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    Oprah Winfrey once stated‚ "Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity‚" meaning that luck is not the random chances in life but precise preparation and opportunity joining to make a successful or failed event. Analyzing this quote‚ one might find that luck is not what people need to believe in but hard work and determination should be one’s motivation. Starting with the meaning of luck‚ it is something that happens to a person by chance with no planning. From just right there one can agree

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    “There is no such thing as luck. People determine their own life”. Do you agree? When one is born or raised in Singapore‚ most cannot help but agree with Thomas Jefferson who said‚ “I am a great believer in luck‚ and I find the harder I work‚ the more I have of it.” This is due to the limitless opportunities that can be found in this meritocratic country. However‚ I do not concur with him as I believe that it is with luck‚ which gives one the opportunities to be born in a meritocratic country‚ or

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    Luck was a factor because‚ at the time a beer company’s beer was going off‚ so they decided to ask Pasteur for help. He then found that germs were the cause of the beer going bad. so therefore luck was most certainly a factor.Each area of land would be split into four sections. The crop that was grown on each field would be rotated so that different nutrients would be taken from the land. In the first year turnips or another root crop would be grown; in the second year barley was grown in the field

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    Its Not Luck All solutions focused on customers; no new capital available as UniCo planned to sell the companies to pay down on debt. I Cosmetics bought for $124 m; valued at $30m; sold for $270 m VCA (Customer’s perspective) Penalized for small orders Large orders sit on shelves/ stockroom (cash flow; obsolete inventory) Consignment model Fill smaller orders more frequently Customer pays when goods sold Reduces A/R for IC  Technical - Decision relevance

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    Figurative language and imagery help develop a selection’s mood‚ character and conflict. In this essay I will compare and discuss how figurative language and imagery help to develop the mood‚ character and conflict of all of the selections done in class. Figurative language and imagery affect mood. Two selections that show how figurative language and imagery affect mood are In Goya’s Greatest Scenes and Nelson Mandela’s Inauguration Speech. In Goya’s Greatest Scenes the author uses figurative

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    Opportune moments 7. Support of family & friends 8. Knowledge 9. Confidence...etc. Success is the co-incident of hard-work and soft-luck! It is a matter of fact that people all want to be successful in life‚ yet everyone has his own definitions of success and distinct ways to achieve it. Many have come to think that people succeed owing to hard work but luck. From my point of view‚ I am in t complete agreement with this statement for some reasons as following. First‚ it goes without saying

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    what is luck

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    Luck is defined as “The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events” or simply “fortune”. However in the Quote “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity”‚ the author leads us to believe otherwise. The quote tells us that luck does not happen by “chance fortune” as the definition implies‚ but comes from being well prepared for the task at hand. The quote as we are familiar with it was stated by Oprah Winfrey in 2010; however it is not often known that the quote is believed to have

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    1. Introduction It has long been accepted that an equal division of resources in a strict sense is implausible. Several alternative egalitarianism theories have since arisen‚ with one being luck egalitarianism. Luck egalitarianism deals with the question of when inequalities can be justified‚ and when they cannot‚ by appealing to agent responsibility. If inequality is a result of the agent’s choice‚ then it is justified. If not‚ then egalitarianism calls for redistribution. Emphasis on agent responsibility

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    luck or opportunity

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    Luck or Opportunity Oprah Winfrey once stated in an interview “luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity”. With that said‚ I do believe it is true. There are some instances that in the past if the opportunity and the preparation didn’t happen then the luck never would have happen. There are examples I would like to mention to show that if it wasn’t for the opportunity then the luck never would have. Christopher Columbus was credited with discovering the new world .If not for the

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    Quality of life ties into geographic luck‚ which had a lot to do with the shaping the cultures of Eurasia‚ South America‚ and Africa. Geographic luck might have been benefit or a detriment to the natives who inhabited the land. It largely depends on what geographic hand you are dealt. Factors which go into making up an area’s geographic luck are climate and how the natives dealt with the weather. Moreover‚ the indigenous people of the continents must have a stable food source so they can get their

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