increased travel and other challenges‚ it would provide far more entertaining matchups and fairness in playoff seeding. One reason the NBA should abandon conferences is because only the top 16 teams make the playoffs. Instead of taking the top 8 teams from each conference‚ the top 16 teams in the league would then be taken depending on their records. Last year some teams in the Western Conference‚ such as the Dallas Mavericks‚ missed out on the playoffs even though they had a better record than some
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Okay so here’s the prompt: Prompt: “A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong‚ which is but saying‚ in other words‚ that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” -Alexander Pope Assignment: Do we learn more from finding out that we have made mistakes or from our successful actions? Plan your response‚ and then write an essay... And here’s the essay: Mistakes Promote Progression Mistakes made are lessons learned‚ not the other way around. According to Scientific American’s
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The Stories We Tell Ourselves Stories are fundamental to how we see; understand the world and essentially ourselves. We are the stories we tell ourselves. Or‚ as Thomas King puts it: “The truth about stories is that that’s all we are” (King 2). From stories of creationism to personal experiences‚ historical narratives‚ to social transgression‚ racist indoctrination to works of contemporary Native literature‚ a piece of who we are lurks in the details. This piece of us‚ of who we are has the potential
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Every city needs a dog park for many reasons. Being a dog owner/lover myself‚ I know how important it is for all dogs to have access to a dog park. Some people may say it’s a burden for tax payers‚ it may cause lawsuits‚ traffic and noise but there are solutions to fix those issues. First‚ I want to start off explaining how dog parks will benefit society and not only dog owners. Dog parks will raise property values. They will bring more people to the community once they see they’re offered. Bringing
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case “We Googled You”‚ googling candidates before hiring often takes place in many companies. Sometimes people’s online histories revealed by googling affect hiring decisions of employers. Fred Westen‚ the CEO of Hathaway Jones‚ a luxury appeal retailer‚ is looking for a candidate who can lead flagship stores successfully in China. Fred met Mimi Brewster and thought that she fits the position because she had grown up in China and she speaks both Mandarin and a local dialect. Mimi graduated from Berkeley
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The country urgently needs to shift focus from finance to commerce: Uday Kotak‚ Kotak Mahindra Bank Uday Kotak‚ vice-chairman and managing director of Kotak Mahindra Bank‚ believes that solutions to India’s problems are not in running after more US dollars‚ but fixing the broken Indian manufacturing. In an interview with ET‚ Kotak says that the society that has lost its bearings has to get it back - the middle class values that made the India story an attractive one globally. It will be a long
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appointed a “language peace” committee which was to promote the dual linguistic heritage. This committee recommended the abandonment of the linguistic fusion policy (Haugen‚ 1983:285). Thus the Norwegian government was forced to withdraw gradually from direct intervention. In a way‚ in spite of all the language reforms undertaken‚ Norway’s implementation program primarily focused on linguistic aspects‚ paying too little attention to the social side. The overall failure of the language of the language
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How We Are Influenced Social psychology is the “scientific study of how people think about‚ influence‚ and relate to one another” (Myers‚ 2010‚ p. 4). There are many different “external social forces” (Myers‚ 2010‚ p. 8) that influence our thoughts‚ feelings‚ behaviors and attitudes‚ such as our family‚ peers‚ culture and gender; all of which persuade us in one direction or another. Any social situation we may encounter can be so powerful that it “leads us to act contrary to our expressed
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Should Wes Anderson be Considered as an auteur of this generation? Wes Anderson is a unique director who has created many artistic films over the course of his career of 23 years. Some characteristics of his directional style are Whip pan‚ God’s eye view‚ POV shot‚ Tracking‚ Crosscutting‚ Dolly in/out‚ Iris Lens to create a satire effect on the viewers and build a director-viewer relationship with the viewer. He is more renowned for his mastery with Unnatural camera angles which usually create a
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What are we going to be when We growth up ? That’s a biggest question for any teenagers like me . I couldn’t even read when I was in tenth grade because learning a complete new language is the hardest part for most immigrant students including me. I moved from Vietnam to the United state three years ago . Everything I have seen has been new to me : From the detections to the locations‚ from houses to schools every scenery that appear right
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