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    Salt Water

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    SALT WATER Introduction: Salt water refers to water that contains dissolved salts‚ known as saline water or seawater‚ water from oceans or seas. It is a home to varieties of aquatic animals‚ for example‚ fishes and snails. Some of these animals find it difficult to live in fresh water. If salt water animals go to live in fresh water they can not adapt the environment led to die to them. This essay aims to discuss the importance of salt water and the sub- types namely ocean‚ sea‚ and coral reefs

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    discovery in the reader’s approach‚ the reader himself must discover the actual meaning of the essay. By looking through the examples‚ the reader soon picks out a couple that are particularly intriguing. That of a student in anatomy dissecting a dogfish‚ and the seemingly contradictory one of a tourist couple that gets lost and stumbles across an Indian village. Percy uses these (among others) to ask his audience to put aside expectations and preconceptions‚ and instead focus on the discovery‚ the

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    Is one’s life really that unique? Or are we all expected to follow the roles of society and think we have our own personal experiences? Is life itself a ‘sovereign experience’‚ as Walker Percy puts it‚ or just another unvalued thing‚ like a ‘squalus acanthias’? Walker Percy makes many abstract points in his essay. For example‚ when he states‚ “Why is it almost impossible to gaze directly at the Grand Canyon … and see it for what it is as one picks up a strange object from one’s back yard and gazes

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    The illustration I chose from the Shang Chinese Period is a bronze wine vessel called a Zun beaker. It is from the Shang period (c.1600-1050 B.C.E.)‚ 13th-11th century B.C.E. Wine vessels such as the Zun vessel played an important role in ritual offerings to the ancestors worshipped by ruling leaders of the Shang Dynasty. As the picture illustrates‚ it is decorated with important mask designs with the two eyes and c-shaped eyebrows in the middle. At the bottom of the beaker‚ there are two eyes and

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    Percy Walker Essay

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    Purpose: To tell the audience about the importance of preserving their ability to think and the ability to perceive things in their own way Audience: The juniors taking this class next year The ability to think and the ability to perceive what we think is not a privilege but a right. You made choices in your life that you though were entirely by yourself‚ but according to Percy Walker you did not make the choices alone. Percy Walker states in his essay‚ “The Loss of a Creature”‚ that almost

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    Although people use corrective lens or have perfect vision‚ people do not always truly see. Percy and Cole express their differing beliefs regarding loss of perception and how it is attained in their respective essays‚ “The Loss of the Creature” and “Seeing Things”. Both authors agree that even though people may have perfect vision‚ they do not “truly see” things in front of them because their perception is lost and limited by their experiences. However‚ Percy believes perception is lost because

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    live with the locals for a little while. After returning home‚ they tell their friends that they had an experience better than they expected. The third example Percy uses is that of a biology teacher who gave his students a dogfish to dissect. The students look at the dogfish as another specimen to be dissected for a grade instead of trying to learn about it as a piece of unexplored creation. In his article “The Loss of The Creature‚” Walker Percy attempts to show how in our experiences we do not

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    Beer Wars

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    by Anat Baron and released in April of 2009. It focuses on the struggle between the dominating corporate businesses of Anheuser-Busch‚ Miller Brewing Company‚ Coors Brewing Company‚ and the smaller independent businesses of “craft beers” such as Dogfish Head Brewery‚ The Boston Beer Company‚ and The New Belgium Brewing Company. The film covers many aspects of the beer “wars” between the companies such as competitive advertising‚ product quality‚ price‚ distribution‚ and government regulations.

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    a strong theoretical background knowledge of Genetics‚ I receive full excitement of discovery and learning about the way information about our bodies is stored and transferred. Thus‚ this piece of evidence is not entirely valid. However‚ should a dogfish argument be in full harmony with reality‚ the point that he takes out of it is a very debatable one. First of all‚ Percy‚ assuming that only a full educational experience can be “good”‚ proposes to alter the way students learn the subjects by trying

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    Walker Percy writes The Loss of the Creature to highlight times within our lives when we felt an experience was not all “there;” that something was missing. Percy hypothesizes that this feeling could come from being in the presence of something familiar that seems to spoil an experience‚ or also that specific‚ technical terminology used to classify something could change the way think about it or them. In my life I have sought to create many new or rare experiences but something that lacks‚ and perhaps

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