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    Pyncheon thought Clifford to be the heir to his uncle’s land, he saw an opportunity to turn the family against Clifford thereby claiming the land as the best substitute heir. This was not a result of a curse but a deep and awful greed that consumes the mind and heart. Human nature and free will intermingle with this story consummately. They seem to be the most common theme. Humans, being designed to exercise freewill, often choose human nature over righteous behavior. For example; Colonel…

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    who was the author and wrote his own biography of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly on March 6, 1997, was full of life and worked as the editor for the French Elle Magazine had a Massive Stroke in his early forties while enjoying life with his two beautiful children. Jean Massive stroke took over his brainstem and he was in a coma for 20 days. Jean was a person who was very outgoing and active, sadly, his massive stroke turned into a locked-in syndrome and was paralyzed from head to toe, after…

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    Abstract In the book Applied Psychology in Everyday Life published on 2011 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, included is the 20 page section titled Psychology and Health: Aspects of the Mind That Affect Everyday Health, by the author Michael B. Johnson, who discusses the importance of one’s own perspective and how we ourselves view life, and how all of this contributes to how one feels towards oneself and towards others. The author says that in order for an individual to fully enjoy life, they…

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    size, the nationality and educational background are also not diverse enough. Hence, the result may only suitable to a specific group of people and we cannot say it’s a universal rule. Most importantly, as a matter of fact, when we see something “beautiful”, our optic nerve just processes it as a physical signal. This gives rise to the activation of certain neurons. Then after a series of complex chemical reactions, our brain finally produces a signal of pleasure, which we comprehend as…

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    Beauty In Dorian Gray

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    tend to be less of an urgency when waiting for service, due to the stereotype that disease and illness are ugly, ultimately making it so those less attractive can go first (Robson par.11). Beautiful people are also rewarded for an aspect of their lives they cannot control. The eyes of others see our beautiful qualities as clear as crystal while our eyes are faded -- for better or worse -- stunting growth as individuals as ourselves do not know how to learn from their charity. It not only becomes…

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    Theme in “Harrison Bergeron”: For the Sake of Total Equality Handicaps! What a drag to be weighed down with various handicaps . . . handicaps of the mind, and handicaps of the body . . . all for the sake of total equality. Equality is an important factor in an impartial society, however, it should not be imposed to the point where an individual’s wellbeing is adversely affected. In Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron,” set in 2081, the author is satirizing America as a futuristic society where…

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    memories people want to remember and display for time to tell. However, there is always an opposite reaction which, for this, is deleting those photographs. The memories in the mind are extremely difficult to delete unlike the ease of pressing a button on a camera. Erasing the ugly, unfocused, and poor captured photographs from our mind is an impractical challenge. Figure 1. Man Shooting his Memories The photograph (Figure 1) is rectangular with a landscape orientation with the perspective at…

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    would call it. I , being one of these victims back in my kiddy years went through a lot of depression until i found anime, because of how its made and what's included in it to feed your mind. First of all, Anime is created with vivid colors! Many anime shows have distinctive art techniques that use colors in beautiful and bright ways. Being exposed to all of these colors on the daily…

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    very different concept was informed from the earliest paragraphs of the 2 texts. In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, Walter Mitty was confined in his own imagination of him being the courageous hero with neither fear nor regret in his mind, but not focusing his mind in the…

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    these few words, the idea of beauty or aesthetic in science, specifically chemistry, far more different than the traditional judgment in art. What is the traditional judgment in art? In Painting, architecture, sculpture, and etc. to be considered beautiful, it must showcase the basic standard of art. Where art is measured by its unity, simplicity, symmetry, or complexity. It doesn't mean that all this standard must appear on one piece of art. To cite the work of the famous artist, Vincent van…

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