OVERVIEW The document we are about to study is an extract/excerpt from a report entitled “Caught in the Backlash‚ Stories from Northern California” published in November 2002 by the ACLU (whose aim is to defend individual rights and liberties.) The main character is called Charlotte Wu and is a 22-year-old sophomore who’s fond of/keen on/crazy about videogames. One day in late 2001‚ Charlotte played a videogame with her friends. Then she left the game. Later‚ a player phoned her and she helped him
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2013 A Father’s Lesson Parents have the responsibility to teach and to protect their children. In teaching them while they are young parents hope to save them from making mistakes later in life. In the novel Life of Pi‚ Santosh‚ Pi’s father wishes to save his boys from future fatal blunders. His lesson was done in somewhat a harsh way but it was necessary‚ any other way may not have been effective‚ and it accomplished what he wanted it to. Some would view this father’s lesson as harsh and a little
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My Implications and Learned Lessons in Business Negotiation Being a salesperson like me‚ I must admit that it is a tough marketplace out there and strong negotiating skills are fundamental to achieving and more importantly sustaining career and business success‚ particularly within a competitive sales and marketing environment. Those of us who want to achieve better results‚ both at work and in our private lives‚ need to develop effective negotiating skills. It is worth to bear in mind that if
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To Kill a Mockingbird Essay Understanding why people do the things they do is not easy‚ especially when you are young. Little kids don’t really think about other people’s feelings or the causes of their actions because when you are young‚ your whole world consists of you. This concept is one that Scout learns in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Throughout the novel‚ Scout transforms from an ignorant tomboy into a sympathetic lady‚ due to learning about empathy. At the beginning of the
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to make a suggestion. The idiom ‘Kill two birds with one stone’ is used in response to a question regarding single parenting. This idiom is a well-known one‚ meaning everyone reading the response understands what she is implying‚ as well as forming imagery about what she is implying. The idiom stands for doing one action to solve two problems‚ and this idiom in question provides us with vivid imagery about a way to solve the woman’s problem. Using the noun ‘birds’ compacts both problems she has into
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In the fictional life of Scout Finch‚ a six-year-old girl living in 1930’s Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ life is changing and her perceptions of her beloved town and family is evolving. In the book‚ “To Kill a Mockingbird‚” we are invited to enter Scout’s mind‚ years later‚ and recount a time in her life where she was forced to grow and change as challenges came her way. Scout recalls a time where Atticus Finch‚ Scout’s father‚ is appointed to represent an African American man who has been accused of raping
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Wednesday‚ April‚ 30th Life Lessons of Victor Frankenstein Mary Oliver once said that the instructions for living life are to “Pay attention‚ be astonished‚ tell about it.” This profoundly speaks about life lessons and that they key is to pay attention‚ learn from them and be astonished and then share our own wisdom to benefit others. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly‚ Victor Frankenstein learns many lessons throughout the course of the story. Victor learns three main lessons; that keeping scientific
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Lessons of The Past 1. Don’t Judge Others Unless You Know Them I learned this lesson when I was just a young girl. I was in the 6th grade I think and it was these group of girls (preps) and they seemed that they were mean. I was new at the school and I really didn’t know the girls for myself so I just went with what everyone else was saying. A couple of months past and I haven’t talked to the girls because of what some of the other kids had told me. I finally got the courage to talk to the
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Robert Frost: Lessons of Life Robert Frost has over fifty poems circulating throughout the world. Frost’s career can be separated between flashes of insight and deeper wisdom. Individuality‚ love‚ religion‚ and nature are all things that can be learned from Frost. His mental‚ emotional‚ and spiritual equipment all blend together to form poems which can teach people things about their own life. Love can be learned from Robert Frost’s poetry. Frost’s poem‚ “Reluctance”‚ is a representation
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against others. Most of the time things really aren’t what they seem. The novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ is a significant example of this. Jem and Scout Finch grew up in the 1930’s‚ in Maycomb‚ a town that’s extremely prejudice towards a lot of different people‚ but also a town that was oblivious to the fact that people are much different from the interior than they are on the exterior. Jem and Scout‚ and the people of Maycomb make conclusions about the ones around them quite often‚
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