Prime Directive Response When dealing with foreign sentient species‚ it is crucial to maintain what is know as a prime directive. This is the notion that a species may explore distant planets‚ but must take certain precautions when dealing with other sentient species to prevent any change in their progression. In the novel Speaker for the Dead‚ the citizens of Lusitania go to great lengths to preserve their prime directive‚ but the indigenous species appear to benefit from their encounters with
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Grace Lear Ms. Joan Richmond English 2261 17 Feb. 2013 New Criticism: A Focused Summary New criticism is a type of literary theory that focuses on the close reading of literature and how the literature functions as the object it’s meant to be. No external influences are to be taken into consideration‚ strictly the writing itself. This movement emphasizes the text in literature and explains the writers meaning to the reader. The author’s intention‚ excluding historical and cultural context
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LEO: Literacy Education Online Writing a Reaction or Response Essay Reaction or response papers are usually requested by teachers so that you’ll consider carefully what you think or feel about something you’ve read. The following guidelines are intended to be used for reacting to a reading although they could easily be used for reactions to films too. Read whatever you’ve been asked to respond to‚ and while reading‚ think about the following questions. How do you feel about what you
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Perfect competition Prefect competition is a market in which there are many firms selling identical products with no firm large enough‚ relative to the entire market‚ to be able to influence market price A perfectly competitive market is a hypothetical market where competition is at its greatest possible level. Neo-classical economists argued that perfect competition would produce the best possible outcomes for consumers‚ and society. perfect competition describes markets such that no participants
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The Outsiders: Response to Literature Friendship is a very important bond shared by two friends that cannot be described by mere words. In the fictional narrative The Outsiders‚ S.E. Hinton shows us the importance of friendship through the hardships of the two protagonists‚ Johnny and Ponyboy. They use their friendship to overcome many obstacles throughout their story. One example of friendship can be found in the movie “Toy Story‚” in which the main protagonists‚ Woody and Buzz‚ must find
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Guy‚ Tiffany Comp 1 19 May 2015 My Response to “A Modest Proposal” By Jonathan Swift When I begin reading Jonathan Swifts‚ A Modest Proposal‚ I was confused as to why any human being would even think about offering others’ children to eat in an effort to reduce poverty‚ as a suggestion. Though I disagreed and was a bit confused‚ his argument had some very persuasive points that held truth. Jonathan Swift was born to an affluent Irish family; he was an ordained minister‚ very well educated‚ and
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Outline of Article Arabs and the West (Failure of West to understand Arabs) - Main focus is the bad perceptions gained by Europeans on Arabs Perception of Western Attitude on Arabs - Ideas developed from past - Divided into 3 strands 1. Battle between Christian Europe and Islam - 7th century - 18 century - Fears‚ animosities and suspicions reflected in European Education - Normally Western deny but subconscious is another story (prejudice) - Oriental is defined with adjectives:
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creative response I produced a 3 dimensional‚ patterned Nazi flag with each layer of the flag placed inside the previous layer. The first layer of my creative is a red rectangular box patterned with lips‚ symbolic of kisses. The second layer is a circular box made of images of snow‚ ice and delicate snowflakes. The final layer of my creative is folded black card‚ forming a spring-like Nazi swastika with the head and tail of an accordion stuck to either side. This creative was in response to the novel
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In this essay we will be talking about a poem called “The Road Not Taken.” The three questions are‚ do you think the “road” that the speaker took was really the less traveled one? Why do you need to be a member? What do you think the chances are that the speaker will get to come back and try the other path? Do you think the speaker regrets his choice‚ or is happy about it? The speaker of the poem “The Road Not Taken” either takes the road less traveled by or takes the normal trail. I believe that
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Responses to the Spread of Buddhism Although some elites in China found Buddhism to be important for the development of China between 220 CE and 570 CE‚ as time progressed through this period‚ Buddhism’s popularity seemed to decrease. Between 200 CE and 500 CE‚ scholars and the few followers of Buddhism seemed to have simply been trying to inform the people about Buddhism and they were attempting to gain popularity. Unfortunately‚ by around 819 CE‚ people seemed to have started disproving of
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