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    The Outsiders Narrative

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    I make my way down the stairs of my house and open the door. Soda and Darry yell at me some kind of goodbye and I head out. Walking through my not so pretty neighborhood I reach the lot. I take a minute to look at the lot, and think back to when I sat in it sometimes. Blinking back to reality I look around again and realize that I need to get back on my way. I’m holding with me Gone With the Wind and a sketchbook. Making a few turns and twists, I finally reach my destination, Johnny’s grave.…

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    the entirety of the commercial. The use of the unicorn and ice cream lets the commercial be kid friendly, because it has all of the different colors in the mane and tail of the unicorn as well as the multi colors of the ice cream. It brings the attention of young children because of all the fairy tale creatures and all the different colors on the screen. By the children wanting to watch the commercial the parents will stop and watch it because of their children and this brings an even larger…

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    How To Severe Epilepsy

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    AIMS The following questions have to do with the study of patients who have undergone a surgery (for medical reasons, severe epilepsy being one) that severed the corpus callosum. This leaves the two halves of the brain to work independently from one another. The main questions this study seeks to answer are: how do the two halves of the brain interact with each other and how is this relationship altered after the subjects have undergone this surgery? METHODS Basically, subjects were asked…

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    looking after as well as plants and pets. A book is something to sit on a shelf, not something to focus a life around. Maybe somethings are looked after more because they require less demands than other things, but does that mean to not give enough attention to the things that require more? People focus on loving and caring for things that do not need it and spend less time focusing on loving and caring for the things that do need it. Lydia describes how this parent treats their son badly…

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    Watching the video titled, Grammar Revolution did my heart good as it showed me that there are highly educated, dedicated teachers and lovers of the English language unable to agree among themselves how to teach grammar to children. The views of the “Stuffy English” crowd versus the “Practical English” people were quite humorous to watch at times because if they can’t agree then what hope does the average person like me have? With that being said, let’s examine the theme that this video…

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    Brain Observation Paper

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    the left and right hemispheres. I will compare the performance of people with intact brains with the performance of so-called split-brain patients. In many ways, the brains of these two groups are very similar. 1 a. For example, the brainstem exists at the base of the brain connecting the brain and spinal cord and has no functional differences between an intact and split brain patient. Being the most primitive part of the brain, its structure does not change because each component, the…

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    I decorated our house for the Advent Season. No big deal? Maybe for you. For me, this means a lot because I haven’t put Christmas trimmings in our house for a long, long time. Maybe because I was so immersed in my troubles that I had forgotten how to celebrate Christmas. Or maybe, I felt so miserable that I failed to see the hope Christmas brings to our hearts... One day, my eldest son told me that he is not going to mass anymore. Stunned, I demanded for an explanation. He retorted,…

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    Did you know that the average adult has almost 10 pounds of skin? Furthermore, more than half of the dust in the world is just dead skin. Cells, nerves, receptors, tissue - skin doesn’t just protect our delicate insides. It plays the biggest role in how we appear, and how we feel about our appearance. The skin can even tell us when something is wrong with our insides. So what does it mean when our skin is bumpy, almost like chicken skin? Is it a breakout, an allergy, or is it a sign of…

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    intentionally or unintentionally, most of the time it can leave an impact. But the level of impact can reach as far as impacting our behaviors, allowing the media to dictate individual’s thoughts towards a specific topic. I do believe media has an effect on our behaviors. Television is one major resource for media. Difference types of TV shows, movies throughout the day, non-stop commercials – all of these types of media comes…

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    groups, one of which being EMDR (Albright & Thyer, 2009). While the therapist used in this study was EMDR trained, the extent of that training was not indicated. Only two sessions were provided, and repeated measures ANOVA yielded no significant effects for any of the psychological measures (Albright & Thyer, 2009). The second study utilized 25 Vietnam combat veterans who were randomly assigned to one of two groups, one of which being EMDR (Albright & Thyer, 2009). Treatment obedience was…

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