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#1 The United States is a much more powerful entity than La Llorona, the weeping woman who takes children away. It takes away parents, not children.
#2 When my mother left to sell Avon products, I would often go with her. But when she said she wouldn't be gone for long, I knew it would be different. I never imagined that not too long would turn out to be never, because...
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#1 Eights are typically good leaders, but they often struggle with relationships with their coworkers. They typically operate at an increased volume, as is typical for Eights. They rarely have time for or any interest in small talk.
#2 The Enneagram helps us understand the dynamics, motivations, and experiences of all nine numbers and their interactions and relationships...
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Book Preview: #1 When I was 11, I learned that my grandfather had leukemia. I felt a deep sense of guilt because I knew he was going to die, and yet I had demanded to see him. I understood why I had been in such a panic to see him.
#2 I had a dream one week after my grandfather passed away. In the dream, I was an actress living in Australia. I felt beautiful, and suddenly felt...
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#1 As a writer, I'm committed to paying attention and walking through the world as a noticer. I use words to describe things that aren't usually discussed, and I try to bridge the divides between us.
#2 There are things that can run through our lives, ravaging them, and there's nothing we can do to prevent them. We must accept the world as it is, not as we wish it was....
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Get the Summary of Jay David Bolter's Reality Media in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: This book positions augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) firmly in contemporary media culture. The authors view AR and VR not as the latest hyped technologies but as media-the latest in a series of what they term "reality media," taking their places alongside film and television. Reality...
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#1 The American Civil War was the first time the American political elites failed to compromise, and it led to the loss of life and land for many. 150 years later, we are seeing the same problems arise among American political elites.
#2 The difference between us and our predecessors is that we are gaining a better understanding of the inner workings of societies. We...
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#1 I went to Dartmouth intending to go to med school. But I ended up majoring in the classics. I didn't understand what I, at age 22, could be consulted about. I wanted to be a warrior.
#2 I had family who had served in World War II, and my father had enlisted in the Army in 1968. The Marine Corps promised nothing, but they asked if I had what it took. If I was going...
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#1 The enemy's most deadly and deceptive trap is the offense trap. It severs relationships, widens the existing breaches between us, and handicaps us from fulfilling our full potential.
#2 The Greek word skand-alon, which is used to describe the offense of Luke 17:1, originally referred to the part of the trap to which the bait was attached. It is used in the New Testament...
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#1 The most important distinction between us and them is culture. We must step back and allow the voices of the biblical writers to be heard in the tone in which they were originally spoken.
#2 The second tendency I have come to call canonizing culture is the unspoken and usually unconscious presupposition that the norms of my culture are superior to those of someone...
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#1 I was willed into existence by my sister. I was designed to be just that for her-a sister to complete her duo, to make us whole. Kait was extremely determined and stubborn, and she never waited. She marched through each developmental milestone.
#2 My sister used to tell me fairytales, and I would listen quietly. When I was around four, I yelled out that I could hear them. The story...
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#1 I was in the middle of the Cordillera Huayhuash, in the Peruvian Andes, with Simon. We were surrounded by spectacular ice mountains and the only indication of this from within our tent was the regular roaring of avalanches falling off Cerro Sarapo.
#2 I was not the full ticket, but I was over the worst. It was freezing last night. I had met Richard, a travel companion,...
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#1 I had to find a way to protect my former friend's identity, so I decided to use a pseudonym. I combed a naming dictionary for some rough translation of friend, and landed on Aldwin: old friend. I pictured a knight, an eleventh-century Norman invader, a sorcerer in a fantasy novel, a president of a Martha's Vineyard men's club, and a child of artfully tattooed parents.
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#1 The Tobruk was a widely used type of small bunker for local defence. It was a concrete casing set into the ground with a concrete cupola emerging at ground level, allowing a single soldier to fire a machine gun. The concept of the Tobruk was that the men would remain down in the box with the MG during a bombardment, and then one of them would come up to the cupola...
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