...“Only your LSAT score determines what law school you get into,” the former pre-law advisor told me, implying that one four-hour test down the road would determine my law school prospects — and in turn, my income — for years to come. At the same time, throughout our college experiences, many of us have a similar mindset of taking classes that offer “easy As” — giving the best grades for the least amount of work. And likewise, when many of us were in high school and aspired to join the Honors program, getting a 1400 was at the top of our bucket lists to secure a coveted scholarship. But despite the hype, the mathematical metrics of an exam score or GPA offer little correlation or relevance to the workplace. No lawyer was asked to solve LSAT...
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...This is the eulogy of Ethan C. Freeburne, who passed away in the mountains saving his entire hiking group from a collapsing rock face, at the age of sixteen. He was born in Southeast Idaho in a moderately sized town called Pocatello, Idaho. His parents were Rebecca J. Freeburne and Chris M. Freeburne, whom he lived with until his family moved to Aberdeen, Idaho. They lived there for two years, then shortly after having Ethan’s sister, Brianna J. Freeburne, his parents decided to move to a small town called Blackfoot, Idaho. He lived there for the rest of his life; at age five, Ethan attended the Irving Kindergarten Center. After that, he went to school at Ridge Crest Elementary for grades one through five. When he was twelve, Ethan went to...
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...provides a time for family and friends to give their condolences. It is suitable to dress formal for the service. A family member or a friend would give the eulogy about the life of the deceased. The seating arrangements in a church always put the immediate family in the first two rows and everyone else behind them. If the body was cremated, the ashes can be scattered where they wanted, buried or be placed in an urn and given to a family member. It is common to have a register signing for guest to sign in and write a little about the deceased. At the end of the service thank you notes are usually given out to thank everyone for coming to the service (Funeral). Eulogy Rebecca Rose Chermock, born on August 4th, 1998. At the start of her life she was mostly happy. As a baby she never gave her parents too much trouble, although she did keep her mom up during the night. The whole Chermock family were night owls and she was no exception. Her family lived in a nice house in Pittsburg with...
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...While giving his eulogy Rev. Suggs says “He treated us all like dogs, equally.” (213). Many people may have potential. But many people refuse to look deeper than the surface. While in the meantime there are certain amounts of people on the outside who do look deeper to find the potential and help it come to the surface. John Grisham makes many different characters in his books have this trait and he capitalizes on this in Bleachers he chooses to make a supporting character have this mindset instead of the main character. If one would like an example of this they would only have to look when the first African-American students joined Messina High School. Rake quickly welcomed the football players and paired every single one of them up with a white player, in order to help them bond and keep down the trouble makers that may arise. With the new students joining the school system, the school’s budget was stretched and it was very noticeable in the marching band’s budget. Instead of letting many students get...
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...perspective on life. I was an extremely shy and introverted boy during my junior and middle school years. However, sometime in the 5th standard, I was instructed to choose an appropriate speech as an elocution assignment and deliver it in front of my classmates. It was indisputable that I was incredibly nervous, so it came as little surprise to me that I flubbed my lines and performed abysmally. As expected, I got a withering appraisal from Mrs. Fernandez, my English teacher. My final performance left her feeling dispirited and dejected as an English lecturer. Back home, my father, the, “in-house motivation machine”, assuaged my feelings and dissected my performance. He made it abundantly that if I didn’t muster the requisite confidence to conquer my inner demons at this stage in life, my professional career would be threatened. My father had overcome a debilitating stammer in his youth, due to a complicated physiological condition, so eloquence was a talent that he prized. He had invested his unrequited ambitions in me and wanted me to exploit my abilities to the fullest. As my father’s words thundered through my mind, I resolved to radically alter my mindset. A year later, in the 6th grade, I registered for an intramural elocution competition – one of the most prestigious extra-curricular events in the academic year. Since the presiding judges would include principals from other schools, all the participants were eager to put forth their best performance. During...
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...Arnold “Gatemouth” Moore Mable Osemwegie Tennessee State University Arnold Dwight “Gatemouth” Moore was one of America’s most popular blues singers in the 1940s before becoming a renowned religious leader, radio announcer, and gospel singer. Moore was born in Topeka, Kansas on November 8, 1913. He sang ballads and spirituals as a youngster in his hometown and as a teen, he left with a traveling show called the Port Gibson-based Rabbit Foot Minstrels. When the traveling show ended, he ended up in Clarksdale around 1934. A year or so later he caught a ride to Memphis and launched a new career as a blues shouter. At a show in Atlanta an intoxicated woman gave him his nickname, he recalled “I opened my mouth and she looked up and hollered, ‘Ah, sing it, you gate mouth S.O.B.”. Moving between Memphis, Kansas City, and Chicago, he toured with some of the country’s top bands, wrote and recorded hits such as “I Ain’t Mad at You Pretty Baby,” “Did You Ever Love a Woman,” and “Somebody’s Got to Go”. Both B.B. King and Rufus Thomas considered Moore a major influence and remained close friends with him through the years. Moore was ranked in the top rung of vocalists in national polls by the Defender when he felt the calling to preach. He carried his flair for showmanship with him into the ministry, as a gospel singer, recording artist, as the host of radio and television programs, and as a raconteur whose tales could stretch the limits of belief. ...
