Zach Johannes Knowing Animal Minds Extra Credit- Ellen Furlong What animals reveal about human decision making Ellen Furlong’s presentation was about the decision making process in animals and what factors affect it. Humans find it easier than animals to detect a difference in large numbers‚ which is known as the numeric size effect. Animals often use number to remember things‚ which is known as non-human logarithmic representation. Orangutans for example‚ use the skill of logarithmic representation
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone is a very good book‚ but also‚ it is an awesome movie. Both the movie and book told how Harry became a wizard‚ and he took down you-know-who‚ or Lord Voldemort two times. The book and movies had some differences‚ but they both had the same idea. They both showed the themes of bravery and truth‚ while showing it in different ways. The book and movie had quite a few differences. First off‚ in the beginning of the book‚ it
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Harry Potter 7 review Tell me‚ how many of you in here have seen the two latest Harry Potter Movies? Now‚ how many have actually read it? Ohh boy‚ you’ve missed the best book-serie of our generation. And as you might know‚ even if you havent read it yourselves – the books are superior to the movies. 1. And If you havent been sleeping under a rock youve during the last 15 years youve mustve heard about the Harry Potter-phenomenon. Still‚ I must assume that you dont know who this four-eyed wizard
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BACKGROUND INFO AUTHOR BIO Full Name: Edgar Poe Pen Name: Edgar Allen Poe Date of Birth: January 19‚ 1809 Place of Birth: Boston‚ Massachusetts Date of Death: October 7‚ 1849 Brief Life Story: Poe was orphaned at a young age and fostered by the Allans‚ and grew up with them in Virginia. After dropping out of university and the army‚ he became one of the first writers of the time to make a living from publishing his work‚ but he had much financial and mental difficulty throughout his life.
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The first Harry Potter book was released way back in 1997. It was written by J. K. Rowling and it lead to the series becoming a cult classic. The series is most known for having a ton of characters‚ lots of mythical creatures and a deep plot. One of the biggest mythical creatures in the story is the Boggart. The Boggart is a non-being that is able to shape shift into the persons biggest fear. Since it shifts into the persons biggest fear it is very tough to defeat. The ideal situation is to have
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Biss claims that people do not agree with reason because they are afraid of their own understanding of themselves; her argument is accurate in that some people tend to ignore social ethics in order to follow their own personal beliefs. For example‚ Ellen Tolsma‚ in her essay Protecting our herd: how a national mandatory vaccination policy protects public health by ensuring herd immunity‚ researched that there are 3 main groups of people who do not vaccinate willingly: “religious groups‚ political libertarians
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BOOK REVIEW: HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN BY J.K ROWLING Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban‚ written by J.K Rowling is the third book in the phenomenal Harry Potter series. The genre of this book is fantasy which involves magic‚ spells and Hogwarts‚ School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I chose this book because the whole series is incredible‚ and J.K Rowling is by far one of the all-time greatest authors in the world. The adventure of Harry Potter‚ along with his best friends
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part with their own preconceived idea of how woman really are. This act of men in drag to portray the "Woman"‚ is absurd. In fact‚ who ever thought a male could act out the part of the female any better than a woman herself. In the essay by Sue-Ellen Case called‚ "Classic Drag"‚ she states that Classical plays may be re-directed with the feminine perspective to mock the fact of men in drag. Then on the other hand‚ this
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In the book The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster‚ which was written by Kaye Gibbons‚ it focuses on a gifted girl who‚ after a long and hard childhood‚ is now getting the life she wants with a new mother. The book focuses on Ellen‚ the main character’s‚ attitude and “go-get-it” mindset. But how much does your attitude and effort really influence your future and accomplishments? That is the question this book proposes and causes the readers to ponder. Ellen is a remarkably smart and hardworking girl
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In the “Your a Wizard Harry “ scene from the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone‚ Harry clearly make it an open pane that he wants change in his life. He does this because he is really lonely. One can see this because at the beginning of the scene‚ Harry is in his room on his birthday with a picture of a cake and he says “Make a wish Harry.” Because he is alone on his birthday‚ anyone can see he is lonely and therefore probably wants a change in environment. This also shows it is an open
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