...determined the sources for my essay to be reliable because they came from some credible sites. One of my sources came from a .com website that is from a college library. The other came from a .org which I find reliable as it is a well-established organization. Finally my third choice for a source is a .edu that is from a research institute. I also did a little research on the authors and they were all well established and respected writers which would also make my research more reliable. All three of my selections were relevant because they were all on the same subject of responsibility as my essay is on personal responsibility. My sources were also all fairly recent the oldest of the three was written in 1994 but I still find the information very useful and it still applies with these modern times. The other two sources were a little newer one was written in 2009 and the other was written in 2013. One of my sources which is The Heritage foundation that is a .org website is a very conservative organization and that would tell me that the author would have a bias based on his political views. Another website I used which is Brookings institute is a .edu and their views seem to me are more towards the liberal side and would also have a bias because of their beliefs. My third choice was geared more towards a law standpoint. I think the information I have used in my essay will do more to strengthen my essay because it all backs up my thesis statement very well. ...
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...Stewart The Quest for Utopia An individual’s quest for utopia can also be described as searching for an ideal. In the search for an ideal we look for our desire and perfection in life. The quest for utopia is examined through literature to find out what the ideal is and how it’s obtained or lost. The characters analyzed in this essay strive for perfection, success, and vengeance through their obstacles. The quest for the ideal is important because it shapes imagination, creativity, and lifestyle. Henry A. Kissinger explains where an ideal can be found, when he concludes, “For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for [some people] it is just beyond the horizon.” Kissinger describes that for some, their ideal is in the past and others it’s in the future. The three pieces of literature examined in this essay are analyzed through Kissinger’s theory. In literature the quest for the ideal can often result in the pursuer’s death, this is shown in “The Great Gatsby,” “Sailing to Byzantium,” and “Hamlet.” Gatsby’s ambition to turn back time and fall in love with Daisy again, ultimately leads him to his downfall. Gatsby wanted to turn time back because Daisy and him were once deeply in love, however after Gatsby left for war she was doubtful he would return. Daisy found a more secure relationship with Tom Buchanan and Gatsby’s new ideal was to fulfill the American Dream and win Daisy over. However the American Dream has no room for love and Gatsby...
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...Ethics Essay Patti Lever ETH/316 August 6, 2012 Kevin Barker Ethics Essay Looking at today’s society, ethics plays a major role in it. Also, comes the devotion to certain ethical and moral principles which have an optimistic growth in an individual’s moral nature. Then the detailed living experiences which support or help with the assured individual’s in order to bring out the growth or their ideals or principles. This essay is going to show the comparisons and dissimilarities between virtue, utilitarianism, and deontological ethics. I will also show the details of how each of these theories influence both ethics and morality, along with giving examples of a special event from a virtue theory as it relates to both values and moral concepts. The virtue theory is based on character, intentions, and the morals of an individual ( Trevino & Nelson, 2007). It is said that this principled presumption is more concerned with the morals of the person rather than actually dealing with the consequences that might happen. In addition, one’s personality can be based on how good or disrespectful they are or maybe even both. Persona and character is something you are not born with, still you can achieve this throughout your life with numerous assorted living capabilities or ethical principles. The utilitarianism theory is centered on the top way of dealing with the consequences of a person. Utilitarian’s are not going to look at the differences in a selected act that is concerned...
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...most meaningful cultural symbol for my family and I would be the illusive concept of the American dream. I am fist generation American. My parents came from a small island along the Adriatic coast in Croatia. During the summer months, the island is home to about three hundred people due to tourism. The population of permanent year-long residents hovers just below one hundred. The population of this small island called Susak suffered a significant drop in the 1960’s, when many inhabitants left the island and immigrated to the United States in order to pursue the American dream. Once settled, many of the immigrants settled in New Jersey, particularly Hoboken and Jersey City, and found blue collar work to help support and start a family. Slowly the immigrants from Susak began to live the American dream and their acculturation into American ideals began. With little education, no money, and no way to communicate with their neighbors, these new Americans were forced to adapt to the new culture they were surrounded by. Forty years later, after hours of hard work and dedication, many of these immigrants and their children have been successful at living the America dream. My parents, in particular, have raised four children and put them through college. Through their dedication and hard, my brothers and sisters and I have learned the importance of hard work and determination. Though my parents have slowly become more attune with American ideals through the years, they have never...
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...Transcendentalism, a philosophy that follows in the idea that knowledge comes from analyzing our own individual thoughts, rather than what science has proven, has been practiced for over 200 years. Some of the most reknown transcendentalists include Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. I share a personal connection to the ideal of integrity in that as I grow older, it's crucial to my future self that I establish myself as an individual with personal morals, regardless of the status quo. The concept of integrity being the path to internal success is expressed in both Emerson’s, Self Reliance, and Thoreau’s, Civil Disobedience, although perceived in different forms, the notion of individual thought is evidently the common theme. In...
