Monsicha Ountrongjit
I am working for family business. My hobbies are reading European history, listening to classical music, playing piano, and learning German language. I like to learn new things. It challenges my life.
Location Thailand
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My name is Monsicha. I live in Bangkok, Thailand. I am Buddhist by birth because my parents are Buddhist. I was raised and educated as a strict Buddhist, both in family, school and university. . I was educated very little about other religions while the Buddhist lessons appeared on my school books since I was 6 years until I graduated high school. We prayed...
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Some Supermarkets in Thailand has this kind of service. Some provides free of charge service if the customer spending reaches the certain amount. The goods will be delivered 1-2 days after the order. We can pay either cash or credit card via website or to delivery man. We can order anything such as fresh food, daily household. I always use this service because...
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1. We are told to behave as 'satisfaction is happiness' too. I don't know whether it's something to do with Asian culture. People who behave differently will be considered greedy and ambitious. We have the mind set that good people must be always humble.
2. Problem made me feel uncomfortable at first, but it also challenged myself whether I could get over...
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If 'satisfaction is happiness' is Chinese culture, why Chinese still had innovation in the ancient time?
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I didn't like the blank wall in front of my shop. Its color was pale and lifeless. I thought I would it painted, but I changed mind because I didn't want to trouble my parents. Instead of painting, I hanged colorful bags for sales to cover the ugly wall. The bags look vividly with the background of lifeless wall.
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Reading is the way to get closed to the soul of people involving about the book. No matter they are writers, translators, publishers, all characters displaying in the book. I generally read the same book twice times or more. At the first time, I want to know the content. For the second time, I will spend much more longer time than the first time because I want...
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If they think they do the right thing for their country, why did they have to deny it?
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I read from some books but I can't remember the name of book. It said Jewish people had the price of heads. If non Jewish people report nazi where their Jewish acquaintances were in hiding, non Jewish would be paid.
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Why did nazi use different method to control eastern and western Jewish? Legal segregation wouldn't be effective in eastern and ghetto wouldn't be effective in western?
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During the time of WWII, the concept of Human right was emerged in the world yet?
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Monsicha Ountrongjit replied to Monsicha Ountrongjit
Thank you very much Colin for your clear summary. :-)
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If only Hitler didn't include the annihilation of Jewish as their super goal, WWII would go this far? If Jewish was treated equal to all citizen, would the result of war be different?
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I still couldn't understand the reason of different pattern of occupation between east and west Europe. It seemed that people in eastern was treated poorer than people in western, but why?
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Thank you David for the information. Previously I know only Nazi chose musicians among their prisoners to play in music band in the camp. It was to entertain SS and also propaganda. Those prisoners had a bit better quality of life. You are right, that writers and artist use their skills to express the feeling and harsh life condition...
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I think women tends to avoid conflict, but young men are not afraid of conflict and tends to face the risk intentionally?
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I can understand them very well. It must be the same as when I open the mail box sent from Amazon. I carefully opened, dragged the books from the package, and removed the books from bubble bumper. Every books of mine are wrapped by plastic sheet. It is to protect the cover of the books. Books are my precious things.
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When I was a child, I didn't like this story because its ending is sad.
When I become adult, I think differently. I learn that as a woman, not to fall in love with a man first, otherwise our life and soul must be sacrificed to him like little mermaid. -
Dear Sarah, I am glad that your aunt was one of survival. Thank you for sharing your story. I don't know Sir Nicholas Winton before so I will study about his work & life in the future.
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Monsicha Ountrongjit replied to Monsicha Ountrongjit
Yes, Clare, I like this book very much. I read it in both translated version in my own language and English version.
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Monsicha Ountrongjit replied to Monsicha Ountrongjit
Thanks Peter, I found his mountain home Berghof and his activities in Google. I agree now it's quite lavish...
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Monsicha Ountrongjit replied to Anne Doherty
Yes, John, it is that book. I read the book more than 10 times. I really appreciate her for being sincere, honest and diligent woman. Most of the time, she made her right decision when her life was in crisis. She was honest to share her stories during good and bad time. She was respectable woman who always lifted her chin high to face any obstacles. At first,...
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I see... They controlled and made people to fear of them... then they could do anything they wanted...
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I think during that period all countries were exhausted of WWI, bad world economics, and social media was not widespread as same as today. Therefore they focused more about their own business and did the best they can.
