I have just finished reading the article "How to steal $65 Billion" and am amazed still how easy it is to have your personal information stolen, I knew that you have to be careful but I thought technology was strong enough these days that you didn't have to worry as much about security but I was wrong. ... As I was reading the article I was relating it to myself and how I can decrease my chances of this happening to me. It changed the way I think of some of my personal habits about mail and personal paperwork. I have a paper shredder and after I read this article, it made me realize how i...

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We all have heard this saying, and we all have probably said it in our lifetime. ... Can words never hurt us? ... They feel they need to change who they are as to fit in better. ... It is not acceptable for us to ignore what is going on in thought that "these things just happen." ... It is sickening to think that instead of doing something about it, we are only hoping that the abused do not retaliate through violence such as school shootings. ...

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Johnny never even thought about killing that Soc, but the Soc had thought about killing Johnny, because he had jumped Johnny before. ... That was the only time I can think of that I saw him without that defeated, suspicous look in his eyes." (page 92) we can see Johnny overcoming all of these obstacles to save all of these children less than half his age that are burning alive at the fault of him and Pony. ... All of these restrictions are put upon teens under the age of eighteen, but they can still be executed or put into federal prison without so much as a second thought. ... After the Soc ...

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At first I thought that I was going to ask my mom and dad, two girl friends, and one boy friend, but that was soon to change. ... I said death and her entire aura changed. ... The last word porno hit her exactly as I thought. ... Even though we only met last year, we learned everything about each other's pasts and loved learning about what was going on now. ... Even tho...

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I can"t remember how but we lost that wall to the other team who wanted it. ... So we decided to change the design so that the best bit of our design wasn"t behind the door. In the end we changed the design completely. ... So we had our design and new how we were going to do it and what colours we were going to use. ... It was our work we felt the responsibility and I think you can agree we rose to the occasion. ...

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My parents have always been very traditional and have taught me manners and how to be talented and educated children. ... I awoke up and since it was a Saturday, I didn't had school, so I ate breakfast relaxed, I turned on the television and started playing my video game, hours passed and nothing of my parents arrive, my anxiety grew, did not even see clearly the image that skirt from that small and old TV,quite old with the ones we have today. ... My father gave a huge smile and said, "Lucas, you will have a brother" and he gave a happy laugh, like making joke of us, because we thought ...

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There is so much violence in the world today how can there be peace? ... In the early 1900's people thought that war made people heroes. ... How can people think, say, and believe that we won when we have killed so many? ... We put our children in and out of psychologist because we think that there is something seriously wrong with them if they are always getting into trouble, but if violence is all the child knows then how is he suppose to act. Through out history people prospective on war have change dramatically, but why are we still choosing to have wars? ...

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Having said that I can honestly say I thought the students did a marvelous job in there performance. ... One of the two being Grease either play or musical because the way that Adam changed his image for a lady seemed so similar to the way Danny did so. ... The way that Jenny suddenly was attracted to Adam was a great twist and how Philip and Evelyn had an affair made the plot even more complex. ... I have so say that seeing this play put on by college students made it even more really than I think it would be by professionals. ... I am very glad that we had to go see it because otherwise I ne...

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My life has changed for the better since I moved to America. ... That has totally changed my life, we left everything behind us. ... No one can understand how I felt. ... We woke at 5am, It was really early, My sister and I thought we were getting a tourist visa. I was half asleep and half awake and that got me so sleepy and I didn't even have a breakfast. ...

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What I mean by saying that, is we change constantly and it is due to the things that take place on a daily basis that affects our characters as individuals. ... But by being on the island I think his personality definitely changes. ... At first he thought it would be good to have time to be on his own with other people the same age. ... Another effect on his character I can think of is, he would be more cautious of what is around him and the type of people he involves himself with. ... Finally a third one I can think of is he might fear a lot of things from then on, because he seen the true n...

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We see her witnessing her birth and her death and everything between. ... This is how Daisy sees her life. ... She honestly believes she can change him, take hold of him and make something noble of his wild nature. ... She also thinks she can change his drunk habits. She wants to change her life and belong to someone. ...

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I mean how hard can it be to pay rent and a car payment? After looking back on my initial thoughts I can now see how nave I was because rent is not all that I was responsible for. ... Laundry was something I barely even knew how to do because my mom never made me do it. ... Looking back on my past I don't think privacy was ever really an issue with my mom and me, but for some reason at the time I thought it was. ... There were some changes after I moved out, but mostly we just didn't get the chance to talk as much as we did before. ...

