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The Nintedo Wii is not a terrible product, but it is nothing special. The vast majority of the games are made for people under the age of 7. This is not bad if you are looking for a family console but it only does just that. When we got our wii several of the games we got with it didn’t work well, not that the games were broken but they were unresponsive even after we adjusted the receiver. It is very hard to play shooter games because of the way the controls are made, like in Call of Duty: World at War, you have to press down B and twist counter-clockwise to throw a fragment grenade. Because you are twisting it is impossible to aim and therefore nearly impossible to use (Whenever I try the grenade ends up blowing my squad to pieces). It is also harder to snipe than on other consoles. Half the time in the middle of an online match you will move to try and find your enemy and it will spazz out for 3-6 seconds, enough time to get shot. If you are going to play shooter games get something else (I play MOH on my gamecube more). Mario Cart however is good. it is great for parties and fun to play contact racing where you can push the person sitting next to you. Sometimes the controller wants you to go another way and no matter how you turn you will go straight into a wall. Wii play is also pretty fun, but I only play tanks, cow racing, target practice, and the fishing game. Im am actually saving to buy an xbox 360 because of better games and graphics. If Your looking for young person/entire family entertainment look no further, but if you want to play shooter games, get an xbox or ps3.
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After ALOT of debate, I finally decided that the pros of owning a Kindle (or any e-reader) outweigh the cons. I began to realize much of my hesitation arose from losing the vanity of having bookshelves brimming with beautiful tomes…but my most pragmatic resistance was over the idea of DRM’d books that I can’t lend or transfer between competing devices. That really still pisses me off, actually. But ultimately, when you buy an e-reader, you aren’t paying for books as much as you are paying for convenience and portability. After seeing an e-reader in action, I fell in love with the benefits (changeable text size, multiple books, internet access, built in dictionary, annotations, and much more). In the end, I wanted the e-reader features more than I wanted the freedom to display and lend my books.

I considered buying the B&N Nook as well, but ended up getting the Kindle for one main reason: I’m a long-distance through hiker. That’s actually the main reason I decided to buy an e-reader in general…because when you hike, every ounce counts. I was tired of adding 2-3 lbs (or more) to my backpack by loading it up with books each week so I wouldn’t die of boredom in the evenings before falling to sleep. When you’re on a solo backpacking trip, you will DEVOUR books. 300-400 pages a night (there’s nothing else to do when it’s dark). So anyways, I bought a Kindle because I can now carry literally hundreds of books for only 10.2 ounces…and that’s nearly 2 ounces LESS than the B&N Nook.

Aside from the weight, the Kindle also has a longer battery life than the Nook when the wireless signal is turned off (14 days vs 10 days). This is KEY. I can’t run out of juice in the middle of my hiking segments between towns. Sometimes I’ll let 8 or 9 days go by before finding a town to resupply in, and I just didn’t want to risk running out of juice before then. That said, the Nook DOES offer a replaceable battery for $30 bucks…but that’s more weight to carry

I think the Nook is
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Brought the tripod as a Christmas gift for my cousin. I’m the type of person who doesn’t really like to look for the item at the store especially on the holiday seasons so I decided to buy it on amazon.com, which turns out to be very easy to buy. My cousin got the tripod and told me that she used it right away, which turned out a great gift.
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Imagine you are told you are responsible for raising the children in a household, but since you carry any number of diseases as an African American woman, you may not use the toilets in the house although you must clean, change diapers and cook creative meals.

In addition, you must teach each youngster proper manners but you can never eat with family members or ever sit in the same room with them. Your pay is so poor you are capable of minimal subsistence. As an inferior being, you are expected to serve–obey without question or comment–or be fired.

You are allowed no real feelings because a black maid is incapable of having feelings. Yet, the children you care for fall in love with you and not their biological parents. You are their mother; you are their source of daily inspiration and love, you ease their pain when they hurt mentally or physically or spiritually.

All daily household chores are yours while you keep these children occupied so unaffectionate parents may go about their wasted day: fathers to manage their plantations or businesses, mothers to fritter away their time with meaningless social activities and/or cosmetic procedures.

An inhumane life impossible to imagine? Certainly! But such was the plight of the subservient women who labored as housemaids following the Emancipation Proclamation. With the Civil War ended, black women and men were now free–free, yes; free to become poorly paid, hated slaves of wealthy whites in the deep South, even in the 1960s.

In The Help, Aibileen and Minny dare to describe to a white woman the outrages they suffer as housemaids. The young white female is Skeeter, who leads two lives. 1) She acts interested in the meaningless social life of her mother and her own friends; 2) As an integrationist, Skeeter secretly wins the trust, and more importantly, the hearts of black maids who want their stories of mistreatment and enslavement known to the world. From earliest childhood, Skeeter disbelieved the ghastly prejudic
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“The Help”, Kathryn Stockett’s first novel, takes on the delicate subject of race relations. Specifically this tale describes the relationships between white women and their black housekeepers in segregated Mississippi the early 1960’s.

While this is a difficult subject to write about, Stockett pulls it off seamlessly. She does so through her 3 unique main characters – 2 black housekeepers and one 23 year-old white woman fresh out of college. The chapters, all written in first person, alternate from each of these 3 character’s point of view. The chapters’ tones capture each character’s voice so well that the reader is completely immersed in the character’s world.

A series of events cause these 3 women to secretly join forces to write a book chronicling the relationships between homeowners and their help. They convince various maids to be interviewed with the agreement that names will be changed to ensure confidentiality. Risking that their employers might discover what they are doing, the housekeepers bravely agree. The maids’ stories range from touching to deeply disturbing. The result is a chilling peek back in time.

While this book isn’t perfect, Stockett’s talent is immense. However, a few times she sets up various situations in such a way that it was obvious what was going to happen next in the story. This is a tiny complaint, though, compared to the overall result: an exceptional story.
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