If rulers from the past were to be sat down and asked what their reaction was and what they had to say about Niccolo Machiavelli’s statement‚ “it is far better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both‚” one would hear many different statements and answers. Rulers who want complete and total power would lean towards being feared and those who wanted to be powerful without exerting utter fear would disagree with Machiavelli’s comment. Rulers such as Louis XI‚ Charlemagne‚ Ferdinand and Isabella
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I believe that it is more important to have respect then power because a leader without any respect will not have any power for long. Some leader’s today like Saddam Hussein who has all the power in his country‚ but has no respect at all‚ not even from his own people will soon not have power much more. It shows that respect is more important also because when Caesar declined the crown three times it shows that he was not a selfish man and did not want to intend one to his people of Rome. If your
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Counseling The Culturally Diverse THE SPIRIT CATCHES YOU AND YOU FALL DOWN By: Yvette Bradley Professor: Dr. K. Doka The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by: Anne Fadiman In the book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down starts with the traditional nurturing of the Hmong people. The most significant tradition is the burying of the placenta. The Hmong people believe that the placenta must be purposefully buried in a particular spot under the dwelling of the Hmong’s between
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Rosas The Examined life according to me According to Socrates‚ the unexamined life is not worth living. What is this so called unexamined life? When Socrates talked about the unexamined life‚ he talks about a life where the person does not question their purpose in the life choices they decided to take. Rather the person lives a self fulfilling life with what they believe will make them happy‚ such as money‚ wealth‚ reputation and self interest.The examined life according
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Personality: What makes you the way you are? - Science News - The Independent At some point in your life‚ you ’ve probably filled in a personality questionnaire ("Do you see yourself as....?")‚ and wondered as you ticked the boxes if there can really be any validity to such a simplistic way of assessing people. Surely the scores just reflect your mood on the day‚ or what you want the investigator to think. Surely everyone gives the same answer‚ which is "it depends". Or even if the scores measure
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You and I In life‚ everyone has their own set of moral values and ethics by which they abide. These values are different and original to everyone but just because we have different morals and values‚ does that make us wrong? In terms of Oedipus‚ his morals and ethics are very different from many people and in many ways would be frowned upon. In Oedipus the King‚ Oedipus has to make many hard and difficult decisions throughout the book but there are 3 that stand out to me. They are when Oedipus
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things that the students need to be learning. Students have been taking 20-25 hours just on the testings that the state has gave them‚ and not on the little tests that the teacher gave them. Kids spend most of their lives just testing for the states. That’s so much testings! Secondly‚ I will be explaining how there are too many testings going on. There is about nine tests that the state gives the students to take each year. That’s too many testings! So many students spend 2.3% on testing in the
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laughed‚ we had heart to hearts and we filled each other in on things that were happening in our lives‚ the good and the bad. I remember looking at everyone and wishing it would never end. That night I realized who the people were that I care about more than I care about myself. The people who I think of as family. I felt completely content. From that day on the fire pit behind my house became my place of comfort. When I’m feeling depressed or stressed out I’ll go out and make a fire‚ listen to
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He is identifying how social construction relates to the process of becoming a serial murderer. I see the way he goes through all forms of social life from childhood difficulties to teenage problems and into the adult years. He seems to focus a lot more on childhood problems like sexual abuse and emotional abuse that lead to them lashing out for attention to them becoming killers as they grow older. The author’s concept throughout the chapter is representing how social construction is tied to
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AFTER MAKING SUCH ARRANGEMENT WHY DO YOU NEED MORE WEALTH?... Why do you need more wealth after making such arrangement? What to do with the gold-silver? Having home for comfortable life and the financial arrangement as described above makes the person wealthy enough to live happy and joyous life‚ isn’t it? After getting such financial stability that meets your mundane needs‚ what more you need than getting to enjoy the tension free‚ happy and joyous life fulfilling your desires that the creation
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