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    Where Do We Fit

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    My parents came to New York City to make their fortune when I was a baby. Irresponsible and dreamy and in their early 20s‚ they didn’t think things through when their visa expired; they decided to stay just a bit longer to build up a nest egg. But our stay got progressively longer‚ until‚ when I was 6‚ my grandfather died in South America. My father decided my mother and I should go to the funeral and‚ with assurances that he would handle everything‚ sat me down and told me I’d have a nice visit

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    Why do we age

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    Why do we age? I recently took part in 5 experiments undergoing everyday activities to see how it feels to be; • Blind • Bone density problems • Hearing difficulties • To have limited fine motor skills • Memory loss First activity I took part in expected us to try clothes on (that required buttons) to be able to fasten the buttons wearing thick mittens and gloves. The mittens and the gloves resembled the elderly and the limited fine motor skills (finger movements required to fasten the

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    How do children learn Gender Identity? A child ’s awareness of being a boy or a girl starts in the first year of life‚ Mukherji (2001) emphazises that a child begins to think of themselves as separate individuals and develop knowledge about who they are at around 15 to 18 months. Each of us has a gender identity a private feeling that we are male or female. There are two fundamentally different explanations for how gender develops i.e. Nature vs. Nurture. Nurture is the result of environmental

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    Americas Mistakes

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    “All humans make mistakes‚” that’s what a lot of people say‚ but is it really important to make mistakes? It is important to make mistakes because sometimes those mistakes lead to a positive outcome. Did you know that the discovery of the Americas was an accident? In the late 1400’s the Americas‚ first thought to be Asia‚ were were mistakenly discovered by Christopher Columbus‚ a early Spanish explorer. This new discovery of the Americas was such an impacting discovery in Europe‚ otherwise known

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    Every year millions of families flee their native countries to find safety and stability‚ according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Few people fully realize the hardships refugee families face once they have landed in a new country with very little to their name. Through still photographs‚ New Roots aims to document the first year of resettlement for a refugee family as they come to America and settle in Rochester‚ New York. As of June 2013‚ the total population of

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    People Learn and Grow From Encountering Conflict When people encounter conflict‚ they learn and grow from the experience. People gain or acquire knowledge and develop themselves when faced with a disagreement or argument‚ either internally or externally. From conflict they can learn about themselves as well as others‚ develop skills needed in the future and accept differences. Conflict can occur anywhere‚ anytime‚ so it is important for people to learn and grow when they encounter it. When people

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    Why Do We Belong

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    The one who ventures into the woods of the mind alone will soon come to find that they do not belong to anything at all‚ except the barenaked connection between the usage of plants for sustaining life‚ water for us and those plants so they can grow‚ the connection with the sun for energy‚ and the connection with the animals for various recreational and living purposes. Belonging‚ this thing we think is needed to feel happy and at ease in social situations‚ is just a pure pulling of the cultural strings

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    Thomas Mistakes

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    not all free from mistakes. Mankind has made mistakes since the beginning of time‚ and some of these mistakes have helped to discover the world’s greatest discoveries and inventions. The author of The medusa and the Snail‚ biologist Lewis Thomas‚ asserts that if mistakes are not made‚ then nothing useful can be accomplished. Lewis Thomas’s assertion is very reasonable and should be considered accurate due to the great amount of inventions and discoveries created by mistakes. Mistakes are a part of

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    Lessons Santiago goes on a journey from Spain‚ where he lives‚ to Egypt where he thinks he is going to find his treasure. On this journey Santiago learns to connect with the Soul if the World from the Englishman and from the Alchemist‚ he learns to trust his own intuitions from one of the camel drivers and from the pair of hawks‚ he also learns about true love from his father and from Fatima. First‚ Santiago learns to connect with the Soul of the World from the Englishman and the Alchemist

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    Why Do We Dream?

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    Why do we Dream? It has been said by researchers that everyone dreams during sleep and it is thought to be a universal psychical feature of our human lives. However‚ many of us are unable to recall vividly what happens throughout our dreams‚ if anything at all. Due to this clouded unique nature that is dreaming‚ most of the knowledge why we dream is largely inconclusive. Nonetheless‚ after many years of theoretical debate on the subject‚ three arguments have remained prominent of which I will

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