Pei Ou Theo 279 20 September 2013 When Bad Things Happen to Good People The author Harold Kushner wrote this book because his spent a life to search what puzzled him for a long time. He experienced tragedy in his early life. His son was found afflicted with progeria that is a kind of the fatal illness of pre-mature aging. He fall into hopelessness‚ and then started to question God. Why bad things often happen to good people? Many people may confuse this question too. If God really exists
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Application Paper Why Good Girls like Bad Boys? Just about every woman at some point in her dating life will fall for a bad boy. For example there’s Edward and Bella from the Twilight Series and there’s Uncle Jesse from Full House. A bad boy is a thug‚ a roughneck and a rebel without a cause or he could be the nice guy next door who’s smooth as silk‚ but deep down inside he’s a cold hearted person. Bad boys are the type of guys your mom warns you about but because they’ve got thug appeal your
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March 2014 Good and Bad Procrastination According to Paul Graham‚ in his article‚ “Good and Bad Procrastination‚” he claims that it is impossible to avoid procrastination because there is always something you could be doing‚ “No matter what you work on‚ you’re not working on everything else” (86). Graham talks about three types of procrastination: (a) working on nothing‚ (b) working on something less important‚ and (c) working on something more important. He says that the last type is good procrastination
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Business Decisions by Microsoft: Bad vs Good Business Decisions by Microsoft: Bad vs Good Microsoft had a lot to live up to after supporting an operating system called Windows XP. Windows XP was widely used by everyone from school kids‚ to multi-million dollar corporations. Microsoft seemed to be under a lot of pressure to create a GUI that was as “user friendly” as the Mac‚ handle crashes better than XP‚ and made better use of memory. Their answer: Windows Vista. Quickly seeing
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It’s easy to blame individuals for engaging in illegal or unethical activities by assuming bad behaviour is an inherent personality trait. "Only shady people do shady things‚" right? We assume the CFO who reports false financial data and the hedge fund manager who commits insider trading do so because they are inherently "bad people." The maxim of individual responsibility is comforting because it implies that‚ to eradicate criminal or unethical behaviour‚ all we need to do is identify and weed
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Technology: The Good‚ The Bad‚ and The Ugly Writer’s Memo: For my research paper‚ I would really like to discuss how modern technology is taking away our intelligence. I read a statistic the other day that read‚ 19% of child between the ages of two and four can operate an Iphone application‚ but only 9% can tie their shoes. This quote startled me and caused me to realize that we‚ as humans‚ are slowly loosing are ability to do simple tasks such as learning to tie our shoes. There is so much
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we get really a legitimate source that we can rely on for accurate facts? It is so easy to find bad sources that give us the correct information. A bad source isn’t one that has improper grammar or misspelled words. In fact it is an article that portrays bad references and resources and is not recent. Many current issues exist in the world today that can be used for comparing a good article and a bad article. One current issue that is really popular in the United States right now is the topic of
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demonstrates throughout the book is whether people are essentially good or essentially bad. He creates this theme by involving the death of Simon‚ Ralph’s adrenaline rush to hunting the boar for the first time‚ and the war that Jack had started with his tribe in order to kill Ralph at the very end of the novel. Golding includes these incidences to show us that people are essentially bad over the fact that people are essentially good. Simon was on his way back to the beach to tell the rest of the
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Stacey Kay O. Fortuna 9:00 – 12:00‚ TTH November 29‚ 2011 Why Good Accountants Do Bad Audits The Article on Why Good Accountants Do Bad Audits specifies the different reasons why accountants and auditors have taken part – consciously and unconsciously – in different accounting scandals. The signing of the Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002 wishes to achieve corporate accountability. But the signing of this act doesn’t guarantee that accountants and auditors will not feed on their unconscious self
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In the article “Good and Bad Reasons for Believing”‚ Richard Dawkins argues that you should only believe something once it has been proven by evidence. He also claims that tradition‚ authority and revelation are three bad reasons to believe something. In this paper I will critically analyse Dawkins’ theory and explain why I agree with his viewpoint as described in the article. Dawkins argues that the appeal to tradition‚ authority and revelation are fallacies. Unless backed by evidence‚ they are
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