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    I’ve never had understand my fright of being wrong, but after reading Two Models of Wrongness. I truly get the perspective and reason of how this author wanted us to know. That being wrong is not a wicked thing to commit, but optimistic thinking in reality. It’s something that I could say a gift from God because especially no one is as perfect to not commit errors. I believe that mistakes are supposed to occur in our life to learn from them, and eventually have a story to begin or a lesson to…

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    That's how Papi and Neftali felt in the storys Roberto Torres Bakes and The Dreamer. The two characters did not like to share their dreams. Papi would not tell her daughter and Neftali wanted to change his name because his dad told him he was an embarrassment to his family. They chose not to think about it and move on with life, even though their family members would not leave them alone. Their results come out as having to go other people’s ways. The problem was that the characters did not…

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    quality on the public mind. (p.156) Hawthorne uses these words to express Hester’s newfound attitude towards her scarlet letter. She finally accepts her mistake and embraces it, along with its consequences; her scarlet letter and the accompanying embarrassment. Once they see her accept herself, her community begins accept her as well. Hester indicates her recent acceptance of her sin through her scarlet letter as the novel progresses. At the end of the novel, Hester absolutely embraces her…

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    fear of being shamed, “All those eyes on me-the town, the whole universe-and I couldn’t risk the embarrassment….Traitor! they yelled. Turncoat! Pussy! I felt myself blush” (TTTC pg. 57). O’Brien felt as if if was him against the world. He could not stand being embarrassed by all his friends and family. He also talks about embarrassment and death, he writes, “It had nothing to do with morality. Embarrassment, that’s all it was….I would go to war and maybe die-because I was embarrassed not to.…

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    into the water and disappearing for minutes at a time underwater. The curiosity began to take over Jerry as he tried to join the big boys in their adventure. Soon enough the big boys were tired of Jerry, causing them to pack up and leave. Jerry's embarrassment motivated him to go through the underwater tunnel, and soon enough he did. "The Bridge" is about another young man named Kostya, who was utterly terrified of everything,…

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    brought him up in the Jewish customs and otherworldly observances. Joseph was the natural father of Jesus; the man endowed to put up the Son of God. Joseph was additionally a woodworker or gifted skilled worker. He obeyed God even with extreme embarrassment. He made the best choice before God, in the correct way. Joseph was a man of solid conviction who experienced his convictions in his activities. He was depicted in the Bible as an equitable man. Notwithstanding when by and by wronged, he…

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    would be in awe, after all, my mother just performed a magic. She took away any evidence of pain. These customs which would leave me giddy and giggling would soon leave me feeling self-conscious. I found myself going through stages: realization, embarrassment, and then finally embracement. Stage One, realization. First day of kindergarten, and oh boy, was I exited. It was my first time going into a public school. I was becoming a big kid and grabbing life by the horns. Although, my day didn’t…

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    “You can’t fix your mistakes.” (O’Brien 39). Mistakes are a common component in life, their purposes is to cause embarrassment and have people learn from it. There are different reasons as to why one makes a mistake, and whether they chose to learn from it. Mistakes can be large and they can be small. In O’Brien’s case, his mistakes are catastrophic to himself. Not only because his mistakes could cost him his life and will cause him to endanger the lives of others. He makes mistakes that put his…

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    experienced psycho-social influences about breastfeeding in public. She felt her busy lifestyle and embarrassment about exposing her breasts influenced the way she positioned herself during breastfeeding. She describes," In town I would sit in my car with an awkward pillow because I felt so embarrassed and uncomfortable about feeding in public…. Having larger breasts doesn't help either". Embarrassment is a common problem experienced by breastfeeding women today (Amir, 2014). According to Amir…

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    readers are forcefully made to acclimate to the plays world by inducing from Bono and Troy’s conversation. Bono and Troy are close friends who work tether, based on their first conversation. The most dramatic moment in the first scene is Brownie’s embarrassment because he has a watermelon. This moment makes a direct reference to the racist and stereotypical images of the American Americans. Troy says that Brownie is afraid of letting the white man see him carrying it home. Troy: "The nigger…

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