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    5 Random Acts of Kindness

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    5 Random Acts of Kindness 1. On a Friday afternoon‚ I helped my mom wash the laundry. While she was cooking food for dinner‚ I washed the clothe without her noticing. After an hour‚ every clothe was clean and folded. The look on her face said it all‚ she was surprised and happy. The way I felt that day was great and supportive. 2. The next morning‚ after everybody finish eating dinner I washed the dishes. It was around 6:30 A.M in the morning when everybody was sleeping. It was luck that

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    A Simple Act of Kindness I believe that kindness is one of the most important human characteristics. It is not that hard to say a simple ’thank you’‚ and yet it can really change the outlook of someone else’s day. My sister once told me‚ “It takes more muscles to frown than to smile.” I have noticed that just being polite to the people around you can really make the atmosphere around you more positive. I can think of a lot of examples of when being polite has made things a little smoother‚ including

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    In the article “The Kindness Of Strangers”‚ the author‚ Levine (2006/2007) writes of the helpfulness of strangers. He does extensive research and also performs experiments. He found that in some places of the world people were more likely to help people they do not know than in other places. He explains that environment‚ socialization‚ and economics affects how willing people are to help. Levine (2006/2007) uses economics the most through his article. He does this‚ because experiments showed that

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    understanding‚ even though they share nothing in interest. However one will eventually attempt a change‚ to try and manipulate their circumstances for the better or to leave. The other is inevitably left alone and desolate. Although a complicated kindness entwines many such consequences from social issues and other obstacles deep inside its storylines‚ it reveals its dominant theme in the conclusion: that love endures in the end. Love will make hardships tolerable‚ will bind people together in spirit

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    Naomi Wolf‚ in The Beauty Myth‚ addresses the unrealistic standards of beauty that are placed on women. This book was written in the late 1900s‚ around the same time as the rise of third wave feminism‚ and was directed mostly toward feminists. Wolf wanted to inform how beauty standards hurt women in society. However‚ she loses credibility and is unsuccessful in achieving that purpose. In her first chapter‚ “The Beauty Myth‚” Wolf begins by comparing beauty to a currency system because both are “determined

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    Bill Nye VS Ken Ham  Bill Nye Believes in Earths natural creation with the big bang theory. He said that  it is impossible to have Noahs ark. He doesn’t believe there was a 500 foot wooden  boat with 8 zookeepers taking care of 14‚000 individual animals and all the plants under  water. This is what Ken Ham believes. Bill Nye then brings up the Grand Canyon and  explains that the fossils are found in layers and not one spot is there fossils that cross  over into another fossil layer. He says animals would swim up to a higher level

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    One of the earliest times that I remember committing an act of kindness was the one that made my mother the most proud. I was in the fourth grade and considering that I had just moved to a new school‚ I wasn’t exactly the most extroverted person in my grade level. Maybe that was why everyone was so shocked to see me‚ of all people‚ standing up against a bully. I remember what had happened perfectly. I was sitting in the seat behind a boy who was known to have a few special needs but nothing serious

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    Passage Analysis: A Complicated Kindness “This town is so severe. And silent. It makes me crazy‚ the silence. I wonder if a person can die from it. The town office building has a giant filing cabinet full of death certificates that say choked to death on his own anger or suffocated from unexpressed feelings of unhappiness. Silentium. People here just can’t wait to die‚ it seems. It’s the main event. The only reason we’re not all snuffed at birth is because that would reduce our suffering by a lifetime

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    During the lecture on March 22nd‚ we began to evaluate crisis and reliance in the context of the global climate crisis of today. We based our discussion on the text‚ This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein. The introduction to the book begins with an interesting anecdote that grabs the audience’s attention – in the setting of a commercial plane‚ the passengers are asked to collect their luggage and exit the plane‚ as they went down the stairs something unusual caught their attention‚ someone posted

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    Globalization is perceived as beneficial to our economy and society as a whole‚ but when further defined by some today; it is not only harmful but fatal to citizens and mainly women of the world. Naomi Klein‚ in “Fences of Enclosure‚ Windows of Possibility”‚ uses the theme of fences to explain how often humanity is obstructed due to globalization. Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn discuss the discrimination women are facing all over the world. As a whole‚ globalization is harmful to women because

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