– Ngugi wa Thiong’o 37. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien 38. God Bless You‚ Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut 39. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor 40. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector 41. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey 42. Come Back‚ Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme 43. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson 44. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe 45. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras 46. Herzog – Saul Bellow 47. V. – Thomas Pynchon 48. Cat’s
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Arthur Schopenhauer Overview: Arthur Schopenhauer is a German philosopher who was born on February 22nd‚ 1788 and died on September 21st‚ 1860. He was born in the city of Danzig but later moved to the city of Hamburg where he became interested in studying metaphysics‚ ethics and psychology. Schopenhauer is known as the philosopher of Pessimism because he created a theory that challenged the value of existence. Schopenhauer’s main focus was on individual motivation ‘the will’ and how human desires
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“What Do You Care What Other People Think?” Further Adventures of a Curious Character‚ written and narrated by famous physicist Richard P. Feynman; the book consists of two parts: firstly about his life through sequences of humorous stories and several early influences he encountered; mainly his first wife Arlene. Through very emotional stories on how he and Arlene dealt with her heart breaking battle with tuberculosis. All these events led to his personal battle with cancer‚ ending with his death
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How to Skim Books Look through the chapter headings what do they tell you about the structure of the book as a whole? Differences for Journal Articles For an academic article‚ look at the section headings. These often have very predictable structures‚ with an introduction followed by a review of previous research (the ‘literature review’); a ‘methodology’ section‚ explaining how the research was conducted; one or two sections on the findings; a discussion of the findings‚ relating them back to the
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Good to Great Book Report The ideas that are given in this book will stimulated my mind into becoming a leader and perhaps enabled me to bring my company ahead of the competitors. It was amazing to see how Collins spent nearly five years in comparing the mediocre companies with great companies. One most notable difference is on how the level 5 leader responds to each situation that the company faces. This book will helped me to understand that if a company becomes big‚ its not because of the skilled
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when he says‚ “To do a great right‚ do a little wrong.” Giving your friend his chainsaw when he is acting in a violent and drunken manner could result in someone‘s harm‚ or even death. By choosing to break the promise and not give your friend the chainsaw‚ you are potentially saving a man’s life. You are also saving your friend from being condemned as a murderer‚ which he may regret when he is no longer inebriated. Hence‚ in this case‚ breaking a promise is the right thing to do. When someone’s
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it continuously advances and the easiness of people’s life. Then the youth‚ more specifically the teenagers‚ are the most affected. I believe the advancement of technology has negatively impacted our social interactions because it detaches us from what is happening around us‚ obstructs communication‚ and spreads the concept of instant gratification. Society must be able to utilize technology while not allowing it to impede social interactions‚ particularly for those who are easily influenced during
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What behavior(s) would (do) you need to improve? How many times have you felt bad because of not liking your behavior? How many times have you blamed yourself for not being better? Each one of us has experienced such a moments but the problem is when the unwanted behavior becomes a routine part of our daily lives. Personally a behavior that makes me feel bad and I would like to improve would be controlling my mood. My moods can change due to recent happenings‚ but can also be the result of past
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Response to David Carr’s Articles By reading the five different topic articles I began to see the writing style of Carr. In all five stories he always referred back to his main point. Although‚ he may have slightly drifted away with detail from what he started his article with‚ he always came back to put together what he was saying from the beginning. His style of writing is unique in ways he grabs his reader’s attention and speaks of the issue. The three articles that I felt grabbed my attention
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What do children that kill animals grow up to be? Two months ago headlines countrywide were heavy with the story about a wild Howler Monkey that was brutally killed by school children at the Belize High School of Agriculture in Orange Walk. As if the story wasn’t disturbing enough‚ a video taken on someone’s phone was circulated on the Internet‚ capturing the gruesome mob of children as they delighted in killing the helpless animal. The act of senseless violence outraged the public and when the
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