WRT 104 December 7, 2010 To Greedy to Give to the Needy (Singer Analysis) Americans are greedy when it comes to spending/ giving money away to strangers other than themselves or family members. Singer proposed a little solution to world poverty by trying to make us feel bad and guilty. Singer addresses the wealthy, upper-class citizens about how they spend their money on useless material goods when they should be more considerate of the unfortunate people. He gives examples to persuade the reader
This Short Story The Greedy Dog is quite interesting to all the people. Enjoyreading this story. Once there lived a dog. He was very greedy. There were many times that he had to pay for his greed. Each time the dog promised himself, “I have learnt my lesson. Now I will never be greedy again.” But he soon forgot his promises and was as greedy as ever. One afternoon, the dog was terribly hungry. He decided to go look for something to eat. Just outside his house, there was a bridge. “I will go
and then they grew tired. It was time to seek rest. Now the priest had a few biscuits in his bag, and the companion he had picked had a couple of small loaves.‘Lets eat your loaves first,’ says the priest, ‘and afterwards we’ll take to the biscuits, too.’ ‘Agreed!’ replies the stranger. ‘We’ll eat my loaves, and keep your biscuits for afterwards.’ Well, they ate away at the loaves; each of them ate his fill, but the loaves got no smaller and looked never ending. The priest grew envious ‘Come,’ thinks
up to me and asked me for the notes, she had missed the day before. As I handed them to her, she said "thanks" and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I wanted to tell her. I wanted her to know that I don’t want to be just friends. I love her, but I'm just too shy. And I don't know why... 11th Grade: The phone rang; it was her on the other end. She was in tears, mumbling on and about how her love had broken her heart. She asked me to come over because she didn’t want to be alone, so I did. As I sat next
Once upon a time live a happy couple whose dedicate their life to oceans. Although they live the modest of love but they are satisfied with their live. There always a silver lighting behind every dark cloud. One day, the fisherman’s line hook monstrous fish “Eah, I finally able to land you, mm with fish this heavy I can buy rice for two three days” “Hey, mister what are you doing, please let me go, I will grant all your wishes” The soft side of the fisherman touched
I was munching on my bread and my cheese cake and thinking about not leaving a piece for my sister and at the same time playing this game on Encarta Kids named “Really Tall Things”. It's all about putting these famous buildings in their right heights. As I was finishing the game, a thought struck my mind. It was like, “What about the World Trade Center?” When the news hit my world that the WTC had crashed, I was still a child. A child with no awareness or whatsoever about
Name: Zoe Yee Title: : Greedy “Look at all that delicious food along the table!” Billy exclaimed to Bella. “The Japanese food looks really heavenly! What are you waiting for? Let’s put our things down and go get our empty stomachs some food!” Bella replied in excitement. Both of them quickly placed their belongings on the seats. As Bella was small sized, getting to the food was an easy task. She squeezed
TOO FAR The booming sounds of the crowded stadium started to overwhelm me, the intense flash of the spotlight and the loud echo of the commentator shouting the sum of money to be awarded to the winner. As the numbers were spoken, my hands gripped the handle bar firmly and an awkward twist of pain in my stomach arose as I looked at the drop in front of me. My mind kept flickering between the two images, but I was willing to do anything to win first prize and get a sponsorship. I focused on what
The greedy algorithm for solving the US currency problem is exactly what we do in real life, which is to always use the greatest value coins for the existing amount and to use as many of those coins as possible without exceeding the existing amount. After deducting this sum from the existing amount, we use the remainder as the new existing amount and repeat the process. We apply the best solution for the current step without regard for the optimal solution. In the case of US currency, the greedy algorithm
One of my favorite investment philosophies comes from a statement made by the great Warren Buffett that states “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful”. Without thinking, this may sound like some old man trying to be a great philosopher saying something that has no real meaning to it. But actually it is the exact opposite. Although sounding very elementary, I quickly realized that this statement is deeper than what many human beings can comprehend without a second