The Chronicle Review October 3‚ 2010 What Are You Going to Do With That? Katherine Streeter for The Chronicle Review By William Deresiewicz The essay below is adapted from a talk delivered to a freshman class at Stanford University in May. The question my title poses‚ of course‚ is the one that is classically aimed at humanities majors. What practical value could there possibly be in studying literature or art or philosophy? So you must be wondering why I’m bothering to raise it here‚ at
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What Would You Do? Scenario 1- Della the Delinquent Cat Lady As the president of the board of directors of the cat shelter‚ I am faced with rather or not Ms. Della should remain as part of the staff at the cat shelter. There are several problems that have been brought to my attention and I feel that now is the time to figure out exactly what should be done regarding the matter. After‚ evaluating the situation and giving it a great deal of consideration‚ I have come up several solutions to
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10 steps you can do. It’s been said that everyone has goals‚ whether we know it or not. We have goals to keep our current job‚ or to get a different one. We have goals to save for the future‚ or to travel‚ take a vacation‚ or purchase the things we need and want to make our lives more enjoyable. An important distinction‚ however‚ is that top achievers are very intentional and focused on their goals‚ while many of the rest of us are not. Top achievers know that the wording‚ structure‚ timing and
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Public officials should always tell the truth in the performance of their official duties‚ except for very few occasions:“a crisis where overwhelming harm can be averted only through deceit; complete harmlessness and triviality to the point where it seems absurd to quibble about whether a lie has been told; and the duty to particular individuals to protect their secrets.[1]” as Sissela Bok stated. In addition to national crisis‚ negligible trivialities and confidentiality‚ ongoing operation‚ government
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In this assignment you discuss the advantages and the disadvantages of the first mover and the last mover theories You should provide an unbiased comparison of the two theories. 1. Identify at least four advantages and four disadvantages for each theory and comprehensively show how each advantage or disadvantage affects the use of that theory (a minimum of 16 pros/cons in all). 2. Identify at least four examples of real firms who have been successful and four examples of real firms who have been
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and you have come to realize that he is a model prisoner. He has shown impeccable behavior‚ has a job within the prison‚ has been around the community during furloughs and has become a positive influence and a great role model for other prisoners. Also‚ he has formed a bond with the victim’s family‚ who has forgiven him for what he has done. The victim’s family would like to see him get out on parole because they feel that he has changed his ways and feels that he is very remorseful for what he did
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What do you want to be when you grow up? What are your plans for your future? Have you thought about college? Have you thought about a career choice? These are questions we are bombarded with on a daily basis by our parents. We shrug them off‚ telling them that we have another three years to think about college‚ careers‚ or our future. We don’t know what we want to be when we grow up‚ because we don’t even know who we are yet. Yet in a blink of an eye‚ we’re seniors and now the decisions we tried
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second presentation and the topic was Multinational Corporation vs. Host Country. The three groups that are presenting are Perseverance‚ Esprit de Corps‚ and Royal. . The consortium name is Galaxy Consortium. The presentation started with the opening ceremony when they invited Mr.Said switch on the light. The first group present was Perseverance and the two presenters were Lee Seng Kiat and Yap Kian Hong. They start the presentation on what are Multinational Corporation and the reason to become
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It ain’t what you do‚ it’s what it does to you Simon Armitage writes an adventurous comparison poem to show how powerful imagination is by comparing life long dreams to one’s mundane memories in the poem‚“ It ain’t what you do‚ it’s what it does to you”. The poem displays three imaginative pinnacle-like events and with those events‚ there are three events juxtaposing them. The poem is presented in a manner where the story is based on the experiences of a first-person speaker. The poem follows
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Racism is ignorance among people all around the world. People can be racist because they were brought up to hate a certain ethnicity‚ or they came to dislike them on their own. Either way racism is unjust and should not exist in today’s world. Unfortunately it used to be accepted in society by many people‚ but the world has come so far that petty things like racism should not occur. Racism might not seem like anything to some‚ but it is like the butterfly effect. One racist thing a person says or
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