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A) Platos Symposium is a story about a party in which the guests were so sick from continuous parties that instead of drinking at this one party they decide to give stories about love. With the permission of Phaedrus, Socrates has an interesting discussion Agathon instead of a monologue-styled story. Socrates actually starts by giving…

People communicate for a number of different reasons such as to express their needs and wants, to express their feelings, to give and receive information, to learn, share ideas, and also for social pleasure. Give some examples of methods of communication? Methods people use to communicate are: Speech, tone, hand gestures, body language, touch, expressions…

However his fears motivate him to take actions that are often unnecessary and ultimately destructive. His fear of failure and weakness leads him to assist in the murder of Snakeskin whom he loved, to beat his wives, be emotionally distant from his children, disown his own son and ultimately commit suicide. Ironically, after all his…

Friedrich, Baron von Junzt, had met with difficulties when it came to having his life’s work, Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten, published. No orthodox press in Europe would touch it. Even commissioning the task privately led to one printer destroying a manuscript, and to a second committing suicide. Junzt had a second manuscript in reserve against such…

Jack Welch’s book Winning offers management philosophy, best practices, and tips of avoidance through the stories of the former CEO of General Electric. This book is easy to follow and offers great explanations for many of the management challenges sure to face both today’s and tomorrow’s leaders. I found most of the concepts helpful, with…

The book “The Millionaire Next Door” investigated America’s rich and shattered many misconceptions about the wealthy. It proved that most millionaires owed their wealth to old-fashioned frugality and hard work, and not to fancy college degrees. Seven common denominators to their success were explored in the book’s chapters, one for each trait. The authors tried…

The underlying assumptions of urban life can be summed up as follows: development is only possible if people work hard.  This assumption though is just an ideal: an ideal that cannot be approximated by reality. Reality tells the audience that life is not a simple arithmetic progression of wealth and development. Life itself is located…

Knowledge and skills development is vital to the health of organizations. We live in an information age today, and organizations are routinely valued not just on their physical but on their intellectual capital. Training is one of the chief methods of maintaining and improving intellectual capital, so the quality of an organization’s training affects its…

My favorite British writer and his famous book ‘Treasure Island’ My favorite famous British writer is Robert Louis Stevenson. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1850. Robert went to Edinburgh University to study law. Later on he decided that he wanted to be a writer, not a lawyer. In his early 20s…

Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz are both memoirs of the authors’ experiences in Nazi concentration camps, but they depict vastly different experiences and have different approaches. Where Wiesel’s is more humanistic, showing how his protagonist finds the spirit to survive, Levi’s account is more scientific, showing an almost Darwinistic milieu where…