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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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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English Language and Composition Because many important people have died for what they believe to make the world a better place the claim that “It is better to die for what you believe in rather than to lie to save your life” is the right thing to do. Martyr: a person who is put to death or endures great suffering on behalf of any belief‚ principle‚ or cause. The person that comes to mind for a lot of people when you read the definition of martyr is probably Jesus Christ. Jesus spread the word
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I need someone to write my essay please! 1) What are the qualities of an effective leader? Name one leader living today whom you admire and explain why. 2) Write about a problem currently affecting your community. If it were within your abilities‚ how would you work to solve this problem? I need the second one to be about underestimating the potentials and choices of youth.. Parents have a prior word over their children’s choices When it comes to choosing their future please talk
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What If You Were Boss The judicial courts is one of the most difficult undertaking out of all the judicial system. Even though law enforcement officers apprehend offenders‚ it is still up to the prosecutors to retrieve and analyze all evidence from the scene of the crime that the officers collected‚ so that they can compile a case against the defendant. Then there is the defense also gathering information to make a case to prove the defendant is innocent. Now if I was the boss for the day I would
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What Makes Up a Happy Family Is There Such A Thing? Estefania Ayala Keiser University Abstract Family is important as it is also important to have a happy family. We might think at times what makes a happy family? Is there such a thing as a happy family? Or is it possible to have a happy family. Having a happy family as we all might know is not an easy task to do‚ but it is neither impossible. What we can do is search for element to guide us through a happy family. I understand that no one
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grief? Too happy? Do you FEEL?” (McInnes 162). Her own sarcasms are apparent towards the end of this quote as she addresses the folly of human endeavor and their need to‚ as in the New World‚ annihilate unwanted stimuli. Instead of learning and advancing‚ we take to the quick fix in order to meet demands and skip over hard work because who needs that right? “And if ever‚ by some unlucky chance‚ anything unpleasant should somehow happen‚ why‚ there’s always soma to give you a holiday from the facts
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Video Games Discussion: Visuals/Narrator’s position The narrator provided a variety of different visuals on the specific topic of “Do video games make you smarter? With a few visuals that were along the lines of mental and visual‚ one showing the increase in cognitive functioning of the brain; associated with memory‚ strategic planning‚ and fine motor skills‚ video games have shown to have a positive effect on education. Along the lines of effectiveness‚ they’re designed as teaching tools
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Pills To Make You Smart The plague of “smart pills” is rapidly growing throughout the World. Ritalin‚ Adderall‚ and Provigil are taking over college campuses and business offices each day. Why ADHD pills though? The answer is that ADHD medication gets into your brain so that you can maintain focus. These pills are called cognitive-enhancing drugs‚ which means that they access the brain to enhance. However‚ you have to have a prescription to get the pills. Many people believe that gives people who
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they look at how a person looks or how they act to figure out what class they belong to. By looking at the different social classes that exist today‚ based on what we have read and what we have viewed in class‚ we can see that people have many different views of what people are like in different classes and the things that those should have. This is important because it allows people to become aware of what goes on around them‚ what other people go through‚ and how it affects their standard of
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