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Why arent more people rich? now hear me out, i was having dinner and my mom was paying some bills and casually told me that they only need 17 more years until they pay off the house and that got me thinking, if they pay off the house doesnt that mean its 100% theirs? If so, wouldnt that mean that if i was an only child and they died and gave me the house wouldn't that mean that technically im like $200,000 richer or w/e the house would sell for? if thats the case why dont more people have money if they can inherit things like that? or am i wrong and the city/government just take the house back if they die or whatever

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Financial Aid Im going to college this Fall and i applied for Financial Aid about 2 months ago and i just got an e-mail with the amount they are offering me i've done some research and the school im going to has a yearly tuition of about $11,000 (in 2013) the financial aid im getting is about $14,000 from what i understand, the financial aid goes directly to the school so i dont know what happens to the surplus my question is does the surplus go back to them or do i get to "keep" it by "keep" i mean is that money for spending in the campus bookstore or can i. lets say, buy $200 worth of candy if i wanted to? either way im glad that it'll at least pay for my tuition

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Fender Bender I have a question about a car accident (if you can call it that) i was in yesterday TL DR: Someone rear-ended me at like less than 5 MPH, we both ignored it and just left. My question is did i screw myself out of some sweet insurance cash? or was it so minor that it wouldve been a hassle to exchange info that wouldve led to nothing? my bumper did get a slight dent but its almost impossible to tell at first glance. Long story: So i was driving home from school yesterday ready to start spring break and i was at a stop light, there was another car in front of me like 5 or 6 feet away and a bunch of other cars in the right lane that were going to turn onto the same busy street i was. So the light turned green and naturally i let m

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Is this plagiarism? So im writing an essay for Health class talking about obesity in America and exercise etc. and im using a lot of info i got online, such as increasing obesity rates and what not and although i cite the source (i.e According to the New York Times a survey taken ....) most of what ive written is Facts and very little of MY own opinion, would that be considered plagiarism if i dont really provide large amounts of my experiences or opinions? The essay has to be 1 1/2 pages to 3 pages double spaced and the facts that im writing take up alot of space

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Ap American government help So i know there are people in basil that are into politics and stuff and i need some help I have a 3 page assignment due in about a week that i have no idea what to base it on, and i just need help finding a topic The assignment is basically picking a __current__ Bill and stating whether im against it or support it Since i have no desire to actually get into politics, i have no idea what the Bill/topic should be and i was wondering if anyone who actually keeps up with the current issues can give me a topic to write about. We were told to avoid Cliche topics such as gun laws, world peace, bullying, obesity, drug legalization / Prostitution / Gay marriage etc. maybe i'll look for something about animals Edit: if an

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7 speed bike help So we bought my brother a road bike with like 7 different gear speeds problem is the bike is a little too big for him hes short like 5'7, it has like 26 inch wheels i was wondering if anyone knew if we can get smaller sized wheels or if we should just exchange it for a smaller bike my mom says you cant change the wheels cus its a gear bike but i say different, ive tried googling but all i get is stuff on how to take care of the gears/ how the gears work also heres the [url=http://www.big5sportinggoods.com/store/details/gmc-denali-aluminum-road-bike/6196108440055/_/A-4942470?_D%3Asearch=+&_D%3AsiteScope=+&_DARGS=%2Fstore%2Fcartridges%2FSearchBox%2FSearchBox.jsp&_dyncharset=UTF-8&siteScope=ok#.VFbZM_nF9p0]bik

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Impacted Major Change Help I need help understanding how this works or advice about what to do, also sorry for the wall of text so i am a freshman in college majoring in Chemistry and i want to change it to Engineering Aerospace or Mechanical the reason i want to change (not that it matters to the uni, i think) is because i took chemistry in sophmore and AP in junior year of high school, so early Senior year we had to send in our applications so i picked Chem and at the time i was just starting AP Physics, but when we started getting into mechanics, electricity, waves and optics i realized i liked it more than Chem and my genius teacher told the juniors in our class that if they were good at this stuff they should get into engineering so i

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I need College help First off sorry for the wall of text, but i kinda need some help. So i start college later this month and im really excited to go but theres a problem. Back in March i submitted my Financial Aid stuff for the 2014-2015 year, all was well until i checked the university website a couple months later and found out i still had some stuff to turn in, so when i graduated from high school in June i drove down to the Financial Aid office at the college and some guy had me fill out a few sheets of paper and said that everything was good to go. Well, for the past month and a half or so (after i got back from Orientation, which was awesome btw) ive been checking the website again and it still says that i needed to turn in the stuff

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I need help with science college major I need some input here and sorry for the wall of text so a couple months ago i got accepted to UC San Diego as a Mechanical Engineering major, the reason i chose this was because i took AP Physics senior year and i loved it and got a 3 on my AP exam, but recently ive been thinking that, even though ME and Physics are pretty much the same concepts, ME is like Physics x 10, so im a little worried it will be alot harder, i did well in AP but electrical engineering stuff was my vice (which im pretty sure ME has alot of). So now i dont know whether i should change my Major to Physics (to better my chances at a good GPA and because i know for a fact that i like physics) or stay as ME (even though im worried

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