...came before us in order to fuel an economy so dependent on their labor. This is a nation built on immigrants who were encouraged- and often forced- to assimilate and give up their rich cultures for the sake of being “civilized”, yet still preserved those cultures, no matter who shamed them for it, because they believed in where they came from. Even to this day, we are teaching young children of color that they cannot succeed in life, simply because someone like them could never be successful in a world where the “ideal American” image is praised and sought after. But, there are people in this country who completely transcend the discouragement they...
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...Brilliant', 'Quite Good', 'What?', these are just some of the comments made recently in the press regarding history. There are many factors which influenced the development of history. While it has been acknowledged that it has an important part to play in the development of man, its influence on western cinema has not been given proper recognition. It is an unfortunate consequence of our civilizations history that history is rarely given rational consideration by the upper echelons of progressive service sector organisations, who just don't like that sort of thing. Keeping all of this in mind, in this essay I will examine the major issues. Social Factors As Reflected in classical mythology society is complicated. When Sir Bernard Chivilary said 'hounds will feast on society' [1] he created a monster which society has been attempting to tame ever since. Much has been said about the influence of the media on history. Observers claim it irons out misconceptions from our consciousness. When one is faced with people of today a central theme emerges - history is either adored or despised, it leaves no one undecided. It is intrinsically linked to adolescent inner acclimatisation. Economic Factors Derived from 'oikonomikos,' which means skilled in household management, the word economics is synonymous with history. We shall examine the Maiden-Tuesday-Lending model, a lovely model. Average Wage history The statistics make it clear that history is a major market...
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...As I sat watching “Finding Forrester,” I found myself vacillating between contradictory thoughts and feelings. I felt that I was not supposed to enjoy or appreciate the movie because I have trained myself to question sincerity of a movie about Black life, directed and produced by a very famous White male actor, and in this case one who also plays the leading role in the movie. I am automatically suspicious and, perhaps, offended by a movie in which a White person mentors a Black person. Because of the historical relationship between Blacks and Whites, I programmatically expect to see a movie in which James Earl Jones or Whoopi Goldberg mentor a young White child or adolescent. Despite these thoughts, I found myself totally engaged in the...
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...'Brilliant', 'Quite Good', 'What?', these are just some of the comments made recently in the press regarding environment effect on organisation. There are many factors which influenced the development of environment effect on organisation. Indispensable to homosapians today, environment effect on organisation is not given the credit if deserves for inspiring many of the worlds famous painters. Crossing many cultural barriers it still draws remarks such as 'I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole' and 'i'd rather eat wasps' from those most reliant on technology, who form the last great hope for our civilzation. Relax, sit back and gasp as I display the rich tapestries of environment effect on organisation. Social Factors As Reflected in classical mythology society is complicated. When J H Darcy said 'fevour will spread' [1] she must have been referning to environment effect on organisation. Spanning divides such as class, race and uglyness, environment effect on organisation smells of success. When one is faced with people of today a central theme emerges - environment effect on organisation is either adored or despised, it leaves no one undecided. Just as a dog will return to its own sick, society will return to environment effect on organisation, again and again. Economic Factors Our world is driven by supply and demand. Of course, environment effect on organisation fits perfectly into the Spanish-Armada model, making allowances for recent changes in interest...
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...and musician, a physician, a geometrician, a painter, a sculptor all encompassed in a single emperor. Historian Ferdinand Gregorovius writes that an ancient Roman historian described Hadrian’s nature was so unique in that “A bel esprit of so brilliant a character has not often been seen among men.” Indeed, Hadrian was blessed with a gifted mind and a curious spirit for knowledge, seeking to know everything that there was to possibly know. His vast wisdom pervaded his role as ruler, and under his wise policies...
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...Unit 8: Reflective Play work Practice Know how to work with children and young people to create play spaces Introduction Without creativity, it would be difficult to distinguish humans from other animals. Creativity leads to a fuller more satisfying life. Without creativity, mankind would not progress. Being in the right place at the right time is an important part of creativity. But to know that one is indeed staring at an opportunity needs a prepared mind. Many people never realise that they are surrounded by favourable circumstances and even fewer know what to do when the realization hits them. When we use the term creativity, different images come to our mind. There are bright persons who express unusual...
