Practice 12 Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so,: much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
—Booker T. Washington
Assignment: Is the struggle endured to achieve success more important than the accomplishment itself? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
Examine the following excerpt from the show ip eigrp topology 10.2.2.0/24 command on router R1.Which answer can be verified as definitely true based on this output?() External data: Originating router is 10.1.1.1 AS number of route is 1 External protocol is OSPF, external metric is 64 Administrator tag is 0 (0x00000000)
Practice 9 Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
How valuable is history for our generation? On the surface this question is not as easy as it once might have been, for there is a widespread belief that history may no longer be relevant to modem life. We live, after all, in an age that appears very different from the world that came before us.
Adapted from Stephen Vaughn, History: Is It Relevant?
Assignment: Is knowledge of the past no longer useful for us today? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
Practice 11 Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
It is easy to make judgments about people and their actions when we do not know anything about their circumstances or what motivated them to take those actions. But we should look beyond a person’s actions. When people do things that we consider outrageous, inconsiderate, or harmful, we should try to understand why they acted as they did.
Assignment: Is it important to try to understand people’s motivations before judging their actions? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.
Practice 13 Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
—In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
—W.B, Prescott
Assignment: Which is a more powerful force of social change: power or patience? Write an essay in which you answer this question and support your position logically with examples from literature, the arts, history, politics, science and technology, current events, or your experience or observation.
Practice 10 Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
We don’t really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we make a mistake, until something fails to go as we had hoped. When everything is working well, with no problems or failures, what incentive do we have to try something new? We are only motivated to learn when we experience difficulties.
Adapted from Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel
Assignment: Does true learning only occur when we experience difficulties? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.
Practice 2 Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
Being truly human as a member of a society means seeing injustice and working to fix it. The human mind is endowed with not only the ability to perceive the world and act instinctively, but to visualize a better future and endeavor to realize it.
Assignment: What is one great injustice in the world, and how should it be addresed? Write an essay in which you answer this question and explain the reasons for your choice. You may draw inspiration and support from literature, the arts, history, politics, science and technology, current events, or your experience or observation.
Practice 5 Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
Nearly twenty years ago, President Ronald Reagan said to scientists and Nobel laureates, “You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday’s impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.” In the same year, author C. P. Snow expressed a more ambivalent view: “Technology...brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.” (NY Times)
Assignment: What is your opinion of the claim that the benefits of new technology always outweigh the costs? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
Examine the following excerpt from the show ip ospf database asbr -summary command on router R1 (RID 1.1.1.1). Which answer can be verified as definitely true based on this output?() LS Type: Summary Links (AS Boundary Router) Link State ID: 9.9.9.9 (AS Boundary Router address) Advertising Router: 3.3.3.3 LS Seq Number: 8000000D Checksum: 0xE43A Length: 28 Network Mask: /0 TOS: 0 Metric: 100
Practice 4 Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
A sense of happiness and fulfillment, not personal gain, is the best motivation and reward for one’s achievements. Expecting a reward of wealth or recognition for achieving a goal can lead to disappointment and frustration. If we want to be happy in what we do in life, we should not seek achievement for the sake of winning wealth and fame. The personal satisfaction of a job well done is its own reward.
Assignment: Are people motivated to achieve by personal satisfaction rather than by money or fame? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.