...After reading “Calling Home” written by Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, and Camille Kingsolver, I have gained a different perspective on America’s food culture and farming. I always felt that farming was just raising animals so that they could be sold off to processing plants so we can have our next piece of steak or chicken. In my opinion, when the authors of the book discuss “oily food” they mean the oil and gas that it takes to consume our food, whether it be the oil in our food or the oil and gas that it takes in order to produce of food. In the reading, the authors point out that not only does our refrigerator use the same amount of gas that we put in our car, but also in processing our food (i.e. tractors, irrigation, equipment). Not only does it take a lot of oil and gas in processing our food but also in generating our food (i.e. pesticides, herbicides, and synthetic fertilizers). The authors continue on stating that if we grew our food in our back yard that we can tremendously reduce the amount of gas and oil to one-fifth of the total oil consumed. I agree with the arguments the authors make about our food culture. Living in American for the last 15 years, I don’t seem to see our country having much of a genuine American diet. It often consist a lot of different cultures food or fast food, which often includes a super-sized burgers and a side of fries. Although I have lived in America for the majority of my life, I do not take part of their food culture as much...
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...Being surrendered to Christ, the possibility of danger, certainly, couldn’t be worse than what I’d dealt with in the past. In fact, maybe it would make the pain mean something more than just scars. If Jesus wanted me, then I was all His. If I accepted God’s calling, though, would it be because I wanted it or would it be because of Alex. Yeah, it would be cool to share that with him, but that couldn’t be the reason. I had to accept it because it was my hearts desire not because of a guy. I wrestled with that for hours. The best solution I could come up with was just taking a leap and letting God chose the timing. I spoke quietly, “I don’t know if anyone’s asked before but God, if you’re listening, I want the Calling and I want the gift. I give myself to you, whatever that might mean.” The next morning when I woke up, I thought I’d feel different, but I didn’t. Alex was going to be picking me up in an hour so I quickly got showered, dressed, and grabbed breakfast. I waited anxiously at the curb, and Alex didn’t disappoint when he pulled up early. I smiled and jumped in the car. I shivered and handed a strawberry pop tart to him. “It’s cold out there." “Thanks,” he began munching and I...
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...says my priorities should be: 1st God, 2nd my girlfriend and family, 3rd should be whatever else I value. This reflects the balance that pastors must deal with on a daily basis, how to deal with a ministry while maintaining a healthy family life. My dad taught me exactly what pastors must do when they prioritize, to put God as number one, then focus on your family, and finally the church ministry. Keeping Priorities In Check There have been many cases where the pastor puts the ministry as number one on their list, then God, and then their families. An instance would be that they feel that God gave them their calling, they follow it, but they forget to keep a daily devotional life with the One who gave them the calling. But this isn’t the correct way to set one’s priorities. Although a pastor may justify himself in that the ministry was his calling, I don’t believe that is the way God called us to conduct our lives. Yes, saving lives and bringing people over to Christ is a very important issue, and a noble cause, but what good is it to win the whole world yet loses one’s sole? A better example would be, to win the whole but lose one’s family. Some people may even put God number one, ministry number two, and family at third place. This is probably the most...
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...The essay “Calling Home,” written by Jean Brandt was about her experience as a child on a family trip to the mall to do last-minute Christmas shopping. The fun family trip ended when she stole a Snoopy pin from a general store in the mall. After stealing the pen, she is arrested and faces an embarrassing phone call to her parents. Jean Brandt, in her essay, “Calling Home,” addresses the issues of the quick thinking minds of children. Brandt’s purpose is to convey the message to her audience that while justice should be served it should not cause a child to be locked behind bars. She adopts an empathetic tone in order to obtain more sympathy from her readers. While many examples of suspense, allusions, and tension are present in Brandt’s essay, her use of imagery proves to be the most powerful influence over her audience. Brandt rapidly establishes the basis of children’s minds through the use of descriptive wording, such as, “I was thirteen years old at the time, and things like buttons and calenders and posters would catch me attention” (19). The strong use of imagery present throughout her essay gives her audience vivid detail. In the excerpt from “An American Childhood,” Annie Dillard explains a situation a few neighborhood boys and herself got themselves into. Dillard and her friends had typically...
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...Comfort Zone IceBreaker Game What is the comfort zone? Your comfort zone is any type of behavior that keeps you at a steadily low anxiety level. Jonah 1-4 The Calling Jonah was a faithful servant of God, living among his own people and sharing God’s words for them. Then God suddenly asks him to do something that was a little outside the norm. God calls Jonah to go to Ninevah to tell them that God will destroy the city if they don’t turn their ways Often times we are told to do things we don’t want to do as teens i.e chores, homework, work, talk in front of people * Running Away from God As soon as he heard what God wanted him to do, Jonah got on the first boat to Tarnish, which is the complete opposite direction hoping to run away from God because it was out of his comfort zone How many times have we tried running away from our calling because were scared of what the outcome will be. The unknown is scary!! What if we get made fun of? What is we fail? What if we don’t say the right things? Ninevah was the capital city of Assyria and was renowned as one of the most cruel and brutal nations in the ancient world. They thought nothing of burying their enemies alive, skinning them alive, or impaling them on sharp poles under the hot sun until they died of sunburn and exposure. Furthermore, Jonah’s message was not to be one of “God’s Love”, but of “God’s Judgement.” Its one thing to...
