...I was seven years old when my parents first told me I was going to be a chemist when I grew up. I was always mixing random drinks together, and attempting to pour water out of one bottle and into the next. One of my earliest memories is of me standing on my tiptoes over the sink trying to pour the water in my cup back into a bottle and spilling it all over the countertop. At that age I didn’t understand what chemistry was and how important it would be to me later in life. Ever since I took chemistry for the first time my sophomore year, I knew that chemistry was a career path I wanted to follow. From the very first day, I fell in love with the subject. It was the first class I had and I looked forward to it every day. There was no class I...
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...Infatuation and Love On a summer night Alex and I walked to the edge of the lake dock where we laid under a galaxy of stars, talking about life, and being two teenagers in love. To this day I have never forgot that day of realizing he may never be in my life after he leaves for college. I tried not taking those moments for granted. Three years later, and we still lay under those bright majestic stars hoping that we will always still love each other, even if I never see his face again. The first time I met Alex you could tell there was chemistry between us and three years later, I still get an igniting spark with the exception of knowing how love actually feels. At the beginning of a relationship you become infatuated and as time goes on it turns into love. Infatuation becomes the start of a relationship when that spark ignites and to yourself you want this person next to your side for the rest of your life, or so you think you do. It can become almost a sexual desire for one another. Butterflies flutter inside your stomach and the inside of you becomes so weak you just think you’re falling hopelessly in love. There’s a profound chemistry that starts at the beginning of a relationship and within that time you become inseparable. Your friends no longer exist, and all that comes to your mind is this wonderful emotion about being with this amazing person. During the infatuation stage, public display of affection is a primary key. Being in love you don’t care what people think...
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...Growing up I was always drawn to the sciences. My favorite courses were mathematics and science and I wanted to become an engineer like my father. Even though my aspirations to become an engineer died out my love for science had never waned. I first became interested in chemistry during high school. At my high school chemistry was considered one of the most difficult classes and nearly everyone disliked it do to its sheer difficulty. However, I was different, I excelled at it almost effortlessly and developed a deep love for the subject. After taking the course I began to volunteer at another high school as a chemistry tutor. Here I learned even more about the subject and was even given a few lessons in more advanced chemistry that would help...
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...To become happier and more successful, part of the process is to consciously work on increasing the chemistry of your cranial fluid so your brain can perform more efficiently and at higher levels. You can increase your natural abilities and happiness by consciously adjusting the chemistry of your brain's cranial fluid which is affected by your thoughts, diet/nutrition, exercise, rest, environment and physiology. Since your thoughts have the biggest impact on the brains chemistry, there’s where I’m going to focus. When you have positive thoughts, your brain secretes positive chemicals and increases the power of your brain. When you have negative thoughts, your brain secretes negative chemicals and decreases the power of your brain. This is a simple, but profound concept to realize. Happiness depends on it. Your thoughts from outside stimuli have two components: facts and emotions. While you may not be able to control the facts you encounter in your life, you can choose how to respond emotionally to these facts. If you choose positive emotions, you will be happy. If you choose negative emotions, you will become unhappy. Your happiness depends on what emotions you choose to experience and how you live your life. For becoming happy in relative thinking there are no general rules. Happiness means nothing more than feeling well as result of an action, the deep experience of something being alright. This feeling completely depends on what is considered by happiness...
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...Caitlin Cataldi Professor Delores Zumwalt English 1302 June 22, 2013 Romance ideals Love is like an addiction to drugs. Some people crave it while others fear it. We want intimacy, but we also fear it because we are scared of commitment, being close to someone or even being alone. Within society, people seem to invest more time in finding love immediately than they do in grasping the real concept of love. In a typical college town, you would see many teenagers hanging out in groups rather than hanging out individually. Hanging out in groups allows for less attachment and just looking to have a good time with the people you know. It is less risky and has less potential to being hurt. Spending time one on one allows one to build actual feelings for one another, but “the date” could lead to something that one might regret including sexual encounters. It is more risky and has more potential to being hurt. We tend to think that the only way to be happy in life is to find a loved one and spend the rest of our lives with that significant other. Love is more varied and equally satisfying. Our view of love is inaccurate. When people are powerfully attracted to one another, they discuss having “chemistry” which only turns out to be a metaphor. When you are in love, there are a lot of chemicals reacting in your brain and body. In Love: The Chemical Reaction, Lauren Slater discusses “that certain powerful chemicals in our bodies, especially dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin, stimulate...
