The Chronicle Review October 3‚ 2010 What Are You Going to Do With That? Katherine Streeter for The Chronicle Review By William Deresiewicz The essay below is adapted from a talk delivered to a freshman class at Stanford University in May. The question my title poses‚ of course‚ is the one that is classically aimed at humanities majors. What practical value could there possibly be in studying literature or art or philosophy? So you must be wondering why I’m bothering to raise it here‚ at Stanford
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Response # 1 What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. My mother‚ Lebanese woman‚ lived in London. Her neighbors were a couple‚ an Israeli Jews couple more precisely. Despite the war at that time between the two countries they were friends. They supported each other’s more than their respective governments did. Unfortunately‚ both populations are the soldiers in a chess game. The government‚ the social media and all the propaganda are tools to play in our minds. I think this is
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August 2012 You Also Have the Right to Tell a Bigot What You Think By Leonard Pitts S Who is the speaker? Who is the voice that tells the story? The speaker is a syndicated columnist‚ a writer versed in and paid for expressing his opinion in an interesting‚ thought-provoking way. He is educated yet down to earth and not a bombastic or over-inflated or even lover of elevated lexicon or writing style. He is representative of the majority of educated US citizens. O What is the occasion
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Explain a time when you felt overshadowed. How did it help shape you into the person you are today? As a kid‚ I always thought I was the favorite child. I believed my parents liked me more than my younger sister‚ Kelly. I am a people pleaser. I always tried to please my coaches‚ teachers‚ friends‚ and parents. Even though I envisioned myself as the favorite child‚ I constantly felt overshadowed. I swam and had my small group of friends but Kelly was a field hockey star and beyond popular. This feeling
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1. You are looking at a Euglena using the x10 objective lens. You rotate the nosepiece around to x40 but the specimen is not visible. Describe what you should do next? Start by using the fine adjustment to attempt to focus on the Euglena. However‚ if it is still not visible‚ return to the x10 objective lens and use the fine adjustment to ensure the Euglena is as sharply focused as possible. Then‚ use the stage control to re-position the slide so the Euglena is directly in the centre of the lens.
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“Premium Harmony”‚ after a long time of things being fair‚ stuck in a roundabout now. Ray‚ the husband‚ Mary‚ the wife‚ argue in a car ride on an awfully hot day about their situation in life. Finance was a major problem. Heading towards a Wal-Mart in Maine‚ Mary persists they stop at a store named Quik-Pik to purchase a kickball she intends to gift her niece for her birthday. And even about that they argued. Mary‚ as usual‚ gets her way and the stop was made‚ where Ray requests she gets him a pack
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Hey so this is how you say Hi. Hi! You can also say hi by saying Hello‚ Hola‚ and bye..... wait that is not right. Bye is how you say bye. You can Which of the following describes the selection of federal judges? The president nominates someone to fill a vacancy‚ and the Senate confirms the choice. The Senate nominates someone to fill a vacancy‚ and the president confirms the choice. The president nominates someone to fill a vacancy‚ and the House confirms the choice. The House
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(Portfolio Task: Module 3) When you ask a patient to plantar flex a foot‚ what changes occur within the muscles involved? According to Maitland (1977)‚ the movement of foot in which ankle is bent is termed as Plantar Flexion. Posture where one stands on his/ her tiptoes or gas pedal of a vehicle is pushed‚ plantar flexion takes place. Through plantar flexion‚ ankle muscles and calf are relaxed so that they can properly work. The term “Plantar Flexion” is used to describe the movement of toe in which
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If I told you that you were‚ on a daily basis‚ consuming food that could potentially give you serious health issues‚ would you still eat it? The human body is in fact‚ designed to sustain a vegetarian diet. Most of you are‚ on a daily basis eating meat‚ poultry or fish – which have also been linked to a large number of chronic diseases and cancers. Alongside this‚ animals are treated extraordinarily cruelly and inhumanely when it comes to satisfying us humans. This is wrong and needs to be fixed
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What Kind of Thinker are you? Robin Dees HUM/111 March 3‚ 2013 Instructor: Joel Cooper Strategies of Critical Thinking Associate Level Material Stages of Critical Thinking Stages of Critical Thinking Complete the matrix by identifying the six stages of critical thinking‚ describing how to move from each stage to the next‚ and listing obstacles you may face as you move to the next stage of critical thinking. Stages of critical thinking | How to move to the next stage | Obstacles
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