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What is the driving force in your life? Logic or emotion? Reasoning or instinct? Mind or heart? Which is stronger? Heart? Mind? Neither? Both? Throughout this quarter we have been exposed to numerous examples to help each of us answer these questions. Nonetheless, no matter your position on this topic we can all agree that your heart and mind play a vital role in our decision-making lives. When looking back at class, I can easily connect these ideas to the novella Anthem, by Ayn Rand. In the…

Social Psychology Concepts in Mean Girls ‘Mean Girls’ is a classic romantic comedy amongst young women, and some young men, in America today. The main character, Cady, is a new student who transferred from Africa. Because she was home schooled until her junior year of high school, she experiences great shifts in her social influences as well as some shifts in her social thinking throughout the movie. Because the film is set in an American high school, it provides an ample amount of social…

are reunited many years later, their passionate love is rekindled as if they never stopped loving each other. David G. Myers (2011) challenges passionate love by acclaiming that the absorption in one another and romance thrill will eventually fade (p. 683). Elaine Hatfield also states, “as love matures it becomes a steadier companionate love -- a deep, affectionate attachment” (Myers, 2011, p. 684). Companionate love moves away from the intense, overwhelming passion and moves towards…

Every Story Has Two Sides Is there two sides to every story? In the novel, “Inherit Midnight” by Kate Kae Myers, two perspectives of the protagonist, Avery VanDemere, are shown. Avery VanDemere feels as if her life is dreadful. Not only was she stripped from her parents at a very young age, but she is not allowed to be with friends, and her only company is the mansion's servant and cook, all because of her grandmother, Justine Vandemere. Contradicting Avery's perspective of her life, her…

Adjectives describe what the setting is like, the character of a person and help the reader visualize the book. In the stories “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and The Pigman by Paul Zindel the authors use descriptive adjectives to develop the characters and scenes. The first example of this is the author Walter Dean Myers uses adjectives in his story “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” to develop the new character Greg…

In both the works of Monica White and Gail Myers, resistance through regaining control of food is key. White writes that Fannie Lou Hamer worked to “creat[e] an oasis of self-reliance and self-determination in a landscape of oppression maintained in part by deprivation” through the Freedom Farms in Mississippi (33). Although the Freedom Farmer’s Market in Oakland is not necessary aiming for self-reliance, Myers writes that “[b]lack people who come say it is like walking through an oasis of…

the recall of faulty condoms supplied to nearly 300 public agencies for free distrubution. Under f re at a news conference this morning for tardy disclosure of the recall of 750,000 Saxon condoms, New York City Health Commissioner Woodrow “Woody” Myers, Jr., M.D., told reporters he felt his department had acted properly “by contacting all organizations to whom we supply condoms” by Oct. 14. The rubber recall became public knowledge Friday when news of it apparently was leaked inadvertently to a…

Myers (1983) employees actions are not always protected by the First Amendment. This court case examines the rights of an employee (Myers) that circulating an inter-office questionnaire concerning office policies. Myers was unhappy about being transferred to a different office, which prompted her to circulate the questionnaire that was a survey of how interoffice…

under the Eighth Amendment" (Myers, 2006, p.949) which indicts states very little power, but with the Atkins case, the states were limited on their power by not being able to enforce the death penalty on a mentally ill individual, eventually after the Atkins case came the Roper v. Simmons case causing states ever more limited power on their say with the death penalty "to continue chipping away at the role of states and juries in criminal sentencing proceedings." (Myers, 2006,…

poems. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts (Habegger). Dickinson was very cautious and aware of the people she chose to hang out with (Myers). Since Dickinson’s parents thought she was frail, she attended Amherst academy instead of regular…