Different Do you ever feel the adrenaline running through you coursing through your veins? The Dauntless experience that everyday. Ever feel like you want to know everything? yea the erudite feel that too. Ever want to be trustworthy? candor sure do. Ever want to help people? thats Abnegation for you. Ever want to help people and be nice to everyone? Amity does that. Ever feel the need for all of it or more than just one? that’s Divergent . In the book “Divergent” by Veronica Roth there is sets
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Luis Cardenas’ Career Possibilities Have you ever been given the chance to pick between a job that will keep you financially set for life or a job that will satisfy you as a career and as a passion? Luis had a passion for teaching ever since he was in high school teaching crafts to 10 year old kids. “He decided to go into teaching nine years ago, between his sophomore and junior years in high school”(Integ, pg 64). Luis was raised in the largest city of the state, where he has deep roots with
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Formally known as fresh meat, these individuals are on the bottom of the Totem Pole of Popularity. I, Quinn Jacob, am one of these vulnerable fourteen year olds who have just begun their ninth grade year. Being the geeky, unattractive, slightly appalling girl I am seen as, this is an ideal opportunity for me to transform into what my classmates describe as perfect. This, of course, begins with popularity, so I must find a way to climb the social ladder. At Rathward High there are five distinct social
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appeared to love sex, however her husband seemed like a bit of a nymphomaniac from what I gathered. She noted several times how he acted differently around other women, his collection of pornography, and how he was continually boasting of his conquests of women. It was all very degrading to Dorothea and she vented much of this in her journal. Fred also felt the need to tell Dorothea that she was not up to par at sexual positions. He claimed that other women he had been with were more
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Gambling has grown immensely across the world, and you can bet on that. Gambling today is more mainstream now than ever before. Since this boom in popularity many new on-line web sites have been created to take advantage of this growing craze. Internet Gambling has shot up the most these past few years. In 2005 the first online betting web site started. Today there are over 2,000 online gambling web sites. Take time to think about the rise in television shows that involve gambling, and the stations
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Do I win or do I lose? One day they’re gonna shut the game down, I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it’s my turn to leave”, these are the words that the famous rapper and poet, Tupac Shakur once said. He’s referring to life as a game and that we all have to make the best of. As a child everyone has dreams whether its something as realistic as becoming a teacher to something so unrealistic such as living in Narnia. Making the best of life is what I try
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for the greatest number, in other words, you should always chose the options that will make the most people happy. Mill said, “ the right action is the action that produces the greatest happiness” (Kaye). This was the theory that John Stuart Mill believe was the right thing to do. Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher that believed that you should always tell the truth no matter what, which is different that what Mill believes. For Kant, “the only thing that matters is that your mind on doing your
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thinkings. Through their speeches and papers, they emphasized their thinking and make the reader feel something and support their side of the argument. We need more people like this in our society, where they make a reader feel emotion. Every reader will have a different response about a passage, but the author’s writing will lean the reader towards their opinion. Sojourner Truth was Illiterate all her life. This makes her feits even greater with this disability. She was effective even with hostile
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Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth--something didactic, instructive, or something in the nature of good advice. Very well. I have a few things in my mind which I have often longed to say for the instruction of the young; for it is in one’s tender early years that such things will best take root and be most enduring and most valuable. First, then. I will say to you my young friends--and I say it
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negligent, though a few not so much. I haven't touched much to get into trouble, but ended up enjoying a few. Like the first time I got high with a buddy, then tried writing while I was high and finally how much I enjoy writing this way. This is leading me down paths I've never seen before. I'm going to Jack's house an old friend of mine who is a stoner, he has a few friends I can't recognize but they are all smoking. I have never! I'm a little nervous because I don't know anyone and have never smoked
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