...To Thine Own Self Be True By Dong L., Irvine, CA “Do you notice how Rachael always kisses-up to her teachers? It’s disgusting. She’s so fake.” Ten minutes later… “Heyy Rachael! Haven’t talked to you in a while. Wanna go to Starbucks after school?” Fake – this is probably the most commonly criticized and yet most widely adopted trait in everyday life. Everyone openly condemns it, but consciously or not, everyone exhibits it. Consider these daily examples: that convincing smile put on just for a teacher or boss, that superficial compliment uttered to flatter and please, and that boastful exaggeration intended to impress. At this point you might be thinking “I’m not like this. I’m not fake like everyone else.” Really? You’re not? Take a step back and contemplate whether you have altered the way you act/dress/talk over the past few years. And if so, why? Is it because you think Ugg boots are simply gorgeous or because they are the vogue these days? Is it because you are genuinely interested in latest gossip or because high school life has made you attuned to it? And do those expressions on your face always reflect real emotions or are they oftentimes merely a disguise? It seems that while most people understand the importance of individuality, the “individual” they claim to be is really just a well-garnished, phony mask. Therefore this is the pivotal message that is both universally professed and universally ignored: don’t be fake. How hard could that be? In theory...
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...This above all: to thine own self be true.” -William Shakespeare It is amazing how many of us are not true to ourselves. Some of us allow others to define who we are as people. Some of us do not accept ourselves and try to act differently. Some of us do not even love ourselves. Shakespeare’s quote “this above all: to thine own self be true” is perfect advice that tells us to act, know, and love ourselves as human beings. The first thing I think Shakespeare was trying to tell us was to not let others shape our personalities. I think that the media and our peers often try to make us who they want us to be or what they think is cool. Shakespeare was telling us not to let that happen. In reality, the coolest you can be is yourself. Others will love you for who you are, not who you act as. If they don’t, they are not the people you should hang around with. The second thing I think Shakespeare was talking about in the quote was accepting ourselves. One of the hardest yet best things to do in life is accepting who you are. We all have flaws, but you need to overlook them in yourself and in others. Before you can accept yourself, you also have to know yourself. I believe that there is good in every single person on earth, and whether you intend to or not, you learn more and more about your goodness every day in your kind actions and thoughts. Therefore, when you truly know yourself, which happens over time, you know that you are good, and when you know that you are good, accepting yourself...
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...Hamlet, forces us constantly to question the gap between “being” and “seeming,” the distinction between authenticity and role-playing, and the nature of identity itself. For example, there is arguably a certain integrity to the “antic” persona Hamlet adopts, since it liberates him to speak uncomfortable truths. At the very least, the play suggests that “being true to oneself” is not as straightforward a concept as it seem 1. This above all: to thine own self be trueAnnotate, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Home 2. Blogs 3. The Proverbial Skeptic "To Thine Own Self Be True." Really? by NICHOLAS CLAIRMONT JUNE 6, 2013, 2:03 PM "To thine own self be true," says Polonius in Hamlet. This phrase has become enormously popular, so much so that there are entire Tumblrs of photographs of people bearing "to thine own self be true" tattoos and other paraphernalia. People often appeal to this injunction when they feel defensive and want to say something smart and deep in their own favor. With the added benefit of being a quote due to Shakespeare, saying this faux profundity (fauxfundity?) is often too hard to resist. Without getting into the details of how well-received men and supposed fools are actually treated in...
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...To be, or not to be: that is the question". - (Act III, Scene I). "Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry". - (Act I, Scene III). "This above all: to thine own self be true". - (Act I, Scene III). "Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.". - (Act II, Scene II). "That it should come to this!". - (Act I, Scene II). "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so". - (Act II, Scene II). "What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! ". - (Act II, Scene II). "The lady doth protest too much, methinks". - (Act III, Scene II). "In my mind's eye". - (Act I, Scene II). "A little more than kin, and less than kind". - (Act I, Scene II). "The play 's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king". - (Act II, Scene II). "And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man". - (Act I, Scene III)."This is the very ecstasy of love". - (Act II, Scene I). "Brevity is the soul of wit". - (Act II, Scene II). "Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love". - (Act II, Scene II). "Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind". - (Act III, Scene I). "Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?" - (Act III, Scene...
