...Work 1 Question one Thinking of the moral of life as a story or narrative is helpful because every one’s life is a form of a story that each one of us desires to be good. Each one of us shares a different story that reflects his/her experiences in life and some life changing moments encountered in life. Our life stories shape us and determine who we are and give coherence that we can relate to. The stories also change our views about life and help determine our expectations. People will always take life and react to situations in respect to the stories of their lives. These reaction s are always very different from different individuals depending on the lives they have experienced. Morality on the other hand could be defined by different people...
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...There are two parts that will be highlighted in this writing. In the first part, I will write, compare and discuss on the significant changes in the new lifestyle before and after the transition to San Francisco. On this part, I will analyse on the adjustment issue, how complicated is the adolescent phase in life and the changes in the new place. I will identify and explain on what and how the x-factor in the place does give impact to Riley Anderson. Next, evaluating on how she handle or control her emotion to overcome the conflicts also the highlight of my essay. This can be obtained by observing and interpreting every reaction that protagonist Riley has done in the movie Inside...
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...Minutes As we go through life we come to face many decisions, or events, that will shape who we are today and change our lives forever. I am a gymnast and have been for fifteen years, and the sport has consumed my life. I have competed for two clubs as a gymnast. At first I was competing for Parkettes and trained with top level gymnasts who have gone all the way to the Olympics. After nine years there I decided it was time for change and I needed it right away. When I arrived at 1665 E. Race St. in Allentown, Pennsylvania, I knew that Lehigh Valley Sports Academy (LVSA) was my new home. As I walked in the doors to LVSA all I saw were orange, blue, and green walls surrounded by people and future teammates ready to greet me with a friendly smile. The gym looked like an old airplane hangar that was emptied out with four, full-size spring floors, 16 balance beams, three sets of uneven bars, two bars over a foam pit, and two vaults just sitting there waiting for me to start flipping on. The gym was quiet, cold, and had that morning dew feeling to it, but as we sat there waiting to start our workout, nice and early, I met my coach, a former world champion, Natalia Yurchenko. It was an honor to be in the presence of such a great gymnast who has had so many high level skills named after her, and to know that she is my new coach. At the close to my summer in 2007, I was chosen to be a part of a team that was well known around the country, Gattaca. Our gym picked up the sponsor...
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...problem of evil has been in our planet. In a matter of a natural catastrophe, spiritually or intentionally hurtful actions by people, evil has been causing pain, damage and drastic negative changes in nature and human lives. If we consider these facts, a question arises:- “Why bad things happen to good people? Or why bad things happen in the world?.” There has been a lot of investigations from all type of people that practice different religions in reference to these questions, also psychologists and philosophers have been part of this big interesting research. Some of them have found that evil is located in the self, that means that we people have the free will to do right or do wrong, and if we choose...
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...Studies have also shown that sexual desire can occur with the developments of puberty. This can make for problems with a growing adolescent making them more depressed and more outcast from the crowd due to their homosexuality. Trends show them becoming more stressed due to the identity confusing they are going through. When they decide to 'come out' and tell their peers and families about their homosexuality, it can typically not become a good result. It can make for verbal or physical abuse, loss of social relationships, and feelings of rejection. Parents play an important role in their child's coming out because they need to be the one's that are going to support them. The parent will be their guard when they are going through this difficult life transition. If their parent's aren't supportive and they have lack of communication it makes for an adolescent's identity crisis. The adolescent will be stuck in their decision and feel alone especially in a nonfunctional family. The recent study done by the YRBS showed a result of health impairments from 2005 to 2007 contrasting heterosexuality and homosexuality. There is an...
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... Through the years I wondered what made me change my personality towards the way I look at things but now I see why I drastically made these changes due to the different people and environments I have been. I have changed in too many ways to recount all of them, but a few I will list. In this essay I will discuss the aspect of my life that has and has not changed, analyze the role of nature and nurture within my personality and discuss why most memories are bias, which makes systemic scientific more valued than individual accounts. Psychologists strive to understand how personality develops as well as how it influences the way we think and behave. This area of psychology seeks to understand personality and how it varies among individuals as well as how people are similar in terms of personality. While there is no single agreed upon definition of personality, it is often thought of as something that arises from within the individual and remains fairly consistent throughout life. It encompasses all of the thoughts, behavior patterns, and social attitudes that impact how we view ourselves and what we believe about others and the world around us. Understanding personality allows psychologists to predict how people will respond in certain situations and the sorts of things they prefer and value. In retrospect, three traits, openness, extraversion, and agreeableness of my personality, have increased, while the other two of the “big 5” traits, conscientiousness and neuroticism...
