The book ‘Major in Success’ by Patrick Combs is essentially a self-help book for college and life. Along with providing many real life success examples‚ Combs does a good job in anticipating the arguments against his ideas and answers them. ‘Major in Success’ has some great advice as well as some major flaws. The ‘aim for the stars’ mentality is good in fairy tales‚ but in today’s cut throat job market‚ job searching individuals have to pull out all the stops. Combs does not go into
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Unbroken is about Louie Zamperini‚ an olympian who has to join to join the army and fight in world war 2. Louie later gets captured by the Japanese and gets abused in the POW camps for two and a half years. This book is broken into five parts and the part one is about Louie early childhood. “At five‚ he started smoking‚ picking up cigarette butts while walking to kindergarten.” Louie childhood was rough‚ he was know for making trouble and always getting in fights with his bullies. Louie was the
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Markus Clancy Evangelism Luke Fetters Blue Like Jazz essay December 9‚ 2010 In the book Blue like Jazz there is a couple of conversion stories I would like to talk about. The first one comes from Chapter 4. It is the conversion of Millers friend Penny. Penny was a person who did not like Christians and Christianity based on the stereotypes that she had seen and the world has given to them. In the chapter it says that Penny wanted nothing to do with Christianity until she met a friend from
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It’s not luck is an extremely well written book that mixed fiction with solid business and human-relations principles. The book demonstrates a lot about theory of constraints. This made it very easy to read and it was almost hard to put down. Alex and his team have been promoted to a key position in their corporation. Great pressure is put on Alex and his team to turn the faltering business around. In the book Alex’s main goal is to help out three companies ICosmetics‚ the printing company and the
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The book‚ Soul Surfer is a biography written by Bethany Hamilton. It is a true story about how she was attacked by a shark at the age of thirteen. She was surfing in Hawaii with her family and her friend Alana and suddenly a tiger shark attacked her and she lost her left arm. This story helps us realize that even when we are in a bad situation‚ like Bethany‚ we should always have faith‚ like she did. According to Bethany‚ this attack came from out of the blue. She said‚” the water was crystal clear
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RP1 Choice Essay In the book “Ready Player One” the world is in an era with an extreme amount of virtual contact‚ even to the point where students can go to school in the OASIS. The author’s idea of an online school is a perfect solution to many harrowing experiences that can happen to a high school student at school. Firstly‚ the approach of online schools‚ allows the students to engage in simulations‚ leading into more hands on work‚ with little to no risk of injury in students. For example
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The White Tiger – A Review “Neither you nor I speak English‚ but there are some things that can be said only in English.” - Aravind Adiga Aravind Adiga was born in Chennai during the mid-1970s to parents who hailed from a small city in Karnataka. He was welcomed into a very well educated and well-connected family. He kept the name of his family flying high when he ranked 1st in the State of Karnataka in the SSLC exams in 1990. He also went on
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Sexuality in Black and White: Data from 783 Undergraduates Knox‚ D. and Zusman M. E. (2009) Sexuality in Black and White: Data from 783 Undergraduates. Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality‚ Volume12 Summary According to the article there many issues and concerns in human sexuality that blacks and whites views differently between the two races. The sample size for this study included 783 undergrad students who attend Southeastern University. Over 100 items questionnaire were given that was
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Book Report Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? Inside IBM’s Historic Turnaround Louis V. Gerstner Jr. (Author) Lou Gerstner‚ Jr.‚ served as chairman and chief executive officer of IBM from April 1993 until March 2002‚ when he retired as CEO. He remained chairman of the board through the end of 2002. Before joining IBM‚ Mr. Gerstner served for four years as chairman and CEO of RJR Nabisco‚ Inc. This was preceded by an eleven-year career at the American Express Company‚ where he was president of the
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the magic of the white snake China is a fabulous world of stories ‚myths ‚ad legends. Despite of the extensive destruction in its long history ‚the country retained an abundance of unique natural ‚cultural and intellectual treasures. Everything has it’s own significance ‚and each customs reveals a deeper meaning. In china ‚almost each place tells it’s own story. The white snake ‚one of the four great love dramas‚ the ever-lasting classic myths of passion and devotion regard and respect is a part
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