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    Kindness report Kindness is attribute that everyone should try to be better at. Being kind to others not only makes others feel good but can also make you feel good. In Gordon B. Hinckley’s talk he shares a story of how a young woman came to find out this lesson the hard way when it was too late. Gordon B. Hinckley urges us to always be kind because you’ll never know when you’ll have another chance. One of my favorite Mormon Messages was made about a act of kindness. In the Mormon Message two boys

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    During the 1990s‚ Dr. Robert Levine and a group of researchers carried out a cultural study on different cities and its individuals and how they reacted when presented with an opportunity to exhibit kindness to strangers. Levine created multiple variables to test for kindness that individual’s exhibit towards strangers. Levine and his group had to eliminate some of the variables because of certain cultural norms that prohibited the efficiency of the test. Levine then tested random individuals in

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    During the book called girl on a plane‚ by Miriam Moss‚ fifteen year old Anna is traveling back to her English boarding school alone‚ after she spent the summer with her family. Anna’s flight gets hijacked by a group of well known Palestinian guerillas. The Palestinian group is called the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine). While Anna is on the plane‚ she quickly develops relationships with two passengers sitting next to her. The two passengers are Tim and David. Tim is an elementary

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    American lawyer and political leader‚ Robert Green Ingersoll‚ once said that “kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.” In book one‚ “Fantine‚” in the novel Les Miserables‚ author Victor Hugo uses the helpless and beast-like character of Jean Valjean to demonstrate that when an individual‚ at his lowest point of being‚ is exposed to kindness‚ he may rise up and become virtuous‚ so that he may help others achieve this virtue in return. A helpless individual in the midst of a radically unequal

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    Greek storyteller‚ once said‚ ”No act of kindness‚ no matter how small‚ is ever wasted.” Small acts of kindness can have huge impacts on others. First‚ small acts of kindness might cause the domino effect. Second‚ acts of kindness can make people’s day. Finally‚ doing small acts of kindness makes you a good role model for younger people. As a result‚ a small act of kindness can make a positive impact on another person’s life. First‚ doing small acts of kindness might cause the domino effect. If you

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    AP World History-Theme Analysis Chart Theme 1: Interaction between humans and the environment. | * Like religious faiths‚ infections and contagious diseases also spread along the trade routes of the classical world. * The most disruptive of these diseases were probably smallpox and measles‚ and epidemics of bubonic plague may also have erupted. * During the second century C.E. epidemics reduced roman population by about one-quarter‚ to forty-five million. | Theme 2: Development and

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    Peter Buffet makes an interesting point that money does not buy kindness or trust therefore kindness is paid in hugs‚ laughs‚ gestures‚ etc. Peter Buffet writes‚ “The kindnesses that allowed me to trust people and in the basic goodness of the world could not be measured in dollars; they were paid for‚ in hugs and ice-cream cones and help with homework” (Pg. 12). Money does not buy kindness because there is no sentimental feelings when money is being used. For example‚ creating huge charities and

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    What if schools taught kindness? What type of changes in our society would we see? Two teachers‚ Laura Pinger and Lisa Flook share their lesson from creating a "kindness curriculum" for young students. This twelve-week curriculum was brought to six schools in the Midwest. A couple of days out the week for twenty minutes‚ pre-kindergarten kids were introduced to stories and practices for paying attention‚ regulating their emotions‚ and cultivating kindness. This curriculum is said to improve kids’

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    Common Theme The theme of a hero’s journey is seen through many of our readings‚ especially in The Odyssey and Maus. Odysseus is seen as a strong figure throughout the entire epic poem through many circumstances. One such circumstance is when Odysseus confronts the Cyclops. “But even from there my courage‚ my presence of mind and tactics saved us all” (277). This particular event portrays one of the most difficult trials that Odysseus goes through because he must escape the cave‚ but is unable

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    collodion process couldn’t of achieved . The staged image depicts a young girl dying of tuberculosis and her mourning family; her fiancé‚ mother‚ and sister surrounding her. This quickly became a debatable piece of photography‚ and some felt the theme and subject of death and grief ‚was not suitable for photography. People at the time were use to the idea of photographs as a recorded proof of incidents that took place during a certain time in reality‚ so to a lot of viewers‚ the staged “Fading

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