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    The resume should have a logical thought flow (Organisation of data) Begin with name ‚address and contact details Career goal Academic Background Project information and summer Internship Extraordinary Interests/Pursuits Community Initiatives Personal Data References Fonts used are aerial‚ times new roaman‚virgana‚calibre Don’ts in a resume Personalised statements( Marital status ‚ Gender‚ Fathers Name‚ Fathers Occupation‚ Passport Details Never Sign on your Resume Documents

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    helps him because white men have a better chance of getting what they desire over any other gender or race. A negative ascribed characteristic is the fact that he was born into a lower class family. This will hold him back and greatly affect his pursuit of the American Dream. A positive achieved characteristic that Jay Gatsby‚ is the fact that he is rich after overcoming an extraordinary obstacle of beginning in a lower class position in society. His rise in the social structure from lower to upper-lower

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    King Lear The Poison Tree

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    Lear‚ a self righteous and unbridled pursuit of justice by Edmund‚ brings a shower of unconceived anguish upon everyone involved. A superbly written villain can be intoxicating to readers. A character´s conviction when he embodies the judge‚

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    referred to as the American Dream. This dream‚ regardless of whether it truly exists or not‚ is a pursuit of all Americans‚ and is what brings people from all four corners of the Earth to the United States of America. Most would view the desire to succeed and fulfill the “American Dream” as a valuable and praise worthy endeavor. Fitzgerald however‚ through his novel The Great Gatsby‚ reveals to us that the pursuit for success and fame is not necessarily a positive thing. As evidenced by The Great Gatsby

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    come from the dependencies that are placed on wealth and social standing. Each work uniquely describes that the assumption of prioritizing success will guarantee true happiness is entirely false. Lastly‚ that ultimately the pursuit of general happiness is on the path of the pursuit of genuine happiness. In Daniel Barwick’s “Enjoying the so-called “Iced cream”: Mr. Burns‚ Satan‚ and Happiness” and Alfie Kohn’s “How Not to Get into College: The Preoccupation with Preparation”‚ both authors deeply and

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    Pursuit of Happiness Assignment Week 6 Mathews Ledet III‚ Student Number 9017891997 PSY 220/Positive Psychology: What’s Right With Me Alan Coffin Axia College‚ University of Phoenix Due: January 19‚ 2014 The perspective one’s happiness can be traced back to ancient world philosophers such as Socrates‚ Aristotle‚ Confucius and Plato. Each had their own views on happiness and what defines it‚ and their beliefs would spread throughout the world. Different societies

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    Frankenstein is a story of revenge. Throughout out the story the creature is in the pursuit of revenge since his creator‚ Frankenstein‚ has made him suffer. In other words‚ he is in the pursuit of justice and he does not care how he gets it. The thing that makes the creatures pursuit for justice interesting is that more than half of the time he does not know he is looking for it. Since he is created he has no prior knowledge of anything‚ so that means he does not know any concepts or ideas. Although

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    Jefferson once said ‘’we hold these truths to be self-evident‚ that all‚ men are created equal‚ that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights‚ that among men they are life‚ liberty and the pursuit of happiness’’(12). This statement declares about that all men are created equal and that they all have rights given to them the day they were born. The three main rights being freedom ‚ life ‚ and liberty .

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    sometimes being called a laissez-faire economy. The capitalist economy only works for the capitalists in it. In a socialist economy‚ natural resources‚ the production of goods‚ and services are collectively owned. Socialists are motivated by the pursuit of collective goals. Unlike capitalism‚ socialism works for the common good of all people. Income generating properties are not privately owned thus easier to regulate. The government regulates these kinds of properties and with the income generated

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    Socrates on Democracy Socrates makes it very clear; he is not a fan of Democracy. He is openly objected to the type of democracy that Athens was running during his adult life. In contrast he was against all forms of government at the time. Socrates believes in the connection between virtue and knowledge. The masses‚ being uneducated‚ were therefore not virtuous and not fit to rule. Democracy is the rule of people‚ and as a group people are very indecisive so we end up trying to have everything

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