–Free Press Literary Awards Selection "You Can Choose Your Afterlife‚" is found in Gamalinda’s book‚ Zero Gravity. The poem is based on the beliefs of the T’boli‚ an old indigenous people living in South Cotabato in Southern Mindanao. The T’boli afterlife has several destinations. The souls of murder victims and warriors slain in battle will be celebrated in a bloodthirsty kingdom. To die by the sword entails the people you left behind to mourn for your tragic death. According to the T’boli beliefs
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The person with a sense of humour attracts other people with a sense of humour and in trying to amuse his eager listeners‚ as people possessing a sense of humour usually do‚ he shows wit‚ intelligence‚ vitality and a zest for life. A sense of humour can also lift a person up from the troubles of everyday life. Any person with a sense of humour is able to laugh at himself and find something funny in the sticky situations he gets into. By laughing at mundane problems‚ such as accidentally dyeing an
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Omar El-Azhary 6 May 2012 Common Sense Making people understand a serious situation like America’s independence is not easy‚ but Thomas Paine was able to do so through his book‚ Common Sense. Thomas Paine was able to communicate his ideas to common simple farmers and to the high class intellectuals very easily. He lived at the time of the American Revolution‚ and Common Sense is one of his main publications that urged Americas’ independence from the British. Born in 1937‚ Thomas Paine was originally
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Can You Be Honest With Your Friends My sister is a person whom one might define as socially awkward. While neither of us possess the gift of tact‚ I have become slightly more adept a maneuvering unfamiliar social situations‚ whereas she avoids them wherever and whenever possible. We both have the same handicap: that being that we don’t possess a filter. Whereas most people know that it constitutes poor manners to point out a hanger from a perfect stranger’s nose‚ we feel it is our civic duty
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effective because of how emotions can be controlled by scents to bring back happy memories. This is a perfect example of the prominent role scents play in evoking emotions and memories. Due to the complex anatomy of the human brain‚ scent is one of the most powerful senses and is strongly linked to memory and emotion. The intricate physiology of human brains creates a complicated olfactory system that links
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A Sense of History: Some Components by Gerald W. Schlabach All students who graduate from a liberal arts college should take with them an indelible awareness of the following: 1. Some things happened before other things. Studying history is much more than the memorization of dates. But if we get things out of chronological order‚ we’ll inevitably get a lot of other things wrong too. Imagine that we are in a new city trying to find "408 N. 5th St.‚" but vandals have taken down the signs
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SENSE ORGANS RECEPTORS (Sense organs) * Transducers of specific forms of kinetic energy * Change mechanical‚ electrical‚ thermal‚ chemical‚ or radiant energy into nerve impulses in sensory neurons Two major categories: * GENERAL RECEPTORS * Often exist as individual cells or receptor units * Widely distributed throughout the body * Most numerous such as: * touch‚ temperature‚ and pain: and * to initiate various reflexes necessary for maintaining
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The Five Sense Organs in Human Beings The sense organs — eyes‚ ears‚ tongue‚ skin‚ and nose — help to protect the body. The human sense organs contain receptors that relay information through sensory neurons to the appropriate places within the nervous system. Each sense organ contains different receptors. • General receptors are found throughout the body because they are present in skin‚ visceral organs (visceral meaning in the abdominal cavity)‚ muscles‚ and joints. • Special receptors include
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Gocio 9/9/2012 English 10 5th hour A Sense of shelter In “A Sense of Shelter” John Updike uses windows to show the importance of security and shelter to all humans. William is a fairly quiet teenager who is also fairly different being because one of his favorite places is the school‚ not very common for teens. Being that Williams favioret place to be is the school its stated in the book that as William is look down at the parking lot he describes the window only being “open a crack‚ and a
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SENSES MAKE THE WORLD WONDERFUL Senses are an essential ingredient to our lives and our survival. They inspire us to show our different emotions. Senses play a major role in our life coloring every thought and action. There are different types of feelings such as love‚ humor and gratitude‚ which help us to make the world wonderful. Love is a human mental feeling which helps us to recognize the bright‚ happy and positive sides of life. In its broad sense love is the feeling of strong attraction
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