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    Sunk Costs

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    you pay is with your own time‚ and which you will not be able to recover: all that you lived up until now is gone — you just can’t reclaim that time. Stop clinging to the past and make the most of your life right now. One of the most important lessons about economic costs is that sunk costs are sunk. That means they are in the past and the best thing to do is to just forget about them and not let them affect future decision-making. So as an example of this‚ in 1988‚ Apple Computer bought memory chips

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    a mocking tone and a provocative tone to express that humans nowadays take their lives for granted and they do not realize that not everyone in the world has such an easy life. Dillard does a tremendous job on describing the lives of humans in the past and the present‚ mapping out scenarios describing the “easy life” during a certain time period. As well as trying to get the reader to appreciate what they have in life‚ she also reminds us of how we need to challenge our worldview. Her overall

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    Why We Are Who We Are

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    part of who and what we are‚ and it can determine what we will become. As humans‚ we possess free agency; we can determine our future to great degrees with one simple decision‚ we may deceive ourselves into believing the past has no impact on us; however‚ the choices we make and past events we have witnessed have very profound and long-lasting impacts on any decision we have made‚ are making now‚ or ever will make. Heritage is an unconscious accumulation of heredity‚ judgments‚ and environmental factors

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    and also lastly living in the present. What I realized was‚ Peter one of the characters is always dwelling on the past. He makes the audience realize that he has missed his opportunity‚ but if he were to be given a chance he would want to go back in time and change his choice of leaving Kari. In the play he kept asking for a second chance from Kari. He knows what he did in the past was wrong and he begged for the narrator to go back a million years so he can redo the decisions he made. But the narrator

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    Why Does History Matter

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    communicating the way we are. If it was not for the history we would not be communicating‚ and according the guardian.com we a peple talk roughly 2000 words a day.If history gets taken out of schools curriculium kids will become a lot less aware about the past. Imagine school with one less period and getting out of school earlier‚ you could have less homework and be with your friends longer. What would that be like? For a lot of kids it would be nice but I don’t think so‚ yes I would love to be with my

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    andromeda

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    Andromeda Now Time’s Andromeda on this rock rude‚ With not her either beauty’s equal or Her injury’s‚ looks off by both horns of shore‚ Her flower‚ her piece of being‚ doomed dragon’s food. Time past she has been attempted and pursued By many blows and banes; but now hears roar A wilder beast from West than all were‚ more Rife in her wrongs‚ more lawless‚ and more lewd. Her Perseus linger and leave her tó her extremes?— Pillowy air he treads a time and hangs His thoughts on her

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    that I obtained through learning a massive amount of history through a 694 page book‚ I would not have been able to contribute‚ nor make sincere associations with the conversations being held. To understand the future‚ we must first understand the past‚ and how we got to our current point in the first place. In my previous years through grade school‚ history has been a prominent subject in my learning experience. Through nearly every subject‚ history has been a basic building-block along the road

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    The study of history is essential as it leads us to a better understanding of our past. In turn‚ history gives us the knowledge to better understand our present. In order to understand our legal system of today‚ we must also examine the past. Examining cases that took place at the Old Bailey and cases published in the Proceedings does not only help us understand how the criminal legal system has evolved‚ but also helps us clarify how our society has transformed over time. Crimes‚ as well as punishments

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    There is no going back to the past; there is only remembering it. So‚ no matter how much we would like the idea of time machines in movies such as Back to the Future‚ we‚ ourselves‚ must learn to cope with memories. In the poem Postcard from Kashmir‚ by Agha Shanhid Ali‚ and Elena‚ by Pat Mora‚ both authors must do just that. In fact‚ both writers effectively incorporate powerful language and techniques in their poems to embody a nostalgic feeling for what once was the past‚ and for what they consider

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    Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s was a Haitian historian and anthropologist. Trouillot uses anecdotes through 3 major historical events in history in this first chapter of his book. The Alamo‚ the Holocaust‚ and the significant events of U.S. slavery are all the narratives for which Trouillot assesses. Through these events he provides an analysis of actors‚ subjects and narrative. Trouillot argues that‚ “The vernacular use of the word history thus offers us a semantic ambiguity: an irreducible distinction

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