Marines represent what it means to be a perfect warrior and a gentleman. In the 1800’s battles were fought with what is now known as rules of war. A Marine Corps General of a modern army in those days wanted to be seen as a gentleman and therefore demanded the respect that a gentleman would receive both on and off the battlefield. In order to receive that respect‚ it was said that a battle should be fought humanly or as a gentleman. Though in most armies only officers were considered gentlemen
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thought of‚ the first thing that comes to mind is turkey and a plentiful amount of food. Thanksgiving to me‚ is the time to be together with the ones you care about. Coming together for a day to just be with each other and to catch up is what Thanksgiving means to me. Family should be with each other to share memories and to realize the plentiful amount of blessings they have been given. Thanksgiving is not only a day for gorging on food or falling into a food coma‚ but talking with each other
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To me virtue means to be loyal to something that is important to you. In order to be virtuous‚ you must be willing to be truthful with others who care about you or the cause your group is working toward. The combination of loyalty and truthfulness (and probably some other important values like being a generally good person) make up virtue. Virtue is both an act and a state of being. You must first complete a set of virtuous acts before becoming a virtuous person. I have most often heard virtue related
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What Success Means To Me What makes a person successful? Attitude! Being able to look back at all of the trauma and hard tasks you have endured and realizing that you made it through. And through it all‚ you never gave up. Success is to believe in yourself. Success is facing challenges that come your way with the attitude “I will endure and overcome”. It is being able‚ when you feel like giving up‚ to go further into your personal self to find strength and courage. It is being able to wake up to
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What does it mean to be human? There are many characteristics that set humans apart from the rest of the species in the world and many qualities which others do not have. A human is one who belongs to the group of primates‚ has great mental development with emotions‚ and interacts with their society. Some of the main things that distinguish humans from other species is their body form‚ spiritualism and their use of tools. To be human‚ one must have similar bodies and physical form to those of
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What chemistry means to me and how it impacts upon my life From the foods we eat and the medicines we take to the products we regularly use‚ our lives are inextricably linked to chemicals and their operating principles. Chemistry is everywhere. The air we breathe‚ the ground we stand on‚ the seas we sail‚ and the variety of living things including our own bodies; all these are made of substances that we call chemicals. These chemicals interact with one another‚ and‚ in many cases‚ these interactions
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Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. Faith knows I will keep my promises‚ believing that things you are hoping for are as real as things you can already see. I remember being a first time counselor in Mentone and wondering if I was making the right decision‚ working 500 miles away from home. I did not even have a car when I accepted the job and was wondering how I would even get to camp. So‚ I decided to buy a car and recruited some friends to work
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ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim." Reciting facts for students to absorb is undoubtedly an easy method of teaching‚ but is it effective? This essay attempts to answer the question of what it means to be an effective teacher by examining in more detail five areas that‚ when implemented effectively‚ can help to produce a productive learning environment that will enable effective teaching to take place – classroom organisation; student diversity;
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What Education Means to Me Education; the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge‚ developing the powers of reasoning and judgement‚ and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. For some it means getting up at 6 in the morning‚ for others it means studying for the big exam coming up‚ and for others it’s over all boring. But others understand the true meaning of education. Education means a lot of things. Education prepares us for the future
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ambiguity is essentially that of a metaphor: when two people‚ objects or concepts are alike in some way‚ even though they may have different qualities otherwise. Comparison provides a given object with multiple meanings‚ allowing it to be interpreted in different ways even though it remains essentially unchanged. Resolution * The second type of ambiguity occurs when two or more different alternate meanings are used as one. That essentially means using two different metaphors at once‚ neither lessened
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