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Patriotism is an attribute that can be seen as both good and bad. It unifies the people of a nation and helps them support each other. The bad part about it is how commonly it is used without understanding the meaning, or how it is used in replacement for nationalism. I will be focusing on the negative side of patriotism, specifically how it is used as a replacement for nationalism. The idea of patriotism is good. Being proud of where you were born, its culture, and what it represents. The bad side is stated quite well by Guy De Maupassant- “Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.” This rings true. Many of the common Americans that claim to be patriotic do so in a fanatically dedicated way. They claim they are for their country and support the decisions the government makes. They call that patriotism. In truth that is not patriotism, it is more nationalistic then patriotic. They could also believe that it is the American way to free the other countries of their tyrannical rule. To lead them to a proper government style. This idea is ethnocentric. Just because America has succeeded with democracy does not mean it is the best. There are many countries led by monarchy that do just as well as America does. Just because one country is strong does not mean it is superior to the weaker countries. The idea of patriotism, pride and love for one’s country, is also commonly used for acts of terrorism. That being said, as was discussed previously, terrorism and patriotic acts are seen from different viewpoints, usually opposing, and end up equaling themselves. An act of patriotism could be attacking an enemy country in response to an act of terror they did. This act itself is terrorism, because the attacking ‘patriots’ are an entire group of people for the actions of a small section. The other people, or even those of the section, see it as an act of terrorism, and had seen their act as patriotic. The fine points of terrorism versus patriotism/nationalism have already been discussed. “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” This statement by Samuel Johnson rings true even today. Many people use patriotism or misunderstood patriotism to commit crimes. A hate crime can be done in the name of patriotism. Hitler’s rise was done for the German people, and his obscure dedication led him to kill thousands of people. The whole reason for stating all of those examples is to point out two flaws. Misunderstood patriotism and blind patriotism, which blend into each other. Misunderstanding patriotism as nationalism I would describe as following the word of one’s county’s government over the ideals of the country. An example would be Affirmative Action. The law forces a minority line be met. This forces employers to see people as those minorities, not as fellow Americans. This law goes against the ideal of America, a land where everyone is equal, because of the bond of each of us being an immigrant in a way. We all came from somewhere else to here, with a small percent being from a bloodline traceable to living here before the pilgrims. Blind patriotism is more of a misunderstood patriotism that is nationalism. Blind patriots would follow the word of the government, taking it all at face value. This is more of a devotion to the nation and not the country, to the government and its laws over the ideal of the country. This type of blind follower is not good for the health of the nation. One who never questions never learns. The people that follow this type of patriotism, more accurately nationalism are the ones who do something because the government says its right or told them to. This is strongly against the way America works as a land of the people. If one doesn’t feel that what the government is doing, the person should speak against it. The point of democracy is for the ‘people’ to control the nation. The idea of actually going against what the government does is not a new one and has been occurring for ages. The sad part is the blind patriots usually outnumber the ones who would question or help the nation grow. This causes the questioners to stay quiet, fearing being shunned by their fellows or from government ramifications. The latter especially now because the government can invade privacy all they want in America and claim they suspect the person of terrorism thanks to the Patriot Act. If one wants to be patriotic, one must understand what patriotism is. False patriots, ones who blindly follow or believe their country to be above all others, make the country look bad. If the government tells one to kill someone in his or her family and does not give a just cause, that person wouldn’t. Even if the person murdered someone, he or she would not kill the family member. If the government says to kill someone you don’t even know, odds are the person would, because people blindly follow a figure of authority. If one wants to be patriotic, one must follow the ideals of the country, not the government that skews them, and think for one’s self of what should be done for the country and then do it. To contact the author for permission to reproduce or to discuss this article send email to kumoriken at gmail dot com.

