Helen Keller once said that “the highest result of education is tolerance. Indeed‚ignorant people are often intolerant of other people’s ways of life. However the intolerant can come to at least understand‚ and hopefully also accept‚ different ways of life that other may lead.” In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill Mockingbird the leading protagonist is a nine year old girl‚ Scout Finch. Although it comes early in Scout’s life‚this is one lesson about understanding people;that helps transform her later
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The biggest obstacle I have overcame in my life was attending college at a four-year school. While my family had a decent income‚ some spending decisions and my parent’s desire for me to “make it on my own” meant I had to pay for whatever education I acquired on my own. This was made more difficult because their income disqualified me from multiple scholarships. Another problem was that the quality of education offered by my local schools was not very high. We weren’t offered AP classes and had to
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MySpace Opportunities Founders’ experience Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson were able to recognize the opportunity for MySpace due to their previous experience in the expanding Internet market. They both grasped a firm understanding of the Internet advertising market while working together for almost three years on projects that both failed and succeeded. After working at first for Xdrive‚ an Internet data-storage company that fell victim to the dot-com bubble burst‚ DeWolfe and Anderson learned a
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Challenges and Opportunities Grace Robinson Challenges and Opportunities Today’s society and its leaders are currently being plagued by economical and structural issues. As a result‚ many organizations‚ institutions and high powered leaders are being forced to make a well needed change in their foundational principles in order to address the issues on hand. Many of these individuals and organizations have arrived at the realization that leadership does not lie solely on one’s ability to
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Epic Journey of the Raider of Cities The Odyssey‚ written by Homer‚ is an Epic Poem in which Odysseus‚ King of Ithaca‚ has fought in the Trojan War and he and his men are now on their journey home. While on their journey‚ they come across many obstacles and challenges in which only Odysseus makes it home. Through the acts‚ words‚ and thoughts of the character‚ one is able to see Odysseus make it back home with his family. The setting in this Epic is adventuress covering the Aegean and surrounding
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want her to feel some sympathy for me and that I might lose my job‚ or have other bad things happen‚ and I want her to understand that she needs to get back over‚ before I get screwed over. Obstacle: The obstacle is that she doesn’t want to comply with my authority‚ and she wants me to leave so she can deface the statue‚ she’ll manipulate me to get her way. Tactics: The character uses what he thinks is his authority as someone who works there at first‚ when that doesn’t work‚ he transforms
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”Every Good Boy” – David Nicholls Finding something you are good at is a big part of growing up. Parents and the surrounding society expect us to be particularly good at something. Today it is all about being different from others and to stand out from the crowd and to have a talent. People want to practice a lot because they are told to. But the question is‚ “does practice really makes perfect?” People have a fear of not being good at anything at all. People want richness and fame. People have
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When a person begins writing they have many obstacles that they must overcome. Some face issues with creating well-written sentences‚ writing thesis sentences and others face issues with expanding their vocabulary. It can be difficult to do and takes a great deal of practice and patience. A student‚ Amanda Grumke‚ faced these same obstacles as she began writing. At the beginning of her English Composition 1 class‚ her writing landed at a very low level. After a semester of practice‚ she has made
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English 11 America is the land of opportunity‚ so they say; but a country is made up of more than just opportunity. The land itself is made up of mountains‚ trees‚ lakes‚ and buildings. A country‚ however‚ is really made up of its people. It is the characteristics of the American people who make this country great. Characteristics of honesty‚ faith‚ and loyalty are the three defining qualities in a true American Citizen. People came to America and still come to find a better way of life
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starring Ben Kingsley and Candice Bergen. The movie shows Mohandas Gandhi’s life. He was a lawyer who later became the leader of India’s rebellion against Great Britain. He used extraordinary non-violent tactics. During his life‚ Gandhi faced many obstacles: discrimination and violence. At the start of the movie‚ Mohandas Gandhi is thrown off of a train because he was seated in the “whites only” part of the train. The conductor of the train told him that colored folk were allowed to sit in first and
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