The Chronicle Review October 3‚ 2010 What Are You Going to Do With That? Katherine Streeter for The Chronicle Review By William Deresiewicz The essay below is adapted from a talk delivered to a freshman class at Stanford University in May. The question my title poses‚ of course‚ is the one that is classically aimed at humanities majors. What practical value could there possibly be in studying literature or art or philosophy? So you must be wondering why I’m bothering to raise it here‚ at
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a point in making sure I know never to lie to her. But that made me think‚ is it right for her to lie to me for the first 9 years of my life? Tricking children into behaving well in order to receive presents. Isn’t that bribery? Parents say that you should never lie and always tell the truth‚ but the way I see it is‚ they have gone against their word and become a hypocrite. On the other hand they could be enhancing enjoyment. But I know‚ even now Santa is not real my enjoyment at Christmas has
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Abstract To remain competitive in the 21st century there are key pillars that an organization needs in order to be a leader in their industry and will enable it to value the needs for their customers globally. These pillars include an effective management style‚ diversity management and business ethics. These key pillars with a strong organizational culture will enable an organization to gain a competitive advantage over their competitors. In order to be successful in the 21st century market
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Memo RE: Facing a Strategy Vector: Autonomous Strategic Action by R.A. Burgelman In this excerpt from a textbook‚ the author examines how Andy Grove‚ the CEO of a chipset venture‚ created an extremely strong strategy process based mainly on Intel’s core microprocessor business. Burgelman talks about how the venture succeed even though top management at Intel didn’t regard the chipsets as a business in its own right‚ but rather as a strategic support for microprocessors. Using data from interviews
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Assess the claim that moral truth is based on natural facts. The attempt to assert that there are natural facts‚ the concept that is termed naturalism‚ is a form of moral realism. Naturalism is empiricist in inspiration. It essentially regards ethical concepts as derived from experience and not given to use by reason a priori. So the naturalist looks to the world in search of moral facts and values‚ hoping to show that moral judgements are really judgements about natural facts that we can discover
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norm (Feden & Vogel 2033). Learning in different scopes of knowledge does not have a unilateral way of transmitting the knowledge. For example‚ the teacher who teaches a certain language cannot have the students listening only. The teacher should include a certain lesson in which the students talk in the language that they practice. The terms of observational learning in most psychological analysis are known as social learning‚ observational learning‚ and vicarious learning. Learning through observation
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Who do you first approach when you are down? Your friends? Is it really impossible to live without them? Is it necessary to make friends in the first place?Firstly‚ friends can help you develop character. With their company‚ they are able to influence you to become similar like them. For example‚ a teenager hangs around with good friends that are interested in studying. When the teenager is having problems in studies‚ his friends are able to help with places he is in doubt. Friends are also able
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By the end of the novel fowler is a greatly changed man. Do you agree? In the novel “The Quiet American”‚ which is written by Graham “Vintage” Green‚ follows a man called Thomas Fowler‚ who is a British journalist currently travelling in Vietnam. Thomas Fowler is aged in his fifties or so and his work has been covering the French war in Vietnam. Throughout the book Fowler becomes a greatly changed man‚ through meeting characters and becoming twisted in events. Fowler at the start of the book has
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“Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel‚” by Jared Diamond is without a doubt a very interesting read that gives you a different perspective about history. The main thesis of the book involves Diamond trying to answer Yali’s question “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had little cargo of our own?” Diamond is able to answer Yali’s question with the title of the book guns‚ germs‚ and steel. He believed that these three factors are the main reasons
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or handsome.’ Do you agree? Outlook was the first impression to the strangers‚ so either you are handsome or beautiful‚ it gives a good impression to them. However‚ living in a modern society‚ being handsome is not the most important thing. Indeed‚ clever is more important in contrast. First of all‚ clever usually makes you successful person. Let’s take an example. When you are studying at university‚ you learns well because you are more clever than the others. This makes you a greater academic
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