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Swear Beat Smoke Swear Beat Smoke Or Drink Parents
545 words
All parents love their children. They sometimes
even sacrifice their lives for their children. But
is only love enough for a child to grow up with?
Why do parents need a child? This is the first
question parents should ask themselves before
anything else. Lots of parents think they have
enough reasons for having a child but do parents
need children to satisfy themselves, to dedicate
their love to him / her , or to train a good,
useful person for the society theyre living in.
Are children satisfy...
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Educational Purposes Lottery Tickets
650 words
The Ohio Lottery and the Problems That It Produces
In August 1974 the first ticket for the Buckeye
300 was sold. This was a big year for the state of
Ohio. It marked the start of something that would
grow into a resemblance of the garden of good and
evil. Though lottery is a big moneymaker for the
state, it is also a cause of a horrible addiction.
Senator Ron Most first campaigned against the idea
of the Lottery in Ohio. Its approval in Ohio was
apparent; the State Issue 1 passed by more than a
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Cross The Border Hundred Dollars Money
655 words
I am a sixteen-year-old boy from southern Mexico
City. My family lived in poverty and when my
father was killed in an accident the flow of money
abruptly stopped. My brother, fifteen-year-old
Jose, and I am planned to cross the border and
head to the United States. The two of us tried to
scrounge up enough money to hire a coyote to help
us across, but we both decided that wed be better
off if we kept the money for unexpected expenses.
We said our final goodbyes to our family and set
off early in...
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Public Speaking Famous People
1,195 words
It grabs your gut and makes your hands shake. It
hijacks your saliva glands when you need them the
most. It reduces you to a child, scared to death
that the boogieman lurks somewhere beyond the
stage lights. Stage Fright. According to the Book
of Lists, stage fright is most peoples number one
fear, next to fear of height, insects, deep water,
illnesses and death. This doesnt necessarily mean
people would rather die than do presentations or
perform. By nature death is an once-in-a-lifetime
ordeal...
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Catcher In The Rye Committing Suicide
1,247 words
... be, especially to him. He says, I started
thinking how old Phoebe would feel if I got
Pneumonia and died. It was a childish way to think
but I couldnt stop myself. Shed feel pretty bad if
something like that happened. She likes me a lot.
I mean shes quite fond of me. Holden does not want
kids to grow-up into the world that he sees as so
horrible. He wants to keep children the way they
are, and be the only adult to watch over them.
Holden comments, Certain things should stay the
way they are....
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Paying Attention Todays Society
526 words
In todays society there are many things that
people have to do even though they dont really
want to. An example would be going to school. Many
students dont want to, but they believe they have
to to help their chances in excelling in the
world. However, some really dont care about
school. As a result, a large percent of students
fail their classes, which is a major problem in
todays society. Not coming prepared for class,
having trouble paying attention in class, and
having to face many distract...
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Women And Children Welfare Reform
1,092 words
Poverty in the United States is getting worse each
day and not enough is getting done about it. The
readings from Babies and Benefits by Sheila
Holbrook-White, the article on poverty by Michael
J. Paquette, and Keeping Women And Children Last
by Ruth Sidel made me view the issues of poverty
in a different way. I never realised what kind of
people were living in poverty, and the true
reasons why they are there. What amazes me the
most is how much these people need help, and how
little the governm...
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Accidental Deaths Bill Bradley
1,487 words
Gun control is an issue that has been debated by
Americans since the 1960 s (Dolan 1). The debate
questions the right of Americans to bear arms,
this including, handguns, shotguns, and rifles.
Some say a simple restriction of these arms is in
order while some think they should be banned
altogether (Dolan 1). Both sides hold strong
opinions often causing conflict in the matter and
confusion among the citizens of the United States.
However, the opponents do agree that a death rate
of 30 million a ...
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Baseball Bat 00 Pm
1,071 words
Sitting at Starbucks, drinking coffee. Last night
I sat outside her house watching and waiting, Im
convinced she new I was there. Still I sat outside
watching waiting for my delivery to arrive. I was
waiting for hours, waiting to catch a glimpse of
my sweet, and her short hair black as ebony, her
fair comp lection almost angelic, her soft
voluptuous lips, her cute little nose and her
devilishly sexy green eyes. I only wanted to see
her one more time. However this is the same story
I had been tel...
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Blind Faith Todays Society
1,253 words
... camps or executed. That is the same today in
our society. There are more and more security
cameras being installed everywhere in the country.
Global Positioning Systems track many electronics
now and are even in most Big Rigs. Thermal Vision
systems give the capability of staring through
walls. Night vision systems allow people to see in
darkness. Six and a half years ago, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation asked that every cell
phone double as a tracking device. The FBI is
demanding real-t...
