French parents seem to be more lenient towards their children than the American parents. In which few of the Americans consider that a good way for the child to be supported in‚ from the beginning towards taking decisions and depending on themselves. American mothers overly love for their children lead them sometimes to spoil their kids or reversely make them strict with their kids. In France‚ children are provided more freedom to be who they are than American children‚ in a way. American
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Liberal Arts‚ and the Advantages of Being Useless| 1 Nicholaos Jones Department of Philosophy University of Alabama in Huntsville nick[DOT]jones[AT]uah[DOT]edu 1 Introductory Remarks The trees of the mountain bring their own destruction. The oil in the lamp burns itself. The cinnamon tree is edible‚ so it is cut down. The varnish tree is useful so it is cut apart. All know the advantage of being useful‚ but no one knows the advantage of being useless. - 莊子 [Zhuangzi] (364-290 BCE)‚ Zhuangzi‚
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Parents Should Trust Their Kids Have you ever been on your phone or laptop and your parents come inside the room and start to look over your shoulder to see what your doing? In the article “ The Undercover Parent” they explain why some parents tend to do this with their children and why they might not trust their kids with the internet. In my opinion I think that parents should have trust in their kid and at least check on them once in awhile. My first evidence I have is some parents use spyware
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Liberal art schools work well with the idea of students sharing their own opinions. Westminster college is a place for students to share opinions with one another and be accepted. Over the course of the past month the election has a lot of students feeling uncomfortable with the political outcome. Following the presidential election students began to react immediately. On November 8‚ Donald Trump was elected president-elect of the United States. Many students took directly to social media to express
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The Role of Liberal Arts in a College Education Henry Rosovsky’s article entitled The Purposes of Liberal Education is a brief‚ but extremely accurate and clearly-written explanation of what he feels a liberal arts education entails. The author has had extensive experience in the field of education and has been able to shape and impact many students while being the Dean at Harvard College. For this reason‚ consideration of his ideas on the liberal arts is merited. His standard of liberal education
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Views on liberal education are viewed in a wide range of ideas. William Cronon’s version describes liberal education in ten qualities found in human beings with the largest being love and connecting with the community around the person. Also‚ Cronon speaks of how can a person be free in their education when the requirements set up restricts them of what classes they might want to take; however‚ educated society must serve the common folks of their community. People not only care about themselves
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International Cooperation The nature and sources of liberal international order This article develops a theory of liberal international order that captures its major structures‚ institutions‚ and practices. Distinctive features mark postwar liberal order- co-binding security institutions‚ penetrated American hegemony‚ semi-sovereign great powers‚ economic openness‚ and civic identity. It is these multifaceted and interlocking features of western liberal order that give it a durability and significance
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Issue IV Summary (YES) Were Workers in the Gilded Age Conservative Capitalists? Author: Carl Degler Author Background: Carl Degler is a professor of American History at Stanford University. He is the former president of the American History Society and the Organization of American Historians. He is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history. Thesis: America’s labor movement willfully accepted capitalism and acted conservatively to radical organizational changes in the economic system by corporations
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Throughout history‚ people have always placed an emphasis on education but mainly for knowledge only. In “Liberal Studies and Education‚” Seneca challenges the traditional thinking in education and shows that the ultimate goal of education is acquiring virtue. According to Seneca‚ the path to virtue is through the teaching of purity and the effects of virtue are illustrated through kindliness‚ bravery‚ and temperance. There are many causes of virtue‚ but the most important is the teaching of purity
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For our formal writing project‚ we not only need to analyze one of the articles that we choose from‚ but must also consider a specific focus that can help bring our writing project to a more academic style of writing. So what sort of focus should we use when writing our project? Well first and most importantly we need to ask ourselves this: is the focus we are going to be discussing of any importance‚ and can you back it up with relevant evidence? In
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