Clay Shirky opens up his TED talk with a true story about Kenya‚ and some of its citizens. During 2007 there was a dispute with the presidential election and ethnic violence broke out in the country. Quickly following there was a media blackout‚ during which a lawyer in Nairobi was chronicling the events in a blog. As she was tracking the violence and keeping others informed the comments began to streamline and if they contained pertinent information‚ she would collate them and re-post them for
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Thinking that someone has no real value or use‚ also thinking someone is worthless. Effects on individuals Low regard for an individual causes low self-esteem. People with low self esteem think they’re not very important and their views don’t matter. Self-esteem affects an individual psychology it has a lot to do with a person emotions and how it makes them feel. Low self-esteem can lead an individual to feel Self hate Feeling worthless Anxiety anger 2. Assumptions of inability Preconception of an individual’s
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Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis is so strikingly absurd that it has engendered countless essays dissecting every possible rational and irrational aspect of the book. One such essay is entitled "Kafka’s Obscurity" by Ralph Freedman in which he delves down into the pages of The Metamorphosis and ferrets out the esoteric aspects of Kafka’s writing. Freedman postulates that Gregor Samsa progresses through several transformations: a transformation of spatial relations‚ a transformation of time‚ and a
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FOOD AND BEV L2 - SPIRIT Unit 1: Maintenance of a Safe‚ Hygienic and Secure Working Environment 1.1 Wear clean‚ smart and appropriate clothing‚ footwear and headgear 1.2 Keep hair neat and tidy and wear it in line with organisational standards 1.3 Make sure any jewellery‚ perfume and cosmetics worn are in line with organisational standards 1.4 Get any cuts‚ grazes and wounds treated by the appropriate person 1.5 Report illness and infections promptly to the appropriate person 3.1 Identify
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New India The hit-film slumdog millionaire is a well-known film about three children from the slums. Many people have watched this film‚ and although its storyline is thrilling‚ the perceptions it gives about India as a whole being poor and dirty and that everyone is a thief‚ killer or prostitute are misleading; although the slums are poor and dirty‚ not everyone in India lives in a slum. Not everyone who does live in a slum is a thief and will do anything for money‚ and many people in India
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The resigned acceptance present in the original speaker’s narration is replaced with a tone of prophetic urgency and desperation. The speaker pleas to the reader‚ “what are the roots that clutch‚ what branches grow…Out of this stony rubbish?” (Elloit‚ 19-20) however no answer as available as; “You cannot say…for you know only a heap of broken images” (Elliot 21-22). This anti-exchange between the unnamed speaker subtly mirrors the audience’s condition in a broader sense‚ in that the
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dealing with grieving from losing someone and trying to find his purpose in life. Three themes that occur the most throughout Holden’s story include loneliness‚ love‚ and phoniness. Loneliness can be described as someone feeling sorrow‚ sad‚ and worthless. Holden feels this more than anyone can imagine during the book. He especially feels down about himself when Phoebe gives him all of her Christmas money that she had saved. This leads into the part of the book where Holden leaves Phoebe‚ and decides
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Both women are ultimately deceived by appearances: Madame Forestier does not tell Mathilde that the diamonds are fake‚ and Mathilde does not tell Madame Forestier that she has replaced the necklace. The fact that the necklace changes—unnoticed—from worthless to precious suggests that true value is ultimately dependent on perception and that appearances can easily deceive. The Danger of Martyrdom Mathilde’s perception of herself as a martyr leads her to take unwise‚ self-serving actions. When Mathilde
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A prize for Roll of thunder‚ hear my cry. In the twentieth century a British academic writer Nicholas tucker‚ traced the changes that the First World War during six-years did on the children’s books; he came out with many social and political changes. During the war comics and a few numbers of novels toke the theme of the war‚ even though there was no political talk in children’s books or social issues. Children’s books shared many values of the past‚ rather than looking forward‚ also a problem
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Topic: Some people believe that the Earth is being harmed (damaged) by human activity others feel that human activity makes the Earth a better place to live. What is your opinion? Nowadays the Earth faces a number of serious problems‚ such as the environment pollution‚ the increasing population‚ the fatal effects of nuclear weapons‚ etc. The problems arising from not just development in terms of science and technology but also the increase in human demands based on population and economy. According
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