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    Shared Knowledge

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    denotes the ownership of knowledge by a group of individuals. Shared knowledge can also be considered timeless as each generation may use the same shared knowledge, where as personal knowledge can only be used by an individual at a certain point in time. Because these two concepts share a zone of exchange, whereby one affects the other, the way in which shared knowledge can shape personal knowledge is an unavoidable and symbiotic relationship. This essay addresses the extent to which the above…

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    Middle Adulthood

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    Career Starting a career is an important part of developing a life. After proceeding through college, most adults search for a job that will turn into a career. For most emerging adults, the road to a stable, long-term job is not easy. The average American holds eight different jobs between the ages of 18 and 30 (Arnett, 2016). As individuals reach young adulthood, they are forced to make decisions that will have long term effects on their adult lives. Studies have found that job satisfaction…

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    Vietnam War Analysis

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    When studying past events in history, a common theme tends to come up, wars. Wars have been a part of nearly every country’s history and can change the entire position of a nation. From internal conflicts to external threats, nations will get involved in wars in order to help themselves, help other countries for moral reasons, or just feel as if another country is a threat. As a result of war playing out in a country, it can destroy one’s infrastructure, cause innocent civilians to die,…

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    novel that Daisy and Gatsby still share the same love they felt in the past. In their first encounter after several years they share many intimate moments and seem as close as couples that have been together for years and continuously meet several times a week afterwards. Daisy’s husband, Tom Buchanan, is having an affair with another woman in the novel. Not only is he having an affair, but he is making it obvious to Daisy without even trying to hide it. Daisy displays how frustrated and upset…

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    cunning, that's all'(WSS,11), only marks out what is not there and makes plain the impossibility of any appeal to the past against an equally feared future. It is a past only existing in the parenthesis; 'My father, visitors, horses, feeling safe in bed-all belonged to the past'(WSS,5). The novel's figure for its own narrative is Antionette's dream, with its twice delayed near the conclusion and its dreaded but inevitable forward propulsion. The dream in a sense suggests a subsuming of the…

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    class. ”After that she didn’t play around with the soldier anymore, but only with a few flat-footed, short young men in town, who couldn’t get into the army at all.”(Pg 75) So it shows she lost interest in soldiers, which gatsby was a soldier at that time and was a low class. “Daisy was popular in Sanchez 2…

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    Lacking in both magic potential and worthy ancestors, he had to obtain his position at Magisterium by being as sly and versed in ways of political intrique as possible. Dangling some pretty and shiny reward before the other´s noses usually helped the matter and outrights threats pushed things just the same. Murder was also a necessity, but one had to be…

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    strengthened. An example of a change in attitude in the long term would be creating a standard of what it means to be beautiful and attempting to alter one’s body to fit that standard. (Potter 2014) Emotional responses may become desensitized over time. Repeated exposure to violent films may result in decreased emotional reaction to hearing about violent acts in society. (Potter 2014) Additionally, behavior may be affected long term through acquisition of new behaviors as well as by…

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    In modern day 2016, and for decades in America, our country has been run by stacks of green paper we call money with printed numbers on them; a person with more money has luxuries in the U.S. because they can purchase items that all Americans desire. If I want to someday go to college, get a degree, own luxury items, and have children that I can also make strive to make themselves financially successful I must save a great portion of my earnings. Saving the money I earn will be a short-term…

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    My Clown Walk Analysis

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    Finding your walk My clown walk is a typical drunken hobo walk when I’m drunk I feel warm inside and have almost no feeling outside and I feel like I’m not in control, when I try running I feel like I was a salt shaker being shaken. I degenerate into a disgusting combination of sweat, spilled alcohol and vomit. I drink to remove my pain I deal with every day and it make me happy for a while. I can’t stand straight and I move side to side not knowing what’s happening around me. The reason…

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