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...” Coming right on its heels is a second question: “What can you DO with that major?” with that major?” (That’s the one your parents are asking.) They’re important questions. You do need to choose a major. And when you leave college, you’ll have to get a job. But during your time at Pepperdine, you will also be challenged to ask questions that go deeper than just what your major or your occupation will be. Sometimes it is not easy to understand the nature of a "vocation". We know the word means "calling", but how does God call someone to ministry? We generally do not hear a distinctly audible call to go to work for the Lord, at least, not directly from the Lord. We do hear the anxieties of our fellow man. We hear them wondering where priests and religious will come from in the future because so few young people are following those vocations today. We hear them hoping and praying that someone from the parish will step forward to do the work of Christ. How do we know if God is calling us? How do we know what our vocation is? How can we listen to God? Many people are confused about their vocation. There are some people who have chosen a more difficult vocation. They chose to always follow God. They help us find our vocation in life. They have been helping people for many generations. They are our religious brothers and sisters. For many years’ people have ignored and listened to God. Some people chose to ignore God because they think that their path will be less difficult. We sometimes...
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...years of making mistakes that he was forcing a vocation upon himself instead of listening to his true voice. He explains from a young age we are taught by the parents, teachers, and other adults in our lives to listen to them, and not taught to listen to ourselves. Palmer (2000) states that “before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent (p.3). Palmer continues the exploration with a poem which sheds light on the amount of time it takes to chisel away the defenses and find our true self. He learned from the church that to find his calling...
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...Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker J. Palmer, In the book, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker J. Palmer, one will find many truths to help them on the path of finding their identity in vocation. Human beings are searching for authenticity of the soul that lives within them and Palmer gives each of us clues to help make the process easier. His constant message throughout the book asks, “Is the life I am living the same as the life that wants to live in me?” I personally found this book challenging and it made me think about my vocation as a minister as a whole. I know God has called me to the ministry, but I am still working through the fine-tuning of that calling. In other words, is God calling me to work as a pastor, missionary, youth minister, teacher, or a music worship leader? My seminary experience is helping me figure this out. However, I feel I am called to all of the above in some capacity. Regardless, of the vocational outcome the only thing I can control today is my relationship with God. I appreciate the words Palmer uses to address this and I feel it resonates my own identity. God asks us to only honor our created nature, which means our limits as well as potentials (Palmer 50). My first year of seminary has afforded me to explore what my limits are. It is obvious that I cannot do everything like I Smith 2 used to do when I was younger. Even then, I only thought I could do everything....
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...Mendanbar’s sword is missing?! In the fiction book entitled, Calling on Dragons, by Patricia C. Wrede, Morwen and her friends, Telemain, Cimorene, Brandel, Killer, Scorn, and Trouble go on an adventure through and beyond the Enchanted Forest to find Mendanbar’s, the King of the Enchanted Forest’s, sword. They find that the sword is missing when they first go to figure out what caused Killer, a rabbit, to turn into a seven foot, eleven inch, blue donkey with large wings. When they found that Killer had eaten a clover patch that had been invaded by wizards, they decided to inform the King and Queen about it. Starting from the beginning, knock! Knock! Knock! Morwen encounters a visitor. It was Chairwitch Archaniz. She came to tell her about the complaints the Deadly Nightshade Gardening Club has been getting...
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...Cold Calling Success Student Name BUS642: Business Research Methods & Tools Instructor Name Date Submitted Cold Calling Success Many industries rely on cold calling in one form or another in order to secure new leads to potential customers. It is a relatively cheap way to introduce a product or service to those who are looking for a type of product, or those who may be in need of that service. It is critical that callers be upbeat and understand each person they contact should get the same enthusiasm and personal attention as the first call of the day. Cold calling is most often successful when the people making the calls have a solid understanding of the companies they represent, the products and services they are offering those they contact, and are well versed in adapting their scripts on a case by case basis. Background Information Cold calling has always been an inexpensive way of reaching out to potential customers in order to persuade them to purchase a good or service from a business. Companies frequently buy lead lists, which include the contact information for potential customers and may be tailored to the needs of the company. For example, a pest control company may purchase a list of names and information about people who have just purchased a home. These people have been prescreened to potentially need such a service, so they are a god solid foundation for cold calling. A cold calling strategy is more than just picking up the phone and speaking...
