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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1. Why do you think religious attitudes are such a strong predictor of political affiliation? Provide an example to explain your answer. I believe that Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. is an example of how religion can strong predictor of political affiliation. It is because of many things Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. said and did that helped in the equal right of African American people. Many laws were passed because of his teachings so basically if it wasn’t for the many things he did
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There are three examples of how GPI accounts for some of the flaws in GDP. First is GDP treats crime‚ divorce and natural disasters as economy gain. This is because when there is a robbery‚ for example‚ people are in loss; therefore they have to buy a replacement for their loss. Spending their money on producing goods and services would make the GDP to increase. Those people have made a growth in certain industries. Furthermore‚ if those people experience injury then they have to spend money on medical
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Although all humans are created good‚ society corrupts them‚ as they grow older. Criminals‚ for example‚ do not become criminals overnight; it’s a process in which they forget they once had kind and forgiving hearts. Goodness is an ambiguous word that the dictionary defines as the quality of being good. It leaves a lot of opportunity for anyone to fall under that category (goodness). Such as those who are religious and attend church every Sunday‚ but look down on those they find inferior. Those who
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TIPS ON GOOD EMCEEING by Beth Horner The following information is based on Beth’s workshop KEEPING IT ALL TOGETHER: THE CONSUMMATE EMCEE. For more information on her workshop‚ check Beth’s website at www.BethHorner.comor contact her at BethHorner@earthlink.net or 888-443-3816. For additional information on the importance of good emceeing at storytelling events‚ see Beth’s article THE IMPORTANCE OF A GOOD EMCEE‚ excerpted in the September/October issue of The National Storytelling Magazine and
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discuss detail about countries with their GDP per capita and population growth. An economist like Robert Solow believes that if population increasing then the output will be decreasing. The question is do every countries that decline in population growth is richer than countries that still have higher population growth? Therefore‚ here we start to examine the famous theory of Robert Solow‚ Solow model. Is it always right or it only applied for several countries? GDP per capita represent income per person
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the worst people can be good. First Magwitchstarts out bad when he is young‚ but at times he shows that he can be good. First‚ when he was young he used to steal food‚ only because life was not kind to him. Next‚ the first time he met Pip he threatened to rip his throat out. He sends Pip off to get him food‚ and when Pip returns Magiwtch believes Pip when he says he told no one: “I believe you. You’d be but a fierce young hound indeed‚ if out your time of life you could help to hunt
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sex in movies is romantic. Many people may have seen or heard the movie Titanic. That is a really good movie‚ which is telling us a love story of Jack and Rose. They don’t know each other until they meet in Titanic. The huge cruises is on its trip with thousands people. Jack and Rose meet in a right time and then they fall in love with each other soon. As their fire of love is burning so hot‚ they do have sex in the next day after they meet each other. I still remember one dialogue that Rose said
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What Would You Do? Scenario 1- Della the Delinquent Cat Lady As the president of the board of directors of the cat shelter‚ I am faced with rather or not Ms. Della should remain as part of the staff at the cat shelter. There are several problems that have been brought to my attention and I feel that now is the time to figure out exactly what should be done regarding the matter. After‚ evaluating the situation and giving it a great deal of consideration‚ I have come up several solutions to
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1. What institutions do you think make the United States strong economically? A: I think the three branches of the United States government make the United States strong economically. Countries that aren’t corrupt get there citizens out of poverty and therefore‚ become strong economically. The Legislative‚ Executive‚ and Judicial Branches help prevent any branch from being corrupt and get people out of poverty. They also create laws that will benefit the citizens and the entire country. Therefore
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