It will be the goal of this paper to allow the reader (and myself) an opportunity to get a better understanding of the diversity of the more prevalent religions in the United States, and abroad. ... After being born into the low caste urban dwellers, the goal is to be reborn into an upper class caste system. ... So to achieve "Nirvana", or the ultimate Buddha state, you must extinguish all desire. ... The final goal of confucianism is to achieve harmony with the Way of Heaven. ... With the knowledge that a person (or myself), desires to ascend into heaven with the ul...

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Realist tend to examine the imperfections of the political system, which sees other states as all being selfish and evil in the attainment of power In the case of Canada's involvement in Afghanistan war, a realist would explain this as being a rational choice to obtain certain political goals. These goals consist of securitizing and maintaining a strong fidelity and alliance to the world greatest political power; The United States. ... Finally, there is a theory that states that profit (not only capital) can be attained with cooperation, therefore achieving peace (Murray & McCoy 2010). .....

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The American Dream is to have social stability, be able to achieve one's full potential, and start a new life where one won't be judge by his or her past. ... Therefore, an individual's social class is a direct reflection of how difficult it is to truly achieve the American dream. ... An American dream can be varied from a long-time aspiration to a small life-long goal. The American Dream is associated with individualism and proves to many that anyone with a dream can achieve their goals. ... The reason why the American Dream is fading is because the individuals who live in A...

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The American dream is not only to accomplish your goals but to also feel comfortable and secure once they have been accomplished. ... Situations like this are the ones that lead us to look back and reevaluate our dreams sometimes making our dreams and goals to change. ... Barack Obama's speech "A more perfect union" shows how the African American community has been prevented from achieving their American dream due to all the laws that have been passed. ... Today Barack Obama has achieved his goal of becoming president and maybe his American dream, but due to race setbacks he ha...

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Poor government policies have caused rampant abuse and fraud within the programs which has minimized the program's effectiveness towards its initial goal. ... When entitlement programs were first enacted in the 1960's the goal of the program was to "cure" and "prevent poverty" (The War on Poverty After 50 Years, heritage.org), however, the policies that we have put in place have waivered and we have failed to address this goal. ... Tax dollars are not being appropriately allocated to all the necessary investments that a nation needs to make, thus, maximum utility...

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The highest social ranking one could achieve was that of a lawyer or a merchant, meaning that, unlike Europe, all people held a similar social status. ... According to Crèvecoeur, this new breed of people were determined to succeed and willing to work hard to accomplish their goals. ... In America, immigrants had a chance to achieve their dream, a dream based on freedom and equality for all. ... Due to their faith, the Puritans were determined to achieve their ultimate goal of creating a "perfect" society where God was the center of all. ... Neither group welcomed idle people,...

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Each country achieves this goal in two very different ways, although they have one in common: the respect for and training of teachers. South Koreans use rote learning, long hours of study, intense family and social pressure, and sometimes severe punishment to achieve their educational success. ... Finland achieves the same educational success, without causing the student and their family the high stress and pressure that the South Korean system induces. ... The U.S. testing system could be reformed by schools or states, as long as the main goals were being accomplished. Schools and teachers ...

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Education can reinforce goals they may have, their cultural beliefs, also implicate how important getting an education really is. ... Which is exactly what inmates learn, how they can achieve their goals and stay out of prison. ... For a majority of people that is their goal in life, to be successful and be able to contribute to society, so therefore inmates should have the same perspective and with an education they will be able to achieve whatever goal they set. ... The ultimate goal of educating inmates in prison is to reduce inmate's recidivism rates and help the inmates become citiz...

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Although there is a common goal between them, there are varying views. ... Some behaviors are encouraged because modern society shows that to achieve what you want in life you are successful if you show aggression and are competitive. ... Out of all the different types of feminism there is one underlying common goal: To eliminate sexism and discrimination within politics, the workplace, and overall society. ... Women who go into science related fields need to have a tough exterior to handle these hurtful remarks and need to work twice as hard to achieve what men do. ... From an early start we ...

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One person who graduates college and is not able to find a job right away might believe that they have failed to achieve their goal. ... America birthed many successful people, each of those individuals had their own idea as to how they would achieve success. ... If while trying to raise money to give our children a better life we are consumed by our work have we achieved our goal? ... While success may not be the same for each and every person, I believe we can all agree that we all strive to achieve true happiness. If you are truly happy in whatever it is you are doing in your life it is my ...

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The main character Jay Gatsby believes that if he achieves his financial goals that it would lead to his happiness and a better life. ... He thinks that once he is successful in achieving his financial goals, that it would lead to a better and happier life. ... Another way that Gatsby uses materialism to achieve idealism id through his appearance. ... The American dream is not achieved in this story because of the one missing link, happiness. ... This book is a perfect example of what is needed to achieve the American dream, materialism and idealism....

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Affirmative action is a way we try to achieve equality. ... For this reason the current state of affirmative action is failing in its goal of achieving equality. ... Affirmative action can not attain its goals as long as discrimination is one of its main tools. ... A concept that focuses on making education equal so minorities won't need a boost on their application but will get accepted on their own merits is what our nations goal should be. ... Americas needs to develop a new way in achieving equality rather through ways that use wrongs to correct wrongs. ...

