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    Blind Optimism

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    Blind Optimism‚ Thick Skin‚ And A Cell Phone By Melanie Warner August 13‚ 2001 (FORTUNE Magazine) – Sudha Shah is at the peak of her game. As one of the top sales reps for a big software company‚ she’s won the respect (and perhaps envy) of her co-workers‚ and she has earned a bucket of money in commissions. Last year Sudha blasted through her sales quota by more than 400%‚ bringing around $40 million in revenue to SAP‚ the German business-software maker--more money than all but one of her 300 sales

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    Pursuit of Happiness

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    Professor Meade Sociology 110 16 May 2013 Pursuit of Happyness and Poverty Social Problem: Poverty - the state or condition of having little or no money‚ goods‚ or means of support; condition of being poor. (According to Dictionary.com) Theories: • Structural Functionalism – Poverty is natural & expected • Symbolic Interaction – The way we view the poor‚ blaming the victim o We work to change the behavior‚ not the actual cause • Conflict Theory – Poverty is unnatural and not the fault of

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    Pursuit of Happiness

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    Trail to Happyness People are given the right to pursue happiness but not the right to happiness. That being said‚ folks in our society need to follow what pleases them. People in different areas of the world have various ideas of what makes them happy. It is true that money does not buy happiness. Normally humans are happy with just a few of the basic living attributes. To live a prosperous life of pleasure one must surround themselves with what promotes their happiness and well-being. There is

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    Blake Moffett Optimism

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    once voiced “I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind‚ furious optimism.” Any kind of success in this life is unattainable without optimism. Optimism should‚ without a doubt‚ be a priority. Optimism is the only thing that kept our students learning‚ our doctors healing‚ and our troops fighting‚ all these in hopes of a better future. Optimism is another word for faith. Optimism is just faith that things will get better no matter how bad the circumstances are. We are supposed

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    Exploring Optimism Psy220

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    Exploring Optimism In this paper hopefulness and optimism will be compared and contrasted and a review under what circumstances might optimism is harmful. Then the paper will explore defensive pessimism and under what circumstances might this be beneficial. So how is hopefulness and optimism related? Both terms are positive. Both terms are wonderful motivators. Hope is a dream and optimism makes the dream come true. Hopefulness is the emotion or feeling that keeps a person going and striving for

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    Optimism as an Ideal Voltaire presents the character of the protagonist called "Candide: or‚ all for the Best" and "Candide: or‚ The Optimist." learns the principles of optimism from his teacher‚ Dr. Pngloss‚ who lives constantly in fools optimism‚ based on abstract philosophical argument rather than intangible evidence or experiment. However‚ In the chaotic world of the novel. Pangloss and his student Candide maintain that “everything is for the

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    everywhere‚ and never miss anyone. Our races have overcome and will overcome abundant problems‚ no matter how complex they were or they will be. And‚ very natural‚ it is the optimism that leads us from victory to victory‚ like Churchill had said; make us see the light‚ even the slightest‚ in the darkness. We always see the just how optimism has assisted we human‚ in term of both literature‚ in the novel Robinson Crusoe‚ and the history of medical science. Sometimes‚ being optimistic is the best thing

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    about everything. They believed this in hopes to make the world a better place to live. Voltaire is against such optimism‚ and believes that true joy can only be experienced in a world that doesn’t exist. In his book Candide‚ he uses anti-heroism as a satire against the philosophers of the enlightenment. I do not believe that Voltaire intends the reader to see the world with optimism‚ but rather pessimism. I will further explain why I believe the book draws attention to the horrific “ways of the

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    Optimism as a Theme for Candide Just as on the title‚ Candide‚ or OptimismOptimism is also used as a major theme. Voltaire’s satire of philosophical optimism is one of the major issues of Candide. Throughout the story‚ satirical references to "the best of all possible worlds" contrast with natural catastrophes and human wrongdoing. According to Wikipedia‚ "optimism‚ the opposite of pessimism‚ is a lifeview where the world is looked upon the as a positive place. Optimists generally believe that

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