Reading and Rhetoric

276 of the more than 300 girls who were taken from a school by armed militants are still missing, possibly sold into slavery or married off

This is not the first time Boko Haram has attacked students, killing young men and kidnapping young women.

Boko Haram and reprisals by government security forces have killed at least 1,500 people

The Big Picture’ is about the grand goals; the big dreams and aspirations

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Americans are more in favor of legalizing marijuana than criminalizing it.

No one has ever died of a marijuana overdose.

Maya Angelou, Martha Stewart, Morgan Freeman, Ted Turner, Michael Bloomberg, and even Rush Limbaugh are all high-functioning marijuana users.

Can we pull the wool over our own eyes or do we see through our mind games?

Surely lying to ourselves is counter-productive

Like calmly and deliberately shooting yourself in the foot or taking a hot toasting fork and plunging it into your eye?

Not many people think about their identity within their relationships until it's gone

. However, the truth can sometimes be ugly and hurtful

A beautiful lie is one that does not hurt but brings happiness. The lie would not be beautiful if was told on purpose and out of spite

undermining

Shape Your Identity Or It Will Shape You

I agree that challenging someone’s identity can trigger defensiveness

Identity is a core and unavoidable part of all our lives.

blacks as joyous, naive, superstitious, and ignorant—characteristics related to the way slaveholders in earlier years believed them to be.

The "independent black woman” is often depicted as a narcissistic, overachieving, financially successful woman who emasculates black males in her life.

An uneven skin tone, or hyperpigmentation, is the result of an over production of melanin.

1) Sun exposure: When skin is repeatedly exposed to UV light, sun damage occurs. Brown spots appear as a result of too much melanin being produced to help protect skin from UV light. 2) Hormones: Melasma is hormone-related hyperpigmentation caused by increased hormone stimulation. It is most commonly experienced by women who are pregnant (which is why it’s also known as the “mask of pregnancy”) or taking contraceptives, but can also be a reaction to cosmetics or medications. 3) Post-Inflammatory Hyperpigmentation: This is a darkening of skin that’s the result of scarring, which can be caused by acne lesions or skin injury.

Keep Designing on Paper

get the maximum out of the game software.

You should also keep this notebook with you when you play other peoples games.

The terrorist can physically alter a valid passport -- stolen or purchased from an accomplice -- by changing the picture or biographical data.

At least two of the Sept. 11 attackers used stolen Saudi Arabian passports. Saudi Arabia is a friend of the United States and so using their passport makes it easier to get in at the border."

terrorists may be able to purchase an official passport in their own name, or an alias, by bribing a corrupt official or obtaining one in the black market.

You’ve got the nigger WOMAN OUT FRONT AND THE nigger MAN BEHIND AND SCARED.

I HAVE OUTLINED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENCES AMONG THE SLAVES; AND I TAKE THESE DIFFERENCES AND MAKE THEM BIGGER. I USE FEAR, DISTRUST AND ENVY FOR CONTROL PURPOSES.

How do you make a video game?

it isn't still a slog

great works usually take great pains to come about, after all.

efore a person can overcome self-esteem problems and build healthy self-esteem, it helps to know what might cause those problems in the first place

If parents spend more time criticizing than praising a child, it can be harder for a kid to develop good self-esteem.

Some teens also have an "inner critic," a voice inside that seems to find fault with everything they do.