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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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This article mainly focuses on rising oceans mainly due to the glaciers melting is Iceland. One of the other important things is that if we keep raising the temperature of the plant the permafrost will start melting, which is really bad for everyone. Finally he talks about how CO2 levels are at an all time high than in the past half million years. For my paper i'm going to talk about the rising CO2 levels and how the permafrost is starting to melt.
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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This is about the man who traveled to Tuscany to become a butcher and learned the art behind making meat, showing it is more than murder. I will use this in my paper by showing that many don't just look at animals as food, but as art.
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michaelpollan.com michaelpollan.com
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This is about the hunt for animals, dealing with the morality of murdering for food, and the struggle to cope with the pleasure. The author's point for writing this is very similar to my argument, discussing the rights and wrongs of killing animals.
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aeon.co aeon.co
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This is about the man-made burger and if it will cause the end of treating animals poorly or open up the world to synthetic meat. I will tie this into my paper by using it as opposition, showing there are other options to kiiling.
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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This is about the top 50 bbq places in texas and how much people love meat and the atmosphere and culture around it. I will tie this into my paper showing how people love bbq and meat.
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www.esquire.com www.esquire.com
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The Invisible Grip
This article describes how the author experimented with constant eye contact and how people reacted to it. This shows how unnatural eye contact can seem, but also how uncomfortable it can make others feel. I will use this article to show the unnatural power of body language and, again, how it can be abused to control people.
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The Art of the Handshake
This article describes the experiences of a man who experimented with his handshake, to see how others react to it. The author describes how "the perfect" handshake is able to make people feel more favorably about him. I will use this article to show the effects of body language on others and how this can possibly be abused.
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The first smile
This article explains the evolutionary origins of common facial expressions and how they have derived from our instincts. With this, the author discusses how our emotions stem from our natural ability to manipulate others and convey messages without speaking. I will use this article to provide some background information and show how body language is used to manipulate others.
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gladwell.com gladwell.com
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The Naked Face
This article explains how a group of psychologists were able to develop a system for reading facial expressions. There is a group of people who seem to have this inborn ability, but they have been able to successfully train others to be as perceptive. I will use this article to show the benefits of mastery of body language and build up some counter-arguments.
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Give a man enough coffee and he’s capable of anything.
I like coffee so I'm gonna go ahead and say I agree with mostly everything said.
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ingle-parent families–were no more delinquent than their white, mostly middle-class peers
This paragraph talks about how race does not affect how kids get into trouble. It is more about their environment and surroundings. Kids in the middle class, black and white, had similar results of getting in trouble. but when put up against kids that live in poverty, then the results were vastly different with poverty kids getting into more trouble.
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We’d set the world back a month.
Is the author implying coffee sparks productivity? I agree a little kick from a cup of coffee doesn't hurt but it isn't necessary. Things would still get done. I feel this might be an exaggeration.
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. Hugging may have made the children happy, and it may have taught them a good way of expressing their affection, but it may not have been what made them nice
I understand what the author and researchers are trying to explain but i still don't fully agree. Maybe this is just my own opinion and as a Human being i feel that the way that i act is controlled by myself. Genes may be the reason some kids are more likely to fallow what their parents do, but that is not the only factor. If a child wants to change his attitude then he has the power to do so. I am not talking about children with mental disorders because i know that could also cause problems with emotions. Parents to me have little effect on emotions to their child because they decide how they want to behave. (In the end)
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It was only the poor who worked hard.
this reminds me of "only poor men go to war"
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who reared them, fed them, clothed them, read to them, taught them, and loved them all their lives than they were to any two adults taken at random off the street.
I don't fully understand how this could be possible because that child who was taken under the wing of the adoptive parents should have started to show some sort of similarity as they learn the ways of life through those parents. Everyone grows up differently and the way i know this is when i go over to a friend of mines house. Some of my friends i know to take my shoes off some keep their shoes on through the whole house. Everyone has preference and as they learn through their parents how they want to live they have living styles in common.
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twice as high.
reminds me of alcohol consumption. I learned a similar idea in a health class.
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When we say things like “That’s the way I was raised,
When i hear about parents shaping who people are, I start to think about what really made me who i am today. I know that there are tons and tons of different factors who have made me Justin Alberico. To talk about each and everyone or to try to specify what was the greatest impact is a difficult tasks to accomplish. Not only are their friends, families, memories, past history, there is also what that person believes on the inside too. I could have parents that smoke all the time or friends who get in trouble. I could have a past experience that traumatized me for life. But in the end, to my understanding and what i believe makes a person who they are, is the decisions they make in their life and what they see as important to them. Yes their may be factors that influence them, but if they decide to stray away and be their own person, they have the choice to do so.
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o the children of recent immigrants almost never retain the accents of their parents?
This is a good point, saying that kids are learning who they are and what they want to be when they grow older. As they hang around different group types, they see what interests them. Kids find their identity though their parents and friends because they search for who they want to be.
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They steal cars because they are too young to have cars
Kids rebel what they are restricted on. If a child can't have a car then they steal one. Kids feel invincible so they feel like they can do what ever they want.
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"I have to say no, it couldn't have happened to me. I am a watchful father."
The idea sounds stupid, of course. But the fact that it can happen to anyone regardless of gender or social status, we tend to forget things if we are not reminded. And I completely understand this man's statement, but the potential of it happening to him is still there. And its hard to imagine something like that, we cannot force ourselves to imagine a situation so heart breaking to bear and endure something so terrible, but realistically it can happen to anyone even if they say, "I'm a watchful parent." That may have screwed up the case for the defendant, but that's only because that is something any parent wants to happen to them, something they must avoid
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"Memory is a machine," he says, "and it is not flawless. Our conscious mind prioritizes things by importance, but on a cellular level, our memory does not. If you're capable of forgetting your cellphone, you are potentially capable of forgetting your child."
