5.2 Describe how reflecting on own personal history increases self-awareness During my childhood‚ I was disciplined on a regular basis‚ sometimes for no apparent reason. I was not a naughty or unruly child but I was physically punished‚ in the form of being smacked with either my mother’s hand or the heel of a slipper. I was also verbally abused by my mother shouting at me all the time at everything I did. I was often left feeling very undervalued and useless and was always told that “You should
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Statement of Problems With less than two weeks away from GMCT turn-on date (April 1)‚ Erik Peterson needs toresolve all the showstopper issues facing GMCT. These issues include technical and non-technical issues that GMCT‚ as a team‚ need to act on in the remaining two weeks.Although GMCT has many bright talents‚ they failed to meet the original deadline (February 1)and they are now struggling to meet the revised deadline (April 1). This delay is caused bynumerous problems. The lack of open
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Throughout the best selling non-fiction novel‚ Fast Food Nation‚ Eric Schlosser dissects McDonald’s and the food industry that supplies these corporations. He explains how the company came about and the influences it has on us socially and economically. His book was published in 2001‚ and gain critical acclaim for being “excellently researched… peppered with acerbic commentary and telling interviews… Highly recommended - Liberty Journal”. Schlosser himself visited a meat packing facility‚ interviewed
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Right to Own Pit Bulls The American Pit Bull Terrier has fallen under harsh criticism in recent years. Several attacks have led to Breed-Specific Legislation or BSL. Breed-Specific Legislation has led to the downright banning of pit bulls in several cities in the United States (“Breed Specific Legislation”). These legislations are unfair and ineffective. The pit bull is only a product of its owner and its surroundings. The pit bull is the most misunderstood and persecuted breed of dogs. If properly
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Creating My Own World with My Own Purple Crayon Harold and the Purple Crayon‚ to this day‚ is figurative example of how I look at obstacles in life. I truly live by the fact that nothing is impossible. Harold does too. We all have our own purple crayon‚ but in Harold’s case‚ it is literally a crayon. He drew what he wanted‚ lived how he wanted and did all these things whenever he wanted. On a surface level observation‚ the goal that this book is trying to accomplish is to express that children
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Fast Food Nation is about everything that happens to our fast food. The author‚ Eric Schlosser traveled around the world to find out the dark secrets behind the meals that we are served. He learned so much secrets that these companies would never tell you. They have very unsanitary and dangerous conditions. The employees also work and get very low wages. This book can really open up your eyes to a new world that has been hidden from customers forever. This book tells us about the process of
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someone is not rich and famous‚ or own land‚ then that person has no real impact on this world today. Throughout human history we have seen many changes in our worldly societies. The one constant has been a need to conquer one another and possess the others land or power. In the eight century a wave of conquering energy appeared in Scandinavia. Norway‚ Sweden‚ and Denmark threw up war bands of formidable fighting men that ravaged southern Britain‚ who in addition to all their martial qualities
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Second Edition. By Eric Dorn Brose. Humanity Books‚ 2006. In this book‚ author Eric Dorn Ambrose‚ survey’s the history of technology and science over four centuries beginning around 1500 and ending with the outbreak of World War One in 1914. The book contains three chapters beginning with “The Search for a New Atlantis”‚ followed by “Science and Technology in the World’s Workshop” and closing with “Lands of Unlimited Possibilities”. This book starts out as a history lesson of sea-faring
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Carl Becker‚ author of Everyman His Own Historian‚ explains in his own words the meaning of history. Becker uses a narrative and facts to support his position. Becker begins by dissecting the textbook definition of history. The definition of history begins as‚ “the knowledge of events that have occurred in the past”‚ and later Becker develops the definition to‚ “history is the memory of things said and done.” Becker supports his change to the original definition by analyzing the actual words used
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A Room of One’s Own Summary Virginia Woolf‚ giving a lecture on women and fiction‚ tells her audience she is not sure if the topic should be what women are like; the fiction women write; the fiction written about women; or a combination of the three. Instead‚ she has come up with "one minor point--a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." She says she will use a fictional narrator whom she calls Mary Beton as her alter ego to relate how her thoughts on the lecture
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