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A few months ago I decided to leave home and rent some office space. I splurged and bought a new office equipment, furniture and general supplies. I’m an avid online shopper and Amazon.com is one of my best friends. However, Amazon can get a little creepy when it decides to stalk me. Over the next month as I settled into the new office, I kept seeing ads for trash cans, binder clips and desk chairs. Amazon was stalking me and was determined that I was going to have a place for my trash, that my…

In my opinion most of the 44 presidents have been good to descent guys. But my all-time favorite is number sixteen the one and only Abraham Lincoln. Born in Hodgenville, Kentucky in 1809 he grew up to be one of the most influential presidents. He was selected in to office in 1861 until 1865 when he was killed. He’s my favorite because he lead the civil war, because he abolished slavery, and risen from the poor beginnings to become a president. Probably the most important thing he did was to…

The Stress Sources Assessment concluded that overall, my total score on the stress events assessed, percentile was 19.0. The potential for distress chart, in a variety of area of my life, averaged from moderate to low stress percentages. All stress types that were categorized as moderate, in terms for potential distress, were located on the low end of the scale; the moderate scale ranges from 30%-70%. Altogether, I did not score over 40.0% in potential distress. Majority of the high scored…

When examining popular culture in society, it’s safe to say that it pervades a person’s life in different manners with different effects. In America, popular culture can be used as an outlet for assimilation and integration into society, especially by immigrants who are just arriving to this country. This is evident through my parents, who arrived from both Colombia and Peru in the 1980s, having no knowledge of what American culture nor American popular culture was. Throughout the last 20 years,…

I grew up backstage. Though not in the way I know it now. The house was my jungle gym. When I was little, I slept inside my dad’s empty instrument case. When i was older, I napped underneath the vanities in the dressing rooms. I sat in on most classes and rehearsals, and I was in the front row for almost every performance, even if I slept through them more often than not. I got to grow up backstage because my dad is a musician and composer, and my mom is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher.…

I’m an avid reader of Meg Kimball Advice Avengers series and I was so happy when my friend got it for me as my birthday present.Andi make a Wish! by Meg Kimball will be the 5th installment inside the Advice Avengers line. The other four parts were published as the novel Forever twelve. Since I loved Forever Twelve, the new entry in this kind of Young Adult line caught my attention.From the first page to the last page, I was not surprised because I knew that I would enjoy the journey, getting to…

because when we arrived at my grandmother's house, everywhere you turned there was something that reminded me of him. He wasn't in a lot of the many pictures hanging in the house, but I knew that any picture he wasn't in, he took himself. He was an avid photographer and would rather take a picture than be in one, always standing just out of the range of vision. Now I guess that's how he'll always be, standing where we can't see him. I remember one of the last times I saw him. He was working at…

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” Frederick Douglass knew what it was like to struggle with freedom. His struggles were depicted in his autobiography, “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” Throughout the story, you watch him struggle to free himself from the mental and physical bondages of slavery. He watched friends and family die and quiver in fear as the white man took control of the free world. Whites were able to maintain their control by keeping the blacks…

Social Ethics class played a key role in changing the way I thought about the world. In addition to classwork, this course required an extra time commitment, which we refer to as a community -based learning component (CBL). Holy Cross students are avid volunteers in the Worcester community, so CBL is a unique way to integrate volunteer service into the classrooms. For example, I volunteered at a local parish for it’s after school program helping…

TheNewYorkTimes.com). Despite this many people can see how a body camera is intrusive, or simply will not do their job, making this debate not only controversial, but also unclear where fact separates from ideas of an unachievable utopia. Nevertheless, these avid debates portray that body cameras will promise…