Persistence

Galileo Galilei created the telescope, used persistence to innovate ways to overcome the church (that was against him and didn’t want him to study space) and continue with improving the telescope and making a major breakthrough on studies of space. Galilei is extremely famous for improving the telescope. Most people think he invented the telescope, but he actually learned about a telescope created by Dutch eyeglass makers and fixed it up and made his own, better version. Sailors learned about…

Odysseus, a true hero What does it take to be a hero? In Homer's the Odyssey, He constructs Odysseus to be the definition of a hero. In the Odyssey, Odysseus shows his many characteristics of a hero to help him along the way of his hero’s journey. A major characteristic Odysseus portrays in The Odyssey is Intelligence. It is Odysseus’s idea to build the Trojan horse and cleverly enter the Trojan walls to defeat them. In the Odyssey “Eyelid and lash were seared; The pierced ball hissed broiling…

A lack of self-esteem and fear allowed Prufrock to remain stuck in his ways, so he would not possess the ability to move forward with time. As time goes on, things change and people are expected to change with it. Prufrock did not live his life by these ideas. He remained still as life passed him by, resulting in him struggling against fear and self-esteem issues with the new world around him. One way he showed his stagnant nature involved him remaining stuck thinking about a mystery woman,…

Presley, Rowlings and Potter Every Christmas thousand of children receive toys that require batteries to operate them. Most of the time the box is marked, “Batteries not included.” Our dreams are like the gifts without batteries. The batteries needed to bring our dreams to life is equivalent to the action we take daily. It is up to us to add the batteries = action to bring our dreams into reality. Choose. Take ‘charge.’ What are you waiting on? If you lack the determination, what you’re really…

In order to be successful in life, no individual needs to achieve a post-secondary education. Throughout their first year of college, David Yeager discovered students feel insecure in college. College persistence is the ability to survive college – self-control, self-sufficient, and feeling as though you belong. Self-control is mandatory meanwhile attending college because there are distractions surrounding you at all times. Students may feel as though they cannot control their actions, but…

“Life Coaching: A Cognitive Behavioural Approach” Summary Michael Neenan and Windy Dryden, the authors of “Life Coaching: A cognitive behavioural approach, second edition” (2014) offer a pragmatic, evidence-based method of coaching based on the concept of cognitive behavioral therapy. The authors discuss the sequence of emotional causation and how—in fact—one’s thoughts affect one’s emotion and thus, one’s behavior. Neenan and Dryden (2014) report that most coaching clients have an external…

There is a human animal sitting in your chair, 2. The human animal sitting in your chair is thinking, 3. You are the thinking being sitting in your chair, 4. You are the human animal (a thing with biological, not psychological, persistence conditions). He then comes up with three arguments against animalism: 1) there are no human animals, 2) Human animals can’t think, 3) You are not alone. Alternative 1, many people don’t take it seriously. Alternative 2, it’s hard to believe that…

Oedipus Essay Written by Sophocles, Oedipus The King is a magnificent example of an Aristotelian tragedy. The protagonist, Oedipus, is challenged with a numerous amount of ordeals and a horrible fate. Fate is usually described as a power that preordains the course of events. No matter how hard characters try, they are unavoidable. The concept is based off the belief that there is a fixed natural order to the universe. Character’s fates are already decided before they even know it. Trying to…

Bellin stresses that these variables are not enough to explain authoritarian resilience in the region nor either the success or failure of states to transition to democracy. This essay will aim to validate proposed hypotheses for authoritarianism persistence seen in class according to the outcomes of the Arab Spring. Of the four proposed hypotheses seen in class: culture, weak civil society, “the rentier state”, and “the coercive state”, the events of the Arab Uprising confirm that rentier…

At the University of Kansas, only one third of the freshman in the industrial design program are female students. Because of reinforced gender roles, many women are steered away from completing a degree in the STEM fields. Gender diversity in industrial design is essential as it puts forth new ideas due to the way women experience the world. It is vital to examine the variation of reasons preventing women from pursuing an industrial design degree and then to construct methods to encourage more…