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    Mind and Hamlet

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    “An admirable text does not define or exhaust its possibilities”. What possibilities do you see in Shakespeare’s Hamlet? Discuss your ideas with close reference to at least two scenes from Hamlet. Shakespeare’s texts have been re-visited‚ re-interpreted and re-invented to suit the context and preferences of an evolving audience‚ and it through this constant recreation it is evident that Hamlet “does not define or exhaust its possibilities”. Through the creation of a character who emulates a variety

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    Group Minds

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    The article "Group Mind" by Doris Lessing was about people wanting to be in groups. A group is several people with a common interest. Being in a group gives us a sense of belonging; people out there being just like us. Lessing says; "We tend to think the way the group does: may even joined the group to find "like minded" people" (Lessing 357). This is because if we see other people in the world that are like us‚ then we will feel more wanted. Lessing sets up an experiment to prove her point.

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    Robert Wiebe

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    In his groundbreaking work The Search for Order 1877-1920‚ Robert Wiebe seeks to prove that the drastic changes seen in America at the turn of the century were not disconnected singular events. Instead there was a singular “deep-flowing current‚ which gave unity and meaning to the period as a whole” (VII). This current was the shift from small town American and their values to the new bureaucratically-minded middle class and the development of values to help cope with this new focus of society

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    Robert Menzies

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    Robert Gordon Menzies was Australia’s longest serving Prime Minister. He held the office twice‚ from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1966. Altogether he was Prime Minister for over 18 years – still the record term for an Australian Prime Minister. Robert Menzies was born in Victoria in 1894. He went to primary school in Ballarat‚ then to a high school at Wesley College in Melbourne. He graduated in law from the University of Melbourne in 1916 and became a barrister in 1918. He débuted in court

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    The Closing Door By Angelina Weld Grimké I find this short story to be somewhat deceiving at first because it feels as though the story is about the generous nature of Agnes Milton. The first several pages the narrator speaks about her hardships in life and the generosity of Agnes; however‚ the ending is quite unexpected. The narrator was passed from relative to relative after her father’s death (apparently due to alcohol poisoning)‚ but Agnes was the only one kind enough to take her in and treat

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    NAFTA AND THE US TEXTILE INDUSTRY 1. Why did many textile jobs apparently migrate out of the United States in the years after the establishment of NAFTA? Jobs migrated out of the United States because where the average labor for US was $10 to $12 an hour compared to rates in Mexico at $10 to $12 a day. For example‚ the company Fruit of the Loom Inc. would benefit more and increase their revenue by paying their employee’s less to perform the job. It is also stated that NAFTA was credited

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    Robert and the Dog

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    this process literature emerged with an artistic interest to express feelings‚ thoughts and their imagination. But‚ what is literature? Many theorists have tried to explain that‚ and we have some patterns that are typical in their texts. In the text “Robert and the dog” by Ken Saro-Wiwa you can find some of this patterns such as the human being view‚ the disposition to analyze stories and the literature as an aesthetic object. To begin with‚ the first example is the concept of man that is given

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    A Beautiful Mind

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    of its resolution or otherwise is at the heart of oral/visual texts. To what extent do you agree? Conflict and the prospect of its resolution or otherwise is at the heart of oral/visual texts. I agree with this statement. In the film A Beautiful Mind directed by Ron Howard‚ John Nash is a socially awkward character and is a bit different to everybody else. He then becomes diagnosed with schizophrenia‚ and he struggles to cope with the fact that some of his life never actually happened. Years

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    Mind Mapping

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    Mind Mapping Decision-making occurs all the time. There are different levels of decision-making from what to eat for dinner to a choice of life or death. Many techniques have been developed to aid in decision-making. This paper discusses the specific technique of mind mapping. The mind mapping concept has been around for centuries. Though he did not "invent" mind mapping‚ a British psychology author named Tony Buzan popularized mind mapping in the 1970 ’s (Wikipedia (a)‚ 2006). While at

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    Mind and Quinn

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    A review of... Ishmael In the past few centuries there have been a handful of books written that offer up ideas about humanity that are so completely new to a reader but are so completely convincing that they can force a reader to take a step back and assess all that they know to be true about their life and their purpose. Daniel Quinn has succeeded in creating such a book in Ishmael‚ a collection of new ideas about man‚ his evolution‚ and the "destiny" that keeps him captive. When I began

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