The Private Label Route to Success by Stuart Reid There is only ONE way to make money online - someone else has to give it to you. No matter what you do to get someone to give it to you, that’s the truth - and it’s often overlooked. Money doesn’t magically appear out of thin air! To get someone to give you money you have to sell them something. Again, a basic truth but often obsucred by some of the `hot! new!` programs out there. This is where the variety comes in. You can sell products. You can sell services. You can sell dreams… The most common form of all this cash generation is selling products, and for the most profitable and pain-free business this will be online, digital products. Such as eBooks or Software. To have a product to sell you have to own the rights to it. If you create the product yourself you automatically hold full copyright of it. This is the best kind of product to have, since it will be unique and you will have total control. If you don’t have the time to do this yourself, you can pay someone to do it for you - but that will cost money. Another form of rights is Resell Rights or Master Resell Rights. The latter means you can sell the former, i.e. you can sell on the ability to sell rights. These products are another way to make money since each sale nets you 100% of the proceeds - and often the product will come with a ready-made sales website you can use. You lose out on exclusivity, but gain on convenience. The final form of rights you can own - and in my opinion the best balance between uniquness, control, and profit potential - are Private Label Rights. –> .netpreneurnow.com/plr Private Label Rights give you a completely written and designed product but also give you full copyright to that product as well. That means you can credit it to yourself, i.e. “(C) 2006 Your Name” , and you can add to, edit, cut up, repackage that product too. You can turn it into an e-course, or you can release a “taster” edition to drive up interest. You can basically do whatever you want. You can even re-name the product to ensure there are not multiple marketers selling the same thing. You can sell any new product you create out of the `source` or just sell the basic product as it comes to you (a readily compiled product is often provided). The `source` is usually something you can easily change such as a Microsoft Word document. You can even sell Resell Rights, Master Resell Rights and/or Private Label Rights yourself! But there’s more you can do… –> .netpreneurnow.com/plr How to increase the benefit of Private Label Rights: Most people don’t use Private Label Rights to their advantage. They will usually just sell the product as is - or if they have a little more ability add some links back to their site into the package. You can do a lot more than this. First, change the products name. You won’t be the only one selling “99 Ways To Top Google” but you might be the only one selling “Ranking First In Google”. Secondly, add your name, and your links, to the product. Don’t just add a resource box in there, read the document and add links where appropriate. For example, in a section discussing autoresponders add an affiliate link to such a service. Edit the sales website to reflect the new product name and perhaps modify the content slightly. Even better, create your own site, but that may be more trouble than it’s worth. If you can go even further - add audio and video! You don’t need much equipment to do this. A webcam and microphone are sufficient, and there are plenty of free or low-cost products and services to do it for you. –> .netpreneurnow.com/plr You don’t even have to sell a downloadable product. You can put it on CD or print it out as a physical product. There are services online who will do this AND send the product to your customers, or you can order a number of packages in advance. This kind of product has a greater `perceived` value, even though it’s exactly the same information. You can also turn the product into an on-line membership site or even a free site, with each chapter or sub-chapter on a web-page of it’s own. This way you can add Google Adsense ads or similiar and generate a passive income. You’ll have information-rich webpages, the kind search engines love. Finally get creative in how you sell the product. You don’t have to give away resell rights for example. Why not add an affiliate program? Unless of course you deliberately *want* the program to spread far and wide - because of the links you’ve embedded. In that case, sell it cheap or give it away. Think ahead! Tip: Sometimes giving resale-rights will help a product spread further than simply giving it away… Private Label Rights are a new and exciting area of Internet Marketing that most people are not making the best use of. There are now packages and membership sites giving away these products such as .netpreneurnow.com/infogoround.html You can create an entire site around these information products and by making sure each one points back at your main store, where you list the others, you can build a profitable and vibrant business. You can even take parts of the products to release as an article, linking back to your site, or even give away a free book or cut-down book… (c)2006 Stuart Reid =================================================================== Stuart Reid is webmaster of Netpreneur Now. For a quick and easy start with Private Label Rights including a massive package you get to work on immediately (35 products included!) just visit: .netpreneurnow.com/plr

