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    there were several details that the narrator mentioned that required further‚ deeper thought. For me‚ this is what made the story appealing. At the beginning of the story‚ Twyla introduces her mother as Mary and claims that she was placed at St. Bonny ’s because her mother "danced all night." By calling her mother by her first name‚ Twyla reveals that she doesn ’t really consider Mary as her mother. I believe Twyla ’s feelings toward her mother play an important role in the way she reacts to the

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    Noyes shows their compatibility through their looks because they are similar in their attractiveness. Noyes also demonstrates their love when the highwayman asks for “one kiss‚ my bonny sweetheart” (line 25) and when “his face burnt like a brand as the sweet black waves of perfume came tumbling o’er his breast” (lines 32-33). The perfume adds to the physical attraction between the highwayman and Bess because it is a sensual symbol

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    I ask this question in an attempt to focus on the tendencies of judging and the norm. Everybody has their own perceptions of what is normal and they make judgments based off of these perceptions. Many of these perceptions cause biases to be formed. A bias is “a particular tendency or inclination‚ esp. one that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question; prejudice.” This essentially means that everyone has formed their own prejudice beliefs from life experience. Everyone has their own bias

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    What does it mean to be an “absolutely true” or “part-time” Indian? This is an example of one of the questions I ask myself when looking at the cover of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. In Chapter 12 of How to Read Literature like a professor Thomas. C. Fosters explains‚ “Everything is a symbol.” The cover of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian foreshows the internal struggle Arnold has with being Indian in a white school. First of all‚ Arnold isn’t accepted anywhere

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    In the novel treasure island they are trying to find captain Flint’s treasure. But in real life pirates rarely buried their treasure. Also not all pirates were males some famous pirates like Mary Read and Anne Bonny were women (source 3 10 myths and facts about pirates). All these myths were brought upon by books romanticizing the idea of pirates. Although book sometimes get it right in treasure island the pirates sailed ships used guns and caused mutinies all

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    strange acts. She utters‚ “Hey non nonny‚ nonny‚ hey nonny” (4.5‚ 189) in an odd song of sorrow for her father‚ Polonius. As indicated in the reference notes‚ she distributes flowers that could be imaginary to those in the room (204-209) and sings‚ “For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy” (210). Needless to say‚ these actions are bizarre and out of line‚ for they stem from a newfound madness inside of her. As with the sonnet‚ it states‚ “My thoughts and my discourse as madmen’s are‚/ At random from the truth

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    Week 2 Barriers to Critical Thinking Identify three barriers that influence your thinking and write at least 100 words for each‚ describing how you can overcome them Three barriers that influence my thinking would have to be enculturation‚ Self-serving Bias‚ and emotional influences. I can try to overcome enculturation by thinking about how everyone is different and accepting it. Everyone is raised differently with different values instilled upon them. Just because my family

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    “Prejudice is a chain‚ it can hold you. If you prejudice‚ you can’t move‚ you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.”(- Bob Marley) If someone pre-judges they are look mean‚ nasty or poor. But‚ you never know unless you talk to them. Santiago pre-judges the Gypsy and Old man when he firsts meets them. Later on Santiago realizes that if he pre-judge you will not find out the truth. Paulo Coelho uses Melchizedek and the Gypsy to illustrate that you should not

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    emotional boy who wasn’t really loved by his mother; With his determination‚ he tries to get her love by trying to solve the money problem. Paul’s mother never really loved him. Mothers are supposed to be there for their children and love them. “She had bonny children‚ yet she felt they had been thrust upon her‚ and she could not love

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    about him. He no longer has the smooth baby face he had before he joined the army. His face has scars that defines him as a individual‚ dark marks‚ tan lines cover his face from being in the field‚ his sharp features reminds me of how much he worked to find us this life. The thing that eats at my heart every day is the tired look he tries to cover every time he comes home‚ the stress that caused gray hairs around his military haircut. My father taught me several lessons‚ I can hear him vividly lecturing

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