Meir Ezra: The Benefits of Being Unreasonable You succeed when you are unreasonable. You neither give nor accept excuses. You insist on success. L. Ron Hubbard defines reasonableness as "faulty explanations." When you agree with faulty explanations‚ you are too reasonable. Examples of faulty explanations: "I can’t repair your furnace today as it might rain." The truth is‚ the repairman is going to a basketball game. "None of the staff will work past 5:00." The truth is‚ the manager does not want
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Racism. Do you know how it feels when someone is racist to you. It could have a big negative impact on you. In the books the dream team by Ron Jones and in the book Lebron James by clayton geoffreys both of the characters in the books have to face this problem. Lebron james and huey and to face these problems of what they had to do to get over it and not listen to the people that would say that stuff they just did what they had in mind to. In the book the dream team huey on page 4 people on his
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Scientology: A Brief History and Examination Modern day religions have a very difficult time of attaining relevancy and legitimacy. They are often maligned and ignored by many people who are searching for spiritual comfort or enlightenment. Eastern religions or those with a monotheistic/Abrahamic background are favored while religions like the Church of Euthanasia‚ Epicureanism‚ and the Heaven’s Gate organization are dismissed and often labeled as cults. Possibly the most famous of these new followings
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The relationship between religion and science has been a subject of study since Classical antiquity‚ addressed by philosophers‚ theologians‚ scientists‚ and other commentators. Perspectives from different geographical regions‚ cultures and historical epochs are diverse. Recent commentators have characterized the relationship as one of 4 categories: conflict‚ independence‚ dialogue‚ and integration. Discussions of what is science and what is not science‚ the demarcation problem in the philosophy of
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Ron Wallace Mrs. Hutchinson English 75D February 2‚ 2011 A day I will never forget is the last football game of my eighth grade year. We the Saint Jo Panthers were undefeated‚ and we were playing the Wild Cats‚ who also were undefeated. The game started out slow with neither team scoring their first three positions. The Wild Cats drew first blood with a long touchdown. They went for the two-point conversion‚ since I knew what play they were running by the way they lined up‚ a quarterback
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Each spring as the weather warms thoughts turns towards airing out the house and beginning the process of spring cleaning after a long winter. Ron Rash’s poem “Water Quilt” illustrates the chore of spring cleaning with a twist. During leaner times the people of Appalachia would use the river as a source for all household water use including cooking and cleaning. The tradition of taking all the bedding to the river to wash would have been a yearly ritual. Rash explains the reason this ritual continues
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In the article‚ “Bullying in Schools‚” written by Ron Banks‚ the article expresses the key components of bullying . Bullying is made of direct behaviors. Boys typically engage in direct bullying‚ compared to girls who bully‚ use more indirect strategies. Teasing‚ taunting‚ threatening‚ hitting‚ and stealing are strategies used by boys. Spreading rumors and enforcing social isolation are strategies used by girls. Also‚ various reports and studies have shown that approximately fifteen percent
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Bullying. As researchers are saying bullying in schools is becoming more common‚ and nothing is really being done about it. In the article Bullying In Schools author Ron Banks states some statistics‚ “approximately 15 percent of students are bullied regularly or are initiators of bullying”. When students are being bullied they never really tell anybody about it because they don’t want to be known as a “tattle tale”‚ and get bullied more. Most of bullying comes from children who are living in a
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material (and so controls the Church of Scientology). In fact‚ Hubbard himself devised the OCA in 1953 for the specific purpose of recruitment; early versions of it‚ which seem to be pretty much identical to today’s OCA‚ bear the words "© 1953 by L. RON HUBBARD - All rights reserved." The questions on the OCA sheet are strangely reminiscent of the "Security Checks" which Scientologists have to do and‚ in several instances‚ share the oddity and leading nature of Security Check
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Reading the Paper Ron Carlson’s Reading the Paper is a list of the things occurring in the time period of a day in the life of a character. The idea of the common everyday life is represented with the very first sentence: ALL I WANT TO DO is read the paper‚ but I’ve got to do the wash first. Yet‚ even though the author wants to represent it as a normal day in which normal day events take place‚ mundane happenings are introduced before some bizarre ones are presented. That way‚ a structure of mundane
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