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    1. Some people believe that positive freedom is truly valuable. Are they right? Or have they been misled by a mistaken belief in the existence of a ‘higher’ or ‘ideal’ self? In this essay I will argue positive freedom is valuable. This is based on the belief that it is valuable‚ by which I mean something worth having‚ to be able to control ones irrational desires in order to achieve rational goals. An end I will argue is only achievable through adopting the notion of the ‘higher-self’. Given I

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    Do you believe Blair’s recommendation to adjust the allowance for doubtful accounts is within his rights as manager‚ or do you believe this action is an ethics violation? Justify your response. Blair’s recommendation to the controller by means of reducing the estimate of doubtful accounts‚ I believe is an ethics violation. By lowering the estimate‚ the net income for the company would be overstated which would result in Blair getting a higher bonus. The company should only use the ethical standards

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    A Spike Lee highly inflammable film‚ “Do The Right Thing”‚ is an example of a relatively cheap work of art which‚ however‚ is capable of conveying million-dollars-worth ideas. This movie is not just about the life in an African American neighborhood of New York‚ it is rather a complex analysis of false assumptions and wrong perception of the African Americans as a social group and as a source of problems only. The first important fact which the film is focused on is‚ logically‚ difficulty of life

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    wrong thingsyou give the right things a chance to catch you.” (Unknown) Many people get scored to show their courage for the right thing. What gives you and your peers to do the right thing with courage? Your peers and yourself do have courage because people do have that someone in life‚ that helps encourage them. It’s just buried inside and you need to show people you’re courage to do the right thing. People just don’t want to disappoint anyone. In this short story‚ “Thank You Ma’am”

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    Summary: Do the Right Thing takes place in Brooklyn on a hot day. The movie starts at Sal’s Famous Pizzeria. A young African American named Mookie works at Sal’s and is the only black man working there among a family of Italians. This pizzeria is a very popular spot for the people of the town which is made up of a lot of African Americans and HHispanics. The movie shows different stereotypes and the conflicts between different ethnicities. The movie escalates when an AAfrican American named Buggin

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    How to do the right things? Lecturer Mr. Bai Lixin is a doctor of engineering. He served as IBM (China) business consulting department operation strategy chief adviser. And he is also one of the main speakers of IBM (China) BBS. He served as Vice President and Chief Knowledge Officer of Hampshire Management Consulting (China) Co.‚ LTD‚ and Business Consulting Department Manager of Andersen (Shanghai) enterprise consultation Co.‚ LTD. He once provided a strategy and management consulting

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    are a lot of things to do in your spare time‚ however‚ the thing that I like to do most is to write. My passion for writing developed at a very young age. I have always had a thing for writing whatever comes to my mind and thing taking the time to read those silly things. So whenever you have reached the point of boredom and do not have anything else to do just pick up a pen and a piece of paper and write whatever comes to mind. When the time comes for you to develop something that you know is a talent

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    anthropologist) in 1959. Lewis developed his theory from his experience of Mexico. The culture of poverty is a specific syndrome that grows up in some situations. It requires an economic setting of cash economy‚ a high rate of unemployment and under employment‚ low wages and people with low skills. In the absence of voluntary or state support and stable family‚ the low-income population tends to develop the culture of poverty against the dominant ideology of accumulation of the middle class. The poor realize

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    statement “you should believe everything you hear and see in the media”. Not everything in the media is real because people create hoaxes‚ which are stories that seem real but they are just a lie. Reasons people create hoaxes can be to get money or to get fame by doing something‚ but there haven’t been any hoaxes in a few years. Some people believe that everything in the media is not real. People may think this because some articles in newspapers use persuasive language to persuade you that what

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    need to dosomething that we do not enjoy.Many people think that we should be true to ourselves‚ so that we should choose what weenjoy most‚ regardless of what other people think. For example‚ if we do not want tostudy anymore‚ just give up and try to do what we really want to such as being an artist or a dance. It is meaningless for us to continue studying if we have no talents and no interest in it.Somebody consider health as an excuse for not doing anything that they do not enjoy. For a person who

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