While reading through this selection the iconic Lewis Carroll quote “we’re all mad here” from Alice in Wonderland was repeating in my thought process. I can think of no better way to begin this exploratory course. The reading itself was a series of brilliant philosophical musings on the nature of madness along with how we perceive it to exist. In the present moment‚ I am unable to say if I agree or disagree with Foucault as he articulates himself well. A repeating theme in this selection begs the
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a woman‚ a feminist. Her speech‚ We Should All Be Feminists‚ describes the struggles she has faced in her life because of her gender and how dismissing women has become a normal part of society that people must get rid of. Adichie also mentions ways that people should solve this problem of inequality. Society should all be feminists because it would improve our way of living. Everyone would be equally respected. As kids‚ most people are told to respect their elders regardless
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We All Fall Down Reading Response #1 By: Nakayla L 8-5 Retell The book We All Fall Down is a story about a grade nine student that goes to the World Trade Center along with his father. The day that Will went to work with his father was the day that two large commercial airplanes deliberately crashed into both of the Twin Towers. Within this story you discover the difficult journey that Will and his father take‚ to become safe again. Relate When Will had gotten told that his father
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language related to each other? You can choose to look at this from a combination of different historical‚ political and/or social perspectives. The Indonesian language had been used as an important symbol of unity during the expansion of the Indonesian nationalist movement. As Indonesia is famous for its great diversity of more than 200 major ethnic groups (Vickers 2005: 1) and 600 languages (Paauw 2009: 1)‚ it was hard for the people of Indonesia to find an element that they all shared as ‘Indonesian’
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The novel All the Light We Cannot See‚ by Anthony Doerr‚ is an intricately written story about two young adults during World War II. The two main characters Werner and Marie-Laure come from extremely different lives. Marie-Laure is a blind 16 year old girl who lives in a nice house in France with her dad. Werner is an orphan who lives with Jutta‚ his sister‚ who is the only person in his family he knows of. This book tells the story of how these characters that come from seemingly unrelated worlds
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We Are All The Same: A Story of a Boy’s Courage and a Mother’s Love By Jim Wooten We Are All The Same: A Story of a Boy’s Courage and a Mother’s Love‚ is a 243-page‚ nonfiction‚ book written by Jim Wooten. It was published by The Penguin Press‚ a member of Penguin Group Publishing company in 2005. Jim Wooten is an ABC news correspondent and many ABC news broadcasts. He is a journalist who has written for The New York Times and was a correspondent for the White House. He wrote this story because
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words radiate to a young boy in a small German town through a radio he fixes‚ but the voice comes back years later when he is a German soldier in France when he recognizes the familiar voice coming from a transmitter. In Anthony Doerr’s novel‚ All the Light We Cannot See the radio in the attic of 4 rue Vauborel is a secret when the Germans confiscate radios‚ in the Nazi-occupied Saint-Malo. The secret radio and the broadcasts influence the world around Werner‚ Marie-Laure‚ and Etienne. Werner Pfennig
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Day in‚ Day out we all start our day doing more than one thing at a time. The morning starts with ironing our clothes while we listen to the news‚ delegating tasks to our family members to get our day going in what we call a productive manner‚ or better yet‚ “killing two birds with one stone.” We are all guilty of some form of multi-tasking. The article written by Alina Tugend gives an outlook on the art of multi-tasking and the effects. Reading the article the author wants us to think about
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Case 5.1: Comparing co-workers against each other: Does this motivate employees? This case takes a critical look at using comparative methods to review and evaluate employees and exposes the impact of those methods on productivity and morale. "Forced Ranking" had occurred for many years at GE‚ instigated by the famed ex-CEO Jack Welch who had managers categorize their reports into three categories: the top 20 percent‚ the middle 70 percent‚ and the bottom 10 percent. This process has been shown
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We all have equal rights. We all can vote‚ drive‚ go to school. Well those are the basic rights that we are all given. There is a lot more to the word equality and‚ that is what i believe in. I believe in everyone having the same rights. I believe that we all should be able to do what we please and not have hate or some sort of ridicule that is given. Yes we have equal rights for women and men but‚ there is a lot more to this simple word. Equality can be a very big important thing to America and
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