Something that is ordinary is generally accepted by the majority of the public to be ordinary. In other words when most people say that something is ordinary it makes it so because ordinary is really all about how you perceive something. If everyone says that a stop sign put at an intersection is ordinary than that's how people perceive that stop sign. ... There are always areas of people or objects that can fit the description of being normal, but if you look at the whole story about that person or object then it's not ordinary. ... When a person's life isn't how we exp...

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What exactly makes a world and it's people ordinary? In the spellbinding novel Ordinary People, Judith Guest gives readers a taste of life after having to deal with a terrible crisis, and introduces us to an ordinary family living in an ordinary world. The novel's descriptive nature highlights the main character, Conrad's, struggle in maintaining sanity in an ordinary world. ... Even though the content might require a mature audience, it is not limited to particular types of people. Everyone ages sixteen and up should read this book in which one can realize that a so-called ...

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What exactly makes a world and it's people ordinary? In the spellbinding novel Ordinary People, Judith Guest gives readers a taste of life after having to deal with a terrible crisis, and introduces us to an ordinary family living in an ordinary world. The novel's descriptive nature highlights the main character, Conrad's, struggle in maintaining sanity in an ordinary world. ... Even though the content might require a mature audience, it is not limited to particular types of people. Everyone ages sixteen and up should read this book in which one can realize that a so-called o...

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Families provide people with an atmosphere in which to live, grow and develop. ... In the movie, "Ordinary People", the Jarrett family must deal with many conflicts. ... The movie, "Ordinary People", is a wonderful and complex drama with fascinating family dynamics. ... "Ordinary People" is a movie about behavior. ... "Ordinary People" is a powerful example of the damage that can be done when people can no longer communicate with those closest to them. ...

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Judith Guest illustrates the journey of each member of the Jarrett family in her book, Ordinary People. ... Conrad is the troubled protagonist of Ordinary People. He is an ordinary boy living with his ordinary family, At least until his brother, Jordan, is unexpectedly killed in a boating accident. ... Ordinary People is the opposite of a coming of age Story. ... Conrad finds sanctuary from other people's stares in the school choir. ...

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Guest sent the draft of Ordinary People to three different publishers with no letter of inquiry nor an agent. ... Within the next two years, Judith Guest's novel, Ordinary People, became first on the bestseller list. ... Ordinary People is a novel like no other. ... In Ordinary People, the novel switches between the third person narration of Calvin and Conrad. ... Ron Neuhaus, can also agree with the attributions given to the mother in Ordinary People (276). ...

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Ordinary People is the novel read in 10th grade English class. ... Then, they suggest that Ordinary People should be banned. ... Ordinary People is offensive to parents. ... Parents said Ordinary People gives children the wrong information that "ordinary" families are falling apart these days. ... Therefore, Ordinary People should not be banned. ...

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The novel Ordinary People, by Judith Guest, demonstrates the ability, as well as inability, of an individual to adapt in order to overcome the exacting circumstances they face, living what is, in essence, nothing more than an ordinary life. ... The most exemplary instance of a dysfunctional relationship in Ordinary People is that of Beth and Calvin Jarrett. ... Ordinary People can be said to be structurally different from most other novels, as it begins with a world that is already partly ruined. ... Over the course of Ordinary People one perceptible idea is that only after a series of chan...

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An Ordinary Outlook The movie Ordinary People directed by Robert Redford is a very real life movie set in the suburbs of Illinois in the late 1970's. ... Beth, a determined perfectionist, is constantly concerned with the way people view her and her family. ... Con's self confident psychiatrist, Dr.Berger, helps con to express his feelings and encourages him to do what he wants instead of what people expect him to do. ... The high point of the movie begins with Cal telling Conrad, "Well, don't admire people too much, they disappoint you sometimes." ...

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The novel, Ordinary People, written by Judith Guest, is a story about a teenager named Conrad Jarret going from being a young boy to an adult within a year. ... People were, you know, turned on all the time. ... This quote is trying to say that at the hospital people were like machines. ... Berger even told con that, "People do not change on command for other people." ...

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Browning has been criticized by other historians who believe that his characterization of the men in Reserve Police Battalion 101 should not be "ordinary men," but rather "ordinary Germans." ... While people are united by many common traits shared by all humans, they are also a product of their societies. ... Therefore, unlike Browning, people cannot discount racial hatred as a motive, and perhaps it was the primary one. ... He cites two famous psychological studies as evidence that this made these men "ordinary." ... Here the distinction between "ordinary men" and "ordinary Germans" is ac...