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The SS or camp commanders allowed their prisoner to do the arts work in the camp? As their arts work showed how much miserable life they were, they weren't punished because of speaking the truth?
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Thank you very much, Ann. I was stunned by this painting. http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/gallery2/D86.htm
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In the book 'into that darkness', the interviewer asked Franz Stangl why nazi had to destroy Jewish people, he said because nazi needed their money.
The interviewee was surprised by this answer so she asked why nazi still destroyed poor Jewish people. His reply was 'nobody has nothing. Everybody must have something.'
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Thank you very much Elizabeth. I thought Jewish discrimation had already abolished since the end of WWII and the destruction of nazi. I don't know them personally, but I feel sorry for them that they feel isolated at their hometown just because they are Jewish.
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Those countries were annexed by force because they had defenseless army?
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The reducing of immigration quota in United state, Israel and Palenstine by British didn't happen, more Jewish would be survived. Why did they limit the quota of immigration?
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Monsicha Ountrongjit replied to Anne Doherty
I think they were too afraid to oppose the government. They didn't want to be the next target of SS. The quality of life was improved a bit better.
I read a memoir of Jewish woman who got married with a SS officer. (He didn't know she was Jewish and all her documents were faked). Before marriage she had to work in the camp, missed the opportunity to finish...
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The policy of welfare state initiated by the nazi government is still effective until now or it was abolished after the failed of nazi?
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I think people trusted no one, and turned blind when their friends were caught because of political movement.
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What kind of policy they promised to accomplish so that they won the election?
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As I read 'Into that darkness', the writers interviewed Franz Stangl (the commander of treblinka camp), his wife, his colleagues and his survived prisoners. His wife wasn't sure what kind of the job her husband was responsible for. He only told her that it was security job.
I don't know whether German people knew exactly what really happened in the camp....
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It was also said it was the wrist, not the nail.
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Monsicha Ountrongjit replied to Monsicha Ountrongjit
Dear Peter, it is nice to receive your reply again in this course. :-)
Hitler was moderately rich? As I read from somewhere but I couldn't recognize the source, his living condition is quite humble,no extravagance? -
Dear Anne, my conclusion is from the video. It is not my personal opinion. The video showed few examples that Jews had the capacity of handling money, economics and young Jewish children can read and write. This is why some Christian 'think' that Jews are better than them? If not, what were their opinion towards Jews? Positive, negative, neutral?
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What if German people protested the establishment of Dachau? Nobody had opinion about it?
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I read the book 'The nazi officer's wife', memoir of a Jewish woman who got married with a nazi officer. It said 'Mein Kampf' was the wedding gift of every new married couple.
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As I watched the movie 'Benhur', Jesus Christ was crucified by the order of Rome, not Judea's people? (I understand that Judea's people are Jews?)
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Can I conclude that the main reason Christian doesn't like Jews because Jews are better than them?
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I haven't read fairy tales in such point of view before. Thank you very much. Your analyze reminded me of the movie 'animal farm'. At first I thought it was children movie, and I always liked to watch any movie about animal because of their cuteness. After I came out of the cinema, I was not disappointed but felt very stressed and headache.
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Thank you Very much for your answers, Summer Bird and Malcolm. :-)
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I can't be sure what the role of the dogs are. At first I thought they are under controlled by the witch because the witch knows how to manage them. But at the end of story, the dogs becomes the soldier's helpers.
The dogs survive until the end of story. Witch, the king and the queen were destroyed. The princess becomes the reward of the soldier's...
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This story reflect the nature of man. He thinks about himself first. He must get what he wants otherwise he will get it by force.
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Without the witch's help, the soldier can't become rich. Why is she an antagonist?
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I haven't heard thus story before but I can remember it's similar to many of Thai folktales.
- the poor man become better man by someone who support him but he betray that one at last.
- the man steal the woman from her parents. Her parents don't have happily ending but being killed by the man.
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I wonder which one is much more popular in European literature : 'The Arabian nights' or 'King Arthur and the knights of the round table'.
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I can notice that his paper cuts always consists of these elements : swan, tree, leaves, ballerinas, man with thick shoulder, woman with small waist, and heart. Did these elements reflect something in his life, his mind?
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I haven't read about his biography before. I guess he didn't think himself as 'artist' but it's readers who identify him as 'artist'. My aunt is a novelist. I call her a novelist because her stories were published and shown on TV. She didn't intend to be a novelist. But it was because her parents were very poor and she had many siblings to feed. She knew that...
