...because, in my opinion, her character in the story is the most unbelievable. One of the biggest reasons that I think Madame Loisel is not believable as a character is because she worked for ten years to pay off a debt that could have been prevented in the first place. She could have prevented the debt by her just simply not losing the necklace, because, in reality, it would be very hard to lose a necklace because it is literally attached to her neck so, unless if she took it off, or it broke, it would be nearly impossible to lose it. Nevertheless, even if she did end up breaking it, she could have had it repaired and returned it to her friend with no questions asked....
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...jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjkjkhjhiIf losing the presidential election wasn't enough, Mitt Romney has been hemorrhaging Facebook friends. People began unliking Romney's official Facebook page soon after the election results came in last week. The Washington Post noticed the drop on Friday, when the GOP presidential candidate's page was losing 593 likes an hour. By Saturday, Mashable said the exodus was up to 847 friends an hour, and as of Monday morning, Romney's Facebook page continued to lose around 11 likes every minute. For those who enjoy interactive graphics with their schadenfreude, the site DisappearingRomney.com shows Romney's Facebook likes dropping in real time. A ticker at the bottom of the page tallies how many people have unliked Romney's page just in the time users have been on the site. Not that Romney is hurting for social media pals. As of Monday afternoon, he still had more than 12 million Facebook fans and 1.7 million followers on Twitter. The former governor's team hasn't been doing much on social media lately to persuade people to stick around. After a flurry of activity leading up to the election, his official Facebook and Twitter accounts went silent for four days afterward. On Saturday, the campaign finally posted a photo of a sad-looking Romney with the message, "From the bottom of our...
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...hanging out with a bad group of friends, or some other type of horrible cause that happens within their life. Most kids start off doing drugs because of the friends they’re hanging out with such as if you’re hanging out with a friend and they’re like, “Hey man just try this it won’t hurt you”, so you feel pressured into doing those drugs. You think it makes you look cool or makes you fit in with the crowd when really you look like an idiot and should be saying no to the drugs. Another reason why kids start drugs is because the parents go through a hard divorce and the kids are thrown from parent to parent and the parents don’t care what the kid does anymore because in reality they don’t know what their kids doing or where their kid is. When they should be watching every move they make, then later on down the road they want to blame the kid or themselves which takes a bigger toll on everyone around them and themselves. Other causes of kids doing drugs are things such as depression, insecurity, boredom, lack of intelligence, what they feel like and many more reasons. They feel depressed and they think doing drugs will make them feel better and take away the pain, when in reality when the high wears off all there problems come back. They just need to face them instead of hiding from them. Some kids think a lack of intelligence is a reason why they should do drugs because they think it’s the only choice instead of going to get help and their friends make them fit in with them. Boredom...
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...other people, if not they will meet the consequences of it, which is losing face. Nowadays, people struggle to save their face among people and in their society because they are worried about their future and they don’t want to ruin it. In this society, we will constantly learn the importance of saving face and the ways of doing it. Also we realize the consequences of losing face and how to avoid it. Why people try to save their face in front of others? Well, there is variety of reasons why saving face is so important to people. One of the main reasons is respect. Many people try to have a better face in others opinion in order to get their respect. Also beside this respect, you will gain authenticity. People will rely on you and give you more credit because of your good appearance in a group or society. As I quote from A Separate Peace by John Knowles “I went along; I never missed a meeting. At that time it would never have occurred to me to say, “I don’t feel like it tonight,” which was the plain truth every night,” (Knowles 26), Gene, who is the narrator of this story, endures this difficult situation that he must appear in every meeting because of peer pressure. He wants to save his face in front of his other friends and show them that he is not week and they can rely on him. Therefore he suffers himself to save his face and has better appearance in front of his friends. Everybody has a fear of losing face, especially those people who have a good appearance between other...
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...explain many of the lifestyle changes that adults make over the years. Early adulthood is the years from 20-40 years of age. They can bring many changes in a person’s life. Some may choose to get married, have children, and go to either work or college or attempt to do while others may choose a different route. At this stage of their lives he or she is still attempting to find themselves and to adjust to the “real world.” This is also the time when they move out of their parent’s house and into their own or share a place with their friends. By the age of 40 they should be settled down and have grown up and have become responsible members of society. At this stage relationships between friends and romantic relationships may begin to change also. Friendships from childhood and adolescence could become less important and he or she may begin to pull away from former friends seeking other friends. As the adult ages they may have a few friends left from their younger years but they have changed and have developed new friendships with other people. Romantic relationships may change with the young adults deciding that they want to meet other people and may want to date others as well. Some may get married and start a family as soon as...
