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Doris and I ride our new road bikes on Friday morning. For ten minutes we warm up, and then, pedal in the direction to Malibu. The air is cool with early morning fog. Doris leads and I follow. Her pace is faster than usual. No problem. I ride my bike to ride my bike. I have a low-keyed Friday: I’ve scheduled a pitch meeting at eleven with a new writer. The agent I met recently said his client “Thinks out of the box.” I would rather that and am keen to meet him. There’s an hour before, so

Donald Trump once said, “My whole life is about winning. I don 't lose often. I almost never lose.” Jay Gatsby has a similar outlook on life. Gatsby and Trump view themselves as winners because their pockets are stuffed with cash. Jay Gatsby and Donald Trump can agree on one thing: money. Both men are ruthless, business tycoons, and measure their success in life based on their wealth. Jay Gatsby meets his demise towards the end of F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby, while Donald Trump is just getting

Abstract Can an employee value proposition fully support an organization’s mission? Yes. an organization’s employee value proposition is not only a critical component in obtaining employee’s with the necessary skills but also allows the organization to support its overall mission and strategy. However, an employee value proposition may not on its own support an organization. It also requires the full endorsement of an organization’s leaders to ensure that the EVP is fully implemented and working

books to the quintessential southern prosperity gospel preacher, Americans truly believe that having an optimistic outlook improves life (Blumner 1). Chris Prentiss, New Age guru and co-founder of Passages, a well-known rehabilitation facility in Malibu, argues this very point in his book Zen and the Art of Happiness. Through a personal anecdote about his son’s journey to sobriety, Prentiss claims that “every event that befalls [a person] is the best possible event that could occur,” a mindset known

I am a 37 year old, single woman with no attachments. I have no set place to live, no steady job, no boyfriend or husband, no child, no pet, I lease my car, and only a mother as a immediate family. That being said, I am not without anything. I have more then enough. I am paid to live in others peoples homes and watch their pets, my social network is extremely large and work always comes to me, more then enough. My life is not normal, it is creative, unique, never boring and I love it. I grew up

that is simplistic and the only change being the rambling guitar that seems to be in place to further emphasize Cohen’s lyrics. For example, the guitar rambles in between the space at the end of each line in the last verse after the words calvary, malibu etc., but rarely overlaps with Cohen speaking. This gives it the dark and foreboding mood that Cohen seems to be going for with his lyrics. The first cover decides to speed up the tempo a little, but still maintains a long drawn out approach that

Carbohydrates are Killing Us Softly Thomas J. Engstrom Western Governors University WGU Student ID# 000529592 Carbohydrates are Killing Us Softly The nutritional dietary consumption of carbohydrates is between 55-75% for the vast majority of the global population as their main source of food intake and energy.  And the general populous continues to be misinformed by government agencies regarding what a normal, healthy diet, should be, as well as what a balanced diet looks like.  Eating a low-carb

Ben Blanks, Lynchburg College (Editor’s note: This essay by Ben Blanks is the winner of the North Award for the best paper in the 2012 Agora. Ben presented an earlier version of this paper at the ACTC Student Conference at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, in March, 2011.) When reading the Apology and the Crito of Plato, one inevitably comes upon a seeming fundamental contradiction between the two dialogues. The Apology presents readers with a defiant Socrates who declares in his trial

to the dealership within a week. I walked in and asked to speak to the sales manager Mike Murphy, but he immediately passed me off to one of the other sales representatives, Matt Townsend. I showed Matt the car I was interested in, a 2013 Chevy Malibu LT, and he took me on a test drive. When we returned from the test drive, we went to his cubicle and began negotiating the price of the automobile. He explained the various fees and taxes on the car the brought the price up to $17,025.82 from the

Valentyn Shumakov Prof. Blunk, Dawn English 1A 20 July 2015 Essay 4 Sexualizing won’t get your anywhere The difference of men and women are usually defined by the organs they develop, and the ways in which those are used. Upon opening most magazines, a warm greeting from a woman’s slim, photoshopped body or an oddly attractive man with a six pack will be offered. Many advertising agents would apply various techniques to get customers involved with their product and one of the most common