The
Great Gatsby Essay
Ensuring Your Own Demise
Jay Gatsby’s rules, which were set in his youth, is the complete codex of behavior for every believer in a “dream”, who wants to open the way to life with the help of diligence, thrift, sober gain and persistent labor and to prove that chances are equal for all in a country, where there is enough space under a sun and where every person has a great amount of opened paths.
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Art
and Technology in Education
The contemporary education is often focused on the development of specific skills and abilities of students. As a result, it fails to provide students with the broader education and, instead of the formation harmonious, balanced personalities, the contemporary education breeds specialists trained to work in a specific field. Naturally, such an approach to education is not very effective and limits consistently the potential of each student. Moreover, the present epoch poses new challenges and demands on education. In such a context, the major goal of the contemporary education is to prepare students to live in a rapidly changing world where they have to learn during their lifetime. In fact, the education, on the level of school, should just teach students to learn, acquire and develop new skills and abilities. At the same time, one of the major goals of education is to create the foundation, on the basis of which each student could develop his/her own personality. In such a situation, the necessity of the wider use of art and technologies in education becomes obvious.
Nowadays the necessity to implement arts in the process of education is getting to be evident. In such a situation, it is necessary to apply a variety of teaching methods which basic elements and principles of arts are integrated in. In terms of this paper the possible implementation of art, its principles and elements in the educating of the 3rd grade students will be discussed.
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Research
Paper on Perseverance
I was thinking a lot about what perseverance means to me, is it good or bad to be perseverant and whether there are universal cases or situations when he person should be perseverant. I have always considered myself far from being perseverant. When I face particular situations I’m always in doubt how to behave, but what I am really proud of, is when the choice is already made, I am going straight to reaching the goal and show as much perseverance as the situation demands.
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Fra
Angelico “The Annunciation”
In this essay I will describe the painting of Fra Angelico the Annunciation and why it is important to the western art history. I will also present my personal experiences and thoughts that arise when I look at the painting, as well as explain the quotation regarding meeting ourselves in the works of art.
Fra Angelico is the Italian painter of the Renaissance period, who came from Tuscany. His works predominantly reveal Biblical scenes, and contain elements that are conservatively Gothic and progressively Renaissance. His style is simple and in some manner rather childish, and in his works he expresses his profound reverence to God and love to humanity. His manner of drawing is far from being childish; it is geometrical with hard-finished precision (Berenson, 1953).
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Essay
on Prejudice in the Modern Society
The modern society is still full of prejudices, which affect the perception of the surrounding world of people. At the same time, prejudices often contribute to the ongoing discrimination, which is one of the main challenges to the democratic society. In order to assess the extent to which existing prejudices and biases affect society, it is possible to refer to “Philadelphia”, the movie, which perfectly depicts the injustice of prejudices in relation to people that are different from others.
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Book
Report Sample
1. Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening is set in New Orleans, on a famous summer holiday resort, called Grand Isle. It is a favorite place of rich Creoles. It is there that the main character of the novel, Edna, meets the people that will change her life. The author chose this place as at that time, at the end of the nineteenth century, Creole women were much more outspoken than American women and their behavior was more unreserved, which was an incitement to Edna to become free from her husband’s power.
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Essay
on Separation of church and state in US Constitution
America was not once overflowed by the waves of religious exaltation. So, the country passed through a religious splash, which got the name of Great awakening and uniting a few protestant flows in an attempt to overcome the complacency of instituated religion in 1740. Another Great awakening shook New England at the earliest stage of the XIX-th century.
Father-founders of the United States firmly trusted that religion had been an irreplaceable constituent in the system of republican self-government. The receiving of independence from royal power threw them down a challenge – how to lay in the citizens of the newly made country the sense base of the personal responsibility and at the same to provide a public peace in the conditions of self-government. Knowing the religiousness of the citizens, they appealed to religion and effluent from it rules of morality, I.e. morals, which would be the internal moral compass of citizens, making them to behave disciplined and, thus, to provide public peace and political stability. It was written by Thomas Jefferson on the 1-st of January 1802.
Leadership
and Motivation in Organizational Behavior Research Paper
Introduction
Leadership and motivation traditionally play a very important role in the functioning of organizations. Nowadays, the role of leadership and motivation increases even more significantly because of the growing competition and the increasing significance of human resources for the progress of organizations. In fact, it should be pointed out that leadership and motivation are closely intertwined concepts which constitute an important part of the success of an organization. It is obvious that the effective leadership and motivation can contribute to the progress of an organization, while poor leadership and the lack of motivation can undermine the normal functioning of an organization and lead to the crisis within an organization that will naturally affects its performance.
In this respect, it is important to underline the fact that leadership and motivation affect considerably the organizational behavior and culture and they define the formation of the effective relationships between the personnel of an organization. In such a situation, it is necessary to fully reveal the significance of leadership and motivation in the contemporary business environment in order to assess adequately perspectives of the improvement of the effectiveness of leadership and motivation within an organization. At the same time, the analysis of theoretical framework only is apparently insufficient for the understanding of the significance of leadership and motivation for the performance of an organization. Consequently, it is also necessary to pay a particular attention to the practical aspects of leadership and motivation that means that it is necessary to analyze some practical examples that could reveal the significance of leadership and motivation for the performance of an organization.
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Essay
on Segregation
If to speak about European countries, nowadays gender segregation is not so popular and widely spread. It considered to be noble, correct and fashionable in the previous centuries, when there was social gender segregation. It meant that firstly only men could get education, while women were like home animals having no rights to speak, to vote, to be socially demanded. Even when women became more independent, gender segregation was necessary, because psychological, physical and sexual education among men and women was quite different. It was possible at that time, but today it is not so typical for this society, as man and woman are equal and have the same rights. But there are still some educational establishments where gender segregation is accepted. These are the establishments with great history and traditions which are followed from year to year, from generation to generation.
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Alcohol
Research Paper
Today nobody doubts that man’s dependence on the so-called psychoactive matters (alcohol or drugs) is the serious illness. So, if it is the illness, it means that it must have special origin, the laws and mechanisms of development, and also and the preparations for recovery. Influenza is caused by a virus, violation of vessels’ conductivity in myocardium results in the heart attacks, and what results in alcoholism? Why do some people drink for a long time and do not become alcoholics, and others transform at once? How do our organisms differ? Can alcohol abuse result in the development of alcoholism?
In economically developed countries the amount of alcoholics among the population aggregates at least 5%. For example, in France 10% of the population abuse alcohol and only 4.4% have the illness alcoholism, so it means that nearly one half of abusing people suffer from alcoholism.
So, alcoholism is a disease, conditioned by systematic use of alcohol drinks; it shows up in a permanent intoxication requirement, disorders of psychical activity, somatic and neurological violations, decreasing of capacity, loss of social connections and degradation of personality. The Journal of the American Medical Association defines alcoholism as “a primary, chronic disease characterized by impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking.” (cited in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
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