Why" she started to giggle, "What would a person like you be doing in a hospital after school?" ... and she smiled as if she didn"t hear what I said and turned away, at lunch I saw her sitting by her self, I went up to her and told her that I was sorry for acting like a jerk to her, "There's people watching" it sounded like she didn"t want me around "Aren"t you afraid of losing your reputation talking to a dork like me" . ... Franks to see if she was there , when I walked in she was there on the outside of a room 201 and I asked her what she was doing outside and she told me that the kid...

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But what if the memorial you entered contained none of these things? Would you consider the memorial disrespectful or dishonoring? Can a memorial be non-representational and still get the point across like a traditional memorial? ... You become a part of the memorial, an active audience. Looking at a statue of a soldier or an American flag, you think patriotism, war but to view a slab of granite disappearing into the earth, you must put yourself in the place of a Vietnam soldier and decipher why this memorial symbolizes Vietnam, abstract but effective. ...

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I do not insist that being typical 'American folk song like music' is no of aesthetic value. ... In a nutshell, an aesthetic value is what makes you feel sense and then think the embedded 'beauty' that you were not able to detect easily. ... And the statement we heard in the class struck me concerning this question; "The more you know, the more you see". ... It is true that the more you know about the music theoretically, the more musical constructions you can catch from listening to the music. ... Therefore, you could find yourself having...

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I think that what you can draw from juror #8 in favor for the defense is that from his profession that he obviously had been educated and was a custom to critical thinking on a day to day basis, with this the lawyer could also think with more education the likelihood of strong prejudices would be lessened, you could also figure that he would be good at problem solving and knowing how thing have to balance out, this could also explain his inquisitive nature as to how things really work as he proofed by going down to the slums and purchasing the switch blade knife like the one that was used in t...

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It almost seems like if it doesn't somehow affect the person directly he/she really isn't concerned. ... By the twentieth person the story is nothing like the original and has become a completely new story. Psychologists study this as provisional knowledge, or knowledge that you temporarily obtain and usually distort to fit your own belief system. In everyday settings provisional knowledge is used for 60%, concentrated knowledge is used for 25%, and actual knowledge is used for 15% of a thought or an idea you may have at any given time. ... I found by doing this survey, "You can a...

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On the very first page of his novel, Dostoevsky even states that Raskolnikov's living space "was more like a cupboard than a room" (1). ... Then God will send you life again [ ] Suffer and expiate your sin by it, that's what you must do" (388, 389). ... "What a wretched lodging you have, Rodya! It's like a tomb. ... I never realized that a space in which you lay your head to sleep can shape the way you live, whether it be in constant turmoil or enduring peace. ...

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The writer tries to make parallels in the reader's mind, which, being human, is against every one of that bears the names like "oppressor", and the such, to get the reader to feel regret for the current educational framework. ... Throughout the article author acted like a teacher, who want to change the system of education. ... On the other hand, On the off chance that you don't have your own musings then you are under whosever musings you have remembered, and are not your own particular individual. ...

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Much like mystery buffs that believe motive in a whodunit is as important as who did it. ... Have you ever felt sad or angry but did not know why? If you traced the origin of these feelings, chances are you would discover they were caused by self-defeating or negative thoughts. ... Preconscious, stores data you don't need right now but readily accessible if something calls your attention to it, for example, if someone asks what you had for dinner last night and you can answer correctly. ... Cognition is an active process; when you think, you aren't just taking information in, you...

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Also, she is considered lower than a servant by both the mistress of the house, "you are less than a servant, for you do nothing for your keep." and even the servants themselves, who tell her how she should behave and threaten her with notions of being sent away, and of being punished by God for her "wicked" behaviour. Jane is locked in the red room like a criminal, and when she screams out in fright for thinking she has seen a ghost, she is not trusted and thought to be deceitful. ... She can intelligently consider what has caused Mrs Reed to be so cruel: "how could she really like an inte...

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The goal Socrates enemies was to make him grovel and ask for mercy so that he would look like a fool to all of Athens, but instead Socrates did the opposite professing that he was in the right, and preaching ignorance to the hundreds of jury members, and when they asked him what his penalty should be he laughed in their faces and gave them an outrageous proposal. ... He stated that living life is only worth it if you"re living at a certain high health standard, and if you aren't at a high enough point then you might as well not live. ... He states that you should never do evil no matter...

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Pope goes on to describe from societies perspective that order to have one quality you must posses another attribute prior to successful achieving the other quality. ... This makes it hard for me to relate or learn from the poem because I feel that Pope is comparing small superficial qualities like beauty to bigger more meaningful things such as self-pride and intelligence. ... It proved to be amusing for the fact that such a simple action like the Baron cut off a lock of Belinda's hair can lead us to thinking about such important issues in which are addressed. ...

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The USA is implementing laws like affirmative action, which they are hoping to erase racism, and essentially, make everyone equal. ... Eventually, the "land of the free" will turn into a Stalin-like communist state, where people are killed for stating their opinions, the government openly impedes the smarter people, and people can be taken from their homes and jailed, for the sole reason that they could be stronger, bigger and better than other people in society. ... Today the United States government does take people from their homes, if they even suspect you of being a terrorist. ...

