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    forms of communication such as how quickly we respond to an email or phone message, how attentive we are when speaking to someone, how we dress. Different cultures will have their own norms of behaviour which will extend to gestures, body language and eye contact. In some cultures, for example, it is not polite

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    which in this specific novel, helps create a vivid, realistic description of a certain character or scene. Imagery and descriptive language both stimulate the reader’s senses, further allowing the reader to easily view the thing described through the narrator’s eyes. Chamberlain describes work days in the tobacco farms as when

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    a smile curved his lips long enough to reflect his appreciation to his audience. But deaf to their requests to sing again, his eyes caught the gentle shimmer of a tear running down the one lady he just sang to. Was it grief? Or was it the truth he weaved into that ballad? To these gathering crowds, this was just a song, a string of words they can recite to drive the boredom away. Just another tale to echo through the banquets or for a lover to praisehis love in an eccentric way. But only he know the

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    upper-class under the government “combine” with her aids being the middle class and patients of the lower class. The lower class is able to overthrow the upper-class if one person gets a large enough response. Summary Chief Bromden, the half-Indian deaf patient, is the narrator of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” Bromden discusses his fear of the combine and the outside

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    Jesus Christ 's Miracles?

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    Jesus Christ’s Miracles Jesus Christ has done many miracles and keeps creating miracles for thousands of people. He has healed the sick, blind, lame, and deaf. He has healed our souls when we were stuck in a depressing or stressful state of life. People still today are healed by Jesus’s touch. People today are still saved when they follow Christ. We all become enlightened when we read His words. He is not only the leader of Christianity He is also the Creator. He is the incarnation of God. However

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    orientation, gender, country, religion, disability, profession, attractiveness, and size. At the end, my score was 75, which was surprisingly low compared to what I got and the rest of my class scored. I am of Caucasian race. I have blonde hair and blue eyes. I have a mixture of mostly German and a little Irish within my family tree. I attended a high school that had fewer than 50 Asian, African-American, and Mexicans each. The dominant race was white although the socio-economic levels were very different

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    society today, those with deformities or abnormalities will always be looked down by a few people for being indifferent when they shouldn’t. In Everyday Use and Cathedral there are characters with deformities who struggle to be viewed as equals in all eyes. However, the role of a deformity in Cathedral is more significant because of the way Carver uses irony and symbolism to illustrate the way society looks at those with deformities and how an insight into Robert’s struggles changes the narrator’s perspective

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    Genetic engineering and enhancement is the modification of the genetic material of an organisms, usually to improve it or remove any genetic defects using biotechnology. There’s a lot of concern regarding the manipulation of human genomes, even those of other organisms and our food such as GMOS. Genetic engineering can be used for a lot of positive things, but it comes with great risks and has the potential to be taken to extremes where it does more harm than good; there’s also a threat of people

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    Sons, standing out the most amongst them all. With his wildly staring eyes, gaping mouth and half-eaten son in his hands, it makes one wonder what would drive an artist to create an image like this. Goya, however, was not uneducated in the horrors of the world, witnessing the travesties of the Peninsular War, the atrocities of the Spanish Inquisition, surviving two life threatening illnesses, with one leaving him completely deaf, and the death of six of his seven children. Perhaps it was one of these

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    guards are coming around." The girl stirred at the gruff voice. The man, her train seatmate on the outer side, turned back seeing that she was awake. She rubbed her eyes groggily and stretched, then reached into her bag for a leather-bound booklet. She handed it to the man wordlessly. The guard approached her row and quickly leafed through the two booklets the man handed to him. "Clarke...Orcutt...34," he mumbled, and handed back the man's booklet. "Brook...Borrego Springs." He paused and looked her

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