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    Giving up your seat I believe in giving up your seat for elderly people. My grandmother taught me that. I was 8 years old when I was on the train to Chicago when she first told me. I was very disrespectful and I refused to get up from my seat. Dati, my grandmother, told me one more time “get up from your set now, you're able to walk normally, you're not in pain like they are right now.” So after I got told off I finally got up and told the old lady she can have my seat. That was the first thing

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    People should stand for others rights because it is the right thing to do.Of course it should be a reasonable argument but most times it is because it is about injustice among us.Standing up for others may be more important than standing up for yourself,you are contributing for something greater than yourself.If you remain silent,you could possibly become a victim of the problem.Do not just follow the crowd,everybody has a voice and we all need to use it.We all need to stand up together and right

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    century, education, in general, is a necessity. It is no longer a choice or privilege reserved for those who want to be successful. Considering the cost of education and pressure of living in economically tough times, it raises the question of why study up to college? Could it be the peer pressure, feeling of being left out in the society, or is it just necessary for one to be educated to have a healthy life are some of the questions that we need to answer? No one would argue on the value of education

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    Growing up Yanomamo When one thinks about the Amazon rainforest often our minds flip to monkeys, toucans, and lots of trees. We think of the peacefulness and serenity of untouched land and the balance that nature has to offer. What we don’t think of is primitive tribes, mass killings, deadly snakes, ferocious jaguars, and satanic activity. This is the Amazon that Michael Dawson and his family were accustomed to. This was Yanomamo. Michael Dawson was born smack dab in the middle of the rainforest

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    A lot of people grew up in small towns, but it is more people that grew up in big cities. Most kids that grow up in small towns are bored when kids in big cities have something to do everyday. It’s safe to grow up in a small town and very dangerous for a big city. Small towns are very safe, but then some may be very dangerous and people would never know. A lot of kids live in small towns and they have a good life, but when they grow up it will boring. Most of the kids grow up to be very successful

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    Bourgeoisie was people that belonged to the Third Estate. About 97 percent of people belonged to it. Most of this Estate lacked many privileges. To go along with the Third Estate there was also a First and Second. In the First Estate it was made up of all people ordained for religious duties in the Roman Catholic Church, and they believed Enlightenment ideas were worthless. The second Estate was made up of rich nobles, they held highest offices in the government, and disagreed about Enlightenment

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    Rhetorical Analysis: How to Lock Up Fewer People In “How to Lock up Fewer People,” Marc Mauer and David Cole argue that the prison system in the US needs to be improved. America’s incarceration rate is far too high, and it must be reduced. To make their argument, they use many facts and shocking statistics. The authors state the problem at hand, recognize the obstacles, and push for reform. Even in the very first sentence, the Mauer and Cole employ an unexpected fact: the Democrats and Republicans

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    My project is to raise money for those homeless people, because I did some research showed that they are struggling with their life. I set up this project because It would help those homeless people a lot if the shelter get more money. If the shelter have more money it means that they can take care more people and those people can have a better life in the shelter. Raise money is the most efficient thing to donate. Since they can buy anything they needed with money. If there are some surplus on

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    Have you ever thought about why people stand up for what they believe in? You have heard about people standing up, but have you ever thought Why? This essay will be about one’s moral conscience must be addressed and a balance between individual and state must be realized to preserve society. The most efficient way of winning an argument is through non-violence. Just how the Civil Rights Movement affected all of the United States from the 1950’s to present day. They used non-violent ways to make

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    Why Do People Shoot Up Schools? We associate mental illness with schools shooting, because the first reaction we all have when we hear about the tragedy is that the person must have something wrong with them or its always the people we least expect. If we look back to 1999 in Columbine, Ohio we see two boys Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold who shot up the school and killed innocent children and adults and after committed suicide. Five years after the tragedy FBI investigators and psychiatrist ruled

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