So the threat is still there, and it seems to be one of those issues that can just happen because it has that potential to be forgotten and its scary to think stuff like this can happen, but we somehow let a child out of our site and loose in the mall.
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What he's found is that under some circumstances, the most sophisticated part of our thought-processing center can be held hostage to a competing memory system, a primitive portion of the brain that is -- by a design as old as the dinosaur's -- inattentive, pigheaded, nonanalytical, stupid.
i don't disagree with this statement it thousands of year for our mental capacity to be at the point where its currently at.
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Diamond is the memory expert with a lousy memory, the one who recently realized, while driving to the mall, that his infant granddaughter was asleep in the back of the car. He remembered only because his wife, sitting beside him, mentioned the baby. He understands what could have happened had he been alone with the child. Almost worse, he understands exactly why.
Its truly frightening when this can happen, you suddenly remember and are truly thankful it did't happen at the worse possible moment
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Diamond says that in situations involving familiar, routine motor skills, the human animal presses the basal ganglia into service as a sort of auxiliary autopilot. When our prefrontal cortex and hippocampus are planning our day on the way to work, the ignorant but efficient basal ganglia is operating the car; that's why you'll sometimes find yourself having driven from point A to point B without a clear recollection of the route you took, the turns you made or the scenery you saw.
Oh so now I know why these things frequently happen, except a couple years back i would really blank out and not remember anything at all in a short walk
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Balfour is tall and stands taller, moving with a purposeful, swinging stride. She's got a weak chin but a strong mouth that she uses without much editing. She's funny and brassy and in your face, the sort of person you either like or don't like, right away.
I like how descriptive the author was even though the woman had lost her child through what should be called an accident, but even though that word doesn't exactly fits the nature of stuation
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It had been Balfour's idea to go to the trial of Miles Harrison, and it was she who walked up to Harrison in the hallway during a break, pushed past a crowd and threw her arms around his neck, pulling him close. For almost a full minute, she whispered in his ear. His eyes grew wider, and then he sobbed into her shoulder like a baby. What she had told him was who she was and that she knows he'd been a good, loving father, and he must not be ashamed.
Things like this seem to be taken out of, not a movie, but through page in a well written book to me as can almost visually see how she has done with her kind gesture to the grieving father.
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aeon.co aeon.co
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This article explains the life of a girl named Lauren that was raised in a foster home and raised a raccoon of her own. When Lauren was just a child, she found a raccoon in the wall of her attic and began to care for the animal. Over time, the raccoon built a very strong bond with Lauren, but as the raccoon became older, she developed the typical mind and behavior of a wild animal. She would cause harm and destruction to the family, and Lauren was forced to send the raccoon back into the wild. I will use this source to show that many wild animals in today's society are meant to stay in the wild; they are not able to be raised as household pets.
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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This article explains the correlation between poverty and crime by using various examples of "housing projects." So they do an experiment that gives 200 families new home in a different part of the city. Most of the families, however, do not take the opportunity and the author believes it is because they are used to living in a poverty ridden neighborhood that are filled with felons. This article could be use to argue how poverty directly correlates with crime and it could also be used to argue how the claim could be wrong.
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Escape From New York,
A link here would have been nice.
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Crime did not rise in every city where housing projects came down.
Good opposing view.
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In 2003, the Brookings Institution published a list of the 15 cities where the number of high-poverty neighborhoods had declined the most. In recent years, most of those cities have also shown up as among the most violent in the U.S., according to FBI data.
Might be good for my paper. To show, once again, the correlation between crime and poverty.
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two-car-garage families.
Implying that are wealthy?
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Clean-cut kids serve the same function as American recruits for al-Qaeda: they become the respectable front men.
At first I didn't understand why the author compared gangs with a terrorist group, but after looking it a second time I got it. She was trying, or so I think, to show how dangerous gangs really are.
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www.esquire.com www.esquire.com
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The fact of the matter is that everyone cheats. No one can be totally in love with their spouse that they stay faithful for the rest of their long-lived lives together. The author of this piece hooked up with many married men, and realized that she will never find love because she knows what is to come of it. This article explains that love is just a title and that you are bound to be cheated on/cheat. I will use this source to counter the other arguments on the matter of true love.
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But you can't have it now so you need it.
This is VERY powerful to me. It reminds me of this show I watch where a guy and girl get married, but the girl's sister comes into play AFTER the marriage and wants the husband. You only want it when you can't have it. If you can have it, it's too convenient.
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michaelchabon.com michaelchabon.com
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This article explains the struggles of kids today dealing with personal appearance. Personal appearance plays a big role today since everybody is online today. Also, personal appearance connects strongly to first impressions just like the son in this piece. I plan to use this article, when i talk about the modern social pressures that take place while growing up today.
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against the opinions and strictures of his classmates
Something the father didn't worry about. All kids grow up differently and their is not set pattern for every child.
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But then I dropped it, for I knew that there are few sentences more utterly devoid of meaning than than those in which your parents assert your coolness.
He seemed to reflect on his thoughts when he was growing up and look at his sons perspective and put himself in his sons shoes.
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"Genocide has been practiced in all regions of the world and during all periods in history." What did change during the 20th century was that for the first time people started to care about genocide. It's the century in which the word "genocide" was coined and in which, for the first time, genocide was considered a bad thing, something to be denied instead of boasted about.
Another quote from somewhere states something like: (when you know better, you do better). This sums up (although it over-simplifies the horrors of genocide) the argument that genocide is looked upon differently.
