Linda Pastan via “Ethics” explores the importance of experience and leads the reader through a psychological journey with an overlaying philosophical question: “If there were a fire in a museum / which would you save‚ a Rembrandt painting / or an old woman who hadn’t many / years left anyhow?” (3-6) Pastan brilliantly structures her poem to alter the central question so that it appears more difficult to answer. By leaving "a Rembrandt painting" at the end of line 4 and "years left anyhow" at line
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Living with Strangers - Siri Hustvedt In all cities and cultures around the world are there unwritten rules‚ who people outside this place will not understand. That was what has inspired Siri Hustvedt about New York City. She moved from her little hometown Minnesota to New York‚ which was a big difference from the life she used to live. Especially the unwritten law: "PRETEND IT ISN’T HAPPENING-Law" fascinates her the most. That is how many in New York are thinking‚ even though most of them actually
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Three Ways Music Affects My Life Music has always been a huge factor in my life. Not only does it serve as one of my greatest influences in the world‚ but it also defines who I am as a human being. It has helped mold me into the kind of person that I am today‚ as well as the kind of person that I strive to become in the future. Three ways music affects my life are it gives me the strength to achieve my goals‚ it enables me to express myself through the emotions that I am feeling‚ and it calms me
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“The National Anthem Isn’t a Pop Song” by Mark Corallo Critique For many reasons‚ Mark Corallo’s article on Christina Aguilera’s performance does not fulfill its purpose in any great extent. His assumptions were not all accurate. He claims her singing on kick- off Sunday night was an embarrassment to herself and everyone else. It also states mostly how she didn’t even have the right lyrics to the song. The article drew a lot of attention to Christina and how she was the wrong person for this position
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The poem‚ “Ethics”‚ by Linda Pastan is about age‚ regret and the old woman’s thoughts about her teacher and the ethical question from so long ago. The same question was asked in Ethics class every fall‚ ”If there were a fire in a museum‚ which would you save‚ a Rembrandt paintings or an old woman who hadn’t many years left anyhow?” The author or main character in the poem probably grappled with this annual question for years. The question brings up the value of any life‚ both youthful and old
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NOP & EAP Introduction • standards currently are too low in the centre in particular registration of children in our coaching sessions‚ late arrivals‚ time keeping in coaching sessions‚ behaviour‚ standard of first aid boxes‚ accident investigation‚ child protection‚ Reporting of incidents‚ Emergency action plan. To help improve standards we are going to introduce the following procedures. Registration of children to coaching sessions We are currently allowing children to come in on the day and
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played a major role in organizing new members and establishing many benefits‚ including the largest union-based adult education program in the U.S. During her 17-year tenure with DC 37‚ the union’s ranks skyrocketed from 30‚000 to 120‚000. In 1995‚ Linda Chavez-Thompson of AFL-CIO was elected executive vice president. She was the first person of color to be elected to one of the federation’s three highest offices. She is of Mexican descent and was one of the highest ranking elected woman officers’
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“Fireflies” “Fireflies” is a short story‚ written by Linda Cookson. The short story includes four small stories; these are interrelated in one story. The main character meets a man on a train‚ where we hear the first story. The man tells about his daughter who had jumped out from a tall building in Japan with a roman candle in her hand‚ and committed suicide. Then there is the strange dream happening on the beach‚ where Annie reads Robinson Crusoe aloud for Sophie‚ and the cave‚ the monster and
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Linda Zagzebski‚ Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at the University of Oklahoma‚ defined virtue as “an excellence that has never been questioned… a state of the soul.” [2]. Zagzebski communicated in her definition that virtues transcend cultures
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how well they accomplish their daily chores‚ especially if it is coming from their family members. People should recognize how grateful they are to have a family in the first place‚ and they should appreciate what’s done for them‚ not how it’s done. Linda Pastan’s poem Marks contains irony‚ metaphors‚ and appropriate diction throughout the text to
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