I’m with Stupid by Geoff Herbach 375 pages Characters: The three main characters are Felton Reinstine‚ Abby Sauter‚ and Gus. Felton is mainly what the book talks about but Felton is always with Abby and Gus. Background: Felton is a tall strong jock that is kind of weird. He has a lot of problems because his dad killed him self when Felton was just five years old. Abby is one of the best looking girls that go their school but she also has some problems. She went from being a valedictorian to drinker
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“Yes it’s sad to belong to someone else when the right one comes along.” This song was running in my head while I was reading the story Dead Stars. Reading the story brought me mixed emotions: anger‚ sadness‚ excitement‚ confusion‚ etc. etc. I was not sure if I’ll feel sorry for Esperanza or Julia. However‚ in the end‚ I felt sorry‚ for‚ none other than the main character of the story‚ Alfredo. Alfredo‚ at his 30’s had not yet married but engaged to Esperanza for 3 years. However‚ Esperanza patiently
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? By Nicholas Carr Adapted from The Atlantic Monthly July 2008 “Dave‚ stop. Stop Dave. Will you stop‚ Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001:A Space Odyssey. Dave Bowman‚ having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine‚ is calmly‚ coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial brain. “Dave‚ my brain is going‚” HAL says forlornly. “I can
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Quinn Perry Mrs. Laureen Batchelor American Literature II April 7‚2013 The Dead and the Gone Life can offer many dark and twisted challenges to an individual. A life can change from a single decision; and‚ perhaps a part of life‚ becomes accepting one’s own decisions…right and wrong. In The Dead and The Gone ‚by Susan Pfeffer‚ seventeen-year-old Alex Morales faces loss‚ remorse‚ and death when an asteroid collides with the moon and chaos erupts in urban New York City. Assuming both of
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In his article‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid‚” Nicholas Carr‚ a former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review and a member of the steering board for the World Economic Forum’s cloud computing project‚ criticizes the overall impact of the internet‚ as a whole‚ on the human process of thought‚ comparing his past level of conception to “a scuba diver in a sea of words” whereas his current understanding simply “zip[s] along the surface” (Carr 68). Carr targets the prominent internet search engine
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PE R SP EC TI V ES O N P SY CH O L O G I CA L S CIE N CE Free Will in Scientific Psychology Roy F. Baumeister Florida State University ABSTRACT—Some actions are freer than others‚ and the difference is palpably important in terms of inner process‚ subjective perception‚ and social consequences. Psychology can study the difference between freer and less free actions without making dubious metaphysical commitments. Human evolution seems to have created a relatively new‚ more complex form of
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Summary: The film ‘Me before you’ is based on a book written by Jojo Moyers. This film is about a young girl named Louisa ‘Lou’ Clark. She goes from one job to the next to help her family keep head above water. She finds herself at an interview for a job taking care of a disabled man. Will Traynor had an accident and has been a quadriplegic for almost two years. Once Louisa started working for the Traynor family she finds herself struggling to get through to Will‚ but she never once gave up on him
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Year Seminar in K-State Culture! Instead of listening passively to lectures‚ you will directly experience what a university is by attending the varied cultural and intellectual activities that occur at K-State. In this class‚ you will learn about the very broad range of experiences you can have in college‚ you will develop critical thinking skills‚ and hopefully you will come to understand how these experiences can make you a more well-rounded‚ academically proficient‚ and intelligent human being.
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The Way You Look (at me) Tonight was a performance done by Jess Curtis and Claire Cunningham. The performance brought up very important themes throughout the entire piece. The major theme I took from this performance is love. Love was talked about and there was movement to help correlate with it. The dancers would speak on a subject and it would shortly be followed by a movement. This performance was very thought provoking and heartwarming. There were many little pieces each of them preformed to
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“You can beat her!” “Come on‚ don’t let her do that to you!” “Don’t let her beat you!” “She’s just a girl!” I hear always hear this. Heckling offends some people‚ but not me. I smile. I laugh a little‚ and give them all they can handle. I have played soccer ever since I could remember. Granted‚ I have a horrible memory. I guess I was about 5 when I started‚ so that makes this year my 12th as a soccer player. I know the game as well as anyone‚ and I don’t mind saying it. Don’t ever mention watching
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