The Chronicle Review October 3‚ 2010 What Are You Going to Do With That? Katherine Streeter for The Chronicle Review By William Deresiewicz The essay below is adapted from a talk delivered to a freshman class at Stanford University in May. The question my title poses‚ of course‚ is the one that is classically aimed at humanities majors. What practical value could there possibly be in studying literature or art or philosophy? So you must be wondering why I’m bothering to raise it here‚ at
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exists to save trees and natural beauty. One day‚ they hire a guy who will go out and do field work and then report back to the team. This guy however‚ is a logger and hates trees. He uses tricks and secrets to give misinformation to the team. He wants to effectively "sabotage" the company. What do you do in this situation? Do you try to integrate him into the team and attempt to change his attitudes on trees? Or do you fire him because his morals and ethics are no-where near the same as the company’s
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Health is Wealth” is very much true. One must try hard to remain healthy ‚if we are healthy ‚we can easily fight with other problems of life. people do many different things to remain healthy .some go for healthy diet‚ other recommended exercise‚ and rest thinks health awareness is important ‚after all “Prevention is better than cure.” A healthy diet is very necessary to remain healthy. People must take care of their diet. Everybody should read the ingredients before buying
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Do You Really Know Yourself? Throughout time great philosophers have pondered the question of what knowing your self is. Philosophers like Socrates‚ Plato‚ and Alcibiades have somewhat of a similarity when it comes to identifying one’s self. However‚ there are the differences that lead up to the explanation and what individuals believe the self is. Socrates focused on the ‘good life’ and stresses the fact that to know how to live we need to know who we are. Under Socrates‚ the founder of philosophy
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accused of witchcraft and 24 of those 200 people who were accused were killed. The evidence didn’t have to be reliable; it hardly had to be there! All it took was someone to point a finger at you and you would find yourself in the middle of a trial‚ for something you didn’t do! If I were back in Salem Massachusetts during the time of the infamous Salem Witch Trials and I found myself in the middle‚ I would do whatever it took to save myself as well as the ones I loved even if that meant confessing to
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Case Study: Damned If You Do; Damned If You Don’t Summary: A successful female regional manager of a grocery chain is looking at advancing her career. She has applied to other employment locations while doing so she confides in a colleague about doing so and asks him to be a reference for her. She does not want anyone else in the company to know she is seeking employment elsewhere due to fact if it doesn’t work out it may hurt her chances to get a promotion at her current employment. A young lady
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When it comes to a job that I will like to do in the future‚ I would like to choose teaching‚ which is considered one of the best jobs in the world. There are lots of children all over the world can not go to school simply due to the lack of teachers. Several months ago‚ I watched a TV program showing that teachers were badly needed in many parts of our world‚ places like western parts of China‚ Southeast Asia‚ and Africa. It also broadcasted the stories of a couple from the United States who
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develops the necessary grammar and mechanical skills for written English proficiency through contextualized grammar instruction. Prerequisite Successful completion of WRI 001 or placement through the English Placement Test. Textbook(s) and/or Other Required Materials Materials posted on iLearn Horger‚ C.‚ Zytkoskee‚ M. & Bhagestani‚ S. (Eds). (2013). The DWS Reader (2nd Ed.). Sharjah: Department of Writing Studies‚ AUS. A paperback college level English dictionary of the student’s choice
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statistics about someone that you haven’t know much about. You cannot judge someone based on what you have seen or maybe what you even may have heard. This idea connects to our unit question: Do We Have the Right to Judge Other People? Our unit question connects to our essay topic by telling us that we should not have the right to judge others by what we see or read. We don’t always have the right to judge someone that we haven’t known much about or got to known. This essay will be talking about the
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To discuss why people help others we must consider whether people are by nature selfless or selfish. The dominant view today in psychology is of universal egoism; that we are fundamentally selfish‚ and that altruism (helping motivated by the wish to benefit another person) an impossibility.<br><br>One form of universal egoism is Piliavin et al’s "arousal: cost-reward" model‚ whereby faced with a potential helping situation we weigh the probable costs and rewards of alternative courses of action‚
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