...Wife's Story and What Of This Goldfish Would You Wish, there is an idea that you should either accept people for who they are or treat them differently because they are not the same as you. In both of these stories there is someone who is different than the main character and in both cases they ended up harming the other one due to them being different, although they still showed no real hatred towards the individual that they harmed. To clear up the reasoning or meaning to those who are different being mistreated The Wife's Story and What Of This Goldfish Would You wish can be compared to find out what caused this mistreatment. The Wife's Story is about a wife and husband who moved in together and the husband one day started to act strange. The story gives hints that the husband is changing into what one would assume is a wolf. however, in a plot twist it reveals that the wife and her family are actually wolves and that the husband is instead changing into a human. The Wife knew that the human was still her husband, but regardless of this she and her family killed the husband. The wife still cares for the husband, however because of how she still mourned over the body, hoping...
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...“What, of this goldfish, would you wish?” “without title”, and “ The American Flag Stands for Tolerance” the author's purpose is to inform us about acceptance, in all three of these compositions the authors show us that each person can show some acceptance for one another. In the newspaper editorial “The American Flag Stands For Tolerance.” the writer Allen shows how acceptance should be a widespread belief, whether you believe in burning the flag or not, one should not discriminate someone, on what they believe. “Thus were we to embrace a prohibition on such communication, we would be saying that the First Amendment protects expression only when no one is offended.” (Allen 57) On the other hand Allen himself believes...
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...Barbara Jordan once said, “We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.” This means that we need to understand those who are different from us because they are also humans and they have the right to be different from ourselves. Two stories address this issue of conflict.,They are “What, of this Goldfish ,Do you Wish” by Etgar Keret and “The Wife's Story” by Ursula Leguin. In both of these stories, the character are unwilling to accept the differences between each other. In “ What, of this Goldfish,Do you Wish”,a young man named Yoni sets out to make a documentary about the secrets longings of everyday Americans. By knocking on stranger's door and asking them this question: “If you had a magic...
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...Analytical Essay In the stories “The Lottery”, “The American Flag Stands For Tolerance”, and “What Of This Goldfish Do You Wish”, the authors do not support the quote by Barbara Johnson. They don’t support Barbara Johnson's quote which is “We as human beings must be willing to accept people different from ourselves.” In “The Lottery”, the story is about a small town that holds a lottery every year and about three hundred people gather at the event. Men from each family go up to the black box and draw a number and if your number gets drawn you get stoned to death by the people living in that town. At the end of the story a woman's winning lottery number gets drawn and she starts getting rocks thrown at her until Tessie Hutchinson dies because...
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...afternoon, and welcome to the funeral of my dearest friend, Andy. Today I’d like to reflect on Andy’s short, but full life and highlight the lessons he taught me so that you may also live as Andy did. Andy and I first met at the local pet store last Saturday afternoon, the store clerk was having a difficult time catching a one-eyed goldfish in his tiny net. So I asked him why he wanted that goldfish out so badly, and he said that this little pain in the ass has been scaring away customers so it’s time for him to go. I just couldn’t see why. All I saw was a lonely, helpless being that wanted to be cared for. So I took the net out of clerk’s hand and the little guy swam right into it. And just like that, the one-eyed goldfish that scared away customers, Andy, had swam into my heart. Shocked, and a little annoyed, the clerk allowed me to take Andy home with me. It was love at first blub, and I instantly knew we had a special connection. From the time we met at 1:26 that Saturday afternoon to his untimely death at 4:07 Monday morning I literally counted every second we spent together. Almost everyone has had a pet goldfish some point in their life, and once it dies you just flush it down the toilet and forget it even existed. But this one: my best friend, Andy, meant much more to me than any other goldfish ever could. In the short 3 days 14 hours and 41 minutes we knew each other, Andy taught me so much, and once he died, a little piece of me died along with him. When people...
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...The texts in this collection do not support the idea that people should accept others different from themselves. A reason for this is in What of a Goldfish, would you wish?, Sergei kills Yonatan without giving him a chance, he acted quickly and killed him. Another reason is in The Wife's Story, the wife thinks her husband is a monster because of what he looked like. Last reason is in The Interlopers, the two men want to kill each other. First of all, the text does not support the idea that people should accept others different from themselves because in What a of a Goldfish, Would You Wish?, Sergei kills Yonatan without giving him a chance. In the story "he seems to have taken the burner off the stove and hit the boy in the head." Sergei shouldn't have acted so quickly and killed Yonatan. He should have been more accepting of him....