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...Personality and character should flourish in intellectual life as well as in social life, and there should be no divide between school work and expressing youth and creativity. What one finds on the average college campus is disheartening but understandable: it is the meeting of young minds abandoning the classroom and attempting to flourish after hours, where individual character is ok to display but where it is seldom supported by a healthy environment for its exercise. To say that college seems useless to many young people is fine: they are just acknowledging that at the junction where four years of irreplaceable opportunity are theirs it is not helpful to have that opportunity already defined. They can bridge the gap between classes and the real world of human relationships in their own way and they should not hesitate to discover college for themselves. The best way to do that is to know what they want from themselves and from their society, to know what virtues they want to encounter in others and practice themselves, and what actions they want to take for their futures. That’s where a classical education can help them, because the great thoughts of those who found their passions and expressed them so well challenge college students to evaluate their own thoughts in comparison. They help a student enter the market place of ideas with more than just their naïve opinions and with a sense of humility and respect for the ideas of others. The focus, however, for most students...
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...Heptathlete Jessica has a strong determined mind set. She is a down to earth person. She has a great personality. Jessica is creative, caring and kind. She married Andy Hill in 2013 and gave birth to Reggie Ennis Hill in 2014. Jessica Ennis was raised around sports, she is very determined in her work, she won her first gold medal in 2012. Jessica was introduced to sports at a young age. “Ennis developed an interest in track and field at a young age, when her parents took her and her younger sister Carmel to a track event at Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield, England.” (Biography). Jessica and her sisters love for track and field began and at an early age and hasn’t changed since then. “Ennis first established herself as one of Britain's top young athletes in 2003, at the AAA U20 Championships, where she won both the indoor pentathlon and outdoor 100-meter hurdles.” (Biography). She has been perfecting her technique ever since she was put into track and has made it really far by not giving up. “In 2004, at age 18, Ennis won the 60-meter hurdles at the Northern Senior Indoor Championships—her first senior tournament.” (Biography). Her determination has paid off throughout her years of dedication. When you believe in something never stop trying until you achieve your goal. Jessica is...
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...Assignment #3 Analysis of “The Alchemist” Final draft The Alchemist is a brilliant novel by the great Brazilian author “Paulo Coelho’. This novel tells the story of a young shepherd called Santiago who lives alone with his herd of sheep. He travels from one place to the other, meeting new people and exploring new things. In one of his journeys, he meets an old woman who has the ability of foretelling the future. This woman tells him that there is a treasure that is waiting for him. After this, the young shepherd keeps looking for this treasure by travelling through different countries and learning about various traditions. During his journey for the treasure, he falls in love with an Arabian girl called Fatima and she also taught him a lot of new things. Finally, he arrives at the place where the treasure is supposed to be, in Egypt. Surprisingly, he does not find any treasure! Taking a closer look at this novel, naturally the reader would question the reason behind going through all of these obstacles in the novel, when the shepherd ends up without the treasure. Is the author’s intention to provide the reader with entertainment and suspense? Or is it just an open end for this book, with the aim that the young shepherd finds the treasure in part two of the book? The answer to these questions is that the author’s intention is neither to develop suspense for the reader so he could be entertained, nor to make the reader himself searches for the treasure in another part...
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...Advice for Young Business Professionals This report provides specific advice to help young business professionals establish themselves in professional world. The advice was provided through interviewing Terry Everett, manager of a million dollar store. The advice focuses on three key areas: * Get to know people * Be brave, world is yours * Respect comes with hard work Terry Everett has been a manager for 22 years. Throughout his career Everett has worked for many companies including government owned, for the past 6 years Everett is a manager of a million dollar shoe store. Get to know people. Establish relationships with colleagues. When entering a new job, remember that you enter already established community with its own rules. The environment is unique to every company. A new comer is often rejected, people don’t like changes. Everett says that throughout his career he had to switch work 5 times. Every time was as a fresh start. Don’t hesitate and wait till people will come to you, this will never happen. Make a first step; don’t be afraid to start a conversation with coworkers even if they are from a different department. Treat each person like a blank piece of paper and then slowly add on to it until you get a perfect image. Meanwhile, let people know about yourself, fear comes from unknown. Open up to others, let coworkers remember you. Tell them funny stories; don’t be afraid to make fun of yourself Be brave, world is yours Don’t be afraid, express your...
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...and its themes allowed Remarque to show how each experience and stylistic convention changed the individuals within the book. Throughout the novel Remarque uses his key experiences of war to develop themes that affect the characters of the novel. An existing theme is the theme of leadership and how ordinary men from school are transformed into matured men of war. Remarque uses this theme primarily in the first portions of the novel in which Paul is forced into situations that force his transformation. A brilliant example of such a situation taking place is in chp4, when Paul and his peers are ordered to the front line were young recruits are found cowering amongst the battlefield. This setting Remarque established, allowed Paul to aid and lead the recruit/s to a better state of mind. ‘Close by there is a recruit... he is terrified ... his helmet has rolled off. I reach for it and try to put it on his head (pg43) From events like this, characters such as Paul mature from young school boys to experienced men of war. This form of maturity extends throughout the novel as Remarque places Paul into various situations of war that battle hardens Paul physically and mentally. Remarque explores the idea of mental transformations to a point where primarily Paul is alienated from society and his past way of life. Paul’s evolution is mainly shown through symbolism within the novel, of which Remarque utilizes Paul Baumer as a symbol of the average man of war. To elaborate, Remarque starts...
