Written Report: Hunter in the Dark Monica Hughes‚ a truly gifted novelist‚ has written a first class book titled Hunter in the Dark. I chose this gripping novel‚ which was published in 1982 because I have immensely enjoyed some of her other works. After reading the preview‚ I expected that the story would give me a greater appreciation for life‚ since it focused on a boy’s struggle with leukemia‚ and how he overcame it. Hughes uses theme to weave a well-developed plot by using her unique style
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SUBJECT: Baker Hughes - Foreign Corrupt Practices Act CG-18 Economic and Social Impact The economic impact of bribes in emerging economies “can increase the cost of a project by 10 percent‚”1 and distorts public expenditure. Corruption can also be a contributing factor “to economic and political unrest by exacerbating income inequality‚ resulting in the denial of fundamental human rights for many citizens.” 2 Corruption and bribes lead to an unfair playing field for honest companies‚ and good
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What is changing is how we behave‚ how we act‚ how we connect with others‚ how we transmit our emotions‚ knowledge or experiences. It is not the essences of the subjects in study‚ Humans and technology‚ but the relations between the two. In her TED video‚ Amber Case (2010) “We are all Cyborgs now” https://www.ted.com/talks/amber_case_we_are_all_cyborgs_now#‚ show us how technology let us adapt to our environment and how this relation has been changing. She also shows us that in fact‚ this context
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In the Ted Talk‚ Poverty‚ Money and Love‚ Jessica Jackley addresses the worldwide issue of poverty. Poverty is a challenging hardship to address because no matter how much a person contributes or tries to help the problem‚ the large scale complication will continue on existing. As humans‚ we naturally want to care for people‚ but sometimes we struggle with the concept of not being able to care for everyone. I really connected with Jackley’s speech when she said she got lost in the immense idea of
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As members of Future Business Professionals‚ we are writing to recommend a speaker for the fall semester. After researching several TED Talk candidates‚ we recommend that you invite Hanna Rosin. Rosin’s TED Talk‚ “New Data and the Rise of Women‚” offers an interesting perspective on gender roles‚ which will highly appeal to FSB students. In this memo‚ we will summarize Rosin’s talk and explain why we recommend her. Hannah Rosin is the co-founder of DoubleX‚ a website centered on news about women
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Langston Hughes’s poem‚ “Cross”‚ focuses on the conflict of segregation of races that occurred in the United States. The poem is in the first person point of view‚ in which‚ the narrator reflects on himself as a young child‚ as he reaches the adult life. In the short three stanza poem‚ the speaker summarizes his obstacles in life that were caused by his family. The poem begins as the narrator describes the ethnicity of his parents “My old man’s a white old man and my old mother’s black” (line 1-2)
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The short story Salvation‚ written by Langston Hughes‚ is based on his personal experience at church as a young child. Langston Hughes aunt takes him to a meeting for the children at her church. At the meeting all the kids were to sit on the mourners bench and wait for Jesus to save them. Towards the end of the ceremony‚ all the children had been saved by Jesus except Langston and another boy. Eventually‚ he decides to get up and said that he had been “saved” by Jesus‚ although he never was. His
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Background: On a hot and humid day‚ my course at Columbia University toured Harlem through the route described in Langston Hughes’s‚ Theme for English B. In his poem‚ Hughes describes his walk from City College of New York to his home in Harlem. When we walked down the steps from City College to Harlem‚ just as Hughes did‚ I realized Hughes’s prevalent battle; he came from an underprivileged background to attend a university where he was the only African American student in his class. Going down
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The fight for freedom was many black people’s dream about 40 years ago. They wanted the right to vote‚ and most importantly to be treated equal‚ just like the first amendment stated. Langston Hughes was a very inspirational writer and poet during the Renaissance period. His poem "Freedom Train" discussed the very important reasons for getting on the freedom train‚ and if they did jump aboard‚ were they really going to be free. The question of whether or not they would really be free arose in their
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Kio Stark discusses the benefit of talking to strangers in her TED Talk‚ “Why You Shouldn’t Talk to Strangers”. She explains that although many grow up with the saying‚ “stranger danger”‚ it may not be so black and white. A simple greeting to a stranger has no real semantic meaning‚ rather they acknowledge somebody else’s presence. Through her recording of interactions with strangers‚ Stark has found unexpected pleasures and genuine emotional interactions through everyday conversations with stranger
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