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    The job I had accepted assumed directorship of a 50-man comprehensive information technology department with a history of perennially poor management, incoherent staff development, technologies, internal policies and procedures. However, no sooner than concluding the first day on the job, the chief operating officer had apparently gone snooping around my office only to discover an inadvertent disregard for one of their key rules - all desks must be clean before leaving. Had I been informed?…

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    A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah context is what war and violence can do to someone morally and physically. In the beginning, Ishmael is running from the civil war because he doesn't want to be hurt and doesn't want to hurt others, but once he is forced to join the army, he becomes what he feared he would become if he became a soldier. Ishmael mentions that killing became so easy to do that it became “like drinking water.”. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah was written to tell Ishmael’s story…

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    This episode consisted mostly on J.P. Morgan, and how he wanted to build a company from the ground up like Rockefeller and Carnegie. J.P. Morgan went to Thomas Edison to find the answer. The answer being electricity. Morgan saw that potential that electricity and the lightbulb possessed and was determined to become the one who lights America, but Rockefeller knew that kerosene would go out of business and tried to stop it. All while Andrew Carnegie was reconstructing his steel business from its…

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    The Rocking-Horse Winner

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    concerned for her children, “as if she loved them very much.” Only she knew that in the center of her heart was a place that could not feel love, not for anybody. Following her example, her son, Paul equates love with “luck” and money and begins his downward spiral into destruction. Paul attempts to make his mother happy by giving her $1,000 every year for five years on her…

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    Peer Pressure In Easy A

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    Peer pressure is substantially concentrated in teen and young adult years due to a coercion of teenagers’ minds to fit in as opposed to not associating oneself as an outsider. This theme is frequently portrayed in the visual text ‘Easy A’ produced in 2010, written by Bert V. Royal and directed by Will Gluck. This theme is communicated through the characterization and dialogue of the main characters, especially Olive Penderghast. She is an enigma who presents a true representation and portrayal…

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    Expectations of a Son Success can be measured by wealth and accomplishment. People often yearn for success and spend their lives working towards it. It offers a purpose for those that seek one. Biff Loman had not yet achieved success in the play Death of a Salesman. In order to grasp the character of Biff Loman, one has to know the character of his father. Willy Loman was a salesman that had worked hard all of his life. His goal early in life was to be successful. When it did not happen for…

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    diseases such as STD, HIV, uterine infection but also is their community. Being susceptible to chronic diseases would limit this target community to other opening occupational opportunities that require health and physical activities, perpetuating a downward spiral of poverty. Furthermore, these children usually avoid being…

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    16 Tons Thesis

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    The song that played in class on Thursday March 1st was sung buy Johnny Cash. Release in the same year as the stock market crash in 1987, the song 16 Tons is about the struggling constraints in a coal miners’ life. Focused on highlighting the reality of poverty, Cash states that “a mind that a-weak and a back that’s strong”. This is an example of the lack of education that may be a constraint that keeps one in poverty. Thinking on economic terms, poverty is a sever constraint on ones’ ability to…

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    Nicholas Sarullo Short Story 300+ Words On a stormy evening in April of 76’, one man, Brent Jackson, discovered just how drastic of a downward spiral his life had taken in recent years. Cold, alone, hungry, and tried, he sat in longing desperation on the streets of New York. He prayed for hope, for a brighter future, and for a better tomorrow. He dreamed of money, a home, a family, and people that once loved him. Simply put, Brent wanted a place to belong. As he gripped his worn blue overcoat…

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    so we have an insane amount of over doses every year in America. Families lose loved ones because they see the stereotype of a junkie but in the end don’t actually see that the person can’t get the proper help to cure themselves but with the downward spiral of losing family and being called a junkie ultimately kills them. What other things can Americans do to help fight the typical label of being labeled a Junkie and how can future Americans prevent it within our…

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