Edward Snowden‚ the twenty-nine-year-old N.S.A. whistle-blower who was last said to be hiding in Hong Kong awaiting his fate‚ a hero or a traitor? He is a hero. (My colleague Jeffrey Toobin disagrees.) In revealing the colossal scale of the U.S. government’s eavesdropping on Americans and other people around the world‚ he has performed a great public service that more than outweighs any breach of trust he may have committed. Like Daniel Ellsberg‚ the former Defense Department official who released
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Carroll Cole was born May 9th‚ 1938 in Sioux City‚ Iowa. A scant nine years later‚ the first of his 16 confirmed victims would be killed. There have been many serial killers over the course of history to examine‚ but Carroll had two unique aspects that made me want to write about him specifically: he was one of the youngest serial killers ever (based on the date of his first kill)‚ and he is a prolific example of how grandly the legal system can fail not only society‚ but a single individual. Cole
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Context Paper Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977 in Washington D.C. Foer is the middle son in a Jewish family. His mom was the daughter of a holocaust survivor and his dad was a lawyer. Growing up‚ Jonathan was always a little bit different. At the age of 8‚ he was injured in a classroom chemical accident that spiraled into a breakdown lasting about 3 years. During this time he wanted nothing more than to be “out of his own skin.” Foer was inspired to start writing after he started his freshman
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Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts “Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts” (The New York Times‚ 2011) is an essay written by Jonathan Franzen. The essay is basically about the effect of what technological progress is doing to the modern society. Jonathan Franzen is not against technology but he is against what it has done to the technology users. He thinks the progress has turned the youth into narcissists: “But if you consider this in human terms‚ and you imagine a person defined by a
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Fill-in-the-Blank (FBT) and Song Parody Technique (SPT). FBT helps clients who have trouble organising ideas‚ by giving them a structure. Clients will often use this technique to find a direction to the lyrics. Interestingly‚ sometimes ‘the creation of lyrics does not proceed the composition
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Different Ending – Jonathan Livingston Seagull Much of Jonathan Livingston Seagull seems to be a metaphor for the Gospel story of Jesus’ life. On pages 120-122‚ one of Jonathan’s followers‚ Fletcher‚ flies into a cliff to avoid crashing into a young seagull just beginning to fly. Fletcher appears to die but Jonathan tells him that he can overcome his limitations and live. This is similar to Jesus bringing Lazarus back to life. Jonathan sarcastically calls himself the Son of the Great Gull
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The author Edward T. Hall discusses about Social Distance in the book named “The Hidden Dimension”. We like to keep our distance from others and there are very specific social rules about how close we can go to others in particular situations. This social distance
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Henry vs. Edwards Patrick Henry changed America. Jonathan Edwards established the Puritan faith. Both of these powerful men have influenced the outcome of America‚ one way or another. Mr. Henry strived to convince his fellow congressmen to step out of their comfort zone‚ accept reality and fight for the American values. Mr. Edwards on the other hand shook the listeners with vivid descriptions and gruesome details of the punishments of the nonbelievers. Though they talked in different time periods
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If we were to read about Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards’ lives‚ we would think they were fairly similar. Even though they both have devoted their lives to their Puritan religion‚ there is a notable difference in Bradstreet and Edwards’ writing styles and their view on the Puritan religion. They are both well respected writers from the early 1700s‚ but their writing styles are completely different. Bradstreet uses a great deal of figurative language and rhyming in her poems. This helps emphasize
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B: Write an essay in which you analyse and comment on Jonathan Franzen’s essay ”Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts”. Part of your essay must focus on how Jonathan Franzen tries to engage a young audience and on the message of the essay. Jonathan Franzen’s speech was given to the college students at Kenyon‚ Ohio‚ USA. The introduction part of the speech is Jonathan Franzen talking about his relationship to his newly purchased phone‚ and how he got rid of his old one. Choosing the subject
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