...What Should I Do With My Life? The real meaning of success -- and how to find it From: Issue 66 January 2003, Page 69 [pic] It's time to define the new era. Our faith has been shaken. We've lost confidence in our leaders and in our institutions. Our beliefs have been tested. We've discredited the notion that the Internet would change everything (and the stock market would buy us an exit strategy from the grind). Our expectations have been dashed. We've abandoned the idea that work should be a 24-hour-a-day rush and that careers should be a wild adventure. Yet we're still holding on. We're seduced by the idea that picking up the pieces and simply tweaking the formula will get the party started again. In spite of our best thinking and most searing experience, our ideas about growth and success are mired in a boom-bust mentality. Just as LBOs gave way to IPOs, the market is primed for the next engine of wealth creation. Just as we traded in the pinstripes and monster bonuses of the Wall Street era for T-shirts and a piece of the action during the startup revolution, we're waiting to latch on to the new trappings of success. (I understand the inclination. I've surfed from one boom to the next for most of my working life -- from my early days as a bond trader to my most recent career as a writer tracking the migration of my generation from Wall Street to Silicon Valley.) There's a way out. Instead of focusing on what's next, let's get back to what's first. The previous...
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...the feeling of being lonely, environmental degradation thought the greedy human encouragement that differs within everyday families and the endless commercialization are all that sum up the disease called Affluenza. The epidemic of all consuming is a must read for all especially those who do the analysis on financial counseling due to the topics that are explained and touched on concerning over consumption, concepts of happiness and the simplicity of voluntary. This book has brought a huge impact onto my entire life, I learned to view things from my own perspective. An unnessary competition among others is a thing of the past for me, there is absolutely no need to keep up with everyone else. This social disease that affect many especially the young adults should be what I advocate to be, to be eliminated from the minds of those who don’t really matter. The worry, depression and even the mental illness that Affluenza brings should never be present in my entire life. The creation of unrealistic expectations that can never be met that end up infecting us leads me to believe that I would not desire...
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...us we will find you.(Line 33) I’m searching for you America. I’m calling you America Oh, Oh Fighting for our race and our freedom And we will find you among the darkness, You’ve been vanished by those who’re afraid of your truth. While we search for the truth Searching for our America Mama and papa’s dream And it’s our turn today to set you free. (Line 43)“Looking for America” 2013. Ruben Blades website. June 19, 2013, 05:05 http://www.rubenblades.com/lyrics/?currentPage=5. When listening to the lyrics of this song it reminds me of people like my mother and father who to me relate more to the familiar version of “The American Dream”. I grew up in Puerto Rico and have seen the struggles of my family to give us enrichment in life, within our home and education. For my family it has been easier to convert to the norms and values of the United States, but for others I have seen their struggles to be...
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...Fleshmarket By Nicola Morgan The theme of obsession is important in the novel ‘‘Fleshmarket’’ by Nicola Morgan. ------------------------------------------------- ‘‘Fleshmarket’’ is set in Edinburgh in 1828. Two of the main characters are Robbie and Essie who are brother and sister. They live in an awful, poverty stricken environment in the old town after everything changed when their mother died at the hands of Doctor Robert Knox. Robbie Blames Knox for his horrible life and suffering as he believes Knox has not suffered yet and he took away the good life Robbie nearly had before Knox operated on his mum and this leads to his deep obsession with Knox. Robbie’s obsession begins when he is outside the lecture theatre and inside his mum is getting her operation ‘‘He had felt her pain as though it was his, it had burnt him and left its mark.’’ This suggests that Robbie suffered too and he is scarred by hat his mum had to endure emotionally and permanently. When she gets home she is told to rest but on the fourth day Robbie witnesses his mum in hallucinating and in pain ‘‘she did not recognise her trembling son with his eyes so wide and wet. She threw her sweat-soaked blankets off, rattled with bone-deep cold, screamed at the snakes, writhing before her eyes, vomited, clawed, moaning at the blackening rash that crept over her body.’’ This shows that Robbie is so scared and worried at his mum hallucinating and fighting infection due to the operation Knox preformed and this is the...
