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  • Money's List And Its Decision Criteria
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    Should We All Move To Moorsetown? Why do people choose to live where they do? With a country as big and diverse as the United States is it possible that most people can agree on the best place to live? Money Magazine and CNN / Money (2005) just published their Best Places to Live 2005 study. According to Money, Moorsetown, New Jersey is the best place to live in the whole country. Money says Moorestown has, "a Main Street made for the cover of the Saturday Evening Post". Moorestown also has, "To...
  • Brooklyn By Betty Smith
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    I read A tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. The story takes place in the summer of 1912 in Brooklyn New York. Johnny and Katie Nolan met very young in 1900. Soon, after six months of meeting, and getting married they have their first child, Francie Nolan who is eleven when the book begins. Later they have their second and last child Neely Nolan. As Francie grows up she begins to lose her innocence through a tree-throwing ritual and an encounter with a sex offender who was shot by Katie. Her ...
  • Stones And Curs T
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    The Life of Shakespeare Shakespeare was a great influence to literature. His life, unfortunately, is not as well-known as his works. Much of his life is based on available documentation. Shakespeare's birth date is not known, but because records were found of his baptism on Wednesday, April 26, 1564, many believe he was born that year. He was the third of seven children to John and Mary Shakespeare. William lived with his dad. We can presume he lived on Henley Street in Stratford since records c...
  • 82 Billion Dollars
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    While searching through various newspapers and newspaper web sites online, I realized that the biggest social problem of all is the how misinformed and uneducated the public is. In search of articles on important social problems, the most prominent topics I found were things such as "Halliburton is awarded $72 Million in Bonuses,"Putin blows of steam over baltics at EU Summit,"Egypt Presidential Vote may not be very open,"China is unwilling to impose sanctions on North Koreans". Although these a...
  • Marlow's Attitude Towards Life Changes
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    Joseph Conrad was a very talented author. He started writing at the age of thirty-two, and began telling many tales of his life on the sea. In his youth he was a sailor and traveled to many places such as the Orient, and the Congo. It are his experiences on the Congo that serves as his primary source for his story The Heart of Darkness. This book was actually a story of a man, Charles Marlow, telling the story of his experience in Africa. While in Africa, Marlow's attitude towards life changes a...
  • Taylor's Mother
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    Throughout the novel, kingsolver shows that poverty is very prominent in the U. S, despite the fact that it is a very rich country. From the beginning of the book the main characters mother is shown having to call the women she cleaned houses for miss. .".. I stamped my foot and told my own mother not to call me Marietta but Miss Marietta, as I had to call all the people including children in the houses where she worked to Miss this or Mister that". (p 2) The fact that Taylor's mother had to cle...
  • Correctional Services Canada
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    Holding our Sytem in Contempt By Erin Kelly With matted hair and a battered body, the creature looked at the heartless man outside the cage. Through the dark shadows you could only see a pair of eyes, but those eyes said it all. The stream of tears being fought off, the glazed look of sheer suffering and despair screamed from the center of her soul, but no one cared. In this day in age I am ashamed to think that this is someone's reality, that this is an accurate description of a human being ins...
  • First Law
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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 every detail of w...
  • Homeless Families
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    The first book I read was Rachel and Her Children, by Jonathan Kozol. The author created an image in the readers mind of the harsh circumstances and living conditions of todays homeless families. Through his personal encounters and interviews with these families he dramatizes the effects of the living conditions on the psychological and physical health of the homeless, especially the children and pregnant women. The author thought it seemed almost contradictory to call these people "homeless". T...
  • Power Is Money And Money Is Power
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    Power is Money; Money is Power Power is money and money is power. There are many more examples of this now than anytime in the past. One of the most obvious examples is politics. Ross Perot was an and his money is the only reason that he made it into the presidential election. If a man who earned a standard salary wanted to run for president, he would have almost no chance at all unless he was backed by people with money. Every four years when the U.S. Presidential election is held, hundreds of ...
  • Drink The Pardoner
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    The Pardoner as a Representative of the Church The Pardoner is a disreputable representative of the church. The General Prologue describes him as being a lying, swindling hypocrite, and he does not hesitate to tell you this himself. The main theme of his sermons, and The Pardoners Tale, is love of money is the root to all evil, yet his primary motivation in life is money. He dupes his listeners, and gains their acceptance of his authenticity, by displaying fancy religious letters and seals, and ...
  • Kracha And Elena
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    Thomas Bell's Out of This Furnace, presents a plot line consisting of tragedy and turmoil. The characters are put the the test and are forced to live in deplorable conditions. Their life is one of routine and there is little deviation from the norm. In these situations, is someone who deviates from the habitual life viewed as a hero or as a rebel Kracha is not a hero. He doesn't save lives, he doesn't fulfill any unachievable goals, and he doesn't create a better life for the future generations....
  • People Waste Time And Money
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    Today American dream is immensely different than that of the 50's or 60's. When I look at today's dream I see one of selfish aspirations, one of greed and a drive for wealth. Today is a society based on your job position, money, and fame. Less focus is put on the poverty stricken and ones who really are in need of care. Instead of looking out for the betterment of mankind, American's have engrossed themselves in materialistic greed. A society that once looked for freedom, and strove for a candid...
  • Few Gold Seekers
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    Gold seekers were much more interested in digging for gold than they were in living. The Prospectors would stay at camps at night and after they were done looking for gold. Some camps that they would stay in are known as the Lousy Ravine and the Whiskey Flat. Some of the Diggers would live in shacks that they built themselves. They also used things such as wagons, lumber, bits of canvas, and anything else that they could find. Usually the only buildings that were completed were the saloons and t...
  • Lives In The Apartment
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    A Raisin in the Sun - Essay question 2 Throughout history, America has showed its will and strength to overcome obstacles and to reach its goals. Every new decade demonstrated something knew and different that America had to pull through. This country has overcome many important feats, which shape our history and the way we live today. Back in the 1950's, America was starting something new. We have just come out of vigorous wars and just wanted to relax. During this period, segregation of the co...
  • Hours And Days Of Their Lives
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    Computers. The technological symbol of the last couple decades - the coming of the commonplace "personal computer". I think with a computer point of view. I sit here at 4: 27 am on a Sunday morning or what is left of Saturday's existence in my memory - make that Friday's existence. Computers have a miraculous grasp on the attention span of me and everyone. Sitting in one chair was never so adventurous. - not since the discovery of mind-altering substances. In a way, computers are a mind altering...

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