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I’ll never forget when I was in the third grade, my principal, Mrs. Patterson, came into my classroom. I could hear her keys loudly jingle as they bounced and slapped against her hip. Her heels clicked and clacked, getting louder as she approached Miss Miller’s class. Mrs. Patterson, at the front of the class, stared into the soul of each student like a drill instructor sizing up their recruits, and issued a stern and scary warning. “If I hear one word, you will be next,” sh

In the 2006 movie, “Superman Returns,” Superman goes to Lois Lane, a reporter, for an interview. After answering a few questions, he asks her to take a quick flight with him. Complying, he takes her to the top of the sky, high above the city, then tells her to listen. After listening, he asks her, “What do you hear?” To which she replies, “Nothing.” Then he says, “I can hear everything. You wrote that the world doesn’t need a savior, but every day, I hear people crying for on