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...Together, they spend every single day watching football, placing bets while making thousands and thousands of pounds from betting. In the past 18 months, Gavin and Alex Walker have made nearly £400k in the space of a year. In fact, they once made £17k (one years salary) in a week. So why work? The brothers live in a huge penthouse in London, with huge 50inch plasma's, enormous double beds and an incredible view of the city. It really is the good life. They spend all of there time betting on football and that's how they earn the big dollar. When asked about their lifestyle to thetab.com, they both open up about their lavish lifestyle and betting habits. What do you bet on? Is there a specific system you have? We only bet on football. The main thing we do is single bets – no accumulators or doubles or anything like that, every bet we do is in play. It’s much easier to judge the outcome of the game that way. We literally bet on anything, anything you could imagine – this morning we woke up at 7am to bet on Uzbekistan girls U16s against Japan. We found a stream from China, lay in bed and put our money on. How many games do you watch a day? About four or five a day, every day. I liked watching football before we started and I guess I still like it now, maybe a little less than before. It never gets boring because the stakes get higher and higher, the feeling is still electric. How did you explain you were going full time to your parents? Obviously...
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...A: Mr. Doherty, you are putting your dream into practice, aren’t you? B: Yes. There are two things I have always wanted to do---write and live on a farm. Today I’m doing both. I am not in E.B. White’s class as a writer or in my neighbors’ league as a farmer, but I’m getting by. A: Compared with the life in the city, how do you like the life here in the countryside？ B: I can say my wife and I have finally found contentment here in the country after years of frustration with the city and suburban living. A: Could you talk about your life here? B: Well, it is a self-reliant sort of life, and a satisfying life too. We grow nearly all of our fruits and vegetables. Our hens keep us in eggs. In the summer we canoe on the river, go picnicking in the woods and take long bicycle rides, and we ski and skate in the winter. We get excited about sunsets. A: How nice it is! It’s really a desirable life. Then have you encountered any /some difficulty? B: Yes. The good life can get pretty tough (15). In the first winter, we were buried under five feet of snow from December through March. One storm after another blasted huge drifts up against the house and barn (33). When spring came, it brought a flood. The river overflowed, covering much of our land for weeks (37). A: You are so busy, then do you have time for writing? B: I manage to spend 50 to 60 hours a week at the typewriter or doing reporting for the freelance articles I sell to magazines and newspapers (24). Thanks...
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...Thompson Contemporary Ethics Prof. Prettiman Thucydides versus Plato on the nature of the Good Life. Some have claimed that Thucydides is making empirical claims, whereas Plato is making normative claims. Is that true? Support your answer in your paper. Plato and Thucydides together had strikingly dissimilar views on their tactic on the good life. Scholars have demanded that Plato is making normative rights, whereas Thucydides is making empirical claims. Let's start by taking a look at Plato. Plato's philosophy on the decent life was based on the confidence that all has an objective or use that is classically suited for asset, beauty, fairness, and excellence of the exact thing, and all will depend on the conclusion of that role. He reflects the decent life as being reached finished the flawless love and lack of wish. Plato opinions the good lifetime as the disorder a person exhibits entire virtue. Virtue inclines to come after the nonappearance of desires, or prospects, so true contentment means being satisfied to the opinion one doesn’t have needs. He’s persuaded that everyone has the control to be virtuous. He too believed the gentleman and citizen are the formation of the City; they are its stuff (like slaves) and its broods, and the separate has no right to assert separate rights against the Urban. In this circumstance, justice is offered as a compromise, and appreciated, not as good in itself, nonetheless for lack of control to do wrong; no gentleman worthy of the designation...
