangelo’s Early Life What was Michelangelo’s artwork like in the Renaissance? Michelangelo’s artwork made a big influence on the Renaissance movement. This is largely because Michelangelo’s artwork never lacked details. For example: The Sistine Chapel contains multiple colors and when the observer looks at the painting they cannot take their eyes off of it. This is significant because during the Renaissance there were no machines to aid in the process of finishing a project which made it harder

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