...MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Have you ever wondered if you could go back in time and meet someone who has already come and gone, who would it be? If I was to go back in time to meet someone, I would meet Martin Luther King Jr. I would go and shake his hand and ask him how he was so successful in his accomplishments. Martin Luther King Jr. was the man who ended segregation and most racism. He was also the leader to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the African-American Civil-Rights movement. I would go back because I would want to know how he was successful in his accomplishment. I would also go back because he would be able to tell us how he was a great leader. And last I would go back to say thank you for ending segregation. And now I’m going to tell you a little more why I would go back to meet Martin Luther King Jr....
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...responsibility was used and not used. School, work and the Bible. We will take a closer look at them and decide why it is good to take personal responsibility. In collage, no one tells you when to get to class, when assignments are do, or when to study for a test. It is your personal responsibility to do those things. If you don’t, your school yeah will not be as great as you want it. If that means instead of going to a party the night before a big (or small) test, then be it. If you have relied on your parents and teachers for your whole life, then what will you do when it comes the time for you to leave, you won’t know what to do. I mean, it’s partly the parents fault for doing everything for you, but you could have taught yourself how to do simple things. If your parents don’t let go of the rope a little, how do they expect you accomplish anything. You have to be able to survive on your own. It’s a big world out there. Anyway, in collage, you have to be able to do almost about everything on your own. Sure, you will have your friends and teachers for guidance, but you have to have to personal responsibility to be able to do things and live in this harsh world. The next area with personal responsibility required in at your work. When at work, you usually have a boss, or something that tells you what you need to do. It is your responsibility to make sure those things get done. There are many reasons why you must take personal responsibility in the work space. If you don’t take responsibility...
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...Why I believe immigrants come to America? I believe they come to America to have a better life, and get money to provide for their families. Immigrants come to America to seek freedom and different opportunities they cannot get in their homeland. Why should immigrants have to be deported back to their homeland because they have no rights in America which is supposed to be the “Land of the Free”. These people we call “immigrants” are the same people who would do anything to stay in the country.They do work us Americans don't like to take part in and wouldn't lift a finger doing. Immigrants actually want to work in U.S, they wants something good for themselves. This is the dream, they come to pursue a dream they wouldn't be able to get back home. They see America as their way to happiness and a better life. So why not let immigrants try to pursue a dream and find happiness instead of judging them and wanting to kick them out if the country. If they aren't doing any harm, why want them leave? Freedom is a big part of why immigrants come to America. Immigrants are people just as Americans, they aren't nothing less. They fight just like Americans fight to survive in the country. What would us Americans do if they were an immigrant living in poverty raising themselves? Yes some Americans do raise themselves but not all live in poverty.(Weeden, L. Darnell) No one should be judged by where they come from, who they are, or how they look. Us people use the quote “ Don't judge a book...
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...through three people, John Hickman (Homers Father), the town of Coalwood and Mr.Turner (Homers principle). Firstly, John Hickman, father of Homer Hickman and a coal miner at the Coalwood mines in West Virginia, socially outcasts his son. Why? Because John doesn’t agree with his son building a rocket. This is explored through Homers father getting in multiple fights with his son. John called Homer many hurtful words for example a minis and a thief. John never wanted to go watch Homers rocket launch, he never agreed with anything that Homer wanted to do. Homer’s father wanted him to work in a coal mine not build rockets. Homer’s father is thrilled when Homer decides to go work in the coal mine after John gets hurt at work. Homer decides to quit school, quits making rockets and go into the coal mine. After John is out of the hospital and is able to go back to work, Homers mother want him to go back to school. Homer tells him mom that he’s not going back to school and John agrees with Homer. Although John is thrilled that Homer quit building rockets, the family is finally happy and everything is good, Homer decides to go back to school to build rockets and win what his goal was the entire movie, The Science Fair. Homer and his friends win the Science Fair and get to go onto the National Science Fair but the only problem is, only one person can go. Homer’s friends choose him. John is not to proud of his son and he tells his son, “if you don’t want to be here, go, just go” Homer replies...
