2 March 2012 Period 4 Professional Writing Sample See the Forest for the Trees As the great poet Robert Louis Stevenson once said‚ “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.” I believe this quote says that if you put all your attention on planting you will have overflowing crops‚ but if you focus on the crops‚ you might lose sight of how the crops came about. In the end it’s not about enjoying the results‚ it’s about enjoying how the things started. The quote
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Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a 17-day motorcycle journey across the United States done by the author (though he is not identified in the book) and his son Chris‚ joined for nine days by John and Sylvia Sutherland‚ a befriended couple. During this novel‚ I also went on a journey filled with a countless number of insightful‚ philosophical discussions the author stirs up. This story makes you think and ponder questions just as the main character is doing. The story
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of Rivers"‚ and it appeared in Brownie ’s Book. Later‚ his poems‚ short plays‚ essays and short stories appeared in the NAACP publication Crisis Magazine and in Opportunity Magazine and other publications.( http://www.redhotjazz.com/hughes.html) Robert Lee Frost was one of America ’s leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An essentially pastoral poet often
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5 How can the Haber-Bosch Process be Political? The whole conflict arose by the implementation of this technology. The application of this new technology if thought beyond common sense is much more unclear. It has political‚ economic‚ nutritional and military aspects. Theses aspects merged during the Great War in resulted in the lengthened the war for an additional war and extending the industrial destruction. The technology had an obvious effect on public life‚ the question is if it was in an authoritarian
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point of view‚ what was his intention in sending the email? The Van Den Bosch case shows issues in different responsiveness and cultural values and cross culture communication. In the case‚ Johannes van den Bosch‚ the Rotterdam office representative of Big Four Firm‚ is having problems communicating and getting the expected actions and results from his partner in Mexico‚ Pablo Menendez. As the result of this Van den Bosch has been receiving a lot of verbal abuse and pressure from his angry British
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Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee wanted to achieve diverse goals during the Civil War. Lincoln was determined to save the Union and help the United States move into a new era. He wanted to settle the issue of slavery in the United States‚ founded on the principles of liberty and equal rights for all. Robert E. Lee fought the war for the Southern traditions. Lee wanted to defend Southern traditions. He fought the war not only to protect slavery‚ but also to preserve a whole culture‚ a way of life
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Artists have inspired many people to create art in various forms and ways to express different moods for many years. For years‚ artists all around the world have become legacies due to their fine art collections. Both Michelangelo and Hieronymus Bosch are incredible European artists who have influenced many people with their famous jaw-breaking paintings (The Last Judgment and The Garden of Earthly Delights). These two artists share similar characteristics with knowledge in painting and influences
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Assassination of Robert Kennedy Robert F. Kennedy was the United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964. He served as the United States senator for the state of New York from 1965 to 1968. In 1968‚ Kennedy campaigned for the democratic nominee for the 1968 presidential election. Although Kennedy supported Israel in the Arab-Israeli war‚ Sirhan Sirhan was not justified to assassinate him‚ because Sirhan irrationally supported the Arabs and Kennedy was a promising presidential candidate. Robert F. Kennedy
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Robert Louis Stevenson wrote in his book‚ Treasure Island‚ “Standing on the dock‚ I started talking to another man passing the time. He told me he was a former sailor‚ but now kept an inn in Bristol. Now that his health was not as good on land‚ he was looking for a job as a cook on a ship.” At this point in the book‚ Treasure Island‚ by Robert Louis Stevenson‚ Squire Trelawney is writing to Dr. Livesey about the person he hired to be the cook on the Hispaniola‚ the ship that Squire Trelawney‚ Dr
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Literary tendency of Victorian literature: special reference to Lord Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning 1.1 An Introduction to Victorian Period: The Victorian era is generally agreed to stretch through the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). It was a tremendously exciting period when many artistic styles‚ literary schools‚ as well as‚ social‚ political and religious movements flourished. It was a time of prosperity‚ broad imperial expansion‚ and great political reform. It was also a time‚ which
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