We go to school to learn and study. What’s strange is why we still have to study things that can’t be applied to our everyday lives. Like in math‚ why do we have to study X and Y when it wouldn’t be applied in real life. It’s not like we’re going to buy in the department store and the cashier would say this cabbage price is x5 – y9. That would be ridiculous. We can’t apply that to our daily lives. So why do we have to study such things. When guys flirt with a million of girls some would say
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Borges’ Blindness & Dillard’s Seeing In Jorge Luis Borges’ piece from Ficciones‚ “Blindness” and Annie Dillard’s piece from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek‚ “Seeing”‚ we read writers’ perspectices on their own blindness. The writers contradict the common fallacies our culture has about blindness with their own personal experiences. Although both writers portray blindness in a positive light‚ each writer uses his disability to enhance his lives differently. Borges depicts his loss of sight as an opportunity
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What Fires Motivation? Babies are born with an inherent drive to learn. Your challenge as the parent of a child with learning or attention problems is to help him build what Drs. Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein (Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength‚ Hope‚ and Optimism in Your Child) call "islands of competence‚" to offset the frustrations and low self-esteem that can result from his learning struggles. The goal is to find subjects or activities where he is self-motivated to learn‚ enjoys
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In the article “Seeing and Making Culture” by Bell Hooks‚ Bell argues that society has a wrong outlook of the poor community. Her goal is to try and change everyone’s image of these people. She successfully supports her claim by using authority (ethos) and values (pathos) to explain her claim and why she feels so strongly about this situation. According to the census‚ “Between 2015 and 2016‚ the poverty rate for children under age 18 declined from 19.7 to 18.0 percent. The poverty rate for adults
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Should you buy Morrisons shares? Morrisons are the fourth largest supermarket in the United Kingdom and the smallest in the “Big Four”. Legally they are known as Wm Morrisons‚ but customers know them as simply Morrisons‚ after being formally known as Safeway up until 2004. The chain was founded back in 1899 and stands as one of the oldest supermarket retailers in the UK. Since their inception they have expanded to have over 600 stores within the British Isles. Are you looking to invest in the
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You Garden About Us You Garden is one of the leading online retailers of all gardening needs in entire United Kingdom. They think that gardening is for everyone and you don’t necessary need a garden space to grow plants. YouGarden offer you plants that can be grown on small patios‚ balconies‚ decking‚ you can grow your own freshest vegetables and fruits too. They provide advice on what to grow and how to make your plants flourish. From thousands of plants‚ they choose the best ones for you that will
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Seeing Through Work and College Today‚ many students are beginning to work while in college. Over the past few years‚ tuition‚ room and board‚ and other school expenses have become more and more expensive. There are many types of financial aid available‚ such as loans‚ government grants‚ and scholarships that could help me pay for my college education. However‚ some of us are not lucky enough to receive “free money” from the government or a scholarship. For people like me who need to take out a
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– A 50-year-old male was referred to the emergency eye clinic at East Surrey Hospital in Canada Avenue for a history of three-day deteriorating bilateral eye pain‚ redness and quick reduction of visual acuity in the past 24 hours. The patient had no past medical or ocular history. The patient visual acuities (VA) were a light perception (LP) in the right eye (RE) and a hand movement (HM) in the left eye (LE). – The patient was a contact lens wearer and got the daily disposable soft (silicone hydrogel)
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“That’ll Be the Day” The millions who have seen the western classic‚ The Searchers‚ probably ended up searching for John Ford and some answers themselves. Many viewers have questioned the motivation behind John Wayne’s crude‚ but wonderfully played character. Would he really have shot his own niece? What was Ethan really thinking? To find the answer it is actually best to analyze the character of Martin‚ who according to author Brian Henderson stands for everything that Ethan does not. Henderson’s
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Finding the Meaning of an Artwork According to John Berger in his essay “Ways of Seeing” the way that a painting is viewed by some may already be distorted prior to analyzing it because we are not viewing the original piece. The information that comes from the silence of a painting is only truly experienced when looking at the original work rather than a reproduction of it. The original work speaks to you in a way that a reproduction is not able to. Berger says this clearly when he states:
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