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    My most important experience sought me out. It happened to me; I didn’t cause it. I call it serendipity‚ and he maintains that it was fate. Carolina and I had collected enough signatures to return to our group. She glanced around‚ and without notice walked to a stranger. “Sir‚ do you have a moment? We’re conducting a survey” she asked. He gave the question some thought before agreeing‚ but on condition that we followed him to his workplace. In making answer to this proposition‚ Carolina did not

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    Interview with John Adair‚ Author of The Art of Creative Thinking How to be Innovative and Develop Great Ideas By Vern Burkhardt See or make connections between ideas that seem far apart‚ look to nature for models and principles to solve problems‚ make the familiar strange and the strange familiar‚ cultivate curiosity‚ ask lots of questions‚ observe‚ be a good listener‚ and read to generate questions. Reading without reflecting is comparable to eating without digesting. These are but some

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    Emotion as a Way Of Knowing is highly controversial; with its’ part in the long standing debate on whether logic and reasoning is superior and more reliable as a means of gaining knowledge. Yet‚ emotion is crucial is deriving meaning since “meaning in life is derived emotionally‚ not rationally. When we attach significance to something we attach feelings not conclusions.” Rather than to define “emotions” conventionally‚ for the sake of this essay‚ we can differentiate between instinctive emotions

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    “The Sunrise on The Veld has the boy stuck in the moment of serendipity‚ his moment of clear and awakening thought. Yet it is interrupted by the death of the buck or more so‚ the discovery of a dead buck. It is this discovery that strips bare the moment of happiness‚ the moment of the boy discovering himself‚ and really

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    letter to Horatio discussing that he cannot talk about the recent events in this letter‚ but says to Horatio he will see him soon and to deliver this letter to the king may be considered an example of Deus ex machine. Deus ex machine is a type of serendipity which is an unbelievable‚ improbable event that takes

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    months after moving from Colorado for a new job. All she wanted for Christmas that year was love. She had no friends or family living near her. She needed a change from the boring atmosphere of her life in Colorado. Her favorite coffee shop‚ Serendipity‚ was a few blocks from her apartment. As she walked to the coffee shop she hoped she’d see the stranger she secretly admired. That was the day her life changed. As Clara waited in line to order her latte‚ she didn’t see the man she was searching

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    D or identifying home as the suitable place for treatment of heart patients‚ are good examples of success of trial & error method. Incidentally‚ almost all the inventions and discoveries have come either through trial & errors or out of serendipity. The God Complex‚ as it turns out from Tim Harford’s video‚ is a belief of the role-holder that he or she fully understands how the system works and only his or her solution to the problem is right. Such persons feel hurt if their opinions are

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    hair-like organelle that helps the bacterium to attach to other cells or items. The nucleoid is where the DNA and RNA is stored. Antibiotics are drugs that kill bacteria‚ fungi‚ and parasites. Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic by serendipity. Most antibiotics work by preventing the cell wall from producing peptoglycan. There are two types of antibiotics. The first is bacteriocidal.It kills the bacteria directly. The second is bacteriostatic. This method stops the bacteria from multiplying

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    their Hardy-Weinberg logic like zealous preachers of clandestine religion eager to gain political fervor‚ claimed that Natural Selection was a mechanism that perpetuated traits most conducive to environmental pressures‚ but I beg to differ. It is serendipity‚ it is fate‚ and it is happenstance. And oft I wonder‚ why should I be the one to abide‚ what have I done to endure the destruction of the world and be impervious to age by the infinite passage of time? If only longevity was as humanity hoped it

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    Most people seem to change their minds given the right reasons. In the story “Stray” by Cynthia Rylant‚ Doris‚ a girl in the snow finds a stray dog.She tries to take the dog inside but her parents are reluctant to keep the dog. But end up changing their minds for the right reasons! Doris learns that not only people can change their minds for the right reasons but that people can also be kind. In the start of the story Doris’ parents are reluctant of Doris keeping the dog.Doris’ mom grudgingly ‚

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