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...us humans? Why is this so? Jobs are becoming increasingly obsolete due to the fact that now, the job can be done by a computer. Now, when you go to the grocery store, there are self-checkout registers in which you, the consumer, do the work while the cashier’s job becomes less aggravating. Also, in the medical field, there are many operations and procedures that can now be calculated with certain technology. Moreover, in the engineering world, jobs are becoming deleted because of computers. Go back a few decades in time and try to imagine calculating something without a calculator. At an alarming rate, technology is decreasing our jobs at a very alarming rate. At this pace, in the future, all work will eventually be carried out by robots and computers. Keywords: technology, jobs, computer, calculate, work Technology and Jobs “The U.S. economy hit an important milestone last week: Gross domestic product, the sum of all goods and services produced in the country, returned to pre-recession levels. But the gains were made with millions fewer workers. Part of the reason is technology, as computers and machines continue to replace humans.” You must ask yourself whether or not technology may possibly be taking away multiple jobs from us humans. Why is this so? Jobs are becoming increasingly obsolete due to the fact that now, the job can be done by a computer. Now, when you go to the grocery store, there is self-checkout registers in which you, the consumer, do the work while the...
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...Assignment 1 “Why college education is important to me” Achieving Academic Excellence February 6th, 2014 The purpose of this essay is to show the importance of a college education and to provide many reasons why a college education would be important to me. I will incorporate a few quoted references along with some statistical data and my personal opinion. About twenty years ago I couldn’t give an answer to “why college is important to me”. I did enroll in a college and lasted about three semesters. I didn’t do well in many of my classes because I had poor study habits, lacked maturity, was never really focused, and just didn’t have any real motivation and goals set for myself. I never really gave it much thought. The point is I just didn’t take advantage of what college would mean to me and to my future. I wanted to enter the work force right away because I thought that I could land a good job without a college education. After fifteen years of doing different jobs and not making enough money to support a family on my own, I was finally at a crossroads. What am I going to do with my life? Do I continue to struggle? Those were really good questions. I realized that it wasn’t possible to land good jobs without better knowledge and the only way possible is to go back to school. I did some soul searching and came to the conclusion that if I am going to achieve something in this life and qualify for many positions then I must go back to college and work very hard for a degree...
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...Westerfield. I am forty-three years old. I wanted to go back to school to follow my dream of becoming an Accountant. I thought I wasn’t going to try my dream out. The reason why is I was working forty hours a week. Plus, sometimes I would work overtime. Then my husband wanted a woman to clean and cook. So, I had to sit down with my husband and with his parents to see if I can do it. They all agreed that I can do it and they will help me out. The first six months went by like a breeze. Then everything started to come back and haunt me. My mother-in-law started to complain about how I was not doing enough to help around the house. Then she went and talked to my father-in-law about why she is complaining. Then my father-in-law came to me and told me I better start helping out that he doesn’t care about how much I have to do. So, I went to my husband and told him about what is going on at home. And that I am doing the best I can. And I need him to help out on the days he has off from work. So, he said he would help out more, so I can study more on my studies. After all of this went down, I had to change my plan once again. This is how I have to do this. That is I get up I have to study, then get dress for work that takes me one hour, go to work and work eight hours, then when I get home clean up where it is needed the most that takes me one hour and half, then I will study for one hour more, then play with my dog for half hour, then go take a bath for one hour, before that I would...
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...because there was more food there than where they used to live. After a while Elimelech died but Naomi wasn't alone she still had two sons. Her sons got married but after about ten years they died too. Three of the women were left widows. Naomi was left with her two daughters-in-law and Naomi decided to return to Bethlehem. Naomi called her sons wives Orpah and Naomi and told them, that she would like to go back to where she used to live and she would like them also to go back to their family where they used to live. Orpah didn't want to leave Naomi but Naomi told her not to worry, she would be fine. So Ruth and Naomi returned to Bethlehem together. When they got there, Ruth decided that she should do some kind of work. It was harvest time, so she worked in the fields following behind the harvesters and picked up any barley that they had dropped. Lucky for Ruth the owner of the field was Boaz, he was a kind man who believed in God. He had also been related to Elimelech (Naomi's husband that died). Boaz went and talk to Ruth, he said to her that she doesn’t need to work in any other field but to stay here...
