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    ¨Sometimes you may be ´super underrated.´ But usually itś the underrated, the underdogs, the dreamers, the idealists, the fighters, the argumentative-- those are the folks who do the biggest things.¨ (Barack Obama). The University of California Irvine is a vastly diverse, innovative, and investigative university with a major intellectual and cultural center, as they captivate the community through public activities and events. UCI was one of the three newest UC campuses established in the 1960ś.

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    Gateway Mission Statement

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    Gateway Inc. Gateway, Inc., founded in 1985, started with two people working out of an Iowa farmhouse. With a "keep it personal, make it simple" philosophy Gateway, Inc. has grown rapidly since it went public 8 years after the company started. Today, Gateway is a 7.5 billion Fortune 250 company that has 19,000 people on its payroll and prides itself on building lifelong relationships with its customers.4 The company operates sales and technical support centers on four continents and has manufacturing

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    A little over a year ago I contributed to the University of California Irvine 's college drop-out statistic for freshmen engineering majors. After walking out of yet another challenging lecture on something about angular momentum; I dropped off my withdrawal form at the Student Center and embarked on my glorious adventure to pursue a career in visual development. By the grace of my parents I was allowed to return home and spent my days honing my craft and becoming the modern Picasso I was destined

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    There are many different types of communication that I can talk about, but my favorite form is intercultural which I was lucky enough to learn from my teacher. There are so many things to a culture and so many things that you notice from different cultures that others don’t have or “follow”. Things like their language, what they wear, what they eat, how they live, and so on, too many things that can be addressed from looking or going into detail with a culture. It’s really important to know what

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    exploitative self interest that characterises the everyday life of heroin addiction." (Petrie 90) Its' realistic style, use of language and unflinching portrayal of drug use was what first attracted me to look at it a bit closer. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh, it tells the story of a group of working class unemployed drug addicts, focusing on their problems with heroin abuse, inability to get a job and family problems. Set in

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    In Irvine Welsh 's insane and drug-centered novel "Trainspotting" a standout amongst the most obvious yet disputable topics is the friendship between the main characters. This group of character are seen to be friends by us the readers but the question often raised is are they really friends or are they just together because each one has a fucked up life and it is together that they do not feel alone or so terrible? We the audience see this come to a climax as the edginess of their drug addiction

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    Shame In Trainspotting

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    Shame in Trainspotting is a many fold theme. For Renton, part of his shame stems from the stereotypical Scottish hyper-masculine persona, so deeply embedded in Begbie. In the chapter ‘The Glass’, he sees a group of thugs walk into the bar and states: ‘Ah hate cunts like that. Cunts like Begbie. Cunts that are intae baseball-batting every fucker that’s different; pakis, poofs, n what huv ye. Fuckin failures in a country ay failures. It’s nae good blaming it oan the English. Theyre just wankers. We

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    Irvine Welsh’s novel Trainspotting centres on Mark Renton and his group of friends, who are drug addicts living in 1980s Scotland, and follows their misadventures as their lives begin to deteriorate. While the detrimental effects of heroin and other drugs are clearly displayed, the negative effects of their unhealthy friendships are less obvious but equally toxic. Friendship in Trainspotting is a destructive force because it is corrupted by selfishness; it becomes an addiction which mirrors that

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    The misfortune for the climbers did not stop here. In 1924 June 8, Everest gave the world a astonishing mystery as George Mallory and Andrew Irvine failed to return to its base. And their lose sparked a debate on if they were the first to defeat the Everest ,climbing onto its summit. Supporting this unclear argument, some claim the climbers were actually spotted on the mountain but disappeared on their way to the base. However, Mallory’s body was discovered in 1999 at 8155 m on the North face

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    Irvine Welsh’s novel Trainspotting centres on Mark Renton and his group of friends, who are drug addicts living in 1980s Scotland, and follows their misadventures as their lives begin to deteriorate. While the detrimental effects of heroin and other drugs are clearly displayed, the negative effects of their unhealthy friendships are less obvious but equally toxic. Friendship in Trainspotting is a destructive force because it is corrupted by selfishness; it becomes an addiction which mirrors that

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