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    Nicholas Sherwood 04/20/2013 Motivation I am interested in researching motivation because I have a very large interest in my own personal motivation. All humans are significantly unique in their own way. What makes them unique is the ability to express what they want in life. What they want can be as diverse as eating food to becoming rich. It is the drive in their motivation‚ and the feelings and emotions that they feel during their drive that makes humans behave this way. That is why this

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    9 August 2012 “You have rejected the best earth could offer:” …and it was worth it The short stories “The Birth-mark” and “The Artist of the Beautiful‚” both written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1846‚ demonstrate and attempt to symbolize the boundaries of beauty in society. In “The Birth-mark‚” the young and exquisite Georgiana has simply one imperfection‚ a red hand-shaped birth-mark on her cheek‚ which her husband‚ a prominent chemist by the name Aylmer desires to have removed. In “The Artist of

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    expectation that Gatsby fulfills to be a modern day tragic hero is that he has a Hamartia. His Hamartia is his obsession over having Daisy to himself.He considers her as the last thing in life that he needs in order to have perfection. She is the only unrealistic dream that he chases and in the end‚ dies because of her‚ which is symbolic of her devastating impact on his life. Everything he does in life is geared towards his goal of having Daisy’s love. A quote to show when Nick realizes Gatsby’s Hamartia

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    changes in Janie as she marries different men in an attempt to discover happiness in a loving marriage. As the bees interact with the tree’s blossoms‚ she witnesses perfection in nature’s simple beauty‚ which is captured in her imaginative description. This energy‚ passionate interaction‚ and blissful harmony are ideals Janie chases throughout the rest of the novel. As the protagonist sees harmony with nature‚ she ultimately seeks harmony within herself‚ as her final husband Tea

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    The author Thomas Hardy lived and wrote in a time of difficult social change‚ when England was making its slow and painful transition from an old-fashioned‚ agricultural nation to a modern‚ industrial one. Businessmen and entrepreneurs‚ or "new money‚" joined the ranks of the social elite‚ as some families of the ancient aristocracy‚ or "old money‚" faded into obscurity. Hardy ’s novel Tess of the d ’Urbervilles clearly illustrates his views on the harsh social changes in his time period‚ which were

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    Norman Rockwell. Capturing the small-town life of an everyday American scene was Rockwell’s way of creating the world that wasn’t perfect into his own view of a place that was. With the Rockwell creativity of drawing his perspective of an American perfection; Edward Hopper created otherwise. Creating more realistic and expressed his feelings into the paintings‚ going by one of his favorite art teachers‚ Robert Henri sayings‚ “Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.” Norman

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    CASE 1: Andreas_Suchanek__Business_Ethics_and_the_Golden_Rule I. Introduction: In a corporation‚ the leaders are always required to perform a perfect management ability‚ which plays an important role in the firm’s success. The perfection here includes business ethics. In fact‚ moral standards are real challenges for every business because the conflict between corporate ethics and success happens sometimes. The leaders can solve this situation through three perspectives: take a position on criticism

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    Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Extension Partnership’s Lean Network is “a systematic approach to identifying and eliminating waste through continuous improvement‚ flowing the product at the pull of the customer in pursuit of perfection” (Kilpatrick‚ 2003). The term

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    Quick Write #1: Dystopia/Utopia 1.No‚ because a utopian society expects too much from everyone in the society. Plus‚ if someone in the society feels different or wants to rebel against the society’s unity‚ there could be a fracture in the perfection. People are meant to be special and different‚ not forced into sameness and conforming to society. There was a study performed on Brain Games‚ a Television show on National Geographic Channel‚ where there was a line of 10 people long and the first nine

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    Is plastic surgery safe or necessary? What the girls want to do for their 16th birthday nowadays? About 15 years ago they asked for a new dress‚ shoes; now they want breast enlargements. The problem of plastic surgeries being performed on minors is really controversial. Should adolescents be able to get what they want before they reach maturity or not? Young teen’s these days are influenced by the pressure of media and their parent’s actions‚ not thinking about their health‚ and becoming too

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