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    through a human. Olivia’s father deduced that this had to do with location and managed to find new places like New Jersey‚ that would not have the same personality as New York. The average New Yorker is “fit‚ opinionated‚ and trying to break into show busyness.” The idea that a New Yorker has an “average” lifestyle‚ not original to themselves‚ is an example of how a community may become too alike that they do not leave any room for originality. The reason that Olivia could not see Mr. Ravioli as anything

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    real one it she would not have to tend to their demands. “The real question‚ I saw was not “Why this friend?” but‚ “Why this fiction?” Why as Olivia had seen so clearly‚ are grownups in New York so busy‚ and so obsessed with the language of busyness that it dominants their conversation? … grabbing lunch instead of sitting down and exchanging intimacies”( Gopnik 156). | “Do you care that the turtle is alive?... A ten year old girl told me that she would prefer a robot turtle because aliveness

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    WEI WEI (Jocelin) Paper 1 final Basic comp. 01:355:100G4 Professor Donna Cantor Sep.18.2013 Through Another Pair of Eyes It is easy for people to forget all the surroundings when they become busy. However‚ most of people in New York City just ignore everything except their work and family; even so‚ there are a few of people though other people’s eyes aware of they need to pay more attention on other things in their lives. The story “Bumping into Mr. Ravioli” by Adam Gopnik is about his daughter

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    Ravioli ”‚ Adam Gopnik’s daughter has an imaginary friend who is too busy to play with her. He realizes Ravioli‚ the imaginary friend‚ is a typical New Yorker who is busy all the time. Ravioli makes Gopnik reflect on how people live in New York. Busyness becomes the fence that prevents people from face-to-face conversations in the end. In the essay “Fences of Enclosure‚ Windows of Possibility”‚ Naomi Klein illustrates that globalization is virtual fence because it makes the public goods

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    without any information or expenditures‚ knowing that the companies budget is limited. Asking for more information‚ the local organizer of the counterpart ignored Mr. G’s requests‚ even the solicitation to speak with the boss‚ was rejected due to busyness and non-existent importance. At the end of the conference Mr. G was surprised in the positive way‚ that the conference finally was a complete success. Why were the communication and the procedure of organizing the conference between the two parties

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    AP English Language Name: kaplana@newton.k12.ma.us mrkaplanenglish.weebly.com Date: SUMMER READING ESSAY: SOME SAMPLE ESSAYS Engaging with sources but addressing larger ideas Contents “Bumping into Mr. Ravioli: A theory of busyness‚ and its hero” by Adam Gopnik Links for other professional examples “Social Media Replaces Corporate Media” Sample Summer Reading Essay “The Influence of Television” Sample Summer Reading Essay Your homework assignment is to read these three

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    The general argument made by Scott Dannemiller in “Busy Is a Sickness‚” is that being busy is not well for a person’s mental health. To be more specific‚ he argues that most of the time‚ we create the stress that comes with being busy ourselves. He writes “In America‚ we are defined by what we do” (Dannemiller 2)‚ and “The implication is that if I am not busy doing something‚ I am somehow less than. Not worthy” (Dannemiller 2). Dannemiller is explaining how many people try to find something to do

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    due to intraframe DPCM coding Granular noise: random noise in flat areas of the picture Edge busyness: jittery appearance of edges (for video) Slope overload: blur of high-contrast edges‚ Moire patterns in periodic structures. Bernd Girod: EE398B: Image Communication II DPCM no. 5 Example of intraframe DPCM coding 1 bit/pixel prediction error coding slope overload 2 bit/pixel edge busyness granular noise 3 bit/pixel Linear predictor: 0 1/2 1/4 1/4 4 bit/pixel original

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    Activities can be hectic upon the return from work and school for the parent and children. During preparation of dinner and completion of homework‚ vacuuming the carpet doesn’t seem that important. Too often homes fall into disorder‚ due to tiredness or busyness with other things. When all is said and done “Cleanliness is next to Godliness” and should never be ignored. A clean house is important for the health and well-being of your entire family. First of all‚ a dirty house is a germy house‚ and the best

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    L E A D E R S H I P Leadership and Systems Thinking Col. George E. Reed‚ USA L eaders operate in the realm of bewildering uncertainty and staggering complexity. Today’s problems are rarely simple and clear-cut. If they were‚ they would likely already have been solved by someone else. If not well considered—and sometimes even when they are—today’s solutions become tomorrow’s problems. Success in the contemporary operating environment requires different ways of thinking about problems and

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