Because Harvard is a prestigious university and people always like to brag about there achievements.
Harvard was a turning point in the history due to the fact of people attending Harvard for a higher education FIRST, but once after, more colleges started to establish.
your point of view in conversation
The weather is always a good starting point. You can also mention something interesting about the city you're in or local or regional events...
Public speaking is similar to everyday conversation in that in both instances you are using oral communication. No matter how many people you are talking to, you are trying to exchange information, and get your point across.
Next time this happens try to see when the turning point in the conversation is, see if he is doing it on purpose, some people just like to argue. Some people even get turned on by it.
Well I'm only a freshman,but i know that you need the grade point average to get into Harvard as a 3.7 through out high school.
There are a group of people who think they are right all the time. Which clearly says they aren't because no one is right 'all the time'. Those people have just enough knowledge on any given subject to always have an opinion on everything and when the conversation reaches to a point where they don't know....they feel attacked. They should just humbly accept the fact that they don't know everything and just make comments to contribute to the conversation and allow for different opinions.
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No. Kennedy attended Harvard and Stanford, and served in the Navy.
One sentence using dogmatic could be, It is difficult to have a conversation with someone who is dogmatic. Dogmatic means that a person has such a strong conviction about their point of view that they believe that they are always correct.
It all depends on which point of view you look at. Most known was Nazi Germany's point of view. The saw the Jewish people as inferioir and un human. The conversation camps were put in place for Kewish people to be enslaved and tortured by Nazis
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