...Mark Twain Quotes A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Be careful in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul. Better a broken promise than none at all. By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold. Familiarity breeds contempt – and children. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. He is now rising from affluence to poverty. He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it. I have made a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired. Man is the only creature that blushes – or needs to. Man was made at the end of the week’s...
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...An essay on apples To delve deeply into apples is an exciting adventure. There are many factors which influenced the development of apples. While it has been acknowledged that it has an important part to play in the development of man, apples is featuring more and more in the ideals of the young and upwardly mobile. Often it is seen as both a help and a hinderence to those politicaly minded individuals living in the past, who just don't like that sort of thing. Hold onto your hats as we begin a journey into apples. Social Factors There is cultural and institutional interdependence between members of any community. When Sir Bernard Chivilary said 'hounds will feast on society' [1] he failed to understand that if one seriously intends to 'not judge a book by its cover', then one must read a lot of books. A child’s approach to apples provides standards by which we may judge our selves. Special care must be taken when analysing such a delicate subject. On the other hand anyone that disagrees with me is an idiot. It breaks the mould, shattering man's misunderstanding of man. Economic Factors Derived from 'oikonomikos,' which means skilled in household management, the word economics is synonymous with apples. We will begin by looking at the Maiden-Tuesday-Lending model, a lovely model. Annual Military Budget apples Indisputably there is a link. How can this be explained? In spite of the best efforts of The World Bank the annual military budget plays in...
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...person, I still remember that day March 12, woah can’t imagined I can recall the date itself, it’s too sentimental for me well when my classmates making fun of us, they teased why we can’t try to have some kind of sparks lol. I started to feel a little bit weird but there’s a tiny echo that says yeah why can I at least bite that thing. As day passed by I started to feel different, I don’t know what’s wrong with me, but it’s the same feeling when I met that girl that was started to see myself in different way and change me, when I fell in the venom of this girl name Ann. I know I can’t be fall for the same mistake again. March 28, the final day of second semester of my 1st year life in college, all the fears, the awkwardness, and the kind of stupidity was released for the second time around I confessed to a girl, I thought it was the same with the first one but it was not, woah one of my memorable day, that conversation. To cut this long cliché story, when I knew Aubrey, I started to feel complete and happy again. If there is a best probably there is a worst thing. Loving this girl knowing that she can’t love you back because she has a boyfriend. Whenever this girl tell me her story, I mean their story, the way they plan their future, the way he courted her, the way she really love this boy. Worst, because I am being dumb for a second time falling for the same mistake and make it to the point that I chose her instead of my boyfriend who can love me as the way I am, who can accept...
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...Deep in the jungle lived a timid tiger. The tiger was a great chef and loved his food cooked. He made all his meals every night and enjoyed the pleasure that his cooking brought him. The tiger hated going out to eat and pretty much never left his home, only to get the ingredients for his upcoming lunches. Late one afternoon as the tiger was enjoying a meal he had just made; a loud noise erupted out of nowhere. It was a siren and what seemed to be a girl screaming “TIGER… TIGER!” The noise was so loud that it had caused the tiger to leap off his seat knocking is his lunch over onto the floor. “What the heck!” growled the tiger as he quickly picked up the remains of his lunch off of the floor. “That stupid child made me spill my tasty lunch. What was he yelling for? Maybe if I ask she’ll answer.” So the tiger began to roar and roar loudly but no reply. He finished cleaning up the mess and went to bed hungry cause he used his remaining ingredients on that meal. Meanwhile, the girl, who was the watcher over a goat farm, started to burst out laughing at his brother, mother, and father as they were running up the hillside to check if there was a tiger, but there was none. “Hehehehe” the farm girl said snickering. “I can’t believe my family fell for that. The girl’s father told her to only sound the alarm and yell tiger if there is one spotted. “Your watcher over the goat farm because you have the loudest voice in the whole village,” the father says. The following day...
