supply all of the world’s energy needs forever; however, the challenge is to develop the capability to effectively and economically capture, store and use the energy when needed. Take solar energy for example. The ultimate source of energy is the sun. Its energy is found in all things, including fossil fuels. Plants depend on the sun to make food, animals eat the plants, and both ended up becoming the key ingredients for fossil fuels. Without the sun, nothing on this planet would exist. The sun also
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Events take place in our lives every day. Some of those events we will cherish forever and others we hope to forget. After serving in the Unites States Army for twelve years I decided to end my career. My wife Amber and I were living outside Fort Knox, Kentucky at the time. We owned a home and thought should we stay in Kentucky or move. We prayed and decided to put the house on the market. The house went under contract within one day. So we thought to ourselves I guess God wants us to move. We packed
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her that began before the flood and would continue until the Jews convert to Christianity. The man tries to persuade the woman to have sex with him by telling her how fast time will take them into the grave and then her genitals will be useful to nothing but
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King says that there is really never a “good time” to engage in direct action. He tells these men that he has heard he should wait for years but that word wait almost always means nothing will ever happen. He truly believes that “justice too long delayed is justice denied.” He also says that African Americans have already been waiting for 340 years to be treated as equal, which is their Constitutional right. Nations like Asia and Africa have been moving toward this equality and political independence
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Seaworld houses many aquatic animals, including killer whales, nothing wrong with that right? Wrong, imagine being locked in one room forever. Being captive in confined space does many health damaging things. Holding a living creature captive for no logical reason, other than to rake in money, is a sick business that should be ended. Primarily, Seaworld claims that they assist killer whales that are in need. According to park spokesman Fred Jacobs, Seaworld has helped many whales who were lost or
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as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are." -- Zen proverb "If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice." -- Meister Eckhart "There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -- Albert Einstein "We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few
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Living with strangers is a short story written by Siri Hustvedt, it was publish as a newsletter in The New York Times in 2002, and in the newsletter she discusses the difference between cultures from her point of view. In the beginning of her newsletter, she describes where she grew up in rural Minnesota. Here it was a requirement to greet everyone, also if the person was a stranger. If you didn’t, people would be considering you as a snob and that was probably the worst thing to be there. When
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kid, well, means my parents are divorced. The biggest misconception about children of divorce is that we’re changed fundamentally through the divorce process. That two small signatures and a sad leaky courtroom date will make us broken people forever. Now don’t get me wrong, there is major grieving that goes on. Trying to keep it all together is like replacing windows in a hurricane. It’s completely out of your control and emotionally numbing. It’s looking at my guitar and not having a single
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increasing and there wasn't enough area for everybody. The Native yank folks were forced to steer from their homes to a locality selected for them known as Oklahoma. The Native Americans created this journey throughout the autumn and winter of 1830 with nothing however the garments on their backs. This journey that became referred to as “the path of tears” was a brutal journey to Oklahoma, diseases unfold quickly and lots of folks died of malady, exhaustion, and starvation. Nearly 2000 Native Americans died
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BOOM! The deafening sound of explosions still echo around my skull. I served three years in Afghanistan. They made it sound so exciting in recruitment, “Serving one’s country”. I always wanted to be a hero. I was nothing before I enlisted, and now, even after my discharge, I’m still nothing. A worthless piece of shrapnel, blighting society. It was the roadside bomb that changed me. There we were, driving along one of Afghanistan’s endless lonely roads, if you could even call them roads, just tracks
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