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    Lee and the youngest child of Amasa Coleman Lee, an attorney and a newspaper editor, and Frances Finch Lee, a pianist, Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926. Harper Lee grew up in a very tiny southwestern Alabama town of Monroeville where her best friend, whom she enjoyed her presence, was the pre-pubescent Truman Capote who provided the basics of the character of Dill in her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”. As a child, Lee was a tomboy, having developed certain abilities or proclivities at…

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    achieve earnings of the sellers and savings for buyers. Airbnb profits mainly from charging a 3% service fee of renting rooms to the owner and 6-12% of booking price to renters. Combined the low overhead of a web-based hoteling application, and the unique experience provided to their customers, Airbnb appears to be highly valuable to their customers. So how does Airbnb strive to be valuable? One cannot deny that Airbnb home-sharing business model has given the economy a new direction. Airbnb…

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    Hillbilly Elegy And how it is related to the 2016 Presidential Election In August 2016 and January 2017, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture Crisis reached the top of The New York Times Best Seller list. It is also listed in the 6 books to help understand Trump’s win. Journalists believe that the world of hillbillies that is described through Vance’s eyes analyze how Trump gets the support of the majority of the white middle and lower class. Indeed, Hillbilly Elegy indirectly…

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    Who Is Rachel Carson?

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    Rachel Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania (Academic, Environmental Activist, Biologist, Journalist) on a 65-acre farm. Growing up Rachel spent her time enjoying her love for nature that she owed to her mother. Her mother taught her from a young age how to love the outdoors and to love birds, insects and the animals that inhabit the streams and ponds as well as her love for reading and writing. She would soon prove her love of writing when she would get her first…

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    My Age Of Anxiety Summary

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    Annotated Bibliography Stossel, S. (2013). My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. [Book] Summarize: In an attempt to educate and inform his audience, Stossel write about his personal experience of living with anxiety, while also including the knowledge of scientists, philosophers, and writers who took the time to try and understand this mental disorder. He also includes the impact of anxiety and how he and others have managed to…

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    Herbalife Case Analysis

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    nutrition company and sells weight management, targeted nutrition energy and fitness personal care products. Herbalife uses Multi-level marketing model to sell the products to relative family members and friends. Even Herbalife begins trading publicly on New York Stock Exchange in 2004 and now opens in 93 countries, Herbalife’s history tells a tortured marketing tale. The first Herbalife product sold was in Hughes’s own car in 1980, in Los Angle. In order to enlarge Herbalife’s selling network…

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    sixteen-year-olds must take an ability test that describes the group of people involved in a battle for which they are best suited. After receiving the results, they can decide whether to remain with their family's group of people or move to a new group of people involved in a battle. Those who do not complete beginning of actions and you do to get in to an organisation you must turn into a new group…

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    that is so hateful must be brought to the attention of everyone and it must be put down. In the New York Times’ Best Seller I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi, she attacks these racial injustices and calls attention to their absurdity in our modern society. Ajayi is a Nigerian-born author, she’s a speaker, and a digital strategist. Ajayi is published in different magazines and news pages, along with being a contributing editor and columnist…

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    Looking For Alaska

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    Looking for Alaska. This book is a 221 page, hardback and paperback, young adult novel. Published in March 2005 by Dutton Juvenile, this would be the first book he would publish. During the week of July 29, 2012, Looking for Alaska hit New York Times best seller list at number ten. The book takes place in Alabama at Culver Creek Preparatory High School. Narrator, Miles Halter, leaves his what little of a life he has in Florida to attend his junior year at a boarding school to “start seeking a…

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    However a majority of teenagers tend to believe that because a book has the word history in it it will automatically be boring. In fact, Some polls have taken place to see which genres make the most money and which genres teenagers tend to like the best. As…

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