In the book 'The Giver', the community is a perfect place, where everyone lives a safe and fun life, without feelings of pain or love. Jonas is our protagonist. A very brave, strong and smart man who undergoes a huge adventure for the good of mankind. In this world, instead of having an age, you just have a number, and live your entire life within the community with the same people of your number group. If, once born, you aren’t...
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Hunger was Katniss Everdeen’s worst nightmare, creeping up behind her and pouncing, instantly shattering her peaceful life and challenging her abilities to support her family by herself. Discover how she overcomes hunger and her personal arsenal of character strengths which allows her to survive even in the most treacherous of situations. ‘The Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins depicts Katniss Everdeen’s fight and her triumph over the Capital, Panem. We all know her as the myth the legend, the girl who...
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According to a London-based neurologist who wrote the book ‘Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain’, roughly 80% of the human population is naturally optimistic. It’s just unknown to most of us. So why is that we often have a negative view on how the world has changed over the last decades and centuries? Why we are so pessimistic about our collective future? The pessimist will argue that he or she isn't a pessimist, but a 'realist'. So...
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Mental illness refers to a wide range of mental health conditions that affect your mood, thinking and behavior. It can be argued that mental illness is a social construction. Social constructionism states that something only exists because society built it, created it or needed it for its own development or interest (Boghossian, 2001). It will be argued through literatures whether mental illness is a social construct or not. There is evidence to suggest that the way people view mental illness...
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The first known time that rice was planted in Australia was in 1906. It was planted in the south-eastern part of Australia and was planted by Jo Takasuka. Jo Takasuka was an import/export merchant who was previously in the Japanese parliament.in the same year of the plantation of rice he sowed a total 35 acres of rice on flood-prone land that he rented from a farmer named Nyah. This flood-prone land was on the Murray River. Rice first came to...
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I’m stuck in the middle, stuck between an older brother and a little brother. People often look upon the middle child negatively. Because they are somehow always forgotten about, and when they get a sparse amount of attention, it’s usually for all the wrong reasons. I, however, respectively disagree. I am who I am today because of my family and, most importantly, because of my role as the middle child. From the day I was born I had an immediate...
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Michael Jackson is the King of Pop. He is called this because he is good at music and entertaining. Michael Jackson affected music history by being one of the first African American artists on MTV. He inspired people to do what he does, which is make people do his dances and perform on other stages like him. He also inspired Justin Timberlake and Justin Bieber and Beyonce. He was famous for his music. ‘Thriller’ was the best-selling album ever. It...
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Jenny Santi in her article ‘The Secret to Happiness Is Helping Others’ states that helping others may seem like it doesn’t make a big different on making our lives happier, but it has a huge impact. When it seems as if we are forced to give back to others, it doesn’t make us happy which is why we should never have to feel that. No matter how much we help people, we can guarantee it will make us or them...
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Alcohol is the term we use for ethanol the substance reasonable for individuals to drink. Another kind of alcohol is methanol and it is hurtful to individuals. It is the result of solidifying sustenance substances like grapes or grain with sugar and yeast which allow them to age. People use alcohol in various structures and inside various social settings. In any case regardless of the way that alcohol is used the world over it is moreover regularly manhandled or misused...
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I recently spent a few days in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a unique destination with a wonderful combination of urban sophistication and small-town charm. And in this essay, I want to share my experience. With great art, shopping, restaurants, lively nightlife and cultural attractions, Grand Rapids is the perfect holiday destination. It is not surprising that people travel hundreds of kilometers to enjoy this energetic and lively town, as it offers many attractions for visitors. Lonely Planet agrees named Grand Rapids...
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In the story ‘Dog’, we follow a kid named William Henry Devereaux and his treatment by his parents, who are both English professors who were ‘academic nomads’. Henry was a nine-year-old boy who wanted a dog for Christmas, but probably wants a dog to substitute the love and care that his parents don't give him. Richard Russo’s ‘Dog’ is a short story that shows the negative impacts that parents at times have on their children and the unintended results that...
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Is gentrification okay? In Spike Lee’s film, ‘Do the Right Thing’, he displays scene of gentrification stating that is creating high racial tension. Lee predicted the gentrification 25 years early by exploring the issues. An early time that people did not know what really was gentrification the only people who knew about it were the people who were going through it, the minority groups the ones that are getting pushed out of their community. By reminding us of the past...
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Costa Rica can provide insight into how, despite the common practice, it is possible to have sustainable practices that do not harm the environment and still experience economic growth. The focus of this essay will be on tourism as it is Costa Rica’s main source of income and because tourism itself accounts for around 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions (Lenzen et al., 2018). It is important to identify cases of current practice that go against common practice as it...
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“In 2011, 160 million hectares if genetically modified crops were grown and it was an 8% increase than the previous year”. Genetically modified foods (GMFs) are foods manufactured from plants or animals whose genetic material has been changed through genetic change. Therefore, making genetically modified foods the answer to the nation’s famine difficulties because they give better health benefits, energy, soil, and water resources and it takes less land to grow them. Genetically modified foods can be customized to give...
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The White Americans occupied various part of the United States including the western frontier. It is important to note that they viewed the Native Americans as aliens and this generated fear in them. On the other hand, efforts that put in place by earlier Presidents that sought to make Native Americans equal to the White Americans had not succeeded (Cave, 1334). The inflow of more White Settlers into the United States in the 1830s saw most of the land occupied...
