Concepts we live by By Erica Hernandez Metaphors can unite reason and imagination into our everyday language. These metaphors structure our daily thoughts‚ speech‚ and actions. They have even become a way of conceiving information in the thought process of understanding experiences. In Metaphors we live by (1980) by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson the authors describes how often metaphors are kinda of an analogy or symbol‚ that can also be used as a way to relate to other people. Metaphorical
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Two books really inspired me and taught me life lessons that were really meaningful. I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives by Caitlin Alifirenka & Martin Ganda was one book that really opened my mind. Seventh-grader Caitlin Alifirenka who lives in Hatfield‚Pennsylvania made the life changing decision to choose Zimbabwe‚a country in Africa‚ as the location of her pen-pal. Receiving the letter‚ Martin Ganda was the first of the scholarly ten kids to get a letter. Through several
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“DONT DREAM YOUR LIFE‚ LIVE YOUR DREAMS.” - People tend to dream always without executing effort from it. Because of that‚ we just dream of the life we want to be. But if we put our dreams in action‚ we can start to live our dreams and can achieve it in the right time. We should invest our time doing things that we can gain something good from it. We should not make our life just a dream and be lenient to make it miserable. Our dreams are our foundations of tomorrow. We should start to do things
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1- Ally Condie is a New York best-selling author who lives in Salt Lake city‚ Utah. Condie was born in cedar city on November 2nd‚ 1971 which would make her 43 today‚ she is now married with four children. After graduating high school‚ she continued her learning at Birgham Sound University‚ where she earned a degree in English teaching. Condie spent a couple years teaching at high schools in both Utah and Uptown New York before she wrote her novels. Along with the Matched trilogy‚ which won a place
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Live Concert Paper On November 22‚ 2013‚ I went to the B.B Kings Restaurant and Blues club in downtown Nashville. From five o’clock to nine o’clock at night‚ Carl Stewart Band played. Then from nine o’clock to one o’clock in the morning the B.B King all-stars played. I did not stay that late though. The Carl Stewart Band was mainly blues with a little bit of light rock. They had acoustic guitars‚ electric guitar‚ drums and a few more instruments. All of their songs seemed to have related to life
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Every day the news depicts more coverage of violent crimes. It often seems that morals are not the same as they used to be in this country. I have lived in Kentucky all my life and have felt rather safe. This paper will explore the crimes in my college city of Morehead‚ KY and compare it to other nearby cities‚ in order to see just how safe it really is. According to the last census taken‚ Morehead has a population of 5914. Its population is 94% white‚ 3% African American‚ and 3% is other/mixed
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Lives of Athenian Women Childbirth in Athens took place in the home‚ with all the women of the house‚ including mothers‚ sisters and servants. In some cases there was a servant called omphalotomos (the cutter of the naval chord) who was also present. Various ancient sources refer to lullabies being sung to babies although the words and melodies are not known. Aristotle tells us that the child’s first toy was a rattle‚ and we understand that most ancient Greek children toys are similar to use that
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The House I Live In was an amazing documentary. I was saddened to hear Nannie’s story and the stories of others that I witnessed in the film. I was blown away by how much the war on drugs is really a war on blacks more than anything else. It disgusted me to see the stereotyping of blacks by police officers under the guise of "probable cause." The police aren’t about doing real police work‚ only placing cuffs on blacks and low-income civilians and sending them to jail. It’s mind blowing to me how
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Our lives have changed greatly because of advances in computer technology. Many of our traditional habits have also changed because of computers. Things that were only dreams a few years ago are now possible due to computers. If one day all the computer systems were to stop working‚ we would have huge problems. In the banking system computers are now vital for all parts of the financial business. They allow the bank to save time which also means money. Now imagine a failure of a bankfs computer
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hand‚ running off the road down a steep embankment or ravine causes a rollover accident and collision into hard immovable objects‚ which is something you want to avoid. Wear your seatbelt. Decades of accident studies have verified that seatbelts save lives. Note that airbags are meant to work in combination with seatbelts. In fact‚ airbags cause serious injury to the unbelted driver or passenger. Always sit properly. Make a habit of sitting upright with your back against the seat when in a car. This
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