all this‚ we usually neglect one of the things that is most likely to make us smiley people – we stop making friends. Research shows that having more friends is much more likely to make us happy than having more money‚ but as we get older and busier‚ we leave little time to meet and appreciate new people‚ preferring to hang on to the friends we already have. And we have fewer friends than you might think. United States academics‚ Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler‚ say the average person has
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The book The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway‚ is about an old man‚ Santiago‚ and his genuine fondness of the sea. Every day he travels out to sea to go fishing which is his occupation. For the past eighty-four days the old man has not caught a single fish. On the eighty-fifth day he sails out to sea as usual‚ and this is the day that changes Santiago’s life forever. He hooks an unusually immense marlin‚ and they have an agonizing battle for several days. Hemingway often compares Santiago
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Caitlin Couch Period 4 Old Man and the Sea 1. Symbols a. The Marlin is a major symbol in the novella. It stands for Santiago’s ideal opponent; his worthy challenger. He feels lucky to be able to fight this challenger‚ as it is his equal. Having bested your equal is much more satisfactory than whipping some amateur’s butt. I think that he feels that by facing the Marlin‚ he is giving the best of himself to his cause. He’s going full throttle‚ and by facing his Marlin‚ he is enhancing
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The Leafy Sea Dragon is a marine fish in the family Syngnathidae‚ which includes the seahorses. The name comes from the long leaf-like growths on its body. Sea dragons are some of the most-well camouflaged creatures on the planet. They blend perfectly with the seaweed and kelp that they live in. Leafy sea dragons don’t live on tropical reefs‚ but in the cooler rocky reefs off the southern coast of Australia. Despite their name‚ seadragons don’t have any teeth. They suck their food with their long
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and despair!” “Nothing besides remains.” “boundless and bare” “The lone and level sands stretch far away.” In ‘The Sea’ James Reeves uses his imagination to create the right
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Math/Stat 394‚ Winter 2011 F.W. Scholz Central Limit Theorems and Proofs The following gives a self-contained treatment of the central limit theorem (CLT). It is based on Lindeberg’s (1922) method. To state the CLT which we shall prove‚ we introduce the following notation. We assume that Xn1 ‚ . . . ‚ Xnn are independent random variables with means 0 and 2 2 respective variances σn1 ‚ . . . ‚ σnn with 2 2 2 σn1 + . . . + σnn = τn > 0 for all n. 2 Denote the sum Xn1 + . . . + Xnn by Sn and observe
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Sir Mohan Lal looked at himself in the mirror of a first class waiting room at the railway station. The mirror was obviously made in India. The red oxide at its back had come off at several places and long lines of translucent glass cut across its surface. Sir Mohan smiled at the mirror with an air of pity and patronage. ’You are so very much like everything else in this country‚ inefficient‚ dirty‚ indifferent‚’ he murmured. The mirror smiled back at Sir Mohan. ’You are a bit of all right
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Leadership Assignment 5 Sarah Kamal 09-4714 ------------------------------------------------- 26th November 2012 Question 1: Was the research program a group or a team? If a team‚ what kind of a team was it? At first‚ before the assignment of a formal leader‚ it was a self-directed team on a whole of groups of people. It was a team because it was not inhibited by organizational boundaries. It was specifically formulated for a purpose and vision that was to develop a technique for large-scale
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Reflections For the past few weeks‚ we had been having English classes with Madam Diana. She had been a great teacher. Alright‚ maybe great is not the right adjectives to describe her. Madam Diana is a fabulous teacher! English classes always bore me‚ but not with Madam Diana. Different approaches are used by her in teaching us‚ leaving a big impact on us. As a part of learning process‚ we are also assigned with weekly reflections which requires us to reflect on whatever we have learnt throughout
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He is lionized with proper cause; he is flawless‚ deserving of compliments in such quantity to become white noise. Physically‚ he is near impeccable‚ yet when first meeting him‚ nothing spectacular is noticed. The more he is looked upon‚ the more that is found to admire. Indeed‚ he has his flaws‚ but only the obvious ones‚ only the insignificant ones. When one becomes proficient at gazing longingly into his beautiful eyes‚ it is as if an answer to a silent prayer is found. His gaze is like a sword—carefully
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