How to Want What You Have “It’s not having what you want. It’s wanting what you’ve got.” - Sheryl Crow The 45-minute drive home last Wednesday night from Leavenworth to Overland Park‚ Kansas gave me some time to think. I just dropped off my younger son‚ Andrew‚ for a five-day personal development seminar‚ and I welcomed the chance to remember a similar night six years ago. Andrew‚ I concluded‚ was fortunate. Attending as a 17-year-old would give him valuable resources he could use for his
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Should Women have equal rights to Men? Men and women should have equal rights in the areas of speech‚ education‚ respect and the right to vote. They should be given their rights so that they have the same social‚ economical and political status as men. It has been a cultural belief of many regions that women exist to be housewives and mothers; these beliefs give women limited roles. They are considered inferior to men in terms of intellect; this has underestimated women’s talents leaving them with
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account for delivering resources‚ they also tend to refer to their success by how much money people have donated and their data often manipulates how people perceive the effectiveness of their donations. In her pamphlet‚ Government Relations Coordinator Jenny Wells encourages Australian citizens to donate more money to the Official Development Assistance (ODA) by explaining how much money Australians have donated in the past and how this affects people in developing countries. Wells uses a table (see
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What Story Should Be told? 30 min: Did you know that the wealth that belongs to the university of Texas and Texas A & M was funded by oil discoveries? The Texas legislative set aside an original land grant of one million acres for future Texas colleges. But in 1883 another million acres was added to the land endowment. The land reserved for the university was very dry and wasn’t thought of to be worth much‚ especially not 4.4 billion dollars! Oil was first struck on this land in 1923 and in that
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22 Iss: 6 pp. 611 - 622 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02651330510630249 Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided by NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TRAINING & INDUSTRIAL For Authors: If you would like to write for this‚ or any other Emerald publication‚ then please use our Emerald for Authors service. Information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information
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No one under the age of 21 should be allowed to have tattoos. Many young adults have not completely considered the permanence of a tattoo and how it can affect their lives. This decision is threatening to one’s job‚ image‚ and life. Some jobs do not hire people who have tattoos‚ regardless of their skill in a certain field. Some employers fear that a representative of their company who has a tattoo can mislead customers or co-workers. When tattoos are exposed people look at you differently. They
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The Legal System Imagine you are the director of health information services for a medium-sized health care facility. Like many of your peers‚ you have contracted with an outside copying service to handle all requests for release of patient health information at your facility. You have learned that a lobbying organization for trial attorneys in your state is promoting legislation to place a cap on photocopying costs‚ which is significantly below the actual costs incurred as part of the contract
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The trade of organs has been a controversial issue for a long time all over the world. The article “Why Selling Kidneys Should Be Legal” is published by The New York Times in December‚ 2011. The article is written in an effective manner to attract the audience and argue for the legalization of selling kidneys and compensation for donors. By using personal experience to grab the audience’s attention‚ with the aid of false analogies as well as rhetorical techniques‚ the article is relatively effective
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Have you ever gotten home after school and realized how much homework you have due the next day and all of the tests you have to study for? Most teens have been in this situation once or more times before. It happens really frequently. Some kids get really stressed out and can not finish all of the work. This can cause you to get a zero on the assignment and hurt your average. Kids should have less homework. Homework does not serve a purpose. Kids go to school to learn things. We learn for eight
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is considered an American? What does mean to be an American? It is perhaps unsurprising that the traits Americans like to ascribe to themselves are somewhat different from those that foreigners tend to ascribe to them. Indeed‚ if you ask an American to describe his fellow citizens‚ he is likely to tell you that they are affable‚ hardworking and patriotic people; but if you ask some foreign commentators or observers such as a prominent photographer from Switzerland‚ Robert Frank‚ he will have a different
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