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In fact, one could almost say that the dream of the 1960s folk singers is coming true: the world is putting an end to war.
This is not a literal statement, but, rather, a statement forged from examining current trends.
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now
While this seems like a pretty innocuous word, "now" in the context of Pinker's article/presentation refers to how one query leads to another query. In other words, there are many layers to this concept of decreased violence.
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Here (blue) we see the fate of interstate wars, wars between two sovereign states. These have also been dwindling since the end of the Second World War. However, the number of civil wars—both pure civil wars within a country (green) and internationalized civil wars (orange), where some foreign country butts in, usually on the side of the government defending itself against an insurgency—increased until about 1990, and then has shown somewhat of a decrease as well.
Yet another important distinction is made about the interpretation of data: the reader must consider both the number AND the type of wars.
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relevant visual variable is the thickness of the layers.)
Despite the level of difficulty of the material that Pinker covers, the explanation of the graphs, such as is demonstrated here, helps to make sure that the graphs are interpreted as intended.
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before 1945, Western European countries initiated two new wars per year for more than 600 years. That number has now stood at zero for 65 years.
The lengthy stretch is what makes this data, perhaps, Pinker's strongest data, thus far.
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make the numbers go all over the place depending on the choice of the denominator,
So thankful that someone using data understands the importance of the sample size and that apples-to-apples comparison is the goal.
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But now we see a graph of the deadliness of war, which shows a trend that goes in the opposite direction—though wars involving great powers were fewer in number, they did more damage per country per year.
Technology has made less violent times seem more violent due to the sheer number of deaths caused by the ability to inflict more damage.
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historical myopia": the closer you get to the present, the more information you have.
A plausible explanation for why today's data may seem weightier in numbers...we just have more data because it is the present.
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Peculiarly, one never sees, in any of the claims that the 20th century was the most violent in history, any numbers from any century other than the 20th.
Author, Pinker, offers an analysis of how data can be used to support false claims. This bolsters his argument as he does not fall prey to the listed pitfall.
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As Voltaire said, "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
Sound rhetorical use of quote, here, to emphasize that literacy (not affluence) impacts civilized behavior more.
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Other abolitions during the humanitarian revolution include witch hunts, religious persecution, dueling, blood sports, debtors prisons, and of course most famously, slavery.
More support for the humanitarian revolution.
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capital punishment was abolished
Evidence of the humanitarian revolution.
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breaking on the wheel, burning at the stake, sawing in half, impalement, and clawing
Rhetorical choice to highlight these examples furthers Pinker's assertion that the past was more violent as demonstrated by the barbarism.
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zero-sum plunder to positive-sum trade.
Capitalists of today can relate to this explanation of change.
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Here is an average of the five western European regions. And just to connect it to the previous historical development, I've plotted the non-state societies average up here, which is about 500 per 100,000 per year. (This gap is what I called the pacification process.) Then the civilizing process consists of this additional 30- to 50-fold reduction in the rate of homicide to the present.
Pinker goes beyond identifying the reasons for violence reduction; he quantifies the level of impact each reason had the reduction.
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immediate cause? It was almost certainly the rise and expansion of states.
Pinker comments that states trying to gain control over an area need to have the area in a state of calm in order to be able to maintain the control.
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So: not to put too fine a point on it, but when it comes to life in a state of nature, Hobbs was right, Rousseau was wrong.
Nice rhetorical strategy here to circle back to initial comparison of Hobbs and Rousseau.
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United States in the 20th century, with two world wars plus five wars in Asia, is about a pixel.
This stated fact is demonstrated in the visual media that Pinker used in his presentation. He emphasizes the lack of violence in the world today by noting how minuscule the bar would be that would represent today's violence rates.
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Again, let's stack the deck against modernity
Pinker compiles his data about the past but makes sure to compare it to the present as this is what is argument is: that violence is presently enjoying a period of decline.
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that I know of
Another example of Pinker's quote.
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This is a question that thinkers have speculated on for centuries, most prominently Hobbs, who famously said that in a state of nature "the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." A century later he was countered by Jean Jacques Rousseau, who says, "Nothing could be more gentle than man in his primitive state."
Pinker uses the comparison of two great thinkers, Hobbs and Rousseau, to highlight how one person's thinking can be 180 degrees to another person's thinking.
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I'm going to present six major historical declines of violence; in each case, cite their immediate causes in terms of what historians have told us are the likely historical antecedents in that era; and then speculate on their ultimate causes, in terms of general historical forces acting on human nature.
Steven Pinker identifies his thesis, that of his purported historical decline of violence.
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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"fifty-six percent of her male subjects and 34 percent of her female subjects said they were "happy" or "very happy" in their partnerships but cheated anyways" is it that more people care becoming more concerned about sex? and is it important to state that more male subjects are the ones cheating?
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"How are you going to let 10 percent of your differences dictate your future?" I think more people should kep this is mind when commititing to a relationship or marriage.
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"What you don't see i porn is anything that needs to be negotiated, the woman having needs of her own or the roles being reversed" I truly believe that when in a relationship one needs are being met while the other is not having theirs met. one being more dominant.
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"I know what a 50-50 marriage should be like. But what is a 50-50 sex supposed to be like?" I find this to be interesting because of how their in an equal relationship but their sex life continues to have complications. It might be for the real reason that relationships cannot be equal.
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"I want you to want to dominate me" this goes back to one individual, typically the male, having more power or control in the relationship.
