This semester I explored the issue of inequality. When I first began writing about this topic‚ I was very eager to learn about it‚ but was not particularly educated about it. Even writing my first essay‚ “The Hidden Concept: Privilege”‚ helped me explore what economic inequality meant to me. Before writing that essay I was aware that I grew up in a family that had economic privilege. However‚ I did not truly understand many of its implications on my thinking and the way I contributed to society until
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Introduction The book‚ "The Hidden Dimension"‚ written by Edward T. Hall was published in 1969. The book mainly aims the cultural perception of space by Hall’s proxemics Theory‚ which also called "anthropology of space" (Hissey‚ 2004‚ p.44). Edward T. Hall who is an anthropologist‚ provides the idea that individuals communicate differently according to the different cultures. Hall uses ideas of space to strengthen his theme. Synopsis of the BookIn the book‚ The Hidden Dimension‚ Hall mainly focuses
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Do what is right “Don’t give up for your rights‚ stand up for your rights‚”Bob Marley. In Among the Hidden‚ by Margaret Peterson‚ standing up for rights was demonstrated by one of the main characters‚ Jen Talbot. Twelve-year-old Jen‚ who lived in a wealthy family‚ was illegal for being a third child. If she got caught by the population police‚ she would be sentenced to death immediately. Throughout the story‚ Jen tried to solve the problem of 3rd children not being allowed‚ in order to experience
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Humor and Healing: The Mind-Body Connection "As it is not proper to cure the eyes without the head‚ nor the head without the body; so neither is it proper to cure the body without the soul." Socrates(Cousins‚ 56) The word‚ to heal‚ comes from the root word "haelen" which means to make whole. Bringing together the body‚ mind and spirit can be healing. The word humor itself is a word of many meanings. The root of the word is "umor" meaning liquid or fluid (Moyers‚ 221). In the Middle Ages‚ humor
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Street or Book Smart… How About Both Often times “street smart” and “book smart” are treated as two different identities‚ street-smart individuals are lacking any real intelligence and substance‚ good “Hidden Intellectualism”‚ by Gerald Graff is an article in which the author suggests that intelligence cannot only be obtained by being school or being “book smart" individual but can also be achieved by what he describes as being "Street smart‚" Graff argues that intellectualism is not only
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Frankenstein‚ a book by Mary Shelley about a scientist named Victor Frankenstein‚ exhibits many elements and has lots of hidden symbolism within the text. My creature really shows just how unique this book is by having each body part represent some element of the book. The head of the monster is supposed to represent how quick the monster learns and how reading affected his growth. The monster learns language very quickly “My days were spent in close attention‚ that I might more speedily master the
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Gerald Graff’s essay‚ "Hidden Intellectualism‚" is a critique on how schools are missing out on a valuable opportunity to encourage students to learn more academically. Graff feels that utilizing what he calls "street smarts" is an effective way to relate to students. I feel Graff’s theory is an effective way to use student’s interests to engage them in school. I agree with Graff because if a student is more interested in the lesson that is being taught‚ they are more likely to pay attention and
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This essay discusses the concepts of small business and entrepreneurship and relationship between them. We will try to define and explain the terms ?owner-manager? and entrepreneur‚ in other words who operate a small business enterprises. We also will examine the similarities and differences of these terms. From the outset it needs to be emphasized that while we will talk about the small business and entrepreneurship‚ these terms need to be defined. For small business there is still no single definition
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The Hidden Power Behind The Comics Strips The comics strips are a sequence of drawings which arranged in related panels. They usually come in series and used to display brief humor or form a narrative. Also‚ they may come as only pictures or they may include some text. Let’s take " Calvin and Hobbes " as an example. “Calvin and Hobbes” is a comic strip about an imaginary world of Calvin‚ who is just a six years old boy‚ with his trusty stuffed tiger named Hobbes. Hobbes is alive only
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In this movie there was a number of many good connections to the Bible and especially Romans. The movie expressed many ideas of Romans. The biggest connection In Warm Bodies to Romans was when R sacrifices himself to save Julie from doing and falls into the pool dead and rises up from the water alive. When R and Julie were trapped on the edge of the stadium and the boneys were closing in on them R had a choice which was to sacrifice to save that which he loves which was Julie. R says “always protect
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