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    story. Some people can speak one side of the story‚ that is definitely true to them‚ but seem false to others. People often wonder the validity of a memoir due to different perspectives. A memoir cannot be accurate‚ but can and should be truthful because the writer can create different perspectives of the truth based on his or her own experience. Additionally‚ a memoir should be accurate because a memoir is a combination of different views. A memoir cannot be accurate‚ but can and should be truthful

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    Red soils develop in a warm‚ temperate‚ wet climate under deciduous forests and have thin organic and mineral layers overlying a yellowish-brown leached layer resting on red layer made of iron oxide(ferric oxide). Red soils generally form from iron-rich sediments. They are usually poor growing soils‚ low in nutrients and humus and difficult to cultivate. These soils are developed on old crystalline rocks under moderate to heavy rainfall conditions. They are deficient in phosphoric acid‚ organic matter

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    How Television Shapes our Mind Grace Sangkuan Koo‚Ph D. The television has displaced reading and thus inhibits the growth of reading skills. Watching TV requires less mental effort than reading. Television makes things tangible‚ while reading demands symbolic representation of language. While television maximizes the use of saliency(bright colors‚ loud noise‚ zoom) that appeals more to the right-brain hemisphere‚ reading depends on the understanding of syntax and the relatively slower‚ sequential

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    Losing his mind and out of control Hamlet is a lost cause‚ or that’s what he wants people to think at least. In this Elizabethan play Hamlet‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ the main character of the story is Hamlet‚ a young prince and the rightful heir to the throne after his father’s death. In an unfortunate turn of events his uncle Claudius and the murderer of his father‚ the late King Hamlet‚ becomes the new king and marries his mother. Just when Hamlet is about to give up he meets the ghost

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    A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind Matthew A. Killingsworth* and Daniel T. Gilbert nlike other animals‚ human beings spend a lot of time thinking about what is not going on around them‚ contemplating events that happened in the past‚ might happen in the future‚ or will never happen at all. Indeed‚ “stimulus-independent thought” or “mind wandering” appears to be the brain’s default mode of operation (1–3). Although this ability is a remarkable evolutionary achievement that allows people to learn

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    psychologically harmful to both the bully and the victim. Therefore‚ bullying must be removed from schools by raising awareness and increasing supervision. One effect of bullying out of many is said to be‚ Psychological Trauma. This kind of trauma damages the mind which develops as a consequence of a traumatic situation. As soon as this trauma triggers TSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder)‚ memory‚ emotional responses‚ intellectual processes‚ and the nervous system have all been disrupted by one or more traumatic

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    HOW CAN WE SHOW THAT WE ARE MINDING THE SPIRIT In anything we do‚ there must be a force that drives our action and speech. Let’s have a look at Romans 8:6 and examine what kind of mindset we should cultivate. Read. As the scripture points out‚ being a spiritual person is not just a matter of personal preference. It is a matter of life and death. So then‚ let us look into a few ways we can show we that we are minding the spirit. Since the Bible itself is a product of God’s spirit‚ what better

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    undertakes as well as it can possibly done‚ this is happiness and this is success. “how success can be achieved” Someone has rightly said that there are three ingredients in a good life‚ learning‚ earning‚ and yearning. These three ingredients in right amount will lead one to success. Success doesn’t come in instant packets‚ ready to be adorned but it should be achieved .There are no hard and fast rules to achieve success‚ but some formulas to be applied . As a gem cannot be polished without friction

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    Individuals change there minds very often. In the example of Copernicus he changed his mind from the geocentric theory‚ what Newton hypothesized‚ which was the that the earth was the center of the universe and the planets‚ sun‚ moon‚ and even starts had there own ring in the universe and they orbited around the earth. Copernicus doubted and questioned this theory so he did his own calculation. Then he came up with the heliocentric theory‚ which was that the planets revolved around the sun and the

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    : Summary to “Your Trusted Friends” by Eric Schlosser. Eric Schlosser‚ an investigative journalist best known for his book “Fast Food Nation” from where the piece “Your trusted friends” is taken describes few types of marketing strategies implemented by Walt Disney and Mc Donald’s corporations. Throughout the text Schlosser is drawing parallels between Walt Disney’s and Ray A. Kroc’s business practices. What they both had in common‚ as being friends and children of the

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