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    Attitude of Gratitude Cultivate Gratitude This shifts people away from bitterness and despair, and promotes happiness. Holding a grudge and nursing grievances can affect physical and emotional health. Finally, try to hold on to the forgiveness. Don't dwell on your anger, hurt, and desire for vengeance. Foster Forgiveness- This reduces the power of bad events to create bitterness and resentment, God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’ Yes I have! I…

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    Hook Up Culture Analysis

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    counterpart, and according to Frieta this will lead college girls into believing that “by allowing college guys to objectify them in various ways they can earn enough social capital to become popular, desirable, and potentially win the ultimate college jackpot (a boyfriend)” (Frieta, 148). Women’s willingness to portray themselves as the submissive counterpart to the male turns them into items being sold to the highest bidder, or items whose value is determined by the sexual behavior or…

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    Vernons Bingo Review Introduction Online bingo has become the game of games in the UK, as more and more players are now looking to the numbered balls when it comes to gambling. Online bingo as a game is generating serious momemtum; hundreds of online bingo sites have popped up all over the place in recent years, with Vernons Bingo certainly being in the mix. Starting life back in 2011 under the name Littlewoods Bingo, what’s clear is that Vernons Bingo is now well and truly over its infancy,…

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    Dance with the devil The rain dripped, drop by drop hitting the concrete driveway of a trailer park home in the middle of Las Vegas. Inside laid Darnall flat on his bed dreaming of making millions, being the world's greatest hustler, and sniffin coke. This is the story of Darnell, a young man who had infinite possibilities but became a product of the ghetto. Darnell never knew his father and his mother was never around, she put the pipe down to show her son she was strong when darnell was ten,…

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    driving to school, the radio did not seem much appealing to me. At most times I felt certain that music was not in my category for motivation or simply for pleasure. At that time, not even Drake, Justin Bieber, or Beyoncé really seemed to hit my jackpot. However, Flo Rida allows me to recapture music in a joyous experience like opening up those lovely Christmas gifts. Even though the song is almost four years old, this song has become a great source of light and started to barge into my life…

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    Huck Finn Up Close and Personal The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a prestigious book that dates back to being written nearly two decades after the writing and signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, and post Civil War in America. Now the Civil War having just ended there was still an equality and racial inequality that dividing the people. Even during this bittersweet moment in the country, Twain still manages to add a bit of humor in his story. Twain’s humor takes up a…

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    Background of Study Literature can be represented as a reflection of the relativity of social life that exists around us. Actually, the word ‘literature’ have changed their meaning over time. The lack of a definition, which could be applied to all works regarded as literature is not necessarily always be a bad thing. Many of the most useful words in all languages are useful precisely because they do not mention something very specific, but they identify a range of meanings and related to the…

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    dominant American culture and Europe as sinful and threatening. It was perceived as fraudulent, but during the late twentieth century, concerns over fraudulence began to subside and Voodoo was received as more of a social tourist commodity and possible jackpot for commercial profiteering. During the beginning of the 21st century, there has been a new recognition of Voodoo as an accredited religion; one place that fits the bill is New Orleans. The state of New Orleans is unorthodox in its social,…

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    Olympic Athlete

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    To take the challenge of an olympic athlete is a rewarding experience. The sacrifice they take to achieve this journey is immeasurable, but the lessons will guide their whole life. Athletes from all over the world have trained for many years so that they may all come together every four years to compete in either the winter or summer Olympics. The Olympic Games don’t just bring in the competing athlete’s, but it also brings in the family members and the fans from all over the world to enjoy…

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    Disney Channel was quick to recognize females would put their money where “liberation” appeared signifying that third-wave ideals of girl power are related to consumer power. Rather than use girl power as a true political stance, Disney Channel used it as an industrial strategy to cultivate their audience and justify the commodification of young females and the prioritization of consumption over substance. Having now established the feministic atmosphere that would allow for this decade of…

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