We got rid of our cable about a month ago in an attempt to watch less TV. What I’ve learned is that you don’t really need a TV service. We can watch most of our favorite shows online for free and‚ of course‚ we have Netflix to take up hours upon hours of our time. We’ve tried not to watch too much TV‚ but this past weekend I found a show called 13 Reasons Why and became interested in the plot about a woman who takes her own life and then describes the 13 reasons why she does so. I’m on episode 12
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popular media has a tendency to “dumb” down societies. Whether you believe this idea is solely based on your discretion‚ but there is one man who took the time to analyze this collective supposition deeply. Steven Johnson and his written work Everything Bad Is Good For You looked at the effects from popular media from an alternative perspective. Looking past the arguments of morality‚ Johnson calls attention to the progressive complexity in cultures seen in the past thirty years through elements
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school‚ like going to Africa to visit young patient suffering from AIDS‚ or wandering around the yard in the soft moonlight to gain inspiration of composing songs. How can you seek inspiration through the combination of love and nature can hardly be learned through professors’ lectures‚ but by using our hearts to feel and to appreciate. Going to the place where people lead a strenuous life as well as experiencing the pain from diseases does help us realize that we should appreciate the happy life we
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A lesson learned in the hard way People learn things in different ways. Some learn from books‚ some learn from the interaction with other people‚ and some learn from past experiences. For me‚ I always feel learning from personal experiences is the most effective way. I still remember one bitter story of myself when I was young and the lessons learned from it has never been forgotten. It happened when I was 8 years old studying at a local elementary school. Like most of the pupils in China‚ I
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Learned helplessness can be primarily found in abuse victims. Learned helplessness was originally discovered when an “animal is repeatedly subjected to an aversive stimulus that it cannot escape” (Cherry‚ 2016). According to Cherry (2016) the animal will eventually stop trying to avoid the stimulus and behave like it is completely helpless even if they have a way of avoiding the pain. Learned helplessness has a strong tie to animals‚ however it can be applied to many situations that involve humans
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This Changes Everything is a book that was created to disprove what people have chosen to believe in regards to climate change and their involvement in it. Naomi Klein forces people to remember climate change and disallow from being swept under the rug by climate change deniers. In this book‚ Klein attempts to accomplish the nearly impossible task of making everyone reflect on how much harm they have done to the environment. She debunks arguments against climate change in an attempt to get people
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Recently‚ the world was captivated by the incredible movie “The Theory of Everything”. The movie arrested the emotions of its viewers‚ taking then on a heartfelt and emotional ride. The movie was the autobiography of Stephen Hawking‚ who is considered to be one of the most intelligent individuals of our time. Professor Hawking continues to live with a motor neuron disease Lou Gehrig’s disease which‚ causes the affected individual to lose all control of voluntary muscles which can cause total paralysis
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Although I don’t remember exactly how I learned to read‚ I guess it sort of came to me as a little child when my parents used to read me prayers and stories from the Bible. In middle school‚ reading was essential in getting a good grade for English with the "Accelerated Reader" system being implemented at our school. Basically‚ it was a online program where you would be able to take tests on books once you have read them‚ and each book had a certain amount of points based on its difficulty and length
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does with all little children. Climax: Carver’s mother takes offense. Like‚ really takes offense. She smacks Julian’s mother her fist and purse‚ knocking her down. Julian doesn’t expect the violent act‚ but he still thinks it’s all for the best—she learned a lesson‚ and now she’s set up for a big redemptive moment that will change her life forever. Falling action: Julian’s mother was sitting on the sidewalk. Julian being angry and telling her he warned not to give the little boy a penny. He stood over
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Araceli Gasca Period 1 09/27/10 Ms. Adams AP English language How I Learned to Read For me learning to read was an extensive and boring experience; I took reading for granted and never suspected of the great knowledge that was hidden in every book‚ I thought was useless; the revelation came afterwards. It all started at home. I was about to be five years old and my mom was teaching me how to write my name. In my head I understood nothing of what I wrote but as far as I know that was
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