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Justin's main goal was independance. To not have to rely on a person that is always with him to make sure he reacts accordingly to situations
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was mute to the point he learned sign language with his family when he was little. Once older he used pictures to communicate his feelings to teachers/helpers/family
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first article talks about what makes someone autistic. Second one shows a milder version on the spectrum of being autistic. This article shows the worse side, the side where the individual cant find their own job but need a person to help them. fourth article is about the overall spectrum of autism and how in recent years people have begun to blame vaccines for autism
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Justin has a personal assistant that follows him through his day that helped him stay in check during rough situatioons he wouldn't handle well by himself.
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follows a kid with autism, Justin Canha, through his daily life struggles and how he got through those struggles
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www.wesjones.com www.wesjones.com
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(but didn't kill)
Thank goodness!!
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"And he cut my bulldog's throat. Then he turned around and killed one of my bay dogs. I couldn't see no tree to get up, so I backed off. He looked at me and I looked at him, and I said, 'Bear, we'll be back.' And I swear the way he looked at me, he was saying, 'I'll be back, too.'
I'm just going to say that as a dog lover and reading this tragic event, I really wish that hogs didn't exist in this world. It seems that as living beings, the only thing they know how to do is cause trouble.
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and destroy a yard that had previously won two "'Yard of the Month" awards on Robins Air Force Base
The question is this: How do these hogs gain access to these properties?
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They just eat the eggs of the sea turtle, an endangered species, on barrier islands off the East Coast, and root up rare and diverse species of plants all over, and contribute to the replacement of those plants by weedy, invasive species, and promote erosion, and undermine roadbeds and bridges with their rooting, and push expensive horses away from food stations in pastures in Georgia, and inflict tusk marks on the legs of these horses, and eat eggs of game birds like quail and grouse, and run off game species like deer and wild turkeys, and eat food plots planted specially for those animals, and root up the hurricane levee in Bayou Sauvage, Louisiana, that kept Lake Pontchartrain from flooding the eastern part of New Orleans, and chase a woman in Itasca, Texas, and root up lawns of condominiums in Silicon Valley, and kill lambs and calves, and eat them so thoroughly that no evidence of the attack can be found.
This is absolutely brutal. I understand the fact that some animals need to eat other animals to survive, but the consumption of endangered species and chasing a woman in Texas is absolutely absurd. If these actions will continue into the future, then our society needs to find a solution to end these attacks.
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John J. Mayer, the wild-hog expert, who was also called in, concluded that the hog had been pen-raised. The hog's long tusks (in the wild, boars break their tusks fighting over sows), its weight (that much food simply isn't available in the wild), and its hooves (their wear indicated a lot of time spent standing on concrete) contributed to Mayer's verdict.
The purpose of this information is to convey the physical differences between a wild hog and a pen-raised hog.
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feral
"Feral" means that an animal is in a wild state, especially after escape from captivity or domestication.
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In frontier times, farmers let their hogs run loose, then collected them with the help of dogs on butchering day
It's fascinating that dogs would assist the farmers in rounding up the pigs after it was reported that pigs were more intelligent than dogs.
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www.wired.com www.wired.com
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In 19th-century England, he explains, Jenner’s smallpox vaccine was known to be effective. But despite the Compulsory Vaccination Act of 1853, many people still refused to take it, and thousands died unnecessarily.
this exact situation happened before in history, we just have to wait for all the individuals against vaccines to realize the risk of taking them are farrrrrrrrr less than the risks o not getting them.
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a person could handle 100,000 vaccines — or up to 10,000 vaccines at once.
This was to show that babies are not getting too many vaccines between when they were born and the age of two. This number is proven by science but ended up working against Offit, because people then started to claim Offit wanted to give that many vaccines for his own financial gain
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The government is still considering funding more research trials to look for a connection between vaccines and autism.
this is to prove that vaccines are not harming kids and to make parents start letting their kids get vaccines again. However the downside to this is the idea of wasting money to prove what is already know when that money can go into researching the real cause for autism
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The result is that science must somehow prove a negative — that vaccines don’t cause autism — which is not how science typically works.
people are so stubborn they are asking for the impossible from science
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rotavirus, which each year kills about 600,000 children in poor countries and about 40 children in the US, probably saves hundreds of lives a day.
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“We have seat belt rules,” he says. “Seat belts save lives. There was never a question about that. The data was absolutely clear. But people didn’t use them until they were required to use them.” Furthermore, the decision not to buckle up endangers only you. “Unless you fly through the window and hit somebody else,” he adds. “I believe in mandates. I do.”
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The central message at these conferences boils down to this: “The medical establishment doesn’t care, but we do.”
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The so-called epidemic, researchers assert, is the result of improved diagnosis, which has identified as autistic many kids who once might have been labeled mentally retarded or just plain slow.
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there is no credible evidence to indicate that any of this is true. None.
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children who appear to shut down and exhibit signs of autistic behavior immediately after being vaccinated — as proof. Autism One, like others, also points to rising rates of autism — what many parents call an epidemic — as evidence that vaccines are to blame. Finally, Autism One asserts that the condition is preventable and treatable, and that it is the toxins in vaccines and the sheer number of childhood vaccines (the CDC recommends 10 vaccines, in 26 doses, by the age of 2 — up from four vaccines in 1983) that combine to cause disease in certain sensitive children.
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Thanks to the Internet, everyone can be their own medical investigator.
technology is huge is this era and so is self-diagnoses from medical websites. Thousands of websites offer you to search up symptoms and leads you to believe whatever is on the screen, without going to a doctor that spent years studying to become someone that adults can go to, not WebMD
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Some parents of autistic children noticed that their child’s condition began to appear shortly after a vaccination. The conclusion: “The vaccine must have caused the autism.”
connects to general topic of autism, how the impairments of autism show up around the same time as babies get all their vaccines. Correlation, yes. Causation, no.
