Comma Usage Although women’s college basketball in Connecticut is a marvelously entertaining and increasingly popular sport‚ it is not hard to remember when it was not so popular. Only a few years ago‚ my friends and I could decide on a Sunday afternoon to go to a women’s basketball game at the University of Connecticut‚ and believe it or not‚ we could get seats for free near centre court. Of course‚ that was before names such as Rebecca Lobo‚ Jennifer Rizzotti‚ Kara Wolters‚ and Carla Berube
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My Own Private Idaho is the final film in Gus Van Sant’s unofficial trilogy. Its proceedings were; Mala Noche (1986) and Drugstore Cowboy (1989)‚ all of which were set in his home terrain or Portland and the Pacific Northwest. The “trilogy” deals with the themes of illicit love and self-destructive impulses‚ weather it’s the pursuit of a doomed romance or the grim chasm of drug addiction and ill-advised sex. Gus went on to film many contracted films like Good Will Hunting (1997) and To Die For (1995)
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Punctuality Good morning everyone! Before I give out my speech‚ I want to ask all of you a question. How many of you have never been late? Odds are none of you! This is because in our nature we see punctuality as flexible. In my speech I’m going to talk about whether punctuality is an important matter in our daily lives or not. Firstly‚ what is punctuality? Well… punctuality is the act of being on time and being able to do a task in the required time. Picture the situation:
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Diana Gant‚ a Drexel University sleep expert‚ reported that most people need nine to 10 hours of sleep in order to avoid public and personal safety hazards‚ on Tuesday. Gant‚ who has been a member of the psychology department for 17 years‚ began studying sleep as a graduate student. Through her studies‚ she found a correlation between lack of sleep and accidents. “Going without enough sleep is as much of a public and personal safety hazard as going to work drunk‚” said Gant. “It can make people clumsy
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experiment that test how far individuals would go in obeying orders‚ even if carrying out those orders caused serious harm to others. This experiment caused a lot of controversy and one woman in particular believed that this experiment was immoral. Diana Baumrind’s "Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience" says that Milgram "entrapped" (329) his subjects and potentionally harmed his subjects mentally. Both authors are obviously concerned with ethics and validity but both see them in a
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“Carry out a random act of kindness‚ with no expectation of reward‚ safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” (Princess Diana) Princess Diana who was the princess of England in the 1990s states that we should do good for others without expecting anything out of it. Random acts of kindness are the best ways to show others that we care. In doing something kind someone might recognize what has been done and could return the favor. In The Chosen by Chaim Potok one of the
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Princess Diana was not only known for her great sense of fashion taste but her great impact to the world. She raised millions of dollars for charities with little signs and tried her best to make people more aware of their surroundings. Princess Diana help over 100 charities and that still would not be enough to say how a great philanthropist she was. Princess Diana was born with no social standards and little knowledge of what she would become of her self. She had a few intercourses with the
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expressed in his paper‚ “The Perils of Obedience.” Milgram argues that people are far too obedient to authority without justified reason. According to this view‚ people follow orders far too easily because they are trained to obey. On the other hand‚ Diana Baumrind‚ in her response “Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience argues that Milgram’s results were poorly tested and are therefore inaccurate. In her words‚ “The laboratory is not the place to study degree of obedience or suggestibility…since
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Diana Travine is a 43 year old‚ African American woman with a long-term addiction to injecting heroin and prescription pain medication and tranquillizers. In the beginning‚ she was first introduced to heroin at the college age where she would do it only with her friends and was sure to use sterile needles. Unfortunately she continued to use‚ increasing in frequency‚ with no regard to the presence of others. At this point‚ she is no longer able to feel any significant high from the heroin. Diana
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Where do we begin? From those I have spoken to through my work with ’Turning Point’‚ the beginning seems to be that women in our society are seen as the carers - the ones who can cope. Whatever life throws at them - they will always cope. On call twenty four hours a day‚ seven days a week‚ whether their children are sick‚ their husbands are out of work or their parents are old and frail and need attending - they will cope. They will cook and clean‚ go out to work‚ attend to the needs of those around
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