...Pig’s blood, killer clowns, children killing adults, are all elements that can be connected to one author and one author only; Stephen King, the king of horror. King combines science fiction, paranormal activity, and thrillers to convey various themes in his novels, he is one of today’s most best-selling authors. Born September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine; when he was young his parents Donald and Nellie King had split up leading to King moving back and forth from Indiana to Connecticut and finally Maine. Where he had graduated from Lisbon Falls High School in 1966 and then later attended the University of Maine at Orono. Having graduated from the University of Maine, he began teaching while simultaneously establishing a name in the writing world using a pseudonym, Richard Bachman, the name in which he wrote his first successful novel Carrie (1974). More popular novels soon followed, Children of the corn (1984), The Shining(1977), and It.(1986); in many of his works it is clear that he uses many biblical and religious concepts. While each of these novels focuses on a...
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...The Entrepreneurial Mindset 7 years=900K in residual income per month I. Habits—Everybody has them. The question is; Are they helping me or are they hurting me? A. You must replace good habits with great habits. Bad habits must be replaced with good ones. II. Income—Average income in the United States is $33,000 per year. Maryland has the highest average income in the United States with $35,000 per year. 85% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. And have little to no savings at the age of 65 yrs. Old. 95% of the United States is in the $33,000 per year mark 3X this gap is the is the next step at the $100,000 per year mark. Only 4% of the United states makes $100,000 per year or more. Less than 1% of the United States makes $500,000 per year or more. Do you have what it takes to be in that 1% range? Don’t take advice from people that are in the $33,000 per year mark. They have never made $100,000 so why the fuck would you listen to them on how to be successful. III. Choices A. How do we choose to spend our money? a. It doesn’t matter how much money you are making. It is how you use the money that you make. ie. Someone can be making $35,000 per year and they are able to put aside $5,000 per year towards their savings. Then someone can be making $100,000 per year and they spend every penny they earn. “Learn to invest your money and not spend it.” Barry Dillah Stop spending money and start investing money If the money...
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...A Fool's Walkthrough Enlightened Bullshit ~ A bizarre exercise in arithmetic by an illiterate Revision 5 (The second to be published) (For the few souls that follow the development - go to the bottom red caption of “current revision board” it’s where all the new stuff is logged if you don’t want to go through it all again) Intro Yes this is an intentional attempt of creating a profound appearance only to sucker you into old BS yet again. Frankly there’s little else going on lately that hasn’t to do with that. If I were to have a disclaimer it would probably be larger than what I have to say. • • In short this material is the log of my transition from reality to actuality. I’ve rounded it up to be a fine bullshit dissolver as well - considering we are swamped in BS as it is, what I’m getting at is quite the rare commodity. Would that I could, flip the script and get you a hot seat on some fascinating new experience limited only by imagination, but alas we are here making sense of the good old bullshit that is clogging our everyday lives. Whatever you deem to be relevant is directly tied into it. Every topic or endeavour you can think of is covered with a thick armoured wall of bullshit and the few exceptions just affirm the rule. You can pretend it doesn’t exist or write it off as a topic you dislike and subsequently avoid. However you and i (yes not capital letter) and everyone intimately know the benefits of lying and extreme senselessness. However it seems the detrimental...
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...Persuasive Essay The young people in the United States of America are motivated to do bad things like robbing, killing, drug dealing and other felonies. These minors commit serious crimes, but the law is soft with them. So they continue in the streets robbing and killing because they know that nothing will happen to them because, simply put, they are minors. I think if a minor kills a human being they should be killed as well, regardless of age. As a minor you should know it’s wrong to take another life. There was one crime in particular that caught my eye and I believe it was called the Pearl High School shooting in Pearl, Mississippi. Sixteen year old Luke Woodham woke up on October 1st, 1997 and stabbed his mother to death as she peacefully slept in her bed. After stabbing her, he drove his dead mom’s car to school, walked in the front door of the school, and opened fire. After a couple minutes of shooting he got back into his moms van and tried driving off. The school principal had a gun in his car so he retrieved it and somehow stopped Luke. He asked Luke why he shot his kids and Luke replied “Life has wronged me, sir.” A couple minutes before the shooting started he gave this message to a friend "I am not insane, I am angry. I killed because people like me are mistreated every day. I did this to show society, push us and we will push back. All throughout my life, I was ridiculed, always beaten, always hated. Can you, society, truly blame me for what I do? Yes, you...
