able to pay attention for longer than 5 or ten minutes? Why wasn’t he able to develop deep focus? Eventually he determined that it was because of the patterns with in our mind and how they have adapted with the constant flow of technology around us every day. The book focuses on a contrast of two technologies‚ being that of a book and the internet. He states that a book uses your concentration and allows you to go deep into thought‚ while the internet is a total opposite with constant stimuli and distractions
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friends tell me i have a gift of making situations less “awkward”. My second choice was a great white shark‚ my love for sharks is enormous! When i was 9 years old i was scrolling through the television channels and stumbled upon an AMC screening of Deep Blue Sea‚ after watching that I was obsessed with all types of sharks(Megalodon‚ Great White‚ Tiger Shark). I loved going
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Some whistleblowers expose the truths through their writings. “Such writers are often called muckrakers since they figuratively dive into the mud and reveal the dirty side of established business practices.” (“Whistleblowers”). In one of the leading examples of muckrakers‚ Upton Sinclair and his novel‚ The Jungle‚ ”exposed some of the filthy conditions and practices of the meatpacking
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1) Brian Turner’s "Jundee Ameriki" The narrator feels like someone talking to his own subconscious‚ someone who was present at the scene back in Baghdad‚ who not only knew the story but experienced it. Although the speaker was presented in 3rd person it could be the Jundee Ameriki himself‚ a battle buddy or one of the rescue team. The fragments symbolize the suffering the soldier encounters from the war‚ the long-lasting physical scars embedded with mementos from the suicidal lady and the scene “bits
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In the late 1970’s‚ scientists on a regular study of the ocean floor in the Pacific Ocean made a discovery that would stun the entire scientific community. On the East Pacific Rise not far from the Galapagos Islands‚ nearly 8000 feet below the surface‚ was a strange landscape covered with what looked like underwater chimneys secreting clouds of black smoke. Surrounding these chimneys was a unique type of ecosystem that had never been seen before. Until this day‚ science had always assumed that all
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The Vacation Joshua Pedro Robert Hathaway English Comp. 1021
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carefully make their way across the river; carrying large groups of people partying. I take one last deep breath in and taste the heavily polluted water in the air‚ as I stand up I step in to the cold‚ freshly watered grass‚ which is drying up very quickly. The 112◦ weather cooking up my insides makes me sweat as if I just got out of the water from wakeboarding. I sprint as fast as I can from the grass and dive into the cool water and remember why I visit here so
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setting. In the beginning of the story‚ Jerry meets the native boys‚ who show him the tunnel. The native boys see one of the older boys swim deep under the water and come up on the other side of a big rock. That started a whole rally and soon all the native boys were diving under the water and swimming through the tunnel. Jerry tries to dive down with the boys but he simply cannot hold his breath that long. “And now‚ in a panic of failure‚ he yelled up‚ in English‚ ‘Look at me! Look!’ and
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unknown areas‚ because they couldn’t see or explore. For instance secrets deal with water and space. What secret hides in the deepest parts of lakes‚ seas and oceans? Let’s talk about one most known water monster which hides itself in the deep of lake in Scotland and named Loch Ness Monster or Nessi. The lakes in Scotland named loch‚ and because this unknown creature was seen in the loch named Ness people started name it The Loch Ness Monster. A lot of mysteries surround this creature and
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