| The Pursuit of Excellence | Abstract: Whether you are an athlete‚ a teacher‚ or a promising high achiever in another walk of life‚ you can achieve excellence. At a time when numbers speak‚ performance is equal to profit and getting through the basic minimum at work is the standard practice‚ does the urge to set benchmarks of quality and excellence become redundant? How many of us go through life simply trying to fulfill the basics and how many set out to achieve true excellence? Steve
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The pursuit of excellence 1) Socrates did not write "Apology". Socrates did not actually write anything‚ It was his friend Plato that wrote and documented Socrates’s speeches and dialogs. The "Apology" supposes to be an accurate account by Plato of Socrates’s trial before the Athenian jury in 399BCE. The trial began with the prosecutors presenting their case against Socrates before the Athenian jury. In this trial Meletus‚ the prosecutor‚ argued that Socrates was guilty of corrupting the youth
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The Pursuit of College Success: Personal Responsibility‚ Success‚ and Excellence Merida‚ Gloria Week 5 Personal Responsibility Essay GEN/200 FOUNDATIONS FOR GENERAL EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS July 24‚ 2013 Dr. Johnella Bradford I. Introduction In 2005 I set some defining goals to reconstructs my academic and career goals. To attain these goals today I had to rewrite the script. To become a proficient student one must
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tezzaGEORGES RIVER GRAMMAR PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT MANUAL 2013 INFORMATION FOR PARENTS AND STUDENTS HSC ASSESSMENT MANUAL 2013 INTRODUCTION This booklet contains the information you should know about Assessment for the Higher School Certificate. Section 1 will explain the School’s Assessment Policy for Board Courses. Students should read this section carefully so that they understand and are fully aware of their rights and responsibilities. Section 2 contains the Assessment details
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1. Discipline 1. Discipline: Plenty of business experts claim that you can’t get anywhere as an entrepreneur without vision or creativity‚ but that’s simply not the truth. Instead‚ the one quality that no entrepreneur can be successful without is discipline. To build an idea into a business‚ you have to have the discipline to spend time slogging through the least fun parts of running a business (like the bookkeeping)‚ rather than taking that time to do something fun. When you’re the boss‚
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Facts: In October on 1963‚ a Cleveland police office saw two men‚ John Terry and Richard Chilton standing on a street corner and appearing suspicious. One of them would walk past a certain store window‚ look around inside‚ and walk back to the other and talk for a short period of time. This was repeated about a dozen times‚ and the detective believed they were casing the store for a robbery. The officer approached the two‚ identified himself as a policeman‚ and asked their names. They then appeared
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Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg‚ Manitoba‚ but raised in Port Coquitlam‚ British Columbia‚ a community near Vancouver on Canada’s west coast. As an active teenager involved in many sports‚ in 1977 Terry was only 18 years old when he was diagnosed with bone cancer and forced to have his right leg amputated six inches above the knee. <br> <br>The night before his operation‚ Terry read an article about an amputee who had competed in the New York Marathon. Indirectly that story‚ along with Terry’s observations
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Maintaining Individual Excellence Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary and Thesaurus defines excellence as the quality of superiority. The work excellence is synonymous with distinction‚ greatness‚ flawlessness‚ impeccability‚ and perfection (Merriam-Webster‚ 2006). The pursuit of excellence is the search for perfection. The consensus of today’s society is that nothing is perfect and perfection is unobtainable. Although that may be true‚ I believe that by reaching for excellence‚ or perfection‚ a person
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Terry Fox-My Hero “I’m gonna do my very best. I’ll fight. I promise I won’t give up!” Terry said this after he had to give up in Thunder bay‚ Ontario. Terrance Stanley Fox is a hero to me because he set examples to younger and older people to raise awareness and money towards supporting cancer. He is my idol because my grandpa was diagnosed with cancer in 2001 and had it for 5 years and due to a seizure he tragically died on July 28th‚ 2005. Terry Fox was born on July 28th‚ 1958. In his younger
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January 12‚ 2009 Essay #2 Terry Fox Few people in today’s modern society become a household name for traditional merits of heroism. Even fewer are remembered long after the spotlight of their accomplishments fade. In Canadian history‚ no name resonates closer to the word hero than Terry Fox and his marathon of hope. His innate sense of selflessness‚ and perseverance in the face of adversity has become Terry’s lasting legacy. Turning tragedy into opportunity‚ Terry inspired an entire nation‚ and
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