...A Greatness of Character in Hamlet and Macbeth The greatness of a man is often measured in how he responds to the circumstances that life thrusts upon him. Contemporary culture seems obsessed with providing audiences with examples of such people who, despite the adversity of their lives, still rise above. Tolkein conceived Frodo Baggins, Rowling has given Harry Potter, and Nolan has reinvented Batman. But perhaps no one is more capable of showing triumph over struggles than William Shakespeare. In both Hamlet and Macbeth, for example, the title characters find themselves with nearly impossible moral dilemmas and are forced to decide what the correct choice will be. Both Hamlet and Macbeth are similar in that they are somewhat unwillingly thrust...
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...First, the portrayal of the village is dull and dry. The arrival of the drowned man brings in the possibilities of new changes and vivid futures for the village. Those possibilities represent symbols. In the story, the author states that the village is consisted of “twenty-old wooden houses that had stone courtyard with no flowers” (Marquez). The villagers search for flowers from neighbors to prepare for his funeral: ”They [buy] more and more until there [are] so may flowers and so many people that it [is] hard to walk around the village” (Marquez). The flowers symbolize a new vision or an epiphany that signifies the immediate transformation of the village. In the end, they acknowledge the man’s extraordinary natures. The drowned man makes the village feel extraordinary that brightens up their paths to a new life. The man also enlightens them to look back at their village. It looks like “the desolation of their streets, the dryness of their courtyards, the narrowness of their dream” (Marquez). But now his greatness creates a sense of inspiration the village feels it.. The flowers indicate the greatness of the drowned man that inspires the whole village to change; the use of allusion shows how much he can inspire people in the third...
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...People often look around their world and see what they believe to be overnight successes. They look at super achievers and think that they achieved their success due to a lucky break or that they made it to the pinnacle of their career without much effort at all. Usually exactly the opposite is true. It is seldom the case that people who have achieved greatness in any field, got there without a whole lot of sweat and tears. Almost every super achiever, I have ever come across, invested many hours into growing their knowledge and/or skill base before they achieved any level of lasting success. I read a number of biographies and have never come across a single super achiever in any of them, who did not have to overcome difficult obstacles and numerous challenges, before they achieved greatness. Achieving any level of success requires persistence, clarity of vision and total commitment toward achieving your goals. If you are looking for an easy road to bring success into your life and you are not prepared to invest time and energy into growing and becoming the type of person you need to be, to attract the level of success you desire. It is very unlikely that you will reach the level of success you want. You may not know the story of persistence and perseverance, behind the success of two authors, who spent a few years going from publisher to publisher, with a dream to publish a book of inspiring short stories. As short stories had never sold very well in the past, no publisher...
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...Nike China’s “Find Your Greatness” Campaign CLIENT NIKE PRODUCT NIKE ENTRANT WIEDEN+KENNEDY SHANGHAI Shanghai, CHINA TYPE OF ENTRY MEDIA: Use of Media CATEGORY Best Use of Social Media Marketing TITLE FIND YOUR GREATNESS PRODUCT/SERVICE NIKE ENTRANT COMPANY : WIEDEN+KENNEDY SHANGHAI Shanghai, CHINA ADVERTISING AGENCY : WIEDEN+KENNEDY SHANGHAI Shanghai, CHINA MEDIA AGENCY : MINDSHARE CHINA Shanghai, CHINA BRAND OWNER: Nike AGENCY: Wieden+Kennedy, Mindshare, AKQA, Razorfish BRAND: Nike COUNTRY: China MEDIA BUDGET: 10 - 20 million AMBUSH MARKETING: A marketing technique in which advertisers work to connect their product with a particular event in the minds of potential customers, without having to pay sponsorship expenses for the event. An example of ambush marketing might involve selling music merchandise just outside the grounds of a concert without the consent or awareness of the concert promoters, relying on association with the concert to drive sales. PARASITIC ADVERTISING: A type of marketing that promotes one product at the cost of lost sales for another product. Parasitic advertising often occurs when two products are close substitutes for one another. Firms generally attempt to avoid parasitic advertising within their own product offerings because it is not the most effective way of maximizing the return on ad spending. THE BIG IDEA: Honour the pursuit of greatness, not just gold. Simply to inspire and energize everyday athletes everywhere...
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...Sinatra with the lifetime achievement award. In fact, Sinatra said it was “the best introduction he has ever received.” Few will be able to argue because from a musical standpoint, there is no denying the greatness of Frank Sinatra for it is impossible to ignore the impact that Sinatra had on the entertainment industry. The controversy does not arise from the debate regarding his greatness as an entertainer, but as his greatness as a human being. The question regarding the greatness of any human being will never be answered. Human beings will never be in agreement as to what makes one “great.” Virtues and qualities held as the criteria for greatness for some people will be deemed by others as insignificant. Without having any interaction with a person for ourselves, the closest that we are able to come to a decisive answer on the greatness of a man is to examine his life with regard to what others have said about him. The biography is an author’s attempt to portray the life of an individual so that others may attempt to answer the question of greatness. However, in reading a biography with the attempt of understanding an individual, one must recognize that there is another subjective bias introduced. In a personal encounter, one can judge for oneself the greatness of the...
