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    the co-founder and chief product officer of Airbnb, claims that strangers can trust one another so much that they can allow the other unknown person(s) to reside in their homes. The speaker accounts for this claim by reasoning out that this is possible because of the creation of an (online) platform that applies a cautiously designed system of a reputation as the vital factor necessary for enhancing trust between complete strangers. Despite the speaker giving a claim ,reason and support of his…

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    Morrie Research Paper

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    to do an interview with him and by the end of their conversation, Ted asked to come back and do another. Morrie knew that life is not measured by the things that one has but by the people and relationships that are developed. Morrie never knew a stranger, and in the last months of his life, he showed where his priorities lie. He was surrounded by the people that he loved, not by the things that he owned. He knew that because of the relationships he had with people, he would never be…

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    Breaking Bad Social Norms

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    In this day and time hardly anyone just walks up to total strangers and rant about their life stories. Now, I am not comfortable with strangers knowing my life when I do not know them but I decided to take the risk and break it! I just recently moved into an apartment complex so I do not know anyone here. So one night, I decided to take my dog out for…

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    lace the dress then she eats the apple. However, it succeeds in real life because now parents will teach children to not trust and let any strangers in the home. Also, be aware of strangers, even don't trust your own friends because someday they will hurt you more than the strangers, as a result, one of the most important morality in the story; do not let strangers in the…

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    oppress a stranger “[leaps] off the page by [its] sheer moral power.” He grounds this commandment in its theological-historical context, quoting Baba Metsia 59B from the Bavli, which reminds us that the Torah “warns against the wronging of a ger in thirty-six places; other say, in forty-six places.” He also quotes Ramban, who situates the commandment to love the stranger in Jews’ former status as strangers in the land of Egypt. As Rabbi Sacks posits “You know the heart of the stranger because…

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    particular date will persistently stand out to the entire country of the United States of America, and that date is 9/11. Adam Goodheart states “Each a honeycomb that traps us side by side with strangers” (242). Goodheart is saying that each of the items: a skyscraper, and an airplane and how the enclose us with strangers. Goodheart also states “Each a rig that suspends us far above the ground, half-willing aerialists, and then whispers: Trust me. Each machine that teaches us, in similar ways,…

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    rides from strangers, even if they mention their own parents name. That they should not be on the streets after door, or must be home before sun set. Also schools have strict protocols about children walking home, or getting a ride with friends unless consent from parents. Also if the child has after school programs, the child has more than one way of getting home safe either by carpooling, or bus, and parent pick up. Also in today’s society, kids are thought to stay away from older strangers,…

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    In the poem “I Knew a Man by Sight”, the author Henry David Thoreau describes how two strangers that never talked before met in their life and became best friends. The speaker of this poem might be the author Thoreau himself since it’s written in first person point view, however, the event that Thoreau describes is two strangers meeting in multiple places such as the speaker’s house and a lane 3 miles away from his house and how they became best friend. The poem has a rhyme scheme pattern of…

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    This man is a stranger to the girl and she should not have been talking to him and giving out information. A wolf is a sly and scary creature that instilled fear in children, especially in France. France was known to have many wolf attacks, from 1200 to 1920 there were about seven thousand fatal wolf attacks. While Perrault was writing this story to keep children fearful of strangers, he was also teaching them about the dangerous wolves that they…

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    Dogs are better than cats By Bekah Silvers People enjoy having dogs instead of cats. What do you think on this? People enjoy cats better than dogs but some people think dogs are better than cats. Dogs are better because you don’t have to change their litter, they can protect you, and dogs are very useful for helping you. So what do u think? First of all dogs do not need litter…

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