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...* Airhead - an unintelligent person; "dimwit". Contains strong connotations of obliviousness or forgetfulness. Origin: term implies the person's head contains nothing but air. * Beat - lacking excitement or people; "boring". * Biggins – deragatory term for an obese person. * Bonkers - mentally unbalanced; mad; crazy, unbelievable, highly agreeable. * Boo-boo - a stupid or silly mistake; blunder. * Bread - under the influence of marijuana; STONED. Perhaps derived from baked. * Bucks – To resist stubbornly and obstinately; balk, or a dollar. An amount of money * Can - be made possible or probable by circumstances to... * Cheesy - lacking in taste; "lame"; "corny". * Con - An argument or opinion against something. One who holds an opposing opinion or view. * Couch Potato - a lazy person, especially someone who spends a extended period of time sitting * Croak - to kill, to stop functioning. * Ditched - To get away from (a person, especially a companion). * Drag - a person's story: what they would have you believe. Usually a lie or fabrication, but not always. * Flick – a light sharp jerky stroke or movement * Foxy - attractive. Usually used only to describe females. * Glitch - a minor problem that causes a temporary setback : snag * Go bananas - to react with extreme or irrational distress or composure; "freak out". * Grand - a thousand pounds or dollars * Gross - Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively...
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...Brian Yan All was good and well. The house was trouble free. There were no conflicts. This was prior to the Professor’s visit. In a couple of days, huge fights occur. Shots go off in the house and suicide almost committed. It was a completely different environment. This can all be attributed to the Professor. The professor is extremely selfish and it is this selfishness that is the source of all misery within the estate. For many years, Vanya and his niece Sonya, have been looking over the estate that belonged to Vanya’s sister, Maria who is also the first wife of the Professor. Meanwhile, the Professor and his young wife, Elena are living in city off the earnings of the estate. Retired with no job, he is simply a mooching cradle robber who needs constant care by Elena or Sonya. In the play, it is clear that he is no longer the brilliant man that he was once was. Naturally, the Professor is selfish because he has become extremely dependent on others due to his old age. He requires a lot from those around him and gives nothing back. Simply he is a burden as demonstrated in his own words to Elena “You are quite right, of course. I am not an idiot; I can understand you. You are young and healthy and beautiful, and longing for life, and I am an old dotard, almost a dead man already. Don't I know it? Of course I see that it is foolish for me to live so long, but wait! I shall soon set you all free. My life cannot drag on much longer. (Chekhov)” This does not only apply to Elena...
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...Mom, There are so many thoughts that swirl around in my head when it comes to our “relationship”. There are so many things that I would like to be able to say to you, but I know that we don’t have that open line of communication that it would take. I have always longed for your love and affection- it’s what every child craves from their parents. And I don’t know why I expected it more from you than from dad. I guess it’s because he never fooled me into thinking that he cared about me- I knew early on that he didn’t care. He never told me he loved me, that he gave a shit. You did though, and I believed you. A part of me feels like an idiot because I believed you. And what I REALLY struggle with is whether you do. Let me explain… you have told me that you love me (the times that we have spoken), but your actions don’t back it up. You never call me, we never hang out. Truth of the matter is, I don’t know anything about you and you don’t know anything about me. I love you because you are my mother, but your absence from my life leaves a huge whole in my life. And for some twisted reason, I still long for that feeling of being loved by my mother. I mean, who doesn’t want to be loved by their parents?! And because I don’t have it, I feel bad about myself. Still. Even after all these years. And that’s why I feel like an idiot- any smart person would have given up long ago and resigned to the fact that they are getting what they want and/or need. (Definition of insanity- doing the...