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...Nexogy offers a range of market solutions to our clients, serving markets from residential customers to sophisticated business customers with reliable full-featured VoIP applications Our Hosted IP Telephony Services primarlily consist of: • • • IP Centrex/ IP PBX Hosted Business Business Trunking Enhanced Residential IP Centrex / IP PBX • Bring the power of a corporate PBX to enterprise customers who will no longer have to invest in PBX equipment or its maintenance • Works with analog phones as well as with IP Phones • Offer traditional PBX functionality plus a wide range of value added services not economically feasible with traditional solutions • Centralize communications services (National and International Long Distance, Local Calling, Local Phone Service, Hosted PBX) on a single bill IP Centrex Features 976/900 Block Abbreviated 2-digit dialing Anonymous Call Rejection Billing Codes Call Forward All Calls Call Forward Busy Call Forward No Answer Call Return Call Trace Call Waiting Call Waiting/ID Manager Caller ID Caller ID Block Classes of Service Direct Inward Dial (DID) Do Not Disturb Flexible Auto-Attendant Flexible Numbering Plan Forward to Voice Mail Group Pickup Hold Hold Music Hunt Groups Multi-call Park N-way Conference Off-Premises Stations Park & Park Pickup Permanent Per Call Block Priority Call Queues Redial Remote Call Forward to DID Selective Call Forward Selective Call Rejection Speed Dial TAPI Dialing Support Transfer, Blind & Guided Transfer to...
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...canvas ® PayForMe ™ Mobile Collect Call Application Calling collect has been one of the key services in the wireline networks. It has allowed operators to generate additional revenues and has enabled subscribers to connect to friends and family from public locations, especially in an emergency. Canvas® PayForMe™, Mobile Collect Call Application, brings the same functionality to wireless operators. The Canvas® brand covers multiple solutions with key components that are optimal for future growth in the evolving next generation networks. Each Canvas product offers not only a point solution, but also reusable building blocks that seamlessly integrate with other Canvas products as well as with Telenity partner solutions. Canvas PayForMe is a member of the Canvas Value Added Services portfolio. It is a network based value added service solution that enables wireless carriers to target end-users like the youth market, low budget and prepaid subscribers and enterprises. It allows mobile subscribers to make collect calls without the involvement of an operator through a simple USSD message or a voice call. The benefits of Canvas PayForMe include the following: Convenience of Placing a Call Without Available Credits Canvas PayForMe application offers pre-paid subscribers a peace of mind that, in case of a personal emergency, they can reverse the charges even if the pre-paid account is depleted. Similarly, parents can feel safe about setting spending limits on their teenagers' mobile...
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...Hi.. This is _________ with _________., and Im calling about the home for sale on _____________________. Are you the owner? Great!! Did the home sell already or is it still for sale? Fantastic Im calling because I know of all the homes for sale….. and even about the ones that aren’t listed through Real Estate Agents. My name is Eddie by the way what’s yours? How many bedrooms is the home? How many Baths? On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your home, 10 being the best . Fantastic So tell me…If I had a buyer that made a reasonable offer on your home, are you prepared to pay a commission? Ok great , how much is that ? So how much are you asking for the property? Do you consider that a discounted price because your selling it yourself? Or do you consider it fair market value? Great! It sounds like you have a great home…where you folks heading after you sell this home? How soon do you have to be there? Do you have to be there in 5 months? Or do you have to be sold at that time? So ____ I understand that you want to sell the home privately…And if the home doesn’t sell are you thinking of interviewing a powerful agent to sell your home? If there was an advantage to... using me now... to market your home would you consider it? Let’s just meet for 20 minutes or so... so I can show you how I’ve been able to help so many people... like yourself... I have time this afternoon or is tomorrow better for you? If they say no.. then schedule a...
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...these three squads have a significant difference in their win-loss record when compared to all the other teams: when playing at home, their records were far better as compared to when playing on the road. Let’s take a look at the Indiana Pacers. Going into the playoffs, this team was the third seed in the Eastern Conference, a noteworthy achievement. However, when playing on the road, this team was mediocre throughout the season, ending up with a sub-500 record, 19-22 (ESPN). However, this squad seemed to sync and “click” when playing in Indianapolis, recording 30 home wins as opposed to only 11 losses, enabling them to clinch such a high seed in the playoffs. A similar pattern occurred in Golden State, seeded six due to their home record of 28-13, despite a road record of 19-22 (ESPN). The most astonishing team was the Denver Nuggets, who were also the three seed, but in the Western Conference. This squad managed to tally a whopping 38 wins at home to only three losses! With this near-perfect win-loss ratio, you must be questioning how they were not seeded number one. The answer lies in their struggle to achieve similar success while playing as the visiting team: the Nuggets had the same road record as the Pacers and Warriors, an average 19-22 (ESPN). Due to this peculiar and intriguing stat, every time these three teams play at home, they become the favorite to win the game, regardless of who their opponent may be (even a powerhouse such as the Miami Heat or the...
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...We all feel a sense of security when we are at home. Our home can be physically somewhere such as a gathering with family, or it can be internally in our own peace of mind. We all have a place we like to go to, to feel comfort and security. Yet how about someone who doesn’t have a home? There are people who do not have a physical home and have mental health problems that prohibit the wonderful feeling we feel when at home. These people are the mentally ill who are homeless. We walk past the mentally ill homeless everyday, yet we often choose to turn our heads the other way and ignore the ache of a person in need, a person who doesn’t have a home. Today in America there are more than 600,000 people are afflicted with homelessness. While there...
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