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To live in a static state of mind is to restrict the joy one may find in life. Oliver Sacks, Maggie Nelson, and Robert Thurman all suggest that one’s perception of the world, as well as the flexibility of their state of mind, directly correlates with how they exist within it. Specifically, Thurman’s work “Wisdom” claims that it is necessary for one to abandon the idea of having a fixed and strict self but rather open up one’s mind to become a flexible thinker, allowing one to create human…

I have always liked computers since I got my first one. I am even using a computer to write this paper. There have recently been many advancements in computers in recent years. There have been some very important people and new applications made possible by these people. Computers have been made smaller, faster, lighter, and stronger and have made things in the medical field, military field, and for normal use possible that were not possible a few years ago. We have made more advances in…

Quinton Shipps Debating Democracy The founding fathers viewed the president as a constitutional officer who was immune to public pressure. This view differs from the way modern presidents view themselves. They convey themselves as only elected official who is truly of the people. To the people, the president is a democratic figure who stands for the nation and its history. In his article Lessons From the Modern Presidency, Fred Greenstein provides readers with six qualities of presidents that…

native of Haiti, Stephane is the first student in his family to graduate from college. He attended York College, City University of New York where he received his bachelor’s degree in community health with distinction as the first CUNY student to ever win the prestigious SOPHE Vivian Drenckhahn Scholarship Award in 2014. While in college, Stephane served as a Thurgood Marshall College Student Ambassador representing the college community in conferences in Washington D.C. from 2012-2014.…

________________________________________________________ Harvard Business School Professor Timothy Luehrman and HBS MBA Heide Abelli prepared this reading to accompany the Finance Simulation: Capital Budgeting (HBP No. 3357). This reading is fictionalized, is not a source of primary data or an illustration of elective or ineffective management and any resemblance to actual persons or entities is coincidental. Copyright © 2010 Harvard Business School Publishing. To order copies or request…

These efforts have gone under many banners: total quality management, reengineering, rightsizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnaround. But, in almost every case, the basic goal has been the same: to make fundamental changes in how business is conducted in order to help cope with a new, more challenging market environment. A few of these corporate change efforts have been very successful. A few have been utter failures. Most fall somewhere in between, with a distinct tilt toward the…

The same organizational practices implemented at the beginning of the business are not appropriate in this stage, where OCB as an already successful organization (age of the organization [2]), is trying to grow further in a new sector. Throughout the years, company’s size grew as well as the number of patients served (Size of the organization [2]) and that fact dictated the need for a more structured process of operations. The company, failed in this phase to recognize the upcoming needs for a…

finite social life, and lastly a stressful lifestyle. The film portrays this message by revealing the true difficulties and challenges that come about in law school through the perspective of the main character, James Hart, who is a student attending Harvard Law School. The message is conveyed effectively because the troubles that Hart encounters while trying to balance his studying and social life exposes how challenging attending law school actually is. I personally agree with the message that…

In the Unlikely Event of a Water landing Tragedies such as murder and rape are thought to be horrendous crimes; acts so violent and malicious that the perpetrators must spend their lives in prison to pay their dues, but these crimes occur so often they rarely make headlines anymore. Every once in a while a big “story” will hit the news and the masses will cry out in outrage but even then the outrage dies down and the victims are forgotten. Many times there are witnesses to these crimes that do…

The article “Dreams Come True. Or Not.” written by Rob Johnson was published by the Wall Street Journal on May 16, 2011. In it, he compares two entrepreneurs’ stories of how they performed when they decided to quit their jobs and pursue the “entrepreneurial fantasy” of opening a restaurant. The article opens by stating that even those who don’t fancy themselves as entrepreneurs dream of quitting their jobs and going into business for themselves; whether it’s a bed and breakfast, a bookstore, or…