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Passion

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Einstein Passion Einstein‘s passion for Physics and Math had encouraged him to apply for a
creates teaching position in Polytechnic Institute of Zurich so that he could further his
success interests in the subject. As he failed to get the job, Einstein spent his early years
working as a patent clerk. Nevertheless, he never stopped thinking about
Physics throughout the 7 years; he found time amidst his working hours to
materialize his ideas on Physics and published several revolutionizing papers,
including the finding of photoelectric effect and relativity theory.
―I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

Walt Passion helps Disney‘s original interest in animation and cartoon motivated him to work as a
Disney us overcome newspaper artist at Kansas City Film Ad Company, but his talent was
failure undermined as the chief editor though that, "he lacked imagination and had no
good ideas." Still, Disney acquired his first studio, Laugh-O-grams in order to
pursue his dream of making cartoon, but was soon forced to declare bankruptcy
as the studio became burdened with debt,. He kept plugging along, for he knew
animation was his true call. Eventually, Walt Disney found a recipe for success
that worked: Mickey Mouse. His business at Disney Brother‘s studio gradually
blossomed, and till today Disney rakes in billions from merchandise, movies
and theme parks around the world.

Altruism
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Bill Gates Help people A famous chairman of Microsoft Corporation, Bill Gates chose to renounce
in whatever from his position to dedicate his time to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
way I can. focusing on helping to improve health care and education for children around
Working to the world. Thanks to his generosity and philanthropist work, there are
benefit Impressive results in the areas of global health, poverty and development, and
others education, notably the decrease of malaria cases in several countries.

John Stuart It‘s ethical to As a consequentialist, Mill‘s principle was that an action is considered ―moral‖
Mill bring about if they tend to promot overall human happiness.
happiness to
people

Revenge vs Forgiveness
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Wuthering Revenge When Heathcliff cannot have the woman he loves, he turns his attention to
Heights brings revenging all the people who he thinks is the reason for his separation with
nothing but Catherine. However, even after he succeeds in taking ownership over what he
loss and sees as his and ruining Hindley‘s life, Heathcliff becomes even more dark and
pain. unhappy inside. While he truly believes that revenge will justify his existence,
he is actually making himself more miserable than Hindley ever did. Finally he
dies by the window when he never stops calling the name of Catherine.

Les Forgiveness After being released from the prison, Jean Valjean believes that he is forever a
Miserable brings marked man, rejected from the society. As such, he doesn‘t hesitate to steal
happiness from a kind bishop who has taken him in and given him food. Yet, when he is
caught and brought back to the bishop, the bishops chooses to forgive him as
he tells the policemen that he had given the silver to Valjean and even makes a
show of giving him the even more valuable silver candlesticks that he had
―forgotten‖. This liberating act of forgiveness shatters Valjean‘s old
vengeance–oriented world, forges a new one in its place and completely
transforms his life. Valjean‘s transformation is evident in his taking on a new
identity (thereby breaking his parole) and becoming the mayor of a town and a
businessman who employs a large number of people. But more than that, his
transformation is evident in the variety of ways he becomes a channel of the
grace and self-giving love he has received—albeit not without struggle.
Identity
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Abraham Origin Born into poverty, Abraham Lincoln had a difficult childhood where his family
Lincoln doesn‘t could only struggle to get by. He himself was never introduced to proper
define a man education in his early years, and was to try a variety of jobs for a living.
Nevertheless, having strong penchant towards learning, Lincoln made
extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge despite disapproval from his father
and his peers, who regarded his thirst for knowledge as little more than sloth, a
way of avoiding his farm chores. When he reached adulthood, Lincoln had
taught himself from books such subjects as English grammar, sufficient
mathematics to learn surveying, and enough law to enter the legal profession.
Eventually he became he became the 16th US president and the 1st from
Republican Party in 1860 and ―the greatest president in the history‖ of
America.

