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    Changing Perspective Linda Collazo PSY/220 May 29, 2011 Abigail McNeely Changing Perspective People, especially diverse people of contemporary times commonly look at other people, situations, or life events with different perspectives. Sometimes looking at other people, situations, and life events with different perspectives cause people to make snap judgments without factual knowledge. Contributors such as personal beliefs, religion, culture, mood, personality, and relative

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    Changing Perspective One Note at a Time. Most importantly you must know that I am not a music guru and never was. There was a time in the third grade when my parents took me to piano lessons. I never caught onto what I was being taught and never understood the notes, they were a foreign language to me. Not only that but I was never fond of my prior classmates that were band students. I found myself often frustrated in my trigonometry class when I could not concentrate with the percussionist constantly

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    happen when we look at situations differently. How can changing our perspective help us succeed when faced with a difficult challenge? In the beginning of An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, Chris Hadfield says, “we become competent. [...] Astronauts have these qualities [...] because we are taught to view the world and ourselves differently. [...] It’s mostly a matter of changing your perspective” (36). It means that by changing our perspective we will thrive because we have the skills and qualities

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    Changing perspectives…Change is a process, a transition or an alteration that affects different aspects of our life. As a result the forces of change can seriously affect the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors of individuals. The affects of change can have a positive or negative outcome. These affects can be viewed in all three of the texts that we have studied for the Area of Study. Change is a part of life and whether or not we like that aftermath of the particular aspect of the change it will happen

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    Changing Perspectives As I took my first step outside the door the warm midnight air greeted me like an old friend. It was a pleasant contrast to the cold stagnant air on the plane. We had just flown 16 hours with only one layover and my legs had become achy and my neck stiff. “hold on tight to your bags!” Bro. Powers, our youth leader, called out as we walked across the tarmac to go inside. Apparently all of the eager gentlemen attempting to take our bags for us were not doing so out of the kindness

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    journeys may provoke travellers and ultimately lead to transformation of self and richer experiences, is clearly exhibited within. Depending on an entity’s current perspective, they may either embody provocative views, such as the Rat in the Wind in the Willows and also the persona in Journey to the Interior, or even have an accepting perspective to journey, such as the character of Toad. Through the use of tone, symbolism and also truncated sentences, the quote is partially accurate in The Wind in the

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    with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas,” stated Steve Johnson in an interview with Salon Media Group. In a surrounding with many different networks of people, ideas will be enhanced with the knowledge of other perspectives. Also, the new ideas will encourage debate and conversation. Not only will other people’s views enhance ideas, but also is crucial for writing on a topic. Acknowledging opposing perspectives will give a writer more

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    The idea of taking on multiple perspectives can be applied to many scenarios, from making decisions as the president of a nation to running a day care. One of the most accessible perspectives for an American adult is the small business. By engaging in the perspective of other people at a business you either work at or are a customer at, you gain a certain understanding that makes you more relaxed and more pleasant. For example we can take an almost universal experience in the developed world, ordering

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    Ernest Hemingway’s short story “ The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,,” Hemingway uses the author’s craft of perspective along with dialogue and internal dialogue to create a multi-part claim that develops an overall negative characterization of the story’s characters. Hemingway develops the characterization of Margaret, one of the main protagonists, by using multiple perspectives to assure on her character traits of cruel, manipulative, and fearful. 2. Topic sentence: Throughout the story

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    universe, but perspectives differ and thus cause different opinions. To experience internal reality is to confuse one’s own reality with a shared reality, resulting in a loss of empathy and disregarding how others are affected. An external mindset displays an understanding of different opinions in a shared world, whereas with internal mindset a person’s devotion to a belief becomes their private world. When a person is passionate about their beliefs they tend to disregard other perspectives, or live internally

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