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    Fear is an emotion that expresses from a person to be afraid and worried of something or someone. It can lead to an impact on someone’s life and the emotion has the ability to control of how a person behaves. Fear can affect a person by their decisions‚ communication‚ productivity‚ and physical abilities. Fear has the ability to control a person’s decision by the consequences and how it will effect in the future. The fear of decision‚ or decidophobia‚ can be a sign of depression by having a thought

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    different than the other? Is it the plot or is it more so how an author tells the story? Francis Scott Fitzgerald‚ author of “The Great Gatsby” and e.e. Cummings‚ Author of “anyone lived in a pretty how town” bear similar themes of love and carelessness through the use of diction‚ imagery‚ and symbolism. The two authors lived through the 1920’s and the lost generation and expressed the alike themes they saw in the people of their time. Both of the selections reveal the similar yet different consequences

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    represent a deeper meaning of the authors repressed feelings in life. In Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle‚ the two main characters Merricat and Constance Blackwood are two halves of a single identity representing Jackson’s repressed mental identity. Jackson created a Yin and Yang of sorts with the two sisters‚ both being a dark reflection of Jackson’s own personal private

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    In “Where I Lived‚ and What I Lived For‚” by Henry David Thoreau‚ Thoreau makes the statement‚ “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.” What he meant from this statement was that if people can move away from the idea that their personal worth is based on the material goods that they buy or own‚ they are actually better off or richer. It is the intangible things that are more important than the material goods. Many people think that their lives are richer

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    indefinitely leady to belonging. Expression of ones true self enables an individual to inherit freedom. However this freedom is readily available an individuals face barriers of social and cultural expectations. Baz Lurhmann’s satirical film ‘Strictly Ballroom’ (1992) and Tohby Riddle’s whimsical picture book ‘No body owns the moon” embrace freedom of expression as a tool to fund a sense of place and ultimately belong to the wider world. Self-expression is a fundamental characteristic of sense

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    Shirley Jackson Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco on December 14‚ 1916. Jackson spent most of her childhood in Burlingame‚ California where she began writing poetry and short stories. Jackson attended Syracuse University in 1973‚ and during this year she published her first short story “Janice.” During her time spent at Syracuse University she met her husband‚ Stanley Edgar Hyman. Jackson and Hyman together founded a literary magazine known as “Spectre.” Both Jackson and Hyman graduated

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    Jobs. This was the mentality of Steve Jobs‚ an entrepreneur‚ industrial designer‚ and the co-founder of Apple. Jobs worked for the majority of his life to create and push along the evolution of communication through technology by creating various devices and programs. One person that he embodies and was inspired by is Thomas Edison. Edison‚ who lived during the Industrial Revolution‚ also had many technological achievements‚ one being the phonograph. Both of these men‚ who were innovators of their

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    Summary Everything in Its Path‚ I read that the people that was a part of the Buffalo Creek flood. The people were wounded in spirit‚ children did not act like children because of what the flood had done to their home. The people that lived in Buffalo‚ Creek loved the place they called home. Buffalo‚ Creek is mainly a place where coal mining go on. On February 26th‚ 1972 the place that was a nice honest place as the people from Buffalo‚ Creek would say that statement came to an end on that day. There

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    Life‚ Hope and Dreams In the film Nanook of the North‚ presented an Eskimos life of a family struggling through the snow storm in Baffin Island. The film follows Nanook through his daily struggles to find food and shelter. Nanook’s approaches ways of hunting‚ fishing‚ and building igloos. This was a very emotional documentary‚ although there was not any voice over or anyone talking in the film. While in the other film‚ Mad Hot Ballroom is about young teens from New York who is striving for the

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    (Accounts Receivable‚ Inventory‚ Long-lived Assets‚ Bonds) 1. GNC has the following information regarding the inventory of its Super Mega‚ a multivitamins. Assume GNC uses periodic inventory system each quarter and FIFO. a. On July 1‚ GNC had 200 bottles of Super Mega in stock. Each bottle costs $3. b. On July 15‚ GNC purchased 5‚000 bottles of Super Mega for $25‚000 from a supplier‚ paid $10‚000 in cash and the rest was on credit. c. On August 15‚ GNC purchased another 1‚000 bottles of Super

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