Hall assigned the material, I was not quite sure what to think. It had been three, long years since I had even taken a biology class. ... Although many people probably do not have a love for learning about the environment, the things we do in everyday life, Wilcove explains, can have a great impact on the future of our wildlife. ... Initially many believed the best course of action was to suppress the fires, but later changed their minds when they saw how futile their attempts were. ... When I read the facts describing this poor bird, I was shocked at how easily an extremely populated spe...

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No good thought can produce bad things and no evil thought can produce good things. ... Even acts classified as spontaneous have to have had a thought to begin them. ... We can think of our minds like that of a garden. ... We are placed in these circumstances to learn how to deal with them. ... When something unfortunate happens to the ones we love, we can choose how this will affect our lives. ...

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This book has taught me that the thought process before the action can and will truly change the reaction. Furthermore, I've learned that the way that we think can affect us not only on the outside but the inside as well. ... By digging deep into to our inner selves we realize that our thoughts and actions pave the way for how our lives and life experiences will be. ... I can argue that the author is correct in saying "Change of diet will not help a man who will not change his thoughts.... My take on Chapter Four is how we apply the thoughts we've planted into our minds and thei...

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He begins to think of how an animal is provided with life. ... After seeing his creature Victor says, "How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe?"... Victor thinks of how his friends and family are dead and how he lives, and their murderer lives. He thinks that he alone can destroy the demon. ... From the time Frankenstein was written, until modern times, much has changed, but it is almost identical to the thoughts that Mary Shelley put down on paper. ...

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Our thoughts of how we perceived life 10 years ago is not the same as the way we perceive life to this very day. ... By our experiences, we are able to change if not the world, then ourselves. I do not think people think of changing the world first; it all begins with us. We must think of changing ourselves first before we can think of having some sort of impact in the world. ... For instance, we can never predict whether the outcome will turn out good or bad unless we experience it for ourselves. ...

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Today we have a unique opportunity to have a conversation with the founder of the psychoanalytic thought, the most frequently cited psychologist of the 20th century, and one of the great geniuses in human history whose name stands in a raw with those of Darwin and Einstein - Sigmund Freud. ... Today we can look at them from the perspective of the decades passed and evaluate Freud's ideas after they have been tested by time, the harshest judge of all. ... There is a saying that " what we see in others reflects how we see ourselves". ... The magnitude of brutality involved in these...

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Even more critically, there are many, many non-genetic factors that are going to influence who we are. Our early childhood experiences, our current relationships, what happened 10 minutes ago, who we are interacting with all of these variables play a crucial role in molding how we act and who we are ;" (Kogan) We can always look back on our genes and find some characteristics that we inherited, but one's environment can allow them to grow new or even change their old characteristics. ... There's a lot of evidence that neural activity can cause your connections to change. ... ...

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Prompted by negative signals, we will change our behavior to garner a more favorable outcome. ... And in doing so, our emotions can become based on thoughts that are not our own. ... So the majority of people cannot free themselves from what others think. ... Subconsciously, we constantly look to others for signals on how to act and change the minutia of our lives. ... This position is understandable for hurtful words and thoughts of others can have lasting and damaging effects on our lives. ...

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Aristotle's work in zoology was the ultimate authority on the subject for many centuries after his death, even though it was later probed to have many errors. ... He applied his laws of logic to come up with new ideas about how things change. ... We were meant to be how we are, and we were meant to think about the world we live in. to him that was what made people purposeful. ... True happiness can only come from living a virtuous life. ... He defines happiness as something you can do by your own activity. ...

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We then lead to the many doubts and concerns that people have when they think about cloning. ... Also we allow mothers to give birth to children who we know will be deformed of disfigured, how is this any different? Then you can begin to wonder about how people would treat a clone, when there are people who don't even treat regular people with the same respect because of their skin color or religious beliefs. ... Personally as a supporter of cloning believe that until you can think and feel with intelligent thought and emotion you are not a person and even though are alive are not importa...

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I was very angry and I even thought that no one understood me. I did not take it seriously and I thought that reading that letter wouldn't change anything in me. ... I was influenced by this letter so much that I thought about changing my life. ... Now I will always think about children who don't have that wealth and I'll try to live my life right, in order to help others as much as I can. ... We may have heard them from our parents, but while reading how Charlie Chaplin has presented them in his letter, we think more critically about these issues. ...

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The Lucifer Effect shows how our brains can be trained to think and can cause "reasonable people to act irrationally" (Zimbardo 11). ... This shows the power of our brains can manipulate other people into thinking whatever it is we want which can also be viewed as a negative thing. ... We are very adaptable to changes that occur in the world and can often be persuaded to do things we many never have thought possible through exercise our brains to believe its okay. ... It shows the reality of how the brain can go through plasticity and change through exercises and training to do whate...

