When I first entered university, I was well aware of how I was the minority in school. Here I was at age 27 in my first year of university among my peers in the 19-21 age range. Add to the fact that I was a private A-level candidate in a sea of students coming from their respective post-secondary institutions and, as unsettling as it is, my own race being Malay, I was in many ways a minority in various aspects....
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The first two decades of the 20th century was known as the Progressive Era. During the Progressive Era, many things happened. For example, Henry Ford created the Model T and made mass production easier with the creation of the assembly line. Also, there was a rise in women’s suffrage and feminism. Socialism has also reached its greatest effect in America during this time period. The Progressive Era was full of expansions of political and economic freedom. In the Progressive Era,...
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According to the BBC and British newspapers, several of the nineteen men are still alive and have been spotted. A father of one of the supposed terrorists said in an interview that he had spoken to his son after the attack saying that he was fine. The father stated that his son's passport was taken and he is either now in hiding or has been kidnapped by the FBI. This interview provides further evidence that the terrorists were framed by...
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Fahrenheit 451, which was written by Ray Bradbury in 1951, is a science fiction and mentions lots of social problems such as ignorance and fascism. The book is generally about an oppressive future society and a fireman whose job is to burn all the books, and the change and illumination of his ideas, feelings, mind. The fireman does not put out the fire, he is the cause of it. About Fahrenheit 451, some important features of the book such as...
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In the dark, silence was maintained. Being loud was dangerous and opening the blinds to see the outside world was forbidden. Anne Frank was shut out from the world, in order to be kept hidden and protected. Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl born on June 12, 1929. After World War one, a notorious fascist leader named Adolf Hitler took over her country. He enacted laws named the Nuremberg Laws that controlled the Jew’s freedom. With time, the restrictions...
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It all started on a hot, humid, sunny day, the entire soccer team waiting to be called up by the coaches to find out who made the cut and who was off the team. Tensions were very high, you could feel it flowing through the air as if it was the wind. Everyone was waiting for their turn to be called up, with uncertainty about their position in the team. About 200 players were trying out, yet only 22 spots...
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Since the age of 5, I’ve been taking piano lessons. Every year I complete a piano exam, which requires me to learn 3 new pieces of music to play. Perfecting 3 pieces of music takes a lot of hard work, effort, and time. There was one exam in particular that made me learn a key lesson in life and that I feel prepared me to be successful in college. It was the day of my second piano exam. I was...
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Two friends The two boys lived nearby and went to one school, the same college, but later, found jobs in different cities. This was hardly a hindrance to their friendship because they kept visiting one another, continued to talk on the phone to exchange news, and advised each other on all things including girls. After getting married, they, busy with their families, didn’t notice the ties between them weakening. The friendship that was such an essential part of their lives,...
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Committing to reflection and evaluation after an event entitled Holly Jolly December: Special Gift Giving Party for Community Children held at Brgy. Mainit Tayabas City. December is also the Christmas season which is why we came up with the idea that the participant of this event is the Children in the Community Since Christmas is the season for Children nothing compares to the tremendous delight that comes from giving and sharing. For me organizing an event is not as easy...
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Have you ever encountered an event that was so profoundly extreme, intense, scary, or moving that it transformed you completely and shaped you as a human being? Seven years prior, on January 25, 2011, to be exact, it was as if a lamp had been lit. I witnessed a certain reality, and from that point onward my whole life transformed. At that time I was 8, I knew nothing about politics, but I was quite sure that something wrong was...
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One of the incidents from my recent placement was the most educational for me. I was looking after one of the patients in the facility (Ms. L) who has a history of epilepsy, cerebral palsy, type 2 diabetes, and intellectual impairment and was admitted after a stroke resulting in left-side weakness. As I was giving assistance with her dinner, she looked at me with a terrified expression, grabbed my hand, then said “Help”, and she started shaking. I was shocked...
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Many people tend to be afraid of any kind of change that may be introduced in life. I have learned throughout the years that even though change may rattle me at the start, I always seem to adapt and embrace that change. A significant change happened in my life when I had to move to a big city 250 miles from home to attend college. Moving to a completely different environment has played a role in the person I am...
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I still recall riding a bike without training wheels as if it was last night. When I was about seven or eight years old, I rode my first bicycle. Riding my bike will stick with me as one of my favorite events forever. Learning to ride a bicycle can be very exciting, but also very painful. But personally, I found it very spectacular. I started to realize that all of my friends had bikes with two wheels, and I had...
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Abstract The prodigiously generated data by users on social networking and microblogging sites such as Facebook and Twitter is colossal. These user-contributed data are basically short messages that tend to reflect a variety of events in real time, making Twitter particularly well-suited as a source of real-time event content. Utilizing this feature of Twitter, we present Twitter-Detector, a system that performs event detection over the Twitter stream. The system monitors and identifies emerging events (i.e. ‘topics’) on Twitter in real-time...
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Qualities will be characteristics that one considers to be advantageous and, in that capacity, go about as the main impetus in their life. An individual's qualities overshadow different characteristics and, in this manner, direct the way wherein an individual may act specifically occasions. In my life, I have various qualities that I hold. One of the instructive qualities that are key to me is accomplishment. This is because of my conviction that what characterizes me most as an individual is...
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Summary Contemporary terrorism is a transnational problem. Advanced, modern nation states now no longer engage in open combat with one another. Terrorism – whether it is the product of freestanding groups or of groups allied with particular states – reflects the rise of ‘asymmetrical warfare’. Terrorist acts therefore from part of a strategy reflecting war between two or more actors who have vastly different military capabilities. The US has a state-of-the-art military capability: the 2007 US defence budget was some...
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