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  • Bad People In The Town
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    Richmond vs. New Orleans Recently I was thinking about how I live two different lives. My one life is the main one, where I live in New Orleans, LOISUANNA, and go to a Community College. I have my circle of friends and my girlfriend, but I always feel like something is missing. My other life resides in Richmond, VA. I have no idea how my mom found the place, but she did. I have been going to Richmond since I was very young. I grew up with most of the kids in town and consider those guys my famil...
  • Lives In A Nice House
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    Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. This is the first Beatitude. It tells us that we should accept people for who they are and not the material things they have. You should not treat a person who lives in a nice house and drives a nice car any different then someone who lives in a less desirable house and drives an old car. You should treat everyone how you would like to be treated. Just because someone can not afford some of the things as you might be able to do...
  • Strip People Of Their Equal Rights
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    One of the fascinating subjects described by More was that of the social and business relations within one of the utopias. Some of the concepts he portrays could be called good in theory but could never be considered applicable in a realistic society. The social ideals he describes bind people in their own niche and provide no motivation whatsoever for developments and advancements within the group. The description in the book is one that to me conveys many of the ideas held fondly in a communis...
  • More's Utopia Life
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    Living in Utopia Private property is abolished in Utopia, and society is communally organized in such a way that there is no shortage and that everyone has work, food, a home and opportunities for cultural expression. Sounds great, eh Would you like to live there, and if not, why Your answer should take account of More's context (why he wrote Utopia) and should be supported by reference to the text. In Thomas More's Utopia life is very structured there is no crime or prejudices. The people live ...
  • Thousands And Thousands Of Lives
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    Shock, disbelief, and devastation were just a few of the emotions that people around the world were experiencing on September 11th, 2001. On what seemed like a normal day in Manhattan, New York, little did everyone know it was the beginning of a huge unthinkable disaster. 8: 46 a.m. was when the first high jacked plane had hit Tower One. Not too long after, the second tower was hit. Dozens of fire crews responded as soon as they heard the news. The issues that were recognized in the outcome of t...
  • Takes Place And Oliver
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    During the summer of 1999, I have chosen to read the book, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Reading this book will better prepare me for my upcoming course of global studies because it deals with many of the regions and time periods we will be studying in class. Although this book was a classic that I thought I had known so much about, reading it and paying attention to the setting and surroundings of the young boy's life, I noticed many historical events and customs from his time period. The fo...
  • Gifts Among The Yanomam
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    The YanomanThis ethnography is about the Yanomam. Most people will think of these people as 'primitive'. But we do not consider the fact that these people look at us and call us 'primitive' and 'subhuman'. This is why it is important to judge these people with an unbiased mind. The Yanomam are Indians that live widely scattered in southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. They usually live in villages of 75 to 80 people. But there are villages in which there are as little as 40 people or as many a...
  • Unusual People The Cyclopes
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    The Cyclops: An Unusual People The Cyclopes were unique and unusual mythical people. They had very interesting lives. They had an unusual beginning and they had an unusual lifestyle. Also, the Cyclopes appeared to be completely different when described by opposing viewpoints. Overall, the Cyclopes were an unconventional race in mythical legends. The Cyclopes had an intriguing origin. They were the eldest sons of Mother Earth, Gaia, and Father Heaven, Uranus (Evslin 1). While the Cyclopes were st...
  • Sex Offender
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    In July of 1994, a little girl named, Megan Kanka, was raped and strangled. They found her body near her home in Hamilton Township, New Jersey. The story of thing young girl has shocked the nation. The man responsible for this brutal act is named, Jesse Timmendequas. He had been convicted twice prior to this attack. He also served six years in a treatment facility and had been released. Many people said that he was a quiet man, and this left them to think he was harmless. Unfortunately, this was...
  • Black People Of Maycomb
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    In the world people are always preconceived based on who they are or what they look like. Even thought it isn't as big of a problem in some areas as in others, we need to fight it. If we don't then it will continue to get more serious and at times lead to death. In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Alexandra tells her niece that she can't play with a schoolmate simply because of his class". 'You can scrub Walter Cunningham till he shines, you can put him in shoes and a new suit, but he " ll ne...
