Life beyond

Have you ever had to make sacrifice for a loved one, or even work a job you do not like? Gordon Marino’s, “A Life Beyond ‘Do What You Love” includes different quotes and examples leading up to that question by explaining in the context with the use of rhetorical devices. Dr. Marino is a very highly educated philosopher who earned his Ph.D. at University of Chicago, M.A. university of Pennsylvania, and B.A. Columbia University. He typically publishes to the New York Times, for his writing mostly appeals

from expanding its reach to other markets is that of Bed Bath and Beyond, Inc. (BBBY). Warren Eisenberg and Leonard Feinstein founded BBBY in 1971. Primarily a domestic merchandise retail store that caterers to consumers with goods ranging from bedroom and bathroom, and also kitchen and dining room needs. Currently BBBY has stores in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Canada and the United States for a total of 1,504 locations (Bed Bath & Beyond Investor Relations - Investor Overview, 2012). Expanding into

“Beyond Good and Evil” by Friedrich Nietzsche In “Beyond Good and Evil,” Friedrich Nietzsche analyzes in a philosophical way what makes one good or evil. He goes onto explaining the spiritual aspect of one’s self and how everything else flows from it, from one’s spirit – from the inside. Also, he points out the challenges and struggle one faces when choosing to follow one’s own convictions instead of the ones imposed onto us. I’ll go onto analyzing his choice of words, their meaning in his arguments

interior and exterior, they thus capture the ambiguities and the complexities” (Belenky, p. 29). The article also tells us that Renee uses private places publically. In this novel Renee finds ways to get the attention she has not received her whole life. The dressing room is a perfect example of that. She breaks the rules by making her private space public, the idea that everyone refers to it as a place helps the reader realize that means everyone has seen it. This room was also lavish and extravagant

When the Belgians colonized Burundi, they made a grave error by favoring the minority Tutsis over the majority Hutus. Even after the Belgians left and Burundi became an independent nation, the segregation remained. As a result of tension after tension, in 1994, the Hutus began their mass killing of Tutsis. In Strength in What Remains, renowned writer Tracy Kidder shares the overwhelming account of escape and second chances experienced by Deogratias Niyizonkiza, a young Tutsi medical student, during

costs that may not be worth it. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra describes being part of a herd, along with many other actions, as life-denying. His concerns are ethics and living well. In the prologue, Nietzsche tells the story of how Zarathustra went up a mountain and spent ten years there gaining wisdom on life; he then descends to share his wisdom, but the people laugh at him and he comes to realize that they did not and would not take him seriously because they were

During the time of the case Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) was on top of the competition with never missing earnings estimates and constant store expansions. Both their top line and bottom line growth was impressive, especially when compared to competitors. Their expansions were being financed with a large percentage of cash and a small percentage of debt. The debt they did incur was payed off rather quickly leading to high cash accounts in their books. However, this created a problem for BBBY, as many

The slave mortality presented by Nietzsche in his Genealogy of Morals is prevalent within modern literature. The dark effects of this morality have crept far beyond the general view of the elite class and into our writing. This is not much of a surprise since literature reflects the world and our view of the world within it. Unfortunately, its impact on our society is shown by its prevalence within modern writing. This morality allows the author to focus on the “evil enemy” (Nietzsche 39) instead

Walden Two was published in 1948 by American psychologist B. F. Skinner. A seminal work of science fiction, the book describes a sextet’s three-day tour of Walden Two, an experimental utopian community. T. E. Frazier, the founder of Walden Two, introduces the group to the community and explains the ethos behind it. Walden Two uses subtle experimentation (called behaviorism by real-world psychologists and “behavioral engineering” in Walden Two) to shape the environment and the behaviors of the members

Should we simply only do things that we are passionate about or do we need to do some things that we hate in order to meet our responsibilities? This is exactly what Gordon Marino strongly argues in “A Life Beyond ‘Do What You Love’”. Gordon Marino has created a successful argument about doing what you love and how sometimes we have to do what we hate because we simply have to. He creates his argument by stating his credibility, using emotional tactics, raising a question and then immediately answering