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Getting Rid Of Luck By David Friedberg

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The article about Raaja Nemani and Aaron Firestein discusses the story of their startup, BucketFeet, and how it came to be a multinational company. These two men had no idea how to run a manufacturing company, resulting in many unneccesary mistakes and risks that were taken. In the end, the fought through diversity and were able to be extremely successful. Along with this article, I found an additional podcast that discussed getting rid of luck. David Friedberg, the CEO of Climate Corporation, explains that in order to succeed, a business owner needs to eliminate the mindset of “luck,” instead being certain about decisions. Key Points • Starting a company is not easy and there is many unknowns o Example- Raaja and Aaron first order of shoes …show more content…

o This broaden their horizons to different demographics, enabling them to reach many more people  Also this ensures that they will always be in their target market because the fans of the artists will be the ones buying as well as visiting BucketFeet to keep up to date with the latest

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The term “melting pot” has been used since the early 1900s, and it means a place where people, ideas, theories, cultures, etc. are mixed together. Although this may seem like a harmless thing, the idea that one must give up part of their culture to obtain parts of a new one undermines the importance of cultures in one’s life. In chapter 14 “The Melting Pot” of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman shows the challenges and hardships that Hmong immigrants faced when immigrating to America to show the power that an environment has on a person’s connection to their culture, and the impact that people have on the culture of the society they are entering Fadamin provides examples of the action of Americans towards to Hmong people

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Blind ignorance has been a prevalent problem in society throughout all of history, and this problem is shared in the short stories ‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson and ‘The Elephant’ by Slawomir Mrozek. Blind ignorance when a person goes along with what they are told or what everyone else is doing, without questioning it, even when people are being harmed. In both stories the author’s are warning the readers of the consequences of allowing ignorance to continue. In ‘The Lottery’, the townspeople continue to murder someone through stoning every June 27 with very little questioning. Those that do question are quickly dismissed and assured that it is tradition and everyone else goes along with the lottery, so there is no reason to question it: “‘They do say,’ Mr. Adams said to Old Man Warner, who stood next to him, ‘that

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“The Lottery“, by Shirley Jackson shows a corrupt society that is struggling to break free from an outrageous ritual. It all begins with the drawing of names, after that has occurred the head of that household would pick a piece of paper out of the black box. Only one paper has a dot on it and whoever gets it is the winner. The town’s people are forced into believing that if the lottery does not occur, the corn crops will not grow. The oldest man in town Mr. Warner refuses to give up the tradition, but does not provide any valid reasons why.

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The article Its Hard to Make it in America: How the United States Stopped Being the Land of Opportunity written by Lane Kenworthy is about how equal opportunity varies in America. Although America is known for being the land of opportunity, a lot of other factors play a role in how successful a person can be. A lot of these factors can be contributed to economic and and social shifts that have been happening in the United States. Some possible solutions include: getting money into hands of low-income families, improving family relations, improving schools, employment, affirmative action. I believe that this article is primarily written for the average American who may not be aware of the issues regarding equal opportunity.

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If your best friend won the lottery would you stone them to death? This is a story about a yearly ritual in a town of about 300 villagers by Shirley Jackson where the villagers kill one resident in order to have an abundant crop. The story leaves readers feeling confused as why a family turned on one another and was basically hypocritical when it came to one of their own members being stoned to death. To begin with, Bill Hutchinson’s desire to hush his wife shows his lack of concern for her safety. The safety of his wife is no real concern because he knew that someone in the village may get stoned that day and if he didn’t want one of his own to lose their life they would have moved out of the village.

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I’m not surprised because everyone has to go along with the lottery because, Mr. Summers calls people names to see if they are there and if they are there they send the kids to get you to go alone with the lottery. I do think the townspeople are influenced by the actions around them because, they are watching other people do something which makes them want to do it and they join the group so they won’t get stones throw at them so I do think people are influenced. I have felt compelled to do something because other people are were doing it, because if see someone else doing it makes me want to do it to like If someone is doing a prank i would join the group because I don’t want to get a prank done on me so I join the group to do on the other

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The short story called “Life Isn’t Fair - Deal With It” written by Mike Myatt, is about his own opinion on why life isn’t fair, what the term “fair” is and if life itself should be fair or not be fair. Mike explained that the term “Fairness” is a individual idea and is not a natural characteristic of life. So, in this argument, Mike has told us about why everyone thinks the way they do when it comes to fairness. Some people have their own decisions and it is largely based on the decisions they congregate, and the attitude that they start to take. Some of these decisions that are being made by the people come with terrible and ghastly outcomes.

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