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    are performing in school and usually many activities take place on that day, one being giving speeches. As I was a senior prefect, it was my duty to give the speeches most of the time. I had to read it clearly so as not to shame our teachers. The passion of reading is still fresh in me. Not a day passes without me reading a magazine or a novel, and that is the least

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    well as one of the earliest to have been authored by a woman. Fonte 's oeuvre also encompasses a number of other works deserving of critical attention, notably her chivalric romance, Il Floridoro (1581) and her two poetic narratives of Christ 's passion and resurrection (1582 and 1592). As Doglioni records, Modesta Pozzo was born in venice in 1555, to Girolamo Pozzo a lawyer, and Marietta dal Moro. Both her parents came from moneyed families of the peculiarly venetian rank of cittadini originari

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    A Passion for Reason The practice of worshipping a religion has been a part of human existence for thousands of years. The practice itself changes and shifts as time and humans grow, but the fundamentals of faith remain the same. While in present day the idea of religion can be a point of contention, in the past centuries it was a center of all human interaction. Moliere introduces a new outlook on religion in his published 1669 play Tartuffe. Following the household of Orgon and their interactions

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    crime of holy reverence” (Lines 63-65). At this point, Antigone is proclaiming her undying love for her brother Polyneices, and her willingness to give him a proper burial at the expense of her life. This passage stood out to me because it shows passion. Passion is defined as an intense desire or enthusiasm to do something. In society today it is hard to find people who are passionate about something. It is even more rare to find someone who is passionate enough

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    realized that by using different techniques they could make prayer manuscripts an interactive experience that emphasized the physical reality of Christ’s pain. In particular the manuscripts were focused on the scenes of the passion of christ. “In late medieval Europe devotion to the passion of Christ was characterized by meditation and prayer combined with highly detailed visualizations of Jesus’ suffering” (Parshall, Schoch, 185). One example is The Five Wounds of Christ, which had a similar subject to

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    and determination, Moses has fulfilled his duty to free his people. In the ending of the play, I was amazed and enjoyed the play. Therefore, I wished for another seeing of this beautiful work just by how the themes, plot, creative staging, and the passion of the director is put out there to everyone else. The theme of the play has a sense of nationality and or slavery which is still relatable today. Seeing that being displayed in a creative way into a play was just outstanding. To illustrate, Moses

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    Speech On Job Is A Job

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    points of my speech are how a job should be considered as work as it is about the salary, how calling should be considered as work as it is about the passion for a job and lastly why is career not considered as work. Ten years later, all of you here will consider for a job to feed your own family. Ten years later, all of you will find your passion for a career you really want and ten years later, you will be in a position for finding your own career. Firstly, work should be considered as

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    In the book GiG Americans Talk About Their Jobs, include 100’s of interviews of different people with different jobs that provide personal achievements, and goals that give these individuals the strive to work. These reasonings of why we should work point out much more than money being the outcome. Each individual interviewee has a different reason for why they work, what makes them strive to work, what makes their job’s worth going to each day. From selected interviews “Wal-Mart Greeter”, “Clutter

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    years. The lack of Passion in their work. I have not met a MT who sought this vocation because it seemed like it was a “good job and would pay the bills”. We are drawn to this work because we are helpers and like to make people feel better. There is a passion there that burns deep in each of us. Don’t believe me? Go to your local MT School and talk to new students; you will see, feel and hear that Passion. Somewhere between years 3–5 I have noticed there is a trend of the Passion leaving and the grind

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    Leadership is the process by which individuals have demonstrated the ability to enlist, direct, guides, and influences the work of others in attaining specific goals. The leader is considered the nucleus of groups power structure which helps to strengthen the group, empowers individuals and thus moves the group towards its goals and maintains its momentum. Therefore, leader’s posse’s the ability to shape, regulate, control and change the behavior, attitudes, and performance of the group which sets

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