People like Us On the essay “People like us” David Brook’s main purpose is to discuss the increasing diversity in America. This essay is a master piece of intelligence and organized ideas. A reader can grab that in his first sentence. “We all pay lip service to the melting pot‚ but we really prefer the congealing pot.” The writer uses relative concept with very effective language. He uses strong diction‚ logical tone and complex syntax. The writer’s choice of words is very effective and persuasive
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Bayside High School Sherry Li Ms.Probert 03/02/11 Essay According to the critical lens by William Saroyan‚ “Good people… are good because they’re come to wisdom through failure.” In other words that a person can learn from mistakes and become a better person. Two literary works that agree with this statement are The Lord of the Flies‚ by William Golding and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by
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Executive Summary In this report I discuss the comparison of competitive strategies between the two major departmental stores in Australia being David Jones and Target and how they differ from each other. I also discuss the current issues that are faced such as Global Financial Crisis that has had much impact on both stores as well as future threats such as online shopping which is believed to be the latest trend is shopping which has already affected the stores but could make competition even
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Why good people do bad things? “Doing bad is easy but doing well is not”. Yes‚ that saying is the most concrete explanation why good people do bad things. Good people do bad things with good intentions. We‚ humans‚ are all sinful by nature. No one of us can behave perfectly and sinless. But we have the capacity to avoid temptations and to distinguish what’s right from wrong. Good intentions cause most of the world’s great evils. There are many things that happened in the past that can construe
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Hip-hop star Christopher Wallace best known as Biggie Smalls or Notorious B.I.G was involved in an East Coast conflict with the rapper Tupac. Months after Tupac’s death‚ Biggie was about to release his second album just before he was gunned down and shot by what is now said to be Tupac’s gang. He was shot while leaving a party in Las Angeles en route to his hotel. Once the album got released‚ its popularity bumped it all the way to number one on the charts. This helped make Biggie Smalls one of
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Things Happen to Good People When someone does something good‚ great‚ amazing; however it is said‚ a reward is expected. That’s just the way the human brain has been trained in many cultures. People think just that with every good deed that is done. Movies have taught us that the “bad guy” never wins and that a hero will always triumph in the end. Not so much in the real world. Religious views‚ daily decisions‚ and just pure coincidence‚ if you will‚ all influence the outcome of a good deed. But‚ when
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Anne Frank wrote‚ “....in spite of everything‚ I still believe people are really good at heart‚” in her diary. This statement is true‚ people really are good at heart. Anne wrote this during the Holocaust‚ which is when Hitler came to power in Germany. During this time the Jews and many other groups of people (ex. Gypsies‚ the disabled‚ and some Slavic peoples) were thought of as “inferior” to the Germans. The Germans would persecute and force the Jews to work. But even though all these bad things
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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 and God creates the world‚ God should let good people be triumph
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The Star of David The Jewish symbol‚ the star of david‚ is currently one of the most known Jewish symbols. It was not well known until the 17th century. After that the star was a worldwide known symbol. This symbol has many different meanings to different people. Not much information is known about the star of david. Things like what the star of david is‚ why it is important‚ and what the star represents are the topics that have more information known about them. The star of david means “shield
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