The article “You’ve Got to Find What You Love‚” by Steve Jobs‚ was originally presented to the 2005 graduating class of Stanford University as their commencement speech. As we look back at his speech‚ after more than a decade has passed‚ it is clear that the main purpose of it is to promote and persuade individuals to do what you love‚ or DWYL. Although Jobs may seem inspiring because he commands the reader’s attention with great authority‚ he only uses his own life experiences as evidence for his
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In my opinion‚ I feel that the author of “Nickel and Dimed”‚ Barbara Ehrenreich‚ had ethical intentions when making the decision to investigate “poverty” by emerging herself in the “low-wage lifestyle”. The ethical concern‚ however‚ is with her approach. I feel that the way in which it was conducted could be viewed as degrading to those who do not have an alternative to this way of living. True‚ hopeless poverty does not have those “reassuring limits” that Ehrenreich had the ability
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born – “People are made of places”. Wherever you go in life you will carry with you memories and echoes of your birthplace‚ whether it is a city‚ as in the first stanza‚ or the quiet Canadian countryside where Elizabeth herself was born – “Where I come from‚ people carry woods in their minds” – and certainly the picture she draws in the second stanza does seem at first to be idyllic and wonderful‚ strongly contrasting with the city images in the first stanza. This idea shows us that who we are is
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Narrate an important/ unusual incident of your life‚ when you had to face a very demanding/ challenging situation. How did you overcome the situation? What lessons did you learn from this incident? In October 1989‚ I was entrusted with a long range foot patrol with a team of twenty fully geared soldiers to the extreme border positions in Northern Kashmir. With 20 kilos of backpack involving survival rations‚ weapons‚ polar gear all to be deftly balanced on the treacherous Himalayan Mountains –
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activities you yourself could? Ehrenreich makes an argument in her work The Worst Generation Of Our Lives‚ that it is eerie and somewhat puzzling in the way fictional characters are depicted to be realistic humans but are rarely shown watching T.V. Often those on T.V are supposed to be realistic portrayals of people. Which eerily implies how T.V shows are taking away the realism of our life‚ how we are soon becoming fake personalities just sitting there. I agree with Ehrenreich that people spend too much
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that exits – the shadows are their reality. Suppose now one prisoner manages to turn away from the wall and to get out of the cave. He first sees people with cut-outs & crawls out of the cave and sees real rocks and trees and realises cut-outs are copies of reality. He is then the only person who can come back and rule the cave dwellers. The story is about human perception and contrasts what we perceive and what we believe is reality. All of us may be trapped in a cave of commonsense experience and
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Anonymous (Traditional Scottish Ballad) Bonny Barbara Allan After reading the poem I decided to go ahead and write my essay on it. This poem really spark my interest because the poem itself had a lot of meaning but at the same time it also told a story just like what a song would do. If the story was about something amazing‚ it would be considered an epic story. If the story‚ that was told is something sad or usually about relationship then it would make the story a Ballad. This poem to me is
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“...if you can stand in Bob Ewell’s shoes a minute‚ I destroyed his last shred of credibility at that trial‚ if he had any to begin with. The man had to have some kind of comeback‚ his kind always does....He had to take it out on somebody....You understand?” Atticus‚ the attorney father of Scout and Jem Finch‚ tells his children to think about others are experiencing life. This is one of the major lessons in the novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. To Kill A Mockingbird is about courage‚
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4.1 What Does runs the Telecom market? Given above the factors which decides the success steps of any telecom company. But the needs of customer are vary as per profession‚ surrounding environment‚ awareness and urbanity. And one other thing affects most is the usage. 4.2 Study analysis based on questionnaire net survey reports and annual reports of the companies The main criteria for comparison is use of services in rural life and urban life and after that it will be based on age groups
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Rise in the non-performing loans and loan loss provision also the disadvantageof this company. The non-performing loan ratio to an all-time low of 2.0% from the 2.3%in 3Q09‚ while loss coverage to 90.85 from the b=86.7% in the previous quarter 2011(investment research‚ 2011). That mean the all-time for the non-performing loan wasincrease. So this is the weakness for the CIMB Group.The rises of the non performing loan effect the provision that have. Because of the increasing of the value‚ the provision
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