Carl McCoy

you love in a practical way. Not everything is black and white, there are not just two paths. It is my belief there are three. The first path is doing something practical, something that gives you money and security. Highly educated writer and musician Carl McCoy writes an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal on May 28, 2013, it is called Dear Grads: Don 't Do What You Love. He points out that commencement speakers are always trying to force the inspiration to do a job you love over something that may be more practical to newly graduated college students. McCoy is against the idea of doing what you love and warns graduating students that is not worth it. He talks bitterly of his own experiences as a starving artist and says the outcome of doing what you love does not always meet the ends. One career choice is unrealistic when people have many talents and can find a more practical job that your still comfortable in. Although romantic as it is doing what you love being impoverished is not. McCoy finishes his article with this statement, “Does the teacher love trying to control a classroom full of disrespectful children? Not likely. But the work is performed with a sense of purpose that “love” doesn’t capture.” The purpose McCoy talks about is to make money. Business Ghostwriter and columnist for CBS Moneywatch.com, the Shenandoah Business Journal, Inc. magazine and Inc.com Jeff Haden offers a similar opinion about working with your passion in his article Do What You…

one of the head scientists on the project. While he is speaking to his mother, Dr. Carol Marcus, he remarks, “We’ve built something that can be perverted into a terrible weapon,” (David Marcus, Wrath of Khan). Although he believes that this weapon can be used for evil, he continues to create it. This implies that he believes Genesis can be kept out of the wrong hands, even though people will try to bastardize its purpose. When this conversation takes place, the audience does not yet know what…

Many football players go their whole career without doing anything to help people off the field. They make a difference on the field, but off the field, it is a whole different ball game. Tim Tebow is a man of courage, love, faith, and hope. He spent his whole college and NFL football career, devoting himself to sharing the gospel and giving people hope in their darkest days. Tim Tebow used his fame as a way to help kids with dyslexia, ADHD, cancer patients, and disadvantaged kids. He is known…

he immediately assumed it was Gatsby who drove the car and not Daisy. In Tom’s mind, Gatsby had already come close to taking his wife from him and so it wasn’t a stretch to think that Gatsby was getting back at him for ruining his chances with Daisy by killing his mistress. His train of thought would have been logical if Gatsby actually knew that Myrtle was Tom’s mistress or if he knew that Tom had a mistress to begin with. Tom was so focused on Gatsby and how much he hated him due to his…

in the late eighteen hundreds. Was it a pig? Or was it something more? An in-depth, down deep, analysis will bring out many rarely known facts. Before we get into the nitty gritty keep in mind that the family names also include friends of that family. Asa Harmon McCoy was enlisted in the union army and was involved in combat near Lexington Kentucky. While fighting by Lexington he suffered a broken leg. After spending some time in the hospital he started home. Jim Vance’s group of confederates…

The Hatfield and McCoy feud, an extended conflict between two neighboring families in the Tug Valley, took place in the 1800’s. One of the families, the Hatfields, generally lived in Logan County West Virginia. The Hatfields leader was Anderson Hatfield, or also known as “Devil Anse”. The conflicting family, the McCoys, were located across the Tug Fork in Pike County Kentucky. The leader of this family was Randolph McCoy, or “Randall/ Ran’I”. Both of these families were spread all over the…

theories of myth differently. Because of the variety of tales told in myths, it is hard to narrow it down to one established definition. Its’ Greek origin suggests myths are stories narrated either by mouth or through other media such as art, drama, or music. For this reason, myths can be applied universally due to their broadness. Legends, folktales, and fairytales are often confused with myths and for that reason many who study mythology attempt to distinguish between them. For one to…

However, this was with the American People, threats to National Security were made and barriers in National Security were breached. According to Washington Post writers Bob Woodard and Carl Bernstein, “The American Presidency will never be the same.” “Thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet anything of thy neighbor, and thou shalt not bear false witness.” All of these scriptural rules were broken during the Watergate Scandal. Is there a pardon for those who break the law so that they…

“All the President’s Men” is a story of two Washington Post journalist, who investigated the Watergate scandal. The journalist uncovered the story and presented the facts that eventually led to President Nixon’s resignation. The investigative reporting was effective in the Watergate scandal because journalist Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein focused on why there was a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in D.C, and why those who worked under Nixon attempted to cover-up…

Most famously, Freud is accredited with his work published in 1900 The Interpretation of Dreams on dream analysis. Next, there was Carl Jung, who proposed another perspective giving people insight to the meaning of dreams. After years of research, psychologists have made significant progress in understanding why people dream, its function, and to some extent a more valid theory of what dreams mean. Freud “proposed that dreams provide a psychic safety valve that discharges otherwise unacceptable…