The speaker I selected was Professor Randy Pausch. I have read the book‚ “The Last Lecture” and was very moved by it. In the introduction he absolutely grabbed my attention. He was very humorous and engaging. Even using humor to discuss “the elephant in the room” and to show everyone how he was in good health. He makes you want to listen in the way he opened his “speech”. His nonverbal communication is excellent. He focuses on the audience (eye contact) through the entire speech. He walks
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pets for food and medicine but a nice portion of the billions spent every year are on unnecessary things. Why? Because Americans love to pamper their pets and are willing to do anything for them as if they were their own children. In the article “The Last Meow by Burkhard Bilger” his data shows the unnecessary amount of spending on pets. Example one “we’re looking at spending a thousand dollars in the next twenty four hours and between three and four thousand in the next week” That is a lot of money
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Death is Not a Vaccination The majority of the population do not know the day nor hour when death will come upon them. Some go in their sleep‚ some are consumed by disease or illnesses‚ and some go by tragic happenings. In the excerpt from The Last Goodnights‚ John West shares the unfortunate story of his parent’s wishes to end their lives with his assistance. West argues that this should not have to be the case for those with a terminal illness and how euthanasia should be legal so that others do
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade opens in 1912 in Monument Valley with Indiana Jones as a boy scout who steals the Cross of Coronado from treasure hunters to put it in a museum. After the police force Indiana to give the cross back‚ the scene changes to a ship in the Atlantic in 1938 where Indiana finally obtains the Cross of Coronado‚ and Indiana later gives it to a museum. In the United States‚ Indiana Jones meets Walter Donovon‚ a donor to the museum who tells Indiana his father‚ Henry‚ went
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FPL Essay Angella Johnson is the author of the book The First Part Last. This book is about a boy named Bobby growing up in the urban area of New York. Bobby turns 16 and he’s going to skip school and hang out with his friends. They go eat at Mineos where Bobby’s dad Fred works. Then they go climb to the top of the Empire State Building. Looking down at the observation deck they see that people look like little tiny ants and they have a great view of the city. Afterwards Bobby comes home
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The 1954 movie The Seven Samurai‚ directed by Akira Kurosawa‚ and its 1960 remake The Magnificent Seven‚ directed by John Sturges have many similarities; for example‚ the plot of both movies entails farmers hiring mercenaries to help fend off bandits that annually pillage their farms. The two movies also have differences like the characterization of the bandits in The Magnificent Seven as opposed to The Seven Samurai. One of the main similarities between the Seven Samurai and Magnificent Seven is
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could tell he was suffering and we wanted to do right by him. Making the right choice for someone who does not have the ability to talk is a difficult decision‚ but as animal owners‚ we have a responsibility to care for our pets. In “The Last Meow” by Burkhard Bilger‚ stories of sick animals and their owners making choices for their pets are written in multiple parts. His main point in the article is that we treat our furry family members so much like people‚ that when faced with the choices
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features of the samurai in the period from 1600 to 1868 are samurai stop fighting and Confucianism become popular and really influential in Japan. 1600 to 1868 is the Tokugawa period. In this period‚ Tokugawa brought an end to the warfare. Therefore‚ one characteristic from 1600 to 1868 was about samurai stop fighting. Specifically‚ samurai no longer needed to fight wars or were worried about how to earn a life. They transferred from warriors into civil administrators‚ and samurai could acquire a
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next under him was placed the sogun‚ the actual leader‚ which was invested by the emperor to protect Japan‚ he was followed by daymio and samurai‚ military figures that were placed in charge of administering the country‚ followed by farmers and artisans. Merchants‚ accumulated great wealth in cities like Edo‚ Osaka‚ and Kyoto. In this structure the samurai class‚ was forbidden from engaging in profitable trade or farming‚ the peasant’s role was to produce basic foodstuffs. Peasants were to give
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If Knights and Samurai were going to engage in battle‚ who would win? Imagine yourself as a Samurai‚ you are in the middle of defeating the European knights who are covered in plated armor. You begin to worry but then‚ you win‚ these are the reasons why a Samurai is better than a knight. Feudalism in Europe and Japan were both very similar. They both has rulers‚ and they both had rulers who hired nobles‚ and they both had nobles who hired landowners‚ and they both had landowners who hired warriors
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