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    Freakonomics Chapter 1 Summary In chapter one of Freakonomics‚ Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt describe how when incentives are strong enough‚ many usually honest people from different walks of life will cheat in order to gain financially or climb the ladder in their careers. The authors define an incentive as “a means of urging people to do more of a good thing or less of a bad thing.” This chapter covers three varieties of incentives: Economic‚ Social and Moral. Economic incentives motivate people

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    are first introduced to Tom Joad‚ he is an enigma. He presents many contrasts‚ and the reader is not sure what to make of him. Though only recently released from the Oklahoma state penitentiary for murder‚ Tom is honest about his past. He freely admits to his reason for imprisonment‚ and goes so far as to say that he would kill again‚ if it came to it. Despite his flaws‚ Tom nonetheless wins the trust of the reader and Jim Casey. Casey‚ the fallen preacher‚ becomes close to Tom and begins to influence

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    Summary of poem “night of the scorpion” The poet ’s mother was stung by a scorpion on that night when it was pouring very heavily‚ thousands of villagers on hearing the news came in ’like swarms of flies ’ trying to do their bit in saving the mother. They came with lanterns‚ candles and crowded round her chanting the name of God ’a thousand times ’‚ they first tried to search for the scorpion for they felt as much  as the scorpion moved the poison of the mother would spread but there was no

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    The roaring 20s: USA‚ 1919-1929 Mass production By Jack Source A: "Advertisements appeared in magazines‚ newspapers‚ on the radio‚ in cinemas and on billboards - all trying to convince Americans that they should ’keep up with the Jones’ and buy the products that every other American now had." What does Source A suggest about developments in industry? (4 Marks) Source A states that industries were developing massively when it came to marketing and advertising‚ it also shows us that all these

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    Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Everyone will die eventually‚ but different people has different attitudes towards death. In the poem “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”‚ Dylan Thomas tells people that when we face death‚ we should not just give up and accept death quietly and peacefully‚ we should fight for more life and never give in to death. The speaker in this poem is Dylan Thomas himself‚ the sentence “Curse‚ bless‚ me now with your fierce tears‚ I pray” in the quatrain

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    satisfaction of self-fulfillment and the effect of adversity on the human spirit? “A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.” In the poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”‚ the author suggests that light in this context has a metaphorical significance to life‚ the son advices his old coming of age father to grow awareness of truly being alive. As well as‚ light

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    Socrates was unconcerned with physical or metaphysical questions; the issue of primary importance for him was ethics and living a good life. During his trial and written in Plato’s “The Apology” he gave the idea that truth needs to be pursued by changing your position through questioning and conflict with opposing ideas. It is THIS idea of the truth being pursued‚ rather than discovered

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    Poetry Essay: "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" Dylan Thomas wrote "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" in 1951 in response to emotions he was feeling about his dying father. Thomas uses villanelle‚ tone‚ alliteration‚ and conceit to craft a masterful work‚ that gradually progresses encompassing the emotion and rage he is feeling‚ while maintaining control through diction and form. Thomas’s father was an outgoing military man most of his life. Seeing his father fading into non-existence

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    called bathing suits‚ the name bothered him. They were not bathing and they were not suits‚ Jonas thought to himself‚ “I guess precision of language was not that important back then.” And just shrugged the feeling of error off completely. It was a good memory‚ the water splashing‚ the children laughing‚ the people eating food at the beach in a small basket called a picnic‚ but Jonas remembered what the Giver had told him constantly‚ “The community is the way that it is because all these activities

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    Alexandra Dondanville Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Dylan Thomas’s poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” is an example of the poetic form villanelle‚ which is a nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. “Do not go gentle into that good night” expresses the inevitability of death‚ and how old men should face it‚ but the speaker never talks of death directly. He uses certain tactics such as‚ metaphors to really get his message across to the reader. Though the

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