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Buy Experiences, Not Things
This article builds off of one of my favorite books: Stuffication [http://stuffocation.org/]
Their tagline is: Memories live longer than things
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It could turn out that to get the maximum utility out of an experiential purchase, it's really best to plan far in advance.
An interesting concept for those that typically like last-minute plans.
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Buy this and you can talk about buying it, and people will talk about you because you have it.
This sentence is ironic because the advertisement directly below this sentence is to buy unique, expensive dresses.
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our memories and stories of them get sweet with time. Even a bad experience becomes a good story.
I highly agree with this statement, a family trip gone wrong often becomes family folklore.
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Experiential purchases are also more associated with identity, connection, and social behavior.
We develop from experiences.
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It's kind of counter to the logic that if you pay for an experience, like a vacation, it will be over and gone; but if you buy a tangible thing, a couch, at least you'll have it for a long time
A common misconception.
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Gilovich's prior work has shown that experiences tend to make people happier because they are less likely to measure the value of their experiences by comparing them to those of others.
No two experiences are the same and thus incomparable, but possessions like phones or cars are often judged against peers.
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waiting for a possession is more likely fraught with impatience than anticipation.
Even though I do not understand why physical possessions elicit this feeling, I agree with this statement. Most people are impatient for Christmas or their birthday but look forward to trips or college.
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experiences bring people more happiness than do possessions.
Thesis.
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Forty-seven percent of the time, the average mind is wandering.
As a teenager, I strongly agree with this statement.
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www.esquire.com www.esquire.com
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"That's strange,"
Sometimes voicing your opinion can have some good outcomes. Sure, in every relationship people overthink and worry about silly things, but if you talk it out you can get that closure and feel better. Which was present her with AJ and his wife, his thought was bothering him so he vocalized it. There's just different things that you can and can't vocalize. I.e. being vulgar comments at women.
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've made my own skin crawl
At least he's aware of what happens when people are honest and voice every thought.
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That's just morally wrong to vocalize comments like that. When girls hear things like this from guys that are in relationships it just makes the guy look like scum and he's definitely not impressing her. Even though people may think things like this because it's human nature it doesn't mean it should be said aloud.
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t Redbook remind us. If you speak whatever's on your mind, you'll be talking about sex every three minutes.
That's why people don't voice every single thought they have because if they didn't others would look upon them negatively. Some things are better left unsaid
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obesity still boils down to whether a person eats too much or exercises enough. The danger in bending too far in the direction of a biological explanation — whether that explanation is genetics, infectobesity or some theory yet to be discovered — is that it could be misinterpreted, by fat and thin alike, as saying that behavior is irrelevant.
Then lazy people would have a perfect excuse to say that it's because of genetics or "infectobesity"
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“Individuals who are obese,” the department states on its Web site, “have a 50 to 100 percent increased risk of premature death from all causes, compared to individuals with a healthy weight.”
Seems a bit unhealthy to me
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invented the term “infectobesity” to describe the emerging field.
Would be very interesting to see how this enlightens our understanding of obesity.
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People like Janet, who can get fat on very little fuel, may be genetically programmed to survive in harsher environments. When the human species got its start, it was an advantage to be efficient. Today, when food is plentiful, it is a hazard.
This just goes to show that nowadays we don't need to have 4 or 5 or even 6 meals a day. Certain people can survive off of 2. Fasting a meal in the morning before dawn and a meal at night after dusk.
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our subjects ate an average of 6,700 calories a day. But what was so impressive to me was the fact that not all fat people eat too much.”
When I was extremely active I averaged around 6,000 calories a day for about 3 weeks. I gained 14 pounds in muscle not fat.
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The biggest blow came in 2013 when she faced $8,000 in charges for emergency dental work and rig repairs. It was a gut punch from which she has yet to recover.
Maybe you should try the dentist instead of fancy museums.
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“I believe doing something fun, no matter how frivolous it might seem, is food for the soul,” she said. “You need to feed yourself some pleasure once in a while to keep feeling alive. Otherwise, it’s just drudgery.”
It would be nice if I could afford to do that but I'm struggling in the economy you destroyed.
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Should she go to the dentist, or take a guided tour of buildings designed by her favorite architect, Frank Lloyd Wright? Each cost $100.
What a difficult decision. Should my taxes go towards Social Security to help fund old people that can go to museums or to actually bettering America?
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Like the article on Princeton student's said, generations before us were rebellious and fighting for a cause while today's generation is much more reserved. Although that author made it sound like a bad thing, the after affects of the rebellious generation is that they thought they'd be young and rebellious forever and didn't plan for retirement and now they screwed themselves over, they screwed us over, and want our help to finance their crazy lifestyles that apparently include prime ribs.
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There have been times when she has survived on brown rice and milk — and worried the milk would run out.
And there have been times I've survived on ramen noodles and poptarts because my mom had to choose between paying bills or buying good food because of the recession.
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Her monthly income consists of $1,200 in Social Security and a $190 pension, plus pay from her seasonal jobs. She owes $50,000 on her credit cards. There’s also a $268 monthly loan payment for her aging rig.
I would feel bad if there were any hope for the economy to improve.
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Her savings long gone, and having never done much long-term financial planning, Westfall left her home in California to live in an aging RV she calls Big Foot, driving from one temporary job to the next.
This is supposed to invoke sympathy, but the older generation's lack of financial planning should not be taken out of the younger generation's ability to succeed.