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...Ever wonder why someone decides to get engages in criminal activity? Throughout this class and my juvenile delinquency class we’ve been trying to answer this question. We are going to discuss the theories that can help explain as to why someone engages himself or herself in a criminal activity. First of all we are going to discuss the two main perspectives and the theories made by our theorist in the past. The developmental perspective of criminality has two main perspective and those perspectives get broken down to theories made by some theorists. The first perspective we are going over is the life course perspective. The life course theory suggests that criminal behavior is a very dynamic process that is influence by the individuals’...
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...Sorrell, 2006). The family, if they have no medical background, has no clue the avenues of care the facility can take, so they need to be informed. The Code of Ethics in provision three says, “The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety, and rights of the patient.” (Silva, Sorrell, 2006). Many different personal values from different members of the family that need to be addressed so the decision can be made united. When faced with tough decisions, both our personal views and societies outlook can affect the decision making process. Our personal feelings or beliefs can cloud our mind from the big picture. Our heart may say, “Do the surgery!” but we may forget to look at what the quality of life afterward would be like. Society values change depending on location and the populations’ ideas of right and wrong. When faced with a tough choice, we may start to question what others may think of the choice we make. All these factors influence our choices in both everyday life and with tough decisions. In nursing more times than not, nurses are faced...
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...the issue of gay marriage. There are constant discrepancies between adamant believers in gay marriage and the political leaders of our country. The government’s refusal of the right of the marriage of homosexuals should not be tolerated. A large portion of people in America at the moment are utterly and completely against gay marriage, however there are also those who possess a more liberal view on the situation and feel differently towards the subject of equal treatment for all people. Religious beliefs often play a substantial role in the decision making process in many ways. For instance, Christian politicians are using their religious beliefs to impose their views and ideas upon people of their denomination. Christians believe that gay marriage shouldn’t be allowed because of the Bible entries that suggest that God made man and women for each other and that any other variation of this couple is a sin. Some feel that this country was founded on the beliefs of Christianity and therefore we should respect those ideals of our forefathers but this can no longer be the case. Our society has grown throughout the years and people have become more and more accepting of change. Every person has their own religious freedom to worship which ever God they see fitting and to believe in any cause they choose. There has been separation from church and state for many years and though this has a more political and literal meaning...
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...Daoguang Ye Heather Hummel Rhetoric 1311-21 and 22 22 October, 2012 Daoguang, I think you have many good ideas in this first draft. As you revise, look for ways to explore the complexities of your points more fully. Consider how FB enriches the lives of individuals, and how it might complicate their lives as well. Try to weigh the positives and negatives as you discuss the impact of FB on real and virtual communities. Then try to connect one idea to the next with clearer transitions between the different parts of the discussion. Please review MLA format for in-text citations and works cited pages in our handbook. I look forward to reading your final draft! –Heather More specific title? Virtual Communities Investigative Essay Introduction: You don’t need to center justify your text. Today, with the rapid development of the times, the network has become one of the most important parts of people's lives. The network has changed our world. People can reduce their distance through the internet. They can communicate with each other directly on the internet no matter how far away without the limitation of region. In the network, there are many virtual communities. What is a virtual community? It is a social network of individuals who interact through specific social media, like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and MySpace, etc. In the virtual community, people can suggest their ideas; people can share their experiences and photos; people can trade with each other. Facebook...
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...Organization can be a stressful place in which to work, thus stress management is becoming an important issue at work. It can be argued that the responsibility for stress management lies with both the organization and the individuals who are, or could be affected by stress. Our article today will explain why organization are stressful place and we also would like to discuss who should have the responsibility for stress management and why. Organization is social structure. That is to say an organization is a group of people intentionally organized to accomplish an overall, common goal or set or goal. The range of a business organization can formed from 2 people to 10 or thousands. Nevertheless, under the name of team spirit and culture, a great management can encourage people to believe that the organization, the team or the company is an entity. The fact is that organization is affected by external environment and internal environment. It is never exactly the same phenomenon from one moment to next. Organization is composed of individuals, each of whose physical, emotional, can fluctuate from hour to hour. Therefore, organization can be a stressful place; stress management is an important part at work. Since the complex nature of organization, it is not surprise that the people who work in an organization are face to a range of conflicting pressures, some of them will lead to individual stress. As we mention in the introduction, an organization is composed with individuals...
