obstacle we overcome‚ strengths our expectations in succeeding. Through every step‚ we question our luck‚ some of us fail and when they do‚ the only excuse they give is "bad luck". In my opinion‚ luck does exist but it won’t play a huge roll in us if we worked hard enough. The very well-known novel "The Great Gatsby"‚ told a story about a truly loving and wise person who had no luck‚ he worked hard so hard to pamper his loved one‚ but unfortunately‚ she was too materialistic and selfish to praise his
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all the hard work and dedication? There are a lot of suspicions about players already getting payed. Some colleges have already paid the families of the student athletes. Most of these student athletes have worked so hard their whole life to be able to get to a stage in their lives where they can finally help provide for their families and make something of themselves by succeeding in life. Most of all these student athletes are just trying to make it in life and most of them have hard lives when
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Laws & Rules There are some laws‚ rules‚ and sayings that will explain why police officers should work hard to enhance police-community programs. First‚ according to Davis’s Dictum‚ community problems that go away by themselves come back by themselves (Dickson‚ 1980). Hence‚ in order to effectively manage crime‚ the root causes of crime need to be addressed. Second‚ according to Wolf’s Law‚ a police officer does not get a second chance to make a first impression. Thus‚ police officers should
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“I knew from their snow white bellies and pretty voices they were magpies‚ birds of joy.” An Mei’s mom (243). Magpies are one of the many symbols used in the book The Joy Luck Club. Magpies were used to symbolize how some people’s joy comes from others sorrow. Double meaning and presentations of simple life situations are used as symbols throughout the book. Similar to magpies is the wind. Attacking without warning strong fast not being seen‚ the wind has the art of invisible strength. Resembling
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One theory in Jared Diamond s Collapse is that soil degradation and erosion leads to insufficient agriculture and a society s demise. In Timothy Egan s The Worst Hard Time‚ he sets forth in specific and excruciating detail exactly what Diamond outlines in Collapse. Only Egan s book isn t theoretical. It isn t a survey of what s happened in other countries. It s about the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. It s about what happens‚ right here in the heart of America‚ when the land is misused‚ mistreated‚ and
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Jared Diamond explains why geographic luck is the leading cause to an unequal world which gave certain countries advantages and other’s disadvantages. Have you ever wondered why some parts of the world are much more developed than others? Well‚ to find the answer‚ we’ll have to trace this question all the way back to ancient times. Jared Diamond explains that the reason for this revolves around geographic luck‚ to be more specific; the shapes of the continents‚ steel‚ horses and writing are primary
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II‚ (Physics) for the purpose of investigating their place among the said causes. Aristotle bases his enquiry on the observation that in history‚ these terms are conflictive in their interpretation. Some people say that everything that we consider luck or spontaneity really has some underlying definite cause. Yet there are other people‚ such as Empedocles‚ who invoke chance when describing the physics of air; or some‚ who “ascribe this heavenly sphere and all the worlds to spontaneity” (196a 25)
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HUMA 12400 Yizhou Hu Luck‚ Virtue and Happiness The idea that non-virtuous people is possible to be better off than virtuous people like Priam seems to acknowledge that happiness is ultimately determined by luck. Indeed‚ by emphasizing that certain amount of fortune is necessary to happiness‚ Aristotle focuses on the relationship between luck‚ virtue‚ blessedness and happiness in Chapter 8 of Book 1. In the end‚ he takes a more intermediate stand toward fortune‚ claiming that virtue is the determinant
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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity I agree with the speaker. I consider luck to be the result of my own decisions and actions. The only forces at work are the decisions and actions taken by me or others around me. A lot of people make important decisions or attend important events according to lucky stars or lucky hour. I’ve heard a lot of people say that they have lucky shoes‚ lucky charms‚ lucky suits and even lucky hair styles. So‚ apparently these things have brought positive
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The Joy Luck Club’ is a touching‚ inspiring‚ and artfully crafted story of four mother-daughter relationships that endure not only a generation gap‚ but the more unbridgeable gap between Chinese and American cultures. Amy Tan represented herself as Jing-Mei Woo in the novel. Her parents are both Chinese immigrants who raised her as a American. In her early teens‚ she learned that her mother had been married before in China. Just like Suyuan‚ Amy’s mother fled China‚ leaving behind her daughters
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