“Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel‚” by Jared Diamond is without a doubt a very interesting read that gives you a different perspective about history. The main thesis of the book involves Diamond trying to answer Yali’s question “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had little cargo of our own?” Diamond is able to answer Yali’s question with the title of the book guns‚ germs‚ and steel. He believed that these three factors are the main reasons
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Cast Away In the film Cast Away‚ I was interested in Chuck’s transition between his communication process from before he was stranded on the island and his communication skills when he got back. Being stranded on an island for four years‚ having no one but a volleyball to talk to would of course have some effects on how anyone would present themselves when they returned. I noticed that in the beginning of the film‚ Chuck had sufficient communication competence and was able to connect well with
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reconcile his independence that forms his identity with the pattern that provides safety? An achievement of independence is the beauty that creates life‚ however‚ life --as fragile it may be--‚ requires security. In the biographical essay "On Running Away"‚ the author‚ John Keats implies that in order to reconcile the desire to act independently with the need for security an individual will be forced to make a decision between the two. An individual creates a perspective upon his memories of
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CAST AWAY celebrates the idea that no matter how many obstacles are thrown in our paths‚ we will find ways to accept them. The story is not so much about the survival of a human being‚ but rather the survival of the human spirit and an illustration of the idea that surviving is easy‚ Hanks stars as Chuck Noland‚ a FedEx systems engineer whose personal and professional life are ruled by the clock. His fast-paced career takes him‚ often at a moment’s notice‚ to far-flung locales and away from his girlfriend
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify‚ simplify‚ simplify . Thoreau said‚ "Our lives are frittered away by details...simplify‚ simplify" meaning that people are concerned too much by insignificant things and not those that are truly important. He wrote‚ "As you simplify your life the laws of the universe will be simpler‚ solitude will not be solitude‚ poverty will not be poverty‚ nor weakness." This quote gives us a bigger idea of living our lives and simplifying each moment to its best
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Gun Rights/Gun Control I will be conducting my essay on gun control/gun rights. I honestly don’t think that hunters need springfield semi-automatic rifle or a semi-automatic rifle similar to an ak-47 with a 30 round clip! If you go on cabelas.com you will see that they are selling guns labelled as self and home defense‚ but they are semi-automatic shotguns! you could buy a semi-auto gun on the internet to ship to you for a low cost of 300 dollars. A student‚ mentally ill person or just flat out
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Intl. Films Spirited Away Let me start by saying that this movie is a groundbreaking original and a must see for anyone from the elderly to children over the age of cartoons don’t make me cry anymore.’ This wondrous and wonderful animated feature‚ directed by Hayao Miyazaki‚ makes even the most recent American cartooning - Disney included - seem ordinary and unexciting. But it’s not just the amazing technical artistry the decorated scenery‚ the sense of depth‚ dimension and detail that this
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were completely ignoring my feelings and questions. My opinions and feelings meant nothing to them because they made the choice on their own. I was a Essay on Moving Away Moving away from all of your best friends can be a real tragedy in a sixteen-year-old teenagers life. It ’s hard to get up and go eight hundred miles away from everyone you know and everything you grew up around. I had this happen to me about three years ago and it is the largest change I have ever had to adjust to in my life
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smiled as I pulled the object out. I had not bothered trying to walk for a few days now. I had found out about my miscarriage just a few days ago and knowing this‚ my love for everything else shattered. My unborn child‚ my unwritten book‚ my creation‚ taken away and gone forever. I had been inseminated four months ago because I knew I was not going to find a partner in life. I just wanted to be home alone in my room and disappear without the world knowing. Each step I took felt like I was plunging into
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Spirited Away Essay In the movie ’Spirited Away’ by Hayo Miyazaki is about a journey to the land of spirits of a ten year old girl named Chihiro. She has puffy cheeks and downcast expression and can be seen as having an awkward personality - angry and miserable‚ and unwilling to do anything out of the ordinary. However in the course of the film‚ she matures and finds the things she truly values. though not in the usual obvious manner of similar stories. Spirited Away is an experience in which along
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