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    (Dillard 210). The thing that keeps human beings from living the purest life possible, like the weasel is our minds. To live freely we need to live our lives with less hesitation and fear. Dillard says we should forget our ability of thought and choice all together. But the way we live should not be simply thrown away for a chance to live completely "free of bias or motive" (Dillard 210). We have our morals, conscience, emotions, and values. We have the ability to think and feel at the same time

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    In this paper, I plan to argue the ideas by Edward Conard, in his argument that we don’t need more humanities major in our academic system. In specific, this paper will explore the writer’s claims, the gaps in his arguments and counter-arguments in this topic. My argument is important because I will challenge Conard’s article with the self-fashioning’s article by Keohane. In Conard’s article, he demonstrates to answer the question whether or not we need more humanities. His answer is that we should

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    branded apparels. Fernandez, P. (2009), It focuses on how branding has created an impact on the youth when it comes to the choice of clothing our younger generation are becoming more and more brand conscious. He suggests that brand conscious is the right choice of clothing. It helps them create an image and an identity for themselves. Major factor which determining the choice of branded clothes comes from the influence made by the peer and it helps them a lot in their socialization process. In addition

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    Even some choose to take a year off and travel. No matter what our choices are, we have to make them soon. Senior year is almost halfway over and we have to choose our paths. Whether it is between colleges or major the decision has to be made. It’s always been a goal of mine to go to college. I will be most successful after I get an education. I don’t have to choose between paths, I know I will be attending schools. The main choice I have is choosing between my dream and being practical. I am choosing

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    GEICO’s advertisement located in Men’s Health November 2016 issue targets car owners through the use of several tactics such as segmented targeting, hooking the audience, and appealing to the audience while prying for consumers to make the simple choice; to chose GEICO over their competitors. GEICO is the second largest and one of the fastest growing private auto-insuring companies in the United States (GEICO, 2016). The target audience is reached through the imagery of a stack of cookies to correlate

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    Research Matrix management: Matrix Management Structure. senior manager in a large corporation that is touting the benefits of developing software using multiple teams in order to reduce the elapsed calendar time for new software delivery: A framework authoritative structure is an organization structure in which the reporting connections are set up as a network, or lattice, instead of in the customary pecking order. At the end of the day, workers have double reporting connections - for the most part

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    Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you. – John C. Maxwell. In the novel The Giver, Lois Lowry shows the reader how choices in life are important, and should be made by us, not for us. Lowry uses characters such as Jonas and the giver to illustrate how choices should be made by us. She uses other characters such as Jonas's father to reflect how people are often blinded by the standards of society and do not realize they can actually make their own choices. With these characters

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    many girls identified the colour purple as their first choice. Of the entire group, 51%, including both boys and girls, chose purple as their first or second colour preference. The study states that only 41% of the boys chose purple as their last or second last preferred colour, however none of the girls had the same preference. (Read & Upington, 2009) The study also found that 50% of all participants chose blue as their first and second choice. Yellow did not seem to be a preferred colour with either

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    According to Christopher Reeve, “Once you choose hope, anything is possible.” This quote means that if you hope, then anything can potentially happen. Choosing to have hope instead of fear and sadness can lift you up, and make you believe that everything can get better. Just have hope that it will. In the first person novel, The Outsiders, Ponyboy, the protagonist, makes some significant decisions. Some of them forced him to not hope at all, and to live his life in fear and grief. He kept choosing

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    best “wind” and done the right thing, the wind she chose wasn’t an easy one; she still had sort of a hard time with the captain and she even ended up being charged of murder. Charlotte decided to choose her own wind to sail her ship, or make her own choice when she realized that she was all alone with nobody on her side. At the end of the book, Charlotte knew that she had to go back to her old life, but she still felt reluctant to return. She said on pg. 199 about putting on her old clothes, “To my

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