Why Intelligent People Fail Content from Sternberg‚ R. (1994). In search of the human mind. New York: Harcourt Brace. 1. Lack of motivation. A talent is irrelevant if a person is not motivated to use it. Motivation may be external (for example‚ social approval) or internal (satisfaction from a job well-done‚ for instance). External sources tend to be transient‚ while internal sources tend to produce more consistent performance. 2. Lack of impulse control. Habitual impulsiveness gets in the
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Each of the four articles portrayed a different explanation for why Reconstruction did not work out as planned by the United States Government. Thomas W. Wilson’s article reveals that the government preyed upon the South. Carter Woodson asserts that former slaves were not given a fair chance to make Reconstruction work‚ while Thomas Bailey blames the Radicals for pushing it on clueless‚ former slaves. Finally‚ Mary Beth Norton takes issue with the resistance of Reconstruction that the South held
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prevaled why it couldn’t hold‚ because it had abolished free markets so that officials had no market prices to guide them in planning production. Even tho as history shows communism is the easiest system to sell to people who are poor‚ not because they are stupid and poor‚ its because communism for them was reasonable‚ fair‚ and workable. Even though the reality of communism are indeed workable‚the only problem is the produce supre inefficient economies. You can almost look anywhere to see how and why
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Why did Reconstruction fail? Reconstruction in the United States is historically known as the time in America‚ shortly after the Civil War‚ in which the United States attempted to readdress the inequalities‚ especially of slavery and many other economic‚ social and politically issues including the poor relationship between the North and the South of America. These problems were highly significant in America‚ and a variety of groups in government tried to resolve these problems‚ but this only led
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Did the Progressives Fail? Progressivism generated positive results. If one thinks of progressives as one group of people with one clear objective‚ then they succeeded. But‚ consider the word “progressives” as a general term that encompasses these assorted clusters unfairly‚ because it defines these groups as one. The progressives’ diverse and opposing views break up the previously described group into separate sets of individuals trying to achieve the same goals‚ in a different way. Because
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1) Contrary to traditional historiography‚ Pipes states that tsarism need not have collapsed. So why did it? a. Pipes explains that‚ despite what many historians view (in hindsight) as the “inevitable” collapse of tsarism‚ that no one could have foreseen its end. That revolutionaries “acted with such reckless abandon” because they believed it would have no consequences for the regime (11). b. He also cites the fact that foreign states were investing in the tsarist government‚ with nothing to indicate
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The reconstruction was a success in an outline as it restored the north and south states as a unified nation. However‚ the reconstruction plan did not go far and deep enough to address the political‚ economic‚ and social problems. Reconstruction failed to emerge the southern states into one central government. The radical republicans blamed believed that the confederate leaders should be punished for it. The north and south were hardly on talking relationships. The reconstruction failed to reform
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are many theories about why the actual explosion took place. Although‚ while some theories suggest that sabotage caused the Hindenburg to explode‚ evidence shows that bad design‚ dangerous weather‚ and a hydrogen leak combined to
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exactly what they desired‚ a life or at least a belief of a life without interference from the state. Recent times suggest that the successes of Neoliberalism are not sustainable‚ with the rise of Donald Trump and Brexit it even looks set to outright fail. But before the failures and reasons for are discussed it must first be stated what Neoliberalism exactly is. Neoliberalism is a dominant economic ideology which tends to advocate for a free market approach for policy making as well as
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and Republicans. It was a down-up system that failed. Populism was a struggle between the elite and lower class that wanted more government control of banking and industries because farmers felt as if they were getting the short end of the stick. People were from a farming background and had the view that the government was favoring banks and industries and felt like the government was planning on getting rid of agriculture. It was striving toward modernization without trying to compromise social
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