Article Review #2: Living Primates The sciencemag.com article “Anti-Alzheimer’s Gene may have Led to the Rise of Grandparents” by Kelli Whitlock Burton talks about the how the protective variant of the CD33 gene may explain why humans have grandmothers that help with child rearing. The article explains the “grandmother hypothesis” that says humans live such long and healthy lives even after they are no longer able to reproduce because they help with child rearing. The CD33 gene plays a big role
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Dillard and Woolf Style and Effect Compare and Contrast Annie Dillard and Virginia Woolf both wrote beautiful essays‚ entitled “Death of A Moth‚” and “Death of the Moth‚” respectively. The similarities between the two pieces are seen just in the titles; however‚ the pieces exhibit several differences. While both Dillard and Woolf wrote extensive and detailed essays following deaths of moths‚ each writer’s work displays influence from different styles and tone‚ and each moth has a different effect
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Written by James Patterson‚ Pop Goes The Weasel is about a Washington D.C. police officer Alex Cross‚ who is trying to catch the most explosive and dangerous serial killer he has ever faced. If there is something to be learned from this book‚ it is that looks can be deceiving. This is because the killer in the novel also leads a normal life as a British ambassador with a wife and two kids. Pop Goes The Weasel is an exciting thriller full of imagery‚ irony‚ and foreshadowing that keeps you on the
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Audubon and Dillard A small child views a painting‚ giggling to his mother how it looks like an elephant soaring throughout the galaxy. An hour later a middle age man views the exact painting only to acknowledge the abstract painting as a collage of miscellaneous shapes and colors. This view is much like the comparison between John James Auburn and Annie Dillard passages‚ revealing opposite and similar aspects on the subject of birds. Auburn’s passage inhabits a sense of seriousness and monotone
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Living Like Eeyore It was a Tuesday in February when it first happened. Unexpectantly waking up in the morning‚ realizing that the bottle of pills taken the previous night did not do what the Internet said they would. When you are someone like me‚ actions and thoughts like this occur on a daily basis. Nobody wants to live this way‚ constantly dreading each day and hoping the next will bring a stable supply of neurotransmitters like serotonin or dopamine. These chemicals in the brain‚ when in excess
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Annie John: A Bildungsroman? Jamaica Kincaid’s story Annie John is often thought of as a “postcolonial coming-of-age novel.” To understand this‚ it must first be known what both terms‚ postcolonial and coming-of-age novel‚ mean. Postcolonial refers to the period of time after the establishment of independence in a colony. European countries‚ including England‚ France‚ Spain‚ Portugal‚ and the Netherlands‚ colonized other nations in order to benefit from things like resources or geographical locations
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Living in a communist dungeon was like living in the Plato’s Cave In Plato’s book‚ the Republic‚ in a story that the ancient Greek philosopher shows to his student Glaucon‚ by using an allegory of peoples that are condemned to live in a cave for all their lives‚ the philosopher shows how people can be deceived by many images that they see from the distance and when they have not enough information to judge them. The life of the people who lived in the communist Eastern Europe during the second
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Dreams play a major role in deciphering subconscious psychological issues‚ such as fears‚ desires‚ and anxieties in Annie John. Dreams "have been interpreted as expressions of infantile desires or considered elaborations of the problems of waking hours". In Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John‚ Annie’s dreams become a significant element in the way she views herself and the world around her. Annie comments about her dreams: "I had been taught by my mother to take my dreams seriously. My dreams were not unreal
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Murtaza‚ Taimour Dr. Stacy Stuewe English-1301 11.00 pm Due Date: 09/16/2014 Summary Response Paper “Friends with Benefits” In the article “Friends with Benefits” by Kate Dailey claims that there are benefits to having social media friends on Facebook. She started to think how we use Facebook when one of her college friend posted about her loss of son on Facebook. Dailey felt posting that on Facebook was extremely personal‚ but when she started to examine the benefits of Facebook friends‚ she
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Lutz introduces the idea of “weasel words”‚ suggesting that advertisers use strategic diction to manipulate the viewer or reader while in fact saying nothing at all” (“Weasel Words: The Art of Saying Nothing at All 414) This use of quotation is used to explain the meaning of “weasel” words and how important it is. It engages in a conversation between the writer and the other voices by exemplifying Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale to explain how Aunt Lydia uses the weasel words to control handmaids
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