How does article marketing work? Here is a guided tour on the step-by-step process of article marketing that will guide you on your way to achieving the kind of articles needed for your kind of business. To start with, you need to premium a quality, informative and 300 minimum word articles about a certain topic related to your business. For example, if your business is about family living, you can write an article that delves on how to spend more quality time with families. Never write about something that is not even closely related to your niche. After you have the content written, you can now include a resource box at the end of the article. The resource box is basically a brief summary about you, your business and with a link that goes right to your website. Putting a link to your site in the resource box would is making it possible for many people who would get to read your article. This could essentially result to a large amount of new traffic to your site. Then it is time to submit your articles to as many article directories you can find. Over the Internet, you can find various article directory sites. There are paid and free sites. If you are on a budget, you may opt for the free submissions being offered. But if you have money set aside for your article marketing, paying for the submission sites is also a wise move. Whenever somebody reads your article displayed on directories, the link that leads to your site is prominent enough for the readers to be able to check them out once they find your article interesting. This way, there is a big probability of you gaining more customers whenever find what they are looking for in your site. There is also a chance that your article would get picked up by a printed publication, and the readership of the same would get to know the products or services which your business offers. You should know that article directories are being displayed on various websites. They are seen by millions of people all over the world. This apparent visibility also makes it easier for search engines to index them. The technique behind article marketing is back linking. Back links are links to your websites that you have somehow displayed on sites with higher page ranks. To put it simply, your site is basically sharing instant success with the sites you are linking to. Getting indeed by search engines can be a long and trying process. Oftentimes, the result takes days or months before being acknowledged. There are even cases where, after waiting for a long time, the result you will be getting is not the one you expected. This is the main reason why Internet marketers have resorted to back linking. You cannot get this instant online recognition in the shortest of time and without too much effort anywhere else. You can always hire a ghostwriter to write your articles for you if you cannot write your own articles or do not have the time for them. The price rate for writing articles is from 3 to 10 dollars. With all the advantages being presented by article writing, there is no doubt why this has become one of the most often used Internet marketing strategy. Try to do some article marketing for your site and see the positive results it will bring to your site. About the Author- for more free resources visit here:- .ezines-success.com .articlemarketing.infozabout.com

Writing a thesis is not much different than writing other academic papers and much of the advice that appears elsewhere in this site will be relevant to the thesis writer. Still there are some major differences between writing a thesis and writing a course paper. A thesis paper is a research report. It concerns a problem or series of problems in your area of research and it should explain what was known about it previously, what you did towards solving it, what you think your results mean, and where or how further evolution in the field can be made. Remember that a thesis is not an answer to an assignment question. Cause the reader of an assignment is usually the one who has set it. S/he already knows the answer (or one of the answers), not to mention the background, the literature, the assumptions and theories and the strengths and weaknesses of them. The readers of a thesis do not know what the “answer” is. If the thesis is for a PhD, the university wants that your thesis make an original contribution to human knowledge. Your research must discover something until now unknown. In the beginning writing a thesis seems a long and complicated task and it is indeed a gruesome task to write a 30000 words original document. Fortunately, it may seem less daunting once you have a couple of chapters done. And it is highly possible that towards the end, you will even find yourself enjoying it—an enjoyment based on satisfaction in the achievement, pleasure in the improvement in your technical writing, and of course the approaching end. In thesis writing, choosing a topic is often the most difficult part of the writing process. Here are some points to consider when developing a topic for your thesis • Chose a topic that has interested you throughout your graduate or undergraduate career • Think about the top three issues you want to study and then turn them into questions • Review papers you have written for classes, looking for a pattern of interest • Look at class notes; professors may have pointed out potential research topics or commented on unanswered questions in the field • Talk with professors or advisors about possible topics • Replicate somebody else’s study • Conduct research on a broad topic to discover gaps in the literature • Get feedback on a potential topic from your advisor; your topic may not interest others in the field as much as it interests you • Also research to discover why your topic for thesis papers has not been studied before Formatting is an important factor of your thesis writing and it plays a major role in its success. The text of the whole thesis must be clear and is managed. Good grammar and thoughtful writing will make the thesis easier to read. Scientific writing has to be a little formal—more formal than this text. Native English speakers should remember that scientific English is an international language. Slang and informal writing will be harder for a non-native speaker to understand. Jenny Stewart is a PhD in Human Relation. She is an educational consultant and utilizing her skills in helping the students to accomplish there education successfully. She is changing the student’s difficulties into ease since many years by helping them with her skills and knowledge to get there projects done efficiently.