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...7/10/2013 | [Type the author name] | Toshiba | Too Greatness And Beyond! | Toshiba | Too Greatness And Beyond! | It is always one thing to see it on paper than it is to live it in real life. According to the Human metrics Survey I tend to be an Extrovert, Intuitive, and slightly judging. I was pleased to hear about the extrovert and intuitive traits however I don’t like to think of myself as being judgmental. Then VALS survey states that I am more of Experiencer, and an achiever. Lastly the attached survey has me in the 41-50 point brackets. As I answered the questions I felt like a totally different experience like I was making a personal judgment of myself. At first I was concerned I might try to fix my results however I believe that I avoided doing so. The three surveys all sum me up as an interested, outgoing achiever. I see this as a very accurate representation of me. While I am at work I often socialize and make myself the center of attention would lines up with the HR-Survey, I also find myself constantly making slight judgments at people at work, school, and even online. The one piece of information I was most interested in reading was the Achiever that the VALS survey had stated me as. I always thought of myself as the outgoing willing to do anything once type person. Yet seeing the achiever surprises me not because it doesn’t fit me but because it fits me better than all the rest. I have goals in life, starting a family, building a career, making my impact...
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...Work / Of Woman, and of Wife“(line 3-4). The “honorable work” Dickinson writes about is that women were relied upon to be in charge of the house. The ironic tone sets up the following stanza. It talks about everything a woman gives up when she becomes a wife. The wife loses things, “Of Amplitude, or Awe – / Or first Prospective – Or the Gold” (6-7). She loses her potential of becoming a great person when she decides to marry. She is also not given the chance to experience new things or even get a job for herself. The last stanza expresses the wasted potential of the wife. Dickinson compares a wife’s potential to a pearl that, “lay unmentioned… But only to Himself” (9, 11). The wife is hidden like a pearl and that only the husband sees the greatness his wife is able to achieve. Although being a wife is a noble job, Dickinson has seen too many women waste their potential becoming one. “Much Madness is Divinest Sense” starts off with an inversion. Emily Dickinson calls madness the “divinest Sense– / To a discerning Eye” and calls sense “the...
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...The Problems of Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell 8/4/14, 13:49 Project Gutenberg's The Problems of Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Problems of Philosophy Author: Bertrand Russell Release Date: May 2, 2009 [EBook #5827] Last Updated: February 7, 2013 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY *** Produced by Gordon Keener, and David Widger THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY By Bertrand Russell http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5827/5827-h/5827-h.htm Page 1 of 68 The Problems of Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell 8/4/14, 13:49 Contents . CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. PREFACE APPEARANCE AND REALITY THE EXISTENCE OF MATTER THE NATURE OF MATTER IDEALISM KNOWLEDGE BY ACQUAINTANCE AND KNOWLEDGE CHAPTER V. DESCRIPTION CHAPTER VI. ON INDUCTION CHAPTER VII. ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF GENERAL PRINCIPLES CHAPTER VIII. HOW A PRIORI KNOWLEDGE IS POSSIBLE CHAPTER IX. THE WORLD OF UNIVERSALS CHAPTER X. ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF UNIVERSALS CHAPTER XI. ON INTUITIVE KNOWLEDGE CHAPTER XII. TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD CHAPTER XIII. KNOWLEDGE, ERROR, AND PROBABLE OPINION CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. . BY THE LIMITS...
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...LITTLE BLACK BOOK FOR ROBIN SHARMA'S STUNNING SUCCESS 1 © ROBIN SHARMA LITTLE BLACK BOOK FOR STUNNING SUCCESS “People who have achieved great success are not necessarily more skillful or intelligent than others. What separates them is their burning desire and thirst for knowledge. The more one knows, the more one achieves.” ~ Robin Sharma CONNECT WITH ROBIN: http://www.facebook.com/theofficialrobinsharmapage http://www.twitter.com/_robin_sharma Thank you. http://www.robinsharma.com © 2011 by Robin Sharma LITTLE BLACK BOOK FOR STUNNING SUCCESS 2 © ROBIN SHARMA By International Bestselling Author Robin Sharma THE LEADER WHO HAD NO TITLE A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life “If you want to operate at the level of ‘WOW!’ be an exceptional leader, and live life ‘full out’, buy this book.” Darren Hardy, publisher, SUCCESS magazine In The Leader Who Had No Title, You Will Learn: • How to work with and influence people like a superstar, regardless of your position • A method to recognize and then seize opportunities in times of deep change • The real secrets of intense innovation • An instant strategy to build a great team and become a "merchant of wow" with your customers • Hard-hitting tactics to become mentally strong and physically tough enough to lead your field • Real-world ways to defeat stress, build an unbeatable mind-set, unleash energy, and balance your personal life Regardless of what you do within your organization...
