Values, beliefs, laws and morals shape traditions and cultures "they don't just influence the way we think and behave, they dictate how we think and behave. ... Of course, some do break the chain, but unfortunately, not enough for prejudice to die off "it is a very real problem in the US. ... If we instill in them open-mindedness and a love of all people, perhaps prejudice may die in the future. Until then, we must see ourselves as American, not black, white, woman, man, gay, straight, etc. I hate to use a cliché, however I think it is fitting: We all bleed red. ...

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"Welcome back students, how was everyone's summer?" ... Franks" and she told me that she had nothing else to do" and I just watched her looking at other couples, like she had never had a boyfriend , it was getting late and I didn"t want her father to get mad so we left early and on our way home, as we pulled back up her drive way she said " thank you, for taking me out, I had a wonderful time" and I told her " Your welcome, it was my pleasure" . ... and I answered her, after school Jennifer asked me if she could have a ride to the hospital and so I gave her a lift to the hospital, as we w...

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How does a brain tumor affect someone's personality? ... Human activities, such as, reasoning, creating, or dreaming are private; we assume they happen, but we can't see them. ... Creatures with less adapted traits will die out before they can reproduce, so their poorly adapted traits will eventually disappear from the population" (19). ... When we solve problems, we engage in a form of thinking that is called reasoning. ... They not only enable us to solve life's mysteries, they influence how we feel about them...

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*Freire suggests in The Banking Concept of Education that the teacher-student relationship nowadays, inside or outside the school, appears to be more like a narration practice, which means the teacher only focuses on how many given facts the students can memorize. ... Some answers were even in the back of the book, so we just copied. ... The class explicitly stressed on the impact that each incident have had on human development (which is still going on during every moment of our lives) versus my high school history class was only focused on pure memorization of the dates and names, which esse...

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Voire Dire During the process of voire dire I believe the lawyers would have been very favorable towards juror #8 because he possesses qualities which enables him to be sympathetic to the boy, we can see this in the remarks he makes early in the movie by the way he sticks up for the boy because of is background with his mother having died at an early age and his father having spent time in jail as well as being abusive. ... 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 thin...

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When we enter our house after a long day at work or a summer's vacation, we never think twice about how our physical environment plays an extremely significant role in our lives. ... I could never live with such a cluttered state of mind nor could I live in a single room that only furthers the despair felt by its inhabitants; it is simply amazing how Raskolnikov can hold in his thoughts and guilt for the sake of his own pride. ... It is also in his tomb where Porfiry Petrovitch, a detective, discloses that he knows Raskolnikov is indeed the murderer; Raskolnikov's insane persona...

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The ability to be creative dies off in the classroom when the students submit their work for the teacher's scrutiny; thus not allowing the students to discuss and question one another, giving them the opportunity to open their minds and think for themselves rather than being "containers," according to Freire. ... It is as though we become zombies filled with dates, names, and opinions of others, not of ourselves and only being able to regurgitate what was taught. ... When they do not get to sit down and critically analyze why the facts are the way that they are, they do not ge...

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