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...Pleasure Reading Topic. Book: “Theatre” (W. S. Maugham). “Theatre” is the most famous novel of English writer William Somerset Maugham. This novel was written in 1937. It`s a thin, ironic story about a brilliant, intelligent actress, and her romance with a handsome young man. The main character of the novel was Julia Lambert. She was 46 years old and she was the most famous theater actress in England. Julia had a successful husband Michael, the owner and director of the theatre «Siddons, where she played, and adult educated son Roger. She showed her feelings only on the stage. Her husband Michael was restrained and practical person; his love for Julia faded. And Julia decided to have a secret love affair. She met a young accountant Thomas Fenelon, who was younger her on 25 years. Julia fell in love; she began to present different things to him, brought him closer to her family and sometimes forgot about decency ['diːs(ə)n(t)sɪ]. Soon she realized, that Thomas didn`t love her. Then Julia learnt that Tom betrayed her. He liked the young actress Avis Crichton, and with the help of Julia Avis found the job in the theatre. After surviving a storm of emotions, Julia coped with feelings to Thomas. Julia masterfully «killed» a debut of Avis. To my mind, the main idea of this book is that the whole world is a theatre! Life is not distinguishable from the scene. My most favorite character was Julia Lambert. She was smart and shrewd [ʃruːd], slightly sarcastic and very susceptible...
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...Scientists. How would you define a scientist? According to Merriam-Webster, a scientist is “a person who is trained in a science and whose job involves doing scientific research or solving scientific problems” (2015). Now, how would you envision a scientist? Could there be a long-term impact because of how the media makes fictional scientists look? The media has portrayed scientists in many different ways, and can influence how people view scientists. Also, the media can even influence how scientists view certain research and technology. When the word scientist comes to mind I tend to think of Temperance Brennan from the television show, Bones played by Emily Deschanel. She is extremely brilliant, has no sense of humor, very head strong, emotionally detached, and yet somehow finds love. Another scientist that I found interesting is Adrian Helmsley from the movie “2012,” played by Chiwetel Ejiofor. He too is a brilliant man, full of compassion, and wanting to help others. The likeness they both have is how they want to find the answers to help people. He wants the right answers to try to save humanity and she wants the right answers to help find people’s identities and put away murderers. When I think about a scientist I think of someone who is intelligent; they would have to be, to think and figure out their research and explain how they see their work. They would have to be open-minded; they would neet to be in case they needed to alter their hypothesis or theory. Lastly, they would...
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...be, the sole binding agent that holds our nation together. There is no braver act one can do than risk his or her life to defend the ground which our founding fathers and many other people have and will continue to fight for. Often today I find myself surrounded by people far too involved in technology; phones, internet, social media in general, all brilliant inventions yet all so detrimental to the young minds of my peers. Often we forget how lucky we are to be able to call America our home and know what it means to be truly free. Too often the sacrifices men and women have made and continue to make everyday in order to call this land ours have faded away; lost in the pages of history textbooks or dead in stories that were never passed down through the generations. It is sad to say that in my generation I feel young adults have...
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...I struggled to write this speech which is what helped me write this speech, I had a lack of creativity at the point while I was thinking of a topic to do this speech on. So then I got the best idea id had all day. Creativity Picasso once said that all children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up. I believe that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it. And I truly do agree with what he said. At a young age all kids are structured with the same thing “the most important things”, like math, science, English but the truth is this steers everyone from the things they liked due to being told at a young age you couldn’t get a job doing what are interested in, you can’t do music, you wont ever be a musician, don’t do art because you will never be an artist. This really frustrates me. The world is so obsessed with academic ability so much so that the view of intelligence is dominated in our minds by grades, levels and marks. Brilliant, creative people will then see themselves as the opposite to this because the things they were and are good at were not valued at school. The fact that all of this is to prepare each person for the future right? Think of this, the kids starting school in September will be retiring in 2065 but yet we can’t tell what the world will be like in 5 years’ time so how can they prepare anyone for the future? The school education system limits creativity with a lack of freedom in what...
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