Doctor Alistair Coldsworth didn’t consider himself an unkind and cruel man‚ despite what many had said of him. Yes he did keep slaves and he admired their body‚ using them for things such as serving guests‚ standing in for a table or a lamp at parties or some rather more sinister acts‚ however‚ he treat them well so long as they behaved. The only time he really did anything severe and mistreat them was when they were disobeying and annoying him‚ that was hardly a bad thing. How could that possibly
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As life goes on‚ things get more complicated. You are no longer a child‚ but an adult who faces reality. To you‚ real life is nothing like fairy tales. Problems are not being easily solved and confusions are everywhere. There is never a long period of rest and peace. You should always be aware of everything preventing you to live an easy life. Moments of sadness and misery are much more frequent than those of happiness‚ filling your head with indescribable madness. Life is not only black and white
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aim for perfection and berate ourselves when we fall short. Some of us avoid that humiliation by simply giving up. I don’t want you to give up. I want you to aim high‚ certainly‚ but don’t stop simply because you didn’t achieve perfection. There are two points I will make tonight. Firstly‚ perfection for us mere mortals is by its very nature impossible to achieve. Secondly‚ to achieve perfection is not actually a desirable thing. Firstly‚ why is perfection impossible? Perfection – being
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are pressed upon individuals‚ the result may be decisions that are not necessarily desirable to them. In Alistair MacLeod ’s "The Boat‚" the father sacrifices himself in order to give his son the opportunity to choose
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youth since the 1950s. Modifying‚ also known as tuning‚ started when teens in the 50s wanted to make their V-8 muscle cars faster. Fast-forward forty years to southern California in the early 90s; the gas prices had risen and teens still wanted to go fast. A small group of people‚ mostly Asian Americans‚ began to modify their compact import cars. These people began a trend that would impact American culture for years to come. When import tuning began‚ it was mainly limited to a few types of
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In this lesson‚ you have learned to: Identify three common guitar tuning methods. Tune your guitar You will now record and submit a video performance of "Strums and Strokes" and "Picking and Strumming" for assessment: When you receive your grade‚ compare your self-evaluation with your teacher’s assessment. Save your self-evaluation for your next Discussion-Based Assessment with your teacher. 1.09 assignment instructions The assessment for lesson 01.09 will be a video performance. This assessment
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social media or advertising. There are different ways of defining perfection. However‚ perfection is hard to obtain because no one is perfect. There are some people who strive for perfection to overcome their insecurities and lack of self-esteem. According to Ursula Le Guin‚ she states “There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect‚ and not one of them is attained through punishment.” Although various people believe that physical perfection is not attained through punishment‚ Guin’s claim is disagreeable
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The Pursuit of Perfection: the Reintroduction of Ancient Roman Principles to Architecture by Renaissance Architects Leon Battista Alberti and Fillipo Brunelleschi Dustan Byler Professor Rachel Mundie Art History II October 31‚ 2011 Fillipo Brunelleschi and Leon Battista Alberti were two of the most important and famous 15th century architects in Italy. The façade of the Basilica San’Andrea (Figure 1) by Alberti and the Florence Cathedral Dome (Figure 2) by Brunelleschi are their
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“The Boat” written by Alistair MacLeod tells a story about a father’s life and how he lived as a fisherman. The narrator is an adult man who looks back on his life of when his father was still living because even though he got a university education‚ he now wants the life his father had. He expresses how his father always wanted him to become something bigger and better then what he became. The author‚ Alistair MacLeod‚ used many different writing techniques within this short story. The symbolism
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Will‚ Omnipotence‚ and Moral Perfection: Escaping Incompatibility Omnipotence and moral perfection are plausible and intuitive characteristics to assign the greatest possible being. Yet it is not clear whether it is logically possible for God to possess both. Wes Morriston examines this paradox in his paper “Omnipotence and Necessary Moral Perfection: Are They Compatible?” by considering three claims: Let E be some possible state of affairs that God’s moral perfection prevents him from actualizing…
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