Frederick You do not Frederick Douglass is a central figure in United States and African American
Douglass have to hold history. He was born a slave, but escaped from slavery in 1838 and rose to
a title become a principal leader and spokesperson for the U.S. Abolition
imposed on movement. To spread his story and assist the abolitionist cause, Douglass
you by the wrote and published 3 autobiographies as well as authored a considerable body
society of letters, editorials, and speeches. He would eventually develop into a
towering figure for the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, and his legacy would be
claimed by a diverse span of groups, from liberals and integrationists to
conservatives to nationalists, within and without black America.

Money
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Gatsby Money Gatsby, aware of the difference in his socio-status and that of Daisy, even
doesn‘t bring resorts in bootlegging and other criminal activities in an attempt to impress
about Daisy with his tremendous wealth. However, as the novel progresses, it
happiness becomes evident that it is not the personality of Daisy that attracted Gatsby; he
is in fact infatuated with what she represents: the wealth she possesses, the
elegance of the class she belongs to, as well as the rampant materialism of her
lifestyle. His infatuation with her world leads him to be blinded by the need for
success, and eventually leads to his tragic end as Daisy reveals her shallowness
and disloyalty as she flees with Tom Buchanan, leaving Gatsby to be blamed
for the murder he did not commit.
Gone with Happiness is Scarlett is the richest in the neighborhood as she disregards social norm to
the wind about how become a business woman and to marry Rhett – a pariah who has all the money
you choose in the world. Yet she is never happy. In contrast, Melanie lives in a modest
to see the house, but her personality gives her the power to win people‘s heart. And she is
world always contented with what she already has, so she always has a cheerful,
happy perspective about life.

Prejudice
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Pride and First Elizabeth‘s pride makes her misjudge Darcy on the basis of a poor first
Prejudice impression impression, while Darcy‘s prejudice against Elizabeth‘s poor social standing
doesn‘t blinds him, for a time, to her many virtues. It was important, however, for the
define a two to realize their mistake. Darcy‘s transformation only starts when he
person commits himself to re-evaluate his actions after being turned down by
Elizabeth. Having responded to Elizabeth's criticism, Darcy is now determined
to display the "gentlemanlike manner" she accused him of lacking and
astonishes her with his kindness towards both her and her relations. As for
Elizabeth, receiving the letter in which Darcy explains the Wickham situation
and his interference in Bingley – Jane relationship, she spends a lot of time
berating herself for her actions. She let Wickham's pretty face and charming
manners make up for the fact that he behaved totally inappropriately, and she
let Darcy's bad manners prevents her from seeing his virtues.
To kill a You have to Scout (Jeanne Louise Finch) was originally scared of Boo Radley as she only
mocking see from knew him through the horror stories about his murky history she heard from
bird other‘s the neighborhood. Yet as the story proceeds, Scout gradually realize that Boo
perspective Radley was not as monstrous as she though he was but an intriguing figure that
before helped her brother mend his pants and gave her presents secretly. Only until
judging his/ Boo saved Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell that Scout finally accepted him as a
her character human being and a friend of her.
Likewise, Scout also thought that Mrs. Dubose was the meanest woman alive
just because the lady was very harsh on the children in the area. But after her
death, she started to realize the better side of Mrs. Dubose as she learned that
the lady was fighting against morphine addiction and that her usual animosity
was the side-effect of the agony she suffered. Scout finally admitted that Mrs.
Dubose was not as bad as she thought but a courageous woman who knew how
to overcome herself.

Authority
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To kill a People in Authority is not able to ensure justice all the time, especially if people in power
mocking power do not did not uphold high moral standard. Tom Robinson is unjustly accused of the
bird always crime he did not commit because the all-white jury refused to believe that he is
ensure innocent, despite the obvious evidences Atticus Finch pointed out. Racism and
justice bigotry make the words of a lower-class white woman like Ewell readily
accepted when set against those of a Negro whose character many of the
townspeople would previously have vouched for.
Hitler Any person After discovering a powerful talent for oratory, Adolf Hitler quickly rose in
can make power and became the chief leader of the Nazi Party. As a fanatic nationalist,
mistake, esp racist and anti-Semite, Hitler was determined to build a territorially larger and
if motivated ethnically purer fatherland for the German. He managed to convince the
by immoral society that the Jews was responsible for all Germany‘s domestic problem,
factor thereby facilitating the implementation and execution of the Holocaust, the
systematic extermination of six million European Jews and millions of other
non-Aryans. He also led the Nazi Party to invade Poland and other European
countries, thus igniting the deadly and costly World War II.

