OVERVIEW The document we are about to study is an extract/excerpt from a report entitled “Caught in the Backlash‚ Stories from Northern California” published in November 2002 by the ACLU (whose aim is to defend individual rights and liberties.) The main character is called Charlotte Wu and is a 22-year-old sophomore who’s fond of/keen on/crazy about videogames. One day in late 2001‚ Charlotte played a videogame with her friends. Then she left the game. Later‚ a player phoned her and she helped him
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2013 A Father’s Lesson Parents have the responsibility to teach and to protect their children. In teaching them while they are young parents hope to save them from making mistakes later in life. In the novel Life of Pi‚ Santosh‚ Pi’s father wishes to save his boys from future fatal blunders. His lesson was done in somewhat a harsh way but it was necessary‚ any other way may not have been effective‚ and it accomplished what he wanted it to. Some would view this father’s lesson as harsh and a little
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The Lessons Learned in My Career and My future Aspirations In last several decades‚ people can see constantly development of technology. This has affected a lot of aspects of society such as education‚ defence‚ industry and so on‚ especially in economy. The development of economy goes a long side with the development of technology that create a number of jobs for people. In other words‚ nowadays‚ people have a lot of choices to choose a job for them. Although many people want to work in financial
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My Implications and Learned Lessons in Business Negotiation Being a salesperson like me‚ I must admit that it is a tough marketplace out there and strong negotiating skills are fundamental to achieving and more importantly sustaining career and business success‚ particularly within a competitive sales and marketing environment. Those of us who want to achieve better results‚ both at work and in our private lives‚ need to develop effective negotiating skills. It is worth to bear in mind that if
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Wednesday‚ April‚ 30th Life Lessons of Victor Frankenstein Mary Oliver once said that the instructions for living life are to “Pay attention‚ be astonished‚ tell about it.” This profoundly speaks about life lessons and that they key is to pay attention‚ learn from them and be astonished and then share our own wisdom to benefit others. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly‚ Victor Frankenstein learns many lessons throughout the course of the story. Victor learns three main lessons; that keeping scientific
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Life is not perfect; sometime we succeed and sometime we fail. But‚ the good thing is we can learn from our mistakes. In Harper Lee’s novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ there are many useful life lessons. These lessons can teach us how to be a considerable person and live a better life with others. The main three lessons are optimistic even in tragedy‚ see things from others’ perspective and respect others. Firstly‚ Harper Lee shows us that we should feel optimistic even in tragedy. As Miss Maudie
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Lessons of The Past 1. Don’t Judge Others Unless You Know Them I learned this lesson when I was just a young girl. I was in the 6th grade I think and it was these group of girls (preps) and they seemed that they were mean. I was new at the school and I really didn’t know the girls for myself so I just went with what everyone else was saying. A couple of months past and I haven’t talked to the girls because of what some of the other kids had told me. I finally got the courage to talk to the
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Robert Frost: Lessons of Life Robert Frost has over fifty poems circulating throughout the world. Frost’s career can be separated between flashes of insight and deeper wisdom. Individuality‚ love‚ religion‚ and nature are all things that can be learned from Frost. His mental‚ emotional‚ and spiritual equipment all blend together to form poems which can teach people things about their own life. Love can be learned from Robert Frost’s poetry. Frost’s poem‚ “Reluctance”‚ is a representation
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Robinson English 032 February 11‚ 2014 Paragraph 1 Learning A Valuable Lesson In Life On May 27‚ 2011‚ I came to know of a lesson that was indeed learned the hard way. I was asked to leave my home and never return. This day was and still is the hardest day I have ever come to know. It was emotional and most of all‚ it opened my eyes to a world that I had not yet known. The day started out like any other day in my life. I was on vacation at the beach getting ready to come home. I packed my things
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What are the social values and life lessons learned through youth sport participation? Social values and life lessons develop “character.” Character is associated with a host of sport values such as teamwork‚ loyalty‚ self sacrifice‚ perseverance‚ work ethic‚ and mental toughness. Two sets of values define character; social values and moral values. Social values are usually defined by coaches‚ administrators‚ and players. North American society seems to associate character more with social
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