Critical Thinking and Decision Making In today's business world decision making has become more complicated than it has been (McCall & Kaplan, 2003). Dealing with people only gets harder as time goes buy and critical thinking and decision making skills only become more needed with time in today's w...
Way of the Peaceful Warrior This is the first book of its kind, Spiritual or New Age that I have ever read. I have to admit, I wasn't sure if I would really be able to get into this epic journey after reading the back of the book. It all sounded too strange. Like many who have chosen t...
"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny." George Santayana. By age seven I had already been introduced to two of the most known religions in my home ...
Kurt Vonnegut, JR's Unshackled Mind Throughout the given Kurt Vonnegut stories, there has been a common, underlying theme. This theme can be found in such short stories as "Report on the Barnhouse Effect," "The Euphio Question," and "Harrison Bergeron." In extremes of bo...
Kicking the Habit Everyone has some type of bad habit. Everyone. Now granted, some have less than others and some bad habits are more destructive than others. Always remember there are two types of bad habits; those that are known, and others that are unknown. Regardless of the type, bad habits...
Concept of Cool In today's society people use the term "cool" to describe many different things. You can ask someone about an idea and they might reply, "That's cool". Someone may see something they really like and they would say it was cool. There are so many different ways to use this t...
Findley may have chosen to do this because Barbara may have gotten used to the loss of these men and could not let herself feel pain every time one of them would pass away while the woman in Lowell's poem seems to have only truly loved one man and will ache for him. ...
The ideas of disability and race (much like the idea of gender used in previous discussions) are socially constructed. Many of the articles read in Women's Studies 302 discusses the idea in which race and disability are not biological issues but ideas prevalent in society only because of the modern ...
When a man raises his head and stares at the moon, all he will see is the light coming straight from it. Little does he know that the bright eye catching moonshine that he, is staring at is only a reflection from the sun. Without the sun's rays, the moon would not be able to light up the night sky, ...
Summary of Cicero's, On Duties This excerpt from the book, On the Good Life, is a letter from Cicero to his son. I couldn't even imagine getting something like this from my father. It is full of great advice on how to live your life in such a way that you are regarded as a highly favorable person...
2001 Space Odyssey The film segment chosen was the final scene from Stanley Kubrik^s 2001 A Space Odyssey made in 1968. As the name would suggest, the film is set almost entirely in the future. Already having projected itself over 30 years into the future, it would be safe to assume that this motion...
The Various Stages of Marriage So many jokes are made in regards to the institution of marriage. For example, what is one good way to ruin a relationship? Get married. Yet, there seems to be something within all of us that gives us the desire to find " the one" or our " soul mate". We all woul...
