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    I was in a lawyer’s office to sign some documents. I tend to look at the walls while waiting‚ and read the diplomas. I noticed several diplomas that did not fit in with your standard law office. These spoke of “bravery in the service of mankind‚” “saving lives during terrorist attacks‚” and “excellent emergency care under fire.” I asked Dror‚ the lawyer‚ about these diplomas. He smiled‚ ever so modestly‚ and said that although he had a busy law practice‚ one day a week he was an emergency paramedic

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    Compare how Atonement and Spies explore the journey from innocence to experience. Both Atonement and Spies are bildungsroman where the protagonists are reminiscing about events in their childhoods which impose on them in their adult lives. In Atonement‚ Briony is narrating throughout the text; however the reader only finds this out at the end and in Spies Stephen is narrating with his older and younger self through duel narration with slippage between the two. Both text were published within a year

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    In Ian Lovett’s essay “Space Mission: Christians Ask if Alien Souls Need Saving‚” the title proved to be fairly self-explanatory from the beginning. In this piece‚ Lovett did an excellent job at opening his essay by introducing Proxima b‚ which he described as being a “dream planet‚” and quickly progressing his writing into explaining how a portion of the Christian community took this scientific discovery as their cue to try and implement their religious teachings upon life forms that may potentially

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    Ian Wilson Mrs. Reynolds Rhetoric I 16 December 2013 Remember the Titans Thesis: Coach Boone’s speeches to his players are by made powerful and influential by his first-rate use of logos‚ ethos‚ and pathos. 1. logos: don’t repeat history’s mistakes‚ work together or you won’t win‚ comparison to the real Titans 2. pathos: comparison to Gettysburg 3. ethos: he is non-racist‚ forces his interracial team to work together Many strong speeches are given in the movie Remember the Titans. Two of the

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    “Take the F” by Ian Frazier In the essay "Take the F" by Ian Frazier he writes about the experiences he had living in Brooklyn. He talks about a lot of topics such as city life‚ diversity‚ travel. He shares his moments while he was in Brooklyn. In the essay he talks about the people he was surrounded by‚ the things he did and places

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    Wages of Guilt‚ was written by Ian Buruma and published in 1994. The author takes a subject rarely discussed or analysed and examines it in great depth. While much is written historically about war it is mostly the epic battles that have been fought‚ the great ideas that were fought over and the effect of war on civilians during the war itself‚ almost always from the victors point of view. The main focus of the book is on the varying responses to the horrors perpetrated by both the Japanese and

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    The aim of this short essay is to illustrate Anselm’s doctrine Cur Deus Homo‚ in reference to his interpretation of the atonement and then relate it to the characteristic claims of the Chalcedonian creed regarding Jesus Christ ‘as one person to be recognized in two nature’s’. Anselm’s theory on atonement is that of a philosophical one which he believes should be understood as a necessity. Anselm’s doctrine‚ ‘Cur Deus Homo’ which is translated as ‘why God became a man (human being)’‚ and the motive

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    The essay take the F by Ian Frazier is about his experience living in Brooklyn and that people that live there. People that live in Brooklyn don’t describe where they live in terms of direction like east or north but rather they refer to their neighborhoods and the subway lines that are nearest to them. He talks about the F train that he rode in and out of Manhattan and that diversity of the people who are riding the train. He mentions three classes that are classified as upper‚ middle‚ and low class

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    THINGS FALL APART: AN ATONEMENT OF THE PAST As one of the many Africans who had been Europeanized‚ Chinua Acehebe’s faith had been at crossroads with his knowledge of the Igbos. In his essay‚ Named for Victoria‚ Queen of England‚ he recounted how his family would sing praises to the Lord and read the Bible all day long and how the next day‚ his relatives would come over and offered food to idols. According to Achebe‚ he didn’t feel any undue distress or experience spiritual agonies for such

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    Obedience Summary Stanley Milgrams experiments are some of the most recognized behavior experiments in psychology today. Milgrams most known experiment was ‘shocking’ to people and has also been controversial ethically. As Ian Parker stated it would “make his name and destroy his reputation.” Parkers Obedience essay talks much of Milgrams life before the experiment and how the psychology community thought about his ethics. Parker talks of Milgram struggling to place his findings in a scientific

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