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The book I did my report on is called Ordinary People, by Judith Guest. ... I think Conrad is a good kid that just tries to take on the role of his older brother, who in people's eyes was perfect. ... It showed how although people seem OK on the inside, they might not be. ...

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The novel Ordinary People is very similar to my ordeal that began just after the Christmas of 1999 when my stepbrother became deathly ill and died in March of 2000. Losing someone so close is only the beginning of the painful experiences that Conrad and I faced. The effects of losing a sibling ar...

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A Boy's Depression Ordinary People and The Catcher in the Rye were two very relatable books, especially for teenagers. ... In Ordinary People, Conrad became happy and accepted once again. ... In Ordinary People, Conrad has the challenge of facing his classmates after he was in a mental hospital. ... In Ordinary People, Conrad's problems focused more around his issues with his friends. ... Salinger and the author of Ordinary People had the same kind of message to readers and viewers. ...

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An amateur reader may complete the novel Ordinary People, by Julie Guest and come away with only feelings about suicide. ... Some people may write for only one reason, to tell a story, but great people write to create a thought and a theme, or in this case, multiple themes. ... It single-handedly keeps people driving forward. ... Most people are scared to show themselves. ... For these people, faith is the last thing they have. ...

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Comparing Crow Lake and Ordinary People In the novels Crow Lake and Ordinary People two comparable characters are established: Kate Morrisson and Conrad Jarrett. ... In Ordinary People, Conrad Jarrett idolizes his older brother, Buck Jarrett, in the same way that Kate idolizes her older brother, Matt. ... People are constantly remembering great times they had with Buck, and how he always made people laugh. ... In Ordinary People, one event in Conrad's life, as in Kate's, changes his entire life. ...

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In the movie "Ordinary People", one of the main characters, Conrad, has many problems communicating with people and having relationships with them. ... I think this also caused him to have problems communicating with people effectively. ... So many people in his life expect him to remain unchanged despite the death of his brother, and as a result he has trouble communicating with people and expressing his feelings, because he IS changed. ... Berger's advice, and to forget about what other people expect from him. ... If they are unable to see their own good qualities, how can they exp...

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Everyday, people change their lives. ... People redefine their self-images everyday. ... In the book, Ordinary People, so many people affect Conrad. ... So many people change the way he thinks of his self. ... Look, some people consider that a status symbol." ...

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Ordinary People 1. ... Beth, who seemed to be a determined perfectionist, is constantly concerned with the way people view her and her family. ... When Conrad went on his first date with his love interest, Jeannine, they discussed when people do wrong things do they deserve their punishment received and Conrad replied that he doesn't believe in God. ...

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In the novel "Ordinary People"," Conrad experiences a number of events that contribute to his recovery. ... This is crucial to the novel because it shows Conrad that he shouldn't worry about what other people think of him, he should do what makes him happy. ... In the novel "Ordinary People"," Calvin finds himself caught in the middle between Conrad and Beth. ...

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Ordinary Courage The travels of Joseph Plumb Martin's enlistment during the Revolutionary War are very well depicted throughout his book. ... Throughout history only famous leaders are remembered and viewed as icons, but Martin shows the hard work that had to be accomplished by every ordinary soldier for the great leaders be remembered. For every single leader remembered there stand thousands of soldiers that had the ordinary courage to stand up and fight. ... This one word means so many things to so many people across the world. ... In conclusion, sacrifice, growth, and freedom r...

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In the novel Ordinary People, by Judith Guest, she uses the theme courage and lack of it continuously to show how the characters are unable to achieve greatness because of it. ... Most people who commit suicide try it again, and Conrad has to live everyday with the pressure of not attempting to kill himself again. ...

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How most of ordinary people in various nations and from every stratum of society come to act in a concrete situation such as the Milgram experiment, -which its first series was done by Stanley Milgram in 1961-are quite similar to each other. How church was possibly able to dominate the power over ordinary people, demanding them orders of the God and how people as absolute followers would simply take action of the given celestial task, no matter how hard or harsh the tasks were, is relatively equivalent to the situation that Milgram had provided for his subjects in his psychological experiment...

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Adam Smith Economics is a science that most people practice everyday. ... Those people who are not familiar with Adam Smith will not know that he wrote his "economics" as a part of his work as a philosopher. ...

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Reserve Police Battalion 101 Ordinary Men is a book examining the background of the Reserve Police Battalion 101. The Reserve Police Battalion 101 was involved in mass killings, focusing on the Jozefow massacre and deportations of Jews during World War II. While reading Browning's work, one wonde...

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