...What did Nephi see among the nations of the Gentiles? (1 Nephi 13:4-5) Aloha! Brothers and sisters, we are always reminded to prepare for the second coming of Jesus Christ. Our prophets, apostles, and leaders have seriously and actively engaging themselves for this cause. They also are fervently asking us to repent and serve this church wholly. You might ask the question why? Why can’t we just mind our own selves and leave others to think for their own? Why is there missionary work? Why is there home teaching and visiting teaching? Why do we even bother? My topic is very sensitive especially to those who are currently investigating the church and who are having doubts about its foundation. And because of this, I would like to divide my talk in three questions. These are: What did Nephi see, What do we have to be the true Church, What can we do to help? * What did Nephi see? One of the vivid answers we can find in the scripture is found in 1 Nephi 13:4-5. This scripture block is very sensitive to those who will read the Book of Mormon and is one of the reasons of commotion. Allow me to read it to you, quote, “And it came to pass that I saw among the nations of the Gentiles the formation of a great church. And the angel said unto me: “Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches, which slayeth the saints of God, yea, and tortureth them and bindeth them down, and yoketh them with a yoke of iron, and bringeth them down into...
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...Communication: Let’s Talk About It Martha Maghett COM 321 Professor Cheryl Harris January 12, 2015 Let’s Talk About It Communication is a very complex topic, in that it has many definitions, interpretations and models that guide us through our world. It has been studied over the centuries by historians, and rhetoricians, from Aristotle, Plato, and Dance. They have studied and taught communication theory and correct speaking techniques from Ancient Greece to Modern colleges today. Communication theories seek to inform us of our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, but it also studies and examines why we have certain thoughts about objects in our environment, why we feel a certain way about people in our interpersonal relationships, groups or organizational structures. Communication teaches us how to use our social and cultural perspectives, such as psychological, social constructionist, and the pragmatic, all of which are a coherent set of assumptions about the way a process operates. (Trenholm, 2011) The psychological, gives us an insight as to what the sender or receiver of the communication process is thinking. The social constructionist model, allows one to adjust their cultural or learned behaviors to any given situation. The pragmatic, can be like a game, if one gets stuck in a game of chess do they just quit the game or continue on? Communication can help us deal with other people individually and in groups, it can also help us to identify if our behavior remains the...
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...around in circles, wincing after every circle made, until people learn to eventually drown out the noise. After graduating college, I felt the “real world” was mine to conquer, to climb to the top and thrust my flag in for all to admire. I still remember moving in to my new place seven years ago. My parents gave me enough money to lees out a place of my own, as a sort of graduation present. The first night I slept in my new apartment, on my new mattress, the only thing I could think about was how this was a stepping stone for the start of my legacy. My eyes closed, I think about those times and feel my face cracking into a grin, the naivety of youth coupled with dreams of stars and fluff. I recall setting my sights lower and lower as time went by, to where I am at now- your average pencil pusher from nine to five. I open my eyes and look at my bedside clock, eight-thirty it tells me. I go wash up a bit and decide on eating out today. I like walking outside, watching other people going about their trivial activities, some even considering it to be important. I eat at a local Chinese restaurant, a place where I’ve grown partial to the food. After eating I go on a walk. I do that from time to time, walking aimlessly. It’s really mostly to escape the loneliness of the apartment for a while. Sometimes I even...
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... Communication is Key Communication is when someone gives or receives from another person information about that person's needs, desires, perceptions, knowledge, or affective states. Human beings need to communicate in order to share and makes other understand their sense of self and awareness of who they are. Expressing and listening others self-concept are essential for successful relationships in any area of our lives. Raymond Carver, an American short story writer and poet, was always concerned with the ways in which human beings communicate or fail to communicate with each other and how that affects people’s lives. Carver found the way to express this concern through stories such as “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” and “Cathedral”. He presents situations where the characters of these stories had difficulties communicating their feelings. Caver is known for his distinctive and well...
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...In Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” there was one theme that was consistent throughout the whole story. It is that not one of the four characters of the story could explain what love is. Each character in the story each had their own ideas to what they wanted love to be but not what it actually was. Whether it was suicidal love, abusive love, or just physical love, each person in the story held fast to what they believed love to be, even if they could not explain why. One of the main characters, Mel, attempts time and again to identify the meaning of love, but he never forms any clear conclusion. Each time he is about to say something important he gets sidetrack or forgets for a little while what he was about to say. For example, he tells a story about an old couple who almost die in a car crash, but half way through he gets distracted. When he finally gets to the conclusion of the story—the old man miserable because he could not see his wife—confuses the others. When he tells everyone that he will explain what exactly love is, he instead strays into a jumbled reflection about how it is bizarre that he and the others have been in love repeatedly. His efforts to illuminate the nature of love tapers off into a bitter lecture against his ex-wife. He spends a lot of his time saying what love is not and not saying what it actual is.In the story Mel says “There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts...
