1. Get Started: Emergency Tips Is your short story assignment due tomorrow morning? These emergency tips may help. Good luck! 1. Who is your protagonist‚ and what does he or she want? (The athlete who wants her team to win the big game and the car crash victim who wants to survive are not unique or interesting enough.) 2. When the story begins‚ what morally significant actions has he or she already taken towards that goal? (“Morally significant” doesn’t mean your protagonist has to be
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In Nine Greek Lives: The Rise and Fall of Athens‚ Plutarch presents the life of Alcibiades as a contrast between inspired military excellence and disappointing moral failure. Although he was a brilliant and accomplished military strategist‚ Alcibiades’ lack of moral fortitude‚ and his provocation of the Athenians into reckless action led to his downfall‚ and that of Athens. Although Alcibiades was a man of prodigious gifts who could have led Athens to military dominance‚ he gave in to base self-interest
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To prepare this project there were many characters that I could choose but I chose Consuelo. She is a young Puerto Rican girl that narrates the whole story. Basically she is telling every detail of her life‚ things that happened to her or her family or her neighbors and things that were happening in the island. I chose Consuelo because she is the protagonist; she’s the one that expresses in the novel everything in her life like what is happening to her sister Mili because she was not as normal as
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lost her uncle and friends in her childhood. However‚ some details of the examples proof that since the regime uses religion to control people’s mind and thousands of people dead for their faith to against it‚ the rest of the people who seems like chameleon started to hide their integrity and easily follow the alleged righteous by self-disguise‚ which could help them protect themselves from the regime. Through the comic‚ Satrapi told us an obvious example to illustrate a contemporary situation that
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Cate Blanchett through the Sociological and Technical Analysis in: Elizabeth (1998)‚ Charlotte Gray (2001) and Babel (2006). Recently‚ there has been growing interest in studying Hollywood movies and criticizing their content‚ their message and their cast. The relationship between the actors and the movies they starred in has been investigated by many researchers. One out of an entirely ‘legion’ of Hollywood actors is the Australian actress‚ Cate Blanchett. During the last years of the twentieth
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A story of Olenka‚ "The Darling" A Dependent Woman The story "The Darling" by Anton Chekhov‚ illustrates a woman that is lonely‚ insecure‚ and lacking wholeness of oneself without a man in her life. This woman‚ Olenka‚ nicknamed "Darling" is compassionate‚ gentle and sentimental. Olenka is portrayed for being conventional‚ a woman who is reliant‚ diligent‚ and idea less. Although‚ this story portrays that this woman‚ known as the Darling needs some sort of male to be emotionally dependent
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Psychology Classical Conditioning ( John B Watson) 1.) Conditioned Emotional Response: (CER) Classical conditioning of emotional psychology E. Classical Behaviorism Watson & Rayner CER in infants (little albert B.) A.) UCS= loud noise (strike hammer one steel bar) B.) UCR= fear C.) CS= White rat (neutral stimulus) Operant Conditions A.) Psychology strengthened or weakened on the consequences that follow it B.) B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) C.) Basic components in operant conditioning
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Biodiversity Hotspots The Caucasus: The Caucasus hotspot‚ historically interpreted as the area of land between the Black and Caspian seas‚ covers a total area of 580‚000 km. Located at a biological crossroads‚ species from Central and Northern Europe‚ Central Asia‚ the Middle East and North Africa mingles here with endemics found nowhere else. One of the most biologically rich regions on Earth‚ the Caucasus is among the planet’s 25 most diverse and endangered hotspots. The Caucasus is one
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Murder and killing is in all likelihood a topic many people may not like discussing; as it is a concern that can make almost anyone uncomfortable and uneasy. On the other hand‚ I’ve always had an itch for forensics and learning more about the minds of serial killers that have done damage to innocent people. The podcast‚ The Bad Show‚ on radiolab made me curious to learn more and write about serial killers and murder and why essentially‚ we‚ as people think about evil thoughts and killing. Serial
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Una‚ Lady Troubridge: Fashion Contexts The focus of the portrait is in the eyes of the figure‚ slate grey and under furrowed brows. A look of intelligence and seriousness looks back at the viewer behind a monocle and is framed by a severe haircut (blunt bangs and a short bob). The gender of the figure is ambiguous; the only clues to her sex are the shape of the lips‚ pink and feminine. The diamond earring‚ too‚ lends to her identity as a woman. However‚ the rest of her attire‚ from the black top
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