Where there once were thriving stores owned by families who employed friends and relatives, there are now vacant buildings and thrift stores selling used clothing and furniture. ... For example, shopping by phone, QVC or Internet does not allow you to smell the fabric, feel the texture on your face as you try it on, the fall of the fabric as it drapes caressing your shoulders with a feel that only fine silk can produce, the little label able to readily be read in the store as you judge, is it worth the expense of dry cleaning versus hand or machine washing, these cannot be appreciated by seei...

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I have three childhood friends who grew up with me in the same neighborhood. ... On this account, my friends are successful because their aspirations are being realized. ... The majority of students follow their friends' footstep or go with their parents' decisions, and these students refuse to analyze their strengths or weaknesses before choosing a course. ... These missionaries may be earning little or nothing in term of monetary value, but the satisfaction they get in contributing to the society has greater value that cannot be quantified. ...

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Children are constantly under exposure to influencing factors such as the media, friends, and most importantly their parents. ... Scientists still are uncertain as to the cause of homosexuality, but, being gay myself and having many gay friends, I have found that homosexuals differentiate individually. ... A person who is born gay has little to no chance of being able to ignore that aspect of them-self, without repressing a very important and key part of their psyche. ...

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Whenever she is inside the realm of family, Lilia is portrayed as a little girl struggling to understand her culture, but in her "public life", she is a typical American youngster. ... Bich's identity is constantly changing depending on whether she is around family and friends or whether she is exposed to society. ...

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On the other hand, some people believe that community notification has little, if any, impact on the likelihood that a convicted sex criminal will strike again. ... Attorney and victim advocate Robin Sax praises registries for "[putting] the power of information in the hands of the people so that adults can better educate themselves about their neighbors, their friends' neighbors, and the people who live near their children's schools " (Sax). However, there are countless consequences to the open access of these registries, such as many offenders being unable to get or keep jobs or ...

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In fact as a result of the lack of education and skill, first generation parents who usually move to this country in hopes to begin a life are found stuck in low-wage jobs that give them little hope for improving their lifestyles. ... With large amounts of first generation immigrants making the decision to come to America in hopes of improving the lives of future generations, they sacrifice their own lives by accepting low-skilled, low-wage jobs that give them little, if any hopes of improving their careers. ... For example, "some second-generation Koreans born in the United States don'...

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America is the land of opportunity. The stitches that bind America's fabric of history have been sawn with illegal threads. Organized crime has been woven into the society of the United States of America just as baseball and apple pie. The only difference is that this ethos of society has been swept under the rug and said to be taboo until recently. When this, America's dirt, is brought to light it is unclaimed and looked down upon as if its silent partakers were totally innocent. ...

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Maybe they had trouble maintaining relationships and therefore lacked the protective buffer of supportive family and friends or worst of all, they rejected conventional responsibilities and had chosen homelessness (Timmer 156). ... The question is why doesn't this definition include persons who are staying with friends and family or who can afford to rent a hotel room on a temporary basis? ... Judging from the review of reports received, it appears that those in vulnerable economic situations, upon receiving an economic jolt, in the absence of "social margins" (savings, relatives, exten...

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Television and Sexual Messages Fifteen year-old Laurie was rushed to the emergency room with acute pain in her lower abdomen. Doctors initially suspected appendicitis but during surgery they discovered something worse. Laurie suffered from pelvic inflammatory disease that was caused by either chlamydia or gonorrhea. The infection began in her cervix, then climbed through the uterus into her fallopian tubes and out to her ovaries. An abscess that formed on her right ovary had ruptured spilling the infection into her abdominal cavity. ...

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I experienced that my American friends invited me along to worship sessions at their own family church. ... In 1689, Great Britain had passed a religious Act of Toleration, but this meant little for American colonies.4 In his Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson highlighted the fact that in 17th century Virginia, it was punishable for "parents to refuse to have their children baptized," and for various other offenses.5 Sheriffs imprisoned Baptists living within Virginia; Baptist ministers were not given permission to preach their own religion, and were prey to physical violence.6...

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This they say is only applicable in the rare cases of premeditated murder, whereas murders that occur " in the heat of passion, with no premeditated intention to kill, the offender often makes little attempt to avoid detection ." ... Another reason that is often overlooked is the misery the innocent family and friends of criminals must also go through in the time leading up to and during the execution and which will often cause them serious distress for years afterwards. ...

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