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    2nd draft college essay What are we going to be when We growth up ? That’s a biggest question for any teenagers like me . I couldn’t even read when I was in tenth grade because learning a complete new language is the hardest part for most immigrant students including me. I moved from Vietnam to the United state three years ago . Everything I have seen has been new to me : From the detections to the locations‚ from houses to schools every

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    How We Are Influenced Social psychology is the “scientific study of how people think about‚ influence‚ and relate to one another” (Myers‚ 2010‚ p. 4). There are many different “external social forces” (Myers‚ 2010‚ p. 8) that influence our thoughts‚ feelings‚ behaviors and attitudes‚ such as our family‚ peers‚ culture and gender; all of which persuade us in one direction or another. Any social situation we may encounter can be so powerful that it “leads us to act contrary to our expressed

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    A NEW METHOD FOR GENERATING ALL POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE RULES A project report submitted in the partial fulfillment of the requirements For the award of the degree of BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Submitted by N.Vamsi Krishna Y08CS085 P.R.S.Anudeep Y08CS099 K.V.Praneeth Y08CS112 B.Vipin Y08CS124 Under the esteemed guidance of Dr.K.Srinivas‚M.Tech.Ph.D Department of Computer Science and Engineering V.R.Siddhartha Engineering College

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    I strongly agree that by studying any particular academic discipline we alter the way we perceive the world. As intellectual neophytes we tend to polarize what we see as either right or wrong‚ or as either good or bad. We also tend to interpret what we see by way of our emotions. Once educated‚ we gain the capacity to see a broader spectrum of opinion and perspective‚ and to see our own culture and even ourselves as a tapestry-like product of history. Through the earnest pursuit of knowledge--particularly

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    We Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? by Achy Obejas connects to different voices of female narrators giving multiple perspectives on homosexuality. For example‚ in Wreck the narrator explains her situations of constantly getting into car accidents when romance fails‚ and in Forever‚ the narrator is busy trying to sort out her past with her ex-lover‚ which is revealed when she talks about them being good lesbians. In these three stories‚ the ongoing theme of love‚ fidelity

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    We grow accustomed to the dark... Darkness is a recurring image in literature that evokes a universal unknown‚ yet is often entrenched in many meanings. A master poet‚ Emily Dickinson employs darkness as a metaphor many times throughout her poetry. In “We grow accustomed to the dark” (#428) she talks of the “newness” that awaits when we “fit our Vision to the Dark.” As enigmatic and shrouded in mystery as the dark she explores‚ Dickinson’s poetry seems our only door to understanding the recluse

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    Dickinsons poem ‘We Grow Accustomed to the Dark’‚ in stanza 4 ; “The Bravest- grope a little- And sometimes hit a Tree Directly in the Forehead- But as they learn to see-” This stanza can be interpreted differently. It could be referring to a blind person feeling around their surroundings to see. Or another example can be a person going through life not knowing anything because after all we all are just like blind people going through life. Anything can happen in an instant it can be all gone

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    Topic: How are we influenced by color? Color is brightness and variety in something‚ such as a room or picture that gives it interest or immediacy. Color has been known to influence people’s psychological behaviors and associations with iconic objects or ideas. Dark colors are often associated with a somber attitudes‚ cold places‚ and even death. Bright colors are representative of euphoric feelings‚ warm places‚ and enrichment because they are the opposite of dark colors. Colors may also change

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    The Ways We Lie In the essay‚ "The Ways We Lie‚” the author‚ Stephanie Ericsson‚ tells about the many ways people lie and explains the reasons for doing so. In her essay‚ she talks about ten specific ways of lying that she believes are prevalent in today’s society. First is “the white lie‚” which is basically telling a harmless lie instead of the truth‚ if the truth is destructive. She writes‚ “Telling a friend he looks great when he looks like hell can be based in a decision that the friends needs

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    “Before I Got My Eye Put Out” and “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark”. She talks about her journey of being put in the dark at a certain point in her life but soon being able to adapt to the darkness in her life‚ she’s able to survive and succeed. The metaphor of sight is stressed by showing how she could’ve appreciated her sight better in her poem‚ “Before I Got My Eye Put Out” and how without sight‚ it takes awhile to adjust to the world in her poem‚ “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark”. In the

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