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    Act of Kindness One day I was going to school as usual. The first bus stop is a few minutes walking away from my home‚ I can always have a seat on the bus. It was crowed on the bus in the peak hour‚ a woman was caring a bag of heavy luggage stand near me. She looks very tired‚ and kept yawning. Therefore‚ I tried to relinquish my seat to her. She was angry‚ and blushed. “I am not that old!” she roared at me‚ because she thought I assumed she was an elder. I don’t know why she would think in that

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    Coriolanus: A Tragic Hero that Stands Alone The story of Coriolanus is a very unique Tragedy‚ for instance unlike other Shakespeare tragidies where the plays are littered with deaths; in Coriolanus‚ Coriolanus is the only character to die. This is not the only reason‚ I believe‚ that separates Coriolanus from all of Shakespeare’s other tragidies: Coriolanus is the most unique tragic hero‚ when compared to all the other tragic heroes Shakespeare has written about. Unlike most of Shakespeare’s tragic

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    Before telecommunications‚ people were known to have more developed social and interaction skills. With so much inventions every year‚ individuals are losing their abilities to communicate with each other in person. In “Alone Together” Sherry Turkle‚ explains how technology has reached a new level into invading the personal and intimate lives of people. While in “Bumping into Mr. Ravioli” Adam Gopnik‚ describes how technology has given people the excuse to tell others of how busy and unavailable

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    COURSE SCHEDULE: PHIL 102 (Madison) SPRING 2014 *Note: The academic week for this course runs 7am Monday until 11pm Saturday* -This means that all assignments‚ quizzes and tests must be completed by 11pm on SATURDAY of the week they are due. You are responsible for knowing these deadlines. [WEEK 1]: (Jan. 13- 18) Introduction to Ethics and Ethical Theory GETTING TO KNOW BLACKBOARD: Browse through the menus to the left to be sure you know where to locate everything for the course

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    actually says. In “Old Man Eating Alone in a Chinese Restaurant”‚ Billy Collins writes about reflection on the past and later understanding. Underlying is a theme of learning appreciation for the things that we may not comprehend. The poem is didactic in nature‚ teaching us that over time‚ we can come to realize the value of our environment. The poem begins with the speaker declaring appreciation that he did not write a poem about an elderly man he had observed eating alone in a restaurant. He also conceded

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    The Notebook‚ by Nicholas Sparks‚ is a touching story about the never ending obsession of true love. The story begins describing a summer love. A small town teenage boy‚ Noah Calhoun falls in love at first sight with an upper class girl‚ Allie Nelson (Hamilton-in film). Torn apart at the end of the summer‚ they both go their separate ways; Noah enrolls himself into the army‚ to fight in World War II‚ while Allie volunteers as a nurse helping the victims of World War II. Allie ends up becoming engaged

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    Poems can have many interpretations when it comes to breaking the piece down to find its meaning. "Alone"‚ by Edgar Allan Poe‚ directly and indirectly presents Poe’s actual feelings towards his childhood. Poe introduces an adult speaker‚ which represents him‚ who is recalling his childhood. He uses a somber tone to describe his sorrow of feeling like he did not belong and he reasons about what loneliness and isolation did to him and compares it to a storm and a mountain. Edgar Allen Poe used his

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    solitary learners learn well on their own and prefers to work alone in private settings. They like to take responsibility and make sure they get done what they need‚ also they rely on themselves. If you are a solitary learn working alone is for you. They do not rely on anyone but themselves for help when they are solving a problem or even studying. Many solitary learn analyze all of their learning preferences and their methods as well methods. Because people who follow the process of solitary learn

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    Spend some time alone. How often do you really get a chance to get away and be alone in silence? If you are like most people‚ in this day and age‚ the answer is not very often. Between work‚ school‚ and relationships‚ people seem hard pressed to find time to seclude themselves with their thoughts. When they do get some free time to themselves‚ they turn to the television or the radio for companionship. Believe it or not‚ just some peace and quiet‚ away from distractions‚ can be an extremely efficient

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    Implying that there is no hope for existence‚ the speaker of “Alone with Everybody” embraces existential nihilism with his declaration of impossibility through the use of absolute diction and metaphors epistrophe‚ and asyndeton. Morosely‚ the speaker uses absolute diction coupled with the bleak metaphor‚ “flesh‚” to describe the human experience‚ lamenting that‚ “nobody finds the one… flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh” (Bukowski). Employing the use of the metaphor‚

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