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...This makes sense because you know, autism is transmitted through things like kissing, sharing toilet seats, and getting vaccinated against diseases that could have wiped us all out except they didn’t because some kick-ass motherfucker in a lab coat put in the time to figure out how to make that un-happen. Oh wait. No, I’m sorry. Autism is that disease that only affects the gays and meateaters? Nope, sorry again, I remember now. Autism is nothing like any of those things — it’s not something you contract. Goddamn science and its insistence on peer-reviewed...
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...He has never ever seen this side of him in his original father. For a second, he considered his options; he can continue to tell George that nothing is wrong, he can make up some bullshit story, or... he can tell him about the DeLorean. It was a stupid idea, but he felt as if he was going to explode if he didn't say anything to his family. Marty let out a sigh. Doc is gonna kill me if he finds out about this. He briefly glanced at George's angry glare directed at him. Oh what the heck. "Uhhh dad, I know this will sound crazy but please hear me out." Marty gushed out about the DeLorean, the Libyan terrorists, travelling to 1955, interrupting George’s and Lorraine’s first meeting, getting them to fall in love, hitting the lightning bolt that struck the clock tower to generate the 1.21 jiggowatts, going to 2015, stopping his wimpy future son from going to jail, etc, etc, etc. Marty finally exhaled a heavy breath of relief...
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...One does not need a God to be a good person ITT Technical Institute EN 1420 Jennifer Cordelier July 30, 2013 One does not need a god to be a good person Throughout time the question of “does God exist?” has always been around. In the dark ages one would be cast out for doubting the all great and powerful. The religious community maintains that, “God and organized religion serve as a moral compass for society”(Buckley 2008). On the other hand atheists (someone who does not believe there is a God) maintain the belief that one does not need a God for guidance or fear of persecution to maintain a moral lifestyle. Religion is blasted into the face of all Americans daily with holidays such as Christmas and Easter. One may choose not to participate in these holidays but most people do regardless of faith. The pledge of allegiance is recited in schools without any question of what religion or denomination someone is. People can raise their children the way they like thanks to the first amendment and religion in the home is not necessary to the beneficial upbringing of a child. You do not need a God to be a good person. There are many Religions in the world with many different Gods. The Hindu believe in karma, the belief that what you do to others will come back to you. That is a great start but that is only because if you are generally a bad person (religious or not) you will have consequences to your actions. Therefore Karma states and action of doing wrong will bring you...
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...Global Warming Romel Turner English 110 03-05-15 Global Warming is the change in climate in locations that shouldn’t be changing. We should be concerned about these things because if the climate continues to change in locations that aren’t to be that climate, such as Antarctica and the melting glaciers, or snow in the desert, it can harm the animals that live there and will harm our planet. I think that some people disagree because they don’t want to face the facts that our planet is changing drastically due to our actions, such as pollution to the air, land, and water. In the article 5 Scientific Reasons That Global Warming Isn’t Happening, by John Hawkins, he argues that global warming is mainly due to scientific reasons, not mankind. He says that there hasn’t been any global warming since 1997, and that the temperature of the planet has essentially been flat for 17 years. Following this statement, he says that the planet was cooling from 1940-1975, meaning that a 17 year pause is necessary to follow that. Hawkins believes that there are no scientific reasoning that global warming is caused by man. He says that over 31,000 scientists have signed on to a petition saying that humans aren’t causing global warming. He also says that Artic ice is up 50% since 2012, meaning that the Artic area has more ice, rather than it all melting away because of global warming. He states that predictions of global warming have already been proven wrong. He believes that global warming is a scientific...
