bad mood. For this reason in most of the countries winter celebrations and carnivals are associated with candles‚ fires‚ lights. The bad weather has several negative effects on people’s mood: feeling low concentrated‚ having less energy and low on optimism (even becoming depressed). Due to the bad weather it can be observed that in fall and winter time people are less productive‚ not able to focus‚ low on ideas: they are just not as concentrated as in the other period of year. Everyone can judge
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In this extract‚ McCarthy conveys the anticlimax of the protagonist and his son’s arrival at the “Cold. Desolate. Birdless.” environment of the beach. McCarthy juxtaposes the bleakness of the landscape with the boy’s optimism in order to highlight the boy’s inherent goodness. McCarthy tells the story using narrative voice in this section of the text. He contrasts the third person extradiegetic narrator with the man’s interior monologue in order to convey multiple perspectives to the reader. “He’d
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CEO Overconfidence and Corporate Financial Distress Chao-Rung Ho Taiwan Academy of Banking and Finance Taipei‚ Taiwan‚ R.O.C. Email: 96357505@nccu.edu.tw Yuanchen Chang Department of Finance National Chengchi University Taipei‚ Taiwan‚ R.O.C. Email: yccchang@nccu.edu.tw 1 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2128161 CEO Overconfidence and Corporate Financial Distress Abstract This paper examines the relation between CEO overconfidence and corporate
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Voltaire’s “Candide‚ or Optimism”‚ Aphra Behn’s “Oroonoko”‚ and Ihara Saikaku’s “Life of a Sensuous Woman”‚ women are portrayed differently all around the world. Although these women are from different parts of the world‚ they all share similarities while also having distinguishing factors that differentiates themselves from one another. A few of the female characters present a striking resemblance to women in today’s world‚ while others are greatly different. In “Candide‚ or Optimism” by Voltaire reveals
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such as a bad behavior makes the protagonist to leave from his or her current life’s setting. At the beginning of Candide‚ it tells that Candide was a son of the Baron’s sister. He was a perfect innocent man who worshiped Pangloss‚ a philosopher of Optimism. He listens to Pangloss’ philosophies attentively and believes innocently. These philosophies have caused Candide and Cundegonde to fall in love with each other. The baron finds out about the relationship and kicks Candide out of the castle. This
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are not considered employees‚ but rather as “cast members”‚ and any visitors to their studios and parks are considered as “guests”. There are six main values that makes Disney stand out; 1) innovation‚ 2) quality‚ 3) community‚ 4) storytelling‚ 5) optimism‚ and 6) decency (Culture‚ n.d.). Along with the culture making the Disney Company successful‚ the company’s ability to communicate also helps to make the successful. Communication has played a major role in the Walt Disney Company ever since
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control their behavior in different environments that change who they are‚ personally (Kay‚ Sullivan‚ & Landau‚ 2015). The reciprocal determinism (the person‚ environment‚ and the behavior) is conducted by the control of a person and the optimism. Bandura define optimism as the tendency to explain bad events as
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social and cultural frameworks. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Robert Zemeckis’ film appropriation Cast Away (2000)‚ illustrate a shift in values‚ attitudes and beliefs. The concepts pervading the texts include: optimism grounded in faith of a Christian God versus optimism grounded in human relationships‚ mastery of environment versus existential despair and isolation‚ unwavering belief in human technology versus awareness of limitations in technology‚ and human resourcefulness and ingenuity
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everything does not happen for the best as pangloss had told him in the Baron’s castle. In Europe and in America‚ he encounters misery. He meets a number of people from various branches of life. He comes across many philosophers ranging from the extreme optimism of Pangloss to the pessimistic ideas of Martin. He experiences the love with Miss Cunegonde but learns that he can’t accept it because of the differing social
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philosophical writers have jumped on the bandwagon and put in their two cents of their views on the matter of happiness. Alexander Pope talks about the relationship and purpose man has to the universe in An Essay on Man‚ Voltaire wrote about living in blind optimism with a false notion of happiness in Candide‚ and Samuel Johnson wrote The History of Rasselas‚ Prince of Abyssinia‚ in which the main characters are on a quest to find happiness. Alexander Pope’s‚ An Essay on Man‚ tries to answer the question many
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