If even a small percentage of eligible voters decided to vote in the main battle states, the entire outcome of an election could change. As I mentioned before, even a slight change in the amount of votes could affect the entire outcome. ... We can influence the way tax money is spent to the healthcare that we receive. ... The information is there to prove that a slight change in the voters can influence the course of elections, so what's stopping someone from stating their opinion? When someone considers whether or not to vote, think about how one vote could alter the course of history....

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How nave are we as sport fans? Do we really think performance-enhancing drugs belong to sports? ... Because it can be purchased legally most athletes don't think it is a drug or an anabolic steroid that is the reason why they took it. ... I want to take a closer look at studies about the reasons why people use anabolic steroids, how they are used, what the health consequences are and how they can be detected. ... Other than that we should educate athletes about the side effects of anabolic steroids, most people don't even know what can happen. ...

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Women Can Do Anything. Men are not as good as they think they are. We are going to fight for what we want no matter what or how long it takes. ... Women have always been thought of as lower than men and that is not right, we are equally as good as they are in just about all situations. ... During the late 19th century and industrial revolution this started to change. ...

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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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The atrocities committed during the colonization times makes us realize how much we have changed and how civilized we are today. ... We still think that other people have less value because of the color of their skin or their nationality. ... Even though our society has changed the way of life, our way of thoughts and feelings is pretty much the same. ... Let our history show us that we can change, and that there is hope for a better world. ... If the cause of what we think is our nature, then we will have to be reborn into new and intelligent human beings. ...

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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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He is limiting the personal freedoms of fellow Americans and changing who we are and what we stand for. ... I think of all the people I know that are too afraid to travel or to fly, and I think of how the terrorists are slowly winning their war. The war is not just a matter of how many bodies each can claim, or how much land a side controls. ... If we will no longer go about our days as we always have, if we do not fly to Ireland or Italy or even Egypt for fear of what the terrorists could do, is that not a victory for them? ... Now, I am not going to let some terrorist or even a US Attorn...

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One must also give thought to the leader, and his beliefs in running the system. ... And how can one change it. ... The building one can look at as the Iraqi government Bush yearns to change. ... One can look at the uneven ground as the major economic, and culture clash problems Iraq faced, even before the US invaded it. ... The only thing we can hope for is that neither will remain mute. ...

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It structures the way you think, the way you act and how your emotions work. ... And we can get a good idea of it by observing how our environment is working around us today. ... We have the capability to think, but we should see what is beneficial in nature and apply it in ways that can help us. ... The feeling of compassion and affection we receive affect us greatly, even more than what we can receive from religion. ... How can we be governed by these ideals instead of living and choosing freely on what we believe? ...

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Today, it seems as though people acknowledge the fact that we cannot openly be racists but many keep their thoughts hidden deep within them. ... Now as white kid I dont think I can fully understand being black or a minorty but I can only imagine how much harder it must be. ... I thought to myself this could be true, But then again we are talking about a great quarterback here. So i did not know what to think. ... I can only be one person in this world. ...

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In his book, A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America, we seem to think that America is full of white people and they're the majorities. ... Even Berliner is not a true American, I think his ancestors were from Europe. ... I can't change that. ... So my perspective has changed and widen. ... I thought the world has become a multiculturalism place, just like how I grew up, but I was wrong. ...

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This terrorist attack against the United States on American soil is a prime example of how a terrible and unexpected deed of hate, can alter the emotions of others. ... Even thought they have suffer a great deal, they can't understand the agony that our people has suffer this time. ... For example: When one of the audience ask the question, Are we going to change, and if we do, will it be for the best of our nation or we are only going to change because we have no choice? ... Well, if you are someone like me, you will think that we have no choice in changing, but this chang...

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I think that it is interesting that a religion can just be based on other religions and ways of others think and feel. ... How interesting is that, what one could not accomplish in one lifetime he or she can be born again and finish, This would ultimately change the world, if this happens to someone that may have the cure for cancer or something, and that person has not completed the mission, they have almost eternity to do so. ... Through pure acts, thought and devotion one can be reborn at a higher level. ... Bad deeds can cause a person to be reborn as a lower lever, or even as an animal, I...

