appreciative for what I have in my life‚ but it also helps me to understand that not everyone has the same opportunities as me. Understanding this privilege helps me to see other perspectives and‚ if possible‚ make adjustments necessary to grant others the opportunity to have the same privileges that I had. And if I can not grant them the same privileges that I had‚ I want to be able to help them identify their own privileges and help them capitalize on it so that they can get the most out of what they want
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were doing anything wrong because it was not around me. Soon enough I came to realize they would no longer be around me. I saw some do it as I grew older‚ they said it makes them feel better and I saw them act different so it did not appeal to me. What did appeal to me was the game of basketball. I started playing basketball at the age of 4 in leagues and circuits. The game was fascinating and still is to this day‚ as of now I play
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Some people think that restricting certain things such as smoking and driving certain cars that can increase pollution for the sake of other people’s health is a restriction to our freedom‚ these people say that is their health and they should be allowed to. However when we analyze this actions we end up realising that said “freedom” is not really worth risking our health or even our lives. We focus so much on the negative that we forget the positive outcome not only to society but for ourselves
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Social skills are essential for long-term accomplishment. According to Howard Gardner‚ it is the ability to understand and manage one’s own emotional state and the ability to understand and respond to other people. Difficulties with social skills‚ and deficits in social skills are found in different degrees across abilities as well as disabilities. Difficulty managing one’s own emotional state‚ especially or aggression in response to frustration is common in children with disabilities. Children
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No More Boomerang by Kath Walker explores the struggles that the Aboriginal people had to face while adapting to the white way of living. The poem describes the difference between the life of an Aboriginal before and after the British colonization of Australia and how it is slowly changing for the worse and how their traditions and values are being replaced by the Western civilization and the white way of living. The emotions that are conveyed in the poem are of hatred and fearfulness towards the
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As a learner‚ I am a highly visual person. What this means is I learn best when processing information through my visual sense. I need to be able to see the information in order to grasp a better understanding of the concept. Oftentimes when I am reading information from a lesson‚ I need to be able to visualize either the concept in use (a person actually doing a math equation for example) or an actual image of the lesson (an image of war if I am learning about the Revolutionary War‚ an image of
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What does freedom mean to me? Freedom means the knowledge of knowing your rights‚ your personal freedom that nobody can ever take away from you. Freedom means being able to have an opinion without it being judged. Freedom means not being restricted or held down from trying to accomplish your dreams. Freedom is a right that every human being deserves‚ yet people around the world are being stripped of that right‚ being forced into a religion or being forced to do things that they may not want to
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characteristic of people or human beings.”‚ but what is the characteristics of a human? What does it mean to be human? Some people say it has to do with the human brain and opposable thumbs. There are many meanings to what it means to be human. There is so many different definitions out and everyone has a difforent understanding but human characteristics‚ humanity‚ and having a human body is three of the very few terms of what is means to be human but this are what feels more correct and have the most convinsing
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Women as Sex Objects in Axe Body Spray Ads: In present era the media and the advertisers are portraying and delivering a negative impact to our culture. For example the ads of Axe Body Spray. Axe body spray is product of the Unilever. Axe body spray leads the target consumer to believe that by using this product he will be more popular and attractive among the women. So axe straight forwardly portrays and deliver the message that if men going to use this product then women would be willing to
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was gay‚” (Tyson‚ 353) which means Hemingway might have purposely written Jake as a queer coded character. Jake is a little more obvious than Gatsby and Nick though. Jake’s relationship with his best friend‚ Bill‚ for one is very homoerotic and doesn’t follow the homosocial norms. Bill and Jake have quite literally gone on dates and act like a married couple. They sometimes bicker‚ but usually they get along and are very close. They talk about their feelings with each other which is something that
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