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… sun somehow bleeds through the closed vertical blinds covering my window. When I fully regain my senses from being dead to the world for about 8 hours, I smell the aroma of breakfast being cooked. I must admit that’s something that I’m not custom to,…

… can become famous for the slightest task. Many of today's heroes and idols have never accomplished anything truly great. Some are admired for their looks, acting ability, or simply for being in the right place at the right time. However, Charles…

… a very unique one. It depends on the person one is trying to become friends with, it depends on one's gender, it depends on one's age, but most importantly it depends one's personality. Every individual is different and how they make friends differ…

… His name at birth was James Arthur Jones. Baldwin never knew his father; his mother, who was originally from Maryland, was named Emma Burdis Jones. In 1927, she married David Baldwin, a Baptist preacher and factory worker from New Orleans with a twelve-y…

… such as abortion, we must first understand what it means. Abortion is the expulsion of a human fetus within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy, before it is viable. In other words, it is when a women has tissue removed from her uterus. Abortion…

… although the structure of the family is quite different from one country to another. In the united States, as in many countries in the world, the family is changing. A generation or two ago, the traditional family, in which the father was boss,…

… of the world. There have been huge accomplishments, especially in the field of science. Yet, none have even come close to the amazing accomplishments of Galileo Galilei. Galileo provided a frontier in history because of his improvements in the…

… whites and blacks should live in a separate environment where they each had their own space. Malcolm X, dubbed El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, believed that the only way there would be peace among black and whites, was if the two parties were segregated.…

… Withered Limb", Tobin Siebers begins by pointing out a small but very important difference between himself and other people. How do you tell your right from your left? The author states that most people require "an act of imagination"(1:1), or the…

… thinking is limited by our seemingly innate tendency to pass judgments on people based on their superficial characteristics. It is almost second nature for many people to judge others for how they look, how they dress, how they act, and how they relate…