Writing 121 9 June 2014 Response: Get a Knife‚ Get a Dog‚ but Get Rid of Guns Molly Ivins‚ a liberal columnist who was made famous by picking fun at her home state of Texas and mocking politicians‚ battled breast cancer before she died in 2007. Although her essay‚ Get a Knife‚ Get a Dog‚ but Get Ride of Guns is over a decade old‚ her words are still a hot topic today. Molly Ivin’s essay takes on the gun control debate‚ engaging the audience with a sarcastic perspective that leaves them asking
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“I will honor Christmas in my heart‚ and try to keep it all year‚” (Ebenezer Scrooge). A Christmas Carol (Dickens 1832) is one of the most well known Christmas stories of all time. The story begins on Christmas Eve when Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts starting with his old business partner Marley‚ then followed by the Ghosts of Christmas past‚ present‚ and future. Each ghost that visited Scrooge takes him through his own past‚ present and future and shows him how his actions have affected
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Christmas Carol‚ both the play and the movie‚ have many similarities with just as many differences. Although the movie was created as a follow-up to the play‚ there were many times where the movie was completely different. On occasion‚ there would be times where you could follow along to the movie with the script‚ but most of the time‚ it would be somewhat the same.The script compared to the movie is more informing and fills in empty holes. Although watching the movie is easier‚ in order to get all of
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There is some truth to the statement "what gets measured gets done" with respect to the work environment‚ discuss. I believe the maxim “what gets measured gets done” (accredited to among others‚ Peter Drucker in his 1954 book ’The Practice of Management’) does hold a semblance of truth when associated within the business world. However‚ I would argue that the sentence in itself is incomplete. Between the ‘measuring’ and ‘getting done’‚ mangers need to insert both critical analysis of the measurements
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The Play and the Movie Based on A Christmas Carol Sometimes one person or action can turn somebody else greedy‚ lonely‚ or sad. Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol is about Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghost of Jacob Marley. Ebenezer Scrooge was a lonely and greedy man‚ similar to Jacob Marley. Jacob Marley was Scrooge’s business partner before he passed away. The play and the movie of A Christmas Carol have both many similarities and very little differences. In the play‚ the Ghost of Christmas Past
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Dickens’ The Christmas Carol and 19th century British society Dickens’ The Christmas Carol is known as a cute exaltation of the Christmas spirit’ of charity and love for our fellow man. Almost everyone growing up as a kid has read or seen some kind of version of The Christmas Carol during the holidays in the month of December. It is a story about a tightfisted lonely man known as Scrooge who learns to give and receive love which I think we would all agree is
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some tips to get rid of that stress through good time management practices 1. Get help One of the biggest reasons why many people fail to accomplish all they want to accomplish is because they don’t let others help them. "Nobody can do it better than me" or "I need to do this myself" will cause a lot of stress because let’s face it‚ you only have 24 hours in your day and only 2 hands. Try to delegate tasks that can be done just as well or even
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I favored the DVD over the written version of A Christmas Carol. Short stories and novels are not as interesting in my opinion. The book had a much darker tone throughout it. The movie had a slightly more lighthearted tone‚ with Scrooge laughing more often. There are multiple differences between the film and book‚ A Christmas Carol. Scrooge does not meet Tim on the street waiting for his father. The book does not tell a part about just Tim and his father. Marley’s ghost does not say his name repeatedly
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You find the individual BMI by a maths calculation using the height and weight of the person‚ its calculated by multiplying the weight in pounds by 703 then dividing the answer by the height in inches‚ The total number you get is BMI of the body‚ the‚ I also found out what the number mean for example if the BMI is less than 18.5 the body is under weight and if the BMI is 30+ the body is obese. Formula = Weight in Pounds / (Height in inches x Height in inches) x 703. A unit equal to the kilocalorie
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What gets rewarded gets done A Psychological and behavioral explanation The nature of human behavior is‚ humans do things to satisfy their unmet needs in some way or the other. These needs may vary from the very basic such as hunger to reach the greater heights of life. Whatever it may be‚ when he realizes that some actions he takes lead to satisfy his needs‚ he tends to do them in a superior way‚ expecting the satisfaction of his needs in a greater manner. On the other hand‚ if a person perceives
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