get a trophy for showing up. Ashley Merryman‚ New York City author of a book titled “Losing is Good for You” says that she would rather have kids realize that there are no stakes than in their late teens- early 20s learn that not everyone is going to give them rewards just for participating (Website 2). Giving kids trophies for showing up is like a high school teacher giving you an “A” because you showed
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Dear Mr. Chandler‚ Thank you very much for taking time out of your busy schedule to give some advice to my business communications class. I have never gotten a chance to speak or even hear from a CEO‚ nonetheless‚ a fortune 500 CEO. I really enjoyed your lecture and thought that you had a very interesting and wise perspective. You made several points that really stuck out to me. The first piece of advice you enlightened my class with was that every company must uphold a set of values and how
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Rebecca Dixon Ms. Willing English 4 August 29‚ 2013 Worst Nightmare Dreams seem so real sometimes that you will wake up out of your sleep just to make sure they aren’t real. Nightmares are the ones that really make you do it though. They are so scary. You can have a nightmare about a monster‚ someone dying‚ or maybe even somebody breaking into your house. I have had plenty of nightmares‚ but there is one that I really want to talk about. My all-time worst nightmare was my whole family dying
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society decides what is moral and what is not. Everyone has their own values‚ beliefs‚ and right-action‚ but society gets to accept whether they agree with your opinions are valid (Sparksnotes). This is the ultimate driving force for the novel The Stranger. The final argument to condemn Meursault to death is his lack
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Would You Have Quit? If I was a soldier in the American Continental Army during the Valley Forge time period‚ I would probably have quit the war. The reason that I would want to quit is i wouldn’t want to fight in a war‚ at all. I don’t think that fighting and killing is the answer to a country’s problems. However‚ if i was in the war then I would have quit because times were hard for the soldiers and for the people who were supporting the war‚ the Americans were losing the war‚ and they were
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Batkid You Rocked A photograph of Batman and Batkid was published on Friday‚ November 2013 from the Daily News. It is a reflection of San Francisco volunteers‚ TV crews‚ and even president Obama getting together with San Francisco’s Make-A-Wish foundation to help a 5-year-old boy fulfill his dream. (Kuruvulla) The little boy named Miles Scott‚ only 5 years old‚ already had a large number of audiences cheering on the cancer patient who wanted to be a superhero. He struggled with the illness
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Matt Merritt Professor Smith English 102 13 September 2012 Arnold Friend’s Identity in Joyce’s “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” In the story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚” Joyce Oates portrays Connie as a beautiful young woman that is being coerced by a man‚ whom she doesn’t know‚ to come outside and go for a ride in his car. Who is this man that calls himself Arnold Friend? What does he represent? Looking at the things that Arnold Friend says and does will help to discover
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Thank you‚ M’am The story “yes M’am” has to do with a young boy who is taught in the most unlikely of ways some manners. The story starts with the young boy trying to snatch a big woman’s purse and being caught in the act. The woman decides to take the boy to her place and tell him about herself and teach him some manners. When characters names are given they used only 1 afterwords than going back to using boy and woman‚ giving little connection between the characters. A thing I noticed throughout
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How Do You Get People To Like You Be polite. Be yourself. That way‚ people like you for who you are. Many of us mistakenly believe that it’s wrong or conceited‚ to think we have any good qualities. We may spend a lot of time berating ourselves for our negative qualities‚ thinking that self criticism is the key to improving our performance. However‚ a constant focus on our supposed shortcomings can hinder our efforts to make friends with other people. How can we have the confidence to make
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Sorry for Disturbing You Sorry for Disturbing You is a short story written by Richard Knight and its main theme is regretting some of the choices made in life. Two guys are regretting things in this story – an old man called Michael and Ian‚ who is also the main character. Michael is an old sick man one night knocking at Ian’s door asking for a phone to call for a cap. Ian doesn’t feel like letting him in‚ but he follows his instinct and finally lets him in to help him. Ian following his instinct
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