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    THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTIVATING A LIFESTYLE OF CONSISTENT HEALTH CHECKS. To get rich, never you risk your health, for it is the truth, that health is the wealth of wealth. Richard Baker Success is the ultimate goal of an average sane being. However, several people; even the elite too; in their quest for this goal, work conscientiously, without the consciousness of the need to check, possibly sharpen and oil the tools with which they toil, and thus, in several pitiable cases, toil hazardously…

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    Jordan is aware that her views of perfection are envied by both men and women of the era who fail to achieve a substantial life. In the novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald characterizes Jordan Baker as a realist, whose life ultimately falls into place and achieves what people strive for. Nevertheless, Jordan manifested the conventional habits of the…

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    Death Penalty Essay Lena Baker, a poor African American female, was put to death by an all white, rich male jury for the murder of Ernest Knight. Knight was a white rich man who hired Lena to be his personal maid. He unfortunately abused his power towards her. He enslaved her, even though slavery was, and still is illegal. He was killed in the early 1940’s by Lena Baker. The jury overlooked the whole case, because of her race, wealth, and attempt to defend herself. She was sentenced to death…

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    to humor, sarcasm, or just talking a lot, I tend to compensate with silence and body language that does not invite probing. Greg Baker described the results of my introverted tendencies well: "When you don't get involved in other people's lives they will assume that you want to be left alone...You, in turn, get upset because you think that people don't like you (Baker 8). This fear of what people will think of me is pride, and it is easy to…

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    Values/Pg13: The standard by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, superior or inferior good or bad, beautiful or ugly. In the documentary, The Real Slumdogs by Steve Baker, it talks about the very real slums of India, not the one found in movies. The largest slum in the world is in Mumbai, India and is called Dharavi. One of the major points the documentary mentions is how the people of this slum cherish their personal values. One of them, and the most mentioned, is the value…

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    Nick takes the time to describe each and gives us a background. Jordan Baker becomes a crucial part of this novel from this point despite her small role in the story. Jordan and Nick are both close to Daisy one of the protagonists of this novel. Jordan to was described holding class and a pure and innocent nature, despite the…

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    On Tuesday, April 4th 2017, I, Detention Officer T. Charles (EIN 143038), was assigned to C pod, First Shift, on the third floor of the 1200 Baker Street jail Facility. At approximately 1250 hours, I was in the PCC when I heard banging and yelling coming from 3C1 I observed inmates later identified by Armband and T-cards as Inmates Robertson, Jeffery (SPN 02735064) and Fletcher, John (SPN 01711957) fighting each other by A-cell, I then called for all available rovers to C-pod while waiting…

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    she killed herself. As the tapes go on you learn more and more about how this young girl withstood this horrible amount of pain. With this pain, the actions of others killed Hannah baker. Betrayal, violence and love, things that at points in our life we all feel and they also had a big role in the suicide of Hannah baker. Hannah felt as though all of her friends had betrayed her. That not even her closest friend clay was there for her when she needed him the most. Being betrayed makes you feel…

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    feeling like you do not belong, not even in your own body. Women and men alike face some sort of harassment at some point in their lives, but it’s more likely to be a female who faces it every day as she grows up. In the show 13 Reasons Why, Hannah Baker is faced with every problem teenage girls encounter, but it becomes so unbearable that she ends up taking her own life. Many people, particularly women, including myself, have been confronted with either sexual harassment, bullying, stalking,…

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    He said, “I’m Charles Baker Harris. I can read.” “So what?” I said. Jem wanted to get a better look at him so he said, “Why don’t you come over, Charles Baker Harris.” “Folks call me Dill, “ he said, struggling to fit under the fence. Dill told us he was from Mississippi, but was spending the summer with his aunt Rachel. He had seen a bunch…

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