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...Yergon begins her piece in an inspired and hopeful tone as she highlights her experience at the exhibition, which has been “on [her] mind” ever since. Her unthreatened and disarming statement creates a safe space for the readers as they feel more calm and unthreatened by Yergon. She moves to a more dramatic and darling tone as she describes the individuals who have been apart of space exploration as “influential, “great” and “brave[ry]” These adjectives have positive connotations and is a associated with heroes, thus aiming to position reader to want to aspire and become an “influential thinker” by emulating their thoughts and actions and hence, may exert pressure on government officials to invest more in space exploration. The generalisation...
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...has to go to the store and buy some ink. If she weren’t to deliver the assignment she would get kicked out of the literature school. On her way to the store she notices a glove which has it middle finger pointed at the sky, and also she visits a museum that has an exhibition about life and death. The longer she walks the more clear she‘s starting to see how bad of a life she has been living and at the end of the story we get to see that she ends up writing her assignment because she knows it is the right thing to do. The plot structure in the short story is man against self, because Ellie has been struggling both mentally and physically. When she gets to see other people and how there are living their life with purpose it fills her with greatness and love and makes her feel like she has a purpose with her life as well. The climax of the short story is when Ellie is wandering around and sees the museum....
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...beginning of the founding of the nation. Although immigration is said to have slowed down during the last couple of years, According to Pew Research 40.4 million immigrants lived in the U.S. in 2011 and the population of foreign born was a total of 13%, it also states that immigrant populations has increased 30% since the year 2000” ("Pew Research Hispanic Center", 2013). After reading trough the history of immigration in the U.S and understanding the full extent of our diversity, it is striking that we can still hold so much prejudice towards those that are different or foreign. All Americans except for those of Native American descent come from ancestors who migrated to the U.S.at some point in history. * * * * The greatness of our country is in great part due to its immense diversity. Each culture has strengths and, talents that have contributed in different areas, these “strengths and talents” also create weakness and division because we have to divide our...
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...The pros and cons of Wikipedia This month Wikipedia celebrated its sixth birthday. Earlier this month the number of articles in English on Wikipedia crossed 1.5 million (the number stands at 1,587,588 as of this writing). This number grows by almost 2000 every single day. Compared to this the number of articles in Encyclopedia Britannica (over 122,264) is a far cry. More than a million people visit Wikipedia every day (more than half of whom visit the English language pages). 5 out of every 100 internet users visit Wikipedia daily. Only 11 other sites are visited by more people. Wikipedia is very often at the top of Google search results (almost always in the top 10 results) for things ranging from ideologies (communism - 1, capitalism - 1); sports (cricket - 2, football - 3); sciences (economics - 1, literature - 3); places (India - 1, France - 1, Budapest - 2); people (Sachin Tendulkar - 1, Einstein - 2); objects (water - 2, chair - 1). Many things are taking place here. On the one hand, articles are being created at a rate, depth, and detail, which are utterly unprecedented. For instance, Wikipedia has detailed and easily accessible articles about "Triskaidekaphobia" and "Perfidious Albion" while a careful search did not reveal any relevant articles in Britannica. On the other hand, more and more people are consulting, quoting, referring to Wikipedia on any number of issues. It is rare to see a blog post these days which does not link to Wikipedia for the background info...
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...The title of a novel creates the first ideas and pictures of Gatsby before any word is read; great describes Gatsby in simple language and places him on a pedestal before the events of the novel unfold for the reader. Fitzgerald gives the first example of Gatsby’s greatness when describing his mansion as “a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden,” (Fitzgerald 5) but the diction chosen also creates an oxymoron between a great house that is simply a new imitation. For the reader, this brings up the possibility of Gatsby’s facade while also setting the stage for further exploration of outward...
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...Text 1: “Art; Is It Art? Is It Good? And Who Says So?” by Amei Wallach “It seems pretty clear by now that more or less anything can be designated as art.” This is true, whether or not I think something looks beautiful, or a song sounds melodic it can still be considered art. Sculptures made of trash can be considered art, where I just see someone's leftovers gone rotten. Just like a pile of trash has the possibility of turning into a million dollar sculpture, all art has the possibility of turning into great art. Art isn't great because it looks beautiful to everyone: it's great because it inflicts emotion in the viewer. I look at garbage and see garbage, someone else looks at garbage and sees the struggle of the forgotten few. Wallach quotes artist Richard Prince, who says that there will not be “a consensus” in a room of people. For Prince, his art is good because he feels good when he makes it. It's the fact that his art causes him to feel that makes it great....
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