One of my favorite books is Point Guard‚ by Mike Lupica. This book is about a girl named Cassie who has been the best at sports her whole life. She played softball and girl’s basketball‚ but her team always won. Eventually she got tired of everything being easy‚ so she decided that she was going to play on the boy’s basketball team this year. Her friend Gus Morales doesn’t know what to think of this. He doesn’t know if or why he is against a girl playing with boys. Throughout the season Gus has to
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Topic: The negative consequences of imprisonment have been exaggerated. Task: Critically examine this statement by examining the negative and positive aspects of imprisonment. The sanction of imprisonment is a last resort to be applied by the courts. Being sent to prison as an offender means that you are not currently fit to live in society in your current state. Consequences due to the sanction of imprisonment are vast and far reaching‚ with both positive and negative results with even more
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Good Order and Discipline For the military leader‚ the maintenance of good order and discipline is essential for a military force to be effective. An undisciplined military force is a losing one (Hoversten). General Robert E. Lee was one of the greatest military leaders of all time and was firm when it came to discipline. It was important to him that his soldiers understood that‚ in addition to efficiency‚ discipline guaranteed a solder’s safety; that if his forces did not prepare themselves for
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“What Is Knowledge?” from The Meno The opinions which we believe and are right‚ are called “true opinions”. According to Plato’s dialogue from The Meno‚ when true opinions remain stable they can serve equally as well as knowledge until people forget their opinion or change their mind some time later. Knowledge is “tied down” by giving the reasons why it is so. Opinions‚ even if beautiful‚ can “escape from a man’s mind” without justification. Moreover‚ opinions lead less reliability compare with
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Tasers‚ Are They Good or Bad Tasers are used by many police forces throughout the United States. They are classified as a non-lethal use of force. The police use tasers to stop criminals from running away without using lethal force‚ although there have been reports about criminals dying when they got tased. That poses an issue. Out of the people who died from being tased‚ the majority of them had health conditions‚ such as heart conditions and breathing problems. Many people overlook the
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The Good‚ The Bad‚ and The Inbetweens of Hacking “During a three-day period in February 2000‚ some of the most high-profile sites on the World Wide Web were temporarily knocked out of service.”(Issues and Controversy) This quote is one of the many that show the down side to hacking. A hacker is a person who takes pleasure in understanding the internal workings of a systems. This does not necessarily classify hackers as bad. There are good hacking and bad hacking. But on the subject of hacking‚
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Boredom… Is it good or bad? In the 21st century everyone is constantly going and they believe that is the only way to be. Being bored is a necessity and very good for you‚ but nowadays we barely get that chance. Always being “plugged in”‚ or busy gives you no time to be alone which should be a very important time to have at least once a day. People need to put down their smartphones‚ iPods‚ and shut their computers and get bored. I think being bored and having nothing to do is what makes someone
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What are Extrinsic Rewards? Extrinsic motivation relies on factors outside of an individual’s personal motives. Attributes of extrinsic motivation include recognition awards‚ performance goals‚ compensation increases‚ or bonuses. These rewards provide satisfaction and pleasure that the task itself may not provide. An extrinsically motivated person will work on a task even when they have little interest in it because of the anticipated satisfaction they will get from some reward. The rewards can
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Hamlet’s Transformation from Good to Evil In the play Hamlet by Shakespeare‚ Hamlet endures exorbitant amount of pain and anger because of his father’s death‚ his mothers hasty remarriage‚ and the loss of his only love‚ Ophelia. The losses that Hamlet has to deal with‚ the anger and lack of forgiveness that he allows to build within himself‚ allows Hamlet’s true thoughts and character to be revealed through his soliloquies‚ which are reviewed and discussed throughout this essay. <br> <br>In his first
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Information Use In today’s business environment information is the most important asset a business has‚ this information helps to support‚ maintain‚ develop and track its daily activities. The next logical step is implementing a system that is conducive and geared towards this goal. With the help of its information system‚ and its information technology department‚ managers‚ sales people‚ the operations department and others with access to this information have a handy tool to help them do their
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