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In The Opposable Mind, Martin examines the topic brilliantly and, perhaps most important to our conversation, teaches how you can develop a more opposable mind yourself. ... It's about having a certain level of expectation as to what a solution could look like and refusing to lower that expectation simply because the ideal solution doesn't yet exist. ... Martin's message, is this:  Next time you find yourself with an either-or decision to make, take a step back, take a breath, and see if you can't find an "and" that surpasses both.  ...

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These words have helped to stir the emotions of the readers as the significant contrast between the past and the present of the soldier makes the audience realise how hard it must have been thinking that you will be a hero one day and treated as an outcast the next. Owen used language features such as imagery, similies and repetition to portray the idea of what war is really like and by doing so he moves the audience. ... Owen uses the simile "All of them touching him like a queer disease" with "all of them" being the women, this is showing the readers that the soldier fee...

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Freud, since you have this extraordinary opportunity to look at your work from the "height" of the time elapsed, do you recognize that to some extent your descriptions of human personality reflect your own character and life experiences? ... Do you think it is possible that your theory of Oedipus complex was so attractive to you because of the specific dynamics of your family, such as the young beautiful mother, aloof and hostile father, etc. ... Freud, in your work you relied entirely on the case study method of research. ... Why did you not use other methods in your research? ...

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The passage seems to lead you into thinking that during the misfits moment of thought and confusion that he maybe vulnerable and in a weakened state mentally and physically and the grandmother is reaching out to comfort him. ... Finally, what I believe the author was trying to do with the choice of words that he uses like the name Misfit, and the way he speaks as an uneducated, and disrespectful man are done to portray the misfit in a negative way to add to the Misfit's criminal persona. ...

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The passage seems to lead you into thinking that during the misfits moment of thought and confusion that he maybe vulnerable and in a weakened state mentally and physically and the grandmother is reaching out to comfort him. ... Finally, what I believe the author was trying to do with the choice of words that he uses like the name Misfit, and the way he speaks as an uneducated, and disrespectful man are done to portray the misfit in a negative way to add to the Misfit's criminal persona. ...

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The ideas of disability and race (much like the idea of gender used in previous discussions) are socially constructed. ... In class, it was discussed that the definition of society further limits individuals in North America in the structures of buildings with things like stairs, height of light switches/boards/etc, tables used, size of the board, favoring learning styles, and the list goes on and on. Once you understand that the definition of disability is defined by society and not that of biology, it is easy to see how all encompassing the word disability could be. ... At first glance i...

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Regardless of the benefits this does not seem like an option to me. ... It is an actual time-bomb ready to explode, because when our prominent scientists are prepared to acquiesce in the deliberate creation of deformed and dying quasi-human life, you know we are facing a bioethical abyss. ... As much as some scientists would like to think, we are not cut out to play God. ...

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Particularly at the end of the book, O'Brien explains that in Vietnam, the soldiers created ways to make the people they were close to that died seem less dead – they kept those people alive in their head with stories, like those O'Brien wrote of his friends Ted Lavender, Curt Lemon, Kiowa, and Linda. ... You make the dead talk" (O'Brien 231). ... I think this was the purpose of the novel, to show normal readers that they can comprehend stories from people who served in war but they'll never really understand or have the full experience of what its like to have ...

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A group of dedicated friends and I have been teaching them elementary maths and english which are two main academic subjects,since their age group lies between 6-10 we cant go ahead with other subjects.Along with the academics I've also taught them the basic etiquettes like table manners ,saying please and thank you, etc. ... I've been taking part in various extracurricular activities like robotics,dance,football..Being on the football team has taught me many values such as team work, discipline, skilled thinking, perseverance and most importantly team spirit. ...

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It requires that our audience is met with the very reasoned and thoughtful arguments bearing in mind that they meet the threshold, just like being earnest is being honest. ... If in your contextualized argument you want to persuade the readers, then it is in the best interest of the composer to try doing something that may want to open a thesis and then finalize by introducing an end through calling for action. ...

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Still air on the harp, like a still imagination, is an unproductive composer, waiting to let his or her symphony be played, but slumbering on the strings. ... He claims that these sinful descriptions of God as an entity outside of the mind or outside of the human soul are like bubbles breaking on the water in a hypothetical fountain that represents all of misguided philosophy. ... The mind is not a tool that God manipulates but is rather a coexisting part of our being, waiting to be awoken by an imagination that is not like still air. ... Allowing the imaginative thoughts to flow like wind g...

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For example, companies like Walmart, offer part-time position and they do not offer job security. ... This is important in our course because as an employee, you have your own sets of values in which the manager has to accept. ... In doing so, unions would provide high-wage, high benefit and low-turnover equilibrium (p.94), which is given for Costco employees, like myself. Whereas, in Walmart, they provide low-wage, low benefit and high turnover equilibrium and employees still work at a non-unionized workplace like this because they need to make money one way or another. ...

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Through the use of a "disabled" narrator, the author Mark Haddon creates intrigue and gives us rare insight into another, even alien like world! ... You would think having a typical first person narration would be almost impossible with a diagnosed Aspergers sufferer as the protagonist, but we are actually flabbergasted at the unintentional humor, benefits and general allure such unique and dispassionate language can bring. For instance in one scene in the book Christopher exclaims to a lady trying to help him "ill stab you with my pocket knife". ...

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