When the Wart first meets King Pellinore‚ he frightens him so much that the king nearly falls off of his horse. “What‚ what?” he exclaims. Pellinore is the first knight that King Arthur meets in T.H. White’s The Once and Future King. He is a rambling‚ bumbling man that is constantly hunting the Questing Beast‚ a seemingly unattainable beast. With his strange language‚ wandering train of thought‚ and obsession with the Questing Beast‚ King Pellinore is an eccentric character that adds a sense of
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Identification by definition is the state of being identified‚ which means the characteristics and feature that set you aside from everyone else. Question is: What makes an identity? Is it the heritage of our parents? The people we interact with? Or how about the decisions we make on a daily basis? Each of these are components to our identities in different manners though they each have different levels of impact upon us. Depending on the person‚ everyone has different opinions as to how important
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heard a lot about what needs to be done to raise the quality of the American education system. Some claim its a lack of funding‚ and if we just throw money at the problem the problem of a sub-par education system will just go away. Others claim we need to get back to basics or have more stringent certification procedures. The excuses are abundant. Carl Singleton offers more radical advice. He claims what we need more is more F’s. Singleton believes F’s would virtually overnight save our education system
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The novel Our Guys‚ written by Bernard Lefkowitz‚ is a very dynamic story about the heinous actions of a dozen middle-class athletes‚ from a small New York suburb‚ against a defenseless mentally handicapped girl. Lefkowitz describes a brutal gang rape involving a baseball bat and broomhandle‚ which took place in this unsuspecting town‚ by these upstanding young group of boys‚ as the town would describe them. Lefkowitz looks at the incident which took place and then examines the "jock clique" sub-culture
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Indian life and thought. Some see India’s caste system as the defining feature of Indian culture and some have dismissed it as a colonial artefact. Since the days of the British rule‚ both historians and anthropologists referred to India as a ‘caste society’. Obviously this is an overstatement of the importance of caste. But for many leading personalities‚ caste was‚ and is‚ a real force in Indian life. As explained by experts in the field such as Dr Susan Bayly‚ caste is not the essence of Indian culture
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Do modern means of communication make our society better or worse? Modern communication has become an essential and inescapable part of our life. Our means of interaction have been improved to the fullest and we are now connected to others through the fastest and most reliable means of communication. So in a way or another‚ modern communication has provided us a privilege of keeping in touch with our relatives all over the world. To analyze the bigger picture‚ let’s compare communication these
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someone to be diagnosed mentally Ill. Normal Psychology: Normal psychology is the study of the human behavior and the mind. It is stereotype in way that judge’s criteria are normal or abnormal. Normal psychology is a common way to diagnose behavior by the ability to be Maladaptive. Two aspects make this flexible and common. Maladaptive to one’s self is the inability to reach goals‚ and to adapt to the everyday demands of life. Also there is Maladaptive to society‚ the interference in social functioning
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> data=read.table("d:/111113/1.txt"‚header=T) > model1=lm(S~u_direction+mx+my+mz‚data) > summary(model1) Call: lm(formula = S ~ u_direction + mx + my + mz‚ data = data) Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -11.8430 -0.3962 0.3252 0.7887 18.3963 Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) (Intercept) -0.50372 0.12738 -3.955 7.93e-05 *** u_direction -0.40368 0.07996 -5.048 4.85e-07 *** mx -0.40573 0
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Fifty Shades of Normal Since its publication in 1996‚ Robie Harris’s book It’s Perfectly Normal has appeared on the American Library Association list of challenged books. It’s Perfectly Normal was the ALA’s #1 Most Challenged Book of 2005. The book is intended for ages 10 and up‚ and it explains the various physical and psychological changes that occur during puberty including information about sex and sexual health. The book’s text is paired with cartoonish illustrations by Michael Emberley. Many
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What do we want from our government? One answer is that we want a great deal more than we did several decades ago. The role of government has expanded dramatically in the last 75+ years. In 1929 (the year the Commerce Department began keeping annual data on macroeconomic performance in the United States)‚ government expenditures at all levels (state‚ local‚ and federal) were less than 10% of the nation’s total output‚ which is called gross domestic product (GDP). In the current century‚ that share
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