Sandhya Kal IME 402-06 Professor Erik Jackiw 4.29.15 Midterm Paper: Three Cat Book stories Analysis Case I: Should We Sacrifice One to Save Five? A. This case is about a train driver that is facing a dilemma that has three different options to approach it. He has been given notice that his locomotive has a design fault that means that his train will blow up if it is going under fifty mph‚ which would kill the five hundred passengers on board. If he does not slow down‚ he would kill five people that
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social stereotypes‚ according to some people. In his book A Separate Peace‚ John Knowles represents jocks with Phineas‚ a character who believes that sports are the key to life. Phineas is more of a sportsman than a jock. Real jocks only care about winning‚ Phineas makes sure it’s not possible for anyone to win or lose. Chet Douglas is an exaggerated prep‚ just like Phineas is an exaggerated jock. He is obsessed with learning just for the sake of learning. No real hardcore prep thinks that
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allusions. The story opens with a woman named Hester‚ who shares many similarities with Esther of biblical fame. For example‚ Hester is described as “a woman who was beautiful‚ who started with all the advantages‚ yet she had no luck.” She marries an unlucky man and carries a guilty resentment for her children‚ which unravels into a fatal drama. By comparison‚ Esther assumes the position of Xerxes’ queen but is never able to enjoy it as she is thrust into her own drama of life and death. Each woman’s
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After 10‚000 hours of practice a person can call themselves an expert. Hitting the 10‚000 hour check point may seem impossible but with the right opportunities it becomes possible for a few lucky people. Malcolm Gladwell argues that anyone can become an expert with enough opportunities and drive. Gladwell uses examples such as The Beatles‚ Bill Gates‚ and even John D. Rockefeller to establish that being at the right place at the right time can be the difference between being a billionaire and just
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Walter Miller’s lower-class focal concerns focuses on the traits of the lower-class culture that connects deviance to a distinct normative structure that conflicts with norms of the dominant culture. Miller started a descriptive research strategy to observe lower-class male gang members in their natural habitat. It led Miller to conclude that people of the lower-class show a set of “focal concerns” that categorize them from the mainstream of American society. Miller concluded that people of the
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school he was restricted to see his family and was not able to hear from them at all. Elijah had to go through residential school all the way through but with Niska and Xavier they escaped and lived their lives as native Indians but Elijah was the unlucky ones who have not
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In John Knowles’ novel A Separate Peace‚ it begins with the protagonist‚ Gene Forrester coming back to his alma mater the Devon School in New Hampshire. Wandering through the campus‚ Gene makes his way to a tall tree by the river; the reason for his return. From here he takes the reader back to the year 1942 during World War II when he was in high school. During the summer session of 1942‚ he becomes close friends with his daredevil roommate Finny. Finny is able to convince Gene into making a
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out” (Walter Winchell). This quote is portrayed in the book of A Separate Peace through the characters of Gene and Phineas. Friendship is a common theme in the book of A Separate Peace. It causes conflict between characters and it also causes characters to change as a person throughout the book. Gene is the narrator of the book and he causes many conflicts with his best friend‚ Phineas or commonly called Finny‚ and also changes as a person throughout these conflicts. Over the course of the book A Separate
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The cotton gin Hello‚ I’m Phineas but I’m now Eli Whitney’s assistant. WOW! I know right I was thinking that I could tell you some things about me. I was born in 1772 I became friends/partners with Eli around 1793. I didn’t come from a wealthy family. But enough about me let’s get to the good parts of my life when I was just becoming his assistant. Well it didn’t happen like that I had to try out and gosh was there a lot of people there. Let’s get to it ’’hello‚ Mr. Whitney‚’’ I said confidently
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