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...I used to believe that love was a light switch. Something flicks on. You get an overwhelming sensation. It hits you like a bag of bricks. Or a strong arrow. When you know, you know. Right? Not so much. After 28 years, I don’t see love that way anymore. I’ve placed Cupid right next to Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Love is a series of choices. The first choice is based on many many factors, including chemistry, principle, logic, humor, intelligence, body type, where we are in our lives, what we want / need… the list goes on and on, and the weight of each factor varies depending on the individual. Based on these factors, we either choose to begin the process to love or not. If we decide to enter this process, the action of loving can bring “light switch” moments. The way he looks at you. How hard she make you laugh. The notes he hides in your purse. The way she makes you feel when you don’t feel anything. But like an airplane flight, there is turbulence. The fights. The disagreements. The little things that bother you. His socks. Her shopping. You start wondering if you’ve made the right choice. Once you are in doubt, you have to make another choice. To continue to fly with this person or jump out of the plane. This choice is based on a thousand other factors, again depending on the individual and where they are in their journey. If you decide to jump, the scary free fall will either make you stronger (grow) or miserable (depressed). But sooner or later, you’ll find...
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...The world of science was unaware of the difference a young girl born in 1912 in Missouri Washington would grow to make. The young girl, Anna J Harrison, would grow to become not only a noticeable figure in organic chemistry because of research she conducted, but because she helped changed a profession, that for years, had consisted profoundly of white males. Harrison's love for both learning and science began at a very young age and only increased as time went on. She strived to share every ounce of knowledge she gained. Thus causing her to become a devoted educator of chemistry. In fact, while attending college to obtain her masters in chemistry, Harrison began her renowned teaching career as an elementary teacher at a school in which she had once...
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...Williams Dr. Mogford Definition Essay 3/17/14 Love Love is something that could be seen in multiple points of view, it just depends on the eye of the beholder. For a few, love could be purely passionate, or just plain sexual. For others, authentic love is completely unrestricted and only truly exists between family members, or between people and an immortal. And for some people, love is effortless, ever changing, and everywhere, and is felt for family, friends, partners, and pets. Though none of these people would be considered right or wrong, there is one thing that is certain: love is the most dominant force in the entire universe. Love happens between two people in any respect, whether they’re married or it’s a mutual relationship, boyfriend and girlfriend, straight or gay, young or old, love is felt in all varieties and by everyone. Marriages and partnerships are often built when people find one another normally after they first meet; these relationships can go as deep or as simple as sharing philosophical or religious beliefs. Then there’s love between people who may find that they like the same films, books or music. Love often relies on some sort of “chemistry”, or that somewhat hairy, tingly feeling that you feel in your stomach once you think or come in contact with this special person. Hormones raging, feeling overwhelmed with passion are just some of the feelings from that inter love felt through your bodies “chemistry”. Some people feel the butterflies as soon as...
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...English – The Periodic Table Online Summary The Periodic Table' gives an insight into the importance of chemistry in Levi's life. On a very basic level it probably saved him at Auschwitz, where his professional experience meant he was selected for work in one of the IG Farben synthetic rubber factories attatched to the concentration camp ('Cerium') - far preferable to the back-breaking physical labour he would otherwise have had to perform. Chemistry also provided Levi with a living before and after the war. But Levi looked for more than simply 'the tools to earn his living and have a secure life.' In 'Hydrogen' Levi expresses what chemistry meant to him as a school boy: 'An indefinite cloud of future potentialities'...from which 'cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me and in the world.' In 'Iron', as a chemistry degree student and with the war looming with all the terrible consequences that it would have for him, Levi explains to his friend Sandro how his view of chemistry has developed: Sandro was surprised when I tried to explain to him some of the ideas that at the time I was confusedly cultivating. That the nobility of man, acquired in a hundred centuries of trial and error, lay in making himself the conquerer of matter, and that I had enrolled in chemistry because I wanted to remain faithful to this nobility. That conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: ...
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...in dilemma and they may find it hard to choose. And I had found some choices that are very difficult to select. One is in my high school and that choice determined my fate. I have to choose my subject in the college entrance exam. One is art and the other is chemistry. In my second year of senior high school, I both focused on Chinese painting and chemical experiments. However, I really love the arts, and I want to choose arts test as my college additional exam and then I would abandon chemistry. In our class, most people have chosen chemistry as their major, and I do not want to follow the general trend and try something new but that is my interest. Nevertheless, I was discouraged by my art teacher. When I was sketching or painting, she always found my defects on my work then told me directly and said you were not a very gifted student in art, I wish you to think about your final choice. I thought about it and talked to my parents, and their opinions were likely to chemistry. Therefore, I was in a dilemma and I do not know what to choose. One is my interest and another is the subject my parents want me to choose. I cannot tell what is more advantageous. But after thinking about both prospective, I chose the chemistry and reluctantly said goodbye to my favourite. I think the college entrance exam ruined my dream. If I chose art as my major and strive for the college entrance exam, I think I can do better than before, and I would now master in sketching and painting and I may...