Moral Courage
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Atticus Sympathy Atticus Finch understands that, rather than being simply creatures of good or
Finch creatures of evil, most people have both good and bad qualities. He empathize
that not all people have ideal upbringing, that folks are doing the best they
could. As such, he manages to appreciate the good qualities and understand the
bad qualities by treating others with sympathy and trying to see life from their
perspective. He tries to teach this ultimate moral lesson to Jem and Scout to
show them that it is possible to live with conscience without losing hope or
becoming cynical. In this way, Atticus is able to admire Mrs. Dubose‘s courage
even while deploring her racism.
Speak up for Moral courage involves the strength to stick with your convictions and do the
your moral right thing, even when the whole world criticizes and torments you for it. As
belief Atticus believes that racism, unethical as it is, is still widely upheld in the
community he lives in, he understands that no matter what he does, he would
not be able to save Tom Robinson from the death sentence. Nevertheless, he
chooses to take on the fight as he believes the cause to be honorable. Atticus‘s
decision to represent Tom Robinson brought a slew of insults and threats to
him and his family. But he was willing to bear the onslaught with head held
high. When Scout asked him why he continued to press on, Atticus answered:
―Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason
for us not to try to win.‖
The Help Do what is The law of Mississippi forbade any exchange of information between the black
right even if and the white, yet Eugenia ―Skeeter‖ chooses to record down the feelings of
you are to the black maids in her community, simply because she wants the world to hear
resist the voice never before heard. In doing so, she is rejected by her own
authority community and even loses her beau as her friends abhor the cause she is
+ working for. Still, Skeeter, together with Abileen and Minny press on; they
Individuality finally publish the book and let the world know what it feels like to be a black
maid.

Education
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Frederick Knowledge Douglass started to realize that knowledge must be the path to his freedom as
Douglass is the key to his master, Hugh Auld, forbade his wife to teach Douglass how to read,
freedom reasoning that education ruined skilled slaves. Having been enlightened by the
few lessons he had, Douglass quickly understood how important education was
and how black men were easily enslaved as they were kept in the dark. As a
result, Douglass was determined to self-study and to read as much as he could.
Soon after, as he was able to read newspaper and several inspiring books, he
started questioning why he was to be a slave for life and eventually aspired to
set him free. Finally, when opportunity came, Frederick Douglass fled away
from his owner to head north, thereby starting his new journey as the
enthusiastic activist against slavery and the chief spokesperson for the U.S.
Abolition movement in the future.
Judge John Taylor and Atticus Finch are both respected characters in town,
To kill a The erudite thanks to their intellect. Both are well educated and view racism with great
mocking view aversion, mainly because they value justice and know right from wrong. While
bird problems Atticus Finch stands out as a hero who defenses the accused Tom Robinson
with more with great passion and dignity, John Taylor tries to help Tom by appointing
wisdom Atticus to the case instead of Maxwell Green, the new, untried lawyer who
usually received court appointed cases. Judge Taylor knew that Atticus was the
only man who would have a chance at acquitting Tom, or at least would be
able to keep the jury thinking for more than a few minutes.
In contrast, the all-white jury consisted of mainly farmers who are more
provincial and narrow-minded.

