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    For the following book review‚ I have read Soul by Soul written by Walter Johnson. This book is 220 pages and was published in 1999. This book has been chosen for review as a requirement for American History I. Within Soul by Soul‚ Johnson covers aspects in slavery within different sections of which they appear. Johnson does a thorough job of presenting slavery in an unbiased form using several sources as proof. Some strengths of Soul by Soul are the emotions that Johnson receives as response to

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    trained to help blind people? Becca Lopez Guide dogs help many people in many ways‚ mainly giving blind people some independence. Many blind people can’t get around without the help of a well-trained guide dog. Guide dogs go through extensive. It then usually takes 2-5 years for a guide dog to be matched to a blind person. Training includes basic obedience and service dog training. Providing protection and companionship are other ways these specially trained dogs help blind people. Service dog

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    Purposely difficult and intentionally obsessive‚ Plato’s Phaedrus is an exceedingly difficult read that defies all conventional logic as a piece of discourse. The text is extremely subjective‚ open to interpretation and individual creativity as to what or whom the narrative is about. Written by Plato‚ a close disciple of Socrates‚ this text is set along the Illissus river where Phaedrus and Socrates meet for a day of speech‚ debate‚ rhetoric and okay…flirting. Phaedrus leads of the day and recites

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    hearing varies with people Range of hearing in different individual •Children have eardrums that are more elastic. As a result‚ they can hear better. •As people age‚ their hearing deteriorates. Their eardrum become less elastic. The range of sound frequencies that they can detect decrease. Their ability to hear high-pitched sounds decrease. •Person exposed to constant loud noise experiences a loss of hearing-range of hearing is smaller than normal people. Limitation of Sight A. Blind spot •At certain

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    Frankenstein’s Monster & The Lack of Familial Ties The Romantic Era inspired detailed expressions of internal feelings and an emphasis on the appreciation of nature. Romantic writers feared the disintegration of human emotion and the relationship between humans and nature. Once the Scientific revolution called for reason and the theorizing of the causes of life‚ it seemed as if people would become more mechanical and rational rather than sentimental and imaginative. There was in fact‚ a sweeping

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    The history of technical education in this country has been a century old. It all began in 1904 when a Technical School began its operation on Weld Road (now Jalan Raja Chulan) to teach Technical Assistants for the Federated Malay States Departments of Railways‚ Survey and Public Works. The school was officially known as Treacher Technical School‚ named after Sir William Treacher‚ the Resident General during that time. Students followed classed on part-time basis; they worked and trained specifically

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    for ones soul. Socrates argues that the soul is immortal and that we must rise above our physical nature in order to gain true knowledge. He believed the soul was our very essence‚ and our bodies the instrument utilized in dealing with the physical world. Socrates seemed confidant that human beings survive physical death‚ therefore possessing an immortal soul. He felt a philosophers concern was not with the body but with the soul and the body played no part in the attainment of knowledge. The body

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    Loathe at First Sight By Ellen Conford "You’re dripping on my toes." "I’m sorry. I was admiring you from afar‚ and I wanted to admire you from a-near. From afar you looked terrific." "Oh‚ thanks a lot. Meaning‚ up close I look like a toad." "That’s not what I meant at all! You look good up close too. I love your bathing suit." "Then why do you keep staring at my toes?" "It’s that clear stuff on them. What do you call that?" "Nail polish." "I know‚

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    Sight and Blindness in King Lear In King Lear‚ the recurring images of sight and blindness associated with the characters of Lear and Gloucester illustrate the theme of self-knowledge and consciousness that exist in the play. These classic tropes are inverted in King Lear‚ producing a situation in which those with healthy eyes are ignorant of what is going on around them‚ and those without vision appear to "see" the clearest. While Lear’s "blindness" is one which is metaphorical‚ the blindness

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    Diagnostic Literary Analysis Review of the poems “Dogs Don’t Have Souls‚ Do They?” Written by Chuck Wells and “Names of Horses”‚ by Donald Hall have provoked the question; which is the better Poem? There are many similarities and several contradictions between the two pieces. Both poems address the love and loss of long time‚ befriended animal. In Wells’ “Dogs Don’t Have Souls‚ Do They?” we are greeted by the inception of a new puppy into the family. The puppy is cuddly‚ soft and innocent

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