Ayn Rand said that “Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public‚ ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the progress of setting man free from men.” I think that Rand is wrong. Civilization is not people keeping their lives hidden from others‚ but sharing their experiences in a way that is beneficial to yourself and society. One way that one can create a better world‚ is for people to open up and share their ideas so that others can
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Chinese Whispers: A game played everywhere in the world‚ in which a message is whispered by one person to another‚ that is passed through a line of people until the message is announced by the last person to the entire group. Chinese Whispers: A game which brings most hard of hearing people to their knees. Perhaps it was my inability to respond to a sharp whistle or the lack of attention my Grade two teacher received from me during story time‚ but there was always something about me that never
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Ryan Sheales reports on the struggles and triumphs of Asylum Seekers trying to settle in Australia‚ fleeing persecution and seeking something so simple yet sometimes elusive; a fresh start. Sheales along with Social researches decipher the controversial question of Australia’s acceptance of migrants and inform readers of the lack of yet crucial importance of a welcoming atmosphere in Australia. Many Australians are misguided by stereotypes‚ lack of understanding‚ generalizations and misconceptions
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The first group we belong to‚ the family has more influence than any other group on forming our identity. Knowing who we are and where we belong to makes us feel happy and secure. Family is always the first and forever group that we belong to. They have more influence than any other group in shaping our identity. Other group like friends also help shape our identity but to a lesser extent. Family offers environment in which a person learns early‚ at the same time family is the first source of
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We all dream of a better life We all know about living the dream‚ My family and I left the Kabul for Pakistan in 1995. Our dream was a better life a life which we could sleep a night with peace a life which we could walk with no fair. Me and my father we were working as labour for a small company‚ it was 50/km far from our home and we were going there by my dad`s bicycle. The work was hard everything was hard there‚ but when I was coming home and looking that my brothers and sisters are having
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Quote 1 They’ve learned their lesson after Gogol. They’ve learned that schools in America will ignore parents’ instructions and register a child under his pet name. The only way to avoid such confusion‚ they have concluded‚ is to do away with the pet name altogether‚ as many of their Bengali friends have done. (3.56) Poor Gogol. As the first born‚ he’s the guinea pig for Ashoke and Ashima. The lessons they learn from raising him prepare them for the challenges of raising their second child‚ who
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I leap onto the hot‚ dry sand as it screeches under my burning feet‚ bolting with speed down to the water‚ so eager. The surfboard feeling heavy under my arm after trekking from home in the scorching summer’s heat. I dive in and it actually feels like heaven‚ exhilarating‚ yet I have never felt so alive. I paddle over a clean 3 foot wave rolling in and over towards my anxiously waiting mates‚ anticipating the next sets to come through. I finally get out the back of the waves and sit up on my board
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The greatest pain in life is not that of the physical kind. It is not loss. It is not death. But it is to be ignored. Excluded. Alone. I’m like a tree. A dead tree‚ who stands alone in a field of emptiness. Sadness. My bark is flaking‚ falling‚ fading. I am fading. My leaves curl and crumble. They are brown‚ dead‚ ugly. But you‚ you are a beautiful tree‚ whose branches stretch across the sky‚ far and wide. Whose leaves are a bright‚ luminescent green in the spring‚ and a rich‚ ruby red in the autumn
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The groups we reject tell us as much about ourselves as those to which we choose to belong Do I Belong? By Danielle Arnold –Levy “Who am I?” is a question often repeated by teenagers‚ though they may not voice it out loud or use precisely those words. One of the biggest challenges that adolescents face during the transition between childhood and adulthood is this struggle with their own sense of identity. For one thing‚ it seems to constantly shift: they may act one way with a particular group
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The dead-ended street She stood in the middle of the street‚ where the wind washed on the sighing pavement with a hollow sound at midnight. Her empty eyes saw straight through the bleary neon lights flickering on and off the street signs. She looked and saw nothing‚ gulping in cleansing‚ scouring draughts of air. Her hair whipped around her face‚ and the world was reduced to fragments and blurs‚ spots and smudges of something unreal. A train whistled through the air behind her‚ silent as a
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