Question: ‘I want every student to leave here as a better person.’ To what extent do you agree that taking part in challenging activities is good for people? Martin Luther King once said‚ “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience‚ but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Humans are creatures of habit‚ preferring to stay in areas where they feel safe and familiar. However‚ staying in one’s comfort zone reduces one’s willingness
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to explain why “I exist because I think” is false and explain “I think because I exist” is true. Let me first explain why ‘I exist because I think’ is false. If ‘I exist because I think’ is true‚ every time when I think I exist and when I do not think‚ I do not exist. As I mentioned‚ “Think” seems to be the cause of my existence in this case. How can my thinking exist before my existence and cause my existence. Therefore‚ I must exist first‚ then I can think about “I exist” or not. In fact‚ every
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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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McCoy: Dear Grads‚ Don’t ’Do What You Love’ - WSJ.com Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is f or y our personal‚ non-commercial use only . To order presentation-ready copies f or distribution to y our colleagues‚ clients or customers‚ use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or v isit www.djreprints.com See a sample reprint in PDF f ormat. Order a reprint of this article now OPINION May 27‚ 2013‚ 6:45 p.m. ET Carl McCoy: Dear Grads‚ Don’t ’Do What You Love’ College commencement
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Why do firms purchase other corporations? Many firms purchase other companies to make their company larger. The growth of a company is achieved through expansion of purchasing already built companies and expanding their business into empty building. Merging with other companies is sometimes easier since the business is already setup. They can gain good managers and employee as well as formidable contracts that they were not using before. Do firms pay too much for the acquired corporation? Companies
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American Culture: Money! Money! Money! Fast food is probably the most popular form of diet here in America. Because most of the people are busy trying to make money‚ they do not have enough time to spare to prepare a nutritious home-cooked meal. Since life these days is fast-paced‚ people settle for fast food chains located near their work place and house; fast food for breakfast‚ lunch‚ and dinner most days of the week. While reading Eric Schlosser’s best-selling book‚ the Fast Food Nation‚ it
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What do you want to be when you grow up? What are your plans for your future? Have you thought about college? Have you thought about a career choice? These are questions we are bombarded with on a daily basis by our parents. We shrug them off‚ telling them that we have another three years to think about college‚ careers‚ or our future. We don’t know what we want to be when we grow up‚ because we don’t even know who we are yet. Yet in a blink of an eye‚ we’re seniors and now the decisions we tried
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To a less extent I agree that the Treaty of Versailles 1919 was fair and just. Firstly‚ I will define what is fair and just. For me‚ "Fair" is defined as free from bias and proper under rules. And "Just" is defined as what guided by truth or reason‚ punish and award rightly ‚done or made according to principle. For the Treaty of Versailles‚ some people argue that some of the territorial arrangement was fair and just. And which I partly agree with their statement. Here are the treaties about
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Why Do You Dance ? “Because it’s like breathing‚ it’s like walking to me. I’m not pretending‚ when I dance I don’t pretend. I’m more of myself when I dance in any moment of the day. I can be stuck there in all of my life. I dance to become someone else. There are so many things in this world that want to push down on you but when you dance you are free. It’s pretty much when I knew like I love the biggest because I have never dedicated so much time and effort into something like this. It’s not
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Do Individual Day Traders Make Money? Evidence from Taiwan Brad M. Barber Graduate School of Management University of California‚ Davis Davis‚ CA 95616 (530) 752-0512 bmbarber@ucdavis.edu www.gsm.ucdavis.edu/~bmbarber Yi-Tsung Lee Department of Accounting National Chengchi University Taipei‚ Taiwan (886-2) 2939-3091 # 81027 actytl@nccu.edu.tw Yu-Jane Liu Department of Finance National Chengchi University Taipei‚ Taiwan (886-2) 2939-3091 # 81123 finyjl@nccu.edu.tw Terrance Odean*
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