“The world that we live in”: an appeal Not long ago the law of the jungle prevailed “kill or be killed”. Barbarism was at its heinous best. Darwin’s theory of “survival of the fittest” was apt for those times. The smaller animals were at the mercy of the bigger ones and the latter were at the mercy of the biggest and so on. Evolution continued and finally we are today at a position of being called the ultramodern man who has lots and lots of knowledge and education‚ robots and gadgets to assist
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- ‘BELONGING’ - Question: What does the Oodgeroo Noonuccal poem ‘We Are Going’ have to say about Belonging and Not Belonging? How does the poet use language forms‚ features and structures to convey ideas and feelings? The poem ‘We Are Going’ by Oodgeroo Noonuccal is about the displacement of the Aboriginal people in Australian society/culture and their confusion about where or what to belong to as their traditional customs are taken away/forgotten. The text raises the issues and themes of
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The Ways We Lie By Stephanie Ericsson It is curious to think that any one person could be telling a lie without knowing that they are. In the essay “The Ways We Lie” by Stephanie Ericsson‚ she explores the thought of how lies are incorporated into everyday life. According to this essay‚ “We lie. We all do. We exaggerate‚ we minimize‚ we avoid confrontation‚ we spare people’s feelings‚ we conveniently forget‚ we keep secrets‚ we justify lying to the big-guy institutions”. How do we know what
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Are We Socially Intelligent? Francis Pangfei Lai Abstract: It was Daniel Goleman’s book “Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships” that started the author thinking on the relevance of social intelligence to property professionals. In the course of practicing as a property consultancy and lecturing at various universities over the years‚ the author notices that a property professional tends to lack the many soft skills of emotional and social intelligence. In this paper
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with single moms. One of the boys grew up to be a successful decorated soldier and author. Wes’ mother‚ Joy‚ raised him as a well-disciplined boy sending him to military school. The other boy grows up selling drugs and taking part in several gangs‚ he later goes to jail for life after killing a veteran police officer in an armed robbery. His mother‚ Mary‚ on the other hand‚ had a more difficult punishing Wes because she was busy working multiple shifts to support her family. Mothers have different
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head of what the speaker or poet was thinking. I think everyone can relate to this poem‚ not because of experience but it’s the things we see other people involved in with their everyday life. I like how the poet or writer used “we” to make the readers feel like they are a part of the poem as if they can see themselves doing the same stuff the poem speaks of. The poem We Real Cool was written in 1950 on page 521. I will try to explain the parts of this poem to help people understand my interpretation
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By: Nnamdi Anige In the book We beat the street Dr.Hunt‚ Dr‚ Jenkins and‚ Dr‚ Davis show how you do not have to get caught up in everything your friends do. When you do make mistakes‚ learn from those mistakes. These 3 doctors beat the hood‚ stealing‚ and jail in their neighborhood by staying positive. One thing they show in the book is how they beat the hood. For example “Quit throwin bottles in the street‚ man” (21). This shows how they would not let their neighborhood be destroyed and
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Questions for Close Reading: 1. “We lie. We all do. We exaggerate‚ we minimize‚ we avoid confrontation‚ we spare people’s feelings‚ we conveniently forget‚ we keep secrets‚ we justify lying to the big-guy institutions.” 2. When Stephanie Ericsson went a whole week without telling a single lie‚ she recalled it “paralyzing.” She discovered that telling the truth all the time is “nearly impossible.” 3. A lie is a false action done with the intent to deceive. “Ignoring the
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I’ve heard of many streets that involved many crimes‚ and the toughest streets of Newark‚ New Jersey is where the three kids in We Beat the Street grew up. The setting of this nonfiction story is just like the real world‚ it brings in normal crimes that would happen today. Some neighborhoods are very wealthy and rich‚ but some are also like the ones in the book. These streets include drug use and gang violence everyday‚ and the three kids had to grow up surviving these exact streets. The book
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ENC 1102 October 10 2014 We Wear the Mask In Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem We Wear the Mask you quickly find out it is one big metaphor. Dunbar’s meaning behind this poem is about people covering up their feelings like someone using a mask to cover their face; as if it’s a big front to hide what is really going on. Dunbar being an African American poet in the late 19th and early 20th century was a harder time on colored people. His poems relate back to the hardships he saw and knew. The poem is
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