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...Our experiences in life change the way we live because some of these experiences are life changing. Many of peoples life are based on the experiences they have some are bad and some are good but either way it’s based on the experience we have. In the story of “ What of this goldfish do you wish” a person named Yoni goes from house to house asking people if they had a magical goldfish what would they wish for and how it would changed their life. Yoni knocked on a door of someone named Sergei and he got scared and killed Yoni but the thing about Sergei is he actually had a magical goldfish but he never wished for anything because he doesn’t want to be alone but that’s stupid to me because he could’ve wished for friends but that’s not the point....
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...Genuine happiness and freedom can subsist solely in acceptance. In an utopia, everyone would accept and trust each other, which induces happiness and the feeling of security/freedom. However, that’s not the case in our world. Human beings here are selfish, insecure, and don’t trust one another. People are not willing to accept others who are different either physically or mentally. The stories, “What of this Goldfish Would You Wish?”, “The Lottery”, and the Barbara Jordan quote, all illustrate the effects that acceptance or non-acceptance have in society. Acceptance can only be a good thing and have positive effects to society. Firstly, people cannot choose their own future, and simply have to accept their life. One example in the short story, “What of this Goldfish Would You Wish?”, is when the owner of the magical goldfish has accidentally killed the camera boy. If he does accept the fact that he has killed the boy, and bring him back to life with his final wish, it can positively affect his life and he will have the feeling of...
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...think and other characteristics they cannot control. Differences between people causes complications, but human beings must be able to overlook and accept the dissimilarity. No two human beings are perfectly identical in any way, but that should not mean people should underestimate or think lesser of others. Many people burn the American flag if they disagree with the actions of the government. The Supreme Court deemed that a person has the right to burn the American flag if they disagree with governmental policies. “In a controversial decision, the Supreme Court, by the closest possible margin of a 5-to-4 vote, held that a person has the right to express disagreement with governmental policies by burning the American flag” (Allen line 1). This decision is compared to that of the People’s Republic of China who decided that a citizen may be killed if they peacefully protest government policies. Allen states reasons as to why the Supreme Court may be wrong in their decision, including that messages can be sent in different ways instead of burning the flag and that the flag is a...
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...The stories that we have read in the past couple weeks have all had to do with accepting people that are different form yourself. The stories we have read are what of this gold fish would you wish, the wife's story, Universal declaration of human rights, the interlopers, and the lottery. All of these stories have many great examples. The first story is what of this goldfish would you wish? In this story it both supports and doesn't support accepting others different form yourself. One example of this is one of the doors Yonatan knocked on the person on the other side wished for world peace, in the text it states "He nodded his head and said he would wish for peace” (Keret p 7) In the Universal declaration of...
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...PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE The title ‘Summer Reflections’ that I am using for this newsletter is purposefully ambiguous as I wanted to mention another type reflection. Many years ago my wife built a small pond in our garden and each year it is populated with goldfish, although this year we have only two. This year is the first year that we have had frog spawn, which have now turned into tadpoles. I thought I would try to take a photograph of one of them. I could see it clearly under the water, but when I pointed the camera at it, the camera only saw the back of our house reflected in the surface of the water. The photographers will tell me to use a filter; it is well known that photography through water is difficult! I was intrigued with the reflection and how bright and persistent it was. I was reminded that when people look at us they will sometimes see what we are like, and they will sometimes see a reflection of Jesus in us, and often a mixture of both. In 2Cor 3:18 Paul indicates that the Holy Spirit will be transforming us into the likeness of Jesus in an ever greater degree of glory. I suggest that people will see the reflection of Jesus more clearly when our own lives have fewer ripples, splashes and disturbances in it. This summer my goal is to allow my life to reflect Jesus better. I offer that to you as one of the best goals for this summer. May God bless you, as you enjoy Him and as he enjoys you. This year has seen a whole gamut of situations at SCS ranging from interesting...
