Rosales 1 Cecilia Rosales Professor Allen Final Summary-Response Essay 16 October 2011 Argument Culture: Confrontation Online In “The Argument Culture” by Deborah Tannen‚ she describes our adversarial society in debates and dialogues. Tannen discusses our culture’s style of seeing issues‚ questions‚ and conflicts as having two sides that battle each other for one goal. She states that using war metaphors: war on drugs or fight against AIDS‚ makes every conflict a battle in the minds
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as he watches his crew mates are being eaten. This shows that Odysseus is only looking out for himself instead of taking chances and going through Charybdis. Also when Odysseus and twelve members of his crew go looking for a treasure on the Cyclops Island Odysseus wants to see the Cyclops with his own eyes. The Cyclops captures them and “went on filling up his belly with manflesh and great gulps of whey” (194). This shows that Odysseus makes careless mistakes like visiting the Cyclops that killed the
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Virtual Organization Strategy Paper Baderman Island is a privately held company that wants to expand its operations. Here‚ the company is given three options for the infusion of capital that will enable it to expand: Going public via an IPO‚ acquisition‚ or merger. This paper will compare and contrast each of the options as well as analyze the strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities‚ and threats. With any decision that is made there will be advantages and disadvantages. Likewise‚ when it comes to
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Response to: Foul Shots In Foul Shots‚ Rogelio R. Gomez writes about his Chicano background and the neighborhood he grew up in. Furthermore‚ he describes himself being stereotyped as one of the “barrio boys” basically meaning that he is considered inferior to the Anglos. In high school‚ the writer states that he was on a basketball team and that there was one day when his coach announced that his team was to “buddy up” with the opposite team. The opposite team was all White and therefore had a
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greatest filmmaker of his generation. One of the finest contemporary American directors that have a unique film style although can difficult for many to understand. I have chosen Scorseses’ many violent‚ physical and psychological films to study‚ Shutter Island. Scorsese uses film techniques such as dialogue‚ music‚ camera work‚ motifs‚ and colour thus transcends the main character (Teddy Daniels/Andrew Laeddis)‚ superficial traits to concentrate on his spiritual condition‚ his inner anguish and humanity
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In the video Forgotten Ellis Island‚ I was able to learn about a place I had never heard of in detail before‚ the Ellis Island Hospital. I was amazed by the fact that around 6‚000 immigrants were checked daily. That is a significant amount of people. It was also interesting to see that many immigrants were cared for and sometimes even cured. However‚ the hospital had its issues. One of them was the fact that many families got separated because of the health condition of its members. I cannot imagine
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Response Paper 1 As we’ve been reading‚ I often have found myself paying particular attention to Shakespeare’s analysis and critiques of love. Occasionally it seems as if Shakespeare is holding up love as the most intensely wonderful and perfect feeling one could experience. Yet‚ most of the time‚ it seems that Shakespeare cannot describe a single couple that is actually as perfect as it appears to be. At first I thought that Shakespeare was criticizing love as an ideal‚ saying that it actually
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Agamemnon-Final Response The main theme in Agamemnon is revenge. It is clearly shown throughout the play and it is even seen in other works unrelated to the story. In order to get to war‚ Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter‚ Iphigenia. Clytemnestra‚ wants revenge‚ in the form of death‚ on Agamemnon after this event. In addition‚ she wants Agamemnon to die because he has had a mistress during the time he is at war‚ and because she wants to continue to have her affair with Aegisthus‚ Agamemnon’s
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Sometimes I can brainstorm until my head hurts while I am trying to find a topic to write about. When searching for a topic to write about‚ I first think about is what topic comes to mind and how it would be of interest to my audience. The Hawaiian Island of Kauai would make a great topic for me to write about. If I were to write about Kauai‚ I could give details about what I experienced during my visit. I just wouldn’t
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During the last school holiday‚my family and Iwent to a little known paradise on the Island of Borneo.We spent a wonderful vacation at Tanjung Simpang Mengayau‚a cape in the nothermost tip of Borneo. We met our guide in Kota Kinabalu and he took us by four wheel drive car.And it tooks us about 30 minutes to the cape.The road we took had potholes and was uneven but suprisingly it was a smooth ride because our guide was an exellent driver when it comes on rough road.Mid way on our journey we
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