Elizabeth Anderson Journal# 10 Professor Jordan Section 3 Covey: Covey’s fifth habit is: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood. He talks about the importance of communication and what he calls “empathetic listening” saying that most people listen with the intent to reply. When we listen we listen on one of four levels (ignoring, pretending, selective listening, or attentive listening) and very few people practice this highest form of listening which is empathetic listening
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Through scenery and characterization in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the violence in human nature is put to the test with what is right and what has become tradition. II. The Scenery: a. Scenery of lottery is so serene, peaceful, and beautiful compared to what is going to happen. b. Compare scenery of “Most Dangerous Game” with “The Lottery” c. Discuss how these two set the scene for two events that take place III. Characterization:
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Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html Go Ask Alice By Anonymous If you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as "unsold and destroyed" to the publisher and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this "stripped book." First paperback edition March 1998 Go Ask Alice taken from "White Rabbit," written by Grace Slick. Copyright 1967. Irving Music. Inc. Copper
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OPENING CASE STUDY: WHAT’S REPLACING THE DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING FOR SHOPPING SALES? You’ve heard that the most profitable retail shopping day before Christmas is the Friday after Thanksgiving. It’s often called Black Friday, because it’s the day retailers move out of the red and into the black on their income statements. But not anymore . . . Cyber Monday is quickly replacing Black Friday as the big shopping day. Cyber Monday occurs on the Monday after Black Friday weekend
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Lesson 1 Nama (Name) Apa nama anda? Nama saya John. What is your name? My name is John. Dia kawan saya. Apa namanya? Namanya Peter. He is my friend. What is his name? His name is Peter. Dia kawan saya. Apa namanya? Namanya Mary. She is my friend. What is her name? Her name is Mary. Vocabulary Apa = What nama = name anda = you or your saya = I or my kawan = friend dia = he OR she mereka = they nama anda = your name namanya = his/her name nama saya = my name
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On Habeas corpus. Habeas corpus is the ancient foundation of justice, mandating that when and if you are arrested, you have the inherent right to know what you are being accused of, and the right to a speedy trial by your peers. Ever since the US Congress removed habeas corpus from our national statutes, I have no faith in Amerika and its evil ways. There are still some good programs, but mostly we just waste our money to napalm little children in far away lands. We
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audience learns a little more about Mayella. She seems to not be familiar with the term “respect” when it comes to people talking to her. She mistakes an act of courtesy as mockery, when Atticus calls her “Miss Mayella.” “‘Long’s he keeps on callin’ me ma’am an sayin’ Miss Mayella. I don’t hafta take his sass, I ain’t called upon to take it’” (Lee 243). We then learn more about Mayella’s life at home. Atticus then exposes the fact that her dad abuses her. The audience can assume this, given the evidence
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Football Manager is an enormously complex simulation. On a global level, the game tracks thousands of careers, ambitions and relationships, and on any given match day, weather, morale, skills and individual personal issues can contribute to moments of brilliance or abject failure. Talking to Sports Interactive’s director Miles Jacobson, I found that the simulation model is even more elaborate in some areas than I’d expected. Read on to find out about the game’s expanding narrative engine, how climate
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Cultural Interview Questions… 1. What is your definition of “culture?” a. Culture is a way of life which is determined by particular social customs, family tradition, and anything else that makes a person, family or group unique. 2. How do you define “family?” a. Family has two different meanings to me, you have your biological family, those who share your DNA. Your other family are those individuals you’ve built a bond with that can’t be broken. It’s stronger than a friendship. 3
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through is all the moving. They moved a total of four times from Arizona to Battle Mountain to Phoenix and then to Welch. At times Rex would just say “‘Okay, kids’ Dad said ‘the civilians are revolting. We better Skedaddle.’” (Walls109). Skedaddle means to get going and move, but in Rex’s language it meant to move to a new city and take whatever you can put in your pockets. He wasn’t a man that would take many things with him when he would move anywhere, and so he made his family do the same. Rex
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