Final Ms. Bloomfield 6-7-12 Critical Lens Essay L.M. Montgomery once said‚ “...we pay the price for everything we get or take in this world”. What he is trying to say is that we have to face the consequences for the choices we make. There is always a result from everything that happens‚ giving or taking‚ will result in something else. I agree with his philosophy‚ mainly because it speaks pure truth about how most things are run in the common society that we as human beings live in. Two pieces
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Benjamin Disraeli once said‚ “Circumstances are beyond the control of man; but his conduct is in his own power” in Contarini Fleming‚ 1832. What this quote is means is that there certain situations we can’t control‚ however we can control our actions and how we deal with the situation. This quote can be proven true in both‚ the play the Crucible by Arthur Miller and the book Night by Elie Wiesel. In the Crucible‚ John Proctor learns to deal with the Salem Witch Trials and in Night‚ Elie has to deal
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life. Without trust‚ it is next to impossible to go through life. Graham Green happens to agree with this as she had once said‚ “… it is impossible o go through life without trust…” One can interpret this quote as trust being an essential aspect to life and in order to go through it‚ there must be someone or something a person can put his or her faith in. Two works of literature that reflect this quote are The Fault in Our Stars by John Greene and A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. Trust
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Customer is at the centre of everything we do in an organisation. Discuss this statement and how an organisation can benefit from listening to the “voice of the customer”. Introduction Can a business exist without customers who buy the products? Is there a star product with no customers buying it? The only way for a product to become “the star product” is by having many people buying it. Thus the customer becomes the lynch pin of everything we do in organisations. Consequently‚ today’s competitive
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journey. For example in the Cyclops episode instead of just being happy and thankful that he escaped the Cyclops he had to boast and yell to the Cyclops his name and where he lived. He took Odysseus a while but he finally realized that what was making this journey so much harder and unpleasant was his hubris. Odysseus slowly started to change for example during the sirens episode Odysseus told his ship men to tie him to the mask cause he knew when the sirens started telling him ho great he was he would
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The world that we live in today is far from perfect. We read in the papers every day about war‚ terrorism‚ famine‚ genocide‚ violence‚ pollution‚ hatred and sorrow. It is our natural human instinct to believe that things are going to get better but it seems that each day the world actually gets worse and if we look back in history it doesn’t seem like things were much better‚ we only have to look back to the genocide in Rwanda or the Holocaust in Europe during the late 1930’s and early 40’s. In this
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and worth one cent‚ so if I was you I wouldn’t let that precious penny walk out of my life. Pennies are very expensive to produce. We have spent over eighty million dollars over the production of pennies‚ while pennies are only worth one cent. Even though some people want to get rid of the penny‚ it would be better if we keep it because it is apart of or culture. Also‚ we could avoid price increases from rounding up‚ and pennies are good for charities. Many people have opinions on keeping or eliminating
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Alex Ryder English 10A November 20‚ 2012 “In this world goodness is destined to be defeated.” According to Walker Percy‚ in our society‚ good will is compelled to be desolated. This is proven true through William Shakespeare’s playwright‚ Othello and William Golding’s novel‚ Lord Of The Flies. William Shakespeare uses foreshadowing and characterization and William Golding utilizes symbolism in their stories to aggrandize their literary works. In William Shakespeare’s playwright
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In many situations the person seeking revenge not only hurts themselves but everyone amongst them. Mahatma Gandhi confirms this when he says “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind”. This means‚ from revenge you only end up impairing everyone from the resentful wrongs you perform. Some may agree or disagree with this quote. Euripides shows this quote being true in his play Medea. In the play Medea‚ the main character Medea is extreme on seeking revenge on her ex-husband
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choosing. Meaning to say‚ freedom in all matters. Here in our country‚ we have a freedom to speak‚ to live and to express our feelings. Everybody has the right whatever to show and manipulate his self. No one can control him particularly when he is already at the right age. The conditions of Liberty define as a statement‚ attitude or an action not warranted by conditions or actualities. No one can control or manipulate one person. We are in the condition of being physically and legally free from confinement
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