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    questions or problems raised by the text These responses are worth 1 mark each‚ adding up to a total of 10% of your final grade. Raymond Williams “Culture is Ordinary” Williams’ main idea that he tried to convey through his essay and our journey through his learned experiences of what makes up a culture was that “culture is ordinary‚” and is made up of two distinct parts: the known meanings and directions‚ which its members are trained to (the experiences we accumulate) the new observations

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    Suggestions for welcoming a guest with visual impairment: * Relax and smile. There’s no reason to be nervous. * Introduce yourself and speak to the person directly and include the person in any ongoing conversation. * Remember there’s no need to raise your voice. * Allow a person with visual impairment to handle a child’s natural curiosity in his or her own way. * Ask before assuming a person with visual impairment needs help. * Allow a person to hold on to your arm. *

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    HF250 A2 Jared Ko McCue • You should have an explanation of the duty of care that is owed by a hotel to a guest and to give some examples and some references to some cases with different fact patterns. -Hospitality organizations have a duty of “reasonable care” to protect guests‚ which depend on the facts and circumstances. If a hotel elevator fell and injured a guest‚ the hotel would be liable for his or her injuries since it can be seen that the hotel was negligent since the hotel could

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    individuals [Nazis] were ordinary‚ everyday people. Just like me. The phrase “they were ordinary people” replayed in mind for days. They were neither criminals nor sadists‚ so what changed? How could an ordinary citizen suddenly accept the genocide of millions of people who were their [Nazis] neighbors‚ friends‚ and co-workers? So many questions entered my mind. Previously‚ I was taught to believe these individuals were mentally ill or “sick” monsters‚ but they were ordinary people.

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    Close Reading Assignment ‘Culture is Ordinary’ by Raymond Williams commences with a short‚ yet descriptive account of Williams’ individual cultural chapters and histories in which he experienced whilst living in Wales as a young boy. Through these anecdotes Williams’ directly establishes with the audience the concept of culture and society being formed through mutual meanings and everyday understandings amongst assemblages‚ when he writes – “Every human society has it’s own shape‚ it’s own purposes

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    Nathan Hale was an ordinary person‚ as ordinary as he can be‚ but he never knew he was going to grow up so fast. Nathan Hale grew up to be a spy. He was someone who loved his country more than his life. He was the first man killed in the U.S.’ Army working as a spy. He had a big family and many friends as well. One of them was a spy‚ as well. After he started his career‚ he accepted a job in the Continental army. Then he became a spy. He reported lots of information to the U.S. government‚ but sadly

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    autobiography An Ordinary Man Paul Rusesabagina‚ Paul tells his story of being an ordinary man who becomes a hero during by the Rwandan genocide and how he just did his job and saved countless lives. Within the story‚ Paul explains how human nature truly is. He tells how even the evilest people have a soft‚ compassionate side. Man is neither inherently good nor evil but‚ rather a combination of both. People are not purely good or evil‚ human nature is the combination of both‚ even hard people have a soft

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    “The End of Remembering” and “The Ordinary Devoted Mother” both focus on the concepts of self creation and the limits of oneself. “The End of Remembering” is a passage written by Joshua Foer regarding how technology has impaired the current generations thought process. Many people still believe that the reasoning for memory loss is because of our age‚ but in reality people tend to become forgetful because of the lack of exercise their brain endures. Foer uses oneself as a reference to how technology

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    Ordinary Thinking: Ordinary thinking is associative thinking…the mind is allowed to move anywhere. Contemplation: Thinking becomes contemplation when it moves not through accociation‚ but is directed. You work on a particular problem and you bracket out all associations. For example‚ science is based on contemplation…any logical thinking is contemplation. Contemplation is logical and rational. Concentration: Concentration is staying at one point‚ not allowing your mind to move at all…it

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    The Dark Time The Ordinary World One day I decided go outside run around the city to get some air and I found bad guys so I took care them by using my swords because they had guns in there hand. Call to Adventure After taking care of the bank robbery were two wanted criminals joe and mike took people hostage at one guy told me something about mr.light and gave me a package full of information the bad guys was trying to get and when I look up he was gone. Entering the

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