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...Art and honesty have a relation when both subjects occur within expression and religion. Many people feel that art has no importance throughout people’s daily lives. Those that don't understand the concept and advantage of art complain and say that art has no significance. Not everyone understands that people remain surrounded by art. Also, art has an intelligence level for people that involve themselves in the field, such as, musical arts, theatrical arts, or just art itself. Grace Hwang Lynch in her article, “The Importance of Art in Child Development” on Pbs.org, speaks about the advantage art has on children that can improve their (the children) learning skills. Brian Kisida, Jay P. Greene, and Daniel H. Bowan in their article, “Art Makes You Smart” on Nytimes.com, mentions how the three paired with an art museum, “testing” and studying students (with consent) visiting the museum and asking about their knowledge on art. Fran Smith’s article, “Why Arts Education is Crucial, and Who’s Doing It Best” on Edutopia.org speaks about how art can apply to educational benefits for students to expand their potential. Honesty holds an important quality in life. Honesty means being truthful about a person instead of starting rumours. Being honest means admitting to lying about something, no matter how stupid, like a little boy forgetting to flush the toilet when clearly, the little boy was the last one to use the bathroom. Linda and Charlie Bloom in their article “The Cost and Benefits...
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...Is the under-thirty generation really the dumbest generation? This question is debated among numerous of sources such as Mark Bauerlein’s The Dumbest Generation and Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The criteria for intelligence is considerably large, but sources’ arguments mostly align by the idea of common knowledge, necessary life skills, and literacy as the main criteria. To an extent, the claim of the under-thirty generation being the dumbest is true with the inadequacy in some life skills and common knowledge, but it is wrong due to the general rise in literacy and intelligence quotient among the under-thirty generation. According to the older generations, the under-thirty generation lacks to the necessary common knowledge that everyone should have according to some of the older generations. Education for the under-thirty generation has improved and grown vastly in comparison to the education the older generations had received. Despite that, the study on the general information among Americans in different age groups in 2007 had found that “56 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds possessed low knowledge levels,” (Source A). These low levels demonstrate the inadequacies in the under-thirty generation’s retainment of common knowledge. With low levels of knowledge, it allows for the the idea of them being the dumbest generation to be claimed. To further add on to the evidence of the under-thirty generation’s inadequacy in common knowledge, they were found to have no...
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...Does TV make you smarter or are you idoit in the box? Television has been around since the 1920s transmitting and receiving images. Over the years TV has marked its way through our lives. Majority of Americans have a more than one TV and DVD player in their home. How has TV evolved since the 1920’s? Has TV now changed the way we act and live as human beings? Does television now make us smarter than it did in early 1920s or has it made us idiots and less intelligent? Steven Johnson a writer who published his article in new time magazines called watching TV makes your smarter? Dana Stevens, a movie critic also written for the New York times; responded to Steven Johnson article by calling thinking outside the idiot box. Steven believes that TV makes us more intelligent while Dana Steven argues that TV doesn’t enhance our brains we shouldn’t base our lives around the television set. Johnson states that watching shows like “24″ make people smarter, because it makes them think about certain events that had occurred and it makes the audience think critically while watching. The show also suggest, the exact opposite is happening: the culture is getting more cognitively demanding, not less.”(Johnson 279) The sleep curve says Steven Johnson, is the single most important new force altering mental development of today, and I believe it is largely a force of good: enhancing our cognitive brains, not dumbing them down.(Johnson 291). Johnson also states that bad TV, like reality...
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...Hi my name is Christian, I’m 9 years old. Last week was terrible. Here’s what happened. Last week my family and Traveled to an island called, Jumanji Island. Then on the first day on Monday, we went to our hotel. “TSUNAMI”! Screamed my sister Callie. “Oh yeah the boat, we can ride the tsunami with it”, I said, “Are you crazy?, we can’t ride a boat on a tsunami”, said Callie, “but we can try , it’s our only way to survive”, “ok let’s stop talking and start moving” said mom. Dad got the boat. “EVERYBODY GET IN!” we all got in the boat and the water was coming fast. “WAIT”, said Callie, “I forgot Emry my doll.” “Callie forget the stupid doll there is a tsunami coming” I said. “Please mommy and daddy I really need her, she is my best friend,” cried Callie. “Ok, ok, but be quick,” said dad. Callie Came back. “HURRY UP AND GET IN THE BOAT,” I said. “THE TSUNAMI IS A MILE AWAY AND IS COMING UP 40 MILES PER HOUR,” said dad. “Okay, the tsunami is coming so everybody get ready for the crazy ride,” said mom. “HERE COMES THE TSUNAMI!” BOOMSACALACA! “We are riding the waves of the Tsunami,” I said. “I’m scared,” said Callie. “It will be ok, soon it will be over.” As we rode the tsunami we saw a guy on a big ship. “Please we need a bigger boat can we get on your boat?” asked mom. “Sure,” said the man in a creepy voice. ZOOOOOM...