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...talks about making a difference in the lives of the people you meet or - even more miraculously - possibly those you have not made personal contact with.(THIS IS OK FOR INTRO ) All this is exactly what I want it achieve; it is my aspiration. Even as a child, the burden of leaving a positive legacy has been engraved in my heart. The subtle want to be able to serve those in need was natural. And so, I chose to be a lawyer as it befitted the talents I have.(TOO SHORT FOR THE BODY DETAIL) And so, it is my greatest joy to say that though the path I walk might be rough, the potential for it seems bright. Who knows what life is to bring on my journey, what obstructions will come my way. However, as William Shakespeare would put it, "To thine own self be true" and I will seek no less of that: Determination to not let down my principles. With that, I find peace that someday my desires and wishes for my world will be fulfilled.OK FOR...
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...“To Thine Own Self Be True” “Honey, how do you like my new dress?” The dreaded question that every husband hates to hear. Having learned that an honest answer to such a question will throw the household into turmoil , he tells a little white lie, he looks at his wife and says automatically, “it looks great honey”. It doesn’t matter if the color of the dress makes her look like she has jaundice or like she’s a Paris Hilton wannabee. How many times a day are our abilities to tell the truth put to the test? Daily, we make decisions to questions like, “How are you?” We respond with the obligatory “fine” or “great” or with a truthful five minute description of all our aches and pains, both mental and physical. Constantly society dictates, “Good people don’t tell lies”, but day in and day out we have to make the decision whether we will express our true feelings, the truth, and accept the fallout from others, or say a lie to protect ourselves or our peers. We have to ask ourselves, what is a lie? How often do people lie? At what point does lying become addicting and behavioral? When it comes right down to it, Shakespeare probably had it right when he said, “to thine own self be true.” If truth is what we seek, then we should try to avoid lies. It’s helpful to take these questions out and examine them so that the truth that Shakespeare referred to is something we’ve thought about and made those “self” decisions about. What is a lie? According to Wikipedia, “A lie is a type of...
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...QualNet 5.0.2 User’s Guide March 2010 Scalable Network Technologies, Inc. 6100 Center Drive, Suite 1250 Los Angeles, CA 90045 Phone: 310-338-3318 Fax: 310-338-7213 http://www.scalable-networks.com http://www.qualnet.com Copyright Information © 2010 Scalable Network Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. QualNet is a registered trademark of Scalable Network Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks and trade names used are property of their respective companies. Scalable Network Technologies, Inc. 6100 Center Drive, Suite 1250 Los Angeles, CA 90045 Phone: 310-338-3318 Fax: 310-338-7213 http://www.scalable-networks.com http://www.qualnet.com ii QualNet 5.0.2 User’s Guide Table of Contents Preface................................................................................. xiii Chapter 1 Introduction to QualNet .......................................................... 1 1.1 Overview .................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 QualNet Architecture .............................................................................................. 2 1.3 Scenario-based Network Simulation..................................................................... 4 1.3.1 General Approach .............................................................................................. 4 1.3.2 Creating Scenarios............................................................................................. 4 1.3.3 Files...
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...From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel: Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament, And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content, And, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding: Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee. As the opening sonnet of the sequence, this one obviously has especial importance. It appears to look both before and after, into the future and the past. It sets the tone for the following group of so called 'procreation' sonnets 1-17. In addition, many of the compelling ideas of the later sonnets are first sketched out here - the youth's beauty, his vulnerability in the face of time's cruel processes, his potential for harm, to the world, and to himself, (perhaps also to his lovers), nature's beauty, which is dull in comparison to his, the threat of disease and cankers, the folly of being miserly, the need to see the world in a larger sense than through one's own restricted vision. . From fairest creatures we desire increase, fairest creatures = all living things that are beautiful. increase = procreation, offspring. A reference also to the increase...
