Simone Mann Ms. Gutestein Deborah Ellis Deborah Ellis started writing at age 11-12 inspired at a young age she grasped her talent. As a kid she was constantly moving from place to place due to her father’s work‚ and used writing as a coping method. When she grew up‚ her work and writing was mainly done by traveling and talking to others that have problems and taking note of everything. She started to write the book I am currently the Breadwinner her first book. The Breadwinner takes place
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Summary Tannen’s entire article can be summed up in four simple words; “Conversation is a ritual” (1994). Men and women tend to approach interacting with each other in the work place in the same patterned method. Tannen provides a guide for us to better understand the importance of communicating more effectively in the work place. She explains how verbal interactions could be interpreted in many different ways‚ depending on one’s point of view and which side of the conversation you happen to be
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Summary: In Deborah Netburn’s Los Angeles Times article entitled “A wake‚ some prayers and a little retail therapy: How NASA engineers mourn the death of a spacecraft” which was published on November 9‚ 2017 shares what an emotional experience losing Cassini‚ a robotic explorer‚ was. Netburn presents the different ways that engineers dealt with this grief. The first‚ is that the engineers had a funeral for the rocket and grieved that way. They prayed and read scriptures and also coped by buying
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Agents of Change and Nonviolent Action* Nonviolent action is a way for ordinary people to fight for their rights‚ freedom‚ and justice. It is frequently associated with moral or ethical nonviolence‚ but I will address it here as a distinct phenomenon‚ separate from any moral or ethical underpinnings‚ to expand on how it works as a pragmatic way to exert leverage in a conflict. Nonviolent action is based on the insight that power in a society is ultimately derived from people’s consent and obedience
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In “Dealing with Feelings‚” an article excerpted from a college textbook “Communicate!‚” the author Rudolph F. Verderber indicates the best way to deal with feelings is by describing them rather than withholding or displaying them. The author explains‚ first‚ withholding feelings‚ hiding them inside and not giving any clue to their existence‚ is an inappropriate way of dealing with feelings. Psychologists believe that when people withhold feelings‚ they can cause physical problems as well as psychological
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in portraying her messages and ensures that her ideas reach the potential target groups without failure. The two sources that are going to be used in this analysis is the book "Beyond Belief" The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust‚" by Deborah E. Lipstadt‚ together with the video‚ "America and the Holocaust" that‚ in one way or the other connects. "Beyond Belief" The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust" is a painstaking examination on the various concerns on how the American
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The Summary Response January 26‚ 2013 DUE: February 1‚ 2013 The Summary Response builds on summary in two ways. First‚ before you can respond to a text‚ you must be able to summarize its main points. In other words‚ you must understand a text on its own terms before you can express an opinion about it. Second‚ the Summary Response expands textual meaning by including reader response. It’s the kind of reader response‚ however‚ that distinguishes a good Summary Response from a bad one. A
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In this article‚ Deborah S. Connelly talks about the history of book banning‚ its presence in society today‚ and actions that have and can be taken against it. Most of these actions stem from the responsibility of librarians and organizations. Connelly believes that librarians have an obligation to keep their content uncensored and readily available to the public. She has stated that the best way to prevent book censorship is to educate our society about the importance of diverse books. A more specific
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Deborah Rose endeavors to demonstrate that Indigenous knowledge can be intertwined with the knowledge set forth by Western philosophy in her article “An Indigenous Philosophical Ecology: Situating the Human.” She reinforces and analyzes Val Plumwood’s argument that anthropology holds a role in re-situating the human ecologically. Specifically‚ Rose seeks to place the human within an Indigenous philosophical ecology. Rose refers to Julie Cruikshank and Ilya Prigogine‚ as their ideas recognize the
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Summary/Response Part-time Employment Undermines Students Commitment to School Summary: In the essay‚ "Part-time Employment Undermines a Student’s Commitment to School" by Laurence Steinberg‚ it explains how studies show that teenagers that work while attending school are more likely to loose their commitment to school. Steinberg tells the affects on students when they work more than twenty hours a week. His theory was that students are more susceptible to losing their interest in school‚
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