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    Lucky Marchelino AP Government – Period 4 Ms. Thompson 13 October 2015 AARP - American Association of Retired Persons Issues The American Association of Retired Persons is concerned with the welfare of individuals at are above 50 years old, Health Insurance (Medicare), and Social Security. Examples of legislation that the AARP supported was the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, which established Medicare Part D, in 2003, which offers a subsidy for big companies to…

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    is a life that very few are familiar with. From his parents dying at a young age, to having the people he loved ripped from his life, Poe had a very hard time getting through life which led to his demise. He was also an alcoholic and this made him to aggressive, and some people considered him to be too hard of a critic to work for the magazines and newspapers. Although many of his works can be found in text books around the world today, this showing his incredible ability to write stories…

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    Edgar Allan Poe Life

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    How he did this was particularly interesting. Born 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, Edgar Allan Poe started his journey. Poe never really knew his parents. His dad left the family early, and his mom passed away from tuberculosis when he was three years old. Because of this, Edgar Allan Poe was sent to a foster care; where he went to live with John Allan, a…

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    are makers while others are dreamers. But there is one thing that they all have in common. They all have some type of goal that they want to achieve at some point in time. A goal that shows no mercy to people who fail to meet it yet tremendously rewards those who do. Some think that pursuing an unrealistic goal is a big waste of time. After all, why would anybody waste half of their life chasing something they know may not be realistically possible? Maybe because they are rebels…misfits…round…

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    Anorexia Nervosa

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    We have allowed society to enter our minds, and change the way some of us view ourselves, and what we think about ourselves through things like social media, or other mass communication things like magazines or tv. Many people become obsessed with appearance, which usually leads them to also become obsessed with diet or exercise in order to reach societies expectations. Obsessing over the way someone's (aka.themselves) looks can have many negative impacts on people's lives. From causing health…

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    A Time of Transition "Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle (Lockwood-Huie)." This quote made by comedian Bob Hope, shows the levity some feel about the middle adulthood years. However, what exactly defines "middle age?" Middle age is the period of the life span that occurs from forty to about sixty years of age (Santrock, 2012). Individuals in this period of development are usually expanding their personal and social involvement, assisting the next generation in…

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    that she was going to kill herself. Not a single person tried to help her. The next day, she was found dead (psychologies.co.uk). It is clear that her 1,082 ¨friends¨ were nothing but strangers that did not have enough care to help her. If she had talked to a real life friend about suicide, she would have been saved. True friendships can not be obtained over the internet because communicating over social media is not meaningful and talking to a person met on the internet is dangerous.…

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    Interracial Dating Analysis

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    Sara is the only White person in her school and experiences a lot of racism. After her and Derek beginning dating, many people are opposed to their relationship. Sara's friend, who happens to be Derek's sister, even agrees with a comment made by Derek's ex-girlfriend that White girls always try and take the few good Black men that are left. Sara's father does not approve either. Sara and Derek literally have to fight for their love. Both Sara and Derek got into physical confrontations with…

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    At first glance, the magazine cover appears as Ware’s superfluous commentary on a situation that he disapproves of. As a nearly fifty-year-old man, Ware fits the profile of the two pictured girls’ older relative who scolds them for playing on their computers when they should be enjoying the fresh air outside. The magazine cover is this--Ware’s commentary of kids glued to their devices--but it is so much more. The magazine cover is a condemnation of how the girls seem glued…

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    In 1948 researcher Alfred Kinsley published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. His book was to be the largest documentation of sexuality at the time of his publication. In 1953 he released the Female version of this book. Both books were best sellers that sold more than 750,000 copies. In these works, Alfred concluded that homosexuality was a bigger population of America than originally thought. He stated that, “ A full 37% of men said they had had some form of homosexual experience at some…

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