Nicolette Turza 10/9/13 On October 9th I attended the colloquium “Charity Water‚” by Cubby Graham. In this colloquium‚ Graham talked about 800 million people who didn’t have access to clean‚ safe drinking water. Diseases such as e. Coli‚ Salmonella typhi‚ and schistosoma were found in the water that they were drinking from. They shared the same water with the animals as well. People were also battling with leaches stuck in their throat from drinking the water. Graham
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A Visit of Charity In the short story of "A Visit of Charity" by Eudora Welty‚ a fourteen-year-old girl visits two women in a home for the elderly to bring them a plant and to earn points for Campfire Girls. Welty implies through this story that neither the society that supports the home nor the girl‚ Marian‚ knows the meaning of the word "charity." Webster’s New World College Dictionary defines "charity" as "the love of man for his fellow men: an act of good will or affection." But instead of
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To persuade is to induce to believe by appealing to reason or understanding; in other words‚ to convince. We all like to convince people to do what we want‚ but it’s really all about how we do what we do to persuade someone. There are different methods to persuade someone such as in “The Use of Force” by William Carlos Williams where the characters persuade one another just like someone in modern day society would. In “The Use of Force”‚ the doctor finds Mathilda to be “an unusually attractive little
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bama’s speech points up an important fact: Good public speakers are audience-centered. They know the primary purpose of speechmaking is not to browbeat the audience or to blow off steam. Rather‚ it is to gain a desired response from listeners. Being audience-centered does not involve compromising your beliefs to get a favorable response. Nor does it mean using devious‚ unethical tactics to achieve your goal. As with Barack Obama‚ you can remain true to yourself and speak ethically while adapting
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This week I have started the book‚ A Break with Charity by Ann Rinaldi. For this book I have weekly meetings with my group to discuss what we have read. So far I have found this book very interesting and I have chosen this book because of the culture surrounding the book. Susanna English narrates the story in first person. The story takes place in Salem Village‚ the civilians in the village are poor and underprivileged. Susanna and her family are proper Puritans‚ they strictly follow the Bible’s
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Chapter 1 primarily talk about the art of Decision Making. Different types of audience employ different types of decision criteria in different scenarios. It also touches base with the similarities & differences of the decision making criterias among the different types of audience members. Another very interesting factor that this chapter brings up is the Audience expectations. In the words of author – “Expert audiences expect professionals to address their decision criteria.” He illustrates &
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RSPCA Since 1824 The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded. It has been up and running since. The men at the time‚ who were creating this aid organization‚ knew that it was the world’s first animal welfare charity. The organisation was actually established in a coffee shop in London. There first focus was ‘Pit Ponies’ who were ponies that worked in the coal mines. Workers were not keen on fashion especially when it was to do with animals. In 1898‚ Venezuela (South America)
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Trojan War‚ in Greek legend‚ famous war waged by the Greeks against the city of Troy. The tradition is believed to reflect a real war between the Greeks of the late Mycenaean period and the inhabitants of the Troad‚ or Troas‚ in Anatolia‚ part of present-day Turkey. Modern archaeological excavations have shown that Troy was destroyed by fire sometime between 1230 bc and 1180 bc‚ and that the war may have resulted from the desire either to plunder the wealthy city or to put an end to Troy’s commercial
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is the national network of nonprofit‚ independent community blood centers. The members of it work for more than 125 million ppl and more than 3‚100 hospitals. It carried out a survey nationwide via telephone interviews in order to encourage ppl to donate blood. Reasons for giving blood: humani’tarian reasons as their primary reason for donating blood; 4 out of 6 top reasons are al’truistic motives: helping the community and responding a blood shortage Wanting to help others 34% Responding
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Charity contributions Philosopher and political economist‚ John Stuart Mill‚ first coined the term “economic man” in the 19th century and went on to describe Man as a “being who inevitably does that by which he may obtain the greatest amount of necessaries‚ conveniences and luxuries‚ with the smallest quantity of labour and physical self-denial.” Not only evident in economic theory‚ the concept that human beings will always choose to get ahead in order to survive and propagate‚ even at the expense
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