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...just that Lucy is dumb; Lucy is really agitated and excited to explain to you how its dumbness is in fact profundity. But it’s just really fucking stupid. Lucy is so well made you almost don’t care. It’s so well made you also almost don’t care that it’s largely devoid of interesting action scenes. There’s a boring shoot out and an incoherent car chase, plus a couple of different scene where Scarlett Johansson’s Lucy walks down a hallway just like Neo at the end of The Matrix and, just like Neo at the end of The Matrix, does some wacky reality-altering shit. But mostly there are scenes where ScarJo is typing and scenes where she’s looking around like a bird and scenes where Morgan Freeman is giving lectures and saying such extraordinarily science stuff that you have to assume. The film’s central premise is based on that canard which says we only use about 10-15% of our brains, but I don’t mind that. Radioactive spider bites don’t turn people into superheroes either - I’m willing to suspend my disbelief that a new designer drug expands Lucy’s brain ability, especially if it leads to fun. Lucy’s problem is that once your disbelief is suspended it gets straight up abused; as more and more of her brain is available Lucy just starts learning stuff out of thin air, suddenly becoming an expert in quantum physics and applied math, and then she can see through walls and impact radio waves halfway across the globe. None of it makes any sense within the context of the...
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...filled the auditorium with no one the wiser. With all the catering going on the smell of the food might of drowned out the smell of gas. As the night went on, the reunion had a rock band, played by one of Robin's friends who had installed machines to shoot out sparks, during the encore of their last song would be my guess. Apparantly with the gas continuing to leak throughout the night, the sparks from the pyrotechnics eventally ignited the gas causing the explosion, taking out mostly everyone in the auditorium. The sudden explosion caught other parts of the school on fire like the science lab, which now has a huge hole the ceiling, the shop shed, and the 200 building of rooms. Just near every window save for the faculty offices...
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...Why does the universe exist? Oh sure, we can say “God” or “Big Bang”; but that doesn’t really answer the question, does it? You see, even if we prove conclusively that God exists or the Big Bang happened — even if we prove conclusively what “Banged” — we’d have to face the question of where did God come from? Where did the thing that Banged come from? Proposition: the universe exists because it’s afraid of death. Not afraid in the sense that we are afraid. The universe as a state rejects the very notion of death (or entropy, if you prefer). Yes, entropy still exists, and is like a freight train bearing down on our existence. Even aging is biological entropy. But why can’t we fight it? Why must we give in to thermodynamics? Yes, they are laws of the universe, but laws were meant to be broken. And what if they are not the laws of the universe? What if the universe exists in spite of those laws? After all, the universe’s very existence is a gigantic “fuck you” to entropy. It is existence saying to the void, “I deny you. I deny your power.” So where does that leave us? The universe is fighting a losing war against entropy. Heat death is coming, and so far the universe has been able to nothing to save itself. All the gravity and dark matter are naught to dark energy. The field of entropy, of time, of death sickening our universe. So what would you do when faced with an unwinnable situation? Do what Kirk did. Cheat. We are the cheat. Life, sentience itself, is the universe...
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...made her way up. She categorized her life into three tracks: journalism, book length projects and activism. Her journalism work consisted of injustice and inequality themes, however those were mostly opinion pieces. But her reviews were on The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones and al others. The book-length projects were historical. Some of them are: For Her Own Good: 200 Years of Experts’ Advice to Women, The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and Flight From Commitment and many others. Lastly, she was an activist for health care, peace, women’s rights and economic justice. Barbara Ehrenreich felt that she needed to do something to try to change the way the life. I was not expecting that Barbara Ehrenreich started off in science. It surprised me since I assumed that she wanted to be a writer since the beginning. It was a wonderful experience reading a book about the working class nowadays, for the reason that not many people verve into the field and experience what it was like to be a blue-collar worker in today’s society. Even though she had a degree and her life was all ready on track, she decided to write a book concerning the working class and understand what it’s like going into the field for herself and toughing it out to understand what it feels like to a blue-collar worker. When I read about what motivated the author to be the way she is, I now understand why she wanted to do the research on the book Nickel and Dimed. She may have wanted to feel what it...