  • Innocent American Lives
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    On Tuesday September 11, 2001 the unthinkable happened in America. The two World Trade Centers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D. C were struck by airplanes that were hijacked by terrorists. This terrible tragedy killing many people had a deep impact on the whole nation. American citizens are grief stricken, left in fear, and full of revenge to the people who committed such an awful thing. I, along with many of my peers are confused on how a destruction so powerful could have tak...
  • Lived Many People And Slaves
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    partially what the Spaniards were used to from living in Spain, and others were simply to live better. The Spaniards imposed many political, economical, and social institutions in the New World never heard of before by the Indians, and many feudal customs and systems that they brought wholly intact from Spain. The political institutions were very important for government functionality in the Spanish colonies. First, a class system similar to that in Spain was reconstructed anew in the colonies. ...
  • Message Carpe Diem
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    The phrase carpe diem, Latin for seize the day, asserts that if one does not live life to the fullest, one does not live life at all. Applications of this adage are widespread among numerous literary works. A few of the many examples include the poetry of Emily Dickinson, the motion picture Dead Poet's Society, and Walt Whitman's Song of Myself. The words carpe diem are designed to move people into considering not death itself, but considering the lives people live before death. This phrase brin...
  • Corruption Among Communist Leaders
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    Communism has failed in Europe because of its lack of care for the individual, its corrupt leaders and also because it went against human nature. Two novels that demonstrate this statement are the semi-autobiographical We the Living by Ayn Rand, and Julian Barnes' The Porcupine. According to Ayn Rand, Communists were pitiless. When Kira, the protagonist of the story, begged for help to save her lover's life, the only answer she received from the general was "Why - in the face of the Union of Soc...
  • Equality Through Diversity
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    "I looked up the road I was going and back the way I had came since I was not satisfied I stepped off the road and created a new path" (Maya Angelou) Humans are more alike than unlike. Once we in America grasp this concept only than will we began to create a new path for the world we live. Many times the word diversity rings in my ear like an annoying telephone that I do not want to answer. Sometimes I feel as we are caught up in a diversity scandal: attending diversity days, diversity workshops...
  • Poem To An Athlete Dying Young
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    February 28, 1996 E 2-10 Vacation Project On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three To Help You Understand 2. In the first eight lines the poet, John Milton, is talking about his character and how on the inside he still feels like a child. The character still wants to enjoy life as a kid and go around and have fun. He feels that he did not get enough time to enjoy his childhood and he plunged way too fast into manhood. John Milton also describes the physical details of his character. He t...
  • Traditional African Society And Achebe
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    In the book Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe is trying to give an explanation of what it is like to live in an African society. The story is about a man named Okonkwo is a member of the Ibo tribe. Achebe is telling the story of Okonkwo from his childhood till his death. Achebe did a very good job of illustrating a traditional African society. Achebe's goal in writing this book was to educate people about some of the struggles people have and life in traditional African societies (Hanson 25). The...
  • New Peoples And Landscapes
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    How Geography Affects the Way We Live Our surroundings have profound influence on the way we live our lives. In fact, many Americans consider the geography of a location when deciding if they want to live there. Vacations are often planned around landscapes that people want to see. The environment around us, many times, can determine our happiness and contentment with our living situation. The three titles I chose to review are very different but are also closely interrelated in themes. These st...
  • Ship From Jamestown
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    Life in Jamestown was much different than it was advertised in the newspaper. Everyone wanted to go to Jamestown because they wanted to get rich. They thought there would be gold and diamonds everywhere, but when they got there, there was nothing. Newspaper ads promised people in England wealth and happiness. "Why man all their dripping pans and their chamber potter are pure gold". (Doc. 1). Everyone wanted to go to Jamestown because they thought that when they got there, the roads would be pave...
  • Poor Living Situation In The French Revolution
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    When thinking about what happen during the time of the French Revolution, numerous amounts of things changed in the world today. Paris's terming of the Bastille was to show not only that the people of Paris wasn't backing down but they also wanted better conditions for their living. They let everyone including the king know that they were not playing around. They got tired of living the way they did and nothing changed, so the Parisians put in their own hands and stood up for themselves. The wor...

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