Violence
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Martin Non-violence An advocate of nonviolent resistance, Martin Luther King, Jr. believed that
Luther nonviolence was ‗‗the only morally and practically sound method open to
King oppressed people in their struggle for freedom‘‘. During African American
Civil Rights Movement, King encouraged nonviolent tactics such as bus
boycotts, freedom rides, sit-ins and mass demonstrations. Eventually the
movement succeeded in bringing about legislative change, making separate
seats, drinking fountains, and schools for African Americans , and obtaining
Violence as full Voting Rights.
Abraham the only As Lincoln became the president of America, 7 states that were against the
Lincoln choice anti-slavery movement declared their secession and formed their own separate
republic called the Confederacy. However, Lincoln believed that the existence
of the United States was crucial to the quotient of good in the world and thus
rejected the existence of the Confereracy and continued the abolish slavery. In
response to Lincoln‘s movement, the Southerners attacked Fort Sumter,
thereby igniting the deadly Civil War. Lincoln had no choice but to use force to
fight against the Confederacy and protect peace for the United States. After
four years of bloody combat that left over 600,000 soldiers dead and destroyed
much of the South's infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed, slavery was
abolished, and the difficult Reconstruction process of restoring national unity
and guaranteeing rights to the freed slaves began. The war resolved two
fundamental questions left unresolved by the revolution: whether the United
States was to be a dissolvable confederation of sovereign states or an
indivisible nation with a sovereign national government; and whether this
nation, born of a declaration that all men were created with an equal right to
liberty, would continue to exist as the largest slaveholding country in the
world.

Technology
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Cloning Clone, one of the most astonishing and challenging biomedical techniques, is
thought to be quite promising in gene savings. However, human cloning s is
not only dangerous technically but also perilous to the morality and ethics, thus
many ethicists, religious, political leaders, and others call for to banning human
cloning for reproductive purposes and even any purpose. Nevertheless, some
scientists, in spite of moral and ethical standards, insists on doing experiments
on cloning humans stealthily.
The clone of human beings has been criticized by many scientists, politicians,
and moralists, and even banned by some governments, for it is not only
dangerous technically, but most importantly, is in defiance of our social
morality. If the clone of human beings is carried out, our current moral systems
may be overturned and thus the society would be in disorder.
Internet Recently, the Philippines was ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as
Typhoon Yolanda),unofficially dubbed as the strongest recorded tropical
cyclone to hit land, with wind speeds up to 195 miles per hour (Hurricane
Katrina was measured at 175 miles per hour). It has left some parts of the
country in shambles, with more than 10,000 people believed to be dead in
Tacloban alone, one of the cities that received the brunt of the storm.
Google is providing a relief grant to non-government organizations working on
the ground – they‘ve also launched a landing page with constantly updating
resources for Haiyan, including Person Finder, a tool that is currently hosting
more than 40,000 records of missing people. Instant messaging service Viber –
which has a wide user base in the Philippines – has launched a temporary
service that allows Filipino users to call regular (non Viber) numbers outside of
the Philippines for free, making it easier for citizens to touch base with their
loved ones abroad.
Rebecca Ann Sedwick, a 12-year-old student from Miami was reported to
commit suicide in September this year after being the target of hostile
cyberbullying. She climbed a platform at an abandoned cement plant near her
home in the Central Florida city of Lakeland and leaped to the ground. In
jumping, Rebecca became one of the youngest members of a growing list of
children and teenagers apparently driven to suicide, at least in part, after being
maligned, threatened and taunted online, mostly through a new collection of
texting and photo-sharing cellphone applications. For more than a year,
Rebecca, was cyberbullied by a coterie of 15 middle-school children who sent
her hostile messages and urged her to kill herself. Her suicide raises new
questions about the proliferation and popularity of these applications and Web
sites among children and the ability of parents to keep up with their children‘s
online relationships.
Research Power comes In 2004, Hwang Woo-suk, a disgraced cloning expert from South Korea who
fraud with had claimed that his team had created the world‘s first cloned human embryos
responsibility and had extracted stem cells from them. In another paper published in Science
a year later, Dr. Hwang‘s team said it had created human embryonic stem cells
genetically matched to specific patients. That raised hopes of making
replacement tissue to repair damaged organs or to treat diseases like
Alzheimer‘s or Parkinson‘s.

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