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    How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) was an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City’s upper and middle classes. This work inspired many reforms of working-class housing, both immediately after publication as well as making a lasting impact in today's society. Vivid imagery and complex

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    Xbox 360 History

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    Many people have heard of Microsoft. Many people have also heard of their product known as Windows. Windows is a computer operating system. Even though Microsoft only worked on computers, they released their first ever video game console known as the Xbox in late 2001. The Xbox had newer, upgraded versions of the console later on such as the Xbox 360 in 2005 and the Xbox One in 2013. The idea of the Xbox first started when Kevin Bachus, Seamus Blackley, Otto Berkes, and Ted Hase were working

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    With his book How the Other Half Lives, Riis offers the audience a glimpse into the unsettling and unnoticed reality of the urban poverty in America at the turn of the 19th century. Not only he revealed the dark side of the society, he also showed the urgent need for change. Riis used emotional as well as logical appeal to support his argument in favor of the need for a social reform. By combining powerful pictures and detailed annotations accounting the conditions of life in the New York, Riis made

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    contrast are Ableton Live and Propellerhead Reason. Ableton Live Ableton is a music software company based in Berlin that produces and distributes the production/performance program Ableton Live and a collection of instruments and sample libraries. They also manufacture their own software controller, Ableton Push. Ableton Live is a digital audio workstation (DAW) and software music that is available on either Windows or OS X. It is designed to be used as an instrument for live performances as well

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    Shelly: A Short Story

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    everyone is shocked and quiet, Hunter says" damn bro.." Vince says" that's a very touching story, I'm so sorry about you losing her" Adam takes another shot and says" I don't wanna think about it, it's all in the past, who's next" Jonathan says" twins?" Shelly says" sure why not, well me and hunter has always been reckless teenagers, unlike you Adam we didn't have a loving woman who you called mom, we were put into homes, after homes, after homes, but we always stuck together" Hunter says" we had

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    unborn child is unjustified and ethically wrong. This is the action of removing a developing baby from the uterus before it can gain the ability to survive on its own. It violates a child’s right to live and can be substituted for by adoption. Today, twenty-five percent of the world’s population lives in countries with highly restrictive abortion laws. For example, in countries such as Chile, women can go to prison for having an illegal abortion. Being applied mostly in Latin America, Africa,

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    up there relocate to a much safer place however Florida is currently flooded and California is torn up from the tornado. There is also the freebie zone MEANING you can live anywhere in that zone as long as no one is occupying the place already. Most are lucky to still have a have but some are not so if you can offer a place to live that

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    Milton is confused to what he should do and soon ask why this has happen to him and what should he do with his live. ““Doth God exact day-labor, light denied”” “I fondly ask. But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need Either man’s work or His own gifts. Who best Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best.” (1050) As we can see

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    My Experience In My Life

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    of college. I earned by BA in Literature and Writing from CSUSM in 2005. More than seven years had passed since the evening of my conversation with Rebecca. I had long since lost contact with her, and my life veered way off course from seven and a half years earlier. Not knowing what I wanted to do with my Literature degree other than write led me to get the first job I could find. I worked in a shoe store part-time for a few months, and then I found a full-time job. I found a job at a mortgage

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    (Kimberley Gredeon). Some youtubers get more hits than other celebrities and shows. Jenna Marbles drew thirty million views per episode between 2011 and 2012, according to the International Business Times. “The top rated CBS program, Two and a Half Men pulled in less than that” (Gredeon). “But in reality, becoming one of the top creators on Youtube takes consistency, a nonstop work Schedule and a growing audience that have chosen to spend their valuable time watching your videos instead

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