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...is when employees refuse to do the work that their employer has asked of them. It is usually the last step in labor management negotiations and is something that both sides typically want to avoid. Since when employees go on a strike both sides lose out on something. Employees do not get paid and the employers do not get their productivity done. In history, public employees never had the right to strike and they never struck before the 1960’s. That is the movement that they began to fight for their rights as public employees and it caused a major movement for public employees to stand up for themselves and fight back against the union that was violating their rights as public employees. Until the late 1960s, public employee strikes were illegal in every jurisdiction in the U.S. Yet when the idea took hold and the context was right, hundreds of thousands of public workers struck anyway, violating state laws and court injunctions. And they generally won—achieving recognition and good contracts, and forcing lawmakers to amend state laws to permit public employee bargaining. - See more at: http://labornotes.org/2014/06/inspiration-look-history-public-worker-strikes#sthash.G0co1ed1.dpuf Public employee rights differ from private sector rights greatly. When you are a public employee most of the time you will be required to join a union and that union has its own rules and regulation that you must follow. A big reason why public employees do not have the right to strike...
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...Many people today question our education system. Many more of them will question education like colleges being worth it. With today’s job market and the cost to go to college, you might think it is not. A lot people in our society view higher education as an investment that will payoff in the long run but many others would tell you that you are just wasting time and money. The reason why colleges and university are worth the four plus years and the high cost of tuition is because of the amount of money you can make afterwards. An article written by Catherine Rampell can help you see the advantages of receiving a degree from an institution. She showed that of the American earning more then $150,000, 82 percent of them carried a bachelor’s degree. Only 6.5 percent of those Americans who earned at least $150,000 did not receive a high school diploma and around 7 percent did have a diploma. This illustrates the need for more people to go to college to receive a degree because it will get them a job that will increase their income by 20 to 30 thousand dollars. In the long run, this can affect your standard of living. With that extra cash you would be making, you can pay off your college debt which a lot of people are saying is out of control and one of the reasons college is not worth it. The bigger picture is that you can payoff the college debt in the first five years and then use that money to pay for a new car or a bigger house. This is the reason why the standards...
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...forms abuse: emotional/mental abuse, neglect, physical abuse and sexual abuse. Abuse is any ill-treatment to a person that hurts a person in any way, shape or form. This essay is going to focus at the emotional and mental aspect of abuse as I have been dealing with it for the past 23 years. Mental abuse will cause somebody to have disregard of themselves as well as physical and mental problems. But what is happening to us today? What are doctors, nurses or any heath care provider doing to help the ill? If conquered, these weaknesses will make you a stronger, more knowledgeable person that can help you live each day as they come. Living through abuse will guide you to live for what life brings you and not to let anything or anyone hold you back. A good friend once told me that you cannot believe in what you see or hear, believe in the truth. Listen and absorb, there is more being said to you then the person is telling you. Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that affects you mentally rather than physically in life. It can comprise of anything from verbal abuse and regular criticism to more clever strategies, such as bullying, exploitation, and denial to ever be pleased. Emotional abuse can take many faces. Three common examples of abusive behavior include initiating a fight, denial, and making a small something big. Even though there is no conventional description for emotional abuse, emotional abuse can acquire a definition beyond verbal and psychological abuse. Accusing...
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...There Should be Limits to Abortion I do not believe there should be limitations on abortions. In my personally beliefs the government should not tell a woman what she can and can not do with their bodies. If a female decides to have a baby the choice whether to keep it or not should be up to her and her alone. Who is the government to tell a female she can not have an abortion, or put restrictions on having abortions? What is next are they going to limit the amount of children a female can have like they do in China? Why stop at females what kind of laws they going to be put against men. With the Patriotic law and our government spying on us is that not enough why tell females about abortions. Did the Women’s movement of the 1970s mean nothing at all if men still are going to tell females what to do? I wonder what is next are they going to turn over the 19th Amendment that allows women to vote. The government has entirely to much power over our lives. The Supreme Court decision in Roe V. Wade made it possible for a woman to have an abortion. Prior to the decision many women were dying performing illegal abortions all because they could not have a legal one. Studies show that prior to Roe V. Wade they were many unwanted pregnancies in America. According to The New York Daily News article entitled “Do People agree with Abortion” a staggering 89% of people agree that the government should not put limits on abortions. Another poll shows that 1% of all abortions occur because of...
