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    genders are much easier to understand and simpler, if we study the way children communicate with same sex gender. They way children interact with one another, carries over into adult hood, but with more in-depth topics. Understanding the needs of opposite genders during conversation would help out communication between male and female…

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    the tilt of the Earth's axis, any change to the tilt will have a significant impact in the seasons. If the tilt was in the opposite direction, the northern hemisphere will have winter and summer when the southern hemisphere had them, and the southern hemisphere will have winter and summer when the northern hemisphere had them. The vernal and autumnal equinox will be opposite as well. If the tilt of the earth's axis had no tilt(straight up and down), every hemisphere would remain in the same…

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    automatically be reduced as boys are more probable to take it easy on their opposite sex. Coed activities will reduce injury rates and get more participants involved with the pleasant pace of…

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    many character opposites in literature. Opposites tend to highlight certain qualities or characteristics of the other. For example, in the Harry Potter series, Lord Voldemort greatly contrasts Professor Dumbledore. Dumbledore is kind and a good person while Voldemort is extremely cruel, vicious, and evil. While they are different, they do have some similarities. They are both very powerful and lead a group of followers. However, their differences tend to show how they are opposites. These pairs…

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    Heathcliff Topic Sentence

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    Topic Sentence. Character who is the opposite of or who provides contrast for another character is "foil". One of the reasons these two women have opposite voices is because of their opposite personas. When Isabella and Cathy were being oppressed by Heathcliff, they handling it strikingly differently. Through Isabella 's and Cathy 's peak of tragedy, they each developed differently. These two woman are as different as day and night, and this polarity derives from their personas. From the…

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    Rural Irish Culture

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    society within that culture. In “Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics” author Nancy Scheper- Hughes describes the commonalities of local rural Irish. These commonalities include, shyness of the opposite gender, delaying marriage, and alcoholism. Some cultures, such as my own, see shyness of the opposite sex as a characteristic found in individuals. It is therefore,…

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    but odd does not necessarily have to be three. Moreover, even and odd are opposites, yet two and three are not. As such, “ three, although not the opposite of even, nevertheless does not admit it.” (86) Therefore in regards to the soul, one may think of it in relation to odd, and life as three. The soul is still the soul without the physicality of life, but not the contrary. Life does not exist without the soul. The opposite of life is death, yet the soul does not possess a counterpart. Thus,…

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    When [yang] and [yin] combine, all things achieve harmony (42). This suggests that in any properly balanced human experience there will be traces of both yin and yang; therefore, yin and yang are not complete opposites, rather they are complementary entities that stem from a common origin. Aristotle’s and Lao Tzu’s ideas on the poles of balance are virtually the same. The Tao-te-Ching and Nichmachean Ethics definitely have similar ideas about balance, but the…

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    The knowledge that students learn in school will use in the real-life situation one day. Students who study at same-sex school will work with a co-worker of the opposite sex…. The student will limit their opportunities for communication with the other gender and do not know how to treat and work cooperatively with the members of the opposite sex. For this reason, students might not work effectively in the workplace and difficult to broaden the connection in the future. Conclusion In conclusion,…

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    since they exalted the beauty of normality. The mind of the poet is one who can synthesize opposites and keep society turning. The synthesis of opposites in poetry creates a unionship between beauty and the deformed. What this causes is a level of balance. Removing the distinction between what we perceive as beautiful and deformed binds two contrasting concepts. Poetry reveals the commonality between opposites, and marries them to form a union. Shelley affirms that undressing the distinction…

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