...an unfamiliar way of life due to immigration or a visit to a new country. Personally, when I first came to States, the primary problem that I have is the language barrier even though I have learnt American English for years at my homeland. What came along with this discomfort of communication are homesickness, information overload and boredom. These are the most sympathetic signs of my disorientation from own experiences. Fortunately, as Internet has become a cheap technology that make the globe into a small village and meanwhile everything has been easily accessible through online, I feel much more relaxed and adaptable when facing this culture obstacle. The way we browse the news, watch videos and shop online are exactly the same everywhere in the world, and this has brought me a lot of benefits of orienting myself into the American culture. Despite the technology has given me lots of convenience, there are still many differences in various respects including education, transportation, having food and shopping in terms of cultural distinction. Before coming to USA, my schedule was basically aligned with my job, five days at work and two days off. I preferred to shop online on Friday so that I can receive my purchases on Saturday morning or noon. In the weekends, I spent most of my time on my hobbies, I like catching up with my friends in a big shopping mall and going out of town to enjoy the views of nature especially in spring and autumn. As a Chinese, of course,...
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...How It Feels to Be Colored Me Analysis Paragraph Novelist, Zora Neale Hurston, in her narrative essay, How It Feels to Be Colored Me, describes her childhood struggles with identity. Hurston, as a young girl, was known as “Zora of Eatonville”. Eatonville, a predominantly African American town, was a sort of utopia for Hurston. She did not have to face racial issues until she moved to Jacksonville, where Zora changed the way she viewed both Black and White people. Hurston’s purpose in her essay How It Feels to Be Colored Me is to describe a shift in her views on Blacks, Whites, and herself because of her move to Jacksonville. Hurston adopts a sanguine tone in order to persuade her audience that no matter one’s race, all people are made the same....
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..."How it Feels to be Colored Me" was written in 1928. Zora, growing up in an all-black town, began to take note of the differences between blacks and whites at about the age of thirteen. The only white people she was exposed to were those passing through her town of Eatonville, Florida, many times going to or coming from Orlando. The primary focus of "How it Feels to be Colored Me" is the relationship and differences between blacks and whites. In the early stages of Zora's life, which are expressed in the beginning of "How it Feels to be Colored Me," black and whites had little difference in her eyes. She didn't even seems to differentiate between the two until her early teens. She says, "I remember the very day I became colored." Before this time, she cites the only difference being that "[white people] rode through town and never lived there." During this part of her work, Zora is showing her childhood view that whites and blacks are no different from one another. This view changes as a result of her being sent to a school in Jacksonville. Now being outside her town of Eatonville, she began to experience what it was like to be colored. "But I am not tragically colored," she says. Zora makes it a point to show how she is not ashamed to be colored. At this point she seems to attack whites who continue to point out that she is the granddaughter of slaves by saying that blacks are moving forward. "The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said...
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...Lies lies and more lies 10/13/2014 The screeching of the lie hurts my ear. My biggest fear is now standing in the clear. With his bold face and nice smile Whispering to me, telling me you care when I know you don’t Crushing my inside by all the lies you told Lies lies and more lies I see you coming. I can smell you from a mile away, I know your enticing sweet scent because it’s something I use to wear. I used to hug and hold you, breathe you and feel you Your lying consumes me, it is now a part of me Those bitter-sweet lies on my tongue, leaves me so numb. Lies lies and more lies I’m young and confounded, still telling lies and just can’t rewind it. Just can’t stand it sometimes bursting to come out, clouding my vision with doubt. Lies lies and more lies Trust issues were the tissues he left behind. I know healing takes time and I’m fine with that, as a matter of fact, I can toast to that. Don’t cover me with a lie, it’s a blanket I don’t need. Lies lies and more lies We reap what we sow, trust me I should know. I told so many lies it’s now a constant shadow What began as one, turned into a few. Like a speeding train on an endless track, the first lie was impossible to retract. His lies caressed my mind, harden my heart, changed my soul, lying has taken its toll. Watch what you say and say what you mean. Lying has a need only the week can feed. Lies lies and more lies...
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...Note: In the teaching plan below the words in italics are meant to be read aloud. The regular text is simply directions for the teacher. > > > > Basic Teaching Plan < < < < Introduction: Begin the class by greeting each student. Ask them to try to think of a time when someone said something that made them feel really good. What did they say? Allow a few students to share. Now, have them think of a time when someone said something to them that did not make them feel good. Write this question on the board (or just say it out loud) “Do the words that you say matter?” Allow the kids to consider this for a few minutes, possibly with a partner. Then lead a discussion about how the words we say affect those around us. In conclusion, the words we say have to power to make people feel a certain way, and we must always use our words to build people up. Biblical Evidence: Ask the class to open their Bibles to Proverbs 12:18-22. Read verse 12:18 with the class. Say, This verse helps us compare helpful words with hurtful words. We use reckless words when we just say something without thinking about how it may make the other person feel. When we stop and think before we speak, and we put the other...
