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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey is an incredible book and I enjoyed reading it several years ago. When this assignment was presented I thought that I may have a slight advantage as I knew what the Seven Habits Profile was about. The profile is segmented into categories that assist a person in identifying what they do outstanding in and what they need to improve on. In general term’s I felt like I did well as I have applied the practices of self-improvement and…

answer the question, we were assigned to write an analytical essay. To analyze means to look at a quote and find a deeper meaning. The main idea of the essay is that the characters in the book are not happy and their society is distracting them. The main idea is meaningful because it can actually reflect how people deal with happiness. I chose to answer the…

and introduction (36 pages) for the entire corpus of Montaigne’s Essays and secondly – he has provided a stand-alone introduction (25 pages) for the translated Essay – An Apology for Raymond Sebond. Like Pokin, he will have to situate his assessment of the Apology with the broader confines of all the Essays. 3.1 The Argument of the Complete Essays The introduction to the Complete Essays is dominated by a reading of the Apology essay. It faithfully summarizes the more detailed Apology…

Reflection My development as a writer and the development of this piece was impacted by the exploration of the writer’s notebook, the learning outcomes of this course and what I have learned about writing from others. The Writer’s Notebook At first, I struggled with allowing myself to dig deep into the writer’s notebook. When I read the writing invitations the first week, I found myself just responding to it like a prompt or the reflective papers I spend so much time writing in my graduate…

If I taught this lesson again, I would write the facts on the fact chart in bigger print and I would have given more specific feedback to students. The fact chart was a valuable reference for students, but the writing was too small and that made it hard for all the students to see when they were writing/generating a fact of their own. I would also work on giving more specific feedback to students. This is something that I can work on in lessons that I teach in the future as well. The classroom…

Introduction: I am writing this extended essay, to further my personal literary vocabulary, as well as my literary knowledge on the term Anti-Hero. I was inspired by this unusual expression, when I came across the love story Deadpool. It got me pondering on the topic Heroism and all the heros we watch, and read about growing up. It made me rethink my own definition of the word hero. The oxford dictionary defines the term hero as “A person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding…

Learning a foreign can surely prove beneficial for future career, and avoiding prejudice ideas towards other cultures. As a student, I studied English, a foreign language for me, for nearly 10 years, and it proved useful. With English, I made several new friends from various areas around the world, and increases the chances of entering an American college. To prove the importance of foreign languages, I created an online survey consisting of seven multiple choice questions and asked various…

YES, I know it might have come across as a major surprise to all those who know me, I did infact read this book. I read it all. And I took some time out and did not post the review. But now it's here. Major Spoilers ahead. (As I have ranted the whole story basically. I NEEDED some kind of therapeutical venting after I lost so many of my brain cells reading this.) I had absolutely no plans of reading another clichéd novel with bad writing and predictable plot and annoying characters. But one…

“Lun Yu”, along with "I-Ching" and "Dao Dye Jing" — one of the best-known texts of East Asia, made by Confucius's students of the short notes fixing statements of the teacher, and also dialogues with his participation. As one of the greatest literary monuments, "Lun Yu" became the part of Confucian Quadrilogy (Si Sha). Knowing this book by heart was the obligatory requirement of the Chinese classical education. Confucius learned that "whether" ancestors who conformed to noble rules of…

Being an absolute fail, I have not posted on my blog in over a month! Honestly, school has been rough with tests everyday- ahh the pains of being in an exam year- but now I am back! Again... Today I decided to make a blog post on my three favourite drugstore lipsticks. Spoiler: All of them are absolutely gorgeous! I absolutely can not leave the house without a touch of lipstick, it is an essential for me in my everyday life. Of course, over the years I've had many people tell me (*cough* older…