As soon as we received the sheet describing my first Socratic Seminar a few thoughts came to mind. At first I was confused. “What is a Socratic Seminar?” I thought. Second, “this could help my grade”. Finally I said to myself “this is going to be fun”. The nights leading up to the seminar I read through the question and Alice in Wonderland, searching for quotes and evidence to answer the questions given out. In my opinion I found some quality quotes to answer questions that supported my interpretation
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beat Carl Lewis achieving a gold medal, and then 3 years later in the 1988 Olympics Carl Lewis outran Ben Johnson winning a gold medal leaving Johnson to come in 3rd place and achieve bronze. After that Carl Lewis said, “never again shall Johnson beat me”. By the time of the 1987 World Championships, Johnson had won his four previous races with Lewis and had established himself as the best 100 m sprinter. At Rome, Johnson gained instant world fame and confirmed this status when he beat Lewis for the
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Based on the steps provided according to Ross, Alice (Alice in Wonderland) does complete a hero’s journey. “It leads to the heroine in the direction of personal growth and control over her surroundings. Alice learns how to manage her size. How to talk back to a queen and, finally how to wear a crown of adulthood” (Ross, 2004). In other words, Alice goes on an adventure that helps her transform into a new person and by the end of the adventure she is rewarded. In Alice in Wonderland, Alice’s ordinary
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Throughout the myriad of dramatic adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s novella Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1872), the caterpillar, and his place in the story, has become one of the most recognizable and frequently imitated aspects of the tale. Walt Disney brought its version of Carroll’s story to the silver screen in 1951 in its animated film Alice in Wonderland. With its expertise in animation Disney was able to take Carroll’s narrative to the level of the fantastic that the author had envisioned
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Alice In Wonderland, a very well known story written in the 1860’s. With many adaptations of this story today we are going to focus on the version created by the mighty Tim Burton. This film casted many popular actors/actresses such as Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway and Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter which come as no surprise since Tim Burton usually casts Johnny and Helena in most of his films. Overall, Tim Burton has a reputation for being weird, wacky and very unusual. These characteristics
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NIKE AND ITS FACTORIES IN VIETNAM THE CONTEXT OF THE ISSUE In order to offer competitive prices, a lot of Western companies relocate in low-wages countries. Nike is not unique in that respect: in fact the company choose to use subcontracted factories in Asia, especially in Vietnam. It is important to put this trend in context: this particular industry (the footwear industry) know a significant growth since two decades. Vietnam has a very high unemployment rate, which reflects the poor economic
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Jared Dickerson PSYC120-1204A-3 The Mind of A champion: Profile on Mike Tyson November 11, 12 What the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Mike Tyson? The man who once told a reporter he was going to rape him? Or, the man who overcame the odds rose to the top to become champion? I choose to do a psychological sketch on Tyson because he was once the richest and best-known athlete in the world, but still remains one of the hardest people to understand. Mike Tyson
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3D digital cities models are assisting officials in Salzburg, Incheon and Vancouver in their infrastructure and development projects. Salzburg, Austria was the first city to try the 3D digital city models, and intends to use the models as a guide to new development projects while retaining the traditional architecture of the city. In Salzburg the 3D digital models will be used as a broad scale map to the more traditional and historical areas in the city, and to areas where the city can and must modernize
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LEWIS CARROLL An author, a mathematician, a photographer of the Victorian era, the one who wrote ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ and the sequel ‘Through the Looking Glass’. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson also referred to as Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) is the man who knows how to entertain and express his feelings though powerful words. Sir Carroll was born on 27 January in Cheshire as being the youngest sibling in the family; was exposed to magic tricks, marionette shows and poems written for homemade newspapers
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Illegal Drug Use in Sports Drug testing in professional sports should be at random times and professional sports leagues should have stricter policies on drug testing. Performance enhancing drugs give professional athletes unfair advantages that are unfair to the athletes who do not use performance enhancing drugs. When athletes use performance enhancing drugs it affects their health and if they are caught when drug tested the athlete can face severe punishments. Consequently, if an athlete is
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