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...Introduction In demand as evident, food, is taking a great share of the market and to life of every individual, just as Filipinos are starting to have the feel of enjoying quick merienda and dessert. Filipinos are artistic and very good in making food experiment. Some of the food made become the town specialty that when you visit the place, they will surely offer you their unique delicacies. The island of Siquijor has been known in the world as one of the most beautiful places to visit. People from the different countries and overseas Filipinos are enjoying the serving foods and are attracted to the unique products and services catered to them. According to the Department of Tourism and Department of Agriculture in the province visitors are captivated with the place and the food that are served to them. Based on the recent study of the Department of Tourism visitors are looking for pasalubong especially native delicacy products that can be a present to be brought for their family, friends and relatives. HEY! K-STOP Native Delicacies, with its unique offering that customer will surely love can answer the need of any traveler as they return from a trip. They will bring with them the popular delicacies that will suite their taste at an affordable price. They may take a sit and have a taste of their chosen food from the menu in order to satisfy their curiosity. Everyone will surely be enticed to taste these delicacies and bring it home for their family members to taste the...
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...races. Ethnicity: the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition. Racism is hurtful and in today's society, it almost affect the same way as it did a few years back, maybe around the time Martin Luther King Jr. was alive and preaching peace and love. In Hurtson's "How It Feels To Be Colored Me", she expresses the idea that "At certain time, I have no race, I am me"(211). Hurston feels that society judges and criticize based on your race and ethnicity. She believes that it is quick to judge someone if they are...
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...“How It Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Hurston is an essay in which the author expresses the discovery of her identity and self-pride. The theme of the essay is self-confidence. Hurston’s confidence in herself helped her have a positive attitude about life and bad experiences. Zora Hurston’s use of diction, imagery, and form all contribute to the theme in the essay. Zora Hurston’s diction enhances an understanding that Zora is self-confident. During this time period, it was not common for black women to be educated. Her diction is easy to understand even though she uses quotations from literary sources. Her word choice makes it quite obvious that she was self-confident. Happiness came from being herself. She describes herself as confident when she is strutting down the streets of New York with her hat. Zora believes that she belongs to...
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...1. The function of the first paragraph of “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” in setting the tone of the essay is for Hurston to express her views about being an African American girl in America. Hurston included strong diction in the first paragraph to inform her reader about her opinion of being colored. She also includes humor by using a hyperbole. Hurston says, “... except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief.” The author is sort of making fun of her own race and is saying that she is not as special as what other people thought she was. 2. Hurston counters the argument of being colored is a bad thing and that nobody would want to be colored. She says, “But I...
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...I Want to Make Me Feel Wanted Keshia Murphy Abilene Christian University February 9 2015 I Want to Make Me Feel Wanted “Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel us which needs to be ignited with sparks.” -Johann Gottfried Von Herder. Throughout life I have come to learn that I have a difficult time with needing to feel wanted. I am incredibly outgoing and have a lot of friends and family, but I do not always feel as though I am wanted in their presence or in their life. This need for wanting to feel wanted is what has fueled my career choice in wanting to be in the psychology/counseling profession. The need to feel wanted I grew up in a very traditional southern Baptist family. We prayed before each meal, we were in church every Sunday, never took the lord’s name in vain, modest in dress and speech, and always cared for our neighbors. We were that picture perfect little Christian family. I grew up in a nice suburban neighborhood. A place with great friends, fun and safe neighbors and a place where everyone wanted to know everyone. You felt invited and at home. Sounds great, until you have to go to school. The only surrounding schools were not so warm and inviting. Most of the students poured in from low income neighborhoods where violence, drugs and hatred were a norm. Going to these schools I and a few others were pretty singled out. We dressed different, looked different, smelled different...
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...Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama. She was the 5th out of 8 kids, and her parents were Lucy Ann and John Hurston. Her mother Lucy Ann was a teacher at the local school, and her father John Hurston was a Baptist preacher, and a tenant farmer. Her family moved to Eatonville, Florida when Zora was just three. Zora often felt that Eatonville was her home and often referred it as the place she was born in. Later her father became the mayor of Eatonville. In 1901, at a young age school teachers form the north visited and introduced her to different books, about the world, and this convinced her later to publish her very own essay in 1928, called “How It Feels To Be Colored Me”. Later on in 1904, Hurston’s mother...
