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In the short stories Popular Mechanics, The Cold Equations, and This Year’s Class Picture, each story’s central characters face difficult choices that cause question to their decisions, life morals, sanity and what they gain no matter the outcome of their…

My mother and father separated for the final time when I was about six years old. They had separated several times before that point. I didn’t have any kind of relationship with my father after the final separation and wasn’t aware of where he lived for several years. The lack of relationship was not because my mother wouldn’t allow me to have a relationship with him, rather because he moved from one place to another often without telling us because of the lifestyle he chose. When I was eleven…

mindsets are in place in school: a fixed mindset where students are afraid of challenges and going further with learning because they don’t have the ability to become intelligent, and a growth mindset where students believe learning is the key way to gain intelligence and will take on challenges. After some consideration, I have come to the conclusion…

speaks of how he believes that his duty is to heal, he will always care for those around him, even the individuals who do not consider him an equal. The understanding Pius Kamau has the ability to gain from others is that he is less of an individual simply because of his race. Fortunately Kamau chooses to gain understanding of self where he develops compassion by doing so. As a result, Kamau is able…

When creating commercials, marketers need to establish a targeted audience. Depending on the brand it can be targeted towards women, men, little kids, adults, old people or sometimes a combination of them all. When body wash commercials are designed, the two different types of targeted audiences are either for men or women. Advertisements for men and women differ by promoting different results based on what each gender wants. While men’s commercials promote his desire for getting the woman,…

success as a breeder has been built upon the feeling of control that he gets from his power to track anyone who dares to disobey him. Furthermore, Anyanwu’s survival and happiness throughout her life has been dependent on the feeling of freedom she gains from her powers, even when rotating through husbands and masters who attempt to control her every move. Both Doro and Anyanwu live depending on these feelings of control and freedom. In this passage, Doro’s irrational need for control is…

On Thursday, October 22, 2015, I took part in the National FFA Convention. Keynote speaker, Rick Rigsby, spoke about the impact of wise teachers and parents, and how with that knowledge, the students of the FFA, could make a difference. Rigsby is the president of Rick Rigsby Communications and founder of Rick Rigsby Ministries in Dallas, Texas. He is a popular speaker at colleges and public schools, and speaks before top corporations on Wall Street. Rick’s speech was held at the Bankers Life…

Frederick Douglas went to great measures as an activist to gain these equal rights for blacks that white men had for themselves. Due to his abilities of being such a great leader he was asked to give a speech at a Fourth of July celebration. This would have been thought has a movement in the right direction, but…

dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge” (86). The creature only becomes more distressed as he learns about the rejections by society and of his monstrous state. In all three plots, the characters become increasingly sorrowful as they gain knowledge. Shelley portrays through the plot of these characters’ stories the dangers that accompany…

and working conditions.), trade unions were outlawed and a system of labor passports was instituted. His incentive for this side of the code was probably to limit political freedom. The code also robbed the women of many of their social and legal gains accomplished during the French Revolution. Women now had to ask for the approval of a man (most likely their husband) before they could do just about anything and divorce was much harder for a woman to get. In other words, they were treated like…