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    If you had a child participating on a soccer team and worked really hard to become the V.I.P for the season and at the end of the year when the team sets up a team award ceremony, everyone gets the same trophy. Is this okay? After reading numerous research articles, along with opinions on social sites, I have come to the understanding of both positive and negative aspects to whether awarding students who just participate in the sport right or wrong. To clearly portray the understanding of this topic

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    I got my first trophy when I was in kindergarten when I played rec basketball. I wasn’t outstanding, or even that good. I got a trophy I probably didn’t deserve. When kids know they will automatically get a trophy, then they might not try as hard. If the kids don’t try as hard they will let their team down. Giving out participation trophies is a mistake because it wates money gives kids false sense of achmplishments anddiminishes the value of winning a trophy. In the United States alone, over

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    case. As pessimistic as it may sound, what truly matters in our society today is results. Kids growing up today simply expect to be rewarded since they put effort in. The first time I got a participation award was one of the most confusing days in my life was the first time I got a participation award. It was just so foreign to me that I could fail, but still receive praise. I can’t say for sure if there were others that felt the same way, but in my ultra-competitive family, this was unacceptable. My

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    Ed Viesturs Essay

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    “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.” This quote means when you come to the end of something don’t give up just keep going. When I think of this quote Ed Viesturs could’ve gave up during the ‘96 Tragedy but he kept going. Ed Viesturs was born July 22nd, 1959, he is 58. Washington resident Ed Viesturs is widely regarded as the country’s foremost high-altitude mountaineer. Viesturs has succesfully reached the summits of all the World’s fourteen 8000-meter peaks without

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    As I mentioned previously, the website has an awards section stating that Coca-Cola was awarded the” Best Global Initiative for Women’s Economic Empowerment” by the Women in Leadership Economic Forum in 2014. In the awards, ratings and rankings section it is also revealed that Coca-Cola was rated 100% by the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index. Many of these awards and ratings allude to Coca-Cola making a difference and hence reflect the company’s

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    Annual Prize Distribution

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    Annual prize distribution | | | |The program is about to commence. We need no musical interlude. Therefore you are requested to switch off your mobile phones. | |

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    Essay On Winning

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    even get the participation trophy/ but in this case I didn't even get the participation award. The giant fan that sat on the window sill next to my table sent chills through my body the entire night. The darkly lit room and background noise of the hundred girls in the room added to my nervous excitement. I anxiously waited for the awards to start as I thought about how I would feel when I accepted my award. This moment had been in the back of my mind since the dance season started the year before

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    sports and makes them nothing more than a social hour. If this mentality persists, kids would lose their motivation and concentration to play the game because they would learn a false truth. What is this false truth? It is a sense always earning an award no matter how successful they are or not. The kids would lose motivation, determination, and sportsmanship. This lack of skills could spread to other aspects of the kid's lives, such as; work, school, and finishing chores. This would spread to their

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    employees. I aggressively explore strategy options to create meaningful work and appropriate awards to motivate employees to perform. My disclaimer, all employees in the United States should have fair compensation and freedom from discrimination, assuming every employee are compensated

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    since I was a little girl. As school went on, I recieved awards here and there from teachers for many different things. Some were just from doing well on something, and others were for accomplishing something in class. Even though, I may have thought that those pieces of paper were a huge deal, one of the most special most meaningful ones I have recieved was last year at the end of the year for the underclassmen awards banquet. For this awards banquet only selected students were invited to attend,

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