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    The movie the Lorax is an excellent way to teach children about how to love the Earth, and how each person can leave some kind of impact on the world. This blockbuster is an adaptation of Dr. Seaus’s book the Lorax. The Lorax is a wonderful, live changing film of a young boy, Ted, who lived in the town of Thneedville. Thneedville is a town that is filled with everything artificial, even the trees! One day, Ted falls in love with a girl who dreams of finding a real tree. In hopes to win her affection

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    The Lorax and the Tragedy of the CommonsThe Loraxis a 1971 book by Dr. Seuss about the dangers of exploiting the environment with reckless abandon and the consequences which come from a lack of foresight in doing so. Thebook is very culturally impactful and has proven to be in many ways a foreshadowing of what was to come for certain areas around the world. Along with this the story of the Lorax shows to demonstrate a phenomenon known as the tragedy of the commons; a phenomenon in nature

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    Be Careful Which Way You Lean The last tree is cut down, the tree crashes and all that is left is you and the dark black hills that used to be full of color. The sky is no longer blue and the rivers are no longer clean. This is the denouement of “The Lorax.” the Once-ler cuts down all the Truffula trees for their leaves. . .fluff. . . tufts or whatever they are called. He used them to make “thneeds” a ‘Fine-Something-That-All-People-Need’ The Lorax warns him but the Once-ler’s greed got to

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    Essay on THE NWA

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    Yella, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, and Ice Cube. MC Ren joined in 1988, with

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    so did things for N.W.A. (Tha Biography of Tha E) Ice Cube left to pursue a solo career (Ice Cube- Westside Times) and after him Dr. Dre left to start Death Row Records with Marion "Suge" Knight in 1992. (The Untouchable Death Row Records)      From the beginning Death Row Records was like a family, according to Dr. Dre. With acts like Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound, and Warren G, Death Row Page 3 was a dominant force in rap music. Suge Knight, a former

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    A Students's Guide to First-Year Writing My Literacy in America Gloomy. That’s how I remember my year of kindergarten. It may not have been quite as dim as my memory shows, but my fear darkened that phase. I am not quite sure how my age affected my perception of things, but my first memories of this country I don’t regard as pleasant. If I had come to the United States as an infant, I would have been better off. Not only because infants don’t communicate using words, but also

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    In reading bell hooks’ opinion about sexism and misogyny I had to admit to myself that I had no idea what she meant by sexism and misogyny. So, to accurately know what she was referring to, I looked them up on the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. For the word sexism, I found there were two meanings that support hooks’ ideas: 1: prejudice or discrimination based on sex; especially: discrimination against women and 2: behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based

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    Negative Effects of Rap Music Essay

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    marijuana association in those songs with creativity, wealth and status.”[2] In the early 1990’s the percentage of rap songs with substance use increase to 45 percent and continued to increase to 69 percent between the years 1994-1997. A study led by Dr. Brian Primack showed that out of the billboards 279 most popular songs of 2005, 77 percent of the rap songs portrayed drug related lyrics and substance abuse. He also found that out of the 279 songs, only 4 were anti-use but

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    Tales of a Strange Love in Dr. Strangelove  Dr. Strangelove , filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's nuclear war satire, portrays America's leaders as fumbling idiots and forces American viewers to question the ability of their government.  Dr. Strangelove's  cast explores the quirks and dysfunctional personality traits that a layperson would find far-fetched in a person of power.  The characters are diverse yet unified in their unfailing stupidity and naivete.  The film's hysterical dialogue sheds

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    black men residing in Compton, California who rise unexpectedly to fame, using their viciously honest rhymes, die hard beats, and frustrations about their lifestyle in the streets of the hood. Active from 1986 to 1991 these six men Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Arabian Prince, MC Ren, and DJ Yella have endured enormous controversy owning to their explicit

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