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We can see that this is a man with experience. We"re able to relate to him and see how his thoughts begin. ... When he goes through an experience that calls for his change in thought, we accept that perhaps our thought out to be reevaluated as well. ... We can see that Owens is not out to gain points for himself, or else he wouldn't have thought twice about his experience. ... (para.12) Even though his view changes, he doesn't change his mind about how much he cares about nature. ...

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We can see that this is a man with experience. We"re able to relate to him and see how his thoughts begin. ... When he goes through an experience that calls for his change in thought, we accept that perhaps our thought out to be reevaluated as well. ... We can see that Owens is not out to gain points for himself, or else he wouldn't have thought twice about his experience. ... (para.12) Even though his view changes, he doesn't change his mind about how much he cares about nature. ...

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In other words, only they think he is losing out; he does not. ... Robinson shows merely how Cory appears to the outside world. ... He thinks through this, he will gain meaning. This is seen when the speaker is told in the third stanza that "we [society] thought that he was everything- and that "we- who worked hard and "went without meat- wished to be in his place. ... For this reason, we only see the outside, materialistic Cory from the perspective of the narrator, the proverbial "we."" ...

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Even if we found the answer to reality, how much would it change our everyday lives? The question that we so longed for the answer to wouldnt even make a mark on how we live our lives and the person who found this answer would have committed his entire life to find this now insignificant answer. ... For example we believe we landed on the moon while people in other countries might think it is a hoax for fame. The area we grow up in, our parents, and even things such as what we look like can affect our ideas of reality. ... I have no problem with a new religion but I think that we should keep s...

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For a movement like this to happen, there has to be a change in the way people think. ... Humans are a part of nature, no matter how advanced we think we are. ... In this industrial age we are consuming more resources than the earth can replenish. ... He feels that if we teach the problems, and people really get it, the change will come easy. ... If we show how much humans have effected this planet, and how much these effects will/have come back on us, it will be a big step in enlightenment. ...

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All of these things has changes us so much that we can't even think of ourselves in the previous eras. ... Today one cannot even think of living without a cell phone. ... One who lived in 18th century would never had thought that they would be able to communicate with someone sitting thousands of miles away, but thanks to engineering now one can even see the other person sitting in his own room. ... We had a lots of things that were derived from wheels in our rooms that we use daily and we don't even think to bother about. ... This was how the system worked. ...

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Many people can not accept the fact that people choose to change their appearance because they are unhappy of who they are or because of the way they were/are being treated by others. ... She said that when she looked down, here first thought was, "Hey that's not suppose to be there?!" ... And the funny thing about it is that you can't even tell. ... People need to understand that we are all humans with feelings. ... However I think that the video failed to ask the question "why". ...

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Women will not be able to take a full and equal part in the society when we can all decide for ourselves whether and when to have children." ... We think there will probably always be a certain number unplanned pregnancies and that the mother concerned should have the complete choice of either complete abortion, or keeping the baby." ... How could the doctor prove that the decision made had a sound reason to it? ... If she thinks that it is religiously wrong then it is between her and her God. ... How can people be expected to live their lives like this? ...

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How our language has developed over our history has determined how we think about things, look at other people, and make judgements. ... To reverse this outcome requires a change in our language. Throughout history, we can see the development of certain types of slang in our language. ... In this country we have freedom of speech and no one can take that from people. ... Both authors of the essays make good points about how language has influenced us negatively, but I don't think it is that bad. ...

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Leopold's writings give reason for the natural changes of the land, but he does not stop there, he goes on to explain how "man" has affected those changes. ... The most thought provoking part of this chapter was the fact that Leopold puts everything under the microscope and gives the reader insight on how their actions can affect even the smallest of things in nature. ... By doing so, states Leopold, we change Homo sapiens from conquerors of the land to members of the land/community, thus feeling more obliged to take care of it to protect its resources. ... However, he sees conservat...

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Everything can seemingly be expressed by computation, even emotion to an extent. ... I never would've known how complex Javascript could be, even if it essentially easy to learn. ... How can computers become more and more like human minds? Well, in fact, computers are fast approaching a period where they can actually think like actual human minds. ... What the "real" world is, what we perceive as the "real" world, and how God, the ultimate variable, can affect it. ...

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When we got there and I went to Sunday school, that day we were learning about how Jesus came back from the dead. I can remember feeling a sense that I didn't really belong there. ... Reflection I believe my paper is better than my rough draft since I changed topics. ... I thought about each topic and decided if I had anything to say about any of them . ... I could branch off to all sorts of ideas even if I didn't use them, it helped me think. ...

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"...It is that we are likely not only to think ourselves into a way of acting but also to act ourselves into a way of thinking." (137) Divorce is a major change in a persons life, also an exciting time to move toward new goals and make new commitments. ... I had to readjust my frame of thought and learn that I had rights. ... Eventually they became apart of who I am today and a guild to how I allow others to treat me. ... I smiled and played with my children and convinced them that their parents divorce was best for all, even though, at times, I didn't feel like it or believed it. ... I ...

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