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End of the article proves to be powerful. Dasani and her mother at the store where her mom and the lady working get into a fight. Dasani exclaims how her other would win easy, but the lady says 'Dont use those words, you're not supposed to turn out like your mother'
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"auburn is just a pit stop" "but you will live in the projects forever, as will your kids' kids, and your kids' kids' kids"
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"sometimes it feels like too many bodies share the same air. there's no space to breath 'cause they breathe up all the oxygen"
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Interesting to know- "2002, New Yorks homeless population had reached 31,063- a record for the city, which is legally obligated to provide shelter"
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And does it not demean a woman, every bit as much as it demeans a man, to position her either as victim of men’s appetites or as fantasist of them?
it wasnt a ad article. i agree with the statement but i also think instead of punishing the johns ( and Janes which they did not mention) we need to rehabilitate them because it can become an addiction.
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Therefore—no ifs or buts—we must criminalise the man who uses her. (I italicise the word to show that I mean to be more careful with it than are the criminalisers.)
if you beleve that then you must alsoo believe NO WOMAN chooses prostitution and thats just not true at all.
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In this narrative, the idea that the prostitute might choose of her own free will to sell her body for profit or for pleasure, or for both, is derided.
this is important because some women do choose prostitution of their own free will.
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Nor are the men who get to taste death from their bodies the only sort of men there are. And every sort of man pays his dues to prostitution at one time or another.
i can already tell what ind of article this is going to be. this is incredibly sexists. i am not excited to read this article.
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al. Replies to messages came fast, and dates were set up more quickly
some people focus only on the outward when even that can be deceiving- messaging people can change your mind (personal experience with this on social media)
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"...the whole time I waited to see when (or if) this affair would run out of fuel. I prayed that it would, so I could marry the man I loved." If she wanted to marry her fiance so badly then why would she cheat on him in the first place?
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"Predictably, almost as soon as the engagement ring slid onto my finger, I fell in love with someone else" This quote shows that the author was not interested in marrying her fiance in the first place and she was interested in someone else instead.
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There’s plenty of room for all genders at the positive accolades and Nobel Prize galas, so let’s change our brains and get the late-to-the-party women and LGBT pioneers into the history books where they belong; for good and for bad
Women are largely misrepresented in history books, and maybe its time we add more influential women into historical texts. Women who have pushed for social justice should be recognized for their efforts.
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As far as media goes, Playboy isn’t alone in using the term “women in rock” or “women in ______”; not by a long shot. Everyone does, including women. I’m guilty too. Sometimes it’s used very specifically, which is good if people are looking to research or be inspired by a something precise, but 9 times out of 10 it’s unnecessary.
Many media outlets use the phrase "women in __" and it's not meant as a insult, but it is unnecessary. Who cares is she is a woman in rock? It should be about the work she does. Neko is a musician not just a "woman in rock." People want to be the best at what they do and there shouldn't be a distinction between how well a women does and how well a man does.
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Knowledge is power, indeed.
Very true - if more people educated themselves on the subject, more people would realize the importance of the feminism movement.
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Why do we even have to talk about this in the year 2015? It’s maddening beyond expression. I want to know at which point (or the many “points”) in history men and women were truly made separate, and women became “less than?
This is an interesting question posed by the author. How and when were women decided to be the inferior sex? There is no real difference between the two's ability, so how were women categorized as something less than men?
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“Don’t be old.” “Don’t be fat.” “Wealthy people are mostly white and are much smarter than you.” “Get expensive, damaging surgery to be ‘good enough’ and in control”
Society has created so many stereotypes and pressures that it seems impossible to fit in or impress others. These unrealistic standards make so many people feel insufficient.
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Physically, I am a woman, but my gender doesn’t dominate my thoughts or passions every waking moment. I feel like I’m a mixture of all kinds of people and sexes we don’t even know about yet, and I like it that way.
Neko does not want her gender to define her and it shouldn't. There is more to gender that just the physical aspects.
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In a recent British study, one group of schoolchildren was given hamburgers, French fries, and other familiar lunch foods; the other was fed nineteen-forties-style wartime rations such as boiled cabbage and corned beef. Within eight weeks, the children on the rations were both taller and slimmer than the ones on a regular diet.
That sounds like an ideal study to conduct on parts of the nation since they are growing out and not up.
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“If these snack foods are crowding out fruits and vegetables, then we may not be getting the micronutrients we need,
Fast food just tastes so much better along with easier and quicker access to them.
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when incomes went up, heights went up (after a predictable lag time), and always to the same degree.
Assuming that with more income those people were open to more food or even better quality food.
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Maya had less food and medicine, and they had much higher rates of disease.
Lack of food, poor nutrition, is linked to the way people develop.
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Swedes ought to be short and stocky, yet they’ve had good clothing and shelter for so long that they’re some of the tallest people in the world. Mexicans ought to be tall and slender. Yet they’re so often stunted by poor diet and diseases that we assume they were born to be small.
Climate, diet, and self-preservation all contribute to one's own height potential.
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humans grew shorter as their cities grew larger.
Cities were nasty places to be especially when the person was poor and struggling to make a living.
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The men of the northern Cheyenne, he found, were the tallest people in the world in the late nineteenth century: well nourished on bison and berries, and wandering clear of disease on the high plains, they averaged nearly five feet ten.)
They were also pretty active I imagine. Rigorous exercise along with lean meet and fruit seem rather healthy at the time.
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By putting aside our selfish interests to serve someone or something larger than ourselves -- by devoting our lives to "giving" rather than "taking" -- we are not only expressing our fundamental humanity, but are also acknowledging that that there is more to the good life than the pursuit of simple happiness
A meaningful life is more important than the pursuit of a happy life. A meaningful life comes from serving others.
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He decided to put aside his individual pursuits to serve his family and, later, other inmates in the camps.