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...Or who is he so fond will be the tomb Of his self-love, to stop posterity? Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime: So thou through windows of thine age shall see Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time. But if thou live, remember'd not to be, Die single, and thine image dies with thee . Sonnet V Those hours, that with gentle work did frame The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell, Will play the tyrants to the very same And that unfair which fairly doth excel: For never-resting time leads summer on To hideous winter and confounds him there; Sap cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone, Beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness every where: Then, were not summer's distillation left, A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass, Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft, Nor it nor no remembrance what it was: But flowers distill'd though they with winter meet, Leese but their show; their substance still lives swee SONNET1FROM fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament And only herald to the gaudy spring Within thine own bud buriest thy content And, tender churl, makest...
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...1. | Question : | Please choose the best mechanics correction for the sentence below: “To thine own self be true”, says Polonius to Hamlet in Shakespeare’s tragic play. | | | Student Answer: | | “To thine own self be true” says Polonius to Hamlet in Shakespeare’s tragic play. | | | | “To thine own self be true,” Says Polonius to Hamlet in Shakespeare’s tragic play. | | | | “To thine own self be true,” says Polonius to Hamlet in Shakespeare’s tragic play. | | | | “To thine own self be true”, Says Polonius to Hamlet in Shakespeare’s tragic play. | | Instructor Explanation: | For information on how to correct a mechanical error with a quotation, visit the Ashford Writing Center https://awc.ashford.edu/grammar-punctuation-quotation-marks.html | | | | Points Received: | 0 of 1 | | Comments: | | | | Question 2. | Question : | Please choose the best mechanics correction for the sentence below: In The Writer in All of Us, author June Gould (1989) tells writers that the process of revising an essay allows them to “see with new eyes.” (p. 121). | | | Student Answer: | | In The Writer in All of Us, author June Gould (1989) tells writers that the process of revising an essay allows them to “see with new eyes (p. 121).” | | | | In The Writer in All of Us, author June Gould (1989; p. 121) tells writers that the process of revising an essay allows them to “see with new eyes.” | | | | In The Writer...
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...smile! 3. Call People by Name. The sweetest music to anyone's ear is the sound of his or her own name. 4. Be Friendly and Helpful. If you would have friends, be friendly. 5. Be Cordial. Speak and act as if everything you do were a real pleasure. 6. Be Genuinely Interested in People. You can like everyone if you try. 7. Be Generous with Praise, Cautious with Criticism. Praise will win out when it comes to gaining friends. 8. Be Considerate of the Feelings of Others. It will be appreciated. 9. Be Thoughtful of the Opinions of Others. People love their opinions as they do their own children, calling them ugly won't get you anything but anger. 10. Be Alert to Give Service. What counts most in life is what we do for others! "THE TRUE DECALOGUE" by Apolinario Mabini First. Thou shalt love God and thy honor above all things: God as the fountain of all truth, of all justice and of all activity; and thy honor, the only power which will oblige thee to be faithful, just and industrious. Second. Thou shalt worship God in the form which thy conscience may deem most righteous and worthy: for in thy conscience, which condemns thy evil deeds and praises thy good ones, speaks thy God. Third. Thou shalt cultivate the special gifts which God has granted thee, working and studying according to thy ability, never leaving the path of righteousness and justice, in order to attain thy own perfection, by means whereof thou shalt contribute to the progress of humanity; thus; thou shalt...
