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    December 11‚ 2012 Section 1: Who is the one to delineate fault for a miscommunication and misunderstanding between two cultures? In Anne Fadiman’s novel‚ The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down‚ she begins the novel as an attempt to allocate responsibility for the mistreatment and exacerbation of Lia Lee’s epilepsy. The tension between the Hmong and United States medical culture exemplified the strain in America between a foreign culture dependent on rituals and society’s norm. As the novel progress

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    Shady Bahsoun Amst 276 December 8‚2009 Research Paper #2 “Tell me what you eat‚ and I’ll tell you who you are” “Tell me what you eat‚ and I’ll tell you who you are” once said French lawyer and gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. With the growth of food import/export around the world and the opportunities of expansion in foreign coutries: Could Brillat-Savarin’s statement still be possible today or has it completely lost ground? Food is one of the fields in which globalization has

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    “Need a lift?” I asked. Now that I could see him clearly‚ it was obvious the old man was already in trouble. He’d only walked a hundred yards or so‚ and he looked as if he was going to pass out any moment. “I’d be most grateful‚ young lady‚ if you could help me get to a gas station‚” he said slowly. “I seem to be out of petroleum.” “No problem‚” I replied. “I’m headed that way.” He climbed slowly into the car and I pulled back out onto the road. “Not a good day for car trouble‚ huh?”

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    Taken for Granted THE END. It’s exhausting being a student‚ for it acquire great responsibility ---- obligations that sharpens ones skills and mind‚ enhance ones personality and create a strong and wise men ---- a normal student like me may find it hard to do some extra-curricular tasks and be involved to other organizations actively participating in school-related activities and all; I do not consider joining and participating to some ORG or clubs important. What I value the most is to

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    When you chance the way you look at things‚ the things you look at change. The most fundamental and mayor decision you have to make in your life is this: Do I live in a friendly or A hostile universe? Is it the universe‚ where people want to hate each other‚ kill each other. Is that what you see? Because when you see the world that way‚ that is exactly what you create for yourself. The interesting thing is that this is not just a clever play of words: When you change the way you look at

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    Someone who was fair to me was my boss at the YMCA. Fairness is giving people the second chances. Fairness is being kind even when the person may not deserve it. Fairness is important because I can’t be kind and forgiving without being fair. Without being kind and forgiving I can’t build healthy relationships. Fairness is something that I have been lucky enough to experience as a life guard. Being given so many opportunities to experience and learn about airiness has helped me become a kinder person

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    something for my baby You don’t know how incredibly happy you make me. I have fallen head over heels for you. you are everything I could possibly want and more. Words can’t even begin to explain the way you make me feel‚ you are my other half. you are what I think about every night before I go to sleep‚ and the first thing on my mind when I wake up in the morning. I get the most amazing feeling every time I’m talking to you‚ and you take my breath away every moment we’re talking. They say there’s

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    are the closest to you. If someone else wrongs you‚ it is easier to forgive‚ because you most probably don’t expect much from that person anyway. If someone who is close to you however‚ a friend or partner for example‚ then for them to do something which requires forgiveness means that they have betrayed your trust to some extent. I think that the level of trust breached determines how easy it is to then forgive someone. I think if someone made a genuine mistake and this hurt you‚ then there is nothing

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    it‚ one for home and one for anywhere that was not home...." The first quote is from “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ written by Joyce Carol Oates. It is in reference to Connie‚ who is a teenager. She is no longer a girl‚ yet she is not a woman. She would leave home she looking one way and arrive at her destination another way. 2. She would have been a good woman . . . if it had been someone there to shoot her every minute of her life." The second quote is from “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”

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    Dayrel Whittaker Mr. Grayshirt English III 3 April 2014 Are You Dead or Nah? “If an eye-for-an eye is good enough for God‚ then it is good enough for republicans‚” says Armstrong Williams. God believes punishment for our sins and choices is okay‚ so the republicans believe it’s necessary for capital punishment for capital crimes. There are different things that come into play when determining whether or not someone should receive capital punishment. If a criminal commits a capital then he deserves

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