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    are Bullshit, by Bernard Roth, Roth talks about how he never put his meeting as a priority and how he would always made up reasons or excuses. Making up excuses will never lead to anything good but lies and lies. Many people procrastinate a lot, Roth shows how the rhetorical triangle can help make life easier using logos, ethos and pathos. Even-though sometimes excuses or reasons are valid, procrastinating can lead to not being professional, stop having priorities and start falling behind. One rhetorical

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    some of the animals, Squealer was a pig, and therefore this meant that he had special rights that other animals could not have. Squalor always also picks sides with Napoleon. Due to this, Squealer ends up making excuses for actions and lying to the other animals. He always had to make excuses and he also tried to make the animals think that the things Napoleon was doing were correct. Squealer is sent to make necessary explanations to the other animals about how the pigs had milk and apples mixed into

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    Uncle Tom's Cabin

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    heart has its reasons, but the mind makes the excuses.” This quote by Dr. Amit Abraham implies that people who hold socially stigmatized opinions or flaws try to conceal them with more socially acceptable excuses. Relating to this quote, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a novel, which mainly focuses on two groups of people: slaves and slave owners. Each slave owner provides their own reasons for their actions, which turn out to be excuses, even if they never realize it themselves. By

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    Finance in Healthcare is extremely vital. without any finances or money a healthcare office will not be able to operate. accounts receivable plays an important role. Accounts Receivable actually is money owed to a company by its debtors. According to the Medicalaccountsreceivable.net some of the larger medical offices have an office assistant that they use to handle the accounts receivable or they may use an outside entity for billing and coding services, and the smaller offices may just hire a

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    Excuses. They are the fabrications humans create to justify an unexpected or unpleasant event. Whether it be blaming the traffic for one's tardiness rather than admitting that they hit the snooze button or blaming ourselves for losing money in investments rather than looking further into the situation in order to understand that it was the bank's fault for making a bad business deal; excuses bury the true cause of an event. In Daniel Gilbert's "Immune to Reality", he describes the excuses people

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    openly therefore, we complain and make excuses. This strange protective mechanism we all so unconsciously do is known as self-handicapping. Self-handicapping is the strategy in which the individual may create or have prepared excuses to explain their poor act on a task. There are two forms of self-handicapping: behavioral self-handicapping and reported self-handicapping. The difference between these two concepts is the way the individual makes their excuses. Behavioral self-handicapping is when

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    Close your eyes for three minutes and think about all kinds excuses and explanation you’ve given people and how many of them have believed you. For others, making a realistic excuse is extremely easy. But for some it’s extremely strenuous to make up a story that seems realistic and understandable. I’m that type of person who has difficulties creating excuses in any particular occasion. It was a beautiful Saturday morning, birds are chirping in an oak tree. I woke up extra early to prepare and cook

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    in education through the format they were written in, the intent of the author and the Point of View. In Carlyon Foster Segal’s essay, “The Dog Ate my Flash Drive and other Tales of Woe” the story talks about excuses used by students for why they did not complete their homework. The excuses are sorted

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    sneaky way to control not only our actions but also our thoughts. We are born and raised doing and believing those things that are done around us. As we came older we protest or we wish to fit in and continue our enslavement. We can said whatever excuse as we want but the real thing is that we are controlled, but just in different ways. Although both "The Lottery" and "Shooting an Elephant" show us the strong control society has over our actions, "Shooting an Elephant" shows us the darkest way we

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    Henry Ford

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    "Don't find fault, find a remedy." - Henry Ford. The meaning of this quote is reasonably straightforward: When something goes wrong, instead making excuses or trying to find someone to blame, you should find a solution to the problem, a more productive use of your time. Personally, I agree with this Ford, if all you ever do is sit around and complain every time something, whether it be in your professional life or your personal life, doesn't go the way you want it to, you'll never get anything done

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