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Tanzi,
You really need both. Being optimistic and having a good attitude will go a long way but at the end of the day the work has to get done. Having the courage to take ownership of work and bring it to full completion is priceless in a world where laziness and cowardice reign supreme.

My persuasive essay is about leadership in the movie Remember the Titans. It answers the question: Who is a better leader? Coach Boone or Coach Yoast? I’m having some major problems with naming it.

This is my essay:
"Win or lose… We gonna walk out of this stadium tonight with our
heads held high. Do your best. That’s all anybody can ask for."

Leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal. In the movie Remember the Titans, based on a true story, Alexandria’s schools are integrating and three high schools are brought together as one. An African-American replaces a white coach as the head football coach and throughout the movie, their leadership skills and character are challenged as they both face obstacles. Previously, Coach Boone was fired from his head coach position, with the school board claiming that “it was not ready for a black head coach.” Three years later, he is offered the head coach position and Coach Yoast becomes an assistant coach, initially protesting because he does not want to work under a black coach. Although both coaches are great leaders and have played a major role in the Titans’ success, Coach Boone displays better leadership. He has the ability to bring out the best in people and he never gives up, facing racism with a strong head-on attitude. He always treats everybody fairly, demanding the best from everybody, regardless of their skin colour.

The strongest leaders of the world all have the ability to bring out the best in people. Coach Boone is a better leader, because of his strong persistence in making everybody on the team respect each other and coaxing their best qualities out of them. Without this important quality, the Titans would not have played like a team. Instead, they would have only looked out for themselves, like the way Julius Campbell acts like when he first starts out in football camp. At football camp, Gerry Bertier and Julius Campbell become best friends (even calling each other blood brothers when Julius visits Gerry in the hospital) and they become more open-minded, realizing that nothing could separate blacks and whites. Coach Boone constantly demands perfection, continually raising the Titans’ standards. He is very harsh, forcing his players to get past the strong mental barriers they have implanted in their heads with demanding warm-ups and practices. This is shown in football camp when the whistle is blown and Coach Boone asks, "What is pain?" and the football players respond with French bread. During one of the football games, he gives Ronnie ‘Sunshine’ Bass a speech, in which he says that his siblings needed him when his parents died and the team needs Sunshine tonight to make the pitch. Encouraged, Sunshine wins the game for the Titans. While bringing out the best in his players, he teaches the team to never give up and to fight for what you believe in.

A characteristic of a great leader is treating everybody fairly. When Coach Yoast takes aside Petey Jones and gives him a patronizing talk that encourages him to play better, Coach Boone says that although he is a mean cuss, he’s the same mean cuss to everybody. "You ain’t doin’ these boys a favor by patronizing them. You crippling them; you crippling them for life," he says to Coach Yoast and that could not be more true. The world and the people in it are not there to satisfy the role of Patronizing Encourager. They have to learn that there is no limit and that only they (nobody else) can make their dream attainable and fulfill all their goals. Coach Boone does not coddle any of his football players and teaches them how to fend for themselves and to be tough. An example of Coach Boone treating everybody the same and not giving any preferential behavior to the black football players (like Gerry Bertier initially thinks) is when Petey is playing badly in the first Titans game. Coach Boone yells at him, "You’re killing me, Petey! You’re killing me!" Another good example is the harsh football camp that Coach Boone runs to eliminate football players. There is no difference in the way he treats people of different race. When Blue Stanton says he’s tired and they need a water break, Boone says that they’ll do up-downs until Blue isn’t tired or thirsty. People might say that Coach Boone is too harsh and that treating everybody fairly does not make or break a leader. However, Boone believes that the only way to improve someone is to harden him or her and that this constructive criticism given by Coach Yoast only weakens them, providing them little defense in the real world. Coach Boone displays strong leadership and strong leadership does not crumble under pressure. Weak leadership, however, does. To be a strong leader, you must not give preferential treatment or inflict bias on anybody. Coach Boone, unlike Coach Yoast, does not see skin colour like the other coaches do; he only sees football players and skin colour does not come into his decision to
Sorry, the essay got cut off. It’s too long. =.= But you should get the basic gist of it.

