Education should only be concerned with what is useful in life. Discuss. Education is championed to be the solution of many prevailing problems society is facing today. An overarching view of education can be seen as a way in which people gain knowledge‚ information and understanding‚ and learn new skills. One can safely say that the breadth and depth of what can be learned cannot be finished in a lifetime and thus it often forces educators to sieve out and choose areas that are deemed useful
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“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” (F) What is happiness and how is it achieved? Simple questions‚ with different complex answers‚ none of which can be proved to be right or wrong. Happiness is an individual state of being of each person‚ acquired by one’s perception in that special moment in time. It simply depends on the individual and how they try to obtain it. Thousands of people try different paths in order to successfully achieve happiness; some of them finding it
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Gerry Mark S. Gubantes CAS 2013-33630 B1-1R 01-21-2014 Our universe has the general tendency to move from order to disorder. And yet look at how complex we are. The puzzle becomes: How does our universe creates complexity? David Christian said‚ “The universe can create complexity but with great difficulty.” According to him‚ we live in the “goldilocks region” of our universe – not too hot‚ not too cold‚ but just right for the creation of complexity. Then‚ things slightly more complex started
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"Don’t judge a book by its cover . Don’t be quick to judge . Before you can judge ‚ make sure you are perfect. When you judge‚ the the other four fingers of your hands are pointing back at you. " are quotes from revered people like Nick Vujicic. However‚ it is indispensible that it is a whole different world in reality. People are quick to judge to bring down others for the sake of ’fun’ and ’pleasure’. Amber Rose scandal illustrates how quick people seize opportunities to judge and shame
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Luhrman are captivating and as a result hook the audience completely into the film. They do this by introducing the stark contrasts between 1929 in the sanatorium to New York in 1922. They also begin to develop the characters of Nick and Gatsby. Finally the first two scenes introduce some of the main themes and symbols that reoccur throughout the film. The first scene starts with old‚ early 1920s music playing to set the time of the film. ON screen we see the logos shift from grey to gold‚ which could
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The Great Gatsby: Chapter 1: Fitzgerald opens his novel by introducing Nick Carraway‚ the story’s narrator. Nick has‚ by his own admission‚ come "back from the East last autumn‚" jaded and embittered by his experiences there. The reader knows immediately that the story has already taken place and that Nick is telling it to us through the filter of time. He is distanced from the events at hand and is recounting them by way of memory. It is imperative that readers trust him‚ then‚ because time can
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narrator introduces himself as Nick Carraway and talks about himself and his father. He describes himself as tolerant but fails to realizes his views are very biased and speaks with pity to those who “haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had‚” as his father says. Nick comes from a well-known Mid-Western family‚ and graduated from Yale (as his ancestors have) in 1915. After fighting in World War I‚ he comes home restless and decides to learn the bond business. His father finances Nick for a year
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The Great Gatsby‚ they introduce the Narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ along with other characters. Nick opens the book reminiscing about his past upbringings and lessons his family taught him. Nick then visits his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom. Daisy and Tom are very rich and Tom is very arrogant‚ obnoxious‚ racist‚ and seems a bit uneducated. Tom does not try to hide his love affairs‚ and Daisy tries to set up Nick and her child hood friend‚ Jordan. At the end of the chapter‚ Nick sees his neighbor Gatsby
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Causing his "whole statement [to fall] to pieces" (pg. 65). Gatsby claims he knew Nick from "the Third Division during the war" (pg. 47). Nick was in the "ninth machine gun battalion" (pg. 47)‚ Gatsby was "in the seventh infantry until June 1918. There were 10–15K case soldiers in each division‚ Nicks division having 3‚772 soldiers and Gatsby’s with 707 soldiers. In chapter three Gatsby gives a hand written invitation to Nick for his
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advantages that you’ve had.” Starting off chapter one the book‚ “The Great Gatsby introduces the narrator‚ Nick Carraway. Pages one to three‚ Nick begins by explaining his own situation. He has moved from the Midwest to West Egg‚ a town on Long Island‚ NY. The novel set around WWI. Nick has moved to east to try to become a bond trader on Wall Street. Nick is a graduate from Yale‚ and grew up in a wealthy family. Nick has rented a small house that is between many large mansions. The mansion next door
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