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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What Would You Do? Chapter 4 American Express Headquarters‚ New York‚ NY Headquarters‚ New York‚ New York.1 With medical costs rising 10 to 15 percent per year‚ one of the members of your Board of Directors mentioned that some companies are now refusing to hire smokers and that the board should discuss this option at the next month’s meeting. Nationwide‚ about 6‚000 companies refuse to hire smokers. Weyco‚ an employee benefits company in Okemos‚ Michigan‚ requires all applicants to take
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Stereotypes are the way people use to identify and shape others’ characterizations. In today’s society‚ people like to use stereotypes to identify others because they are unable or unwilling to get along with others and then know them. They often get information from others or historical experiences. As the social psychologist Claude Steele states‚ “ Stereotypes are one way by which history affects present life.” He states people often use stereotypes‚ but they don’t know the effects about using
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rights a citizen gets except for suffrage. These newly freed African Americans were slaves for most of their lives‚ and slaves did not get a good education. The voting system is an essential way to pick a well-suited leader that can lead the nation to success. Therefore‚ to make a decision‚ one must be fairly educated to cast a vote. We should be weary about many of the African Americans‚ for they
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Topic: Sartre said Hell is other people while Streisand sang; people who need other people are the luckiest people in the world. With whom do you agree with? The above statements present two very different perspectives regarding the social behaviors practiced around the world. One could even say that in the end it boils down to an extrovert Vs introvert or even optimism Vs pessimism debate‚ depending on how you look at it of course. But let’s not make it more complicated than it already is
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What matters most to you and why? I must confess that‚ until I read this application question‚ I had never given much thought to determining exactly what I consider most important in my life. I believe I am one of many applicants who confront this question without a ready-made answer‚ and I am astonished by the realization that so many of us lead our lives without reflecting on our roles. That is all the more perplexing when we consider that many of these individuals are businesspeople‚ that is
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Virginia Esamar Perez English 99.4 Brumment June 14‚ 2012 Ads: How do they affect people? Ads are advertisements that we see every time we turn our head‚ we see then outside on billboards‚ on magazines‚ when we are watching TV‚ and on every website that we get on ads will pop out of nowhere. There is no way to avoid ads when they are pretty much everywhere. Ads are created to influence people to either buy a product or change their point of view on a product or a situation. In the article
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What do you find most striking about the poem Kubla Khan?’’Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.’’ - Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In this essay I am going to discuss one of the most famous and very striking poem Kubla Khan which was written by Coleridge. The poem is about the nature of creativity. Coleridge describes the dome of pleasure which he sees in his dream while he is opium- induced. While he
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DO PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN KENYA NEED STRATEGY? "Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long-term: which achieves advantage for the organization through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment‚ to meet the needs of markets and to fulfill stakeholder expectations". Strategy plays a great role in Public Universities in that‚ Public Universities have progressively realized that effective service delivery to customers (students) and competitive advantage
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For my whole life‚ I have never understood why people smoke cigarettes even when they know the horrible effects it has on one’s health. It has been known for many years that the use of tobacco products is the main cause of life threatening diseases‚ such as cancer and emphysema. In the 20th century alone‚ smoking tobacco has accounted for over 100 million deaths‚ yet people continue to infest their body with this poisonous smoke. I realize now that the reason I have negative feelings towards smoking
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