There are two key components that get thousands of page views and tons of traffic from your articles. Articles using these little known tactics will increase page views and traffic by 10 fold versus those that neglect these techniques. The first key factor in generating traffic from your articles is the title. Most article writers will slap any old title on the article and send it off. This is a huge mistake, The title is the advertising for your article. In most article directories, only the title is shown to attract readers. Your title has to grab them by the ears and scream out, ‘READ ME!.’ To develop a title that attracts tons of traffic from your articles, do some research. Determine what people are searching for (related to your article). Then include those terms in your title. Of course, in a well crafted article, you should also use these terms several times within your article and add them to your listing of keywords. This will bring in readers from the article directory. But there is another way that readers might be attracted to your article and wind up as traffic to your website. That is through listings in search engines. On some articles that I have written, my article shows in 7 of the top ten positions on the first page of Google. This can bring you many times the traffic from your articles that you can get through the article directory alone. In most cases, search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN will include your article description below the title. To entice these readers, you need a great description. Your title is the bait that will cause them to nibble, but a good description will reel them in and land them in your boat (a fishing reference). In other words, the title will get the attention of the reader, and the article description will cause the reader to click on the link and read the article. A good description begins by asking a question, and then lets the reader know that they can find the answer by reading your article. Of course, your article has to answer the question, so make sure the question you ask is relevant. If you want to bring in more traffic from your articles, use these two key components watch your article traffic explode. Do you want to learn more about how to make money writing articles? Get all the details on article money makers! Free ebook - Make Money Every Day! Make Money Writing

Freelance writers exist in a global society. Many work for clients all over the world. As long as you have an internet connection and a cell phone, you’re good to go. This globalization has changed the way many freelance writers do business. In particular, it’s change the way many get paid. In the past, many freelance writers received the bulk of their business from referrals. Hence, there was no need to ask for, and/or expect payment up front. However, in a global economy, you could be taking a huge risk if you don’t at least ask for partial payment up front. Freelance Writers: How to Get Paid Before You Start a Project Many freelance writers feel funny about asking for partial payment up front. They tend to be very laid back about it because they’re more concerned about landing that next writing job. But, if you don’t take a firm stance with your billing and payment policies, you could be setting yourself up for failure. If the above is how you run your freelance writing business, it’s easy to change. How? Simply make getting a partial payment up front a “company policy”

Information sells well

You may not have thought about it, but newspapers provide the best examples of clear, concise, dense (factual) writing you can find anywhere. Otherwise people wouldn’t read them. Journalists not only write superbly well, they do so extremely rapidly. When a news event occurs, they don’t have the luxury of spending several days to put together their text. At best, they have a few hours. Learning how journalists work their “daily miracles” can help you write better at your much more leisurely pace. Here is an article from an international newspaper. Britain yesterday has once again called for the United Nations to mount a peacekeeping operation in the violence-torn Darfur region of Sudan in response to increasing complaints from aid agencies on site that international efforts to help Darfur’s desperate, displaced population are woefully inadequate. At the same time, Her Majesty’s Government is joining with other European Union countries to threaten sanctions against Sudan unless its government energetically moves to end the “ethnic cleansing” against black villagers in Darfur by the mainly Arab Janjawid militias. UN officials report that the conflict has already claimed from 30,000

