Dr. Joel Brown’s speech Our first presentation for this class was given by dr. Joel Brown. Dr. Brown is an evolutionary ecologist. He has been a member of the UIC faculty team for about 26 years. That’s almost 4 years before I was even born. He was a chemistry major when he was a freshman in high school. The only reason that made him choose chemistry was his hobby which is bomb making. The story that made him change his major was really funny. It was because of a flyer that said‚ “fire ecology
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Dear Editor‚ After reading the article A Change of Heart about Animals by Jeremy Rifkin . I conclude that Rifkin is really interested in the way animals feel and the research that proves animals are just like humans . He is persuading us to think that animals are just like us by giving lots of examples of animals having emotions just like humans do. There is also lots of science that leads me to believe animals are just like us. Like the studies researchers have done on pigs‚ they need attention
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Jeremy Rifkin expresses his knowledge on how animals are compared to humans in his article “A change of heart about animals.” Rifkin argues that science has shown that the differences between animals and humans are less than we think. I agree that animals are very similar if not close to being on the same level as humans. Most people would assume that animals are very different from us; this could be due to the inabilities we think we have to communicate with animals. Jeremy Rifkin states‚ “The
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Allentown by Billy Joel was a song that described the troubles of the late 20th Century blue collar worker. As workers moved away from cities and jobs moved overseas in the 1980s and 90s‚ the typical blue collar worker was hurt as their unions and workplaces were closed to make way for the new serviced based economy. Specifically‚ Billy Joel is describing Allentown‚ Pennsylvania. Of which was affected by the economic turn of the 80s because most of its residents worked in Bethlehem‚ PA at a steel
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American drama film based on the novel of the same name by Catherine Ryan Hyde. It was directed byMimi Leder and written by Leslie Dixon. It stars Haley Joel Osment as a boy who launches a good-will movement‚ Helen Hunt as his single mother‚ and Kevin Spacey as his social-studies teacher. Plot When eleven and a half year old Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) begins seventh grade in Las Vegas‚ Nevada‚ his social studies teacher Eugene Simonet (Kevin Spacey) gives the class an assignment to devise and
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Chapter two of Social Problems by Joel Best was about making claims‚ which was the first step in the model of the social problems process. The chapter spends time explaining that claims are structured into three important components‚ these components being known as grounds‚ warrants‚ and conclusions (31). The chapter then continues on to talk about how claims compete against each other and try to stay relevant (45-46). The chapter talks about how somebody else making a claim can piggyback off another
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The photograph Warren Avenue at 23rd Street‚ Detroit‚ Michigan‚ October 1993 by Joel Sternfeld‚ is one with great meaning and use of many creative tools. This photograph has two main purposes: to commemorate a loved man who was murdered and to point out the injustice of his murder. There is a painting of this man with clouds behind him signifying he was a great man who is now in a better place‚ however‚ the man is covered in red and there is a large amount of red underneath him on the curb representing
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Jeremy Rifkin is an American writer‚ public speaker‚ and activist who wrote a meaningfully dense article for the Los Angeles Times titled "A Change Of Heart About Animals." His article defends animal rights and disputes many myths regarding animals. Rifkin argues that animals do have a sense of individualism‚ they experience emotions‚ they learn from past experiences‚ and that “They are more like us than we imagined” (). After reading the article‚ I can personally say that I agree with Rifkin‚ albeit
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deep truths or thoughts. For example‚ the 9/11 memorial and museum showed all the devastating losses of people which gave me the perspective that we live in a broken world. The art that I chose for my gallery assignment is Untitled (blue lady) by Joel Batey. The color of this piece includes blue‚ red‚ white‚ and a dash
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If someone did you a favor‚ something big‚ something that you could not do on your own‚ and instead of paying it back‚ you paid it forward to three people. Imagine the next day‚ they each paid it forward to three more people. And imagine the day after‚ those 27 people each paid it forward to another three people. Then each day afterwards‚ everyone in turn paid it forward to three more people; in two weeks that comes to 4‚782‚969 people. This is the idea that gives the movie Pay It Forward such
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