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...Whether the citizens or simply their circumstances are to blame is heavily debated. What is not is the existence of drugs and crime abounding the area and spreading general distrust to anyone who happens across this part of Memphis. Cocaine was introduced to the environment around the 1980 to 1990s, since then drugs and violence have split families and been a source of violence and distrust throughout the neighborhood (Orange). These detrimental influences are further spread by the insinuation that the decline of this neighborhood can be linked to the race of its residents. Even in today’s age of modern times and preached about acceptance, racism still abounds to the levels of rioting and civil warfare over issues that are only worsened by such. Memphis as a whole may be a wonderful city but there are sections where its citizens seem determined to manufacture a hostile and unwelcoming environment which only serves to escalate the pre-existing notions of discrimination and blame. Even more appalling than the current situation is the fact that while efforts are being introduced to quell the crime and injustice...
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...traditional mother, father, 2.5 kids a dog and a goldfish and that the child’s wellbeing is determined by having a good, strong mother and a father to teach and guide their children to be the best they can be. However, what about the opposite? Many same-sex couples are ready and willing to adopt and have a family of their own, but many states have laws in place that ban same-sex couples from being able to adopt. This ban on same-sex adoption leaves thousands of children without families in the foster care system or in unstable households where they will never reach their full potential. Currently, there are 130,000 children in the foster care system without a permanent family (Ryan, Averett, & Nalavany, 2009). Giving same-sex couples the opportunity to adopt could lessen the load and give more children loving, healthy, and happy permanent families. As of today, 24 states recognize same-sex marriage and only 19; including Washington DC permit same-sex couples to jointly adopt; which allows a couple to adopt a child at the same time. 13 states permit second-parent adoption and 6 states explicitly ban discrimination based on sexual orientation in foster care (Family Equality, 2014). Second-parent adoption is the adoption of a child by a second parent in a home who is married to the legal parent of the child. This allows the second parent to adopt the child without the first parent losing any parental rights (Family Equality, 2014). This is an ideal situation...
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...Imagine yourself sitting alone on a park bench, shoulders slumping dejectedly and hands at your temples covering your face. You have just lost your bag containing both your smartphone and your laptop. Luckily, you still have your wallet and keys in your pocket so you can go home. But you are still sitting on that park bench, processing the situation and wondering what to do. You don’t have back up and you won’t be able to arrange the money to buy another phone and laptop until the end of the week. How are you feeling right now? More importantly, do you think you can make it to the end of the week? Increasing technological dependence is one of the central themes in Super Sad True Love Story and Shteyngart discusses this by introducing a device called an “äppärät”, that is arguably one of the central characters of the novel. Through this paper I wish to highlight how people in Shteyngart’s future are excessively reliant on technology, why I think that happens and what affect that has on society. In my opinion, the digital revolution is causing a change in human behaviors, experiences and thought processes. I believe that these changes are not necessarily for the better and have a negative effect on personality development. Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart is an unlikely love-story between...
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...STAT 225: Introduction to Probability Models Extra Examples 1 Introduction to Probability Extra 1.1 Let A be an event that happens 40% of the time. Let B be an event that happens 75% of the time. Answer the following 4 questions. What is the smallest probability the intersection of A and B can have? What is the largest probability the intersection of A and B can have? What is the smallest probability the union of A and B can have? What is the largest probability the union of A and B can have? .15, .4, .75, and 1 respectively. Extra 1.2 Suppose we are rolling 2 independent, fair 10-sided die. Let A be the event that the sum of the rolls is a prime number. Let B be the event that the sum of the rolls is odd. Let C be the event that the sum of the rolls is even. Find the following sets: BC , A ∩ B, A ∪ C, A ∩ C, (A ∩ C)C , A ∩ (B ∩ C)C , (A ∩ (B ∩ C))C ? BC = C, A ∩ B = A \ {2}, A ∪ C = Ω \ {9, 15}, A ∩ C = {2}, (A ∩ C)C =Ω \ {2}, A ∩ (B ∩ C)C = A, and (A ∩ (B ∩ C))C = Ω. Extra 1.3 Suppose a lottery has balls numbered 1-20. 4 balls are picked at random and without replacement. Let A be the event that all 4 balls are even. Let B be the event that all 4 balls are less than 10. Let C be the event that all 4 balls are primes. (Allow 1 to be a prime.) Find P(A), P(B), and P(C). (Hint an extended general multiplication rule could be helpful.) P(all 4 even) = (10)4 (20)4 = .0433. (9) P(all less than 10) = (20)44 = .0260. What numbers are prime? 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, and...
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