Myths
Once the Justice Department refused to approve the final proposed merger with Sprint, WorldCom came unraveled. It resulted mainly from the burst in the dot-com bubble and the resulting decline in the telecommunications industry.
There was a 52.8% decline in employment in the telecom industry from 2000 to 2002. WorldCom could no longer sustain what had been phenomenal revenue growth.
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Definition of American Dream
1. The American Dream is a national ethos of the United State in which freedom includes a promise of the possibility of prosperity and success.
2. by James Truslow Adams in 1931,
“Life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.
The Paradox of Happiness
It`s plain common sense-the more happiness you feel, the less unhappiness you experience. 더 많이 행복을 느낀다면 더 적게 불행을 경험한다는 것은 명백한 진리이다.
It`s plain common sense, but it`s not true. 그것은 명백한 진리이나 사실은 아니다.
Recent research reveals that happiness and unhappiness are not really flip sides
1. The Paradox of Happiness행복의 역설
The Paradox of Happiness
It`s plain common sense-the more happiness you feel, the less unhappiness you experience. 더 많이 행복을 느낀다면 더 적게 불행을 경험한다는 것은 명백한 진리이다.
It`s plain common sense, but it`s not true. 그것은 명백한 진리이나 사실은 아니다.
Recent research reveals that happi
단군신화는 우리나라 최초의 건국 신화이다. 원시시대부터 전해 내려왔으나, 가장 오래된 기록은 13세기 말 일연의 삼국유사에 전해내려 오고 있다.
The Dangun myth is Korea's first founding myth. The myth has been handed down since the primitive period, but the oldest record has been handed down to Ilyeon's Samguk Yusa at the end of the 13th cen
Mythology...
from Cambridge University.
They didnt know what to do with me either.
Like I say in my seminars, what creates an extraordinary life,
is an extraordinary mind-set.
Well, in addition to your many accomplishments,
you seem to be an authority on the Bible Code,
which is back in the headlines after Rabbi Aaron Rostenberg...
was found murdered in Jerusalem last week.
Rostenbergs loss is tr
myths that are true.
- So the authors here signing copies?
- Im the author.
- You are?
- Yeah. See, uh...
Theres a picture of me right there.
I think its a pretty good picture.
I thought that guy,
Benjamin Gates, found the treasure.
Well, yes, Ben did,
but I am the co-finder.
- Oh, Ive never heard of you.
- Oh!
Oh, my gosh. Are you Ben Gates?
- Yes. Yes, I am.
- Do you own a red Ferrari?
- Yes, I
found
the new messiah
And theyll hurt you
when they find theyre wrong
I remember when
this whole thing began
No talk of God then
We called you a man
And believe me
My admiration for you
hasnt died
But every word
you say today
Gets twisted round
some other way
And theyll hurt you
if they think youve lied
Nazareth, your famous son
should have stayed a great unknown
Like his father carving wood
hed
found his heir a long time ago.
lts for him today
to perpetuate in America
the Valentinian myth
of the ltalian lover.
That sort of Mr. Love-muscle
that for thirty years
thirty thousand American women
expect to be an ltalian.
Poor Brazzi!
Look what happened to him
when he went to
a big department store
to take shirt measurements
for advertising purposes.
But if American
women are for real,
these w
Myths & Texts (1960) and Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers Without End (1965). (This last was the beginning of a project that he was to continue working on until the late 1990s.) Much of Snyder’s poetry expresses experiences, environments, and insights involved with the work he has done for a living - logging, fire lookout, steam-freighter laboring, translation of texts, carpentry, and lif