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But one thing I am sure of is that, yes, I look like my father, not so much physically, because he was almost six inches taller than me, but his gestures, his personality, his determination in reaching his goals, no matter how difficult or impossible this can be. ... I remember when my father told me, "You are a very intelligent child with a prodigious memory; you could achieve any goal you wanted." ... After all, my father always said I was a very intelligent person, and that I could achieve any goal that will draw me. ... He left on Thanksgiving Day, so that I am convinced that somewhere in...

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., hostility and spite were not ways of achieving his goals for equality. Instead of rashness and hostility he used love, patience, and understanding to achieve communication with those who persecuted him. ... Did he use harshness and violence to achieve this goal? ... He had a goal. A goal that cost so great a price, that one of the greatest of men, orators, and ministers is now gone. ...

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The purpose of goals and timetables in Affirmative Action Plans is to get employers to cast a wider net to find qualified applicants." ... Kennedy created a Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity in 1961 and issued Executive Order 10925, which used the term "affirmative action" to refer to measures designed to achieve non-discrimination. ... The desire to obtain a "diverse" student body was found to be a compelling goal in the educational context in Justice Powell's controlling opinion. ... Following that order, the California State Personnel Board issued its goal to have t...

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Although Women's suffrage was not achieved until 1920, which was the end of WWI, other rights such as the right to hold government positions, divorce, and the right to control their own property were granted to women. ... Without firing a shot, throwing a rock, or issuing a personal threat, women won for themselves rights that men have launched violent rebellions to achieve. ... It was a coalition of different people and organizations that worked together for a few intense years around the common goal of votes for women. ... She mobilized the coalition into high gear until success was a...

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His essential goal as president was to implement "a comprehensive, highly visible economic program" (p. 97). ... Reagan was effective in communicating his goals to the American people. ... Reagan's use of conservative ideology helped him to impose order and led him in achieving his goals and policies as president. ... Though there was some criticism, Reagan was able to accomplish goals, and most Americans felt he did the job well. ... Reagan's dream was to "become a world free of nuclear weapons," and to achieve this dream he knew he had to work with the Soviets. ...

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Although both Gatsby and Fitzgerald achieved financial success, the motivation for acquiring their fortune was their love for a woman who represented wealth. ... Though Gatsby has always wanted to be rich, his main goal is to try to convince Daisy that he is good enough for her. ... Both man and character achieve that success, but loose the girl" (Davis). ... As the novel progresses, Gatsby and Fitzgerald's dream of "the golden girl" disintegrates, revealing the corruption that wealth causes and the unworthiness of the goal. ... Gatsby works his whole life to achieve his &q...

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In fact, each group possesses a similar goal of placing their own personal influence on an allegedly "natural " system. This common goal that each group shared would become simple to achieve once each group found a way to use their ecosystems to their advantage even if that meant using strategies and methods of survival that differed from one another. ... Both groups used their ecosystems in very different ways to achieve a common goal of placing their own personal influence on an allegedly "natural " system and surviving in the process....

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This can be achieved with the aid numerous technologies including: Packet Sniffers: A packet sniffer is a program that can see all of the information passing over the network it is connected to. ... It creates individual goals, which discourage workers from working towards team goals and helping their co-workers to achieve these goals (Worklife Report, 2001). ...

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IT is an instrument that a developed or industrialized country would use to achieve either political, economic, and military power. ... Economic development can be achieved by a go it alone policy, as in the Soviet Union, and even China in isolation from the actual opposition to the rich countries. ... The world community have the same interest the "have" and the "have not" nations, that the process of development be achieved by both in co-operation rather than hostile confrontation. ... (Alpert, 28) The traditional goal of economic development had been to improve the standard of living. .....

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The struggle for the equality between races, especially blacks and whites with the removal of slavery, or the difficult attack on society by women to achieve equal ranks as men. ... Not a war with a simple goal, but a war to achieve equality, preserve a nation, and create a United States of America. ... For starters, people may have believed that the common cause for the goal of Manifest Destiny was a uniting belief. ... As nativists pushed immigrants from achieving basic rights that were guaranteed, immigrants pushed for their guaranteed rights. ... Through this war, the United States becam...

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Its goal was to end discrimination against any employee by the government and its contractors. ... A motivation by companies, aside from legal aspects, is the desire for integration with the intent of achieving racial and gender diversity. ... It is the goal of the government to have companies evaluate its employees, and make goals for numerical hiring. These goals should be based on the availability of qualified minorities and woman for each job. ... In the city of Birmingham, Alabama, consent decrees were entered that included goals for hiring blacks as firefighters and for promoting them. ...

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The Chesapeake's measure of success was financially based, and their goal was to establish a wealthy colony. ... The Chesapeake colonists' achieved their goals in the cultivation of tobacco. ... The New England colonists' measure of success was religiously based, and their goal was to establish a pious colony. ... The Puritans means of achieving their godly society was by establishing a "City upon a hill" as described by their leader John Winthrop (75). ... Their differing societies, goals, and the immigrants each region attracted contributed to their political and soc...

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This strategy paper seeks to provide an honest and objective analysis and recommendation of U.S. negotiation strategy options, their potential costs and benefits, and the most appropriate measures to achieve realistic goals for a nuclear deal with Iran. ... Similarly to the original containment strategy proposed by George Kennan in the early Cold War, it should incorporate the broader extend of U.S. means of power, concentrate on denying Iran not only military but also political gain in the region, and consider positive domestic political change in Tehran as a long-term goal. ... If a successf...

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