Life is what you make it A little boy called Andy was asked to audition with his classmates for a part in the school play. His mother knew that he had his heart set on being in the play and she was worried about how he would react if he wasn’t chosen. On the day that the parts were given out‚ Andy’s mother went to the school to collect him feeling anxious about the outcome. Seeing his mother Andy rushed up to her‚ his eyes were shining with pride and excitement. "Guess what Mum‚" he shouted
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of my application isn’t the strongest. Obstacles and challenges often seemed to get the best of me during high school. But still‚ I have emerged confident and optimistic. By ninth grade‚ life had hit me too hard. I was still drunk on anger from my mother’s schizophrenia diagnosis‚ her disappearance from my family and my parents’ divorce. Years of art therapy had helped me recover from these traumas and in 10th grade‚ I was on a stronger path: I knew what I wanted and needed to do. But in 11th-grade
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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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McCoy: Dear Grads‚ Don’t ’Do What You Love’ - WSJ.com Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is f or y our personal‚ non-commercial use only . To order presentation-ready copies f or distribution to y our colleagues‚ clients or customers‚ use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or v isit www.djreprints.com See a sample reprint in PDF f ormat. Order a reprint of this article now OPINION May 27‚ 2013‚ 6:45 p.m. ET Carl McCoy: Dear Grads‚ Don’t ’Do What You Love’ College commencement
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What is a professional? After a week of research I think it is safe to say it’s not just someone who possesses a marketable skill as I thought. According to Michael Bayles a profession has three necessary criteria. First he says there is extensive training required to practice any profession. For example‚ to become a doctor in the United States you have to graduate from a 4 year college in a strong pre-med program‚ you have to take and pass the medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) then you have
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2008 You are What You Eat Throughout the past twenty years‚ obesity in the United States has drastically increased. Currently‚ one-hundred and seventeen billion people in the United States are obese. Out of those people‚ three-hundred thousand people die each year because of complications due to being over-weight. One out of every four children in the average school in the United States is over-weight. In an effort to combat this growing obesity epidemic‚ concerned members of the school community
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Amanda Linn PSY 107 JOURNAL LETTER #3 5/8/12 What are you passionate about? Many of my earliest memories as a young child were of playing with my dolls and taking care of them in one way or another. I could often be found playing with my friends and starring in the lead role of either doctor‚ school teacher‚ or mommy. Through the years‚ I have been in the role of a babysitter‚ a camp counselor‚ a leader and mentor of youth organizations‚ a daycare provider‚ a tutor‚ and a teacher
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Fallacies What are assumptions? How do you think assumptions might interfere with critical thinking? What might you do to avoid making assumptions in your thinking? * An assumption is something we take for granted. We assume our beliefs to be true and use them to interpret the world about us. We humans naturally and regularly use our beliefs as assumptions and make inferences based on those assumptions. We must do so to make sense of where we are‚ what we are about‚ and what is happening
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Practice what you Preach | Business Ethics ECBA 401-20-0911 | By: Gail E. Campbell For: Dr. Robert Stevens | Practice what you Preach Being ethical can be shaky because the meaning is hard to pin down and the views of many are different. The law often incorporates ethical standards to which most citizens go by is what makes ethics and the law not the same. But laws‚ like feelings‚ can deviate from what is ethical. Even though being ethical is not the same as doing “whatever
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be“Be Careful What You Wish For” By: Nur Kamilia binti Shafiq Aroki And on that sad‚ gloomy day‚ I learned an important lesson that I’ll probably never forget my whole life. It all started on the 3rd of January 2012 which was two days before school was reopening again. 2012 was an important year for me as I was sitting for a major exam which meant studying more and procrastinating less‚ and if you knew me personally‚ you would know that I procrastinate way more than a human organism
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