What makes a good statement (or claim)? Jose Leon HUMN 210 Professor Miriam Abbott February 24th‚ 2013 1. You are given the following ten short claims to analyze. Identify which ones are good or bad statements. If they are bad statements‚ indicate why. a. Nobody in the world today is really good. b. The world is not flat. c. I will need an extended period of laborious cogitation to assimilate the missive. d. The number 2 is
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1. What makes a good parent according to Dr. Tanya Byron? According to Dr. Tanya Bryon‚ a good parent is a person that doesn’t worry too much about being the perfect parent. The best kind of parenting comes from the heart according to Dr. Bryon. It shouldn’t be done mechanically because that’s when the problems start 2. What are some of the common problems that children might have? Some of the common problems that children might have vary among age group. For example younger children‚ some common
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What Makes a Social Class? On The Theoretical and Practical Existence Of Groups* By Pierre BoQrdieu It would be easy and tempting to deride the topic of this symposium and to uncover the presuppositions it conceals under its apparent neutrality. But if you will allow me just one criticism of the way it formulates the question of social class‚ it is that it misleads one to believe that this problem can be reduced to a simple choice and resolved by a few common-sense arguments. In fact‚ behind the
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Grace Poole‚ Bertha Mason‚ and St. John. Jane has to overcome obstacles like oppression‚ sadness‚ and love in Victorian society. Jane first encounters love in Thornfield Hall and she has difficulties understanding her love for Mr. Rochester. Jane makes a better spouse for Rochester because she is not the typical woman in Victorian society and she proves this by being brave‚ compassionate‚ and forgiving. In Victorian
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The premiere athletes of today’s sports can make upwards of 30 millions dollars in one year. This alone can raise some eyebrows. Now take into account that this amount of money is 75 times as much money as the President of the United States made last year. The President‚ by their pay‚ is less important than an athlete‚ like a LeBron James‚ but this couldn’t be any further from the truth. Compared to an actual beneficial job‚ like teaching‚ the athletes we gladly shell out millions of dollars for
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Each individual is unique and interprets their identities in different ways. Most of the time‚ personalities are built around how you are raised. I consider my identity to be focused around my socio-economic class. There are many factors that make me‚ me. However not all of them are considered main roots. My identity is revolved around me being a female high school student who has had occuring complications with my health‚ being raised in a low income household with no relation to a religion. People
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“Ballet is moving time through space‚ not standing in one spot! Be adventuresome. Use gravity to enhance movement not to inhibit it. What makes artistry is how you conquer space.” The stronger a dancer’s sense of self‚ the more fully he or she can interpret each role. They can bring the steps to life through many small choice in accent‚ attack and expression that make it his or her
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Deep into the pockets of his jeans he grabs for that last dime to purchase his number one habit. As he walks out of the store he searches for his lighter to calm his craving. It ’s time to light up. But if he only knew what was going into his body‚ would he really want to calm this craving? One might say that he smokes "light" cigarettes because they aren ’t as bad as the "regular" cigarettes. In all cases this is not true. All cigarettes have the same effects on the body whether one smokes
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What makes the Inca’s society complex? We think what made their society so complex was their science‚ technology‚ art‚ architecture‚ language‚ religion‚ and writing. That they developed over the years they existed. Science and Technology: In science technology‚ they were more advanced‚ they built roads and had a communication and system using the quipus. They had roads that went throughout the whole Empire which was usually paved with stone‚ and for steep mountains‚ they made stone steps and for
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What makes your child difficult The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself‚ & in consequence he is at war with the whole world. A difficult child is nearly always made difficult by wrong treatment. The conditioned‚ disciplined‚ repressed child lives in every corner of the world. He is docile‚ prone to obey authority‚ fearful of criticism and almost fanatical in his desire to be conventional & correct. He accepts almost he has been taught without question
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