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    The Single Path of Javert In the novel‚ Les Miserables‚ Victor Hugo displays a lifestyle of a police officer named Javert with only one purpose; to serve justice. In the novel‚ Javert acts to what he truly believes is morally correct‚ but when his conscience gets the best of him‚ he overlooks his way of life leading up to his suicide. Javert has always been one to follow the law and believes there is a certain way of doing things and punishing people‚ even if it means his death. During the peasants

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    What does it take be a leader? Do you need to have knowledge‚ power and/or admiration of those around you? Can anyone become a leader? According to Riggio (2013)‚ leadership is the ability to guide people to success. The path-goal theory expands on this definition by including that the leaders responsibility is to help the achieve the groups goals (Riggio‚2013). The trait theory of leadership involves looking into the traits that create an active‚competent leader. A trait is considered a quality

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    along with many other things. The word determination is defined as‚ “the act of coming to a decision or of fixing or settling a purpose.” Will-power is‚ “the strength or will to carry out one’s decisions‚ wishes‚ or plans.” In the short story A Worn Path by Eudora Welty‚ the main character Phoenix carried out the meaning of these two words throughout the whole story. She had experienced many road blocks during her journey‚ but she did not let them stop her from reaching the goal she had at the time

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    environment factors changed dramatically for Nelson and he found himself ready to forgive those that imprisoned him and call them comrades. His amazing strength of character can be recognized in the movie and the Path-Goal Theory’s leadership behaviors can be found along with them. Path Goal Theory Path-Goal Theory argued that subordinates’ motivation‚ satisfaction and work performance are dependent on the leadership style chosen by their superior. Moreover‚ a person may perform these by adopting a certain

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    that would otherwise seem impossible. Sophocles once stated‚ “One word frees us all of the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” This statement is the underlying factor that motivates the main character in Eudora Welty’s short story‚ “A Worn Path.” The story portrays an elderly woman’s journey to the city during a frozen day in December to obtain medicine for her grandson’s chronically sore throat. Welty uses strong symbolism throughout the story to depict just how influential love can be

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    Today’s assignment was to take a Path Builder quiz in the MyFoundationsLab. The results showed that I mastered all available topics and I was very happy. The quiz covered several skills‚ such as sentence skills‚ punctuation‚ mechanics‚ spelling‚ and the craft of writing. At first I was confused taking this quiz‚ because I did not understand how this pertained to this week’s discussions until it was almost time for me to submit my assignment. These skills are all crucial to me as a student

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    public and private organizations that have developed their emergency plans. How can the public be informed of emergency management protocols and new upcoming changes being developed when all the governmental departments and agencies seem to cross paths without a clear line of control?

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    In the Worn Path‚ by Eudora Welty‚ the placement consorts with the time to create an environment which hinders Phoenix’s progress but reinstates dedication and persistence into her journey. During the establishment of the setting‚ the first description is‚ “It was December—a bright frozen day in the early morning” (Welty 1340). As established later on‚ the story takes place in the southern United States‚ which negates the initial portrayal of a “frozen day”. Due to physical setting‚ “frozen”

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    Greetings from India. I come from the west of India from a place called Gujarat. I come from a close knit family of 5. Since my childhood I have always enjoyed cartoons and video games. Thus it comes as no surprise that I have chosen this as my career path. I am extremely passionate about animation and visual effects and I have done my Graduation as well as Post graduation in commerce at Mumbai University and also a Professional Diploma in 3 d animation and VFX from Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematic

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    I choose to write about Phoenix Jackson from the story A Worn Path that was written Eudora Welty in 1941. The literacy work that Phoenix seems to display is figurative speech. Phoenix Jackson interests me because she was determined‚ thoughtful and unbreakable. Phoenix is a brittle older black woman who travels a long distance in the woods in the coldest time of the winter to town to get medicine for her ill grandson. During her walk‚ she encountered several things that tried to stop her from reaching

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