In a letter to his wife‚ Robert E. Lee said‚ “What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends‚ and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world” (Lee). This destruction can be seen in John Dante‚ the soldier from Cynthia Rylant’s I Had Seen Castles‚ and Harold Krebs‚ the veteran from Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Soldier’s Home.” Although John and Krebs face their suffering in different ways‚ these battle-scarred protagonists change in unique and similar
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Lecture How do we explain behavior Behaviour generally refers to actions or reactions (an activity or response of some kind) of an object or organism usually in relation to the environment or surrounding world of stimuli. Behaviour can be conscious or unconscious‚ overt or covert‚ voluntary or involuntary‚ sometimes it can be common‚ unusual‚ acceptable‚ or outside acceptable limits. The acceptability of behavior is evaluated relative to social norms and regulated by various means of social control
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If you could get rid of three things in the world‚ what would it be? In a heartbeat‚ I would get rid of chalkboards‚ cigarettes‚ and body hair. All three are unnecessary‚ gross‚ and annoying. They just need to go! Chalkboards annoy the heck out of me. The sound it makes when you right on it or scratch your nails‚ I can’t stand it! Teachers taking notes on a chalkboard are the worst because they usually end up taking up the whole board and you have to listen to that sound every single‚ little
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Good afternoon‚ ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for considering me to be your next class president. Since freshman year‚ I have been a passionate advocate for our student body. When a food poisoning epidemic broke out on campus‚ I crafted the petition to demand better service from our food providers and better oversight from school administrators. It was unacceptable for the health of our peers to be compromised by consuming the food in our own cafeteria. Many of you agreed with me‚ and the petition
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Future Expectations Joel Marte The novel The Time Machine written by H.G Wells is a allegorical story within story about a Time Traveller who travels into the future and returns to tell a group of men about his adventures. The story told by the Time Traveler is recorded by an editor‚ who writes all of The Time Travelers adventures‚ encounters‚ and attitudes. The future to the time traveller initially means optimism‚ hope and an advancement of humanity‚ but he soon realizes that it is quite
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Analyzing “I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You” Pablo Neruda’s poem‚ “I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You”‚ the theme illustrates the confusion and pain of falling in love. This poem shows how hard it is to love someone and how love sometimes can hurt. This poem combines two general poetry types: it is a narrative poem because it tells a story and it is a lyric poem because it includes the writer’s feelings and passion. In this poem‚ it shows how fast time goes by. The writer
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I Wish They’d Do it Right Jane Doe in‚ I Wish They’d Do it Right‚ opposes her sons idea of cohabitation. She believes that marriage offers many benefits for her son‚ her son’s partner‚ and the child. He refuses to take vow into a legal relationship and she begins to argue with her son’s idea when finally her son’s fiancé has a child. Jane Doe states that because of her son cohabitating‚ he has become economically disadvantaged‚ causes social awkwardness‚ and deprives the happiness of the extended
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“Where I Lived and What I Lived For” Essay You are homeless and have almost no possessions. Would you consider yourself rich or poor? You would call yourself poor‚ of course. Henry David Thoreau would disagree. In the mid1800s he decided to abandon civilization and live alone on Walden Pond. For two years he lived in a cabin away from other people. He was free of the complications of normal life and lived very simply‚ without worries. In his essay‚ Thoreau claims that those without many possessions
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leaving school to go South Africa to help end the apartheid. When his friends or adults responded by saying that you are only kids‚ or you can’t make a difference‚ McCandless would simply respond “so I guess you just don’t care about right and wrong ‘” (113). McCandless would grow to learn that his father had had an affair with his mother before they were married. Because of his simplistic black and white views‚ he would be unable to forgive his father. After graduating from Emory University in
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someone‚ I would simply state that these years have been the best years of my life. Although they weren’t always easy‚ I strived to do my best in everything and achieve goals that satisfied my own being. As I continue to grow up‚ I hope to keep aiming to do my best and attend McNeese State University and study Radiology. I believe I deserve this scholarship because I have the determination to go through college ready and willing to learn about things that will affect my future. I know that I have the
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