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    for your health. First, thankfulness makes you have a decent sleep. According to CNN, an experiment in 2011 research paper in Applied Psychology, researchers asked participants to write down their gratitude on notebooks as a daily routine (“Why Being Thankful Is Good For You”). After a few weeks, participants reported that they felt asleep easier and had more peaceful mind than before. By recalling and writing down gratitude toward others, participants can calm down and relax their minds, which makes

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    What is gratitude? Gratitude is the quality being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and return of kindness. When I start writing the Gratitude Journal in my psych class. I came realize a lot of good things are happening my life because I was able to list and reflect what I was really thankful for. I wasn’t’ the sad, lonely, and depress person I was back in high school. I had no friends, I was loser, bully, and. I was full of range, loneliness, and depression, writing this Gratitude show

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    another, slow or fast. It is very important to be thankful for the things that you have in life. Being thankful allows people to appreciate life, and have true happiness with what they have. It shows people that you care about life, and what it has to offer about you. Thankfulness can keep the earth clean, because if you are simply thankful for the earth, and you will likely not disrespect it. The point of my essay is to show you that I’m thankful for my grandparents, music, and money. Grandparents

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    “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough” (Oprah Winfrey). It is very important to be thankful for what you have because many people have no one by their side to love or care for them. Also, there are some people that can’t afford a home and have no food to eat. You shouldn’t take life for granted because there are many less unfortunate people. I am thankful for my family, my grandparents, and my pets.

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    Film Analysis of All That Heaven Allows Chosen sequence: Golden Rain Tree/Cary's bedroom scene. Before the emergence of 'auteur theory' the director Douglas Sirk was a renowned exponent of classical Hollywood narrative, particularly in the genre of romantic melodrama, of which his film All That Heaven Allows is a classic example. However, he is now regarded as a master of mise-en-scene, one of the few tools left to a director working within the constraints of the

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    From an existentialism point of view, there is no right or wrong choice, since one gives an action value by the virtue of choosing it. Choices can only be judged on how involved the decision maker is when making it. Judging by this standard, the narrator is justified in killing Tyler, since he fully became involved in choosing to both accept and reject Tyler’s values by that action. “Existentialism’s first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence

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    Being There: Comparison of Book and Movie The book, "Being There," is about a man named Chance, who is forced to move out of the house he lived in his whole life and his experience in the outside world. Based on the success of the book, the movie, "Being There," was made. The author of the book, Jerzy Kosinski, also wrote the screenplay for the movie. I think the major difference between the book and the movie is that in the book, we get to read what Chance is feeling and thinking, but in

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    In the 15th section of The Worldhood of the World, Heidegger writes about the how we can experience things phenomenologically if we pay attention to our everyday environment. He calls this “Being-in-the-world” or our “dealings”. Each entity that we encounter has a Being, and in order to investigate those Beings, we must closely investigate how we deal with the environment. Entities that we encounter are not object, but what gets used, produced and more, such as a tool. Entities are not defined as

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    in a sense where he mainly discusses the idea of knowledge and truth through ideas, while Aristotle on the other hand explains his metaphysics in a real life sense offering the stronger system for being able to break down his belief in great detail applying it to the real world, which can stem out to being applied to everything. To begin with, Plato uses the Divided line and Allegory of the cave in order to explain his metaphysics. Through his novel, The Republic, he continually brings up the process

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    3. The Frames of Ontology. As we can see in the introduction of this essay, the ghosts has the status of having been and not being in the same form anymore, it is a diachronic status. While the status of the ghostly identities is synchronic, meaning this that this status of neither being nor not being takes place at the same time. But where does these status come from? What are the mechanisms that establish and distribute these status?. The frames of ontology can be seen as the mechanisms that

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