When Benjamin Franklin arrived in Philadelphia‚ he had one thought‚ having a successful life away from his brother. One way he would be able to achieve that‚ was living morally perfect. What he could not understand was why he could not do what he thought was right and avoid doing what he thought was wrong. Therefore he made a list with thirteen virtues that he believed were “necessary and desirable” to improve himself. The intention was for him to “acquire the habitude of all these virtues‚”fixing
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The Old Demon In the short story “The Old Demon” by Pearl S. Buck‚ Mrs. Wang is a practical person‚ who takes things at face value‚ does whatever she thinks must be done‚ and accepts her fate. Foremost‚ Mrs. Wang takes things at face value. Seeing things as they truly are‚ after rescuing a wounded soldier from a fallen plane‚ she learns from a crowd of Chinese soldiers that he is Japanese. Though fully acknowledging that he is the adversary‚ Mrs. Wang saves the young man from being stabbed
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My definition of "old-timer" would be someone in their 70s.80s. So I would take the age at which Mr. Old Timer was raising his children‚ which was apparently when he would have been at the age to determine respectfulness of his own children. Let ’s say 25 years old. That generation would have had multiple children by then. If he was born in 1940‚ he would have been 25 years old in 1965. I would take data from his geographic area from the years 1965 and 2010. Each group would have 20 people
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PSY 212 April 23‚ 2004 "Old People: Individual Blessing or Societal Disaster?" The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in combination with New Jersey Medical School held a symposium on April 30 dealing with the topic of aging in our American society. One of the sessions on the agenda for the symposium dealt with whether or not aging in our society was a blessing or a disaster. I found the introduction to the presentation to be an interesting article‚ and I can imagine that
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important advantage of longer living is that the elder person considerably increased recently. Older person can give some advice from experience to the younger generation‚ so that to help them when they are in troubles. Taking heed of the suggestion from old‚ young becomes sophisticated in making their thoughts and hence succeed. On the other hand‚ longer living has disadvantage to individuals. Take health care for example. When people get older and older that parents have to deal with very seriously health
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stop me from fussing on the ride home. You see‚ they kept asking me things like‚ "What do you think of the new baby?" and‚ "Are you excited to have such a cute brother?" Every time they asked‚ I fussed about something different. I was five years old‚ and at that age I used to complain about everything. Just the day before‚ I had complained about socks that felt lumpy between my toes and about hamburger rolls that had little sesame seeds sprinkled over their brown tops. Nowadays‚ I prefer rolls
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When I first arrived to America‚ I was not pleased with being in a new country with a new language that I don’t know anything about it. At the beginning I struggled at school when I saw a new People with a new culture completely different than what I was expecting. Also‚ it was very difficult for me to adapt in a new school with everyone around make me making me feel less and stupid because they speak English very well . Even teachers were not very good and help me understand the lesson or at least
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Before my arrival to the United States of America‚ I viewed this country’s values as a land of opportunity and the promotion of freedom. Upon my arrival to the US‚ my perspective has shifted and the reality became more obvious. Knowing the country’s values and ideals increases your sense of knowledge. Americans endorse unity‚ praise the idea of family‚ and acknowledge the innovations created by these individuals. My families curiosities about this country spurred our move from The United Arab Emirates
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I came to America about 13 years ago from Sri Lanka and I’ve had experiences in this country that I think are very unique. Both of my parents worked so hard to bring my brother and I to America‚ because they knew that if we wanted the best future we’d have to be here. I never truly realized the impact America has had on me and my family. I come from an Indian/Sri Lankan background and being able to see so much acceptance of our culture here is truly amazing. Although I have had experiences with racism
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A Night of Music A night of Music at the Dunham theatre‚ the first piece played at the venue was a wonderful piece by Gustav Holst called Second suite in f. Starting off very subtle and with a sequence that continues throughout the whole piece. As the brass and percussion make entry the pitch of the winds dim down while the others increase making the dynamics of the music vary from a very delicate to very strong when the percussion and brass sections start playing. It’s melody had a very folk tune
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