I am very impressed with his devotion to his parents and his willingness to put his parents' needs before his own.
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Sigmund Freud
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud] More information about the Austrian neurologist and the father of psychoanalysis
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Having negative events happen to you, the study found, decreases your happiness but increases the amount of meaning you have in life.
Enduring negative events develop us as individuals, adding meaning to our life.
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parents are less happy interacting with their children than they are exercising, eating, and watching television.
Parents place responsibility at a higher importance than their own enjoyment.
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People whose lives have high levels of meaning often actively seek meaning out even when they know it will come at the expense of happiness. Because they have invested themselves in something bigger than themselves, they also worry more and have higher levels of stress and anxiety in their lives than happy people.
I find it interesting that people with meaningful lives have more stress.
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happiness is all about giving the self what it wants.
Happiness commonly seen as selfish.
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"Happy people get a lot of joy from receiving benefits from others while people leading meaningful lives get a lot of joy from giving to others,"
A concise definition of happy vs. meaningful.
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happiness is about drive reduction. If you have a need or a desire -- like hunger -- you satisfy it, and that makes you happy. People become happy, in other words, when they get what they want.
We strive to have our needs met.
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"Happiness without meaning characterizes a relatively shallow, self-absorbed or even selfish life, in which things go well, needs and desire are easily satisfied, and difficult or taxing entanglements are avoided," the authors write.
This is the description commonly associated with spoiled people.
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the researchers found that a meaningful life and happy life overlap in certain ways, but are ultimately very different. Leading a happy life, the psychologists found, is associated with being a "taker" while leading a meaningful life corresponds with being a "giver."
I agree that the ingredients for a meaningful and happy life are different for each person.
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"And if, by then, they are still the screwed generation, they won't be the only ones suffering, America will be screwed, too." It's in everybody's best interest to help the younger generation succeed.
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Despite the millennial lean towards the left-wing, both the democrat and republican party want to enforce legislation that will cause serious negative affects to the younger generations.
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"Generations growing up in recessions appear more amendable to arguments for government-mandated income redistribution." Millennials across the world are becoming more liberal in the way that they support higher taxes in order to improve domestic affairs. This isn't surprising as Reagan and Bush's push towards lowering taxes wrecked the economy.
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"'I'm hoping that the millennial generation doesn't set its sights on home ownership as a benchmark of economic stability,' sociologist Katherine Newman suggests, 'because it's going to be out of reach for so many of them.'" Like one of the previous articles mentioned, millennials are moving towards sharing instead of buying. Renting cars and buying used items as some examples.
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With the middle class disappearing and the rich growing richer, there is an increase in lower class families.
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"This perception builds on the growing notion among economists that the new generation must lower their expectations" Instead of lowering our expectations, we should be working towards a better future, preferably the Bernie Sanders way. The government should be putting more funding towards college tuition.
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"Over 43 percent of recent graduates now working, according to a recent report bu the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, are at jobs that don't require a college education" Students are encouraged to pay more money for a higher education that is completely not beneficial to them.
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Jesse understood this to be a pact. He looked back at Jarrod. "Baseball for life," he said.
they are complete opposites but when it comes to the love of the baseball they are the same. They love it .
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High school baseball in Florida is a serious affair, especially in the months leading up to the major-league draft in June
That is crazy. That should be college, not highschool.
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“First, the best marriages are probably unaffected. Happy couples won’t be hanging out on dating sites. Second, people who are in marriages that are either bad or average might be at increased risk of divorce, because of increased access to new partners. Third, it’s unknown whether that’s good or bad for society
another summary of the impact of online dating
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It only changes the process of discovery
again back to the idea that even though there are disadvantages to online dating, its really just the process that is changing (hopefully for the better)
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Indeed, the profit models of many online-dating sites are at cross-purposes with clients who are trying to develop long-term commitments.
What happens to the account after you find someone? It sits there.
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"By adolescence" Will be useful in my paper to point out how the older you get, the better your body becomes at coping with the adrenaline releases/cortisol levels- shows how good your body is at adapting
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There are many more wonders: the way they recognize my voice from anyone else shouting and how they hurry near when called; or follow me because they know I have food in my bulging hand.
This is just like my dog Izzy...
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The essay is not strictly about geese: it is about E. B. White. He compares the defeated gander to "spent old males, motionless in the glare of the day" on a park bench in Florida. He had shuttled back and forth from Maine to Florida; his anxiety is real. He mentions summer sadness twice in his essay, a melancholy that may sadden a person precisely because the day is sunny.
This is very important! I wonder why E.B. White likes to observe the behavior of geese.
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Their alliances within a flock, their bouts of aggression and spells of passivity, their concentration, their impulsive, low, skidding flights when they have a whole meadow to use as a runway, the way they stand their ground against dogs or humans—these are all wonders.
This content is very beneficial for the purpose of this essay; the author is able to elaborate that animals are more than food and a service tool for our society. All animals have unique characteristics and abilities which makes them special.
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I wonder why the author is devoting so much of his essay into the behaviors of a gander and a goose. Maybe is leading this information into differentiating the difference between a domesticated and wild goose.
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anthropomorphists
The definition of this word is "The attributing of human characteristics and purposes to animals."
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Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.
I can see his point there!
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his naming of farm animals, making them domestic pets, dressing them in human clothes and giving them lovable identities, his regarding them as partners (and sometime personal antagonists).
I would have to say that the dressing of animals in human clothes is a little extensive. Animals are great companions in a person's life; however, they should not replace relationships with human people.
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more than that, they are in many cases more sensitive, more receptive, truer chums than many of White's human friends.
I can definitely relate to this topic; there are many occasions in which I relate to animals better than actual people.