More than one way to win
More Than One Way to be Winner
Leading the Way
Be a Winner
How to be a Winner

Are they just an impediment in life? Would growing cold and unfeeling truly be the Path To Success? After all, growing cold would prevent you from feeling the pain of unrequited love, depression, etc.

Are they essential? Would growing cold and unfeeling shut yourself out from people who can help? Emotions can also sometimes act as a warning to certain dangers.

Tell of your opinions, and, if it’s not too personal, an experience that can justify your opinion.
God, someonecanbme is making me sound like I’m a heretic…can I not just ask a question out of curiosity?

I’m getting some very good answers here…and, to no surprise of mine, no one’s seemed to think that it’s an impediment as of yet.

This is where the difference between living and being alive comes in. The difference between machine and human is emotion. Emotions give us the ability to reason, because in reasoning, we use logic, which we developed from experience–experiences from which we learned based on how they made us feel. If a person reasons that they don’t need emotions, they are doing so because of past experiences involving pain, something which alerts the brain to be cautious in similar situations or avoid such situations again if at all possibile. It’s an animalistic instinct.

Therefore even if a person decided to become "cold and unfeeling," any decisions thereafter would be based on previous experiences…I don’t really believe there is any way to take your emotions away without physically altering the brain, because it has developed to reason the way it has because of emotions in the past. It doesn’t seem like there is any way to erase that…

So Im just about to make my big college decisions and I have pondered so many different thoughts and ideas and after all of it I still have this same view… I see myself in a big business office, with my own desk, and my own computer and just having that nice, well-paying, business career. But with so many different Major choices and directions to choose, I feel like i’m lost on my Path To Success. If you have any insight please help me.

Hey buddy as long as you believe in yourself, don’t make any body lose this confident. you’re making a great job there, as long as you know what you want and what are your goals you will reach it

keep it up dude eh?

Good luck

LIke I was going to say the US economy and politics? But are there some otherS?

factors are answers for answers to questions i think i mean u should freaking know this i mean cmon

Yesterday i saw a lot of interviews given to this man, and I got tired and bored of how reporters tried to put worths in his mouth or tried to make him look evil and corrupt, and this guys shut their mouths with smart and educated and fair responses.

Why won’t the US media stop attacking someone whos only goal is to make his country non US dependant and put it on the path of success and development?

<<with smart and educated and fair responses>>

You must have been watching somebody else.

Like most of the kids who get into Princeton, Harvard and Yale, do you think they will be successful in life and become future millionaires?

Have you ever known a person who went to an Ivy but ended up having a bad life?

Yep, it’s totally possible to go to an Ivy and not have a good life. Walk around Harvard Square, and you can meet some of the unluckier graduates – assuming they stay focused long enough to have a conversation.

Ivies give you a lot of tools to succeed – good professors, research opportunities, professional connections – but they don’t guarantee success. You have to take those tools and make them work for you.

Here are the major steps you have to take:

1. Find what to sell. Research your audience or your market.
2. Get a place to sell it. If traditional business, you need to get a shop or an establishment. For online business, you need to get a website (see source below to start a website that cost almost nothing).
3. Marketing. Some easy ways includes distributing business cards, having a website, word of mouth, pay-per-click marketing etc.

Do something today and you will be closer to your success.

Good luck.

The desire of my heart is to work with a Christian humanitarian organization. I have a business degree and have been searching out for perfect jobs but my interests have completely changed and I want to work for a humanitarian organization. I am thankful for everything I have but want to do more.

Check out the Seventh-day Adventist Mission service through ADRA. Oakwood University in Hunstville Alabama have a group of Missionaires called NAPS.

Exodus 20:8-11

Specifically, it’s a fast food restaurant serving barbecue catering to class A, B and upper C income brackets. I’m wondering what factors I need to consider in choosing a location.

I have included a few websites below. Here are a couple key factors besides having enough money to start with, a strong business plan, etc. I would add location, parking, accessibility, people, and a great product properly priced for your market. I wish you the best. Good luck