Thank You For Smoking Drawing the line between personal practice and personal morals is a complicated task when your job requires you to have a thick skin and get the job done. Compromising the way you live your life and the way you perform at work can make a person feel like a hypocrite. Finding the middle ground can‚ for some‚ take years and years of work in their field to get right. In the motion picture "Thank You for Smoking" PR lobbyist and spokesperson for a major tobacco company‚
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Although I did not procrastinate‚ I found the task of reading two books and writing additional assignments daunting initially. However‚ once I began the first reading selection‚ Thank You For Arguing‚ in early July‚ I realized that the assignments were not useless drudgery. I rather discovered that the books had meaning and would further me as a reader‚ writer‚ and learner. Unlike other school required readings like Shakespeare‚ Dickens‚ and Golding‚ this book was contemporary and informal. I found
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two percent of this people needs to tighten their belt in order to have their daily needs. Among the two stories I would probably agree with the deconstruction of Thank You Ma’am because nowadays people in the society cannot directly give money to someone they don’t even know just to let them buy the things that would pleasure them. I can’t even imagine it! Practically what people need for their daily lives now is money. The prices of the products in the market is increasing randomly. I don’t think
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Reading Questions for Howard Zinn’s Chapter 8 “We Take Nothing by Conquest‚ Thank God” A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to the Present. Prompt/Question: Given your exposure to Zinn and your knowledge of the conquest of Mexico’s northern territories during the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848‚ analyze the events that led to the war‚ the war itself‚ and the negotiation of peace resulting in the loss of territory by one as the gain for the other‚ and then evaluate to what extent
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“Thank you Ma’am” Analysis In the story “Thank You Ma’am‚” Langston Hughes uses tone and characterization to contribute to the plot of the story. Langston Hughes has wrote many short stories. The short story was about how a young man tries to steal an old woman’s purse. She caught him and watches over him for a day. The tone of the story is reflective. The story is reflective‚ because it shows how the young man looks back on what he did to the old lady. The young man figures out stealing is not
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inscribing on stone or other "permanent" mediums. For perishable surfaces‚ what was used for everyday or utilitarian purposes‚ a cursive style was used. Due to the "perishable" nature of the surfaces‚ these examples are not as prevalent as the monumental. This perishable style was called cursive and numerous variations have survived‚ such as majuscule cursive‚ minuscule cursive‚ and
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Thank You for Smoking Essay Thank You for Smoking is a satirical comedy that depicts the life of Nick Naylor‚ chief spokesperson and lobbyist of Big Tobacco. Nick Naylor speaks on behalf of cigarettes and is very talented at doing just that – speaking and spinning arguments to defend the cigarette industry. The movie paints a vivid picture of the role of public relations for big corporations – damage control‚ acquirement of new customers and corporate social responsibility are some of
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Robert Orsi’s book‚ Thank You‚ St. Jude: Women’s Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes‚ chronicles Jude’s Thaddeus’s story and the specific appeal of this Saint of Hopeless Causes to the Catholic women in America. Furthermore‚ the book illustrates the major religious events that happened in the mid-twentieth century. St. Jude‚ who was a virtually unrecognized figure before 1929‚ captured the earnest and faithful consecration of millions of women in various ways. Therefore‚ the reading raises
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You and I In life‚ everyone has their own set of moral values and ethics by which they abide. These values are different and original to everyone but just because we have different morals and values‚ does that make us wrong? In terms of Oedipus‚ his morals and ethics are very different from many people and in many ways would be frowned upon. In Oedipus the King‚ Oedipus has to make many hard and difficult decisions throughout the book but there are 3 that stand out to me. They are when Oedipus
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“We Take Nothing By Conquest‚ Thank God‚” is a chapter in Howard Zinn’s‚ History of the People. Zinn makes the point that the Mexican-American War was agitated by President Polk‚ and that the newspapers of the time falsely represented people’s opinions of the war even though it was very unpopular among U.S citizens‚ and the army itself. In the night of his inauguration President Polk confided in his Secretary of the Navy that one of his main objectives was to acquire California. Then Polk incited
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