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Thai traditional fairy tales is violent. I watched them on TV when I was a child. They were very popular programme for all children. At that time, I didn't know what the meaning of 'violence' is and how it might effect our mentality.
The samples scene of violent scenes :
- the mothers ate their own babies otherwise they would be starve to death.
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I am Monsicha from Bangkok, Thailand. I studied Thai literature, folklore and folktales. The courses were very enjoyable. I want to learn more about international fairy tales.
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This is the first time I learn that some of Shakespeare's work is collaborative work.
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Without his connection with publisher and aristocratic patronages, his works might not be popular and successful?
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If teacher can provide such interesting material like this, history class will not be boring anymore, thank you so much! :-)
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Monsicha Ountrongjit replied to Pouria Nick Dell
The supermarket has special promotion to their customer. Every 2.5$ purchased they will give 1.5 liter drinking water for free of charge. It seems to be good deal but I can't join this campaign. 1.5 kg per bottle is too heavy for me to carry. *_*
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The unit of measurement were also reformed and standardized by Qin Shi Huangdi during 210 BC. Did this knowledge have any influence upon SI units?
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Thank you so much! It is very clear explanation. If the sentence cut short only 'dilutes 200 times' and no further explanation by number, I might think that this treatment was effective.
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I can't think of any example of scientific hypothesis. I am interested in history. Numbers are also important when I read the article about history. For example, the number of population, the number of distance between cities, the size of area, the number of weapons and facilities...etc. Those numbers could give me the clearer picture of how's going on in the...
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My parents owned grocery shop. Since I was a child, I helped them to do easy job such as counting products, writing the product price on each item. Therefore when I was in primary school, I didn't struggle with maths like other students. I felt maths was the part of my daily life. I got used to with calculating numbers.
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Thank you for sharing the website. I have been in the long thought about child migrant so many days that I can't move on to next chapter.
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I think this is the letter written by this particular young girl because the girl said so at the end of the letter.
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Monsicha Ountrongjit replied to [Learner left FutureLearn]
I am also a person who watch the online collection instead of going to the museum. It is the way to save time and money if I want to visit museums in foreign country.
I had experience visiting museums in Russia. We depended on tour guide to explain us about Russian things and History. But we had limit time to visit each place, and tour guide had limit...
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Monsicha Ountrongjit replied to Em Blamey
Yes, Museum should be active and serve the society. If it's just 'permanent', it is like a dead 'object'. Museum should always react towards changed society.
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Dear Ana, thank you for your idea. But what makes our museum become boring place is not about the management, it's about our limit culture.
Individuality is not high valued as Monarch and buddhist. Therefore Monarch and Buddhist are the most important section in the museum. However, as they are sacred objects, they can't be interpreted differently.
In...
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This video gave me new knowledge about museum. As I visit museums in my country, they look similar to antique shop. Old things are placed in show case with short description about how old are they, who are their previous owners (if any)...
Most of things which are displayed in our museums are related to monarch and Buddhist. Going to museum are very boring...
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As I see on the website, there is 'Mersey maritime museum'. I am not sure if this is what you are looking for.
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Maybe this is possible. I am thinking about sweat sickness which happened during Mediaval age. Many people, even a strong man died of this disease within a day. People believed that French Mercenaries brought this disease to London after the battle of Bosworth.m
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50-100 million who died because of flu was higher amount than people who died in WWI !?
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Monsicha Ountrongjit replied to Sheryl Burns
The helmet caused more facial injuries? Why? I thought it helped to protect their faces?
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Thank you for sharing your expeirence. I hope you can find something else to do to improve your quality of live.
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Yes, Jonathan, my life quality is improved a lot if I can be away from education system, and unkind teachers who wanted to control and influence their students. That's why I love Futurelearn. Here, we can discuss and share any ideas.
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I have read few memoir of Chinese during cultural revolution. A Female Chinese was beaten and her family was ruined because she used the newspaper as her toilet tissue paper. The paper contained Mao pictures.
I am not Chinese, but I am awared of this awful event. I always destroy sensitive pictures and papers into small pieces when they are useless.
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Dear Norman, yes, you are right. The royal family is the symbol of wealthy, fortunes and success. Not only on graduation day, the royal family pictures are also presented on the stage when we win international competition. We believe they protect us, and bring us accomplishment.
