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Gabriel Villalvazo Ms. Lawrence English - 10 - 4 February 27, 2024 The G.O.A.T Who is the greatest basketball player of all time? Fans all over the globe have a different opinion on the G.O.A.T. of the basketball team. Characteristics of the G.O.A.T include popularity, accolades, achievements, and influence. Many argue Michael Jordan is that person. Others argue with LeBron. Some even believe it’s Kareem. Everyone has a right to their own opinion, however, Michael Jordan is by far the best…

Life as a Drug Addict Most people don’t see me doing drugs but I did and it ruined my life but I survived. I use to look down on people who did drugs and I didn’t understand why they did it and why they just wouldn’t stop using them. Then, I became a drug addict and I didn’t even know. I turned into a person no one knew. That one pill changed my life forever. Drugs don’t just effect the addict, it effects the addicts love ones as well. Addition is a real disease and it…

Introduction All sports are beautiful and the sportsmen who participate are role models for kids. The games end being ugly when some players cheat and when the officiating is biased. The cheating culture in such games causes scandals and misconduct to grab the limelight than it should. Sometimes little or no actions are taken and a lot of unfairness is displayed at the end of it all. Cheating in today 's global sporting world has become very common since players and officials put their selfish…

Fixing the Student Debt Problem Many people dream of graduating from a good college and starting a career in a field that they both love and that will secure them a well-paying, secure job. Unfortunately, due to the rising cost of college tuition, a large amount of students are unable to pursue this dream without amassing a large amount of loans. Student debt has become almost synonymous with attaining higher education. However, student debt often has a crippling effect on people’s financial…

The gambling activities themselves are clearly motivated by economic goals as opposed to recreational gambling, and the social scene reflects this as well. Two characters went on to the casino floor with the goal to win mass amounts of money whether it was to pay for a fake child, or to get out of debt. While only one of the two attempts proved to be lucrative, the gambling aspect shows both of the characters winning more than $100000 each. The apparent luck of both characters drew an audience…

AUSTERITY IN IRELAND COMPARED WITH OTHER ECONOMIES Unfortunately the Greek economy was a house of cards held together by government spending. The Greek government has kept borrowing more and more money even after the current crisis started. The past few years have proved that the Greek Government does not have the right people for managing its economy. The Greek people are also not helping much, as they do not seem to have understood the seriousness of their economic situation. Opposing the…

simply just a memory without underlying meaning, it would not have dawned on the narrator to “fully appreciate [the mother’s] lesson and the true purpose behind [the] particular menu” (Tan). Uncomfortable occurrences now may feel like it is the world betting against them, but it might be the very thing that needs to ensue to learn something important which is what happened to the…

In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, the gender roles and expectations of the novella’s time period were challenged, primarily through the character Edna. Edna was a married woman with two children who had never been fully comfortable with her role as mother or wife. Despite her dissatisfaction with her life, she unthinkingly “[went] through the daily treadmill of the life which had been portioned out to [her]” (Chopin 31) until she met Robert Lebrun, a young and interesting man who awoke the…

Imagine having a disease with no cure. For a person with Celiac Disease, living gluten-free is not a cure, but only a treatment to an improved health and well-being. Not eating gluten does not cure the disease, it just stops the symptoms. A cure would let people with Celiac eat gluten again without getting symptoms. However, Celiac Disease is a lifelong autoimmune disorder in which the small intestine is hypersensitive to gluten, leading to difficulty in digesting food. Even though the labeling…

Hallo, I am 22 year old Erich Heusinger of Brandenburg, Germany. I am Catholic and am moderately wealthy through affluent parents. I am currently fighting in the trenches of this great war. I enlisted with my classmates a few years after I finished high school, vying for the glory common to heroic tales of warfare. My older brother, Karl enlisted in the naval forces. My parents were against it, especially my mother. They wanted me to become a doctor like my father but I can attend medical school…