The book From The Land of Shadows by Khatharya Um made me think if people really believed to the communist party and their propaganda or if they were just scared to stand up against them. The book talks about revolutions and how some movements were trying to fight against the regime‚ but they were usually not successful and lots of people were killed during revolutions. Did it result in resignation and accepting the life based on the communism ideals or people were really persuaded by the politic
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In the article From The End Of Nature the author Bill McKibben bewails upon the loss of the conception of nature‚ and how human amendments have done nothing‚ but decline its true meaning. He explains‚ everything around us is altered by human renovations‚ and there’s no where to escape from it. He explains that life as we know it‚ wilderness‚ rainforest‚ ocean‚ atmosphere is no longer the production of nature‚ but it is now the product of human pursuits‚ economy and human’s narcissistic way of life
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Philosophy 14 November 2007 Notes from Underground Armed with a view that strongly opposes the ideas presented by rational egoism‚ Fyodor Dostoevsky conducts an all-out assault against the theory in his 1864 novel‚ Notes from Underground. The narrator is a sick‚ pessimistic man who remains nameless throughout the course of his ranting. Without any recognizable respect for his own health and well being out of pure spite‚ he is the perfect character to illustrate Dostoevsky’s argument against the
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The Excerpt from Bossypants by Tina Fey gets your immediate attention with the title alone. I mean how many experts start with Bossypants? This excerpt also causes for immediate attention because of all the quotations and the (what I would call) back and forth bickering. The main point in this vignette/excerpt is the rules of improvisation. In the text Improvisation is broken down into 5 rules‚ “AGREE”‚ “YES”‚ “MAKE STATEMENTS” and “THERE ARE NO MISTAKES”. This is a very intuitive way to learn
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In the article “A view from the bridge” there is two main characters‚ one a man who is in his 20s-30s and a boy who is young. The story is about the man helping the boy with his fishing with a twist at one point. Throughout the article there is details that inform the reader of the boy’s problem and there is a point when the author realizes it too. When reading the story it starts off with the man jogging in Fort Lauderdale who comes across a boy who is fishing in the water. The man doesn’t seem
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Reflection of Field Notes from a Catastrophe Elizabeth Kolbert’s Field Notes from a Catastrophe was my first in-depth look into climate change‚ global warming‚ and the contribution of humans to these things. Global warming was something I vaguely knew about before reading this book‚ but it never really caught my attention or seemed like a major issue in the world. After reading Field Notes from a Catastrophe‚ I realized that it is in fact a major issue that must be addressed by every community
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Confederate Flag of the CSS Virginia: The Stars and Bars were the first official flag of the Confederacy. Although a striking likeness is shared between this flag and to the Union’s “Stars and Stripes‚” the symbols are representations of two nations at war; two very different places and mindsets. The Confederate Stars and Bars were flown from March‚ 1861‚ to May‚ 1863 and throughout that time this flag would gain stars at the same rate that the confederacy gained states into their union‚ until a
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Notes from text: Large companies are sometimes guilty of unethical behavior. Often this unethical behavior takes the form of false or misleading financial statements. In one of the largest corporate fraud cases in history‚ energy giant Enron Corporation was forced to file for bankruptcy in December 2001 amid allegations that the company’s financial statements were deliberately misleading and false. Enron’s bankruptcy not only destroyed that company‚ but its auditor Arthur Andersen as well. More
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Since the beginning of time‚ African Americans have been discriminated against and racially profiled. In the informative book Stamped From the Beginning‚ author Ibram X. Kendi illustrates the anti-Black racist views and shows the hardships endured throughout the early years of America. Today‚ many people believe racism is something that started overnight‚ uneducated in the true history of racial disparities. However‚ it is something that is constantly recycled in different forms and fashions. The
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George C. Herring’s book From Colony To Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 describes how the American colonies originated from Europe and our journey westward in to California. Herring does a good job making his way through our nation’s history. Depicting all the major events that took present. Describing major contributor‚ the present-day nation that we live in. Herring starts the book off by introducing the early forms of government that The American colonies started. He goes on to talk
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