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...THE SONNETS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Click here to jump to the Table of Contents COPYRIGHT © 1993 by Adobe Press, Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. The actual sonnets of William Shakespeare are public domain. The design and electronic implementation of this book, however, are copyrighted. Reproduction of this electronic work beyond a personal use level, or the display of this work for public consumption or viewing requires prior permission from the publisher. This work is furnished for informational use only and should not be construed as a commitment of any kind by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Adobe Systems Incorporated assumes no responsibilities for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this work. The software and typefaces mentioned on this page are furnished under license and may only be used in accordance with the terms of such license. Adobe, the Adobe Press logo, Adobe Acrobat, and Adobe Photoshop are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. This work is electronically mastered in Adobe™ Acrobat™. Text was composed in Minion, 13-point. Illustrations were scanned electronically then manipulated using Adobe Photoshop™. CONTENTS I II III IV Copyright How to Use This Book Introduction Numerical First-line Index Alphabetical First-line Index The Sonnets of William Shakespeare V VI Click any line to jump to that section HOW TO USE THIS BOOK • Click the Bookmarks and Page button...
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...According to the Britannica Encyclopedia, an allusion “is an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text. Allusion is distinguished from such devices as direct quote and imitation or parody. Most allusions are based on the assumption that there is a body of knowledge that is shared by the author and the reader and that therefore the reader will understand the author’s referent.” "allusion". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2013. Web. 13 Mar. 2013 <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/16658/allusion>. Dark Lady Sonnets 127-154 127 In the old age black was not counted fair, | Or if it were it bore not beauty's name: | But now is black beauty's successive heir, | And beauty slandered with a bastard shame, | For since each hand hath put on nature's power, | Fairing the foul with art's false borrowed face, | Sweet beauty hath no name no holy bower, | But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace. | Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black, | Her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem, | At such who not born fair no beauty lack, | Slandering creation with a false esteem, | Yet so they mourn becoming of their woe, | That every tongue says beauty should look so. | 128 How oft when thou, my music, music play'st, | Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds | With thy sweet fingers when thou gently sway'st...
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...Kelley’s Attribution Theory Essay In this essay, readers will be presented with the literature review of Kelley’s attribution theory (1967), which was developed after the research done by Fritz Heider on attribution theory (1944, 1958). Moreover, a real world example relating to the theory will also be discussed along with the limitations and the three elements of the theory, which are consistency, distinctiveness and consensus. With that, recommendations will be given on how my experience can be improved with the chosen theory. There have been a great number of research done on perception over the last decade and social psychology had been primarily focused, perceiving causes of a person’s behavior (Kelley and Michela, 1980). In Kelley (1973), it is mentioned that Heider (1958) research has played a major role in contributing to the origination of attribution theory and it is still the major source cited in publications. Kelley’s attribution theory was also built onto Heider’s (1958) theory with an understanding that humans are “naïve psychologists” determining behaviors based on causes and effects (Hewstone and Jaspars, 1987). In Kelley (1973), it was mentioned that the central idea of attribution theory is the causal concept where human’s behavior relies on either the characteristics of the person (internal attribution) or the environment (external attribution). To determine whether a person’s behavior is caused by internal or external attribution, Kelley’s theory requires...
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...not only fro themselves but for their organization and other people. While people choose a job, it is not only for himself, but also for his family and friends. "Decision making is the process of identifying problems and opportunities and then resolving them." (Richard L. Daft, Chapter 9, Pp 238) The process of making a decision is to establish and achieve organizational goals and objectives. People choose jobs that help them reach the targets in their mind and have the promotional opportunities. 2. Using the seven-step decision making model to deicide to choose the best job The Seven-Step Decision Making Model developed by Rick Roberts of the University of North Florida Career Services includes identifying the decision to be made, self-assessment, identifying any options, gather data and evaluate the options, selecting one and designing a course of action(Rick Roberts, 2006). Step one: Identify the decision to be made According to my personal situation, such as currently employed, single, enjoy traveling. There are some problems and opportunities that should be concerned. The problem is that I have no job at present. Finding an appropriate job with good salary is on demand. What's more, I'm planning to get married in three months, if the job is too busy, there will be no time to take care of my family and prepare the wedding. On the other hand, there are some opportunities in this job. Firstly, I like traveling, if traveling is needed in the work, I will not only be...
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