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How far will a person go to make money? Senator Albert Fall could have answered that question. Fall had one reason for losing his integrity; he was greedy. He let his need for greed roam free and it destroyed his moral character. In addition to destroying his integrity, he destroyed people’s trust in him, one being the President of the United States, he gained control of the oil reserves and lost them, and then he was found guilty because of his heinous crimes. Fall’s desire for money grew when…

These two movies are based on a novel called The Getaway by Jim Thompson, which published in 1958. The first movie came out at 1972 and the second came out at 1994. The first movie earned over $36 million in USA. And the remake earned $30 million. The story line are so similar. The first version movie is that Carter “Doc” McCoy was in jail at Texas. He told his wife, Carol, to do anything in order to have a deal with Jack Beyon, who was immoral businessman. Beyon used his power and got Doc a…

In the second article “Human Trafficking: The Modern Day Slavery of the 21st Century” by Ph.D.’s job Elom Ngwe and O. Oko Elechi, effectively convinces the audience that sex trafficking is bad and can be compared to the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Modern day Human Trafficking. In the article you read different people 's view on the comparison between the two, they either really relate to each other or they have similar qualities but are not really the same. For example the article discusses…

In Aristotle and Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe, the author, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, describes the journey of two friends, Aristotle “Ari” and Dante, in the late 1980’s in El Paso, Texas. As the friendship develops between Ari and Dante, Ari gradually discovers the traumatic secrets that his parents have hidden from him and gains an entirely different perspective about his life. Through indirect characterization of Ari’s thoughts portraying his dad’s trauma from his war experiences,…

and the author mentions stories of barefoot runners, ultramarathon success, and human endurance. The second quote from the song relates to Billy and Jenn. Jenn decides to start running, and Billy joins her. They both know that taking this trip to El Paso is risky, but she makes the choice to do it anyway. Jenn has the desire to take on running, feel the beast of exhaustion, and win the battle. The song “Missing” is similar to Michael Hickman’s story. Before he becomes Caballo Blanco, he…

The Progressives were led by religious leaders such as Charles Parkhurst, a Protestant Reverend who urged for more “protest” from the Protestants. The Progressive Era united various anti-vice crusaders such as the Anti-Cigarette League, the American Purity Alliance, and the Anti-Saloon League. These groups were already united on many issues such as labor rights, women’s rights, minimum wage laws, etc. Thus, in 1900, a reform group known as the “New York Committee of Fifteen” conducted…

the studies being conducted on a computer, software program, and headphones. Including that the participants of the studies were university students, however, unlike Brunel, Vallet & Versace (2009), the online experiment was conducted in the U.S. (El Paso, Tx), while the authors study took place in France at Lyon 2 University. Although the experiments shared some similarities, such as, deciding which visual stimuli belonged to a particular category, Brunel, Vallet & Versace (2009) focused on…

Obesity in the United States in a serious problem that severe has health complication that can affect individuals’ lives. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 17% or 12.7 million children and adolescents 2-19 years of age are obese. Obesity levels among adolescents are due to many different interconnected factors such as low family socioeconomic status, family education level, personal beliefs, attitudes, and knowledge, environmental influences such as the…

The pick up truck: In the book Aristotle and Dante Discover the Mysteries of the Universe, Aristotle gets a 1959, cherry red, chevy pickup truck. This was the car that he had been wanting forever. When he first got it, he could not stop looking at the amazing truck. He would do everything in it. Aristotle ,or Ari for short, would eat breakfast in it, sleep in it, even play with his dog in it. But, the one thing that he did the most was take the truck out into the desert and lay in the bed. He…

Stories are great. Who doesn’t love a good story. We have been telling them passing them around spreading them for as long as humans have been around. The best way to spread a story, so it can reach thousands even millions of people is through the internet. The internet may be one of the best inventions so far. You can buy 1,500 live lady bugs on Amazon and get it the next day, if you forgot to watch the latest episode of Scandal on ABC 7 you can illegally watch it online a few hours later, you…