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...quicksand let me classify ourselves as a group of individuals who have much time to think so as to recycle all kinds of emotions into this moment all over again. We very well know how it does feel when we are ecstatic about something, or when we are embarrassed, or sometimes get a shock of our lives, sometimes feel like crying our hearts out or sometimes plain bored to death. We can relate to all kind of feelings that ranges between these exaggerated memes, can’t we? But how do you relate if you were a robot? I would say that this is where you would feel the hint of a brainteaser, even if I assume your IQ to surpass Einstein’s. The fact that there is even a problem here seem to elude most people, it's hard to realize what it is and even harder to explain it. There is this default position that consciousness is, in principle, knowable and explainable in the framework of modern neurology and that there are no reasons to think otherwise. But did I mention earlier that I, for some daunting series of events, have started conceiving myself as a robot?! You might and should guffaw over this, but I want to experience these emotions all over again as a robot. So without humoring any soul, it’s understood that I’m a robot. My creator was some anonymous robotics genius (say Dr. X) who wants to know from me what pain feels like, since he/she has lost all stimuli out of a long illness. That was pathetic wasn’t it? But how would I know, I’m just a robot. Can a Robot feel pain? I talk to...
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...Race is a part of you. The Harlem renaissance explored this notion and popularized embracing black culture in writing and art. Zora Neale Hurston shares her experiences in her short story How It Feels to Be Colored Me. She describes her different treatment and views of being black in both cities she lived in. Hurston does not effectively argue her viewpoint due to her constant changes in opinions. She switches between believing race affects who one is and that it does not. Hurston is inconsistent with her arguments, but she uses harsh tones and opposition to show her view that race is a difference in human beings. She states that she is,”A dark rock surged upon, overswept by a creamy sea.” By using the adjectives dark and creamy she creates a sharp contrast for the reader and sets a harsh tone. Immediately, one separates the two in their minds. The objectification removes human emotions from the situation. There is no guilt or sympathy, but instead she creates a feeling of being overwhelmed physically. This contradicts her argument that race does not matter. She is being overwhelmed by the sea, so that shows white superiority in her mind. Then she goes on to say how she believes all humans are alike regardless of their race. The manifestation of that belief is in her objectification of herself, and all humans, as a brown paper bag. Color is used as a descriptor, but it only describes the outside of the...
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...Introducción al E-views Importante: Este manual está todavía en proceso (de hecho sos el primero en utilizarlo) así que se agradecerá todos los errores u horrores que encuentres, así como sugerencias para mejorarlo. Correcciones a: ndepetris@utdt.edu o ivanca@arnet.com.ar . El producto E-views provee herramientas de regresión y predicción bajo Windows. Con E-views usted puede revelar una relación estadística desde sus datos y luego utilizar esta relación para predecir valores futuros de los mismos. Dentro de las áreas en donde E-views puede ser útil están: Predicción de ventas Análisis y predicción de costos. Análisis Financiero. Predicción macroeconómica. Simulación. Análisis científico de los datos y evaluación. E-views es una nueva versión del conjunto de herramientas para manipular series de tiempo originalmente desarrolladas en el software Time Series Processor para grandes computadoras. El predecesor inmediato de E-views fue el MicroTSP, lanzado por primera vez en 1981. Aunque Eviews fue desarrollado por economistas y la mayoría de sus usos están en la economía, no hay nada que haga limitar su utilidad a las series de tiempo económicas. Inclusive considerables proyectos de corte transversal pueden llevarse a cabo en E-views. El objeto básico dentro de E-views es la serie de tiempo. Cada serie posee un nombre, y usted puede realizar cualquier tipo de operación sobre todas las observaciones simplemente mencionando el nombre de la serie. E-views provee convenientes...
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...ACTA DE CONSTITUCIÓN DEL PROYECTO – PROJECT CHARTER | A. INFORMACIÓN GENERAL. | | Nombre del Proyecto: RECONSTRUCCION Y MEJORAMIENTO DE LA INFRAESTRUCTURA Y EQUIPAMIENTO DE LA “INSTITUCION EDUCATIVA Nº 21015 | | Fecha de Preparación: | 03-12-11 | Preparado por: | Eric Escalante , Roger Molero, Luis Galindo y María José Villa | Autorizado Por: | María Jose Villa | | B. JUSTIFICACIÓN DEL PROYECTO. | * Debido al sismo ocurrido en la ciudad de Pisco, la infraestructura física de la IE N°21015 sufrió graves daños estructurales, por tal motivo se hace necesario una rehabilitación y reconstrucción de las estructuras afectadas. | * La IE N°21015 presta servicio a 1350 alumnos en dos turnos a nivel primaria durante todo el año escolar, siendo la principal institución educativa en toda la ciudad de Mala, por tal motivo se hace urgente su reconstrucción en el menor tiempo posible. | C. OBJETIVOS DEL PROYECTO. | * Rehabilitar y Reconstruir la Infraestructura y Equipamiento de la IE 21015. | * Costo: S/. 3 724 762.25. | * Plazo: 180 Días Calendario. | * Calidad: Según las Normas Vigentes. | D. ALCANCE DEL PROYECTO. | Dentro del Alcance.Producto | * Demolición de Infraestructura en mal estado, patios, veredas, tramos de Cerco de Ladrillo (4.00m) según indica los planos respectivos. | * Construcción de 21 Aulas, 01 Sala de computo, 01 Sala de profesores, 01 Sala de administración y 01 biblioteca. | * Rehabilitación de 06 aulas...
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