are the closest to you. If someone else wrongs you‚ it is easier to forgive‚ because you most probably don’t expect much from that person anyway. If someone who is close to you however‚ a friend or partner for example‚ then for them to do something which requires forgiveness means that they have betrayed your trust to some extent. I think that the level of trust breached determines how easy it is to then forgive someone. I think if someone made a genuine mistake and this hurt you‚ then there is nothing
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Oscar Wilde once said “always expect the unexpected.” When 9/11 happened‚ many people died because they weren’t prepared for the worst to happen. The planes crashed near the upper 3rd of the towers and the crash spanned about 10 floors leaving many living people above and below the crash site that could have been saved using certain tactics to evacuate. If everyone prepared completely for a terrorist attack on the twin towers‚ the fire dept. And police dept. Would have had a plan to evacuate
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Rhetorical Analysis: Thank You for Smoking Rhetorical Analysis: Thank you for Smoking The film Thank You for Smoking is a dark comedy that follows a lobbyist‚ Nick Naylor‚ for the tobacco industry. Dark comedies take a serious topic‚ and make light of the topic through satire. A good example of rhetoric can be found inThank You for Smoking during a scene where Nick Naylor delivers an argument against putting a skull and crossbones label on every pack of cigarettes. This is done during a hearing
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which you analyse and interpret Richard Knight’s short story “Sorry for Disturbing You”. To put your interpretation into perspective‚ your essay must include a discussion of at least two of the other items listed below. One of these must be a text. Being alone is something that some people voluntarilychose to be‚ while loneliness is an involuntary eternal state that hurts its offer. When feeling lonely‚ you feel that you do not really belong anywhere‚ and that no one really appreciates you. At
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reader use his own judgment to decide what a character is like. In “Thank You‚ M’am”‚ by Langston Hughes‚ Mrs Jones was described as a large black women with a large purse. She was decoded as very stern by holding him tightly and saying “Pick up my pocketbook”(Hughes 86 ). Also an example from the short story was when “Mrs Jones stopped‚ jerked him around in front of her‚ put a half nelson about his neck‚ and continued to drag him up the street”(Hughes 86). In “Thank You‚ M’am”‚ by Langston Hughes‚
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such as in the cases of a manager and her fiancé ordering a teenage girl to strip and her following their commands‚ ordinary soldiers torturing prisoners‚ and normal male employees harassing their female coworkers. All of the listed cases demonstrate how difficult it is to violate an established social structure‚ even when following the social structure violates personal morals. Milgram’s findings‚ as read in the article “If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger‚ Would You?”‚ apply to the
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In the 1960s‚ when Oates wrote “Where Are You Going . . . ‚” a social revolution was happening. American women were asserting their rights and independence from men‚ and they were claiming their sexuality in a way they had never done before. One frequently discussed topic was adolescence and the struggles and anxieties that many young girls endured as they lost their sexual innocence and became adult women. Feeling undervalued in their homes and relationships with men‚ women questioned their role
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“Speak when you are angry- and you will make the best speech you will ever regret” Dr. Laurence J. Peter How does the above quote relate to the use of language as a tool for expressing one’s emotion? There are many ways of expressing our emotions. We can do this by our face expressions‚ by our movements and acts‚ using our body language but the most powerful and common way is using the ordinary language. Ordinary language is the ability of people to communicate between them to
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Jones is what people call a “black woman that made it”. She is humble‚ being that she is not very flashy‚ and she is always willing to give back‚ considering that she cleaned and fed‚ Roger‚ a young man that tried to rob her. Langston Hughes‚ in Thank You Ma’am‚ shows Jones’ woman qualities through her mother-like qualities‚ willingness to give back to the less fortunate‚ and ability to understand. Roger is taken in as if he was the child of Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones. Mrs. Jones sees a boy
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For Mr Doran‚ Mrs Mooney understands he would want to prevent the destruction of his reputation and offers him an option to compensate for his actions‚ leading him to her goal: “There must be reparations made in such cases…. Only one reparation could make up for the loss of [Polly’s] honour: marriage” (59-60). Her strenuous strategy to exploit social perception of her and Polly’s characteristics highlights her determination and ambition to marry Polly into a good life
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