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...of the nation in which he is born, has about one-half as much chance of completing high school as a white baby born in the same place on the same day; one third as much chance of completing college; one third as much chance of becoming a professional man; twice as much chance of becoming unemployed; about one-seventh as much chance of earning $10,000 a year; a life expectancy which is seven years shorter; and the prospects of earning only half as much." Kennedy's Civil Rights bill was still being debated by Congress when he was assassinated in November, 1963. The new president, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who had a poor record on civil rights issues, took up the cause. His main opponent was his long-time friend and mentor, Richard B. Russell, who told the Senate: "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states." Russell organized 18 Southern Democratic senators in filibustering this bill. Johnson became President of the USA, in November 1963 after the assassination of Kennedy. It was then that Lyndon Johnson announced his vision of a "Great Society" for America, with "an end to poverty and racial injustice". In his first address before Congress, President Lyndon B. Johnson called for the immediate passage of civil rights legislation. "No memorial or eulogy," he said, "could more eloquently honour President Kennedy's memory than the earliest...
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...As Megan’s older sister I have witnessed her grow and change throughout her lifetime. She has changed from the shy, little girl she once was into the insightful, caring women she became. As her older sister we have had our share of fights and arguments but always worked them out. As Megan became ill she asked me to give the eulogy at her funeral because she knows I do not like to give speeches in front of large crowds. She has always been there to push me to do my best, and this was her last way at pushing me to do something that makes me nervous. Megan will be remembered as a loving sister, daughter, mother, teacher, and friend to all those around her. Megan and I were only two years apart, which caused many fights throughout our childhood. When my parents brought Megan home from the hospital I was very disappointed because I believed they were bringing me home a puppy. Our grandma would always laugh and tell us about the mad, disappointed look I had on my face when they brought her home in that little car seat. The fights only got worse as we got older. When I was in my first couple years at Ball State, Megan and I would constantly fight when I would come home. Despite all the fighting when we were younger we slowly grew more fond of each other as we got older. We realized how important it was to get along with each...
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...entertained with stories you could only expect to hear from a close friend. Kaling’s book is very neatly organized. She wrote her book exactly how I would write a biography. There are large headings, chapters within the headings, and occasionally there will be sub-headings within the headings. Like a drawer within a drawer within a drawer, organized to perfection. The biography starts in Massachusetts where her chubby childhood was hosted. The 39 out of 219 pages is all Kaling telling stories of her being mocked and embarrassed from first grade to ninth grade. Whilst all the stories are humorous and occasionally relatable, it begins to get repetitive and I began wondering when the childhood memories were going to end. Going from high school to Dartmouth College, Kaling had quickly gotten into the career field she wanted with an internship on “Late Night with Conan O’Brian.” She openly admitted in her book that she wasn’t a great intern, instead she followed O’Brian around and enjoyed her time on the set of the show. After college, graduating with a degree in playwriting, Kaling did stand-up in New York City where she was living with her two best friends. One of her best friends and herself would go on to act in an off Broadway play titled, “Matt and Ben.” The two mocked Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and how they imagined Damon and Affleck came to write “Good Will Hunting.” I watched a clip of the act on YouTube, I wasn’t impressed whatsoever and I’m not sure how that got Kaling...
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...were hard workers who provide mostly everything we needed to live comfortably. Our biggest family outing was attending Florida A & M University Football games and picnics at St Andrews State Beach in Panama City, Florida on holidays. My childhood was very eventful and active growing up in the Panhandle of North Florida. I attended the local neighborhood public elementary, middle and high schools in northwest Tallahassee. I participated in city May Day Celebration, youth sports and community volunteer programs. To earn spending money I sold sodas at Florida State Football games, mowed lawns, did errand for the elderly and sold pecan in the fall to attend the county Canaveral....
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...Ambyr Braxton Tribute/Eulogy Speech Final Draft April 3, 2012 A Tribute to the Little Man, Alon Well, I’m pretty sure we all know that there are countless instances when someone would need to write a tribute speech. It could be for a graduation, a wedding, or in my case this class assignment. The hardest part about writing a tribute speech is finding the right words to say that’ll make this person seem godly, but for Alon, my little brother, I had no trouble finding words that tell just why I admire him. Born in the month of August on the 22, Alon came into a world, crazy as it is, on an unplanned pregnancy. Most people would say it’s hard to do a tribute speech on someone so young, but really they’re some of the best people to do a tribute on. Alon, being only three years old is one of the kindest, most honest people I know of. His short black curly hair and small features such as his nose and his ears show the innocent Alon still has because he hasn’t been influenced by the world he lives in yet and is still, obviously, growing up. I know that every time I look into those almond shaped brown eyes of him, I’m looking into the eyes of someone whose eyes are blind and unknown to lies. Getting an honest opinion from him isn’t hard, seeing that’s all I get from him. Still being so young, Alon’s mind is as honest as it gets because he hasn’t had the experiences an older person would have, he hasn’t been influenced by anyone else, so when asked what he thinks of something...
