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    Winning Vs Participating

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    that way one gets closer to success. And how can one win without participation. Of course this saying has nothing to do with encouraging mediocrity. It says that only by participation you know where you are - and if you are mediocre you need to sharpen ur skills. Or you need to find another sport/race where your skills can be capitalized. This saying says that one has to participate and and go through the race to learn‚ experience and improve performance. Who knows you could one day emerge as winner

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    Case – 1 - A perfect response to an Imperfect storm Twelve days. That’s how long it took for Mississippi power to restore electric power to the heavily damaged areas of southern Mississippi after hurricane Katrina slammed into the Mississippi gulf coast on august 29‚ 2005‚ with 145-mph winds and pounding rain. That’s remarkable‚ given the devastation that news photos and television newscasts so graphically displayed. It’s something that even the federal and state governments could not accomplish

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    The chapters are dedicated to each of the habits‚ which are represented by the following imperatives: 1. Be Proactive. Here‚ Covey emphasizes the original sense of the term "proactive" as coined by Victor Frankl. You can either be proactive or reactive when it comes to how you respond to certain things. When you are reactive‚ you blame other people and circumstances for obstacles or problems. Being proactive means taking responsibility for every aspect of your life. Initiative and taking action

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    only thoughts running through my mind were those of failure. From that moment on‚ however‚ I told myself I would never let that situation happen again‚ no matter what it took. Over the course of the next few days‚ I was thinking of various ways to sharpen both my writing and grammar skills so that in the event of

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    Lord of the Flies

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    person as being morally wrong or bad‚ immoral and/or causing suffering for others. Evil in the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding was an inborn trait of mankind. In this book‚ evil was seen as a main theme throughout the whole story. Golding saw no hope for mankind and believed that evil is always in mankind and sooner or later it will be expressed and no longer be subdued by civilization. The Lord of the Flies is a book about a group of children (some very young)‚ who become stranded on an

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    Statement of Purpose

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    STATEMENT OF PURPOSE My fascination towards computer started way back when I was 10 years old and my father brought home a computer. In those days computer was merely a mode of fun and entertainment but as years went by‚ I understood the real potential of Computers and my liking towards computers has grown ever since.The field of Computer Science interests me because of its rigorous mathematical nature and it’s wide ranging applications. I always had a strong liking towards maths which is evident

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    The American Dream I always thought that the American dream was just about owning my own house and raising a family; but in truth‚ it isn’t. “The American dream I believe in now is a shared one. It’s not so much about what I can get for myself; it’s about how we can all get by together.”  Eve Birch; “The Art of Being A Neighbor” Owning your own home and having all those fancy gadgets and gizmos is only a small fraction of the American dream. What really makes the dream so wonderful and worth

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    School is located in West Orange‚ New Jersey in a neighborhood where mostly African American and Hispanic businesses and people were surrounding the area. As I arrived to the school or left‚ I usually only saw minorities in the surrounding neighborhood. This correlated with the students I saw in the classroom I observed‚ and throughout the school. In the classroom there was a total of 17 students‚ all of which were minorities. Ten of the students are Hispanic and seven are African American. I did

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    first three habits focus on moving from dependence to independence while habits 4‚ 5 and 6 address interdependence. The seventh habit is considered to be the most important habit because it deals with the upkeep of you. You must consistently sharpen your saw. Habit 1 – Be Proactive Covey tells us how we should be taking more initiative and control of our lives. We are the only ones that have control over our lives. We need to take control of ourselves and realize that we can shape our thoughts

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    and we were presented with the challenge to find a way to positively impact our community. By this community service project‚ I was given the opportunity to sharpen my leadership and communication skills and being able to bring people together from different backgrounds. This club not only helped the girls but‚ also benefited me because I saw the importance of providing guidance and leadership for my younger

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