What to ask the person in the mirror - Robert S. Kaplan - Harvard Business Review - January 2007 No matter how talented and successful you are‚ you will make mistakes. You will develop bad habits. The world will change subtly‚ without your even noticing‚ and behaviors that once worked will be rendered ineffective. PG 1 It’s hard to see it when you’re in the midst of it; changes in the environment‚ competitors‚ or even personal circumstances can quietly guide you off your game. I have learned
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Atticus Finch‚ one of the main characters in To Kill a Mockingbird‚ has brought many questions to the readers. Why would he take a black man’s case? Why doesn’t he stand up to Bob Ewell? Why don’t many people trust him? Many people ask the questions‚ and the main question is‚ What is he really like? Atticus FInch has to be one of the bravest and most favored characters in the book. He takes on a very controversial case‚ even though he knows there is a very small chance of winning. On page 49 atticus
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Gender Roles in Twelfth Night and As you Like It Much of the comedy in Twelfth Night and As you Like It emerges from Shakespeare’s distortion of traditional gender roles‚ as both plays contain strong female leads who disguise themselves as males. Though both Viola and Rosalind help their less-than-ideal beloveds woo their own objects of desire‚ and both disguises emerge party from the loss of a male familial figure‚ the women inhabit their male facades in drastically different ways. In both plays
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Unemployment is a serious problem facing developed nations today. What would be the advantages and disadvantages of reducing the working week to 35 hours with respect to employment? In recent times‚ the global economy has been in doldrums creating unemployment and uncertainty in the all branches of industrial world. One of the proposals raised by economists to improve the current state of this status quo was to reduce the working week to 35 hours. I believe this proposal has its advantages and disadvantages
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William Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’ is probably one of the most famous pastoral comedies of all times. Written around 1599 and published in 1623‚ its plot was derived from Thomas Lodge’s pastoral romance ‘Rosalynde’. But what is interesting about this play is how Shakespeare‚ using the features and tropes of a pastoral comedy‚ undercuts the idea of the pastoral. The pastoral‚ as a genre‚ can be said to have had its beginnings with Theocritus’ ‘Idylls’. Other notable works in this genre are Virgil’s
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Do you know why watching macho men in movies dress up as drag queens to escape detection is so universally entertaining? Because it doesn’t seem to matter how much time men spend examining the intricacies of the way women move (and God knows they do)‚ they never seem to be able to pull off a reasonable imitation. There seems to be something that is innately known by being female that is missed in the imitation of a female. So what essence of femininity is so hard to relate to a non female? This question
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Life in the future is set to be very exciting. Your next mobile phone is keeping an eye on the house when you are on holiday‚ you are surfing the net and downloading videos while your kids are lying on the beach or sitting on the train reading their E-book. Later‚ you are in a restaurant‚ and after checking your pockets you find out that you have forgotten your wallet. No worries‚ just pick up that WAP phone and go to your bank’s website‚ insert a few details and transfer some money on to your smartcard
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security. Wondering whether Nora should rise above gender issues and be her own person or stay with her controlling husband who treats her like a doll. Throughout this classic play‚ Nora’s feelings toward Torvald have altered to the point where she needs to decide what is best for her. The only reason Nora’s feeling started to to change was because of her trying to get the letter back from Krogstad which had the proof of what she done. Failing in the process‚ Nora assumes that her husband will come
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A picture is worth a thousand words is an English idiom that is often heard. What does this idiom mean exactly? An image of a subject conveys a strong meaning without a use of description. Just by looking at an image it tells you a story of someone or something‚ captures emotions‚and captures memories. Yes‚ there is truth in the idiom‚ but often times a picture is misinterpreted or violated. Photographs make up the world today and have changed the way people understand and empathize with the issues
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Alex Pham author of "Boy‚ You Fight Like a Girl" investigates the ever growing world of online gaming and how gender affects both worlds. The "fastest-growing segment of the computer game market"(185)‚ adventure gaming‚ has hundreds of thousands of players that average twenty hours of play a week and thousands of them are playing as characters of the opposite sex. This gender switching is making games not only challenging‚ but also confusing‚ and possibly embarrassing. Pham first introduces a character
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