Simple living The term ‘Simple Living’ is introduced in the text ‘Simple Living, Recession-Style’ by Elizabeth Scott. The idea is to “pare down and get rid of all the extra “stuff” that we think we need, but don’t.” By getting rid of what does not really serve us, one can enjoy the important things in life, such as relationships and family. By not getting distracted by unimportant things, one can focus on becoming a better person and getting “a better understanding of “who we really are.”” Elizabeth
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So, Penn had its incoming freshman read Adam Bradley’s Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop as a means of generating discussion and bringing the class closer. We were prompted with the question, “Is hip hop art or entertainment?” Here’s what I wrote, including a really pathetic rap about the book. It’s kinda meh but I just wanted to share! So, Adam Bradley wrote a book about rap, But honestly I kinda thought the writing was crap, The book made me slap on my thinking cap, To analyze
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At the middle of the story the narrator and his friends got a harsh dose of reality as The mood of nature change when he ran into a tough guys which made him realized that he wasn't really tough at all, Making him run into the lake like a little bitch. At this point the narrator is not bothered about his mom’s car because he is now safe in the lake behind trees where no one could find him. Once the narrator continues to swim to a safe place in the lake he runs into something that plunges like a
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their shred her clothing reducing her to her feeble nakedness Ripping her cross from her sacred chest and pluck the promise ring from her little finger promising that if she be a good girl she’ll enjoy it “don’t cry” they say “Stop being such a bitch and take it” As those words pierce through her being wrenching her soul “Mummy, why won’t anyone talk to me at school?” The mother, with a deeper crack in her heart smiles through her tears and says “Well, darling that’s because you’re a special
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Reflective Paper #2- ‘Missrepresentation’ This documentary made me open my eyes to a lot of things that I haven’t realized before when it comes to not only the media, but to political world and how it is affecting young teenage girls in our local high schools and how cruel it can be. Hearing the teenage girls tell their stories about how women don’t have much of a say to a lot of things and how they are expected to look a certain way that is being portrayed on the media is heart breaking because
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A wall of text is something that is frowned upon in most, actually virtually all Internet societies, including forums, chat boards, and Uncyclopedia. You should not make walls of text because it can get you banned anywhere unless it is a place that encourages walls of text. I highly doubt any place does support something so irritating and annoying, but anything can exist, but not really because unless you are in heaven then that can happen. But no one actually knows that was just a hypothesis, a
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During Terri and Ed’s marriage, Terri described a certain incident when Ed was particularly violent towards her. Terri says “He beat me up one night. He dragged me around the living room by my ankles. He kept saying, ‘I love you, I love you, you bitch.’ He went on dragging me around the living room. My head kept knocking on things… What do you do with love like that?”(350) I don’t think that you can love someone so much that you want to hurt them; it should be the exact opposite. When Terri looks
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My conflict happened on October 10, 1997 at my best friends’ Connie husband birthday party. We all use to hand out together most of the time my boyfriend John and her husband Wayne were very good friends. I met them when me and John got together in 1993 a few years earlier. During that time our lives were lovely the money was flowing in and everything was great at least I thought it was. There were a lot of rumors about John and how he had a girlfriend outside of our relationship but I didn’t
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Text B: The trouble with videogames isn’t the violence. It’s that most of the characters are dicksBy Charlie BrookerThe Guardian 13. November 2011 We often read articles about how young people turn violent when playing war videogames. Yet, do we ever hear about how the gender roles affects young people, in the same videogames? I have read to articles, one with the focus on bad manners and a homosexual environment, another with focus on body ideals both articles about videogames. In the article
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Sec A #1 – -One out of five female students on college campuses will experience sexual assault. If there was a university-wide reading of “S. A Novel About the Balkans” by Slakenka Drakulic, it would change campus culture for the better. The women affected by war essentially have no name, no life, and are nothing, but humiliated by male soldiers. This is the case in sexual assault on campus. In Reading S, it would allow for women to feel more comfortable about talking of rape, and bring light
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