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    I think the idea of every text having a use by date is incorrect and I will therefore argue against the topic. There are a few things which can help to keep texts from ever having their use by date and as a result proving my argument. For example‚ texts‚ such as Macbeth‚ can always be changed slightly and interpreted differently to make them interesting time and time again‚ for old and new audiences. Also‚ just because a text was written a long period of time ago doesn’t mean that it still won’t

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    The movie shows Tucker as a man who dreamed of making and selling a revolutionary new car in an industry dominated by giant automobile companies. Anyone who knows the automobile industry knows that it is a business with really big entry barriers. To borrow from management guru Michael Porter‚ it is not easy to get into the automobile industry. However‚ Tucker believed he could do it‚ he convinced many people to believe in him‚ and dedicated his life to achieving his dream. One aspect that lures

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    Tucker: The Man and His Dream Francis Ford Coppola Paramount Home Video 08/88 PG Tucker: The Man and His Dream is a high-octane morality play about an innovative outsider who wants to build a better‚ cheaper‚ and safer car than those produced by the Big Three in Detroit. Jeff Bridges stars as this real-life 1940s entrepreneur whose go-getter spirit and gung-ho philosophy serves as a catalyst to those around him. His wife and five children offer their vital support. Abe (Martin Landau) serves

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    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: By Oliver Sacks Oliver Sacks wrote a collection of narratives titled‚ The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat‚ we see the suffering of those with neurological diseases‚ their attempts to cope with these diseases and the conclusions that Sacks makes on their conditions. Sacks is the physician in these narrative stories that tell about his studies of the person behind neurological deficits. Sacks’ interests are not only in the disease itself but also in the

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    Oliver Sacks’ novel‚ The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat‚ depicts the various histories of patients that have suffered with neurological disorders. Dr. Sacks is a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine‚ and was able to work with the patients mentioned in the novel when he worked as a consulting neurologist. Some of the disorders that the patients suffer from include Tourette’s syndrome‚ autism‚ Parkinsonism‚ epilepsy‚ phantom limbs‚ schizophrenia‚ retardation‚ and Alzheimer’s disease

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    Oedipus the King: Fighting Fate “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” (Jean de la Fontaine)‚ a sobering reminder of the extent to which Oedipus and his parents‚ Jocasta and Laius from the play Oedipus the King by Sophocles fight a predetermined course plotted for them by the gods and written by the oracles‚ only for it to transpire tragically. Despite the inevitability of destiny Oedipus‚ Laius and Jocasta defy fate with the entirety of their being‚ for to acknowledge

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    Discrimination has been present throughout our country’s full history‚ and even now. It has existed in many forms‚ whether against blacks‚ non-catholics‚ women‚ or anything else. However‚ in one location‚ the Confederacy‚ there has been more of it than anytime else in US history. Slavery was legal there for centuries‚ and after it became illegal‚ discrimination stayed and the Jim Crow laws‚ along with the KKK‚ arose. This area has been known for its racism throughout the years‚ and is a prime example

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    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of Dr. Sacks’s patients. The title of the book comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia. The other essays in this book include: •"The Lost Mariner"‚ about Jimmie G.‚ who has lost the ability to form new memories due to Korsakoff’s syndrome. He can remember nothing of his life since his demobilization at the end of WWII‚ including events that happened only a

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    Professor Kumar English 101 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat was written by Oliver Sacks who is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University. Sacks writes about his studies of a man named Dr. P who has an unusual brain disorder. Sacks tries to figure out what is exactly wrong with Dr. P and prescribe him with something that can help him; but he can’t seem to figure out what will help Dr. P. His only solution is to prescribe him

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    the Old Man with His Grandson by Domenico Ghirlandaio. This painting looks very average and boring to a person today who is not interested in art or just looking at it for the first time‚ but the painting of the Old Man with His Grandson was a revolutionary painting by Ghirlandaio in the late fifteenth century. Ghirlandaio along with Raphael‚ Jan van Eyck‚ and others started to introduce individuality and add values to their paintings; you can see examples of this in the Old Man with His Grandson

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