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...Thanks for participating in our study to learn “what America talks about!” The purpose of this diary is to help you remember the conversations you had throughout day. Please feel free to record conversation details next to the corresponding topic below or record information on a separate sheet of paper. Please include face-to-face conversations as well as phone calls, emails, letters, blogs, online chats, instant messages, or any other communications. If a conversation falls into several topic areas, please record the conversation next to each topic that applies. Please try not to change your normal conversation pattern just because you are participating in this study. It doesn’t matter how many or how few conversations you have in these topic areas. Tomorrow you will receive an invitation to an online survey to collect this information. General topics | How many conversations by topic | List all companies or brands** mentioned by name | Automotive: Cars, trucks, auto parts, repair, services such as road-side assistance, navigation, etc. | | | Financial Services: Savings/investments, banking, credit cards, insurance of all kinds, money transfer, real estate, etc. | | | Health & Healthcare: Illnesses, drugs/pharmaceuticals, doctors, hospitals, treatments, diets, supplements, vision care/eye wear, etc. | | | Food & Dining: Packaged, fresh & frozen food, snacks, candy, gum, recipes, supermarkets, meal preparation, restaurants, restaurant chains...
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...A hundred million thoughts run through our mind when we think about love. Whether it is a person or an object that we adore, we all have different ideas of what love is, but love varies in different relationships. The short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”, written by Raymond Carver, entails two couples talking about love and we discover what love is from the main characters, Mel and Terri. This couple has had quite a few road bumps in their past relationships. Mel’s perspective on love is that abusive love is not real love; I agree with his conceptualization. Terri’s concepts of what love is leads her to believe that being in an abusive relationship is acceptable. Carver’s story is believable because people have different...
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...“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me” –Carol Burnett. The twentieth century dramatist Ama Ata Aidoo perfectly fits this quote; as she really did change the society and people’ mentalities through her writings. Her voice depicts concerns over many social and political issues at the Ghanaian society. She stated repeated concerns for the dilemma of womanhood in Ghanaian culture at her time; she endowed the female characters in her literary works with strong wills and distinct personalities. Although she wants to prove her identity in her writings, she as well helps to expose the exploitation and disenfranchisement of women from the essence of their own identities. In “Something to Talk About on the Way to the Funeral” Aido describes women who bravely survive despite of the obstacles in the neo-colonial Ghanaian society. For the majority of her female characters independence has brought no relief and has in fact only increased the difficulties they face; this is exactly what happened to Aunt Araba or “the good woman who does not rot” She was given a part of her independence and was sent to live with a relative, as a consequence; she got pregnant without being married. Survival is the driving and divine force thorough out the story as even after she got pregnant without marriage and in the face of this tremendous troubles, Araba did not surrender nor even weakened. Instead she even got stronger “She returned home to her mother, she was looking like a ram from the...
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...WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN It was a good movie to see that how the interaction of attachment and biological predisposition goes on a a school massacre as an ending point. In the beginning of movie we saw a young woman in a fest and enjoying with friends. Then she married and quitted such life. It was the precursor of her unhappiness and insecure attachment with his child. Then she moved another place and began to live a different life from she had before. She had a baby through an unplanned pregnancy. Because of the all these causes, we had an unhappy and depressed mother who experienced difficulties while forming attachment with her son, Kevin. In flashback scenes, we also saw that during 9 months of pregnancy, she couldn’t internalize and embrace her son. Development, long process, also trace to pregnancy, even earlier periods, so Kevin felt her mother’s unhappiness because of him. That is to say, all we know that babies also feel when they are unwanted. After Kevin was born, the mother’s mood and feelings wouldn’t change. At the time she was giving birth, she had same numbness on her face. Up to now it may seem that I am blaming the mother, but it is not like that. Because in addition to mother’s depressed mood and numb face, Kevin was also difficult child. The mother was also aware of it, very early months. He was crying constantly and never showing a warm affect towards his mother. She really tried her best to form a secure and intimate relationship, she also tried her...
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...“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me” –Carol Burnett. The twentieth century dramatist Ama Ata Aidoo perfectly fits this quote; as she really did change the society and people’ mentalities through her writings. Her voice depicts concerns over many social and political issues at the Ghanaian society. She stated repeated concerns for the dilemma of womanhood in Ghanaian culture at her time; she endowed the female characters in her literary works with strong wills and distinct personalities. Although she wants to prove her identity in her writings, she as well helps to expose the exploitation and disenfranchisement of women from the essence of their own identities. In “Something to Talk About on the Way to the Funeral” Aido describes women who bravely survive despite of the obstacles in the neo-colonial Ghanaian society. For the majority of her female characters independence has brought no relief and has in fact only increased the difficulties they face; this is exactly what happened to Aunt Araba or “the good woman who does not rot” She was given a part of her independence and was sent to live with a relative, as a consequence; she got pregnant without being married. Survival is the driving and divine force thorough out the story as even after she got pregnant without marriage and in the face of this tremendous troubles, Araba did not surrender nor even weakened. Instead she even got stronger “She returned home to her mother, she was looking like a ram from the...
