Imagine a world without imagination A prominent leader said to me today‚ imagination is for children...practical ideas are for adults...hmmm not sure how you get the ideas without imagination. It got me imagining a world Where we worry less about terms like Web 2.0‚ Podcasting‚ Social Media and more about how we can use technology to help change the world for the better... Where we talk about verbs rather than functions.....conversations vs marketing‚ value vs finance‚ hearts and minds rather
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live in today. The texts I used were Schindler’s List‚ directed by Steven Spielberg‚ The Road‚ written by Cormac McCarthy‚ The Wasteland‚ by T.S Eliot and Fire and Ice‚ written by Robert Frost. I felt that all these texts reflected how society shows this idea of death and how we interpret these concepts to become the social norm. One of the large ways death is presented in these texts is through the empty and desolate settings. In ’The Road’ a world is shown as "barren‚ silent‚ godless". The silence
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In the story “Kansas‚” Stephen Dobyns tells how one boy’s journey through life cost him his own life in the end. It starts with a boy trying to get from his school in Oklahoma back to summer school. He is hitchhiking on some back-country roads in Kansas‚ and to his surprise his life would change forever. Dobyns is a very intelligent author and writer‚ as you can see from this great story; he is a well known writer of novels‚ short stories‚ poetry books and essays. Also he has numerous literary awards
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Abdulaziz Khan Prompt 2 In the book‚ “This Song Will Save Your Life” by Leila Sales‚ Elise Dembowski is going a troubling time in her life. She’s at that delicate stage of life where even a small problem could set her off. When the girls at her lunch table tell her to clean up their trash‚ which is a normal thing they do with each other‚ Elise decides that enough is enough‚ and resorts to suicide. She stops after cutting three times and that’s the end of it. About seven months later
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“This is the Life” by Annie Dillard In “This is the Life” by Annie Dillard‚ Dillard uses a dominant magnanimous tone and she switches between a mocking tone and a provocative tone to express that humans nowadays take their lives for granted and they do not realize that not everyone in the world has such an easy life. Dillard does a tremendous job on describing the lives of humans in the past and the present‚ mapping out scenarios describing the “easy life” during a certain time period. As well as
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This I Believe: Life Lessons The summer going into my freshmen year‚ I was more nervous to go to school than I was on my first day of kindergarten. Being so much younger than the seniors at our school was going to be scary. I had no idea what people were talking about when they said that these four years would be some of the best four years of my life and I did not believe them. I remember one day specifically‚ about a week before my new high school experience started. I was talking with a couple
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Nothing is permanent but change. This means that life is a matter of change‚ and nothing can remain constant forever. Hester Prynne‚ the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ is a clear example of the growth of a human being over a period of time. Her character and way of viewing life varies throughout the novel‚ as she goes from a prideful and glorious woman‚ to ashamed and hollow‚ to an example of redemption and self-empowerment. Before her public penitence in the scaffold
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Realism and Imagination within Hamlet No doubt‚ Shakespeare’s tragic drama Hamlet is composed of both realistic and poetic or imaginative elements. Let us explore the presence of both with the play. According to the best of literary critics‚ realism is basically “representing human life and experience” (Abrams 260). In the essay “An Explication of the Player’s Speech‚” Harry Levin explains how the playwright achieves an “imitation of life” in his play: Since the theater
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179 19 SCHEMA REFINEMENT AND NORMAL FORMS 189 20 PHYSICAL DATABASE DESIGN AND TUNING 204 21 SECURITY 215 PREFACE It is not every question that deserves an answer. Publius Syrus‚ 42 B.C. I hope that most of the questions in this book deserve an answer. The set of questions is unusually extensive‚ and is designed to reinforce and deepen students’ understanding of the concepts covered in each chapter. There is a strong emphasis on quantitative and problem-solving type exercises
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The Sociological Imagination Why would it be valuable for Alex to understand the importance of looking beyond his milieu? The personal milieu focuses on the microenvironment of an individual. Therefore‚ the consideration of the scenario leads to the neglect of the challenges that the other people face. Moreover‚ the macro and micro environment share a link that corresponds to the welfare of the subject. For instance‚ success in the macro- level stems from various achievements in the microenvironment
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