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    Case Study I The Reservation Nightmare (Page 42) The Reservation Nightmare Summary of the Facts of the Case The Reservation Nightmare is about a noted quality consultant named James Harrington that was trying to make a flight reservation to Canada with the ABC Travel Services. He called to ABC and the waiting began‚ first the telephone rang five times‚ so they started to ask questions‚ if his trip was related to company business‚ personal business or group travel‚ if his trip was within the United

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    General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: To inform my audience the different types of transcendentalism Organizational Pattern: Logical pattern Thesis: There are many different tenets of transcendentalism. 3 major ones are: self-reliant‚ idealism‚ and spiritual realm. Introduction I. Attention Grabber: “Into the wild” book required to read in most high schools II. S-A-T Orientation (Establish Credibility and Relate Yourself to the Audience: I as well as many of my peers hated the book

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    Anti-Transcendentalism Evil. Sin. Destruction. They are all used to describe a movement whose ideas go against those of transcendentalism. These terms are all aspects of a movement from the 1830’s known as Anti-Transcendentalism or Dark Romanticism. Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ a poet from Massachusetts was a Dark Romantic. He was well known for including gruesome aspects in his stories and poems. In his work‚ he demonstrated his negative thoughts of mankind. “The Ocean‚” one of his most famous pieces of

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    or the Narrator. The Narrator continues to do his job throughout the book while Bartleby; the newly hired scrivener prefers not to do anything other than copy papers and eventually‚ does not do anything at all. One of the main principles of transcendentalism as described by Emerson is to embrace individuality; he states “envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better‚ for worse”(Emerson). In the story‚ Bartleby “prefers” not to do anything that the Narrator asks

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    Enlightenment‚ transcendentalism‚ and puritan theology: 3 philosophies that shaped 3 centuries in America. Since the time periods of each philosophy overlapped with the others‚ all 3 had similarities as well as differences. From these philosophies came different writers with different views‚ shaping American prose. A major Enlightenment author was Thomas Paine. Thomas Paine wrote a piece called "The Age of Reason." In this piece he fully encompassed the ideologies of the Enlightenment. These included

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    enough I think that not even half of us gives it a though. I think it has become a part of our culture‚ and there for widely accepted. Its just recently it appeared in the public debate. The main question there is‚ whether the concept is a dream or nightmare. If you ask me‚ I would say it is in-between. It depends on which perspective you see it from. If your point of view comes from the producers‚ the industry is like one of does dreams‚ which is to good to be truth. They can earn tons of money easy

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    Ralph Emerson in his The Transcedentalist had declared that what we call transcendentalism is Idealism. Mankind can be divided into two groups‚ Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience‚ the second on consciousness. The Materialist believes in ¨facts¨‚ in ¨history¨. On the other hand‚ the idealist insists ¨on the power

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    Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in the late 1700s in Western Europe. Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature‚ religion‚ culture‚ and philosophy that emerged in the United States of America in the 1800s. Romanticism emerged as a reaction to three important trends in the 1700s. One was the Age of Enlightenment‚ the idea that reason was all important. The Romantics believed that reason could only take you so far. To get a true understanding of

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    enough I think that not even half of us gives it a though. I think it has become a part of our culture‚ and there for widely accepted. Its just recently it appeared in the public debate. The main question there is‚ whether the concept is a dream or nightmare. If you ask me‚ I would say it is in-between. It depends on which perspective you see it from. If your point of view comes from the producers‚ the industry is like one of does dreams‚ which is to good to be truth. They can earn tons of money easy

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    PASTOR (PART 3) (THE DECEPTIONS OF CHRISTMAS) Christmas has been with us for a very long time‚ but NOT as long as some think. Many mistakenly believe that the Christian churches have been celebrating Christmas since the church started on the Day of Pentecost. The truth is‚ for the first 400 - 500 years of Christianity there is no mention made of a celebration centering around the "birth" of Jesus. The early church DID NOT observe what we know today as Christmas. It wasn’t until well into the 4th

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