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It is necessary to produce about one-third of the food that humans eat. No, it is not high fructose corn syrup, but pollination by honeybees. Brad Plumer of the Washington Post quotes, “The U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization estimates that ‘out of some 100 crop species, which 90% of food worldwide, 71 of these are bee pollinated.’ Around the World, these crops are worth at least $207 billion.” One fact even more bizarre is that honeybees are disappearing and no one seems to know for sure…

On November 2nd, 2015, 19-year-old Australian model Essena O’Neill, posted a YouTube video claiming that she was quitting social media due to its misrepresentation of day-to-day life. Her 17 minute video provided a platform for her to reveal the artificial reality of social media. Adolescents are the primary consumer of social media, with over 90% of teenagers worldwide use these networks as a means of communicating with their peers. Through the constant use of social networking, adolescents…

MES: A Memoir (Sample) The Birth of a Big Ball of Goo My nana always told me I was bound for great things. Ever since she found out I was going to be a girl, she knew I would be blessed. Both of those, I’m not so sure about. Let’s be honest: my conception was not planned. My father was a high school drop out (he failed ninth grade three times, then met my mother when she was a junior). My mother had been a former honor roll student, that is, until she met Brad. Brad. That bad-boy with a…

Corpuz, Raymundo, Sediaren Oct. 16, 2014 COM101: Synthesis Mrs. Cheryl Nasol The Road to Stardom The 21st century is a world where human life revolves around technology. This is most likely because technology has become and is continuing to become more portable and accessible as time passes-- from personal computers to laptops, landline telephones to…

He turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away. A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said. From time to time Winston caught some such remark as 'I think you're so right, I do so agree with you', uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice.…