be a critical observation of our habitual use of war metaphors in our society. Tannen suggests that the argument culture urges us to think in a very adversarial manner that our conversations are usually set up to be a debate. Many of us believe that our society has a very binary thinking. In essence‚ we always think of the right and wrong‚ good and bad‚ black and white. We understand the language is a battleground and we know that words are powerful that they shape our perception. To a certain
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Our war stories By SHEELA CHANDRAN entertainment@thestar.com.my http://ecentral.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/2/15/tvnradio/10698441&sec=tvnradio An intriguing new documentary tells the personal stories of Malayans who endured turbulent times under Japanese rule during World War II. IT was exactly 70 years ago today – Feb 15‚ 1942 – when Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival‚ the British General Officer Commanding Malaya during World War II‚ took the drastic step of signing the surrender document
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Polygons in our life The importance of polygons would probably relate to the variety of polygon shape often used in the building of modern structures. The triangle‚ for instance‚ is often used in construction because its shape makes it comparatively strong. The use of the polygon shape reduces the quantity of materials needed to make a structure‚ so essentially reduces costs and maximizes profits in a business environment. Another polygon is the rectangle. The rectangle is used in a number of
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Puritan religious ideas are found in Anne Bradstreet’s poem “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House”‚ in which themes of devotion and selfless love for God are present throughout. There are also instances where those religious ideologies clash with the emotional response the speaker of the poem has while watching the burning house; and in this paper I argue that‚ through allusion to scripture and poetic form‚ there are comments on the struggle between knowing scripture and actually
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stress in our lives and these are defined as stressors. Stressors generally lead to negative stress because people cannot their demands. For example‚ when a person is in traffic congestion‚ he will be late for his job meeting or if teenagers who want to get higher grades are not successful in the exams they are generally in a stressful situation. Therefore‚ these stressors affect people’s lives negatively. People are often faced with many types of them and there are two major stressors in our lives.
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Technology in our lives Imagine your life without technology and how often we use it. Technology plays a vital role in our everyday life’s we use it for everything from doing math to reading a book. Technology has made some huge advances in the past couple years. They have made it part of our daily lives to the point where I think we might start to become too dependent on it‚ which would not be good for us in the long run. There might be a day where our technology stops working and we might not
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What ’s In Our Food Research Paper Introduction America is one of the unhealthiest developed countries in the world. About 36% of Americans are obese (Michael‚ 2012). Our diets have led to 16.3% of our nation ’s resources being spent on healthcare (White‚ 2013). There are antibiotics and growth hormones in our meat‚ Genetically Modified Organisms and pesticides in our produce‚ and high fructose corn syrup in most of the foods that are packaged and canned (Kenner‚ 2009). This leads to
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ANIMALS IN OUR HOME Home According to Miriam Webster‚ it is a one’s place of residence‚ the social unit formed by a family living together Domesticated Animals A domesticated animal is any animal that depends on a human for food‚ water and shelter this includes farm animals such as cattle‚ horses‚ sheep‚ chickens‚ goats‚ dogs and cats. Domesticated animals retain many of their basic instincts and drives but are not able to survive on their own in the wild‚ dogs‚ cats‚ or birds‚ whose strongest
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Side Effects Of The Evolutionary Process and Failed Experiments in Mutation John Green’s The Fault In Our Stars is not a very ambitious book. It only seeks to explore the meaning of life and death. Throughout the book‚ Green presents contrasting views about the meaning of life (and death). On one hand‚ Green explores various human emotions involving the idea of wanting to keep alive someone whose death is inevitable; but Green also presents the perspective that emotions are just a side effect of
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“My faith in God” Our faith is the key to please God‚ so our relationship with the Lord is reliant on it .Faith in God was gifted to us‚ but it is our choice to continue having faith or not. Having faith in God will help us to solve our problems and the things we need to continue our everyday life. Our wishes and dreams will be based on the faith we give‚ though even if it is as little as an ant‚ it will be granted but only if the wish you want was good and for the sake of all. Everything the Lord
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