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    Topic: "A Negative Outlook on Life Vs. A Positive Outlook on Life" Thesis statement- My topic is a’ Negative Outlook on Life Vs. A Positive Outlook on Life’. It is the study on the differences of having negative/ positive thinking –1. What it does to the human mind and health 2. The outcome of a way a person thinks and response. 3. How to change your thinking to be more disciplined. 4. The difference of having a positive outlook on life and how it can make a person’s life much better.

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    sports. They were barred from me‚ as though when Dr. Stanpole said‚ "Sports are finished" he had been speaking of me. I didn’t trust myself in them‚ and I didn’t trust anyone else. It was as though football players were really bent on crushing the life out of each other‚ as though boxers were in combat to the death‚ as though even a tennis ball might turn into a bullet.” (p84) The accident—Finny’s accident‚ shattered the barrier between the innocence of youth‚ and the ever-present war that was being

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    Gene and his roommate Finny (Phineas) become close friends at Devon School in the summer of 1942. Finny is always able to get away with what infractions he makes. He and Gene for a small society over jumping out of a tree into a river. They name it the “Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session”. Finny is very athletic and lures in lots of people by his charismatic behavior. He creates a game called blitzball that becomes popular within the attendees of the summer session. Gene envies Finny’s

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    Finny is God A Christ figure is a technique used in story-telling that is an allusion between the book’s character and Jesus Christ. Before I read the book A Separate Peace by John Knowles the idea of a Christ figure was unbeknownst to me. After some research‚ I found that there are many Christ figures‚ not only in literature but in films as well. Mufasa‚ Frodo‚ Superman‚ E.T.‚ Optimus Prime & McMurphy were among my favorites. Themes and Symbols are an amazing part of story telling and the Christ

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    As the story continues‚ Gene starts feeling anger and jealousy to finny because he thinks finny is better than him. Finny won’t admit to the fact that Gene jounced the limb so he would fall. At serious moments in the story‚ Gene simply describes weird events without showing his thoughts‚ and emotions. Similarly‚ Gene’s narration becomes bad at the unusual part when it becomes clear that his feeling will be released. Also‚ throughout the novel‚ even as Gene is opening up to the reader‚ an important

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    Character: FINNY Throughout the novel A Separate Peace there were two dominant characters. Perhaps the most useful in the reading of the novel was the character of Phineas‚ also known as Finny who supplies the qualities of a charismatic‚ athletic‚ and strong leader. Finny is the best friend of the novel’s main character‚ Gene. By reading into the text and integrating the aspects of symbol and theme the reader is given a clear picture of the novel through the character of Finny. Phineas is the

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    Human‚ and a superb athlete are qualities many people would use to describe Phineas. Finny (Phineas) was an honest teenager with amazing athletic talent. His great talent was his downfall because people envied his achievements. In A Separate Peace Finny is the most memorable character because of his qualities as a person‚ his injury‚ and also his tragic death. Phineas was the best athlete at Devon High. First‚ Finny broke the school swim record but in a non-boastful way he decided not to tell anybody

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    How my positive Outlook Benefits my Community Outlook is a mental position with regard to a fact or state. Attitude reflects a tendency to classify objects and events and to react to them with some consistency. Attitude or outlook is imperceptible but inferred from the objective‚ evaluative responses a person makes. A positive outlook on life is essential to one’s own wellness and each of the wellness dimensions. A person with a positive outlook is always professionally satisfied‚ healthy‚ spiritually

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    thoughts. For example‚ Gene learns only late in the novel that Finny desperately wants to enlist in the military any military and that his fantasy about the fake war simply represents a way of hiding his pain. Finny lives in action always moving‚ playing‚ challenging others to join him. Finny’s game of blitzball‚ for example‚ expresses his essential nature with its spontaneous style of play and its rules made up on the run. Gene and Finny‚ despite being opposites in personality‚ are very close friends

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    Summer Training Report A STUDY ON customer satisfaction of outlook magazines Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements For the award of the degree of BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISRATION (BBA) To Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University‚ Delhi Guide: Submitted by: Dr. VANI VASAKARLA ATIF SIDDIQUI Roll No.:13524401710 Batch: 2010-13 Institute of Innovation In Technology & Management‚

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