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Their acts came from the darkest part of the soul. In this instance, there was a soldier with a knife who cut the clothes off a pregnant woman. A deep incision was made in the flesh of the belly, there were screams and whispers and, finally, the stillness of death. That is, what came next, what was taken and hung by the neck, was as innocent as the act was unspeakable. They hung it with the others, in rows along the rafters, to ward off evil spirits. These were the Smoke Children.
They were killing not only those that were alive but also the unborn. As if hatred and death was all they knew.
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death became a pestilence: arbitrary, ravaging, and contagious. And it became a strange performance, too, the killers trying to outdo each other: At S-21, living prisoners were cut open with knives and scorpions were let loose inside their bodies.
Killing became sport for these men. Evil is infectious.
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death became a pestilence: arbitrary, ravaging, and contagious. And it became a strange performance, too, the killers trying to outdo each other: At S-21, living prisoners were cut open with knives and scorpions were let loose inside their bodies.
Killing became sport for these men. Evil is infectious.
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Yeah, I think it’s just a stage in middle school,
My middle school experience was nothing like these kids.
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Rice High School
Why explain the school now? you already mentioned it a number of times
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They often compare
Big comparisons here TO LEGENDS
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He begins work on a sequel.
Clive overthought and was his greatest critic, but eventually made himself stop overthinking and was able to publish a successful novel
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You can jump off the physical track by overmonitoring and fall off the cognitive track through inattention.
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After only nine generations, the researchers recorded fox kits born with floppier ears. Piebald patterns appeared on their coats. By this time the foxes were already whining and wagging their tails in response to a human presence, behaviors never seen in wild foxes.
This is interesting, I never thought that an animal's physical appearance could change whether they are wild or tame.
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If a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired," they observed, "all the rest of the windows will soon be broken."
Awesome metaphor
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Oh wow, women get to be lawyers,’ but that men get to be casualized clerks.”
Reason why I want to become an attorney. I'm rebelling to society and stating that anyone can achieve their goals if they push themselves hard enough.
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never been paid before.
Women don't even realize that they can have the potential to ask for more money, because businesses take advantage of them also while devaluing their jobs.
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only 12 percent of the jobs lost during the recession, while men have regained 63 percent of the jobs they lost
An argument that may be brought out is that men are "usually" head of a household. Note the emphasis on usually because if I should mention there are single mothers out there that work hard every day to provide for their families and are not being paid equally for their sacrifice.
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Depending on the experiment, people spend up to half their time not thinking about the task at hand—even when they’ve been told explicitly to pay attention.
I agree that this statement is valid and people pay more attention to things that they are interested in.
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I am going to do my best to hold your attention until the very last word of this column. Actually, I know it’s futile. Along the way, your mind will wander off, then return, then drift away again.
In my opinion i think he was smart by mentioning this in his opening paragraph because it made me more aware of whether or not i wandered while reading. Which conducted multiple studies down below.
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MOOCs are designed to insure that students are keeping up, by peppering them with comprehension and discussion tasks.
Students are constantly thinking about their studies and broadening their knowledge.
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The basis of a reliable education, it would seem, is quality control, not circumstance; it certainly is not a new thought that effective teaching transcends time and place
This is not to say that classroom sessions should be eliminate from the college education system. Rather, I believe that the ideal blend of in and out of classroom time will perfect the students' minds and translate successfully into their field by being more knowledgeable, flexible, opportunistic, etc.
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and a desire to communicate in some way or another with other individuals of the same or of other species
I have a strong desire to make friends with other species,sometimes with humans too
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I wondered if her memories were so sharp because these were all terrible events, especially compared with my presumably bland early years.
I remember a lot of memories from my early ages, specifically ones when I was 2 and 4, and they were both traumatic also.
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‘If you never use that memory, those synapses can be recruited for something different,’
This is really interesting. Memories could be replaced if never used.
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You just hope your Jell-O – your memory – gets set before it leaks out through that tiny hole.’
This is like in the other article it talked about how memory takes a couple hours and sometimes days to store
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Indeed, a tendency to look on the bright side may be so intertwined with human survival that evolution has skewed us that way.
This in an interesting concept that just thinking positively gives a person a higher chance of success.
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was wearing a heavy hiking boot on his right foot.
It seems that he has no career in baseball due to the fact of his attire, no cleats or even gym shoes
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"Producing more oil and gas here at home has been, and will continue to be, a critical part of an all-of-the-above energy strategy." That is, he's committed to finding even more stock to add to the 2,795-gigaton inventory of unburned carbon
Uses irony here to contradict what the president said at the beginning of his term about fixing the climate
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Blood can either be the gift of life or what comes out of you when you cut your wrists in the bathtub. Or, somewhat less drastically, if you spill your milk you’re left with a glass which is either half empty or half full.
I really like this comparison. This is a great example of negative vs positive using the most basic everyday things, still being able to make the reader think about the way they per-sieve life.
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They're type-C procrastinators: they put off working on small stuff to work on big stuff.
I think in life you need to do the bigger things first before you do the smaller things to get through life successfully or else you are always going to be in crunch time trying to finish the bigger more important things
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Here they had these great cognitive deficits. Yet they spoke with the most ardent and delightful animation and color.”
It's a weird tradeoff to speak well about something, but to have a hard time putting together a simple puzzle.
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If you achieve your goal, you celebrate and feel terrific, but only until you realize that you just lost the thing that gave you purpose and direction.
What do you do once you've achieved what you consider to be your personal level of success? Moving forward to something better and better...but what if there is no such thing as better? As an entrepreneur, this must be overpasses in ways that we must venture out towards ourselves.
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