Roger Rosenblatt says “we are a narrative species‚ we exist by storytelling – by relating our situations – and the test of our evolution may lie in getting the story right.” It is basic human nature to tell stories‚ we write in the hopes that someone will read it and find a way to connect with it. Storytelling is therapy‚ when writing there is always someone who can listen to the story you have to tell. Whether it be a black chamber of a submarine or a piece of paper tucked in the bullet hole of
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“Discovering who we are and where we belong can be challenging” "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." Ralph Waldo Emerson’s statement illustrates the difficulty of establish one’s true identity and sense of belonging. Humans are no means anti-social creatures and one of our quintessential traits is our desire to belong. Belonging gives us a purpose in life‚ it boosts our self-esteem and it provides us with a sense of security
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We Rent‚ So Why Do We Need Insurance? This case is about a couple who had a loss to some personal property in their basement due to a flood. Luckily they had renters insurance. It is important for people to have renters insurance for reasons just like this. Even though the property that was damaged was extra furniture‚ it would still be a great expense if they chose to replace it. Imagine there was a fire in your home and everything you owned was damage. It would cost thousands and thousands
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Love is Like Water‚ We can Fall in it‚ We can Drown in it‚ But we can’t Live Without it Men are born inferior to women. Now I’m Sure there are many men who disagree‚ however it is a scientific fact. Any person born with the ’y’ chromosome is born inferior. The conflicting views of men and women have been questioned and debated for centuries. For many years it is said that the male species are superior to women. It wasn’t until August 18‚ 1940 men deemed women smart enough to vote and have our
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Zachary Haw February 25‚ 2012 TOK13B Mr. Marana Y11 TOK FORMAL PAPER It had been a common question and debate on how people think based on the things that they know. Many people believe that things that we know are based on the things that are established on us through our culture‚ environment and society. According to the prompt that "We see and understand things not as they are but as we are"‚ this statement be a common ground of discussion in this paper. While this maybe
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here will show that the written word and literacy are in fact declining‚ and the statistics strongly infer that the rise of the image can contribute to intellectual decline. But in order to see the issue more clearly‚ we must look at two of the main culprits in this evolution‚ television and the Internet‚ and see their effects on literacy. In the 1930s television was introduced to the United States as the first form of the moving image. Since then the television has become the archetype for the
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acquired by a person through experience or education. This definition is simple‚ to the point and comes with relatively little bias. Bias is prejudice in favor of or against one thing which falls under the category of personal feelings. Everybody views everything they see with their own personal bias yet many of the things they view are cold hard facts in which no bias is possible in the immediate presentation of the raw fact. The perception of human being as to how they view and portray the fact
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TOK Essay on History (Pompeii Activity) Dear students Please choose one of the past TOK prescribed titles in order to analyse the Pompeii Activity dealing with: AOK: History‚ Natural Sciences WOK: Reason‚ Sense Perception‚ Language‚ Emotion Concepts: Certainty‚ Evidence‚ Explanation‚ Interpretation‚ Technology Knowledge Questions: Bias‚ selection‚ absolute claims‚ conflicting interpretations 1. Using history and at least one other area of knowledge‚ examine the claim that it is possible to
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Nick Roberson Mr. Scharff IB TOK 3rd June 2013 Language: Journal #3 1. Our language makes us more likely to notice some distinctions or to experience/perceive in certain ways. 2. Our differing environments‚ cultures and social needs will manifest themselves in differences in language. Concerning the first prompt‚ the language that we use causes us to notice the differences in the environment surrounding us because of the manner which it has been described to us. An
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What am I eating? Food is one of the great blessing by God for all his creation. We need food and water to be alive. From the beginning of the world the demand of the food is increasing day by day. The global food chain was already quite extensive by 1701- to the point where affluent English consumers could be oblivious to the costs of sweetening their tea and peppering their sausage.
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