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    Strange encounters

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    It was a dark and thunderous night when returning home from my girlfriend’s house in Westville. Most of the way had clearly lit streets‚ until I got to the junction of Buttercup Lane and Meadow Street. I had a choice of taking a short cut through my local park‚ or walking around it‚ which would add a further mile to my journey. It was getting late‚ so I decided to take the short cut. The park was always dark with little or no illumination‚ except for the light given from the moon and the stars.

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    A Strange Encounter

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    It was a conventional evening at the Gladwyne Pharmacy. Preparing for our closure‚ I was organizing the register receipts from the day to save myself from ancillary labor the following morning. 6:57PM: only three more minutes before I can finally return home after an extensive‚ demanding afternoon. Contrary to the ordinary occurrence‚ our regular last-minute customers were not swarming in the door. Initially‚ I took this as a good sign: today may mark the first time I get off work punctually. But

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    Encounters with Creatures In the poems “An Advancement of Learning” and “An August Midnight” the connection between both poems is their focuses on their encounters with creatures‚ Heaney’s with a rat on a river embankment and Hardy’s with several nocturnal insects that fly through his window. Both draw on the idea of their personal encounters with creatures to portray these ideas. In contrast they are composed of different structures. In “An Advancement of Learning” it is composed of nine stanzas

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    can be simply defined as an act of copying or the assumption of one’s behavior observed in others. Humans are strange creatures with the ability to imitate and cope languages or ideas that makes “us” different and can be distinguished from animals. These all describes memes‚ which supports individuals to explore and experience new inventions through a way of imitating. In “ Strange Creatures‚” Susan Blackmore promotes the theory that a little conscious “me” is created by the memes so as to replication

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    many people get confused and wonder whether we humans have the ability to actually control our mind. We can’t fully control our own mind due to our instinct of imitation and being easily controlled by the social trend. In Blackmore’s essay “ Strange Creatures”‚ she introduces the word” meme” which explains the mechanism of human learning. Human are used to their special ability of imitation during their daily life which let them become the perfect host for memes. As time goes by‚ human copy others

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    imitation.Some people may feel as if intelligence and imitation are two entirely separate terms but if one closely examines these words they are more alike then one would think. Imitation is a form of intelligence. Susan Blackmore in her essay‚ “Strange Creatures‚” argues that the theory of memetics controlling the world.Blackmores disputes the common idea that every idea people form is not entirely theirs‚ from viewing the world with our power of sight‚ smell‚ taste‚ touch‚ and hearing we have a understanding

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    human’s life‚ copying and seeking abilities from the surrounding exist in every period. For example‚ airplanes‚ electricity‚ radar and so on that make our lives achieve a huge progress are imitations of some characters of animals and nature. In “Strange Creatures” Susan Blackmore expounds the importance of imitation. Meanwhile‚ the implication of “meme ” is also mentioned in this essay. “Meme” which is defined “As ‘something’ that can then be passed on again and again and so take on a life of its own

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    Strange Doctor Strange

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    Cristia Earp Matt Cicci Intro to College Writing March 8‚ 2013 Strange Doctor Strange I’ve never been a big fan of comic books‚ partly because I can’t quite follow them as much as I’d like to. Action comics are the hardest for me to follow for a couple reasons. For one‚ the art is all over the place. I understand that art like this is supposed to display all of the sudden exhilarating scenes‚ but how can a reader pay attention to the story while still pictures on a page distract you? Bright

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    The Encounter

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    colonize through whatever means necessary. The colonization techniques in North America didn’t differ from those in Latin America. Each individual country felt endowed and felt an obligation to colonize and spread their culture and their ways. The encounter involved a variety of natives. There were nonsedentary‚ semisedentary‚ and sedentary people when it came to their location and how they had adapted to surroundings. The nonsedentary and semisedentary were the natives that resided in the rougher terrained

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    The Cannibal Creature

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    THE CANNIBAL CREATURE I always had a strange and mysterious feeling about this house‚ as if it was haunted or the abode of ghosts‚ and weird creatures‚ it always gave me the shrieks and the shrills‚ which made the hairs on my back shoot up. It was a mid winter cold night‚ my parents were out‚ I was humming softly while doing my English homework‚ a few minutes later‚ I heard the creak of a door‚ I ignored it thinking it was just the wind. Suddenly the windows and lights started shaking and I heard

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