Essays on Character Traits

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Overcoming Obstacles on The Way to Future Prosperity

1 page / 616 words

The course of one’s journey lies in the things that they learn along the way to the destination. Although many may argue otherwise, adversity proves to be a large determining factor into one’s future. In all periods of life, there are hardships that we must...

Adversity Invisible Man Prosperity

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How Much Land Does a Man Need by Leo Tolstoy: I Shall Never Reach that Spot

5 pages / 2421 words

In the short story, “How Much Land Does a Man Need” By Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy employs Pahom, the protagonist to endure a fatal flaw of excessive greed and power that leads to his downfall. It touches upon the human nature that we are bound by...

Greed Short Story Tolstoy

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How I Have Shown Grit Throughout My Life

2 pages / 919 words

The goal of my paper is to explore how I have shown grit throughout my life. As a boy who has grown up with everything in life, I have found myself wondering how I have made it through some of the things that I have...

Childhood Memories Grit Personal Experience

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Research of Philanthropy in Today’s Society

4 pages / 1600 words

Philanthropy in America has a long history, with intentional efforts to build up qualities, shape ideology and characterize practices that would join individuals. There are four major altruistic forms: Relief, Improvement, Social Reform, and Civic Engagement, each having different customs, standards, and purpose. Made-to-order essay...

Philanthropy Research Society

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Humor & Philosophy in Simon Critchley's Book "On Humor"

1 page / 549 words

In Simon Critchley’s book, On Humor, Critchley admits that humor is an “impossible object for [the] philosopher” since “a joke explained is a joke misunderstood”. Though Critchley may be right that one can and should experience humorous amusement that never is to be reasoned or...

Book Review Humor

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Socrates Views on Human Wisdom

1 page / 556 words

Socrates has many interesting views on various concepts and ideas. He goes into depth about how these concept and ideas can be detrimental or beneficial to human existence. Socrates is well known for being one of the greatest philosophers in history. He is recognized for...

Socrates Wisdom

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My Personal Definition of Integrity and Morals

2 pages / 789 words

How do you personally define Integrity and Morals? Integrity are what provide a person with knowing right from wrong. Morals are beliefs that are based on a person’s understanding of a set of values. Integrity are based on a person’s beliefs and principles that are...

Integrity Morality Personal Beliefs

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Review of King Leopold’s Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild

3 pages / 1238 words

While there are still people in this world, evil will always exist. Evil can present itself in a plethora of forms. There is evil when its active, a process where people actively keep the evil alive. An example of this would be genocide. Genocide is...

Good and Evil Greed Heroism

180

Perfect World of Selfless Society

1 page / 651 words

I believe the root to all of our world’s problem is selfishness, so I got some help to stop that. Then I created what I think to be the perfect society, full of selfless acts. Allow me to explain this from the beginning. Made-to-order essay...

Selfishness Society

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The Art of Non-conformity 

2 pages / 733 words

It’s hard to find your voice in a society that suppresses you while convincing you that you’re free to say what you want. The Stonewall riots of 1969, led by Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, both transgender women of colour, marked a turning point...

Conformity Nonconformist

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5 Signs You're Dealing with a Dangerous Female Narcissist

5 pages / 2502 words

It is very barely noticeable female narcissists and their considerably more merciless cousins, sociopaths. Since female narcissists take part in a similar sort of social animosity that adolescent young ladies do, they can without much of a stretch fly under the radar as the “mean...

Narcissism Woman

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Influence of Cultures on African Philanthropy

4 pages / 1842 words

Philanthropy is not new in Africa but there is not nearly enough record and systematic documentation of individual or institutional philanthropy within the African context to show for it. There are examples (Rosemary & Mutunkei , 2016) and numerous accounts of Africans coming together either...

Philanthropy South Africa

184

The Sickness of Greed in Modern Society

3 pages / 1197 words

The world we live in has a disease. It is not a physical sickness. It is not a virus or bacteria, there is no vaccine to prevent it, nor a pill to treat it. It is so dreadful that it is even one of the...

Greed Modern Society

185

The Difference Between Being Intolerant Or Sensitive

3 pages / 1335 words

Over the years people have been teaching their children more and more that they should be kind to one another and generally strive tobe good people. This was a fantastic idea in theory. However, somewhere along the line being a good person has turned into...

Being a Good Person Personal Qualities Tolerance

186

What Qualities Must a Hero Retain

3 pages / 1461 words

How do we determine a hero? Whether it be one who puts their own life at risk for the sake of someone else’s, to one who lends a helping hand, our world consists of heroes. Throughout the poem Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney, the reader...

Beowulf Personal Qualities

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Selfishness in and then There Were None by Agatha Christie

3 pages / 1269 words

Nothing sounds better than a vacation to an island for most people, at least that’s what 10 individuals thought at first. In And Then There Were None 10 people are sent to an island for crimes unfathomable to the regular person; they’ve all murdered someone...

Murder Novel Selfishness

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Difference Bettwen Ordinary and Philantropic Entrepreneurs

1 page / 412 words

Traditionally, entrepreneurs are known to be individuals who create value. (Schumpeter, 1963) However, further research classifies motivation into entrepreneurship as the “push” or “pull” theory. The “push” theory indicates that the entrepreneur is motivated into starting a business due to external factors including but not...

Philanthropy Society

189

Integrity and What It Means to Me

3 pages / 1463 words

The dictionary definition of integrity is “The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.” In my opinion, definitions were never good for anything except writing essays. Ultimately, we have to integrate these definitions into our lives before they become useful. Personally, I would...

Integrity Personal Beliefs

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How to Improve Your Relationship with Yourself

1 page / 514 words

So often we hear people talk about broadening that network, nurturing relationships, but never enough about the most important relationship in our lives – the one with ourselves. If you’ve been extra focused on the external factors in your own life, we encourage you to...

Personal Growth and Development Personal Identity Personal Qualities