As a United States citizen‚ who grew up in a different country and came to Land of Liberty with shaped economical view‚ I agree with Christie’s and Leonhardt’s ideas‚ aimed at cut unnecessary benefits‚ decentralization of power‚ and eliminate irrational expenditure. As history shows‚ economy of each country after a period of prosperity turns into recession and vice versa. Time of recession‚ irrespective of the political system‚ is the hardest period for authorities. They have to go with the
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entirely eliminate the tendency to think irrationally‚ but we can reduce the frequency‚ the duration‚ and the intensity of our irrational beliefs by developing three insights: 1. We don’t merely get upset but mainly upset ourselves by holding inflexible beliefs. 2. No matter when and how we start upsetting ourselves‚ we continue to feel upset because we cling to our irrational beliefs. 3. The only way to get better is to work hard at changing our beliefs. It takes practice‚ practice‚ practice
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a novel about the life of the Ibo tribe in Nigeria during the 19th century. In the passage‚ the protagonist‚ Okonkwo‚ is afraid to be seen as weak and attends the funeral of Ezeudu‚ an aged man who achieved three titles. Unfortunately‚ Okonkwo is exiled from the city of Umuofia for inadvertently shooting Ezeudu’s son at the funeral. Achebe uses the banishment of Okonkwo to show the Ibo tribe’s compliance to the Earth goddess and Obierika’s perspective of Earth
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thinking due how the therapists approach therapy‚ and how they describe the therapeutic process. Through a process of rational disputation‚ Ellis works to persuade clients that certain of their beliefs are irrational and nonfunctional. Beck views his clients’ beliefs as being more inaccurate than irrational and asks his clients to conduct behavioral experiments to test the accuracy of their beliefs (Corey‚ 2013‚ p.305). Resource: Corey‚ G. (2013). Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy
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have been conducting lots of marketing project in my working area. But‚ as I conducted those projects‚ I felt that knowing customer is very difficult. It is because sometimes customer was very rational‚ but in other times customer was extremely irrational. So‚ frankly speaking‚ at that time when I thought of that question‚ I gave up understanding customer. In the mean time‚ it is a big fortune that I met a book of “Nudge”. It made me feel that maybe I got the answer that question‚ how can I know
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INTRODUCTION 1. Key Theoretical concepts of my approach. My personal story. As a child‚ I was gregarious‚ outgoing‚ and happy-go-lucky. I did not know why I was unable to focus when I had been one of the best students during my primary school. I had been talkative‚ but I kept to myself‚ remained silent‚ and let bullies pick on me especially my father and my second sister who love to find faults in me and yelled at me for no reasons. I hadn’t the slightest idea what was going on with my body
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people who are homophobic just don’t understand gay people. If you look up homophobia in the dictionary‚ it would say something like fear of lesbians and gay men. This is somewhat true but very misleading. I believe it should say unreasonable or irrational fear‚ and while some include these thoughts‚ most do not. This is a reflection of the overuse of the word‚ and the fact that most people feel their claims are valid. The reasons for homophobia are not usually valid and their effects can be everlasting
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play. Shakespeare’s philosophical position in balancing between reason and passion throughout Othello tells the readers that there is an imperfect balance between the two because almost everyone who was rational in the beginning turned out to be irrational and unreasonable. Too much passion can cause one to lose control. The play‚ gives readers the idea that passion and reason caused many characters to fall into irrationality. Passionate feelings and reasonable thoughts can only lead such characters
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‘Twelve Angry Men’ is in a sense‚ a tribute to the jury system‚ Rose predominantly questions the ultimate fairness and reliability of the system. The inharmoniousness of irrational prejudice is evidently placed within Roses’ play‚ accompanying this Rose brings to light the frailness of justice. The inharmoniousness of irrational prejudice is evidently placed within oses’ play. Rose ultimately accompanies this by bringing to light the frailness of justice and the questioning
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says Steve Carney‚ the author of The Teamwork Chronicles. The idea backfired on Levi ’s and inevitably turned the workers against their counterparts. The buddy teams worked as long as you had an entire team of experienced‚ top performers. But predictably‚ "longtime friendships were dissolved as faster workers tried to banish slower ones." (King‚ 1998) Morale took a plunge when the skilled and faster team workers began seeing their paychecks take a nosedive. Veteran employees were
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