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...Why is the divorce rate increasing? October 12, 2007 tags: Divorce, Relationships Divorce is on the rise. Whether it’s Delhi or Lucknown, Kerala or Punjab, Kolkata or Chennai, the upper classes or the middle classes, metros or semi-urban areas…the specter of divorce is now here to haunt us all. Why, just in Delhi the figures go thus: 1960’s – 1-2 cases per year 1980 – 100-200 cases per year 1990s – 1,000 cases per year This decade…a jump to 9,000 cases per year About Mumbai (update): So far nearly 7,000 divorce cases have already been filed at the family court this year, and the number is expected to reach 7,200 by year-end — 60 per cent more than the 4,500 cases filed in 2005. Couples in the 25-35 age group accounted for 70 per cent of the cases, and 85 per cent of them were filed in the first three years of marriage. A lot of us have tried to understand why the divorce rate in India has been low for so many years (post on divorce rates of the world) and why it was slated to increase. In this post I shall concentrate on the latter question…divorce rates in the context of modern society. Here are some pointers as to why divorce rates are increasing (not in order of importance) and you will find that some points are connected: Greater societal acceptance of divorcees in urban areas and also a gradual acceptance of divorced daughters by families (not in rural areas) because families have started to believe that perhaps their daughter can have a life after marriage and without a...
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...Court's Appointed Counsel When working with a court appointed lawyer you need to research and follow up on guidelines that carry with your charge. You have to learn how the court system works. Lawyers that are hired by the court to represent the low and middle-income people are lazy in doing their job. There are many reasons why court appointed lawyers don't do their best for their clients involving the court cases. Pretrial court is usually within a week from the date that you committed the offense. Did you know that if you can't afford a lawyer, the court would appoint you one? It is the law that you have to be represented by a lawyer during the time of your trial unless you sign a waiver to not have a lawyer at all. People are represented in court by two kinds of lawyers, court-appointed lawyers and public defenders, which mean "hired lawyers" (Green, 2001). People that have higher income can hire their own lawyers. The lower and middle-income people are mainly the ones who rely on court appointed lawyers. These people don't have the money to hire a lawyer. Court appointed lawyers are not working in your best interest for many reasons. Salary is one reason why court appointed lawyers don't go up and beyond their call of duty for their clients. Studies show on an average, people will be sentenced harder or longer if he/she is represented by a court-appointed lawyer rather than a public defender (Green, 2001). Court-appointed lawyers are paid by the state on a case-by-case...
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...plan of literally making their own money. His educated dad and suggested to seek for Mike‟s father, his rich dad, help because he, himself, doesn‟t know how to make money. This is the start of their journey to becoming rich. There are 6 lessons that are emphasized in this book. Lesson #1: The Rich Don‟t Work for Money Lesson #2: Why Teach Financial Literacy? Lesson #3: Mind Your Own Business Lesson #4: The History of Taxes and the Power of Corporations Lesson #5: The Rich Invent Money Lesson #6: Work to Learn – Don‟t Work for Money The Rich Don’t Work for Money This chapter shows why the poor and middle class don‟t get rich. It is because they keep on working for money, fear and greed cause ignorance and poverty. We were taught of getting a secure and safe job meaning, working for money. Their fear of having no money at all cause them to stay in their jobs and not wanting to risk what they have. But it is not how the rich play their game. They let money work for them meaning they build their own „systems‟ then let those parts of the system do their work. For example, you employ people to do specific job which make them a part of the system that runs a business. Their employees work for them. Their employees...
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