If one tells the truth one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. Pleasure is the only thing one should live for. Nothing ages like happiness. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime. Vulgarity is the conduct of others. Only the shallow know themselves. Time is waste of money. One should always be a little improbable. There is a fatality about all good resolutions
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point of fifty percent or more ended in divorce court leaving children confused, vulnerable and have them feeling inadequate and self-blamed. In Politics, candidates routinely lie and demonstrate a lack of integrity and truth in campaign statements, the truth or lack of the truth in
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may interpret the text in many ways. They may choose to sympathize with the people of Omelas and agree with the narrator. Or, they may choose to make the revelation that there should be no happiness founded on the misery of others and blindness to truth, and if there is, that happiness is hollow. Omelasian morality seems to be based on the idealistic nature of their society. They see no sin in copulating randomly. It might even be encouraged, perhaps with the addition of drugs and alcohol
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Back to the Future Noga Sklar Back in the ugly days when my mother was just entering her long battle with alzheimer’s disease (no capitals, please) and telling deranged stories, newly crafted versions of her past, I was stunned by the discovery that all of them had a strongly negative bias. I wondered why. If she were reinventing her life, why wouldn’t she try to improve it? She made a point of affirming that I hated her, that my brother and I hated each other; I even have a subtle memory that she
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Outline of “Letters to the Editor” There are two letters one from each side of two different views on filming children left alone, making their own decisions on living life, and then broadcasting it. There is one pro the idea and one against it. The letter pro the idea comes from Andrew Mackenzie, head of factual entertainment and he writes that every show that is broadcasted had to follow Ofcoms’ guidelines. That means that the children were in good hands throughout the whole program. The parent
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A master at blending cynicism and truth, Wislawa Szymborska is known for her poetry “that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality.” She delves into the nuances of human nature, and questions how humans construct self-perception based on societal values and their inborn anthropocentrism. Szymborska’s poems “Hatred” and “View With a Grain of Sand” focus on the ironic nature of the beliefs and values in human construction of self-image:
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The Day Sisyphus Escaped the Assembly Line The short story “The Sandwich Factory” is written by Jason Kennedy in 2007 and tells the story of a male individual’s time at a sandwich factory in 1994. We hear of the narrator’s low-paid, meaningless job where mechanization has made the workers’ task subordinate and absurd. He works at a conveyor belt that spits out two loafs of bread. The mission of the employers is then to place ingredients in the sandwiches while the product is moving past them. They
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the story, she already had this characteristics but never realize that beauty is something that the eyes cant see , that the hands cant touch.
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Vince Lombardi once said, “Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity-- having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.” I do believe, that I have the capacity, willing to use it at any time, and a good character to become a great leader but, leaders aren’t born, they are made. The people that molded me the most, are all my coaches
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fashion is its ability to transform objects into symbols. Clothes are transformed into fashion garments and the body becomes the fashion body.” (67) In this essay, I will discuss, using various readings, about how women’s bodies are moulded by society and how it shifts with the current ideals of beauty. I will also elaborate on how the body is used as a shell to depict what the inside holds, in other words, the identity of the being residing in it. I will use Michel Foucault’s theories to explain how
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