McCoy: Dear Grads‚ Don’t ’Do What You Love’ - WSJ.com Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is f or y our personal‚ non-commercial use only . To order presentation-ready copies f or distribution to y our colleagues‚ clients or customers‚ use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or v isit www.djreprints.com See a sample reprint in PDF f ormat. Order a reprint of this article now OPINION May 27‚ 2013‚ 6:45 p.m. ET Carl McCoy: Dear Grads‚ Don’t ’Do What You Love’ College commencement
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A psychologist named Jennifer Baumgartner wrote a book called “You Are What You Wear: What Your Clothes Reveal About You.” In this book‚ Jennifer shows that a person’s wardrobe can reflect several psychological problems a person may have. She is also able to connect a person’s clothing to their behavior. Countless people can determine just the same when paying enough attention. A person’s clothing can reveal a wide range of personality traits from functionality to diligence‚ or even to sentimentality
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What makes you happy? Before I answer this question I want to tell something . Do you know what really means to be happy. I think everyone will say yes. But if you don’t know the true meanings of sadness‚ pain and loneliness it means that you don’t know the real happiness. There are 6 billion people living in this world. They are all different and they all have their own lives to live. What I’m trying to say is “Happiness comes with a price”. Like after you finish some hard task successfully
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Why Is Smoking Bad For You? Smoking is responsible for several diseases‚ such as cancer‚ long-term (chronic) respiratory diseases‚ and heart disease‚ as well as premature death. Over 440‚000 people in the USA and 100‚000 in the UK die because of smoking each year. According the US CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)‚ $92 billion are lost each year from lost productivity resulting from smoking-related deaths. Of the more than 2.4 million deaths in the USA annually‚ over 440‚000 are
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Do you think that advertising should be restricted? Why? What form(s) should this restriction take? Advertising is beginning to dominate today’s society‚ brainwashing young‚ vulnerable viewers. Advertising has and will affect everyone‚ whether it’s a new facial wash on a TV advert or the latest mobile phone on a billboard‚ each uses the same manipulation technique to persuade the viewer. Advertising has always affected people of many ages in both positive and negative ways‚ so why is it only now
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What Could be Done to Improve the Lives of the Elderly One of the solutions is‚ that the government should make the right move and start supporting elderly financially‚ as for helping balancing the huge numbers of dissatisfied senior citizens in Lithuania. We all know‚ that after a person retires from his work‚ he is no longer capable of making his own money. A person becomes dependable from the governmental income‚ which is nerve racking‚ because the daily needs are far more expensive than
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Lauren McFall Mr. Gossett English 10H-4 March 17‚ 2008 You are What You Eat Throughout the past twenty years‚ obesity in the United States has drastically increased. Currently‚ one-hundred and seventeen billion people in the United States are obese. Out of those people‚ three-hundred thousand people die each year because of complications due to being over-weight. One out of every four children in the average school in the United States is over-weight. In an effort to combat this growing
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Practice what you preach Any person in the world is an individual and it goes without saying that all people differ. Consequently‚ all of them have different mentality‚ ideology‚ behavior‚ thoughts‚ attitude to the same things and phenomena. Usually since childhood we stand on one path and follow it during all our life. Here the influence of parents‚ grandparents‚ teachers can be seen‚ when we try to copy their adult habits. But it seems to be normal when a little child follows the ideas of
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What factors would you use to decide whether to do you NPV analysis on real or a nominal basis NPV analyses usually involves four steps such as forecasting the benefits and costs of a project in each year‚ determining a discount rate‚ using the NPV formula to calculate‚ and comparing the Net Present Value with other alternative projects. Comparing real (current) and nominal discount rates when conducting an analysis is all based on how detailed of an analysis you’re looking to obtain. Forecasting
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Sexual Misconduct in Schools on the Rise Sable Jiles University of Phoenix Sexual Misconduct in Schools on the Rise Inappropriate sexual behavior among educators and students comes in various degrees – sexual abuse‚ sexual misconduct‚ and sexual harassment. Sexual misconduct between a teacher and student covers a broader scope than sexual abuse and may include some forms of sexual harassment. Studies conducted on sexual misconduct revealed a continuing rise in cases as awareness and improved
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