ethics drives actions‚ and to some point‚ emotions day by day. Depending‚ on the individual our personal ethics and where we stand will lead us on a path of failure or success. According to my Ethical Lens Inventory‚ my preferred ethical lens is Rights- Responsibility and Results Lens (Ethical Lens Inventory Games)‚ meaning
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Critical Lens Name ____________________ Sample Introduction and Date _________ Period ______ Body Paragraph Critical Lens: “It is the responsibility of the writer to expose our many grievous faults and failures and to hold up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams‚ for the purpose of improvement.” –John Steinbeck (adapted) Directions: All of the following are essential in a good introduction. Number the following in the introduction: 1. The lens 2. Interpretation
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Evolution of Birds It has become widely accepted that birds have evolved from reptiles in the Jurassic period and are the living descendants of a group of dinosaurs called theropods. Birds share hundreds of unique skeletal features with dinosaurs. Over the years‚ birds have evolved in a wide variety of forms‚ from flightless and aquatic to flying animals. Due to poor fossil records‚ some information regarding the evolution of birds are based on theories but during the last 30 years‚ the evolutionary
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cultural-ecological and the Marxist explanation. According to Suttle (1960: 299) the potlatch is an occasion where the host/s invites members of other communities to the host community to receive gifts of wealth in order to confirm changes of status and exercise of inherited privileges. An example of people who practice the potlatch system is the Southern Kwakiutl society commonly described as having plenty of food and other natural resources which were made even better by
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Othello is a play written by Shakespeare that features a top ranking military official‚ Othello. The main focus of the play is the love between Othello and Desdemona and how it became poisoned by a man named Iago. The Marxist perspective best impacted my understanding of Othello because of how the main plot was heavily subjected to Iago’s lust for power and wealth. Iago took advantage of people to propel his agenda. An example of this was when he used Roderigo’s emotions toward Desdemona to his
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“The Birds” The men and women of the world did something that affected Mother Nature‚ thus having the birds attack people around the world; how tough can the men and women of this world can come to get over this chaos? Even though birds had been flying the skies for over a thousand years‚ they had shown the people of what they are capable of doing and cannot. The short story “The Birds” by Du Maurier and the movie “The Birds” by Alfred Hitchcock; the short story has a better story‚ because in
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How do we know which season the poet describes? A. The season is spring‚ seen in the springing grass‚ first bird‚ first bud. Note the simile here‚ which helps us picture the pastoral scene which the bird so desperately wishes to join. What figure of speech describes the flower? A. The poet refers to the fragrance of a flower as it opens. He uses a metaphor to compare the flower to a goblet. What type of figurative language is used here? A. The poet uses personification‚ “cruel bars‚” attributing
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cannot stick to the core theme of the story. Although Maurier’s “The Birds” and Hitchcock’s The Birds have similar plot structures‚ the short story version is more entertaining because of lack of romance‚ more concise beginning‚ and ambiguous ending. There is a gathering of external plot points added to The Birds film. For starters‚ The Birds is more of a romance movie with some bird conflict along the way whereas “The Birds” short story focuses more on the suspense aspect of the plot. Since
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and the poor is a theme common in the films‚ ‘The talented Mr Ripley’‚ ‘Pretty Woman’ and ‘Titanic’‚ where individuals attempt to overcome the void between social classes by different means. It is through symbolism and narrative techniques that a Marxist approach
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the image formed by a converging lens plus diverging lens. Background This experiment focused on a simple lens system. A simple lens is a piece of glassware that is spherical on one side and flat on another side‚ or spherical on both sides. There are two different types of lenses. A converging lens‚ also called a positive lens‚ and a diverging lens‚ also known as a negative lens. A converging lens thicker middle area than top and bottom‚ and the diverging lens has a skinnier mid-section. When
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