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...Running Header: At What Cause Will Athlete Stop Using Performance Enhancer At What Cause Will Athlete Stop Using Performance Enhancer Kha’Lashia Ketchum Axia College of University of Phoenix COM/120 Sandy Lacer Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports A performance-enhancing drug in sports is a big thing these days. Athletes are using them to increase their ability to win. Ethically speaking at what cost do we say enough. Think about their lives, by continuing to take these form of enhancement what effect will they have in the long run. Maybe if we understand the types of drugs, the side effects, health risk, and consequence of taking drugs. Athletes would stop using these forms of performance-enhancer. The type of Drugs Athletes Take Athletes use many different types of performance-enhancer in professional sports today from pills to steroids; they will even go as far as self-injecting their own blood as a dope. Blood Doping is where the athletes take there own blood and injected in their bodies to produce more oxygen in their blood in order to increase their chances of win. The positive thing about doing this is that it makes it easy for the athletes to breathe a longer time, which give them a better chance for winning. “Athletes have always been aware of the possible benefit of improving oxygen carrying capacity in endurance sport, hence many train at altitude. More recently athletes have used blood doping – in which blood is taken off...
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...Teen Pregnancy Is A Social Issue There is no doubt that teen pregnancy is a growing problem within the United States. Teen pregnancy will have a big impact on both the parents, child, education, welfare, employment and social service, also the society as a whole. The United States has the highest rate than any other country where teen pregnancy is an issue. There are many factors that comes into play when teenagers considering having children. Many teens who get pregnant without considering the consequences that they will have to face Although pregnancy is an emotional challenge for teenage girls, but it is a social problem that is affecting various things. Some individuals understand that this is a concern to the teenagers, but not everyone understand the consequences that our society have to face. 85 percent of teen is sexual active around the age 15 and 19. Throughout this paper I will be discussing why teenage pregnancy is a social problem and the various problems and consequences it have on our society. First the teenage mothers, the baby and on to the new parents. Dramatic changes need to be made before it destroy our society. The youth need to be educated more about unprotected sex and the consequences that comes along with it. There are several reasons why teen pregnancy occur. Majority of the time teen pregnancy occur because of peer pressure. Teen pregnancy is a natural drive to conform. “The main reason that peer pressure is so easily driven by teens...
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...Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress and everyday living. It is hardwired into our brain and is our bodies’ normal response to “fight or flight”, which prepares us to act in the event of danger. It also prepares us to act in uncertain situations, trouble, or feeling unprepared. It is normal to feel certain anxiousness when these situations arise. However, when everyday life events cause a person to become increasingly anxious or have panic attacks, which interfere with daily living, a person may have an anxiety disorder (Active Minds, 2015). Anxiety disorders are the most common of all mental illnesses and affect 25 percent of all teens and 30 percent of all teen girls (Elements Behavioral Health). Research indicates that over the last 50-70 years the rates of anxiety among teenagers and young adults in America have been steadily increasing (Bass, 2015). This article has information on the rise in teen anxiety, statistics, and the possible causes for the rise in anxiety. Teens Now and Then It appears in nearly every research article read that teens today are experiencing greater anxiety than the teens of 20, 30, 40 years ago. In fact, rates of anxiety and depression among young adults were far lower even during the Great Depression, during WWII, the Cold War, and the 60’s and 70’s than they are for teens today (Bass, 2015). The results are almost startling and alarming. Some statistics find that five to eight times as many high school and college students meet...
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...Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose Structure, Language and Genre Structure • Twelve Angry Men follows a two-act structure, with the action running continuously rather than being broken into scenes. The second acts takes up exactly where the first left off – there is no change in chronology. • With no scene divisions, the progress of the play can be measured by the votes which take place, functioning as a kind of pulse, reminding the audience where the jury’s opinion stands on the defendant’s conviction. These moments serve as markers for the audience on the journey through the play, helping to structure the action. • The play follows the three classical unities of theatre derived from Aristotle: - Unity of action: there should be only one central plot (the jury’s deliberations and decisions). - Unity of time: In real and continuous time where there are no shifts in chronology (no breaks in play). - Unity of place: Action occurs in only one single location (the jury room). • Allows the audience to feel very close to characters, their relationships and the conflict and challenges with which they are faced in deciding the defendant’s fate. • Intensifies sense of realism and is particularly effective because of the claustrophobic nature of the setting. Language • Rose’s characters use naturalistic, everyday language appropriate to the times and for the audience. • Heightened poetic or symbolic language is rarely used, instead speaking in concrete terms about the...
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