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...science. In their works they showed passion like none other. Fighting through several barriers and setbacks, they were able to achieve their goals while developing life-long relationship that would motivate them along the way. These achievements have been documented throughout all types of media, such as films, biographies, and even in novels. Through these several works ideas and motifs regarding chemistry have shifted and evolved, taking on a more positive light than ever before. Louis Pasteur showed the world that being a great in the realm of chemistry is not all about how academically gifted one is, rather how perseverant one can be in finding the truth. Pasteur, who discovered...
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...Through out the semester of the course I have learned a lot of information about my self. Some of them were things I already knew but a lot of them were things I didn’t know. Over the course of the semester I took a number of personal profiling tests and they really helped me to discover some of the traits I have that I did not know I had before. By taking this class it also made me think about my values and skills. This class also helped me to consider what majors I could pick for the rest of my college career. One of the personal profiling tests I took was call the Choices Interest Profiler. The Choices Interest Profiler is a program that helps people discover their personal interest and it also gives you some possible occupation ideas that would match with you interests. My results of the Choices Interest Profiler were artistic, investigative, and social. The occupations the Choices Interest Profiler gave me were anthropologist and sociologist. I do not think my results were very accurate because I do not think I am an artistic or a social person. I think the investigative part was right because I like doing math and solving things so I think that would be under the category of investigative. The occupations the Choices Interest Profiler gave me don’t really interest me so I do not think the program did an accurate job of that either. I think the results you get from the Interest Profiler depend on a lot of things. I think the reason my results did not accurately reflect...
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...environment has ceaselessly captivated me and this interest maintains and grows every day. The further you gain an understanding of Biology the more you become aware of the fact that there is more to learn than just the knowledge that you already have. I enjoy studying how fundamental Chemistry can be practiced to generate substances in order to solve different puzzles that come with it. I often find it enjoyable learning about the physical science of things instead of the mental science. Despite my love for studying Biology and Chemistry, I am intrigued to study Politics and Psychology. If there were no field of Psychology numerous enquiries related to the nature of humans would be unheard of. Psychology encompasses the study of the intellectual capabilities of the mind and that engrosses me, as I have always been interested in the study of the brain. Politics is of high importance, especially as we are living in a vast world, it is very important to be well informed of our government and hence it fascinates me to know the motives of politicians and how their opinions are affected by it. I feel, I am a good candidate for Politics as I am eager to have knowledge of governmental affairs and I love studying things that can challenge me intellectually and I know studying Politics will help me attain this. I feel as though I have been successful in discerning an individual’s personality and intellect, which will help me in studying Psychology. I am a diligent and devoted individual...
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...I love challenging myself. I know I will not always succeed, but that doesn’t stop me from trying my hardest anyway. As Michael Jordan would say, “I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something, but I can't accept not trying.” During my junior year at Maine East High School I took three AP courses, one of which was AP chemistry. My friends told me I was setting myself up for “failure” as AP chemistry is a difficult class, but I called it “a challenge to overcome.” I want to be a doctor, and I know that chemistry is a subject I must know well. I set my eyes above the horizon to earn an A in the class. However, I was a bit overconfident, as the year before I had easily earned an A in a standard chemistry class. When I received a D on my first test, I quickly realized I had to change my study habits in order to overcome this hurdle. I started...
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...Attract" which has found some basis in sociological research. In an article found in Psychology Today this issue of why those who are different are drawn together is discussed, "Opposites, or perhaps more accurately, “complements” do attract...And while this can create some interesting challenges for most couples, these differences are actually the source of what is considered by many to be the source of the most important aspect of any successful relationship: chemistry" (Bloom and Bloom, 2014). This chemistry is what initiates an interaction that could lead to a lasting relationship. Those who are just like us tend to limit our ability to grow and adapt, which is needed in a healthy relationship. The PREPARE/ENRICH program allows couple to see where they have strengths but more importantly is shows where they can grow and then leaves it to the couple to decide if they are willing to work at it. When a couple leans on existing strengths in times of stress while striving through Christ-like love and patience to “Love one another, as I have loved you” then they are able to build foundations that will aid them through future trials. My wife is an introvert, to the point that social interactions cause her physical anxiety while I am an extrovert that often finds it hard to not speak in public settings. While we are polar opposites we help to keep each other in check and...
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