“Axel. Axel. Axel. Axel. Axel‚ what are you reading? Huh? Is it interesting?” Nicolas asks. “Yes‚” Axel responds. “Well then tell me what it’s about‚” Nicolas counters. “It is about geology‚” Axel answers. “Geology? Sounds kinda dumb.” Axel turned to Nicolas and gave him the look. No‚ not a look. The Look. To most people it just seemed like Axel was just staring at Nicolas with a slightly grumpy face. But Nicolas knew what it meant. “You have said something stupid.” “Sorry‚” says Nicolas
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Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain Response and Summary Paper The sense of death crushes one’s heart‚ but what happens behind the scenes before a funeral‚ the author: Jessica Mitford was the one to bring this dark secret to light. She goes into great detail of the gruesome make over loved one’s go through. This response is a sort of recap on what she said through greater detail. Through reading this I believe some of this is simply to make money off of people deceased family members. I think this is
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Amanda Stivala Composition 1030-72 Summary and Response 9/24/12 Growing up in America one doesn’t really question our customs or the daily lives of the people here. Everyone kind of has a precedent for our everyday live and no one really tries to break the mold on that. Poranee Natadecha- Sonsel argues that Americans are unlike many other countries because they have a certain individualism about everything they do in their culture. In her article‚ “The Young‚ the Rich‚ and the Famous: Individualism
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Assignment #1: Summary and Response Victoria’s Secret has several ads on television and in magazines that are most likely to bring attention to women. This particular ad contains an image of a women’s arm‚ her hand in a seductive position while holding a red bra in her fingers looking like she is about to drop it on the ground. The background is dark pink around the edges and gets lighter as it gets closer to the bra. This effect draws the audience in so they focus on the bra in the center of
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Summary/Response In Glenn Harlan Reynolds broadside response‚ The Higher Education Bubble‚ he writes that the costs of college is rising year after year. Many families are putting themselves into unnecessary debt in order to send their students to college. This pattern has repeated many times throughout the years and Reynolds refers to this as a higher education bubble. Students feel that because everyone else is going into debt it must be okay. In many cases‚ colleges are not helping the matter
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Assignment 1.1: Summary and Personal Response “Spanish-challenged and pura Latina”(p. 61) is the final‚ but most important statement written at the conclusion of “Se Habla Espanol‚” written by Tanya Barrientos (2011). This is a powerful memoir in which she shares her childhood experiences of self-hatred and the consequences of failing to identify with her own culture. Mrs. Barrientos is of Guatemalan descent‚ but she is unable to speak her native tongue‚ Spanish. Her inability is a result of
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Interview Response Summary: The interviewee recalled a lot of his curriculum was learnt through human interaction and the surrounding environment. Living on a remote cattle station‚ he formed a love of the country lifestyle and was always eager to learn from those around him (lived curriculum). It was evident that teachers made a huge impact on the interviewees learning. He fondly spoke about a teacher whose attributes were; • Warm‚ kind and loving. • Dedicated to her profession. • Encouraged learning
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people that are intrigued by the freeganism movement that has become more popular than people would think. In a current article in vice.com‚ “I Dumpster-Dived with a Bunch of freegans”‚ Ashley Hoffman describes how she ventured on dumpster dived with a community of freegans. Hoffman experience going to were the freegan community would gather as a group to dumpster dive at an Upper East Side neighborhood in NYC. What was quite fascinating is that there was a leader in the group that would give instructions
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We have just finished reading several chapters on Karl Polanyi’s‚ “The Great Transformation‚” which is truly crucial to understanding how and why we need to restructure economic education today. The central thesis of this book was a historical description of the emergence of the market economy as a competitor to the traditional economy. Although he has not given a clear legacy to a separate tradition of economics and economic history‚ the importance of Polanyi’s thoughts to heretical economic ideas
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Case 5.3 Proctor and Gamble Goes Dumpster Diving By Anne Marie Dutkovic Business Ethics – BUS 290-013016 February 5‚ 2010 The case of Proctor & Gamble and Unilever provides a perfect example of the controversial method of using dumpster diving to obtain confidential information on a corporate rival. Dumpster diving is when you shift through rubbish to collect confidential information. (Hils-Cosgrove‚ 2001) This method is becoming increasingly popular in corporate America as
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