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    happy city”(Camus 308). The plague has not just revealed to the people that death is right around the corner, but it has also revealed that it is one’s job to make the most of one’s life. The people have a chance to change their lifestyles and to…

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    believe that the families that own the small stores in the town that their life is at stake. By having these businesses it is the way that they make a living and the way they can pay their mortgage and bills. The people who live in small towns usually all love the way that they live their life and if they did not then they would move to bigger cities. There are people who believe that by bringing in “chain” stores such as Wal-Mart into small towns it provides more affordable items. By having…

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    Wendy’s makes up a large portion of the gigantic industry known as QSR, or quick service restaurants. The fast food industry, as QSR is more commonly known, is driven by high volume, low costs intertwined with efficient delivery of product. The concept of fast food products being an enormous driving factor in the obesity crisis that is taking over the United States, and the world, has plagued the QSR industry. To try and counter this perception, many companies have tried to implement healthy…

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    encountered many families who experienced challenges due to homelessness or over-priced housing. These encounters spurred my desire to help families going through economic struggles such as struggling to pay for over-priced housing, being homeless or living in slum housing. I came to realize that I could help such people much more efficiently if I pursued a degree in Urban Studies and focused on community development and…

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    of the research of Elizabeth Peal and Wallace Lambert (1962) about advantages of bilingualism in cognitive habilities: “Bilingual children performed significantly higher than monolinguals on tests of both verbal and nonverbal abilities; […] Overall, bilinguals were found to have a more diversified pattern of abilities than their monolingual peers.” (page 322). Personally, it strikes me that nobody could doubt about the advantages of being a bilingual person. Moreover, according with the thesis…

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    to “ethnic cleansing” meaning the less fortunate, gang members, troubled citizens such as the homeless and drug addicts to vacate the area because they are seen to have no value and are violating corporate’s space. This gives the rich a distinct advantage, because it’s always beneficial for construction, housing, surveillances, yet it abandons the rest of the communities. Zirin discovers, the phenomenon provides upper class with “something that couldn’t be found at the end of a military-grade…

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    and were never obliged by. Seemingly the story will give you an image of how in the early years of the 1900’s a now fat white woman is stuck in time. Ms. Emily live is a house that is rid of junk, history, hatred and odors lingering all through the city, and years to decades of build up everywhere. Story “A Rose for Emily” was the best short story because the setting was in an old small southern town, perhaps trying to remain relevant with the current time with modernizations in the works.…

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    other interesting similarity is the war brides many of our military members end up marrying women from the country they serve in much like that in World War II. Another change was the location in which people lived most went from living on farms and in the bigger cities to living the suburban life. This may have also been another driver in the baby…

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    Currently in China, for example, minimum wage should be no lower than 40% of the average wage for any particular area. In Guangzou and Shenzhen, the first cities that were legally allowed to approach foreign big businesses for investment, the minimum wage to average wage percentage is the lowest in the country. While this may reflect the prosperity of the rest of China, this is unlikely, as it is estimated that 200 million people across China live in poverty. Instead, this is likely to be…

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    Cause Of Violent Behavior

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    engaging in violent behavior. This can be being abused as a child whether it 's mentally or physically. Even witnessing abuse or substance abuse has a detrimental impact on someone development. Not only abuse but living in a poor environment, with not as many aids as wealthier people, get the advantage of possessing causes damage or underdevelopment of the prefrontal cortex. Also, it makes the child more susceptible to contaminants such as lead which alters brain function and tends to correlate…

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