In the adaptation “You Can Grow Your Brain” from Health and Science‚ the author emphasizes that many people think of the brain as a mystery. According to “You Can Grow Your brain”‚ we don’t often think about what intelligence is or how it works. In the outer layer of the brain which is called the cortex‚ are billions of very small nerve cells that are called neurons. A quote in this article stood out to me that says “The more you challenge your mind to learn‚ the more your brain cells grow.” In
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How Can You Help the Earth to Survive? Try to imagine living in a world where weather conditions‚ like hail the size of oranges or hurricanes with unseen wind force‚ are reality. In the movie “The Day After Tomorrow”‚ scenes with disastrous weather conditions like the one mentioned above‚ are shown as a result of greenhouse effect and global warming‚ if they continue to increase. Fortunately‚ what the movie shows us is not very realistic‚ and the outrageous weather conditions are most likely never
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You Can Find Happiness Anywhere When people think of an abandoned building they think it looks creepy or haunted or they wonder why it was abandoned in the first place. Well no one really knows why‚ when‚ or how they were abandoned except the people that worked there. However‚ a photographer from Genoa Italy‚ will change the normal perspective about a rundown‚ abandoned building. She has made a photo collection about abandoned places and how they do not perceive to be as creepy as we may think. She
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Writing about literature - an essay THE CAN-CAN: WHAT CAN AND WHAT CAN’T? By Huy Phát A popular provocative dance move in the Broadway shows in 1950s has been chosen as the title for this short story “The Can-can” of Vivante about a man having a love affair while his thought was wandering around “somebody doing the can-can”- his wife back home. The can-can therefore does more than just being the title‚ its repeated recurrence in the story recognizes itself as a noteworthy symbol and also contributes
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Catch Me if You Can by Frank W. Abagnale is the true story of Frank Abagnale himself‚ as a real fake. Throughout the book‚ Abagnale uses several different rhetorical devices‚ such as foreshadowing‚ irony‚ point of view‚ and importance of title; and raises certain social issues. The title Catch Me if You Can is very important because it is a perfect example of foreshadowing. Frank’s first taste of the criminal life occurs at age sixteen. He cons his father out of $3‚400. After which‚ Frank runs away
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Does classical music really help you study better? Many recent research studies show that music indeed does in fact improve thinking. In 1993‚ researchers at the University of California at Irvine discovered the so-called Mozart Effect - that college students “who listened to ten minutes of Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D major K448 before taking an IQ test scored nine points higher” than when they had sat in silence or listened to relaxation tapes. Other studies have also indicated that it doesn’t
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charity at this point in my life‚ not in contrast to Singer‚ but in agreement with him. In the first few pages of The Most Good You Can Do‚ Singer introduces us to Matt Wage‚ who chose to enter a career in finance in order to donate more money. Singer encourages people to “[choose] the career in which they can earn the most‚ not in order to be able to live affluently‚ but so they can do more good.” Effective Altruism is entirely focused on the consequences of their actions‚ and with regards to donations
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“Treat You Better” by Shawn Mendes represents what Joe said to try to persuade Janie to leave with him‚ so he can treat her better. The song’s lyrics‚ “And you’re spending all your time / In this wrong situation‚” represent how Joe felt that Janie was in a wrong situation by being married to Logan Killicks. Joe thought that she was treated wrongly because as a lady‚ she should not be plowing or working in the field. The next line of the lyrics says‚ “And anytime you want it to stop / I know I can treat
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False Advertising: Can you Trust Advertisement? Low fat‚ no fat‚ sugar free‚ high in fiber‚ healthy lifestyle are all hype words used to advertise food products. Individuals have busy hectic lifestyles and want to be able to grab an easy‚ convenient‚ tasty food product. They do not have time or are too lazy to read the nutrition label to see what they are ingesting‚ and to research the claims that companies make about their products. Consumers trust manufacturers to provide truthful information
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The title alone‚ “You Can Grow Your Brain‚” made me think this article was going to be about how learning new things will make you smarter. I did not realize that it literally meant the brain can‚ and will grow when you are learning new things‚ or challenging yourself to learn new skills. We have always been told‚ “Practice makes perfect‚” and really‚ when you apply this rule to everything we do in life‚ it is true‚ and yet for some people‚ we stop challenging ourselves to learn new things because
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