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    In Oliver Sacks’ The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat‚ Dr. P‚ a teacher at a local school of music started acting in weird ways‚ not recognizing students by their faces‚ but once he would hear them speak he would know exactly who they were‚ by recognizing their

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    After reading through the book “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales‚” by Oliver Sacks‚ one chapter in particular really stuck out to me for a few reasons. This book reminded me of the TV show “House”‚ where this doctor gets a bunch of unusual cases and has to figure out what is wrong and it seems like Oliver Sacks in this book. This whole book I found to be extremely interesting and hard to put down so it was tough to think of one chapter to focus on. I decided to narrow

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    Sack Race

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    *PROPOSAL TITLE: PALARONG PINOY/ PALARONG BSHM 1-2 GAMES: * SACK RACE * PASS THE KALAMANSI * PASS THE PINGPONG BALL * TOMATO RELAY MECHANICS OF THE GAME/ RULES AND REGULATION: * SACK RACE- PLAYERS NEEDS TO WEAR THE SACK AND RACE TO THE FINISHED LINE‚ THE FIRST TEAM WHO REACHED IN THE FINISHED LINE WINS. * PASS THE KALAMANSI- EACH MEMBER OF THE TEAM SHOULD TAKE THE KALAMANSI TO THE POLE AND TURN BACK TO THEIR TEAM MATES BY USING

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    The Sack of Palermo

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    The sack of Palermo refers to the building boom in the 1950s and 1960s. It wasn’t necessarily a benefitting renovation of Palermo but rather a melancholy one. Historical buildings and landmarks were ordered for demolition‚ rather being preserved. The beauty and unique architecture of the Villa Deliella was being destroyed for bland office buildings and apartments. While many disapproved of the construction‚ World War II had left the city‚ somewhat‚ crumbled. Bombings had forced thousands to live

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    Sacks Great Partnership

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    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ The Great Partnership: Science‚ Religion and the Search for Meaning depicts Sacks’ understanding of the relationship between religion and science. In the first part of the book‚ Sacks’ differentiates between religion and science and discusses some of the reasons why people believe that science and religion are incompatible. The second part of Sacks’ book is primarily about the importance of religion and the effect on the world if religion was lost. The last and final part of

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    Nut Sack

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    Purpose: Use the motion sensor to measure the motion of a cart as it collides with a bumper. Use a force sensor mounted on the track to measure the force of the collision over the same interval of time. Use DataStudio to compare the change in momentum of the cart with the integral of the measured force vs time graph. Data: Item | Value | Mass of Cart | 516g | Impulse | .35N | Velocity before | .343 m/s | Velocity after | -.318 m/s | Momentum before | .177 kg m/s | Momentum after |

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    Summary Of Awakenings

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    Padolina Ms. Peggy Anne Movie Critique of “Awakenings” Directed by Penny Marshal Based on the Oliver Sacks’ 1973 Awakenings Based on a true story written by Oliver SacksAwakenings showed the true meaning between love and appreciation of life. It tells about the story about how Oliver Sacks discovered the beneficial effects of the drug L-dopa and administered in catatonic patients who survived the epidemic in 1917-1928. How Oliver Sacks takes a job at Bronx Psychiatric Hospital in 1969

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    semester‚ it becomes evident that these sources compare and contrast in myriad ways. However‚ the writings of Franzen‚ Sacks‚ and Specter exhibit the strongest similarities in their exploration of the topic of memory by noting its disadvantages and benefits‚ employing similar diction‚ and by using pathos to appeal to the intended audience. The works of Franzen‚ Specter‚ and Sacks respectively focus on the failure of memory while simultaneously highlighting its strength. In the Long Slow Slide into

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    On the Sacks is one of the phenomenal books I have read for its authenticity and credibility‚ the author Hanna Mina described his difficulties through his childhood and how he overcame them with determination and diligence. The story started first with a very gloomy and dark background‚ Hanna was the only boy in his family since his father’s venture to sell pastries. The family was hoping for their father’s safe return waiting at the doorstep‚ looking forward to him sooner. These details led Hanna’s

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    The Awakening

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    The Awakening The novel‚ The Awakening by Kate Chopin‚ was written in the late nineteenth century in St. Louis after her husband Oscar died of a severe illness. Her book appeared in 1899‚ after she was idolized by many novels written by Darwin and Sarah Orne Jewett. Her first attempts at writing were just brief sketches for a local newspaper that was only short descriptions of her life in Louisiana. However‚ Chopin’s interests had always run along more risky lines‚ as reflected in her diaries

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