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Personal Finance > Budgets & Saving Cost management: Sticking to a budget

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Budgeting is a crucial part of any financial success and is a necessary skill for survival in today's fast paced economy. No company can be successful without a financial strategy and likewise no person can be financially secure without a budget.A budget is a plan of your (predicted) future incomes and expenses. This plan wil... More..

Style & Beauty > Fashion Trends & Styles Should belt-less pants, showing boxers or a whale tail, be banned?

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To err is human, to let your underwear show, disgusting!Underwear is many things to many people. To some it's an unfortunate fact of life, to others it is a way of informing us of their love for Bugs Bunny.I personally do not enjoy seeing a stranger's underwear. I do not think it that it shows how "original" or "unique" the p... More..

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: War in Iraq

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It had been a long night, with heavy shelling preventing me from getting any sleep. I was worried that I wasn't going to get much reporting done being bogged down in a suburban flat. I couldn't leave though, Sunni death squads had been patrolling the particular neighborhood I was staying in for the last three days, killing an... More..

Society & Lifestyle > Personal Morals & Values What is boredom and what causes it

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Boredom: what you are experiencing right now. I recently had a three day crash course on boredom, called work experience, where I sat at a workshop table, alone, for about 7 hours a day, with nothing to do!Some of you may not think "boredom" is an emotion, well it is, wikipedia says so! An it is an extremely powerful emotion ... More..

Personal Finance > Retirement How remarriage affects social security benefits

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A person often looks forward to their golden years with the hope that they will be able to retire, take it easy and rely on their social service benefits to cover their cost of living. These benefits are accumulated over an individual's entire career in the form of a monthly deduction from their earnings that goes towards the... More..

Creative Writing > Essays Essays: Fear

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The Other side of fear is freedom:Does fear restrict you? Does it keep your greatest desires hidden deep inside? Does it stop you from pursuing your goals?Of course it does! That's why you're working at this dead beat job, dating a loser and constantly wishing you could be in a bond movie. Now I'm not saying that forgetting y... More..

Relationships & Family > Love & Lust What is love?

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Love love love makes the world go round lyric from the Power Puff songI know a few people who would tend to disagree with that statement: my science teacher, Donald Trump, Marlin Manson and each one of them has their own special reason (i.e. gravity, money and who knows what respectively) but to the rest of us happy middle-cl... More..

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