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‘The Landlady’ is a very weird and unusual story. This short horror story is by author named Roald Dahl. The story is about a lady who owns a house that does bed and breakfast in the middle of nowhere. Billy Weaver aka Mr. Weaver is a businessman that is looking for a place to stay for the night, he first looked at the ‘First Bell Dragon’. The bed and breakfast pulled him in like some magnetic force field dragging him...
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Did you know that good deeds decrease stress which can give you a lot of diseases or heart attacks? People should help others without expecting any rewards. Just like Mawi Asegdom’s brother and father. His brother and father were caring people. The father used to wake them up early every day to do something nice to their neighbors. All people should help each other without expecting any reward because it would help make this world way better, there would be...
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In recent years, open-plan offices have been the subject of considerable controversy. This journal argues that the benefits of open-plan offices which can be defined as the interior office space without the partition of wall or door are less than the disadvantages of it and the main reason for the dissatisfaction with the open-plan offices is the lack of privacy (especially in acoustics). The purpose of this journal is to evaluate the impact of conflict between advantages and disadvantages of...
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Good and evil are very difficult terms to define. Some would seek help from their religions to help them determine whether a person is good or evil. It appears good and evil is based more on perspective than a set-in stone definition. Sources of good a d evil in today’s society is criminals are the evil and the non-offenders are the good even though that is not always the case. It affects the individual and society negatively. People become like...
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Responsible for the creation of over 40 movies throughout the 1960s to early 2000s, director Milos Forman attempted to bring to life the best-selling novel, ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’, written by Ken Casey. With a prominent director at the helm of the movie, and backed by an all-star cast composed of Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, and Danny Devito, this movie unsurprisingly won many awards. If I was writing this movie review in 1975, I would say this is...
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The movie, ‘A Stray’ was released on October 21, 2016. It was created by the writer and independent filmmaker, Musa Sayeed. It was directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. The two were inspired to work on the film following a Somalian refugee because they are both Somali-Americans. The movie was even shot in the neighborhood where the director grew up. The creator, Sayeed, said in an interview that he wanted to film to show the diversity of Muslims and Somali people in...
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Introduction Faith-based education offers a unique opportunity to reflect on the importance of faith in life and to learn about the values and beliefs of a particular religion. It is an education that can provide students with the knowledge and understanding needed to make informed decisions and to develop a personal spiritual relationship with the world. In this essay, I will discuss why I desire a faith-based education and how it can help me to become a better person. Definition...
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Introduction Between Rome and Carthage, there is a wide variety of social, cultural, religious, military, etc. However, the ending Punic Wars determined its viability. Rome and Carthage are the most famous cities in the Mediterranean. Rome is a land power, Carthage is a sea power, and it is expanding its energy through trade. After defeating Carthage, Rome proved to be a reliable pressure. In 1509 a. C., the last king of Tarquino was banished and the Roman Republic was established....
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In today's world there is a very big issue, garbage. there's garbage everywhere and there is nowhere to put it so we need to recycle. My 9th-grade class walked around Canarsie and a beach to do a street and beach clean up and we found a lot of waste such as cigarette buds, beverage bottles, food packaging, etc. We did this to collect data and to see which is worse the street or beach. Thanks to the data we collected,...
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Since the surface of the Earth is far from being even, the distribution of oceans is not quite equal between the two hemispheres. Taking a closer look at the map, one will see that the Southern Hemisphere (206 x 106 km2) has more water resources than the North one (154 x 106 km2) (Distribution of Water and Land Between Parallels para. 2). What is sea ice? How does it affect the salinity of seawater? Sea ice is traditionally defined as...
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Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818 in Trier's comfortable middle-class home on the Moselle river in Germany. In one of the sites that I found, it mentioned that, “when he was 17 years old, he attended the University of Bonn, where he also enrolled in the faculty of law” (Karl Marx 1818-1833). He was engaged to Jenny Fon Westfer, who was a famous member of the Trier community, the daughter of Von Westfalen, and was responsible for...
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World's largest rain forest, Amazon has been burning for over 16 days now and holds the risk of burning out completely. Contributing almost 20 percent of the earth’s oxygen, the rainforest is in a major loss of trees and biodiversity. It will get completely burned out if it is not put out soon. The impact of the fire can already be seen in different regions in South America including the Atlantic coast and Sao Paulo. Located about thousands of kilometers...
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There's a reason nutritionists recommend drinking at least 8 glasses of water per day while limiting soda — or better yet, avoiding it altogether. Water is calorie-free, hydrating and the benefits are many. Soda is loaded with sugar and calories but does nothing for your health. While the sweetness of the carbonated beverage may be enticing, ditch the soda pop and reach for water instead. 1. Water Helps You Stay Hydrated Throughout the day, you lose about 8 cups of...
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Today I am going to address a serious topic related with global warming issue. Deforestation. When the word ‘deforestation’ appear the first thing that comes to our mind is man-made. Deforestation is a method of constantly removed of trees and forest which people clearing trees for their own benefit. Deforestation can be occur in many method such as logging, burning, intensive agriculture and more. Deforestation occurs all around the world, particularly targeted towards the tropical country. Modern day deforestation is...
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The Nepal earthquake happened in 2015 on the 25th of April. It destroyed many homes, health facilities and took about 9000 lives away. The intensity of the earthquake had a maximum Mercalli Intensity of VIII (Severe) and magnitude of 7.8. How it Happened Since Nepal is in between two large tectonic plates, it is particularly prone to earthquakes. The Nepal earthquake occurred because of two intersecting tectonic plates; the U.S. Geological Survey said the India plate was overriding the Eurasia...
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