Resilience is our ability to adapt and bounce back when things don’t go as planned. Judith Rodin defines five characteristics of resilience as being aware‚ diverse‚ integrated‚ self-regulating and adaptive. I will examine awareness and integrated because I find these two characteristics interesting and an essential aspect of resilience. According to Rodin‚ being aware is an important characteristic of resilience because you have to know your weakness and strengths to be able to effectively prepare
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In the poem‚ ‘An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow’ by ‘Les Murray’ reflects upon a different type of society as feelings and emotions are kept secret. In the first stanza of the poem Murray uses imagery to paint a picture in the readers mind of a busy city coming to a halt‚ ‘Pitt Street is baked up for almost half a mile.’ At the end of the stanza Murray again uses imagery to make the readers see a man crying. People walk by him and see him crying but they do not stop him. The man in this poem is not
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Judith Thomson: A Defense of Abortion Judith Thomson article simply outlines the right of abortion with women. Judith presents the argument that everyone has a right to life. However‚ throughout the article she underlines key arguments and give multiple examples and analogies to further prove her point. Thomson began by saying that because everyone has a right to life‚ it is automatically assumed that the fetus is a person‚ and therefore has a right to life. Furthermore‚ the mother does have
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few people who would argue that life is fair. Some might say that this unfairness comes from God’s wrath at Adam’s rebellion‚ some say it’s the fact that human beings are so greedy that no matter what happens to them they believe it underwhelming compared to what they deserve. Albert Camus‚ in The Guest‚ proposes that there is a free choice that goes along with life and if the result seems unfair‚ it is because humans are out of synch with each other. Daru‚ the schoolmaster that The Guest surrounds
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The Guest – Prejudice/Stereotyping In the short story‚ The Guest‚ by Albert Camus‚ there is evidence of prejudice that occurred in the area of El Ameur. The Arab that had been taken into custody was being taken to prison due to a murder that he supposedly committed against his cousin by a neighboring community that was soon to be at war with the Arab community. They didn’t offer a trial for the Arab to determine why he committed the crime or what circumstances it was under‚ they simply arrested
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encounter can either add or take away from them. Typically‚ people let their obstacles define them while others arise from them. Despite someone who lets their obstacles define them‚ it’s important for them to overcome them. A way to overcome them is with a positive attitude. In Edgar Albert Guest’s “It couldn’t be done‚” he used particular words and phrases to emphasize his theme of your ability of doing anything if you try your best. Guest chose to use those particular words and
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Huck Finn vs. Judith Loftus The women presented in the novel so far are mostly smarter than the men presented. One of these women is Judith Loftus. She outsmarts the trickster himself‚ Huck Finn. Mrs. Loftus is a hypocritical maternal figure. Up until this point‚ Huck has been a very good liar. He has been able to outsmart and trick anybody he wants‚ but not Judith Loftus. He is out of his element during his meeting with her. First off‚ he is dressed as a girl. This situation makes
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An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow-Les Murray. In Les Murray’s ’An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow’‚ there is a clear unconventional portrayal of the hero‚ and he shows many heroic concepts as a result of the dramatic techniques used to convey the notion of the weeping man not being society’s ’conventional perception’ of a hero. The poems persona is simply an un-named ’observer’ who tells the story‚ in a third person present tense narrative form ("they") which assists in portraying the notion that a weeping
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Ordinary Men is regarded as seminal in Holocaust studies‚ as micro-history in its own right‚ and valuable for studying authoritarianism and indoctrination on individuals and collective groups. Tracing a single German unit‚ Reserve Police Battalion 101 (henceforth RPB-101) throughout their military duty as they are instructed to kill innocent Jewish men‚ women and children face-to-face in Poland‚ Browning documents their transition from men originally deemed unworthy of conscription to efficient killers
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Literary Review of “The Ambitious Guest” by Nathaniel Hawthorne Though the family lived a simple yet proud life in the Notch of the White Hills‚ they were not immune to the vanity the stranger brought to their cozy cottage they caught his disease of fame and paid dearly. The story began on a cold September night in a dangerous area in New England as a cheerful family set around their hearth to enjoy their solitude of their inner circle. As the wind roared outside‚ a stranger‚ a young man came to
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