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In tough situations, the end may seem too distant to visualize. Traveling down the road, bumping into unwanted obstacles, sometimes it may be easier to just give up rather than continue. But behind every goal is a purpose, a reason, the source of motivation which fuels a person’s ambition and desire to continue forward. Especially…

INTRODUCTION The book, “The Competitive Advantage of Nations”, shows how Michael Porter studied ten developed countries and 100 industries in order to answer questions concerning the national competitive advantage which he found to be inadequately explained by the Heckscher-Ohlin theory and the theory of comparative advantage. (Hill, 2009, p. 189). These questions include: “Why are…

Romanticism and Realism are two distinct artistic periods that overlapped for almost a decade. Despite their differences, there are also similarities between them. Romanticism was an intellectual movement in the arts that lasted from 1790 to 1870. It rejected Classicism and the Enlightenment, instead focusing on the individual, bias, illogical, creative, spontaneous, emotional, and transcendental…

While nature may seem idle, it is also omnipotent; consequently, its progression and balance may often be too complex for mankind to comprehend. This lack of comprehension, as Aldo Leopold describes in his essay “Thinking Like a Mountain”, results in fear. In retrospect, it makes sense; unfamiliarity and fear are often synonymous in many forms…

Prompt: Explain Aristotle’s discussion of the “function of a human being” in Book 1 Chapter 7 relates to his view that the virtues are means between extremes. To start off the discussion, one must take into account that “the function of man is an activity of soul which follows or implies a rational principle” (Book…

Since the first man walked this earth, we have been trying to understand why everything is the way it is. Why do things work the way they do? What happens if you put this with that? Humans have always been determined to learn and understand everything they can. As a result, the knowledge that beings…

The two stories being compared in this paper are “I’m a Fool” by Sherwood Anderson and “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara. “I’m a Fool” was first published in 1922 and “The Lesson” was first published in 1972. This paper will compare the two styles of the stories. In the first story, “I’m a Fool,”…

This first article sis about many different ways the government attempts to restrict the limits of our first amendment rights. This includes the fighting words doctrine, of which may restrict someone‘s right to express anger towards another using such means as curse words or raising the middle finger. Although having acts and laws that prevent…

Qualitative Research is the kind of study made to discover the in-depth characteristics that determine behavioral patterns in life. It’s a kind of study that comes up with reasons for some kind of human behavior. It tries to answer the questions why, how, what, where and when a specific descriptive phenomena occurs. This analysis basically…

More often than not two people are brought together and fall in love through their unintentional love for something else. This holds true in the movies “Just Wright” directed by Sanaa Hamri and “Brown Sugar” directed by Rick Famuyiwa. Whether it be a love for basketball or a love for hip hop, the characters were…