“Coyote won the game and so I gave him the fire. But he cheated‚ and for that I shall take his life.” This was said by Thunder-god in the short story “Coyote Steals Fire” when Coyote cheated in the game against the fire. This tale as well as “How Stories Came to Earth” are trickster tales‚ meaning the main character plays tricks on others to achieve their goal. These tales are told as oral folktales involving tricksters. Both of these stories are similar to one another due to them being tricksters
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Dave Pink’s Ted Talk reminded me of Ivan Pavlov’s conditional reflex theory; I believe sometimes in order to get a person motivated to do something‚ an incentive must be presented. We learn at a young age to have extrinsic motivation (if you did chores‚ you would get an allowance; if you got A’s in school‚ we would get rewarded; and so on and so forth). Growing up‚ I was never motivated by intrinsic motivation‚ I wasn’t personally rewarded by doing chores; I was motivated by the allowance. While
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intangible‚ an example is that‚ Lieutenant Jimmy’s photograph of and emotions for Martha. The other gentlemen’s of the unit are introduced through explanations of the things they brought with them‚ as illustion‚ Henry Dobbins‚ who brings extra food‚ Ted Lavender who carries items such as tranquilizer pills‚ and Kiowa who brings a hunting hatchet. The author presents readers to the novel’s main characters by explaining the items that the soldiers bring with them. The amount of detail the writer offers
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Meg Jay: "Why 30 is not the new 20" Notes When Meg Jay states‚ “Forget about an identity crisis and get some identity capital… Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that’s an investment in who you might want to be next.” She is implying that one should not waste their twenties finding out just who they are‚ but to use that time to set goals and seek out to accomplish them. “Dating in my twenties was like musical chairs‚ everyone was running around and having fun” A part
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Hughes makes reference to Plath’s problems‚ implying her “exaggerated American grin “as false‚ having a purpose of its own. The content Plath was there for the “cameras‚ the judges‚ the strangers‚ the frighteners  the extended metaphor suggesting the intrinsic connection issues between Hughes and Plath were caused from external forces. Furthermore the allusion of her “Veronica lake bang†and “what it hid...â€suggests that appearances can be deceiving and raises questions about Plath’s
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What is changing is how we behave‚ how we act‚ how we connect with others‚ how we transmit our emotions‚ knowledge or experiences. It is not the essences of the subjects in study‚ Humans and technology‚ but the relations between the two. In her TED video‚ Amber Case (2010) “We are all Cyborgs now” https://www.ted.com/talks/amber_case_we_are_all_cyborgs_now#‚ show us how technology let us adapt to our environment and how this relation has been changing. She also shows us that in fact‚ this context
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As members of Future Business Professionals‚ we are writing to recommend a speaker for the fall semester. After researching several TED Talk candidates‚ we recommend that you invite Hanna Rosin. Rosin’s TED Talk‚ “New Data and the Rise of Women‚” offers an interesting perspective on gender roles‚ which will highly appeal to FSB students. In this memo‚ we will summarize Rosin’s talk and explain why we recommend her. Hannah Rosin is the co-founder of DoubleX‚ a website centered on news about women
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Thistles by Ted Hughes The title ‘thistles’ refers to a group of flowering plants characterised by leaves with sharp prickles. The poem is very short and is separated into four stanzas of three lines each. The poem does not have a rhyming pattern but uses much alliteration. The poem conveys a negative mood‚ one that is aggressive and violent. In the first stanza‚ Hughes portrays an almost countryside atmosphere for the readers to experience. He uses alliteration: “hoeing hands” that describe the
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In the Ted Talk‚ Poverty‚ Money and Love‚ Jessica Jackley addresses the worldwide issue of poverty. Poverty is a challenging hardship to address because no matter how much a person contributes or tries to help the problem‚ the large scale complication will continue on existing. As humans‚ we naturally want to care for people‚ but sometimes we struggle with the concept of not being able to care for everyone. I really connected with Jackley’s speech when she said she got lost in the immense idea of
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Kio Stark discusses the benefit of talking to strangers in her TED Talk‚ “Why You Shouldn’t Talk to Strangers”. She explains that although many grow up with the saying‚ “stranger danger”‚ it may not be so black and white. A simple greeting to a stranger has no real semantic meaning‚ rather they acknowledge somebody else’s presence. Through her recording of interactions with strangers‚ Stark has found unexpected pleasures and genuine emotional interactions through everyday conversations with stranger
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