What To Do?: Terrorism and the Media Imagine you are a resident of Jerusalem‚ in the year 60 AD. You are taking a walk throughout the marketplace doing your weekly shopping. You see a man pull out a dagger and he yells death to all Romans ’ and attacks a roman guard‚ killing him in front of hundreds of spectators. The assassin quietly slips into the crowd and is lost in a sea of people never to be found. The word of the attack spreads and soon it is the talk of the town. Many more attacks
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How to Want What You Have “It’s not having what you want. It’s wanting what you’ve got.” - Sheryl Crow The 45-minute drive home last Wednesday night from Leavenworth to Overland Park‚ Kansas gave me some time to think. I just dropped off my younger son‚ Andrew‚ for a five-day personal development seminar‚ and I welcomed the chance to remember a similar night six years ago. Andrew‚ I concluded‚ was fortunate. Attending as a 17-year-old would give him valuable resources he could use for his
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that media has on our minds. He disagrees with the statements that say media take a toll on our knowledge and intelligence‚ but in fact states that they improve it. His article‚ “Mind over Mass Media” also states that we have control over our minds to not become distracted‚ hence the title of the article. Pinker persuades the readers by using his own experience as a professor of psychology‚ reputation and scientific evidence to support his argument. Pinker states that new forms of media have
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We read to train the mind; to fill the mind; to rest the mind; to recreate the mind‚ or to escape the mind. What is essential for you in reading? What is your idea of a private collection of books? "Reading" is an ability to perceive‚ understand the information‚ written down (transferred) by that or otherwise. There are two ways of reading: fluent and careful. To read fluently it to be able to be run by eyes under the text and to understand a plot essence. Careful it means to read the text
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The Anti-hero is What We Want The anti-hero is becoming more popular on television. It is easier to access television series by using Netflix and streaming episodes back to back. Some of televisions big name characters are Dexter Morgan‚ Jax Teller and Tony Soprano who are all anti-heroes. An anti-hero is a dramatic protagonist who can be downright evil and is more flawed than other characters. They magnify the frailties of humanity and they may be a badass or a screw up. According to Stephen
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In the essay “I Want a Wife”‚ Judy Brady discusses all the duties that a wife would have to do for the husband and the family to express her frustration in her marriage. She lists a lot of examples in her life to show us the job as a wife is burdensome and difficult. She also uses a sarcastic tone to describe the selfish attitude of men wanting a wife to take care of everything in his life while he can do whatever he want. She started to carefully think about the unfair treatment between men and
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The Mind-Body problem asks the question about the relationship between the mind and the body. We‚ as creatures have a brain‚ with several types of tissue and neurons and have we a mind because we have the ability to have emotions‚ sensations‚ beliefs and desires. The issue arises as we consider the brain as a physical object‚ but do we consider the mind as a physical entity too‚ and if the mind is a physical entity are our emotions‚ desires and sensations a product of our brain? Some argue that the
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What is the future of social media? In research for this discussion‚ I came up with a few insights on what I foresee coming up next in the world of social media. • The physical and digital worlds will be more highly connected than ever before – already today we are able to run in the park and track our progress online while sharing it with our friends or track our weight loss‚ or even our ovulation (well‚ some of us‚ that is) with iPhone apps that connect to our Facebook and twitter profiles
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What do you want in life? Many people struggle with this question. Maybe you do too? Maybe some of you have already figured it all out? Life can get so busy that we don’t have time to really think about what we want in life. And when we do find what we want‚ it can seem impossible to achieve it. Many people have different ambitions in life. So‚ the word ambition would have different definitions‚ depending on whom you ask. To me‚ ambition is a burning desire to achieve your goals or to succeed. Ambition
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What a Girl Wants? For years men have pondered over what a woman wants. Speaking for most women I’m not even sure we know what we want. What do we look for? Why are we attracted to that type? Although I am not quite sure myself I am about to attempt to speak for most women by classify men into categories based on research and personal opinion. In school there are stereotypes put on almost everyone and guys are no different. Most guys are put into one of five categories; whether it is the
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