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    Cameron Hollingshead 10/7/2014 Dr.Knutson There is no secret recipe available that allows parents to raise a successful child. If there were such a means to raise kids many parents would produce perfect children. Many parents strive to raise successful children and do what they believe is best for their children. However‚ the outcome of each son or daughter

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    politics‚ noting that ‘the secrets of others he kept as religiously as his own’. However‚ as a member of the old nobility‚ he was unapologetic in decrying Louis’ character by painting the King as frivolous‚ vain‚ cruel and intellectually ‘beneath mediocrity’. Louis is depicted as a King who went to great lengths to control people’s perception of him‚ deriving pleasure from adulation and praise. The author also expressed his disdain for the new court culture Louis XIV ushered in. This derision can

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    Capitalism versus Socialism Capitalism: a term to denote an economic system that has helped build up the United States to be the superpower that it is today. Capitalism is an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are not controlled by the state‚ but by private owners for profit. This political economy came into prominence in the nineteenth century and continues to be practiced every day. Although the United States follows a capitalist structure‚ there are plenty

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    Solitude  and  Leadership   If  you  want  others  to  follow‚  learn  to  be  alone  with  your  thoughts   By  William  Deresiewicz   The  lecture  below  was  delivered  to  the  plebe  class  at  the  United  States  Military  Academy   at  West  Point  in  October  of  last  year.       My  title  must  seem  like  a  contradiction.

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    others first- don’t be selfish- be meek- help the less fortunate- sacrifice. Master Morality of Nietzsche • To be great‚ we must break away from that false thinking • This thinking prevents men from being great individuals o Christianity creates mediocrity o It shackles great men to the mundane and average • Master Morality would encourage us to be unequals‚ warriors‚ and rise above the weak‚ stupid‚ and meek o Let the strong rise to the top of the heap Slave vs. Master Morality • Under threat/fear

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    and professional life‚ students will be more likely to perceive moral dilemmas they would otherwise ignore‚ thus they will believe that every ethical view is entitled to tolerance and respect."(504) Mr. Bok strongly disapproves of settling with mediocrity when discussing ethical values in the classroom. He feels that neither history nor the classics can sufficiently justify how to teach students to lead a virtuous life. Therefore he feels that once the students have completed their college careers

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    unremarkably average self-image. Within our own minds‚ we are all hard pressed to see our own lives as anything aside from average‚ regardless of our spheres of influence. It is this lack of reference that allows the reader to empathize with the mediocrity of the story’s hero. We all long for something amazing to happen in our lives‚ without really understanding that through our mere existence‚ we are already experiencing the amazing. Within this excerpt‚ the hero’s quest evolves through many facets

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    Link: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0‚9171‚2010191‚00.html Everybody wants to be the best. Whether that’s in sports‚ academics‚ or otherwise‚ mostly everyone wants to be part of the elite. One may debate that someone with a prowess for football who becomes a star NFL quarterback may be considered elite‚ while another may say that a person with stellar grades who goes on to be a world-renowned doctor is considered so‚ but that ultimately depends on that person’s definition of the

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    [home] Ariel Hitchcock Borger English 101 11/3/10 College students these days seem to be worrying too much about getting rich in the future than finding something that they will love to do. They think they need to have it all figured out now and forget to take some creative classes and open their minds. “College Pressures” by William Zinsser‚ argues that students are stressing too much about planning their futures using mostly pathos. “College Pressures” by

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    desired path is‚ Mitty’s dreaming gets in the way of his goals. He spends most of his time imagining the glamourous life he wants to live instead of working to achieve it‚ and this interference of fantasy into reality is what leads Mitty to settle for mediocrity and prevents him from living a full life. Mitty’s habit of uncontrollably daydreaming reveals that too much imagination can negatively impact one’s life‚ along with the ones of the people close to

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