1. Famous People: 2. "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." a. H. G. Wells (1866-1946) 3. "Glory is fleeting‚ but obscurity is forever." b. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) 4. "Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." c. Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) 5. "Don’t be so humble - you are not that great." d. Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat 6. "His ignorance is encyclopedic" e. Abba
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Into The Wild Seminar Prep Discussion and Quotes “’We like companionship‚ see‚ but we can’t stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost‚ come back for a while‚ then get the hell out again.’” (Krakauer 96) (Chap 8) When Krakauer mentions how “’We like companionship… but we can’t stand to be around people for very long” (Krakauer 96)‚ is this due to an innate distaste of human nature or the socially constructed byproducts of it? If the latter holds true‚ will an individual
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One of the most famous oceanic disappearance is that of the Mary Celeste. Now at this point you may think that this does not seem like anything special‚ however it is not the actual boat that disappeared but in fact just its’ crew. On December 5th‚ 1872‚ The Mary Celeste was found adrift at sea(The events leading up to the mystery. (n.d.). The 100 ft long 282 ton Canadian ship began its’ voyage on November 7‚ 1872 from New York’s harbor(The events leading up to the mystery. (n.d.). With a total
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Famous Thinkers Sandra M Noel PHL/458 August 31‚ 2013 Cheron Summers Famous Thinkers “Cornel Ronald West was on born June 2‚ 1953 is an American philosopher‚ academic‚ and activist‚ and author‚ public intellectual‚ and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. The son of a Baptist minister‚ West received his undergraduate education at Harvard University‚ graduating with his bachelor ’s degree in 1973‚ and received his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1980
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In the novel The Pigman‚ Paul Zindel expresses his recipe for a happy life. He is able to achieve this through two teenagers learning about life and an old man who is able to teach the kids. Paul Zindel intended for the novel to be for teens that are going through tough lives and need to change it. Zindel uses John and Lorraine as the teens that need help from their hostile and unfair life they live in. From Zindel’s insight‚ he tries to tell readers to have fun in life‚ making sure you find your
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my behavior then by the mechanism of that dream vacuum wherein revolves a deranged mind; but at the time‚ it all seemed quite simple and inevitable to me” (Nabokov 122). And then there are instances of more indirect moral contemplations‚ as in the famous Davenport scene where
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A Room of One’s Own is a film that explores the notion of women in literature. In A Room of One’s Own‚ by Virginia Woof‚ we discover that the major them being addressed is in fact feminism. Woolf lectures on the topic of women and the notion of their ability to create literature. Throughout the film she exploits the ways women are being belittled due to the sex they identify as. At the beginning of he passage provided we see evidence which describes the perception’s society has created about women
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The thesis for this argument is the author‚ Virginia Heffernan‚ thinks the farm life is outdated for early education for children. She thinks it’s inappropriate for children to learn about the raising a farm because the agribusiness is scarce and that children sing too much about farm animals. Virginia says it’s too much for them and its’ information they can’t use in the real world. Well‚ she is completely wrong in my eyes as children can use this information to learn to survive if something was
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Betrayal Over the past few years‚ I have gained much knowledge about betrayal. I have come to believe that it is close to the worst thing that people can do to each other (besides murder)‚ and it’s something that happens more and more as one grows older. By definition‚ betrayal can mean to be unfaithful‚ to deliver something to an enemy by treachery‚ or to desert a person in the time of need. Obviously‚ this can tell a person a couple of things. First of all‚ betrayal is a broad "subject‚" and secondly
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from day one it was like society was this violent ‚ complicated dance and everybody had taken lessons but me . knocked to the floor again ‚ climbing to my feet each time ‚ bloody and humiliated . always met with disapproving faces ‚ waiting for me to leave so I’d stop fucking up the party . they wanted to push me outside ‚ where the freaks huddled in the cold . out there with the misfits ‚ the broken ‚ the glazed-eye types who can only watch as the normals enjoy their shiny new cars and careers
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