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...Loneliness strikes at the heart and mind. It’s more psychological than anything. It tears at you making you feel apart from everyone. P. (80) Crooks:”A guy needs somebody to be near him, a guy goes nuts if he aint got nobody” as said on Sparknotes.com. When nobody is around or there for you, you feel as if you’re locked out from the rest of the world. Like I’ve always said to myself, if you don’t have anyone there’s no point of being at all. Having everything then losing it all, is something you can never prepare for. Family and friends are everything. For without them you have nobody to care or lookout for you. P. (81) Crooks:” Had two brothers. They were always here for me, always there.” I feel him 100% on this one, I’ve got two brothers also and I couldn’t imagine losing them. Whenever you lose something, the thing you want most is always what you lost. Crooks had everything he wanted, a family, friends, a place to call home, and a hate free environment. But everything changed when he loses it all. Losing something dear to you is nothing small; it’s important and could be everything to you. P. (80)” I tell ya a guy gets too...
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...control, or the pen were left. It is also common to lose dreams, friends, family, and the most relevant for this poem, a lover. This world is in constant change and nothing can really last forever. The loss and the ability to forget easily will increase as the years accumulate, it just a matter of time. So why should people care?, why should people try to resist it and suffer though?, Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” deals with the dilemma and the tragedy of losing everything. Jonathan Sircy explains the poem briefly and says “In the face of overwhelming loss, Bishop appears in this first stanza to have constructed an admittedly bittersweet, but nonetheless efficacious, philosophy of survival” (2). The author applies several poetic techniques from the villanelle’s style in the poem. For example, she uses refrain and two repeated rhymes, to give a specific effect on words and produce a message of ideas to the reader. The stanzas four and six are the most relevant for the analysis and research of this poem, in order to understand its structure and the reason of the writer to work write this down. The first stanza to be explained is the fourth one, it begins with this first line that says “Then practice losing farther, losing faster:” In this line the author uses euphony to make it sound good, and emphasize certain words, so that the reader can remember the line easily. This line changes the poem to the direction of losing progressively from less to more and from things not really...
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... written by Markus Zusak. This novel tells the story of a little girl’s life in Germany. It covers all of the hardships she faced with her new family, her friends, and her community. Ultimately these hardships caused depression on the characters, which provoked the destruction of them. For example, when characters lose their family or when characters lose their friends. When the characters lose their family members that provokes the destruction of them. The main character in this book is Liesel. When she was littler, her brother, Werner died at the train tracks. Liesel was also taken away from her parents because they were communists. Because of this, Liesel was sad. Death, the narrator in The Book Thief said, “In the...
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...by Robin Black is a story about an average American family, with two generations losing someone close to them. The first person narrator is the mother of the family who lost Terry, her older brother, at a very young age. The story is partly told in flashbacks from the last summer with her brother and the neighbor’s kids playing in their backyard while reenacting the death of Henry VIII’s wives. The present part of the story describes how the unnamed narrator’s oldest son, Mark, has a friend that suddenly passes away in a car accident. The story draws parallels between the death of Terry and the death of Mark’s friend and how both deaths play a role in their ordinary family life. Losing someone as close to you as a brother, has inevitably affected the life of the narrator. She reveals how it has caused superstition “Mark and Coco are four years apart – we had been two apart, Terry and I. And maybe it was superstition that made me wait that extra stretch of time before getting pregnant again”. It has also caused drastic changes to her friendship with the neighbors whom she had spent countless hours in their backyard, reenacting the death of Henry VIII’s wives. “We weren’t really friends, anymore. And neither of us said a word to the other, not a single word.” It is here very clear how the friendship between the two girls were lost in high school. Though it’s very commonly seen that childhood friends lose touch when they get older, and especially when they reach high school, it’s...
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...may mean, you and your best friend of five or more years may suddenly stop making contact. This is not something to be afraid of. Change is simply the sign that you are growing up and becoming who you truly are. Many people remain friends throughout the four years here, but be aware and prepared. On your journey of changing, you will also meet new people. This is normal; Do not close yourself off from the rest of the high school population because you’re afraid of losing friends; You may meet a stellar person. For example, when I was a freshman, my best friend of six years decided to make new friends. The two of us were peas in a pod, but she essentially forgot about me that year. We are still friends to this day, but we are not as close. Meeting new people and expanding your friend group is okay, and if your old friends are okay with it, drag them along on your new escapades as a high school student....
