Stephen Covey

in their life, is that enough? In 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Steve Covey shows that even if successful, everyone is struggling with an inner hunger to find personal harmony and effectiveness for healthy relationships with other people. By reading this book, I feel it has really helped me to understand how to be effective in my life and also to teach other people what I have learned. In part one of this book Covey talks about how to use this book properly, and to not just simply read…

The matter of truth and perception are two concepts in which the definition changes depending on the individual. In the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, the author Stephen R. Covey speaks of an experience at the Harvard business School where and instructor demonstrated how two people can have a different outlook, yet both be right. Two variations of the same picture were given to two sides of the classroom and asked what was seen, both sides had different answers. The students…

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…

Covey list seven habits that increase the effectiveness of one’s character. These habits include be productive, begin with the end in mind, part first things first, seek to understand then be understood, think win/win, synergize, sharpen the saw. “Habits…

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery and later became a free man. Anne Moody was a young black girl growing up in racist Mississippi. Both faced the prejudice of their time regarding the color of their skin. These two became leaders resisting discrimination by fighting back those who tried to constrain them. Time and time again, they laid their lives on the line. They did everything that they could to educate themselves and others even though it was immensely frowned upon by society.…

Krabs asks SpongeBob and Squidward if they have any ideas to bring in any more customers. A talent show is agreed upon, and Squidward, seeking fame and recognition in any form, agrees to take the part as host and director. Squidward refuses to let SpongeBob perform because he believes that SpongeBob will be terrible on stage, but Squidward’s interpretive dance as the closing act, what he calls the “Incomprable Squidward”, turns out to be hated by the audience. Tomatoes are thrown on stage,…

I think that A Doll’s House is a drama. It is a drama because it closely resembles real-life. It in fact resembles the life that many women had to face not too long ago when men were still in control of everything, including their wives. Also, it deals with issues in marriage in which many people have today. The plot structure is definitely linear. There are no flashbacks and there is not a series of stories being told. There is in fact only one story being told and it began with the…

thinking is strongly affected by the time the story was wrote, it is also important to highlight that the monsters created in this story are very similar to what Stephen T. Asma narrates in his essays "Alexander fights Monsters in India" and "Monsters and the moral imagination". The reason of this maybe that even though Shakespeare and Stephen T. Asma do not share the same years they do share the same concerns, they are both attracted to explain why monsters affect us so much as humans. Both of…

Introduction: Dracula, written by Bram Stoker in 1897, has become one of the most popular and enduring gothic novels. This blood-sucking vampire is now an iconic symbol of horror, whose fame stretches far beyond the covers of the novel. Written at the precipice of the turn of the century, the novel touches upon anxieties of a society that was changing at an uncomfortably rapid place. Stoker used this unlikely horror story to convey the apprehension of the Victorians, which includes anxieties…

Others argue that movies are more intriguing than the narrative due to the visual effects that they may not be able to conceptualize while reading. Such discussion pertains to the movie Stand by Me and its respective novella, The Body, written by Stephen King. Regardless of a person’s point of view concerning these disputes, an agreement can be made that watching the movie prior to reading the literary work can substantially change the perception of various components of the literary work. When…