Ordinary People‚ by Judith Guest‚ was about a family who has had two tragedies and how they dealt with these tragedies. This story shows how the environment in which one lives affects ones reaction to tragedy. The Jarred family‚ were ordinary people. The family consisted of the father Calvin‚ the mother Beth and two sons Buck and Conrad. They were an upper class family in good financial standing. They apparently had a happy life until Buck died in a boating accident. Calvin was a concerned
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Ordinary people 1. What is dialectic? Dialectic is like treat people with borderline personality disorder. It explains relational life as full of pus-pull tensions resulting from the desire for polar opposites. Autonomy and Connection It desire to be independent or dependence while simultaneously wanting to feel connection with the partner EX: Beth and Calvin have the connection dialectic when they decide to go on a vacation together. Conrad has autonomy dialectic after he
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LP1_William_Norris Chapter 1 Practice question # 10 a) Advantages of a database over the instructor’s current system would be; organization of data into one location rather than across several spreadsheets‚ and ease and speed regarding both data storage and retrieval. b) Major topics of the database include; students‚ dates attended‚ assignment and test scores‚ and overall grades. c) A statement of work for this database may look like the following; History: Historically‚ student data has
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ways in which database technologies could be used by an office stationery supply company to achieve low-cost leadership. Answer: Sales databases could be used to make the supply chain more efficient and minimize warehousing and transportation costs. You can also use sales databases‚ as well as text mining and sentiment analysis‚ to determine what supplies are in demand by which customers and whether needs are different in different geographical areas. Business intelligence databases could be used
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are the ones who are “just friends” or acquaintances. These are the people which an individual usually chooses to be socially liable. The other type is the “real” or close friends. These are the ones who you choose to share your emotions‚ personal matters or in other words someone who you can bond with. Friends can influence most of the decisions that an individual makes in one’s life. Therefore‚ it is very important to have friends who bring positive effects in your life. In order for a friend
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got summoned to a world just like this‚ a parallel world if you will. The only difference is how they use magic instead of technology. So it was like every other day‚ I wake up wash my face‚take a shower‚ get dressed‚and eat. After 2 hours of doing this I start walking to school. The reason why I say I am ordinary is because I am not the most handsome nor am I the smartest. But neither am I done nor ugly. The reason why me being average plays a big role is because I go to an elite school in America
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Archetypes A common theme in both Into the Wild and Everything is Illuminated is an archetype of this Eden a final destination of journey. For “Alex‚” it was his Alaska‚ for Alex‚ Jonathan‚ and Alex’s Grandfather it was Trachimbrod. An Eden in literature is a final destination or state that a character‚ or set of characters in the case of Everything is Illuminated‚ strives to achieve or find. Both books have the characters searching for their Eden’s for their own personal reasons. “Alex” takes
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The arguments that Christopher Browning emphasizes in Ordinary Men are based on his beliefs about the Holocaust. His argument touches base on the idea that regular citizens of Germany could commit such horrible acts without being coerced into doing so. He examines the side of the Reserve Police Battalion 101 and tries to figure out just why these gentlemen participated in the mass shootings and deportations of the Holocaust. In fact should these "gentlemen" even be called gentlemen enlight of
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I decided to base my clinical assessment of a movie character on Conrad Jarrett‚ the lead character of the film Ordinary People. Conrad is seventeen years old and is the only child of Beth and Calvin Jarrett. The Jarrett’s live in the affluent suburb of Lake Forest‚ Illinois‚ where Calvin works as a successful tax attorney. The Jarrett’s have just recently experienced a family tragedy‚ where their eldest son‚ Buck‚ drown in a boating accident‚ while Conrad witnessed the entire event. Six month
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1. The author (Ostrander) emphasizes that students should not stress out over choosing a major. He tells us that what one majors in is less important than the overall qualities‚ knowledge base‚ and the skills that one develops. Ostrander also points out that a major is much less important than the skills that people gain by using a quote from an executive‚ “I look for people who take accountability‚ responsibility and are good team people over anything else. I can teach the technical.” 2. Going
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