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...Throughout my childhood, my parents would always put me to bed with a bedtime story. These stories would always talk about a hero, and their heroic attempt at saving someone or something from a tragic ending. But sometimes the endings have a twist. In the quest story of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, that is exactly what happens. Gilgamesh may have failed his quest in the end, but nevertheless he was thought of as hero to the readers. King Gilgamesh, loses his best friend do to a terrible illness, which reminds the king that humans are not immortal. The King wishes for immorality of all people, so he goes out on quest to find an away to prevent death. Eventually, he found this plant, which is meant to save humans from death. King Gilgamesh retrieved the plant, and soon after, dropped the plant into the water. The plant sunk to the bottom of the sea, where Gilgamesh was unable to retrieve it, essentially losing his chance at immortality....
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...Unfortunately though we lost every game and got smoked except once we tied. it was odd because I am ultra competitive but did not mind losing because it was the experience of a lifetime as I tried new food and got to see the Japanese culture. In this instance I felt a whole lot of both losing that much really felt bad but I left this time on top as I learned so much from my coaches and had the experience of a lifetime I never would have thought I could have by traveling abroad. In conclusion, I have had many ups and downs in my baseball career from coming in clutch in big games to experiencing things I could never experience without baseball and have learned all these new things, but I have also had some not so good moments from losing big games to losing tournaments but overall I have had an amazing baseball career and it is on the way up...
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...other public or private places. 2, Thesis statement: Unfortunately, however, there are still apparent causes, which are remarkably concerned, to fail some of these relationships, such as losing individual trustworthiness and confidence, lying, and financial problems. II, Body 1, Paragraph 2 a, Topic sentence: For the first concerning,losing individual trustworthiness and confidence usually occur as people start to suspect one another aside b, Supporting ideas: giving example about two colleagues in the same working condition (same company, same time of work, same function..) but then one is promoted with no obvious reasons => Makes the other lose self-confidences and the trust in friend=> friendship ends. 2, Paragraph 3 a, Topic sentence: The second dealing concern, lying is recognized very serious if it is not the white lie. b, Supporting ideas: giving example about a friendship built by lies, then breaks up one day when one realizes the truth. 3, Paragraph 4 a, Topic sentence: The last factor of related concern refers to financial problem. b, Supporting ideas: Give example * One person is in financial crisis. * Ask a friend for help, but be refused although that friend actually is able to help. * Be refused time after time => feel shy, talk less to friend => friendship is broken gradually. III, conclusion: * Relationships do not base on one side * Friendships depend on people maintaining relationships * Re-list out some reasons...
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...Was Charlie Gordon better off without his intelligence enhancing surgery. Could the surgery Charlie Gordon received actually made his life worse rather than making it better? He had a rather simple life before the surgery. Where he went to work at the factory with his “friends” and went to his classes. After the surgery that changed. He lost his job at the factory because of peoples fear of him. He then lost his friends and his intelligence. After losing his intelligence he ran away fearing he would be mocked for what happened. First Charlie lost his job at the factory. Everyone was afraid of the man who had a sudden burst of intellect. They were worried of what could happen if Charlie found out how badly he was treated before his surgery....
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...Weijen Chen Professor Nathan Price ENGL 1010-16 20 February 2016 Bye Bye Muffin Top Health is the most vital thing that affects everything through out our whole life. Without a healthy body, people may suffer from illness and could not have the ability to do everything that they want to do. Unfortunately, today, there are a lot of illnesses and health problems that come from modern technology. These modern inventions lead to some bad habits like overusing smartphones and avoiding walking. However, these problems need to be changed if people want to have a healthy and stable life. According to "Modern-Day Health Woes, Solved", the author Laura Beil mentioned that overusing smartphones and tablets leads to ‘Tablet neck’ and ‘BlackBerry thumb’: This includes earbud and earphone induced hearing loss, and LED-generated blue light related sleep disorders (Beil). Also, sitting for a long time and eating junk foods causes obesity. I have a modern health problem, the “muffin top”. Because I do not like to exercise and most of the time I sit on a chair all day, undeniably, that makes me keep my abdominal fat. Likewise, I do not care about what I eat and what I drink for my daily life, especially for French fries and hash browns. Abdominal or visceral fat is a key player in a variety of health problems. In Harvard Health Publications “ Abdominal fat and what to do about it”, there is a notion mentioned, “Visceral fat has been linked to metabolic disturbances and increased risk for...
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