End of the Road Willa Cather once said‚ “The end is nothing; the road is all.” But what does that mean? The most overt answer is that it doesn’t matter where one ends up in life‚ it’s how one gets there that counts. But‚ I think it goes deeper than that. To me‚ this means that the path you take is‚ in itself‚ simultaneously the beginning‚ middle‚ and end‚ and ultimately I agree with Cather‚ that the path is the focus not the end. The final terminus is the direct result of a string of decisions
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causes of kidney disease. Patients with end stage renal disease will require either transplantation or dialysis. With the rising cost of health care‚ peritoneal dialysis has been identified as being potentially more cost effective than in-center hemodialysis‚ but it is not the treatment of choice by most doctors for their patients. Treatment of end stage renal disease is challenged by cost‚ quality and access to health. Major reimbursement mechanisms End stage renal disease causes a significant
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Formalization of the Front-end Phase of the Innovation Process – Competitive Advantage or a Path to Downfall? Jarno Poskela‚ jarno.poskela@hut.fi Helsinki University of Technology‚ Finland Abstract The influence of front-end process formalization on front-end performance is currently intensively debated issue in the new product development literature. The main line of arguments state that process formalization in general kills creativity and leads to decreased innovativeness. However‚ studies
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A beautiful end of Rescue Operation By:-A.K.Mishra‚B.E.(Mining) In the last two decades when the world has been plagued by terrorism‚ violence‚ war‚ poverty‚ disease and natural disasters like tsunamis and earthquakes‚ the pictures of the amazing operation of rescue of 33 miners trapped in the copper and gold mine in Copiapo in San Hose‚ Chile will probably go down as this decade’s best loved story. Chile is a country in South America where mining for solid mineral resources take place. Earlier
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The End of the Affair by P.J. O’Rourke The phrase “bankrupt General Motors‚” which we expect to hear uttered on Monday‚ leaves Americans my age in economic shock. The words are as melodramatic as “Mom’s nude photos.” And‚ indeed‚ if we want to understand what doomed the American automobile‚ we should give up on economics and turn to melodrama. Politicians‚ journalists‚ financial analysts and other purveyors of banality have been looking at cars as if a convertible were a business. Fire the MBAs
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futures not ours to see‚ que sera sera”! How true is that? Who would have thought that my life would end up like a disaster? It was 1964 when I was born in a north Indian family in a small South Indian city; Vijayawada. When I was a little girl I read a story; that there was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and many people chase it‚ even I am chasing it since then not for the money but for a happy life but it is still elusive. An almost idyllic childhood‚ although we were from a mediocre family
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pro-life Each year‚ 46 million women worldwide experience an abortion‚ a fact that would make anyone sick to their stomach. In actuality the current statistic proves that there are 1.3 million abortions performed each year in the United States alone; that is almost 1000 times our schools population aborted in ONE year. The controversy surrounding the ethicality of abortions has been an emotionally debated topic during the past several decades. It is an argument where the human interactions of
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Can Technology End Poverty? Kentaro Toyama (http://www.bostonreview.net/BR35.6/toyama.php) This is the lead article of a forum on the role of information and communication technology in global development. A ten-year-old boy named Dhyaneshwar looked up for approval after carefully typing the word “Alaska” into a PC. “Bahut acchaa!” I cheered—“very good.” It was April‚ 2004‚ and I was visiting a “telecenter” in the tiny village of Retawadi‚ three hours from Mumbai. The small‚ dirt-floored
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Lesley Rawlins The end justifies the means The end justifies the means is an expression that is often used in society to validate or excuse distasteful and objectionable actions undertaken by its people. In effect‚ the phrase is a justification for dispensing with all morality and principle in the passage towards a successful conclusion. The Greek writer Sophocles wrote in Electra 409 BC “the end excuses any evil." This was a thought later considered‚ by the Roman poet Ovid‚ ‘the
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Howards End by E. M. Forster deals with the conflict of class distinctions and human relationships. The quintessence of the main theme of this lovely novel is: "Only connect! Only connect the prose and passion and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer." This excerpt represents the main idea that Forster carries through the book: relationships‚ not social status‚ are--or at least should be--the most important thing for people.<br><br>Howards End was written in 1910. That
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