1. Identify some of the challenges that Chris Gardner faced when trying to sell his bone density scanners. There are many challenges that Chris Gardner faces selling the bone density scanners. The scanner represents many things to Chris. Firstly it represents money. Chris’ challenge is to sell his scanners to help fund his and his son’s life whilst he is completing his intership at Dean Witter. Secondly‚ the scanners represent a burden for Chris. They symbolise the challenges he had to ovecome
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too dangerous and debilitating to dabble in or end up hooked on. Lastly ‚ additional conflicting backlash of illegal drug use is finding yourself alone. Ruining your personal and professional life for this fascination is not worth it. One of the saddest aspects of drug addiction is by the time an addict realizes they have a problem‚ it has already taken a heavy toll on their loved ones (Rehm 3). When a person’s state of mind is altered‚ it makes it near to impossible to perform a career at typical
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Toni Baker-Moore ENGL 1010-152 Writing # 2 2/20/13 As the richest part of the country in the world‚ what can we do to help these people? The way of homeless people seems very far away from yours- but in some ways quite near. For any of us‚ the loss of jobs‚ the death of a spouse or a child or a severe physical disability could be the route to total despair. These are the tragedies that have happened to many homeless people. Struck by personal tragedies‚ the people in shelters across America
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listen to the most‚ affects their character‚ as it affects their mind. There is no contradiction regarding that music affects our emotions. It can make us sad or ecstatic. Different genres induce different feelings. ‘Country music’ is known as the saddest genre‚ with its slow and simple music. People who do not like it become easily bored and the ones‚ who do‚ usually are mellow natured. People who like ‘Metal’ and ‘Punk/Gothic Rock’ are usually rebellious and energetic. On the other hand the people
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suggested. I give the parents all kudos and prompts in their attempt to follow the “experts” advise. I have to say they had far more patience than I ever would have had. I am glad that they finally realized the “experts” may not be right at all. The saddest part of this book is when Lynn had meningitis. The poor little girl had no idea what was happening and was probably scared to death that her parents were deserting her. They had no way to tell her what was going on and I know that was difficult
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way to meet them. Death is not a definitive parting for Africans‚ it is only a moment‚ a stage in life Violence There is a lot of violence in Africa. Much of the war is political and also for the search of diamondsand other mineral resources. The saddest part of it all is that children and civilians are usually the victims. They drag small boys to join their rebel groups and teach them to wage war against political parties or other tribes around. Drug use The drug use in Africa is rapidly growing
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In the story‚ "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omeals‚" bye Ursela Le Guin‚ the Festival of Summer comes to the cito of Omelas‚ but that is not mainly what the story is about. The story is mainly about small child living deep uner a local store. He/she has been locked under the store for a very long time‚ living on nothing but and sitting in its own feces. It has never been out in the real world and never will. The town has put the small child there and say they cannot let it out now because
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ENG-102 27 February 2012 The poems that I have decided to write about are‚ “Acquaint With The Night”‚ and “A Road Not Taken”‚ by Robert Frost. Frost was exposed to literature from an early age both of his parents were teachers. He started writing at the age of fifteen; he admired writers such as William Shakespeare‚ Robert Buras‚ and William Wordsworth. (Spencer and Chris) I believe that Frost wrote “Acquaint With The Night” because it was during a time of depression just after the stock market
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the “furthest city light” (l. 3). In this case‚ absolute darkness parallels solitude in the sense that lights represent company. Because of the speaker’s loneliness‚ the poem’s tone possesses a bleak‚ somber quality mirrored in adjectives like‚ “saddest” and “unearthly”. The speaker purposely excludes himself from the company of others‚ while Dickinson’s speaker uses the presence of others as a learning experience. The imagery in Dickinson’s poem is accentuated by the word choice‚ which provides
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many. The destroyer of hope causes pain and soreness that hurts them the most In the first line of the last stanza "I’ve heard it in the chilliest lands‚" Dickinson offers the reader another reason to have hope. It is heard even in the coldest‚ saddest lands. Hope is eternal and everywhere. The birds song of hope is even heard "And on
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