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Can I interpret that active and diligent one has Dopamine more than lazy and ignorant one?
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Thank you for the article. Though it is a bit complicated to understand at first. This can help me to understand my own behaviour. When I feel annoyed or unsatisfied, I can manage my own feeling.
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Dear Marie, thank you for your interest in my experience. I am from Thailand. My family is Thai Chinese. We are Buddhist. Like other Asian countries, supernatural and social status are very important. Individual is less important.
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What national symbols do you think are most important in your home country?
: The king, the queen and royal family, including Buddha.What shared myths give your nation a sense of common history?
: The war between Ayutthaya kingdom and Taungoo Kingdom since 500 years ago. The king Naresuan of Ayutthaya declared independence from Taungoo.
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When I was in my childhood, We had to be obedient and pay respect to adult no matter what they do is right or wrong. You have louder voice and can take decision if you are 'older'. If we think otherwise, we will be blamed, beat or punished. Worst than that, these punishment was defamed in public.
The school taught us to be in queue, but when adult came, we...
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In my country, royal family posters are posted in every houses. Their photos are shown in many different places for example : New year calendar, beautiful photo frame, and photo taken on graduation day...
My older sister received her certificate from the king. When it was my turn, the king was too old to perform this duty so I received my certification from...
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thank you Patricia. :-)
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Dear Linda, could your dog do what you haven't taught him before? For example, something that based on his previous experience?
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No, sorry, I don't know which English pronoun can represent both man and woman.
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Dear Tina, it was important to me because the male character in his book is represented to be handsome, kind, warm, understanding.... He is the hero of the woman he falls in love and ready to do everything for her.
I have the feeling that the male character represent the writer's character. I like him. I trust him. I trust that he always write good books....
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I want to add being activist and treason is the question of perspective too. When a person who is trying to speak about injustice in his society, he also has to seek asylum otherwise he will be reported to the governor. His life and family will be in trouble, without trial.
Liberty and freedom are about the judgement of governor. If we think or behave...
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I am curious if I have freedom to share my idea here. Each country has its own law. Some sensitive matter in a country may be meaningless in another country. I am afraid I will be thrown into my country's prison or be reported to authority if I say anything which is banned in my country?
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I was the fanclub of an American novelist who writes many romantic novels. I was in love with his stories. I imagined I would be in love with an ideal man as appear in his books.
I bought every books of his without trying to read first.
But when I found that he divorced his wife, all my impression was gone. I felt that his books were liar, I didn't...
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I think computer and technology has different kind of mind, if they have any. They have to have former input data before they can generate new data. But human can be imaginative or generate new idea and behaviour without former input data.
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Mind cannot be seen, but it works and corporates with my other organs. When I am sad, I am tearful because my mind tells me so. When my mind is absent, I probably bite my own tongue forget where I place my things.
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As I read below comments, it seems that the story can reflect the personality and character of the writers? So we can personally like or dislike the writer after we finish reading his story?
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Hi Richard, I am curious how the conversation between husband and wife would be end. my bf ignored me as well. I wished husband would have the same ending as mine.
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Thank you very much, Brian.
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Will you write more later?
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Monsicha Ountrongjit made a comment
Thanks for all! I want to study more about forensic science.
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Monsicha Ountrongjit made a comment
I really enjoyed this course. I have no background of forensic before but this course inspires me to learn more.
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Dear Michael...don't understand the statement in police's role play as it said 'The best way for police to avoid this “tunnel vision” is to actively seek out evidence or information which challenges their theories....' What does it mean?
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I was tearful eyes when I got first edit from my teacher. I could almost not see my handwriting. But I only saw my teacher's red ink handwriting on my paper. There were 'overwritten, unnecessary, wrong words, awkward...'
I misunderstood him that he hated me so much that he gave me a lot of comments.
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Thank you John. It is nice to hear your writing experience. You are not poor example. As you know your problem, you will inspire your younger generation to have better improvement! :-)
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I asked my friend to redraft my writing who have better English knowledge than me. He told me that he could not do it for me because it was my work. He had no right to change anything. I was very upset with his response. Few weeks later, I considered what he said was true. Writing is belong only to my soul. It's from my life experience and spiritual.
I...
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Yes, writing helps me to release my stress. Anything can be possible by pen and paper.
