Nothing ventured‚ noting gained «Nothing ventured‚ nothing gained” idiom means that it is necessary to take risks in order to achieve something. Speaking about investments‚ you have to invest your own money somewhere to make financial gains. There are many different types of investors such as venture capitalists investing in start-ups‚ investment banks or insurance companies investing in securities portfolios‚ and just people investing in property‚ fine art‚ antiques‚ rare books and wine. I’m
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How Can I be Saved? The question that many based their lives around and tried to find a constant answer to. Although there is no clear concise answer‚ Martin Luther‚ a German priest‚ believed the answer lay in the Bible and in the hands of God (Eriks). He thought predestination was the correct way of thinking. This is contradictory towards what Desiderius Erasmus‚ a Renaissance scholar‚ thought. He thought that free will was the answer‚ and that how a person acted and lived their life would decide
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Paige Harbarugh 5th period How the Irish Saved Civilization. Thomas Cahill’s book takes place between the fall of Rome and the beginning of the Middle Ages. During that time‚ Europe had grand libraries‚ but they were burned down by Germanic invaders. With this‚ most of Western literature was destroyed. Around AD 390‚ a child by the name of Patricius was born. He spent the first sixteen years of his life in in the comfort of a Roman civitas‚ but became a slave to one of the hundreds of Irish
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JFK Saved the Day President John F. Kennedy was faced with tough decisions during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Many of his advisors advocated a military assault on Cuba. With the power of hindsight‚ we now know that any type of invasion would have led to Cubans retaliating with ready short range nuclear weapons. The theory of brinksmanship and MAD (mutually assured destruction) did not seem to discourage or dissuade the Cubans‚ particularly Castro. JFK’s decision to merely blockade Cuba and seek diplomatic
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Wilbur’s case‚ it saved his life. Charlotte used the power of perception to make people see Wilbur as more than just a pig to make bacon out of. She was able to have people perceive Wilbur as “ Some pig‚ Terrific‚ Radiant and even Humble” . Even though Wilbur himself didn’t think he was radiant‚ standing under the web tall‚ made it believable. When the crowd seen Wilbur standing under whatever word was written‚ they all believed whatever Charlotte put up on her web‚ and each time it saved Wilbur’s life
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Should This Team be Saved By Hollis Heimbouch Peter Markles was hired by Vigor Skin Care to turn around the deteriorating business unit; it was a division of one of the largest packaged consumer goods companies in North America. The challenge Peter had to make was to rejuvenate the business‚ and at first Peter was speechless. He knew he had to put together a team in order to pull this off. He got together with Sandy and Josh. For four years they worked together and turned Vigor’s fortunes
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constant fear and misery‚ Now‚ does that compare to being taken from your home and having to pursue your own entertainment? Two children‚ Elie and Shorty‚ survived these trials and lived to tell the tale. In “Night”‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ and “Baseball Saved Us”‚ by Ken Mochizuki‚ both of the main characters experienced things that changed the way they viewed a variety of subjects.
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CAN THIS BOOKSTORE BE SAVED? Case Study By Vladimir Pimentel Barnes and Nobles is one of the biggest bookstores that has a brick-and-mortal store concept. In the past they were know as a “big bully” that drove small book stores to close down because of their aggressive tactics to have competetetive advantage over them. Nonetheless‚ with the evolving circle of technology they have had a hard time in keeping up with the E-book era. In 2014 E-books increased its reader subscription by 28%
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Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (2006)‚ The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi (1988)‚ and “Out of Despair” by Ellie Wiesel (1990) draw attention to the importance of human dignity during the Holocaust. Human dignity‚ a basic need that everyone is entitled to‚ is the sense of self worth and empowerment; the ethical and moral sense humans have. During the Holocaust‚ many people were stripped of their dignity so they can deteriorate‚ mediating the actuality of their identity. The he removal
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In the Doris Lessing’s passage‚ “You Are Damned‚ We Are Saved‚” she tells us that she was raised in a country where the white minority dominated the black majority. According to Lessing‚ if anyone disagrees with the white‚ he or she would be considered as a demon and would suffer from ostracism. Also‚ Lessing describes a long miner’s strike in Britain‚ during which a miner chose to return to work because he felt that the strike leader had led the strike badly. And because of this‚ the miner was beaten
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