A Reading of Linda Pastan’s “Pass/Fail” Often poems can be hard to read and confusing. Linda Pastan’s poem “Pass/Fail” is pretty easy to understand but it also has deep meaning. This poem can be seen as representing test anxiety and also other anxiety you have as you go through life making decisions. The effect the writer is trying to achieve is that overcoming anxieties can be hard but if you do not accept reality you will never succeed. It seems as if the writer is saying
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In Zinsser William essay “The Right to Fail”‚ he talks about people’s right to take risks and chances. He explains that there is nothing wrong with making mistakes‚ but a lot of people consider this as a bad thing. In order to become successful‚ sometimes we need to fail couple times to learn new things‚ to find out what our strengths and weaknesses. Simply failure is a way to achieve that. People weren’t born perfect. Perfection or success is an achievement which takes time‚ practice and patience
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CHAPTER ONE Failed States‚ Collapsed States‚ Weak States: Causes and Indicators ROBERT I. ROTBERG Nation-states fail because they are convulsed by internal violence and can no longer deliver positive political goods to their inhabitants. Their governments lose legitimacy‚ and the very nature of the particular nation-state itself becomes illegitimate in the eyes and in the hearts of a growing plurality of its citizens. The rise and fall of nation-states is not new‚ but in a modern era when
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“The Right to Fail” William Zinsser pages 352-356 1) Zinsser’s thesis would be “For the young‚ dropping out is often a way of dropping in” he supports this thesis by giving examples of people who have not succeeded educationally but have still reached some type of success through other things 2) He defends his thesis by saying that failure isn’t fatal‚ that the people that do only come out stronger than the ones that haven’t. He cites the hero‚ Holden Caulfield‚ of The Catcher in the
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Nice discussion post this week! I found Dave Ramsey’s seven baby steps to financial peace very beneficial as well. In this example this week had a similar approach on what we would do in this situation. I think it is very beneficial to have some money in an emergency fund and investing some of the sign on bonus money in order to receive more money to have a secure future. Doing this will actually lead to even more money in the future as well. Putting $1‚000 in an emergency fund is very important
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Fail to Succeed Hello‚ I would like to introduce you to a different way of thinking about failure. Most of us know or see successful people in our daily lives. Some of us wonder if we will ever be successful. Some of us think that the successful person has always been this way. I have even heard people comment that success was given to that successful person. Either way you look at it or whatever you think about success. I can assure you most of the successful people you see became successful
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SERVE ONE ANOTHER Thesis: Serving one another is a command to all believers. It is in serving one another that we show the love of Christ. I. Serving one another theologically A. Definition of the word “serve” 1. Greek meaning 2. Reference support of the meaning B. What the Bible says about serving one another 1. Living as Christ’s example to serve others (Mark 10:45) 2. Serving is loving (Galatians 5:13) 3. Humility in serving (1 Peter 5:5-7 II. Serving one another
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Gonzaga tennis courts. The picture depicts a tennis player in the motion of serving the ball. The purpose of the serve is to get the ball from the baseline‚ where the server stands‚ to the crosscourt service box. The goal of the server is to strike the ball in a way that makes it difficult for the opposing player to return it after one bounce in the opposite service box. The difficulty of the serve return can be increased through a combination of spin put on the ball and manipulation of ball velocity through
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strong military influence in the country etc. However‚ we must realize that these are not the reasons for the failure of the system; rather these are problems emanating from this failed system. I believe that democracy has failed because it is bound to fail. There are a number of arguments for this claim. Firstly‚ democracy is the political system of capitalism‚ which originated when a peace was made between thinkers and clergy‚ a compromise based on separation of church and state i.e. the church will
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nursing assistants in the Voluntary Aid Detachments‚ VAD. Women in the VAD had only basic first aid training and were not paid‚ so they tended to come from wealthy families. Women worked beside the husbands for the first time in history The Right to Serve procession made the government change their minds about women working as this was the only way to keep up production‚ whilst The Sexual Qualification Act actually allowed women to work in the same jobs as men. In 1919 Oxford allowed women to study
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