Word: braved
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...specific Reading is required that directlyrelates to the material taught in class, butstudents are asked to read a variety ofselections, such as George Orwell's 1984 andAldous Huxley's Brave New World, whosegeneral ideas, according to Fleming, are the sameideas talked about in the course...
...public. It says they are so stupid they wouldn't accept an honest portrayal. If Hollywood is using this movie to make America love us, they are making them love a false image. I don't want that kind of acceptance. And I am tired of hearing how brave Tom Hanks is! All you have to do to win an Oscar is play someone in a wheelchair, or someone blind, or someone gay. Besides, he looks better at the end of his life than most people do in their prime. It's like a bad hair day with a lesion...
...trees, building fires, getting dirty and being outdoors--things that I liked to do. The program also had a moral component, most obvious at the start or end of troop meetings, when we recited the Scout Law: "A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent...
...Harvard tried to institute a "Harvard Law," to start off class sessions or school days or semesters or academic years with a promise by Harvard students and professors to try to be "trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent," the effort would probably be doomed to failure...
...fevered work being done, however, science is still far away from the Brave New World vision of engineering a perfect human -- or even a perfect tomato. Much more research is needed before gene therapy becomes commonplace, and many diseases will take decades to conquer, if they can be conquered...