high-paying job with great benefits‚" my parents used to say. Their goal in life was to provide a college education for my older sister and me‚ so that we would have the greatest chance for success in life. This is the introduction to the book Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki. This is especially true in the context of Asian countries where most of us are told to cram for exams‚ get good grades (top the class if possible) and jobs with fat paychecks and benefits. Though times are changing and so
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BACON’s WORDLY WISDOM BACON is veritably one of literary and intellectual giants in the history of English literature .He possessed a versatile genius. He belonged to age of discovery and divulgation .He wrote as a scientist‚ as a philosopher and as a religious preacher. Most hotly discussed aspect of Bacon’s writings especially his essays is his philosophy which revolves around the art of success in this world. He points man to the part he should play on the stage of social life. His essay
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Sir Francis Bacon Sir Francis Bacon was born January 22‚ 1561. He died April 9‚ 1626. He was an English essayist‚ lawyer‚ statesman‚ and philosopher . He had a major influence on the philosophy of science. When he was 12 years old‚ he began studies at Trinity College‚ Cambridge. In 1576 he entered Gray ’s Inn to pursue a career in law. He was first elected in 1584. Bacon ’s opposition to royal tax measures would probably have brought an end to his political advancement‚ but he had the
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Over the centuries‚ people have tried to manipulate and harness the power of numbers‚ hoping that somehow this will enable them to understand and explain the mysteries behind both the human psyche‚ and the path each individual is destined to follow in life. It is because of this that numbers make an appearance in many of the esoteric arts of divination‚ in particular those of astrology due to the central role they play in the calculations regarding date and time of birth. Numbers are used in an
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Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes blazoned the advent of a scientific civilization. Both men ridiculed earlier methods of seeking knowledge‚ that were once used in the academic traditions of the universities founded in the Middle Ages. Both men published between 1620 and 1640 and held to the belief that Medieval or Aristotelian methods were retrograding and worthless. Through their works they stressed that truth was something we find at the end‚ after a long process of investigation‚ experiment‚ or
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Francis Bacon was a very controversial philosopher. In Book 1 of the Novum Organum‚ Bacon begins with the introduction of the "four idols". The four idols were four natural tendencies that people believe and seem to live by. The idols consisted of idols of the tribe‚ idols of the cave‚ idols of the marketplace‚ and idols of the theatre. These four idols‚ essentially began the start of modern psychology for the benefit and teaching of man. The first idol‚ the idol of the tribe‚ was a symbol
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Dear Mom‚ First off I want to start off with how proud I am to be your daughter. I’m continuously amazed with how you deal with so much and make everything look so easy. I couldn’t imagine dealing with the obstacles thrown at you time after time. You’re my role model and I strive to be as strong mentally and physically like you everyday. I hope I can be as great as a mom as you are one day and make my daughter as proud as I am. I’m sorry that I can be so self-centered and careless because that’s
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alcoholic father. As a child I was always taught to keep our family life secret and never let people know the struggles that our family faced. People always thought that I had the best of everything because of the material possessions I accumulated from my dad. They assumed that because our family had money‚ we were problem free - and oh‚ how wrong they were! It was until my senior year at Halls High School that I kept leading people on to believe a lie. I finally got tired of feeling as though I was two
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Dear Tetchie By Sylvia L. Mayuga INQ7.net Posted date: May 29‚ 2006 (Editor’s note: Tetchie Agbayani remains a blast of a human being. This article about her‚ published as a column 24 years ago‚ has just been echoed and confirmed by her most recent portrait in Newsbreak) Once in a while someone like you comes up to magnetize the public eye and‚ like litmus paper‚ shows up the acidity or alkalinity in us all. You’d think someone‚ anyone‚ might say‚ “Thank you.” What for? You and the activist
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Dear Abby‚ I have left my family and moved to Malaysia to work. Since I have been here my family has become very absent. In the beginning they used to email me all of the time‚ asking about my life and experiences here. Now‚ 5 years later‚ no one calls or even emails to see how I am. The truth is that I’m starting to feel like we are not close anymore. I know they love me because we are family and we will always be‚ but is it too much to expect for them to check in once in a while? Do you
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