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...Ethics, Moral Dilemmas, and Tough Decisions: The Many Challenges on Working on IT I. Introduction Information technology in combination with changes in organizational structures and methods of working has led to an increasing amount of information and also to totally new forms of information and in the creation of records. Much of the information previously produced on paper is now being produced in electronic form, for example as e-mail and in databases. The Dutch archive theoretician Eric Ketelaar [1999] has invented the word “archivalisation” to describe the phenomenon where more and more material is deemed to be worthy of documenting and archiving. This means that a considerably larger amount of information requires handling. Electronically generated and stored information is also exposed to change and manipulation in quite a different way to that involved with paper-bound information. The e-government services, where the whole idea is to exchange information electronically, will radically redirect paperbound information and documents towards electronically generated and managed information and documents. A 10-year period is a long time when dealing with the preservation of electronic records. This is of course due to the rapid technological development, and includes, for example, the problems associated with obsolete software and file formats. Goldstein [2004]0 stresses the need for a quick solution to the problem of archiving electronic information for the future...
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...Eulogy When I think of Reed as a child, I remember how much he loved exploring the ravine next to our house. More than half of his summers were spent wandering through the woods, looking for bugs under rocks and along the creek, climbing trees, catching humming birds, and generally doing things that would have given his parents gray hair or a stroke if they knew what he had been up to. He had a very adventurous spirit and was always up for a challenge, he was competitive, a great leader, an avid learner, and a good example to his family, spunk, creativity and determination were some of the many qualities he possesed. I have to share one memory that really illustrates Reed's fearless, and sometimes impulsive, nature. Some of the neighbor dogs were growling and bearing teeth at his little brothers, Reed, being a natural protector, decided to hit one of them on a head with a big stick and chase it off, the other one got a rock in the ribs. This was when he was just 7 years old. As he got older he ventured to even greater heights, he played as many sports as possible until high school, and then tapered off to refine his skills in just a couple. Another example of his daredevil spirit was when he took his toboggan off the edge of the ravine, sailing to at least thirty feet and landing head first in super deep powder wich was even colder than I would ever know, as he said. His cheeks were purple and he was pawing out snow from the inside of his jacket, crawling...
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...weaves together a set of embedded stories to construct a beautiful tapestry of not only the town, not only the glorified coach, but of the legend shared by the Messina Spartans. In the novel Bleachers, John Grisham effectively employs internal conflict to reveal how easy it is to be fooled by fake happiness. Neely Crenshaw’s life has gone anywhere but where he originally dreamed. “I don’t want to talk about football okay? I don’t want to hear about how great I was.” (71) Crenshaw has gone through tremendous suffering, and it is visible here that he has spent much of his life milling over his high-school self, yearning for the years where he was a God in Messina, the years where he was truly happy with himself. Through these years Neely had nothing to be conflicted by; he was winning all of his football games, the hottest girl in school was on his arm, and every D1 school in the state wanted him. Neely left Messina with a vow to never come back, on his way to Tech University, drawn by the “fifty thousand bucks in cash,” (28) and not by the true love for the game. After Crenshaw is injured, his life quickly turns bitter. Grisham uses this scenario to convey to us that material items, the fifty thousand Tech paid him, the five grand every week, the new car, are not going to bring us internal happiness, but instead they will only bring you temporary joy. The happiness will fade as...
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...The Virgin by Kerima Polotan The title of Kerima Polotan's "The Virgin" gives us the subject-virginity, female virginity, a cherished value of Filipino Male culture. By presenting its protagonist as "victim" rather than heroine of this value system, the text subverts it. Reflecting on her virginal state, Miss Mijares does so "with a mixture of shame and bitterness and guilt" The story's eroticism is heightened by the lyrical, almost cadenced language. (The eroticism is quite explicit for it's time, and the foregrounding of a woman's sexulity is also rather in advance of its time.) But the use of symbolism is a bit too obvious--the paperweight, the dream of being lost, the jeepney's detour, the storm. Miss Mijares is a dutiful daughter, sacrificing herself, in this case, for a sick mother, and becoming a spinster, a pathetic figure, her sternness of manner and abruptness of speech, disguise for an aching loneliness. Referring to her as "Miss Mijares" underlines her primmness, as well as her distance from the carpenter. She is slim and frail-looking, which contrasts with the carpenter's physical streghth and size. The carpenter has a certain grace, poise, confidence "walking with an economy of movement, graveful and light, a man who knew his body and used it well", which comes from being easy in his skin, which Miss Mijares, decidedly, is not. Miss Mijares' over reaction to the discovery that the carpenter has fathered a child by a woman he is not married to reveals...
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