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    the famous Sweet Auburn Market with my classmates, my mind was already racing. I couldn’t help but wonder how differently each one of us would experience and view the space. We all carry lenses through which we view the world with styles original to us. Amazingly we all come from an extremely diverse range of cultures, backgrounds, and personal experiences that would shape the connections we would soon make.

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    How Art Is Art?

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    of our lives, the art we see and experience is merely a reproduction of an original. Most Americans are part of the middle class and thus cannot afford original pieces of artwork, or afford to witness everything live on a normal basis. Without reproductions many of us would not experience what we know as art, as the original is often out of reach and thus reproductions were born to fill that gap. Reproductions of art provide opportunities and the chance to experience in some way the art that is created

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    for him to get there would be from the communicator, his father, and taking the experiences that are being shared with him to learn from them. The value would be a lot closer and stronger with this audience compared to the audience of everyone else because of the emotional bond shared between the two. As for the broader audience, the closeness would vary depending on their stance on manhood and their life experiences. Some households are brought up differently and the ideology of being a man is much

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    Obstacles are part of our daily life. People experienced obstacles all the time. Using “Lord of the Flies,” by William Golding, as well as Rosa Parks, and my own personal experience. I believe any obstacle can turn out to be rewarding. To begin with, in the novel “Lord of the Flies,” these teenagers became stranded on a deserted island from a terrifying plane crash. To add on, the challenges they faced were not having a place to live, nothing to eat, and no water. However, they all overcame these

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    • The client, Julie*, called into the Crisis Center Hotline looking for immediate shelter for herself and her two young children. At that time, our shelter was not full and therefore had space for the mother and her children. I went through the procedural routine of making sure that she was not in the center’s blue books, a record of clients not allowed to receive shelter and/or services, and seeing if she had an alpha card already completed, this would mean that she was a previous client at the

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    discomfort that comes with self-reflection. Lucy’s experience in the United States is dissatisfactory from the moment of her arrival onwards. She describes her first night as “gray-black and cold” and notes that no one told her January would be cold (Kincaid 3-5). This comment marks the intensity of Lucy’s transition. And Coldest, too, opens with an unforgiving winter. The first lines, “cold, and coldest,” reflect not only the season but Lucy’s experience of it - she has never experienced a night so cold

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    Post-modernism came about in the late-20th century following modernism, which was a period where people had a new found freedom to follow their own path in life, whether it was religion, science, philosophy, art, or really anything they put their mind to as opposed to strictly traditional beliefs. Writers could express their emotions more easily without really feeling a backlash from what everyone else thought. Two female writers who were able to freely express themselves in their writing during

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    My Personal Experience, The date of the offense was July 19, 2014. It was a night full of mistakes and bad decisions, which I will never make again. The charges that I have been cited with are 1 Class B Misdemeanor (Driving under the Influence), 1 Class B Misdemeanor (Unlawful Consumption), 1 Class B Misdemeanor (Possession of Paraphernalia), 1 Class B Misdemeanor (Possession of Marijuana) and 1 Third Degree Felony (Possession). Since that night I distanced the people who were bringing me down

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    Maki of Japan is a restaurant in Opry Mills Mall. In 2015, the business was not going so good. The food was not selling as it had to and this was not good for the company nor the employees. The owner, however was creative. This was his personal characteristic. As the entrepreneur himself, he slowly changed the menu around. He changed prices, plates, and added more food. He replaced things that didn’t sell to new ones. Example be that he stopped selling cheese wantons to sell plantains that the customers

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    Reflection Paper

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    Looking back on my life experiences, I can’t help but smile in response to every memory of struggle, success, and change for each experience has served as a page in a larger, unfinished story. Growing up my identity has been strongly tied to my upbringing in a traditional Italian household with my father, mother, and brother. My upbringing has thus included an emphasis on food, family and friends, and culture. The backyard of my childhood home in San Mateo, California was complete with slowly growing

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