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to be a man by taking the proactive approach and use his own experiences to prevent others from going down the same road he did. Also, Johnson wrote a book in 1992 titled: “What you can do to Avoid AIDS.” All the profits from this inexpensive, paperback book go to the Magic Johnson Foundation, which helps young people with HIV/AIDS (Magic Johnson). This book helps to educate people, mostly young, about the dangers of HIV and how to avoid it. No matter how poor the person, they can probably…

Author Print Profile Sam Preece is the spawn of a painfully abrasive family hailing from the flowery town of Shrewsbury. He has an incorrigible compulsion to waste his days watching science fiction films, both good and bad, and playing video games until his eyes are bloodshot. By obtaining a degree in journalism & creative writing, he hopes to write lofty screenplays and to not be swallowed by the voids of insignificance and obscurity. Author Web Page Text Bio…

Obstacle affecting American Dreams The ideology of American dream was propagated for the first time by James Truslow Adams in the year 1931. He was of the view that the United States of America should be a land of equal opportunity for every citizen. It should be a country which provides people with the livelihood that they deserve. Depending upon a citizen’s capability, United States must offer enough resources in exchange for his talent. This belief is equivalent to the concept of prosperity…

According to 200 experiments that both Dr. Cupta and Dr. Houtz had conducted, women gave themselves high rankings in their abilities to have technical skills. Also, men ranked themselves higher than girls. There is previous research confirmed by this experiment that girls rated themselves highly. However, their abilities are much lower than men, even if they have the same rates. (Breidenbach, 1997). Finally, there should be access to use computers for male and females. However, the problem that…

I’ll admit, I found this book very difficult to read, but not because of the vocabulary words or because it was a medium-sized book that from a distance can look long-winded to many people. It was very difficult to read the Lucifer Effects, by Philip Zimbardo because it made me angry, annoyed and mostly horrified. I wasn’t angry at the author, I was angry at humanity and how far they can get twisted in ideals, religion or just turning plain evil. I know that evil is out there, most people know…

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, no one is allowed to have books. Firefighters are there to burn and remove all books from the possession of the owners. One might ask when the method of burning books actually started and if you do just a slight bit of research you will find out that people have been burning books almost since the beginning of time. Banning of books has also been a practice that has lasted for many years. The symbolism of burning and banning books represents that the people want…

Brandi Smith Dr. Alisa Clapp-Itnyre English L392 November 19, 2015 The Use of Mythology in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling is filled with hints toward Greek, medieval, and Biblical literature, as well as other folklore. Through her conscious use of past archetypes, Rowling displays an expansive intellect that readers many not notice during their first read-through of the series. Rowling uses her knowledge of these classics in the naming of the…

The Complexity of One's Actions Malala influenced many around the world when she said, “There's a moment when you have to choose whether to be silent or to stand up”(Mallala 1). The power of one's actions can simply affect the future in a situation. In “The Bet”, the storyline clearly demonstrates the awareness of the power of Actions. Unfortunately, the main characters did not think through the situation before giving up everything they love. Is happiness worth silence, or should one risk…

For my musical ethnography, I was originally going to attend a showing of the “Rocky Horror Picture Show”, but it ended up being sold out last minute. At that point, I began to worry because that was the only event I had planned to attend. As my worry was starting to progress, I remembered, and also took a quick glance at the types of events we could attend and saw that it said we could attend a religious service. I quickly looked up services in my area for the next day and came across a website…

Lobotomy. It is a scary word. It has a medical sound to it, with Greek origins. On hearing this word, a strange image conjures. A thin bespectacled man dressed in white, patiently drilling a hole in my skull with surgical precision. I do not fear the man in the white. He does not look scary. I don’t fear surgeries. They are useful, and often necessary. What terrifies me is the possibility of losing a part of my brain, consequently my self. Descartes could delude, or comfort, himself with the…