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...Paper about Thucydides versus Plato on the nature of the Good Life 1: Thucydides versus Plato on the nature of the Good Life. Some have claimed that Thucydides is making empirical claims, whereas Plato is making normative claims. Is that true? Support your answer in your paper. Plato and Thucydides together had strikingly dissimilar views on their tactic on the good life. Many have demanded that Plato is making normative rights, whereas Thucydides has made empirical claims. Let's first take a look at Plato. Plato's philosophy on the decent life was based on the confidence that all has an objective or use that is classically suited for asset, beauty, fairness, and excellence of the exact thing, and all will depend on the conclusion of that role. He reflects the decent life as being reached and finished by the flawless love and lack of wish. Plato states that the good life is the disorder a person exhibits regarding entire virtue. Virtue inclines to come after the nonappearance of desires, or prospects, so true contentment means being satisfied to the opinion one doesn’t have needs. He’s persuaded that everyone has the control to be virtuous. He too believed the gentleman and citizens are the formation of the City; they are it’s slaves and it’s broods, and the separate has no right to assert separate rights against the Urban. In his circumstance, justice is putative as a compromise, and appreciated, not as good in itself, nonetheless for lack of control to do wrong; no...
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...Analysis: Providing Good Care to Dying Patients: Paper 2 Jaime Holtgrewe Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 449 Evidence Based Practice February 2013 Clinical Question In my group, the focus of research is based on the following clinical question: What are the best practices for end of life care? Within the group, research is driven to focus on enhancing care for end of life patient, including collaboration with physicians and surrogate decision makers or a power of attorney (POA), as well as pain management policies. However, all aspects of care for end of life patients are taken into consideration when determining which facet is most important. The group’s research consists of quantitative and qualitative articles focusing on transitioning to hospice programs, new measures of care, acceptance of death and experience of caregivers for the dying patient. According to the Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law (2008), three of every four Americans do not fear death as much as they fear being in pain at the time of death. End-of-life care can be a challenge requiring the full range of a family physician's skills. Significant pain is common but is often undertreated despite available medications and technology. Physicians must overcome their own fears about using narcotics and allay similar fears in patients, families and communities. Drugs such as corticosteroids, antidepressants and anticonvulsants can also help to alleviate pain. A considerable amount of research...
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...Philosophy is an academic subject that exercises reason and logic in an attempt to understand reality and answer fundamental questions about knowledge, life, morality, virtue, and human nature. The original word for philosophy comes from the ancient Greek word philosopha, which means love of wisdom. Although Socrates himself never claimed to have any answers to the questions he raised, his views and methods of philosophy became the foundations of what philosophy is today. Socrates actually wrote nothing, because he felt that knowledge was something to be gained by living and interacting in the world. So most of what we do know about Socrates comes from the writings of another very important person in Greek history, Plato. Socrates’ philosophy was based on pursuit of truth through the questioning of beliefs, virtue being defined as knowledge and talking about the elements that make up a good life. Greek philosophy before Socrates is called Pre-Socratic philosophy and the origin of western philosophy can be found early Greek thinkers of the 6th and 7th century BC. The Pre-Socratic philosophers were called physiologoi; physical or natural philosophers and they lived and taught in Asia Minor, Thrace, Sicily and south Italy. The Pre-Socratic philosophy is a philosophy of nature. The Pre-Socratic combined Greek mythology with rational thinking and sought all the forces which compose nature. Socrates grew up in the atmosphere of the Pre-Socratic thought and explored their knowledge...
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...INTRODUCTION: Two friends were going for an interview board in a call centre company. Both of them were well dressed up and did everything they could to give a best presentation in the interview board in front of the officials. Of the two friends one had a very good CGPA and the other was ranked average. The one with good CGPA also had little previous experience in the related kind of jobs but the other friend was a novice. So, taking the best preparation for the interview both the friends faced the interview board. Both of them did well in the interview. But when the results were out, the novice friend with an average CGPA got the job but the other friend did not did not get the job. Here I want to raise my point “looks” does it really matter in professional life? Now from the above story line if any one comes to the conclusion that good looks get more priority than academic qualifications in professional life, he or she is just coming to the conclusion in a superficial manner. On the other hand you can’t also assume that success only depends on academic qualification because it is a very controversial topic and many believe that success never depends upon only good grades. There point of view is that if success and opportunities were measured by grades then the corporate world would not ask for bio-data in resumes, where other qualifications are also mentioned. Nor would they interview the prospects in order to find out what they are like as people, rather they would give...
