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1. Self-Worship and Self-Confidence 2. Your Major Compared To Your Classes 3. Love What You Do and Do What You Love 4. Moving Through The Music Continue reading
Posted Nov 29, 2016 at write2think
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Philosopher Alain De Botton claims that people should understand and focus on how to include self-worship into their lives. With this, he believes that people should do this by finding ways to remove themselves from their everyday lives and experience nature. By taking time with nature, people can focus on... Continue reading
Posted Nov 2, 2016 at write2think
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In What the Best College Students Do, the author Ken Bain(Best Teachers Institute) discusses many different ideas of what successful students do in order to also be successful in the work force. One of these ideas includes that the college education system(video) should help students explore a broad range of... Continue reading
Posted Oct 27, 2016 at write2think
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If I were to pursue any job I wanted, without having to worry about skill and money, I would want to become a professional dancer. Before I decided to focus solely on soccer, when I was little, I used to dance. I have never really cared about dancing being a... Continue reading
Posted Oct 5, 2016 at write2think
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From Bain, a term I found particularly relative to my life was the term “cognitive miser”. Bain defines this word as people preferring and paying more attention towards vivid language(79). He provided the example of a disease saying how people will not react as much, or the same as if... Continue reading
Posted Sep 28, 2016 at write2think
In the Devil Wears Prada, the main character Andy struggles with an exhausting and demanding job working for fashion icon, Miranda Priestly, who runs Runway Magazine. One of the only reasons Andy applied fot this In a specific scene, Andy is attending the opening of her close friend’s, Lily, art... Continue reading
Posted Sep 21, 2016 at write2think
In the Devil Wears Prada, the main character Andy struggles with a demanding and exhausting job working for a fashion icon, Miranda Priestly, who runs Runway Magazine. In a specific scene, Andy is attending the opening of an art gallery of her close friend Lily. Through this scene, you can... Continue reading
Posted Sep 14, 2016 at write2think
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“The Street Law Handbook: Surviving Sex, Drugs, and Petty Crime” by Neeraja Viswanathan may appear as a guide for people to get away with street crimes, but is truly much more that that. Viswanathan actually aims for readers to have a better understanding of what will, and can happen to... Continue reading
Posted Sep 7, 2016 at write2think
In this song, Janelle Monae explains how she is excited and pleased to be fired from her job. Her boss had told her "you daydream too much", but that only shows how a person like Monae would rather enjoy work where she can actually enjoy the work she does. Sometimes,... Continue reading
Posted Aug 31, 2016 at write2think
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