How would you handle communication if your business or practice got into a crisis situation? I was pleasantly surprised when my Internet service provider responded competently and quickly to a technical crisis. And, we can learn to communicate more effectively by studying its response. The crisis occurred when hackers attacked its system at the same time that the company was upgrading its systems to meet increased customer demand. And while customers experienced no dramatic shutdowns, some customers faced delays and difficulty getting online. In response, the company quickly sent out a newsletter containing a single article, an open letter from the president. First, the president acknowledged there had been a problem. And, the company took responsibility for the problem. While it attributed at least some of the problems to malicious hackers, it nonetheless took responsibility for the system’s integrity. Most of us find it refreshing when a company steps up and does those two things. It communicates self-confidence and it communicates sincere concern for customers. All too often, organizations make poor excuses or point fingers at suppliers and customers; that just makes customers more dissatisfied. Second, the company apologized. In the first sentence of the article, the president said he was sorry for disruptions that subscribers had experienced over the preceding two weeks. By doing that he allowed his readers to get through the rest of the letter with less resistance. They weren’t mentally concocting rebuttals - they were reading what he had to say. That’s crucial any time you want to make an important point. Third, after taking responsibility and apologizing, the president explained what the company was doing to fix the system. His description of the fixes also took the right tack. He made no attempt to describe the technical nature of the fixes, nor did he try to impress us with how hard he and his people had worked. He simply explained that backup and warning systems were being put into place, and should prevent further outages from the same sources. Fourth, he promised that the affected customers would get two weeks of free service, to compensate for their inconvenience. That’s an excellent way to communicate a company’s sincerity. While the apology and acknowledgment would satisfy many customers, the offer of compensation underlined a genuine interest in customer satisfaction. So, this effective communication strategy had four parts: first, it acknowledged the problem and took responsibility for it; second, it offered an apology; third, it explained what it was doing to fix the problem; and fourth, it offered compensation to those who had been affected. Of course, simply communicating in a crisis situation won the company some recognition. And having communicated well made the initiative that much effective. In summary, crisis situations make special communication demands on organizations. This company rose to the occasion by not only fixing the problem, but also by communicating effectively with the people who were affected. Robert F. Abbott writes and publishes Abbott’s Communication Letter. Learn how you can use communication to help achieve your goals, by reading articles or by subscribing to this newsletter. An excellent resource for leaders and managers, at: .communication-newsletter.com

Dinner party or just about anywhere, the conversation usually goes the same way. “What do you do?” they say. “I’m a writer,” I answer. “I always wanted to do that,” they say. I wonder if brain surgeons or rocket scientists get the same response. After I’ve stifled the urge to scream, I ask why they’ve never done anything about writing. “Oh, I’m too busy.” And there’s the rub. Everybody is always too busy. It is purely a matter of whether you’ve got the will and the commitment to see your name in print. So here is your mantra. Chant it at all times, and repeat it to boring types at dinner parties. “Writers Write! Wannabe Writers Wanna Write!” As with all good mantras, it bears closer study. What it says, in a nutshell, is that you’ll never be a writer if you don’t write. Obvious really, but most beginners ignore it. They procrastinate, they obfuscate, and they pretend to the world and his wife that they’re “Working on a piece right now.” Don’t believe them. What they mean is that they’ve had an idea, but they don’t really want to do the work to put it in writing. The only way to do it is to sit down with your means of expression, be it pen, word processor, or big thick crayon, and write. Keep writing, and don’t stop until you’re happy with what you’ve produced. Now. Repeat after me. “Writers Write! Wannabe Writers Wanna Write!” Now, if you want to call yourself a writer, go and do something about it. It doesn’t matter what you write as long as you start. Your brain gets used to the idea, and soon writing becomes second nature. Remember the mantra, and it will serve you well. “Writers Write! Wannabe Writers Wanna Write!”