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...Writing Your Graduate School Application Essay Generally speaking, there are two types of application essays for graduate school: the statement of purpose (SOP) and the personal statement. (Refer to FAQs to find out how the two types are different.) Both types let you convince the admissions committee that you are a good fit for the program and can contribute to the department. Although different graduate schools may ask you to answer different prompts, most ask that you write no more than a two-page application essay. The application essay is difficult to write because you must pitch your candidacy to a few department faculty members who read through hundreds – or sometimes thousands – of other essays. In this handout, you will learn how to show these busy readers that you will contribute meaningfully to the university and their department. 1. Relate your past and present experiences to the future. In their application essays, many applicants make the mistake of underemphasizing the future. But it’s important that you show how your past experiences have informed your present work, and how your present work can be extended to the future or raise new research questions. Admissions committees assess many qualified applicants based on whether their research will reflect positively on the university and their department. Committees will think your past and present work is relevant only if it relates directly to your plans for the future. If you don’t know exactly where your current...
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...What lifestyle is contain as the ideal? Is living in the city the ideal lifestyle? Surrounded by people, tall buildings, electric generators noises and crowds. Alternatively, the country life, small society and an uncontrolled nature. It is impossible to conclude which one is the ideal lifestyle; it depends on how your habits are. All humans are different in a peculiar way. There are two types of people in the world. The people who likes the country life or the people who likes the city life. The essay “My little bit of Country” written by the American writer Susan Cheever, and was published in 2012 from the anthology Central Park. The story is about Susan Cheever view on the ideal lifestyle; she prefers to live in the city. When she was young, she lived in New York, later her parents and she moved to the suburbs. In the text, we hear how Susan Cheever did not like the country life she was longing for the previous life in the city. “My little bit of Country” illustrates the suburbs life compared to the city life, there is no doubt that Susan Cheever assumes that she likes the city life more than the country life. Nevertheless, how does she argue for the fact that city life is better? The main character is Susan Cheever; the story is about her life and her habits. We can assume that she is old now because she is married and have children. With the following chronologic structure in the story, which means we follow her from earliest memory and since she was a child to she is...
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...the store more than twice. There was something in all the sections that seemed like as if were made especially for me. Eventually, I ended up purchasing a lot more than I wanted in the first place. This was just a beginning, now that I know, to what has become my obsession to use these grooming and healthcare products. Shopping for healthcare and grooming products in India is a completely different experience to what it is in the United Kingdom. There are not any dedicated stores for healthcare products such as Boots, Super Drug. The differences in such consumption patterns can be better understood through the concept of Sociohistoric Patterning of Consumption, which suggests that the institutional and social structures systematically influence consumption, such as class, community, ethnicity, and gender. I had never seen, until then, a store with such collection of healthcare products. It was a totally new experience for me. Maybe it was also the reason because of my excitement. As evident in Thornton’s studies, experiential consumption activities foster collective identifications grounded in shared beliefs, meanings, mythologies, rituals, social practices, and status systems. (Thornton 1996.) Also supporting my eventual habitual consumption pattern, of consuming healthcare and grooming products, is Maffesoli’s (1996) ideas on...
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...The Unachievable American Dream One of our founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson, and one of the most iconic civil rights activists in our countries history, Martin Luther King Jr., both believed in equality for all. In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson wrote “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” ( 327). Since then, America has become the number one country for achieving life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Today, we know this better as the American Dream. The American Dream is something that every American strives for. Immigrants from other countries come here and become American citizens with the hope of someday achieving their ideal American Dream. We all design and carry this image in our heads of our own American Dream. The job we hope to have and the pleasant family we hope to build and raise in our perfect ideal homes, are all images that come to mind when thinking of the American Dream. Most of us, every day of our lives, are doing the best we can. We try to make this dream become a reality, but the reality of this dream is that it’s getting harder and harder to reach; due to unemployment, poverty, and our countries overall economic state. Over the past few years the country’s economy has been in a downward spiral and we’ve reached an economic recession. Poverty and unemployment rates amongst United States citizens have...
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...From the Writer “Dorian Gray the Escape Artist” is the culmination of my work in my WR100 seminar, Fantasy at the Fin-de-Siècle. The final assignment was to create a research paper based on an interesting problem or paradox I had found in Oscar Wilde’s book, The Picture of Dorian Gray. For me, one of the book’s most fascinating elements was Dorian’s immature behavior; though he grows older, he never seems to “grow up.” At first, I investigated how my idea related to aestheticism and what Dorian’s immaturity showed about aestheticism; however, I could not find a solid way to prove my thesis. My greatest problem was being unsure of how writing a paper based on a research problem in The Picture of Dorian Gray constituted a researchable argument and not just a literary analysis. Hoping to gain a different perspective on the assignment, I met with fellow classmates to talk out my problem. It turned out that they were having the same issue with their essays, and through discussing my paper with them, I realized that my topic was too narrow to be easily supported by sources; the idea of Dorian growing older without growing up was interesting but could not easily be supported with sources outside the novel itself. With this in mind, I modified my thesis, claiming that though Dorian Gray demonstrates aesthetic behavior in The Picture of Dorian Gray, his fascination with artistic things serves less to pursue aestheticism and more to evade his dark past. In this manner, I argued,...
