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    and forces you to feel. To be able to experience or write the subjective part you must stop thinking and start feeling. According to Olsen this is why scientist are so bad at it‚ they are hard wired to think first and ignore their emotions. This is imperative to unbiased scientific research but it will kill any movie or speech. People need to know why what you’re saying matters and listing off facts is not

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    Before reading Why don’t we listen better? by James Petersen‚ I was not sure what to expect‚ personality I was worried about completing the 20 chapters in one week. However to my surprise the book is amazing. It almost feels like Peterson wrote this book about me. The chapter that gripped me was the chapter 2 Flat- Brain Theory of Emotions. Reading this chapter helped me to gain an understanding of the stomach‚ heart and head functions individuality and together. Peterson states that “the stomach

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    Don T Produce Change Paper

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    My recommendation to the Seagram’s management team‚ especially as a response to the five challenges presented at the end of the chapter highlights the reading “Why Change Programs Don’t Produce Change”. According to the article by Michael Beer he notes that just changing behavior is not conducive to organizational change‚ however‚ giving the individual a “new organizational context will develop new attitudes based on new roles and responsibilities” (Jick & Peiperl‚ 2011‚ p. 267). When factors such

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    Does Prisons Really Work

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    Lesson Never Learned It is often said “prisons work” but does it actually teach the inmates a lesson? Or does it just give criminals a holding place until their sentence is up? These questions come up often because of the security issues inside the prisons‚ the percentage rates of the inmates that end up back in prison‚ and taxes that affect the citizens of the community surrounded. In prison movies‚ the actors in the movies usually are thugs in prison for murder or drugs. But in reality there

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    rather than military courts. (Jennifer). The article was written in 2013‚ years after Guantanamo prison facility was widely exposed for its human rights violations and labeled the “Gulag of our times” by the Amnesty International and remains the cause of great anti American sentiment till this day (Khan). In the article‚ Jennifer‚ once an ardent supporter of the closure of the facility discusses why she changed her opinion.

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    Figurative language shows how his brain works and what he thinks of everything around him and whether he appreciates it or wants it to be different. “My mother sighed. As she exhaled she seemed to shrink into the chair. Even her perfume seemed to fade. She looked at her hands‚ turning them over

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    hatred behind‚ I’d still be in prison.” In today’s society‚ an issue exists with too many inmates occupying prisons. Many of these inmates in prisons do not get freed with the same ideas as Nelson Mandela. The solution for this issue is to put inmates to use for the public and only use prisons as holding stations for inmates. Such uses include entertainment‚ military‚ and public services. By forcing inmates to serve as a use for the public‚ inmates will leave prison with the idea that they will change

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    Who should be responsible for obesity? When it comes to the topic of America’s social problems‚ most of us will readily agree that the obesity epidemic is one of the major problems in America’s society now. Where this agreement usually ends‚ however‚ is on the question of who is responsible for this problem. Whereas some are convinced “Don’t Blame the Eater”‚ that the fast-food industry is responsible‚ other maintains that is a personal responsibility and what you eat is your business. My feeling

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    Don’t Blame the Eater vs What You Eat Is Your Business America’s obesity can be an argument that has many sides to it. The one that is the most straightforward and logical is that us as americans are bringing this upon ourselves. We know the kinds of foods that are good and healthy along with the foods that are bad‚ fattening‚ and unhealthy. We try to blame fast food restaurants and grocery stores for serving us foods that are unhealthy. In reality‚ we know. We try to blame those companies because

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    Don T Call Me Ishmael

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    Don’t call me Ishmael 1. James scobie might be described as the king of the comeback in his conversations with barry Bagsley. James shows the power of language in these retorts as a number of his comebacks have implied meaning rather than being explict and he is able to twist Barry’s meanings anf turn them into insults. Identify in the text at least 2 examples of scobie’s comebacks. How is scobie able to turn their meaning around to insult? What is the implied meang of each? Quote 1 – Page 91

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