In 2006 BMW Group confirmed its position as the world’s leading premium manufacturer in the automobile industry with record sales‚ and profits exceeding €4 billion1. Since its inception‚ the BMW brand has stood for one thing: sheer driving pleasure. For many BMW drivers‚ owning a BMW has symbolic meaning of quality‚ efficiency and engineering expertise. BMW’s long-standing marketing message has been simply “the ultimate driving machine”‚ which is now 33 years old‚ (Trout‚ 2005). In 2000‚ BMW linked
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The University of Texas at San Antonio Connecting the Political Dots: How Level of Education Affects Political Party Affiliation Marcos D. Madrigal II Final Draft Pol. 270.003 Professor Effanbee Ayala Introduction The power of America lies within the heart of its people and the ability to have their voices heard. One of the best ways to accomplish this is through an electoral vote. By voting‚ the people of America or any Democratic country can control the route of the government and
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successful. This last point is defined as being very relevant: Students‚ as well as parents‚ may be quick to claim unfairness especially when dealing with admission counselors. It is hence asked from counselors to “nurture their “can-do” attitudes‚ civic-minded proclivities and empathic concerns in hopes they may ultimately lead to large-scale societal improvements.” (Elam‚ Stratton‚ and Gibson‚ 2007‚ p.
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generation is to uphold equality as the standard for human rights and democracy as its respective form of government‚ then it is positively critical that it learns to do so not through top-down citizenship transmission‚ but through a less guided and open-minded approach in reflective inquiry. I see a clear connection between reflective inquiry and historical thinking; both require approaching new knowledge with an open mind‚ the ability to create an individual or cooperative understanding‚ and when in a
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faced with a calm and prepared frame of mind. Besides that‚ a good student has high morale. Moral values such as kindness‚ compassion and consideration are always put into practice in his daily life. He will always be prepared to do his duty as a civic-minded person to ensure the cleanliness of his surroundings. Moreover‚ he is courteous and always lends a hand to the sick and needy. He is humble and always learns from
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Lottery The community has no real knowledge of this ceremony. It seems ridiculous that a community would cling to such a barbaric tradition‚ especially when they don’t even know the correct way to do it. It becomes apparent this community is very weak-minded. Even the way they congregated at the lottery was done systematically in a sexist way. This community could be convinced to do anything. There are so many points in the story that show these people know nothing of the lottery’s history. First of
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the 18th century. His‚ “The Decline and Fall of Roman Civilization‚ “ has been praised and ranked as an historical masterpiece.[1] In Gibbon ’s writings on the fall of the Roman civilization‚ he points out that Christians and people that are not civic-minded are the major reason for the fall of Rome. Gibbon comes up with this theory through the major experiences in life: beginning at his early childhood‚ with a frail and diseased body‚ to the youthful Gibbon under the constant oppression of a demanding
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are told the American dream is. What we are told creates the foundation of our understanding of this abstract concept known as the American dream. Second‚ we have to answer what the American dream is to us. I will attempt to do this in an open-minded‚ unbiased‚ way. Finally after looking at what we are told the American dream is and what we think it is we finally have to tackle the crux of the issue and attempt to determine what needs to be done for the American dream to be realized. What
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express the idea that society should be open-minded to the beauty of nature that surrounds them. As Emerson explains the sublimity of nature‚ he points out that “the sun illuminates only the eye of the man” (220). Transcendentalists are deeply connected with nature as both Emerson and Whitman accepted it as the divinity of man. Emerson criticizes adults for not appreciating what nature has to offer‚ unlike children‚
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heritage and who he is. “He wanted his fellow travelers to know exactly who he was: I am a Native American and therefore have ten thousand more reasons to terrorize the U.S. than any of those Taliban jerk-offs‚ but I have chosen instead to become a civic American citizen‚ so all of you white folks should be celebrating my kindness and moral decency and awesome ability to forgive” (Alexie 43). He often criticized and stereotyped other cultures and ethnicities. These metal outbursts were his way of unconsciously
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