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    Poetic Paraphrase: Every day of our life counts to make a change in the way we express ourselves‚ just like a season. A time to start off with new feelings‚ a time when everything ends up wrong. A time to plant new goals and a time to collect the success. A time to have laughs with your people and sad times that are hard to forget. Every day of our life counts to make a change in the way we express ourselves‚ just like a season. A time when we’ve got it all and a time when we lose everything

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    We create technologies to improve our lives and make things easier. However‚ in our search for perfection‚ have we lost sight of what was perfect? Thoreau wanted us to see that we already have perfection. He wanted us to see the beauty of ourselves and of nature. All of the details and luxuries that we have become so obsessed with distract us from the true magnificence of life. We have become so caught up in the struggle to reach perfection that we never stop to question what the purpose is

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    the salesman’s greatest weapon‚ even if the people reject many particulars concerning the salesman’s products‚ love will soften them. Love can be developed by always looking for the best in people. But in order to love others‚ we must love ourselves‚ treat ourselves with respect‚ and not be satisfied with anything but our finest efforts. Scroll 3 I will persist until I succeed. People are born to succeed‚ not to fail. Defeat will not be considered‚ and word such as quit‚ cannot‚ unable‚ and impossible

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    acceptance of inner acknowledgment that we are solely responsible for our choices in life‚ even when life deals us a flop‚ will give us an upper hand. Taking control of that bum deal frees us to seek out and accept help for ourselves. In taking on this task we must ask ourselves this simple question‚ how rational are we in dealing with the part we played in being who we are today? And if not‚ who is the responsible party? Why are we so programmed to blame? Alexander Graham Bell (1827) said

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    slowly acquiring the ability to think for ourselves. Modernity considers human reason to be the most important aspect of Enlightenment. In addition the main connection seen between modernity and Enlightenment is man’s ability to reason and his optimism. Rousseau and Voltaire have differing views on modernity. Rousseau sees arts and sciences as something that corrupt manner. Our conscience detects the difference between good and evil and we transport ourselves to another universe when we read ancient

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    determined by how we see ourselves by social responses. We self-analyze ourselves to reason and differentiate ourselves from other objects. We are our own best advocates. Mead uses an example of those in solitaire communicating with themselves and becoming companions to themselves. He mentions gestures are the first line of communication. How we respond to our own gestures may actually change how we felt originally simply by how we analyzed our own responses. How we are with ourselves is different than

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    Dramaturgy and its origins Social interactions in our day-to-day lives are what give society‚ and the people within it‚ meaning; this meaning helps us establish the manner in which we interact with others. These meanings are therefore contextual and situational and rely on the individual we interact with‚ and therefore vary in exact meaning‚ but are usually already objectified‚ and socially constructed pre-interaction. We undergo a correspondence between our different meanings until reaching some

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    They should know that these bad actions leads to nothing good‚ in fact it can make your life worse. Yes we have free will but we should know how to use them right. Another is historical reality where in we exercise our freedom in order to improve ourselves since we do have a task given by God that we should do with God’s grace. This anthropology teaches us that we have a chance to improve

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    Social conformity can destroy your health in many ways. It can suppress the immune system and cause stress‚ lead to depression‚ cause emotional deprivation‚ prevent you from making healthy decisions‚ and lead to you doing thoughtless‚ dangerous acts. Although there are only five here‚ there are more physical and emotional consequences of conforming to group expectations due to fear and disapproval. Conforming to a group that’s against or unsure of your beliefs and values you believe in just because

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    In “Common Sense‚” Thomas Paine calls to question the true authority Great Britain should have over America. As an independent nation‚ America could have its own government and would be able to pass laws and create its own army and navy to protect itself without having to get permission from a tyrannical mother country. Great Britain has ruined its own nations relationship with most of Europe and therefore ruined the relations of America with most of Europe. Think of all the trade possibilities if

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