My Greatest Ambition‚ Lurie. Story written in 1st person in voice of young(?) narrator. Tone shows a wry humour – adult reflecting on youth seems more likely. Language is straightforward and relies on variety rather than image creating. Sentences vary in length and create a sense of conversation. Humour of opening sentence implies adult looking back with affection. Memory as narrative tool: memory is always unreliable. Narrator counters this unreliability by frequent corrections and apologies
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aimless life and what they do in life‚ is largely a matter of chance‚ determined by the circumstances in which they happen to be placed. Aimless people do not achieve any thing in life. They just live because they have to live.A man or woman without an ambition is really an unfortunate person because his life is just like a ship without a rudder. It is at the mercy of winds and will be tosses hither and thither aimlessly. As it does not have any set destination. It will reach nowhere. Without any set aim
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shame in saying that‚ because why should we feel any embarrassment in admitting that we attempted to achieve success? At the very least we tried‚ for the worst failure of all is the failure to try. That is the first rule towards achieving your ambitions. Moving past the ‘no‚ I just can’t.’ attitude and realizing that you can. That the possibility is there‚ and no matter how minute that chance is‚ the fact that it is present is all you really need. In the words of Beth Hamilton‚ ‘You don’t
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The pursuit of glory and honour outweighed the security of England in deciding Henrician foreign policy. Although Henry’s foreign policy in this period was greatly influenced by his desire for security‚ both personal and national‚ there is much historiographical debate as to whether it was the primary motive of his actions abroad. In this essay glory and honour will be dealt with together‚ although glory tends to be associated with wartime victory‚ whereas honour is related to the upholding of status
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Steve Jobs Broke Every Leadership Rule. Don’t Try It Yourself. gslusherInteresting‚ but written by someone who‚ apparently‚ has never been a leader of anything. Of course‚ the author is really no worse than the people who writ [...]Frederick E. Allen‚ Forbes StaffI couldn’t agree more that there are no universal rules. I just think that in the wide range of leaders and leadership styles‚ Steve Jobs is an extreme out [...]jrobertOn the contrary‚ there are are indeed universal rules for successful
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Ambition Gone Wrong Britney Spears is known as one of the most iconic celebrities of all time. She had the ambition to do whatever it took to get to where she wanted to be. In May of 2005‚ Spears and Federline were the dynamic duo who started their own five-episode reality TV show called‚ Britney and Kevin: Chaotic. The show caused them to get more attention in the real world and soon became known for the criticism towards Britney. A little after that they had two kids and then surprisingly their
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all about Steve Jobs.com Steve Jobs: a biography by Romain Moisescot - 1 / 74 all about Steve Jobs.com Steve Jobs a biography by Romain Moisescot Table of Contents (clickable links) Page Youth The Apple I Apple’s early days Success and failures Macintosh Steve leaves Apple NeXT Inc. The NeXT Cube Getting real Wilderness years Saved by toys The return to Apple A true visionary The iPod revolution Apple is strong Steve and the Magic Kingdom Difficult times 2010: Steve is back. Again.
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Returned to California in 1974 and was hired as a technician for Atari * Jobs met Steve Wozniak shortly after they both left school while working for Hewlett-Packard * Wozniak was an incredibly talented engineer‚ especially in electronic gadgets * While developing a “blue box” device‚ Jobs convinced Wozniak to sell it to Berkeley students. * Attended meetings at Wozniak’s “Homebrew Computer Club” * Steve convinced Wozniak to work with him in building computers APPLE * Born on April
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Dominique McCraven Public Speaking 9:00am Professor Dr. Dupree Above other companies why do people chose apple products? Topic: Steve Jobs and Apple General Purpose: Explain the distinction of Apple products. Specific Purpose: To inform the general public of the reasons why consumers predominantly prefer to use Apple products rather than competing corporations’ products. Thesis Statement: The Apple Corporation exceeds competing companies in product sales because of the company’s
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The Bard of Avon saturates the pages of the tragedy Macbeth with ugly feelings of ambition - unprincipled ambition which is ready to kill for itself. Let’s thoroughly search out the major instances of ambitious behavior by the husband-wife team. Samuel Johnson in The Plays of Shakespeare explains the place of ambition in this tragedy: The danger of ambition is well described; and I know not whether it may not be said in defence of some parts which now seem improbable‚ that‚ in
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