Amrih Saleh Super Frog Saves Tokyo Response Haruki Murakami’s short story about a mysterious gigantic frog that saves the lives of 150‚000 Tokyo residents from an unavoidable earthquake with the unexplainable help of an ordinary but unordinary man carries much more meaning than what was unambiguously written down. Super Frog Saves Tokyo‚ written after the Kobe earthquake‚ symbolizes the state of Japan during that devastating decade and the means to recuperating. Katagiri’s struggles and instability
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The play “Our Town” explores the lives of people (primarily two families) living in a small and quiet American town in the 1900’s. In the first act entitled “Daily life”‚ the narrator did a good job of guiding the audience’s imagination to set up the ideas of a town in the early 1900’s. The lighting and sound cues made that very successful. The lighting was on cue and was very good at setting the scenes (i.e. brighter for morning sunrise). Realistic sets and props were minimal but‚ the performers
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What is the definition of “beauty?” What defines beauty? What is it to be beautiful? Beauty is confidence. Many people in the celebrity world view beauty as one’s physical appearance. They are not wrong: there is physical beauty‚ but people fail to realize inner beauty. Confidence has been shown in many makeover shows such as Ten Years Younger or Make Me a Supermodel to make people’s physical and inner beauty increase dramatically. Confidence allows self-esteem to heighten‚ and
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No Choice to Save Land for Endangered Animals Nowadays‚ land supply is one of the critical world problems‚ which is considered carefully before using that limited land. People transform natural landscapes to human landscapes for farmland‚ housing‚ and industry‚ and it makes many serious problems to wildlife species. Especially to endangered animal‚ they will lose their shelters and face the end of their kinds. However‚ there is no choice for tremendous requirements of mankind. There are some main
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Outline and Evaluate Issues Surrounding the Classification and Diagnosis of Depression Scheff’s Labelling Theory is a process which involves labelling people with mental disorders when they produce behaviour that does not fit with socially constructed norms and labelling those who reflect stereotyped or stigmatized behaviour of the ‘mentally ill’. A disadvantage of labelling an individual with depression is that labelling can accentuate and prolong the issue. In addition by labelling someone
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Founded in 1997‚ VH1 Save the Music Foundation is a non-profit organization geared towards ensuring music education programs are available to students in public schools across the United States. John Sykes‚ the original founder of VH1 Save the Music Foundation‚ volunteered as principal for a day in a New York City public school in Brooklyn. He noticed the condition of the instruments being used and how worn out and broken some looked. At the time Sykes was the President of the VH1 Cable Television
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In our day and age‚ technology is omnipresent and an integral part of our lives. However‚ although the main purpose of technology is to make our life easier‚ the reactions and opinions on technology are very diverse. This year‚ various sessions at the Women’s Forum covered the influence of new technologies on our daily life. It is worthwhile analyzing two contrasting perspectives in depth‚ to understand how broad this debate is. On the one hand‚ technology and digital media can be a great help
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Essay of: Save as Many as You Ruin A short story by Simon Van Booy Every person will throughout their life have a lot of different experiences‚ and acquire a lot of different memories. Some of them might be good and some might be bad but it is for certain that a lot of them will stay with us for a long time. An experience can be ruined when it is actually happening and then it will turn in to a bad memory‚ but if you keep this bad memory within‚ you will be able to learn from it‚ and it will
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“How To Save A Life” by The Fray. “How To Save A Life” connects to my life by relating to my future‚ how my mom plays such an immense role in my life‚ and my faith. My future is the one of the most important things to me. It gives me motivation when it comes to furthering my education. In a way‚ it also allows me to set expectations for myself. The most frequently lyric in this song reads‚ “Had I known how to save a life.” I like to relate this song lyric to my future. I want to save lives. Since
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Unique Chemical Composition Surrounding Supermassive Black Holes The spiral galaxy NGC 107 was observer with ALMA‚ an astronomical interferometer of radio telescopes in the Atacama desert of northern Chile‚ an this revealed an intense emissions from dust around the central black hole in the center of NGC 107. This "Dust" was revealed to be a unique chemical composition characterized by enhancement of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) around the black hole which is possible thanks to the high temperature
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