Essay: Virtuous Republic As Americans‚ we’d like to think we have come far in terms of overcoming hardships of all sorts: economic‚ racial‚ gender- related‚ sexuality- based‚ etc. It is true‚ that we have overcome various waves of adversity‚ but‚ such efforts seem minute compared to the big picture our founding fathers outlined. Yes‚ the women’s movement in the 1940’s was good. Yes‚ working towards racial equality in the ’60’s was good. But was there ever a national groundbreaking event
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Vilnius Poker In the book Vilnius Poker by Ricardas Gavelis‚ Vytautas Vargalys is an intelligent‚ unstable 53-year-old that works as a librarian. He is completely out of his mind and suffers from paranoia and other diseases. Vytautas is in love with a woman he works with named Lolita‚ who is a young woman in her twenty’s who works at the library. The setting of the novel takes place during the soviet times at Vilnius and the story is told through four narrators. Vytautas is a survivor of the
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Yao The Rules and Mechanics of Limit Hold’em It is expected that the reader of this book has some experience playing Limit Hold’em and is not a complete novice. For completeness‚ the rules of the game along with some poker terminology is included. Limit Texas Hold’em is a form of poker with community cards. The rankings of the hands are in order: Rank Royal Flush Straight Flush Four-of-a-kind Full House Flush Straight Three-of-a-kind Two pair One Pair High Card Example A♠-K♠-Q♠-J♠-T♠ K♣-Q♣-J♣-T♣-9♣
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"We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right‚ and we pay attention to it only when it falters‚ for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about." - Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield‚ 4th Earl Born and raised in Detroit since 1992‚ I have grown to see the many changes that has occurred since my return from living in Kalamazoo. The schools I attended have been abandoned or demolished‚ leaving only memories and rubble. The local playgrounds
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Robespierre: Evil or Virtuous? “Virtue‚ without which terror is destructive; terror‚ without which virtue is impotent” (Zizek). Maximilien Robespierre said this in a speech when people were starting to question his judgment. He believed that to be only virtuous was difficult‚ and without some terror added in‚ the world would go into turmoil as no one would follow their leader. A leader has to be strong and forceful‚ and sometimes even terrifying to get their point across‚ or to get people to follow
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Liar’s Poker‚ written by Michael Lewis‚ is a book describing the day to day challenges and life of traders at Salomon Brothers and other such investment banks. The book starts with the description of Liar’s Poker game which is played on the trading floors of Salomon Brothers Inc. The boss‚ John Gutfreund‚ himself challenges the best player in the firm John Merriweather who also happened to be the best trader of the firm. Gutfreund proposed an offer of a single hand of Liar’s Poker worth a million
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Creon: A Virtuous King? Antigone is a Greek Tragedy that was written in 441 B.C. by Sophocles who is considered one of the great tragedians of the Greek time period and even today. Antigone is a complex play which centers on the two main characters‚ Antigone and Creon; Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and the niece to Creon. This play starts with brothers to Antigone‚ Polyneices and Eteocles dying in war; they killed each other tragically while fighting over the throne of Thebes. Eteocles
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Steven Touitou I remember the first time having play poker ‚ I was maybe 10 years old and were looking at my older brother playing in the living room with their friends ‚ I already knew the rules that my father thought me few years ago but that was the first time I was introduces to Texas Hold’em a different variance that became the most popular game of poker. As soon as the group left the table ‚ I remember grabbing the deck of card dealt myself two cards‚ draw five cards on the board and
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The purpose of the report in context is to present a Marketing Plan proposal to Nike’s senior management on how to market the modified sneakers for the elderly. In order to make an effective marketing plan‚ findings indicate that marketing research and information is imperative for both environmental and competitor analysis. So to speak‚ the report has delved deeper to present how the 4Ps of marketing mix would be utilized for better marketing of the product. Equally important‚ the report has presented
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Being virtuous is to show or have high moral standards. However‚ it is not easy for everyone to acquire this quality because it requires a great effort to be a virtuous and worthy individual. In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar‚ Brutus acquired a virtuous characteristic; however‚ he misused his certain qualities‚ such as being noble among people‚ loyalty to Rome and over confidence characteristics in assassinating Caesar‚ which led him to his destruction. To begin with‚ Marcus
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