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... We created two categories of purchases for this comparative study: material goods purchases and life experience purchases. The study aims to gather information on which category of discretionary spending is preferred among college students. The findings of the study can be used by many different parties. However, our goal is to be able to create valuable information for companies that want to market their products and services to college students in the Austin area. The research will hopefully benefit these companies as well as their customers (college students) by catering towards the needs of both parties when it comes to consumption trends. Since this is a comparative research study, we did not hold any explicit hypothesis for any sort of specific outcome. However, there has been previous studies and research that have concluded that there is a preference for experiential purchases over material purchases among different samples of the population. These studies have concluded that the main reason behind these findings is that people tend to feel happier from their life experience purchases rather than material goods purchases. They conclude that an experience can create long lasting happiness as opposed to a material good that tends to result in shrinking happiness as time goes by. Another reason is that material goods tend to diminish a person’s happiness when compared to other similar goods not owned by that person. Given the results for these previous studies and research...
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...Course Project - Week One Course Name : Engineering Tech/Info Sciences Course Number : CEIS-100-13195 Topic How will I continue to use problem solving throughout your professional life? Reference: Lecture of Week one In this week one we are learning about, how we can develop solid critical-thinking and problem-solving skills? While we are learning this chapter we have to remember, education is more than just gaining knowledge; obtaining an education make us able to shine all the fields of our life and developing critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. Solid critical-thinking and problem-solving skills are essential for professional success. That will help us to become competitive in the workforce. Not only in professional life, we have to use critical thinking and problem solving in everyday life. In professional life, we have to solve problems that related to our profession. For example, a computer programmer should solve problems with computer programs, A doctor should solve problems with patients care and medicine. That is, in professional life we will face problems that related to a common subject. So we have to achieve maximum knowledge about that field we will work with. A good education will help us for that. For a problem solution first we have to understand facts about that problem. Then we can break down the knowledge into its parts and synthesize new ideas. Also we can evaluate whether the knowledge is applicable to a given situation. These...
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...Critical Thinking Assignment I. Hinduism 1. The Question of Origin. “Hinduism does not trace itself to a founder or a starting point in history” (Hindson & Caner 2008). Historians trace Hinduism back to before the birth of Christ but so specific dates can be given. So much is unknown about the Hindu religion that it can’t be trace to a single individual. Hinduism began with the merging of polytheism and glorification of nature. 2. The Question of Identity. Hinduism has millions of gods. “One picks the deities that most deeply impact our own personal lives” (Hindson & Caner 2008). Hindus believe the Gods that they choose to follow will lead them to be reincarnated at a higher state of being. 3. The Question of Meaning/Purpose. Hinduism has for goals in life. They are pleasure, wealth, harmony, and liberation. They are known by Hindus as kama, artha, dharma, and moksha. The first two goals bring about evil and suffering, in order to obtain the last two goals the first two must be abandoned. By following these goals they hope to be reincarnated at a higher level. 4. The Question of Morality. In the Hindu religion they believe in karma which is a cause and effect type belief. It is a, what goes around comes around type of thinking. If a person does things that they know are wrong they will be negatively impacted later in this life or in their next reincarnation. They also believe that being or doing good in this life will help them to reach a higher state of being in...
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...Socrates reply to Meletus with the analogy about horse training does sufficiently refute Meletus. In his analogy when he describes horse training he is basically saying that there are only a few good horse trainers, and everyone else who rides and plays with the horses actually are the ones who are disturbing them. Only those few horse trainers truly know how to treat and train the horses properly. This disproves Meletus statement because Meletus names a lot of people that improve the youth, and Socrates is the only one person who is accused of corrupting them. He switches it on him because he says that he would be as the horse trainer because there are few of them, and in reality all those people who think they are improving the youth are actually the ones are corrupting them, just like the people who play with the horses. So basically says that he is the horse trainer, the youth are the horses and Meletus and the others are the ones...
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