Let's say you are a baseball player who tries to be consistent in how he/she pitches. after a losing streak, you pitch a perfect game and your team wins. 1. if you are pitching the way you always do, what happened to change your luck? 2. did some altercation in your pre-game ritual lead to the victory? perhaps you wore different socks or put a charm in your pocket while you played? 3. what might you attribute you victory to? would this now become a "superstition"?

Is christianity monothestic or polythesitic?

Marian recently made the decision to try to re-wallpaper her own kitchen—which was a mistake given her personality! to compound the mistake, she selected a complex wallpaper pattern that included flowers and trees. each time she put one strip of paper on the wall, she became increasingly upset if there was not a perfect match from the pattern of one strip to the next. if one flower was off by as much as one-tenth of an inch, she would tear down the strip, remove the excess paste, and try again with the next strip. over eight hours after she started this job, she has only succeeded at putting up six strips of wallpaper, which covered about 10 percent of the room in which she was working. marian may suffer from personality disorder.

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