As a student‚ I used to wonder why the graduation speeches are called commencement speeches. After working very hard and earning the graduation‚ the feeling we had was that it’s finally over. So what’s this commencement all about? But the word is used at the right place since you are now going to be commencing your careers. While most of you will start your corporate life‚ some of you may choose to chart your own path and start as an entrepreneur. Today‚ you will be entering the corporate world
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Tomorrow When the War Began In the book “Tomorrow When the War Began” written by John Marsden‚ an important character who made a change was Homer. You could se him changing throughout the story in the beginning‚ middle and end. He became more mature‚ developed feelings for certain people‚ and also took lead of the group. ‘Tomorrow When the War Began’ is a book about seven teenagers who go on a camping trip in the bush to a place called “Hell”. They go on this trip to get away from their busy
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Ben Carson made things easier in his life by a formula called THINK BIG. Each one of those letters mean something. There was three important letters that stood out to me. The most important letters that stood out to me were H for honesty‚ N for nice‚ and K for knowledge. The first important letter was H. If everybody had honesty‚ then the world would be so much better. Honesty can help achieve goals in many different ways. One way is if you tell people what happened and not lie about it then maybe
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Save More Tomorrow : Using Behavioral Economics to Increase Employee Saving Richard H. Thaler University of Chicago Shlomo Benartzi University of California‚ Los Angeles As firms switch from defined-benefit plans to defined-contribution plans‚ employees bear more responsibility for making decisions about how much to save. The employees who fail to join the plan or who participate at a very low level appear to be saving at less than the predicted life cycle savings rates. Behavioral explanations
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A theme that I found important in the extended text Tomorrow‚ When the War Began‚ by John Marsden was change. Change is when people have things happen to their circumstances and are forced to think or believe differently. Change was important because it was a dominant theme in the novel as the characters – young teenagers – were forced to cope with the devastation of their lives and their environment caused by war. The theme of change is also important because it is something that affects us all
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Tomorrow when the war began. In the novel; ‘Tomorrow when the war began’‚ the characters experience various changes and transformations. These changes occur when the different characters experience life threatening situations and environmental change. The characters have to adapt‚ think and behave differently. The changes that occur involve the themes of leadership‚ war and love. Throughout the novel‚ John Marsden shows change in Ellie. In the beginning Ellie is a carefree but hard working
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"Emancipation: A Life Fable"‚ both passages have a similar theme. The theme for both passages is that patience can lead to good things. The passage " Boy’s Life"‚ it started off with a teacher named Mrs. Neville and she kept on talking even though most of the classes were already outside. Then a kid named Cory Mackenson was very impatient to get out of class‚ but he was understanding afterwards when he realized why Mrs. Neville kept on talking. In the passage" Emancipation: A Life Fable"‚ the animal was
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English 009 November 21‚ 2013 The Cars Then‚ Now and Tomorrow Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! it’s superman ? No it’s my dad in his new car. Men have made great creations and also improve them by the pass of the years. Cars is one of them and back in the 1960’s cars were
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It is believed that the youth is the hope of every nation. In their hands lie the choice of making their nation great. They are the generation destined to change the world. Soon they will become our future’s leaders as they are being molded at present to become better citizens of the country. They are young and restless. But what if this young generation had started to become a nuisance to the society? We have heard many of them involved in crimes‚ rebels who go to the streets and crying for the
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In the passages “Boy’s Life” and “Emancipation: A Life Fable‚” they both have analogous topics‚ some more than others. In the passage “Boy’s Life” the main theme is‚ new situations can cause discomfort. What it means by this is when the teacher‚ Mrs. Neville‚ confronts the main character‚ Cory Mackenson‚ about a writing contest. Cory hadn’t thought about entering the contest because all of his writings‚ he believed‚ were just for himself. He also felt like having his teacher talk to him like a
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