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He thinks that he is skillful. ... There are no dramatic changes in the narrator; therefore he can be considered a static character. ... The one thing that we do know about the character is that he does not think he is crazy. ... The character himself does not even remember how the first thought of killing the old man entered his mind. ... The narrator does everything he can think of to stop the noise of the beating of the old man's heart. ...

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Jessica looked a little disturbed, and she said, "Can I tell you my feelings on that?" ... However, when my grandma and my uncle jumped in to try and change the subject, I was completely fine with it, I was ready to move on, and I thought she was to, but then after a second she turned to me and said, "Ya know, if I didn't care about you I wouldn't have said a damn thing! ... My aunt is a lot like me when she is angry, and I think that is part of the reason we had such a problem with something so small. ... Neither of us knew how to communicate our ideas to one another without gett...

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Think Manny, think. ... I wonder what Mom and Dad think. ... We were immortal, so we thought. ... Not even two miles away from my house, a large mobile home came in my path and I had no reaction time. ... I can't change the past but I can shape the future. ...

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It's hard to think about that day. Who knew it would be the last day I would spend with her. It still feels like a fresh nightmare that just happened last night. But it didn't. It happened over two years ago and I was still struggling with this new reality. I didn't like it. I hated it. How could th...

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So I see how an agent could consider some situations as emergencies when maybe the principal would not. ... What I think it's very fair it's the fact that the agent is liable if he breaches this duty and any injures result from it, I honestly thought that the fact of having to notify it's important, but not so much. ... Nowadays I think we don't even think about different worker's standards and skills anymore, we just expect. I believe sometimes we even expect more than what we should and we think everything is guaranteed. ... This is not just random, this is because q...

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How would you feel if someone told you that? I mean those words hit me like bullets and thinking about how everything would have changed just with one car accident I wouldn't have been able to dance at prom or try on prom dresses without help. I thought about how I would have to go different ways to get around school, I thought about all the different ways I would have to adapt to. ... I can't even go on certain roller coasters anymore because of the car accident. ... This car accident has changed my life from now being thankful that I can walk and that nothing else happened. ...

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Louise Erdrich's short story "The Red Convertible- tells of how the toils of war transform Henry Junior into a quiet man, and how a red convertible and a loving brother named Lyman can make him want to live life again. ... When Henry returns home, Erdrich shows how war changes a person. ... When Henry returns, he does not even think of the red convertible. ... He always thought of the car as his brother's even though when Henry left for war he said, "'Now it's yours' and threw him the key" (409). ... This story shows how war can change a life, but the love of a brot...

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Although he was escaping from what he thought he knew was his fate, it does not change the fact that he killed someone. It does not change the fact that he was a murderer. That not even once, did thought about regretting his actions. ... He was too greedy to let it go and prideful to even think about whom he killed and think why he would pay for what he has done. ... Referring to page 77, he blinded himself for he cannot bear the thought of seeing his parents when they meet after death nor can he look at his children for they were his mother's. ...

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Lots of teenagers feel all their homework can be pointless. ... What 13-year-old thinks like that? ... It will not change their personality or sense of reality. ... We never thought about it. Maybe we should start now. ...

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This tale really made me think, that people can change. And that you should never keep something against someone, remembering people can change. ... As soon as the speaker began speaking, Ruth thought of someone everyone made fun of. ... How is she by the way? Oh sorry, we forgot. ...

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When a person looses the feeling in their legs and becomes a quadriplegic, it is thought to be an unbearable situation. ... "How much do we owe the people we love,"" is asked by Carrie, when she talks about leaving Mike. ... By the end of the book, Carrie changes her mind and comes back to Mike. ... If she actually loved him she would not even think about leaving him when times got hard. ... We are judged by the decisions we make by our communities, and they determine if we are either a good or a bad person. ...

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It is amazing how many things we take for granted. We make plans for the day, and don't think twice about how those plans can be taken away in the blink of an eye. ... I don't think anyone really thinks about tragedy until they are actually faced with shocking news. ... I finally understood it all, the pain he had gone through- after tasting blood and seeing your friends die all around you how much more can you suffer? ... A life can change drastically at any moment. ...

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I think about his death little and can only speculate as to its effect on me. ... His whole demeanor changed for depression had found him. ... How can someone be such that they find life repugnant and long for death? ... I was at a friends house where we had partied with some other friends. ... A change had taken place in me. ...

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