Are You‚ the Best You? People everywhere are faced with the unanswered question‚ “When am I working too much?”‚ “When do I stop?” Due to the constant increase in our cost of living‚ people believe they are forced into working longer and more demanding hours. People need to learn how to split their time and energy between work and the other important aspects of their lives. In the two essays‚ “Hit the Brakes”‚ by Christopher Dewolf and “Stupid Jobs”‚ by Hal Neidzviecki‚ it is shown that spending
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hallowed halls‚ onto the stage that had held the best musicians in the world‚ the importance of what I was about to do was at the forefront of my thoughts. My hands were shaking‚ my heart was racing‚ and yet I knew that this was where I was meant to be. Not even my nerves could mar this momentous occasion. On I played Carnegie hall. “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” is a common question. When violinist Mischa Elman was famously asked this question‚ he simply replied “Practice.” This joke has circulated
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* How green are you? * * By Dasha Vlasova * * It might seem like the world was always concerned with the pollution the human population has been giving off in the past centuries‚ but that statement is actually false- the environmental movement did not take off until after World War 2. Only then‚ people began to recognize the costs of environmental negligence‚ disease and widespread air and water pollution. This was the climax point at which the ecocentric people started to complain
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Do You Believe‚ That You Can Fly? “It’s impossible to live without failing at something‚ unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all. In which case‚ you’ve failed by default.” – J.K. Rowling. Too many pilots have lost the confidence to fly. A one time crash‚ or a flight instructor’s demeaning attitude has left them with the belief that taking off again is just not for them. Goals and dreams have been abandoned‚ either forever‚ or put on long term hold‚ because of
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How is being feared rather than loved the superior quality that a leader should possess? Niccolò Machiavelli states in the “Qualities of the Prince” that “One should like to be both one and the other; but since it is difficult to join them together‚ it is much safer to be feared than to be loved” (14). Determining which of these two qualities a leader should possess has been a topic of discussion for centuries. So what makes Machiavelli’s work any different? First off‚ Machiavelli was an Italian
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saw a number of instances of ethical conflicts‚ but not being involved in the decision-making process meant I had little to do with them. But it’s not only in business that one encounters such dilemmas—they come up a lot on everyday life as well. In my senior year at college I took a course called Advertising Creativity and Marketing‚ for which we had to break into groups to do our term paper. Each group had to make an advertisement to market their own product‚ and although my group had come up with
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The quote‚ “If you educate a boy‚ you educate an individual but if you educate a girl‚ you educate a nation” originated from an African proverb. It might have originated because of the societal roles of men and women‚ society’s expectations‚ and the contribution each gender has made to the community. Both men and women have educated the nation in many different ways‚ either by contributing to the society‚ or to their families. Hence‚ I disagree with this quote‚ as not all men have never educated
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Why Do You Dance ? “Because it’s like breathing‚ it’s like walking to me. I’m not pretending‚ when I dance I don’t pretend. I’m more of myself when I dance in any moment of the day. I can be stuck there in all of my life. I dance to become someone else. There are so many things in this world that want to push down on you but when you dance you are free. It’s pretty much when I knew like I love the biggest because I have never dedicated so much time and effort into something like this. It’s not
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1. What is Tannen’s purpose in writing this essay? What does she hope it will accomplish? From what I gathered Tannen’s purpose was for us to comprehend the importance of communication in the work field. How the simplest verbal functions can be interpreted in many different ways. “Conversation is a ritual” I find so much meaning behind these four simple words‚ the article in its entirety are summed up by these word. Tannen wants to enlighten us to remember that our words are powerful. I believe she
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1. How do you calibrate an Oscilloscope? In order to calibrate the Oscilloscope‚ we connected the BNC alligator into the channel we wanted to calibrate (Channel 1). We clipped the red probe to the calibration knob‚ and we saw a 2 volt VPP signal. The desired output from the oscilloscope was a 1000 Hz calibration frequency. The 1000 Hz frequency is the standard frequency for most of the oscilloscopes. After we clipped the red probe‚ we saw a square wave signal. The first thing we calibrated was the
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