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...“We Need to Talk About Kevin,” a novel written by Lionel Shriver about a boy who commits a Columbine at his high school. Written in the perspective of his mother, she reflects and analyzes starting from the point prior to Kevin's birth. She questions whether choices she made, how she felt about Kevin, actions that were taken, not taken, was the cause of her son killing his classmates. Or the possibility that Kevin was born with an unstable mindset. Eva, the mother, had a very successful career. She was the CEO and owner of a travel agency. Prior to having children, she traveled a lot and for months at a time. She married Franklin, who was a freelance photographer. They were a slightly older couple in their forties when they decided to have children. Eva loved her career; her life was her work, so why have kids when their relationship seems so peachy? “(She) was absolutely terrified of having children.” (pg. 32 WNTAK) The decision boiled down to having children was for the sake of having something to talk about. This was a huge indication that this couple should not have had children under such pretenses. Eva had Kevin, but did not have that bond that forms between mother and child. She described her pregnancy as “battling the idea of Kevin, the notion that (she) had been demoted from driver to vehicle, from householder to house.” (pg. 58 WNTAK) “Childbirth had left her unmoved.” (pg. 83 WNTAK) On another hand, Franklin embraced parenthood. In the father's eyes, Kevin was a...
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...components that contribute to the theme of the short story “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” by Raymond Carver are plot and character. The main character of the story plays a big role in creating the theme and the symbols that are prominent also contribute to the theme. This author used these key components to help the readers understand the main point of the story. The main character Mel and the symbols love and gin are all important to identify the theme in this short story. The theme in the story is the complicated meaning of love. The character Mel is a round character in the story. His character is sometimes hard to understand and figure out and also is shown to have more than one side. He is a very confused character...
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...Bryan Stevenson, an American lawyer, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative gave a ted talk titled “We Need to Talk About an Injustice”. In that talk, he discussed the current condition of the American criminal justice system and the issue of mass incarceration. He stated that “we have a system of justice in this country that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.” I found this to be a profound quote on the criminal justice system as it seems contrary to everything the rule of law is about. So I considered if this was similar in a Canadian context, if there are any inequalities in the way we administer justice, and criminal law. I found...
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...Jenny Smith November 28, 2011 Dr. Min Young Lee English 121 sec 28 The Coming of Age of the Male Characters in About a Boy About a boy is a contemporary novel written by the British author Nick Hornby. It incorporates constructs of post-modern writing by bringing into focus the artists, and styles, and prose of the vernacular. The setting of the novel takes place in London in the mid 1990s. About a boy gives a unique perspective of a coming of age story. It follows the coming of age of two boys of two very different ages; Will Freeman 36 years old and Marcus 12. This novel shows the contrast between consumerism and materialism with real interpersonal connections. Will Freeman made the decision to pursue materialism rather than personal friendships, and to live in self-imposed isolation. Will had the ability to buy “cool” clothes, and sunglasses and sneakers, and so was never at a loss for acquaintances. Marcus, on the other hand, felt isolation due to a lack of materialism. Marcus was an outsider in his school in London since he could not have the best “coolest” clothes, shoes, and haircuts and thus was always the target of bullying. However, as the plot progresses, Marcus and Will undergo transformational experiences together to become more connected to the people around them. The transformational experiences of Fiona’s suicide, falling in love, and Marcus’ arrest all culminate in the maturation of Will and Marcus’ and the genesis of interpersonal connections between...
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...Today I talk about explore how employees survive the alienating tendencies at work by developing various coping strategies. The analysis begins with a discussion of the extent to which work produces conditions of alienation for employees. This is followed by an examination of the way that employees may counter alienating tendencies through various creative strategies. And there are five survival strategies are explored: Alienation is freely used in the media and arises in everybody conversation. Here we have restricted the discussion to outlining two different perspectives on alienation. The first views alienation as an objective state, and builds on concepts originally defined by Karl Marx, while the second introduces elements of subjectivity into the analysis of alienation, and terms from a study by Robert Blauner. According to Marx, employees experience four types of estrangement: Self-estrangement, Estrangement from the product of their labour, Estrangement from their species being, Estrangement from others. Blauner argued two assumptions that differ from those suggested by Marx. 1. Alienation is not inevitable under capitalism. 2. Work has different meanings for different people. Our central proposition is that employees develop coping strategies, which combat alienation through informal processes and action. The five main survival strategies that employees engage in are listed below, Making out Fiddling Sabotage Joking Escaping ...
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