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...has been at the heart of the lobbying for biofuels (crops grown for fuel rather than food) — while profiting enormously from the resulting food crisis and using it as a PR opportunity to promote GM foods! “The climate crisis was used to boost biofuels, helping to create the food crisis; and now the food crisis is being used to revive the fortunes of the GM industry.” — Daniel Howden, Africa correspondent of The Independent2 “The cynic in me thinks that they’re just using the current food crisis and the fuel crisis as a springboard to push GM crops back on to the public agenda. I understand why they’re doing it, but the danger is that if they’re making these claims about GM crops solving the problem of drought or feeding the world, that’s bullshit.” – Prof Denis Murphy, head of biotechnology at the University of Glamorgan in Wales3 commercialization, genetic engineering has failed to significantly increase US crop yields. The author, former US EPA and US FDA biotech specialist Dr Gurian-Sherman, concludes that when it comes to yield, “Traditional breeding outperforms genetic engineering hands down.”6 “Let’s be clear. As of this year [2008], there are no commercialized GM crops that inherently increase yield. Similarly, there are no GM crops on the market that were engineered to resist drought, reduce...
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...Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Death Penalty I remember watching the movie Dead Man Walking; it was about this man named Matthew Poncelet who allegedly raped a girl and killed a teenage boy. Poncelet pleaded not guilty, but was convicted as a murderer and put on death row. He asked for several appeals stating that Carl Vitello, the man he was with at the time, was the one that should be at fault. Poncelet seems very convincing that it wasn’t him, but at the end, the courts had enough evidence to grant Poncelet the retribution of execution. The movie has me questioning America’s justice system; what if someone was actually innocent? Is it right to kill someone as a consequence for their wrong doing? To some, it seems like the right thing to do. If someone breaks the rules you simply punish them. But how should we carry out these punishments? When eight-year-old Billy steals a candy bar from Seven Eleven, you can bet that one of the parents will deliver some whippings. In Texas, when I was in elementary school, I started a fight, and as a result I got sent to the principal’s office and received three licks with a paddle. So where do we draw the line? At a higher level, what happens to me if I kill someone? Since the beginning of time, societies in almost every culture and background have used capital punishment or physical chastisement as a consequence for the killing of others. But, we shouldn’t be doing this anymore; life is too valuable. Even though some people...
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...What is your take on the recent trend of 'million sq.ft. malls' where every second developer wants to make one of the biggest malls in India? Do you support this trend? I support this unprecedented wave of million sq ft mall as with multiple demands on limited time, shoppers carefully choreograph their shopping trips. Mn sq ft size and prominence means that, for good or ill, these malls have a significant impact on a place and its character There is growing acceptance that as long as Big malls are well designed ,made, leased , and suitably located, they can accelerate retail growth in our country In broader perspective Million sq ft malls are signs of growing economic development and prosperity and the desire of the investor and builders to invest in these mega projects -- which means more choice for retailers , shoppers and increasing employment opportunities for catchment population. A large Mall is an indicator that a Industry is moving toward the future. Large malls require plenty of investment, more time and labor to construct , lease and operate but they also have long- and short term advantage . How sustainable will this trend be considering the economic condition of the country? Sustaining a successful retail development in India requires a high level of expertise, proactive management, and innovation. In the near term, the robust consumer demand will mask the lack of experience of these new developers. Over the longer term, however, it will be important...
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