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    –where one can accurately predict someone’s behavior in a particular situation. As mentioned earlier, when Jack and Rose first start talking they must rely solely on social and cultural information to make predictions about each other because it is all they have available to them. During the course of their conversation Rose coquettishly asks Jack what he “sees in her” now that the two know a little more about each other. He replies by saying, “You wouldn’t have jumped.” Now that he knows her better

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    Harley asks, gesturing over to a small table. I nod my head and follow him to the set of chairs in the corner. I sit down slowly. My hands feel like they are shaking uncontrollably with nerves right now. I am getting a really bad feeling about all of this. My heart is racing a million miles a minute and I just want someone to tell me what is going on. “Riley, as you know, this is a very complicated surgery we went in to perform on Aden. Dr. Lang has spent years even before being introduced

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    In all honesty, she is a very emotional- more or less sensitive as a person. Davina is deep and there are those times when she finds reigning in her feelings extremely difficult. In retrospect, people have believed her to be a sociopath. But she 's far from

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    The sound of the wind flowing through the snowy grass excited Michael even more than he already was. He had never been to Alaska, so this was very exciting. He couldn’t wait to get to the cabin. “Come on! The cabin is just another block away!” Michael said, pulling on his sister, Lynn. “We’ve been walking for ages, why can’t we just rest for a minute or two?” Lynn said, looking quite tired. “We’ll rest when we get there, now hurry up!” “You have to slow down, even Bucky is having a hard time keeping

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    I was as frightened a mouse, we would get in deep trouble if we were caught looking for Atticus. I said looking at the jail house, “That’s funny, jail doesn’t have an outside light”. When were drawing closer we saw Atticus reading a newspaper on a chair. Scout made started running toward Atticus but I stopped him. I said, “We may not disturb him, he may not like it. Let's go home, I just wanted to see where he was.” I was happy that Atticus was safe but we needed to get back home so no one would

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    A Short Story : A Story?

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    “Oh my god, this morning is already too long.” I think to myself with a yawn as I walk through the front doors of the hospital. “good morning Myah.” Says Christy, my secretary. “Good morning,” I mumble back, trying not to yawn again. “I take it you slept well?” she says sarcastically. I throw the nearest pen at her and miss by an inch, “very well.” I say sleepily. She smiles at me lets out a small giggle, “what would you have done if you hit me?” I give her an evil grin. “Laughed and laughed

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    to understand what the market is doing. In particular, this has given rise to all of these. SO, that is what smart bata is; smart bata is coming up with a better index. So, bata is market exposure, smart means that we don’t like the naïve index, or the market cap weighted index, we want to come up with a better way. So, despite the bad name and all of the bad marks that it gets, there is some rational underpinnings to all of this that does make sense to me. If you are forcing yourself to invest passively

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    (No one saw the agent place a small device under the bumper of the van and then slip back into the bushes) The van quickly left the area with the two agents inside, heading towards the Potomac. They arrived at a house, the van pulled into the garage and the occupants, one of which was unconscious were brought inside, tossed into a room and locked inside. Amanda managed to get the lock pick out of Lee’s collar and get her cuffs unlocked, the untie her and Lee’s feet and then unlock Lee’s hands. She

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    survey for the first cohort, we specifically looked at baseline frequency distributions of the “I feel like a Leader" scenarios, most Littles reported feeling more like a leader at home and with friends. On a scale of one to five, one being "Not at all like me" and five being "A lot like me", many girls indicated that they were less likely to feel like a leader at school. As seen in table 8 below, 14 percent of Littles reported that they did not feel like a leader at school, compared to that of 11

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    “Knowing no one is coming, but not wanting to believe it”: How war affects the self concept of those living in the battlefield in The Cellist of Sarajevo Steven Galloway’s novel The Cellist of Sarajevo follows Sarajevo citizens who are struggling to survive in their home during the genocide which occurred there in the 1990’s. These people become psychologically affected through living on a battleground, and in a life altering way. The very image of war is enough for most to feel disappointed in

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