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Language makes it possible to talk to one another and to express thoughts and ideas. ... I don't think it is appropriate to label us as minorities just because, when we are placed side by side to the white people, we are automatically inferior to them. ... My mother often speaks with hidden messages that only I can understand. ... I can relate to that because I have a five-year relationship with a terrific person. ... In reality, one not only needs to think about what is said, but also how one says something. ...

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If technology in your daily life routine doesn't concern you, you should think twice about how it really affects the body's health. ... Lastly, learning how antennas work, how they transmit radiation, as well as what and how it's affecting the body on the inside fragment. ... Anyone can be developing tumors at this moment, but to this point, it is based on who uses the phone more and for how long. ... Asthma and diabetes are another form of how it connects with health problems and there is a greater possibility that we can control. ... Another way that mobile devices have chan...

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Most of those opposed against handguns, or other pistols think it is to easy to get a gun, and that anybody can get one. ... Lately laws have changed. ... Even through all this mess we should be able to find our own view. We can develop our own views, because the good we see for ourselves is the good we think others will have too. Even if we choose to be for or against we can never be right or wrong. ...

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" This shows how they had no individuality. ... In Cotton is King, James Henry Hammond was an average white American that believed that God thought it was just to have slavery. ... There was a Manifest Destiny thought to it which shows immensely Americans' identity by wanting everyone to be the same and think the same as us. ... We imperialized Cuba, The Philippines, and Hawaii. Not all of the reason behind it was to just spread how "awesome" we were but financial benefit as well. ...

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I was just brought up a specific way, to see things for how they are and not think twice of it. ... I learned to accept what others believe in and how they think. ... I even have to learn to respect and accept the non-combatant civilians of the middle-east and learn how to work with them. ... Setting of any story or event can change how everything happens, what is said, what is thought and what the outcome is. The overall setting of the military can range from being stationed near to home in an area you are used to, being stationed thousands of miles away somewhere you've never thought ...

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Even if these are banned, you"d have to be foolish to think this is going to phase such a problem, since kids can just go home and drink sodas and snack on candy. ... This will limit how much is bought at the school, while still making some money for the school. ... If our society actually wants to take on obesity, we are going to have to think of something better than this, the proposal seemed like more of a joke to me than anything. ... Since obesity isn't even caused by certain foods or drinks, rather by lack of physical activity, why would somebody even think of this without examin...

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Living in an area like that can have a serious impact on the way people think. ... A way to start changing the way people think about others is immersing themselves with other cultures. ... I have so many friends and even relatives of different races and cultures, and it really does change your whole perspective on racism. ... If we didn't think of color or race when we see a person, we would not have all these problems with dating. ... It is a change that is soon to come, but we cant hide from it, as much as our society is changing today. ...

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Timhead then asks Ozzie "Can we keep it that way?... As Ozzie narrates, he describes how they both felt; "We didn't want to talk to anybody else. ... He knows how this is affecting his wife for the worst, but he uses humor as a way to assure her that things won't be as bad as she thinks. ... Thought you had forgotten to come to my going away party" when she arrives late (243). ... Joe wanted to make a statement that black men can do whatever the whites can, and that they all have a job to do. ...

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Of the thousands of babies that have been aborted in the past year, think about how many could have been put up for adoption. ... Adoption agencies have changed a lot over the years. ... But the truth is, we wouldn't even exist if someone hadn't given birth to us in the first place. ... We raise our families to think for themselves, not by what people tell them to do. ... We need to think for the well being of our children, and their children after them. ...

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The repetitive emphasis throughout the film on how we hurt Vietnam more than we helped brings us back to the main topic at hand: why did we become involved in this war? ... I think we're fighting for the North Vietnamese, ain't we?... I think these people were legally wrong I think sometimes these people were cowards. ... It was not a part of what I thought about.... What can another victory do? ...

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America was all too comfortable with a naive sense "nothing can touch us and noting can hurt us." ... Because pornography can be sold. ... We do not think about how lucky we are to be able to worship without a fear of persecution or execution. ... The United states is feared and unlike because they think we will impose willingly and unwillingly on them the freedom to worship whatever religion they want. ... What changed? ...

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I was told quite often by white people, "This is America ", "we Americans speak English, " and if you don't like it you can go back to Mexico. ... By the time I entered third grade, I knew how to speak English fairly well even though I was in the bilingual program I did all of my work in English. ... We never thought about the fact we were from different races. ... (I don't think I lost my accent.) ... Through an education, we can become something in life. ...

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