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...Can you look over this 250 word essay? So for Princeton one of the prompts is: Name someone who inspires you, or something like that. It can only be 250 words, so I tried to keep it short. Is it cliche/cheesy? As an omnipresent force, my Dad symbolizes more than just a man who has brought me into this world. He is instead an emotion or energy that I can feel inside of me always. He is the constant reminder of my duty to uphold the morals of my family, and he is the motivation for accomplishment in my life. Though not with me in the physical sense, his contributions as an emotional force in the sharpening of my character has helped me grow as a confident young man. He is a man I can admire and a man I can wish to be, but more than anything else, he is a man that I can forever know will support me in all my endeavors. As I look forward towards the future I see him as a part of the greater meaning of my life; he will always be another influence in my decisions and a sign that I have chosen the right path. While others may pass through my life, the firm hand with which he guides me will be present always. | | Reply | 10-12-2004, 07:06 AM | #2 | marite Senior MemberJoin Date: Aug 2004Posts: 13,792 | Ilcapo: The response is far too vague; it does not even mention that your father is dead so that what you think is his inspiration is what you believe he would have told you to do, were he alive; this is unless you have been told specific things about him and are being influenced...
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...(James , 1998 ) My personal ethics statement includes my values and ideals important to me as an academic and in everyday life. My ethics are personal beliefs and morals that reflect and define the person I am. The decisions and choices I make every day should be consistent with integrity and respect toward others. These ethics will ensure my happiness and peace if I keep and hold these values. I believe the value of equality for people regardless of race, religion, and handicaps ensure that all people can be treated fairly. Treating people with respect and dignity while holding myself accountable to these principles will ensure that I treat others as I want to be treated. This essay will explore how my personal values and ethical morals come into play in the decision-making process in my nursing career. Being raised in a loving Lutheran Christian household in Stockholm, Sweden I can remember as far back as being a little four-year-old girl skipping to church on Sunday mornings with my maternal grandmother Ingrid, to the day of my serious conformation ceremony as a gangly 14-year-old teenager. Many ideals were formed growing up around my beloved grandparents and they are still present in my everyday life be it personal or professional. I strive to be honest, live with integrity, be non judgmental and respect my fellow man. To quote my grandmother “ Always try to do the best you can or don’t do it at all”. My choice of career was greatly influenced by my paternal grandmother...
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...revolved around a set of ideals put forward in the Declaration of Independence which declares that all Americans are equal and have the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” For immigrants arriving on these shores, regardless of social class or circumstance of birth, it was a given of the time that prosperity, success, and upward social mobility for all (excluding slavers) was obtainable and could be achieved through honest, hard work. Today that dream is not dead, although recently there has been a death of soaring rhetoric and a paucity of hope. So while the American Dream may at the moment be on life support and in critical condition,...
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...In my Third Draft of my M2 assignment, I found the main flaw was not having my whole essay refer to my thesis. While I did provide great examples and analysis, it was disproportionate to certain parts of my thesis. In my fourth draft I attempted to correct this while keeping the good parts of my essay intact. Although I might have had certain ideas and perspectives in my mind, I did not adequately display them in my essay. My thesis can be broken down into three points of focus, symbolism, juxtapositions and diction. My third draft excelled with my focus on juxtapositions but severely lacked in my focus of diction. In my fourth draft I attempted to correct this. In the fourth drafted, I incorporated how diction can be reflected in how Shakespearean sonnets incorporate speech to sound like everyday people: “was the use of specific language wording or diction in sonnets to mimic everyday speech or life of everyday people”. I included this into my analysis of certain parts of my analysis such as my analysis of “coral” in the sonnet....
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...What separates a life of pleasures from a life of happiness? This question is in my opinion the core question in understanding the good life. For this essay I will define pleasure as the temporary state of enjoyment, often achieved through the satisfaction of physical desires. Happiness on the other hand shall be defined as a permanent state of satisfaction that is capable of enduring through periods in which physical satisfaction is absent. This essay will examine the works The History by Herodotus and Happiness by Taylor. This essay will argue that in order to achieve happiness one must be willing to put aside the pursuit of pleasures. Many people equate the search for happiness with the pursuit of happiness. In their pursuit of pleasure they attempt to amass wealth...
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