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Harder And Harder One Thing Fear
441 words
"So have you ever felt this feeling? Im not quite
sure what it's called. where you think you don't
quite fit in. you " re not "with the program. "
the black sheep, the ugly duckling, the one in the
back of the math class going... harry when
everyone else seems to be mastering how to
antidiferentiate from dy / dxodifjoeijasd to the
millionth power of the integral BODSF. Walking
down the halls everyone seems to be busy, everyone
seems to have some urgency get to somewhere else,
another class, with...
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The Secret Life Of Great White Sharks
1,139 words
Great White Sharks are greatly misinterpreted as
vicious man-eaters because of the media, movies,
and peoples imaginations, but they are actually
large fish who mistake people for seals and other
marine life. What is a great white shark? The
great white, among the least understood of Earths
creatures, is an apex predator, meaning that it is
at the top of the food chain with no natural
predators. This means great whites have their pick
of food when it comes to selecting their prey
(Klimley 15). C...
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Racial Hatred Racial Prejudice
996 words
When a Polish-Jewish immigrant slashed his throat
because his workmates could not understand him and
tormented him and himself being a victim of racial
hatred, Melbourne-born Richard Beynon expressed
his feelings, drawn from these experiences, in his
prize-winning play- The Shifting Heart. An Italian
family, the Bianchis, consisting of Maria, her
Momma and Poppa and younger brother- Gino, tries
to adapt in Collingwood, Australia, during the
1950 s. They live with Maria's Australian husband,
Clar...
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Point Of View Wogga Mcbride Quick
955 words
Cloud street is the story of two families
struggling to make ends meet in a run down house
in Perth during the twenty years after World War
II. It is a book about community that stirs deep
hungers for belonging. Fish Lambs Sadness Radar
The significance of the title of this chapter is
shown in the opening sentences. Quick Lamb reads
the paper every day and sees the long lists of the
missing believed killed, and the notices in
memoriam for sons and fathers and brothers. The
wars over, he knows, b...
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Satire In Huck Finn
931 words
Mark Twain uses his novel the Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn to exaggerate and make fun of the
many problems facing American society. Twain uses
many of the characters in his novel to express
satire. Some of the major views of society that
Twain attacks are religion, slavery, and human
nature itself. Religion is one of the main victims
of Twain's satire. The satire is visible when the
Widow Douglas tells Huck about Moses. It is
obvious that Huck does not care to know when Huck
states, "Here she ...
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Mad Gusts Soldiers War
582 words
A person who experiences war will be changed
forever, their outlook on life is forever a
special one. These people are the witnesses to a
mass slaughter, they couldnt be anything but
disturbed by this. When soldiers are in battle
they need to be aware of one thing, their mental
health, without it all hope for them must be given
up. In Owens poem there is a personification,
creating a metaphor, made between the never
ceasing weather and the emotions of the soldiers.
Watching, we hear the mad gust...
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Americas Youth Suicide Rate
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Mike Gusties Superlative, Proactively Executed,
Homogenous, and Good Essay as Pertaining to the
Failing Youth of America and The Apology The youth
of America are a morass of filth, apathy and
corruption, and they are nearly blind to the
impending doom their immorality brings upon them.
Compared to the youth of the 1700 s, the teenagers
these days deserve the title disposable teens or
throwaway kids. For evidence, I would like to draw
your attention to several factors as examples of
their amorali...
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Fact That Holden Catcher In The Rye
1,101 words
Siblings are never meant to get along. They yell
and bicker over everything and are never able to
have a friendly relationship. Very rarely do I see
a pleasant relationship between a brother and a
sister, who actually are able to communicate
without killing each other. When I see siblings
that are nice to each other, I admire them because
it takes a lot to be nice to their siblings,
especially if there is a seven year difference
between them, like Holden and Phoebe. In J. D.
Salinger's novel, Th...
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Mandatory Military Service To Recieve Federal Student Aid
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I personally would have to agree with changing the
federal financial aid for education policy from
everyone can apply and receive this to allow only
the people who have done military service be
eligible for federal student aid. And the
reasoning for this is to help discipline our
youth, become a larger, stronger military and it
may help our economy through the discipline people
have endured. The way I see it, if you can rough
out the time your in the military, there wont be a
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Catcher In The Rye Ways Of Life
782 words
Catcher in the Rye A classic theme in American
literature is a youths journey into adulthood.
This journey is usually met with some adversity.
Such is the case with J. D. Salinger's book The
Catcher in the Rye. In this book the protagonist,
Holden Claufield, is a nineteen year old expelled
college student who is going through some tough
times. Most of Holden's problems stem from his
inability to disregard his childhood and proceed
to maturity. Throughout the novel, Holden tries to
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