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...My Reflection Essay Can someone please help me edit my reflection essay? Thank You Very Very Much! This reflection essay is based on my presentation on July 9th. Four day ago, on Thursday 9th July, 2009 my partner Rachna and I gave a seminar at St. Josephs Secondary School and I wanted to take a minute to reflect my experience. My seminar topic was about examining the imagery that appeared in the play Hamlet. A skill I developed was using technological equipment to present a presentation.Each group had to pick a topic that was in their interest to research online for information. The requirements started with presenting the information in front of the class informing the audience what imagery means and discuss using concrete examples from the play. This presentation gave me the opportunity to work with PowerPoint and Excel and then to present my information. I believe that in order to communicate effectively with the audience you have to have a well prepared presentation that will capture their attention so that you can present your ideas clearly. A skill that I had trouble was to be able to work as a team. The imagery seminar was a great opportunity for me to develop my team work skills because we were put in to pairs to complete the seminar. Each member in the group had specific responsibilities to the team in order for the seminar to be successful. Being in the group to work on the seminar was a great experience for me because I was able to see where my strong...
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...Amanda Harvey English 101 Advice to students essay (idiot Nation) My Advice to You “Our problem isn’t just that our kids don’t know nothin’ but that the adults who pay their tuition are no better,” States Moore in Idiot Nation. To the rest of the world we Americans are obnoxious, ignorant, stupid human beings and unfortunately it’s partly true. It’s not that I am agreeing with such horrible accusations, it’s just that I believe most of the general American people are lazy. We like to do things the easiest way possible and have come accustomed to the easy life. How long has it been since you walked up to your television to change the channel instead of using the remote? Did you know that only “11% of the American public bothers to read a daily newspaper beyond the funny pages or used car ads (Moore 129).” Education is so important in so many ways, which is why you should take your education seriously. It equips us with everything we need to make our futures bright. Try to challenge yourself.A diverse and well- rounded education could potentially help you achieve anything you set your mind to. It was so easy in high school. I remember missing two days and you barely had any makeup work. In College, you miss one class and your struggling to get caught back up and you’re so lost in classroom conversation it’s like your instructor is speaking another language. Education is a serious matter and should be treated as so. “Yale and Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth, Stanford and...
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...Global Warming and The End of The World (As We Know It) It’s the year 2505. Our hero, Joe Bauers, awakes in this time period after being in hibernation for some five hundred years due to an Army experiment; to find that society has been drastically “dumbed down”. The first thing Joe noticed was that he was sitting in someone's house. He had flown through the window, and landed behind some random guy's recliner. After getting yelled at and kicked out, he finds himself on an abnormally large pile of trash. Feeling a bit woozy and attempting to take in all the bizzare sights around him, Joe walked around town in search of a hospital. The first thing Joe should have noticed, was that the world (or this particular city in this particular time) was ruled by idiots and advertisements. The world's food supply is now controlled by fast food chains, like Carl's Jr - who's new motto is: "F*** you, I'm eating." The fast food chains are not even restaurants anymore, but mere vending machine type things, that occasionally just take your money and then tell you to "come back when you can afford to buy something;" because, "Your kids are starving." A big-name sports drink, similar to Gatorade, with "electrolytes" has replaced water (except for in the toilets) and the company itself, Brawndo, bought out the FDA and eliminated the food pyramid, while also employing millions of people. Costco is no longer a warehouse that sells items in bulk for cheap, but an all-powerful, all-purpose...
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