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    It 's 2016. Large, clunky devices have been replaced with small handheld gadgets. No longer attached to a wall, phones have become wireless. Today 's world can be viewed from a TV screen or a laptop. Cell phones have the ability to do almost everything just by tapping it a few times. Unfortunately, these rapid developments has socially brought Americans back. People no longer need to think or meet up with others to communicate. People rely on different means of communication where one can sit…

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    kings or Wiseman to journey east to witness a birth of a child. As the narrator informed the reader hardship and difficulties the three kings faced throughout their journey. Such as spirituality, emotion, and physical. The “Journey of the Magi” poem tells us from different approach the meaning of the birth of Christ. One this I realized from the beginning of the poem, was the fact the author was quoting from somewhere else, which cause to conclude as I said earlier “ the three kings or…

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    Holocaust Memorial Essay

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    The Holocaust Memorial The definition of holocaust is: destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war. Most people associate the word holocaust by the slaughter of jews during World War 2. World War 2 started on September 1, 1939 and after a long fight of 6 years, it ended on September 2, 1945. The war involved multiple countries; on one side were the Axis Powers, including Germany, Italy and Japan. On the other side were the Allies. They included, Britain,…

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    Thomas Blackwood, can be seen as a representation of the original choice of a peaceful and harmonic co-existence that the British colonists could have had with Aboriginal people if they had not been blinded by racism, false ideals, and greed. Blackwood’s peaceful nature can be seen when he states, “Ain't nothing in this world just for the taking ... A man got to pay a fair price for taking. Matter of give a little, take a little" (Grenville 104). The Secret River is a postcolonial historical…

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    Having told my friends and family, now they will be able to help me stay on track and get to bed at eleven. According to Wiseman, people are far more likely to stick to a plan, once they go public with their proposal. The fear of letting down the people that surround me would force me to make the sacrifices that I would need to make in order to make it to bed at eleven and…

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    The film I decided to analyze was that of “Gladiator” (2000). It depicts the death of Marcus Aurelius and his wishes that after he dies, a faithful Roman soldier by the name of Maximus Decimus Meridius take his place as emperor. However, Marcus Aurelius’ son, Commodus, takes matters into his own hands to guarantee that he will be the one to be proclaimed heir and ultimately, Caesar. Although, the film explores the history of Rome by including several historical figures, it is mainly based on a…

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    Walk Two Moons

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    rich man saw the poor man, (who was really the wiseman) didn’t talk to him, just saw him and thought that he was an old beggar, not knowing his story. “The Mullah replied, ‘When I arrived in rags, you turned me away. Now that I am dressed in finery, you treat me with honor. Clearly it is my clothes you are welcoming and not me. So it is only fitting that they should eat this delightful food you prepared for them.’” This demonstrates that the wiseman was trying to teach the rich man a lesson…

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    This film study will define the alienation of ethnic and racial perspective in the Jewish and African Diaspora as defined in Wondrous Oblivion (2003). The main character, David Wiseman (Sam Smith), is a young Jewish boy that is living in a predominantly protestant white English society. David loves the sport of cricket, which a new neighbor from Jamaica, Dennis Samuels (Delroy Lindo), teaches him in an effort to adapt him to this type of culture. Dennis’ background as a member of the African…

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    changes. Wendy’s friend kills Malcolm according to the plan the women devised earlier. After this, she realizes her husband was right, and she blames her friend for killing him. At the end, she regrets this. Beebe, Beebe, Redmond, Geerinck and Salem-Wiseman (2015) explains that “the self- absorbed listener are focused on their needs rather than those of their communication partner. The self-absorbed listeners is also not focusing on his or her partner’s message but he is instead thinking about…

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    Each year 10.9 million people worldwide are rocked by a diagnosis of cancer and with a well established link between obesity and cancer there are definitely preventable cancers within these statistics. Professor Martin Wiseman, medical and scientific adviser for the UK's World Cancer Research Fund, believes that if all of us had a body mass index (BMI) of under 25, this would make a huge dent in cancer incidence. In fact, he believes that it would reduce the number of incidents of the most…

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