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    picking between two cereals to deciding who to take on a date, decisions affect us every day. Decisions might be perceived as easy to make but there is reason behind why we make the decisions we do. The book Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely explores how we make decisions. Dan Ariely is a Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University. In addition, he founded the Center for Advanced Hindsight, and is the author of multiple books (Ariely). Ariely uses the concept of…

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    Buettner How To Be 100 +

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    During his Tedtalk lecture,” How to Live to be 100+,” Dan Buettner discusses ways that people can increase their life expectancy. He references something called the Danish Twin Study and says that roughly 10% of a person’s longevity is dictated by their genes, whereas the other 90% is dictated by our lifestyle (Buettner par. 1). There is so much conflicting advice and data on what people can do to make themselves live longer that most Americans really have no idea what it is that they should be…

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    History of Musical Theatre When people imagine Musicals they think of Big Broadway lights shining down on people singing and acting but most do not know the story behind the curtains you see. People wouldn't’ ever first think of Athens on a hill in the fifth century B.C.E. Musical Theatre started as a unpopular idea but over the years it started to grow into a world wide famous reputation. A musical is a well written play that makes living art forms in dialogues that include music and…

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    The West Side Story

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    It is not a secret that West Side Story is what can be called the American version of the Romeo and Juliet. I will like to note the contribution of West Side Story to the history of musical theater. The creators did their research and although the creation time was long, they came up with a game changing idea in the music theater arena. At that time not many plays on Broadway attempted to introduce or present musical theater productions which explored, in depth, issues of racism, geographical,…

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    Hold Your Head Up Theme

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    Being able to push through when the going gets tough. There are 3 songs that I have chosen that convey the same theme. The writers of these songs are Macklemore a white rapper and Dan Auerbach from the band Cage the Elephant. I intend to analyze “Hold your Head Up” and “Inhale Deep” by Macklemore accompanied by “Trouble” by Dan Auerbach to show how they all convey that we should keep going even when things get hard. The first song “Hold your Head Up” by Macklemore uses symbols to convey the…

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    Why I Want To Read Essay

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    forgoing sleep to get to the next chapter. Dan Brown’s style of writing really resonated with me. Plus, I loved the history, and symbology in the book. The story featuring Robert Langdon as a modern-day “Indiana Jones” captivated me. I found myself rooting for him to figure things before it was too late. I enjoyed the book so much, I finished it in about 3 days. The next time I went home to visit, I borrowed my dad’s copy of Angels and Demons, another Dan Brown book featuring the famous…

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    killing his new wife Gertrude. Hamlets, Ophelias, and Claudius’s irrational behaviors which stem from their blindness by their emotions can be explained using principles of behavioral economics. In the book Predictably Irrational behavioral economist Dan Ariely talks heavily about how people’s emotions affect their decision making. An example of this from the book is that they took a sample of college students and gave them a list of questions to answer when they were not sexually aroused. Then…

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    Whitney Museum? Was the first thought in my head when I first heard about the extra credit opportunity announced in class. When I was a child, I thought it was a Museum pertaining to Whitney Houston, but that was not the case. I heard people talk about it, but I could never pinpoint where it was. It was not until last week that I would have the opportunity to enter the Museum for $1. Going to the Whitney Museum last week, has sparked an interest in going to Museums and I am glad that I went.…

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    Blue Zone Diet

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    They say some food can make you live longer there are five cultures around the world with the highest proportion of centenarians globally. In communities of the Blue Zones -- places in Europe, South America, Asia and the United States where people live long and are largely free of chronic disease these hotspots of health and vitality are located in Ikaria, Greece; Okinawa, Japan; Ogliastra, Sardinia; Loma Linda, California; and the Nicoya peninsula, Costa Rica. Okinawa japan diet is a lot of…

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    One of Musical Theatre’s most loved productions, Pirates of Penzance, has delighted and enthralled audiences all around the world since its first production in 1879. In Opera Australia’s 2006 performance of this Gilbert and Sullivan classic they showed that even after a century, this production was timeless, a true testament to the genius of her creators. Pirates of Penzance is about a young man named Frederic (David Hobson) who has been wrongly apprenticed to a band of pirates, led by the…

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