...Friends (stylized as F•R•I•E•N•D•S) is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television. The original executive producers were Crane, Kauffman and Kevin S. Bright, with numerous others being promoted in later seasons. Kauffman and Crane began developing Friends under the title Insomnia Cafe in November/December 1993. They presented the idea to Bright, with whom they had previously worked, and together they pitched a seven-page treatment of the series to NBC. After several script rewrites and changes, including a second title change to Friends Like Us, the series was finally named Friends and premiered on NBC's coveted Thursday 8:30 pm timeslot. Filming for the series took place at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California in front of a live studio audience. The series finale (the 236th episode), airing on May 6, 2004, was watched by 51.1 million American viewers,[1] making it the fourth most watched series finale in television history[2][3] and the most watched episode of the decade.[4] Friends received positive reviews throughout its run, becoming one of the most popular sitcoms of all time. The series won many awards and was nominated for 63 Primetime Emmy Awards. The series, an instant hit from its debut, was also very successful in the...
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...My friend Every person needs a friend. Friends are very important in our life. I think you cannot live without friends. A friend is a person who always there for you. Your close friend or best friend is a person whom you can trust with everything no matter what happens. Your true friend is always ready to help you. To support you if you do something wrong and to solve problems together with you. They say that “a friend in need is a friend indeed”. I think it is really so. A friend is someone whom you can call ten years after no calling at all and he or she will be gald to hear you. You probably already guessed that I want to tell you about my friend. Her name is Dasha. We became acquainted with each other at the entrance examinations. We chatted for a while, wished each other good luck and went. Two months later, I came back to Kurgan and settled in the dormitory. To my surprise, I saw a familiar face in the coridor. It was Dasha. We were so happy , that we met each other, because we didn’t know anybody there. We immediately went to the commandant and asked to share a room. She allowed us. That’s how our friendship began. Dasha is three years older than me. She is small and slim at the waist. She holds her body upright. She has long, abundant, dark, curly hair. Above her dark brown eyes lies a perfect set of full, well-marked eyebrows. She wears glasses, which suit her very well. Her rounded face sits atop her shoulders with a brilliant smile. Everybody calls her “a sun”. Her...
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...3. ‘A friend in need is a friend indeed’. Describe how a friend helped you in a difficult time. A friend is someone who always be there for you during thick and thin, who always be our best listener and who will always help us from barking up the wrong tree. Without a friend, ones will feel alone and never know how to socialize with people around him or her. Everyone in this world needs friends as companion in their life. So do I. We can have a lot of friends but to find a true and loyal one is the hardest. I have a best friend and I think she is the best girl I have ever met, El. We were enrolled in the same school since we are 7 years old. We used to be strangers at first but as we were placed in the same class, we get closed to each other. Plus, we are deskmate. She is a kind-hearted person. This pretty Kelantanese girl used to be very down to earth to all people that she met. She lived in a small town, outskirts of Kota Bharu. She was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Her father works as a pediatric specialist in one of the most well-known hospital in Kelantan. While her mom works as an English lecturer in Universiti Malaysia Kelantan. I was having a very difficult time when I was 15 years old. It was a calm and quiet night when I’m burning the midnight oil because the PMR was just around the corner. The residents around my housing area all asleep. It was only me and my pile of books. The clock on my pink room’s wall shown that the time was almost half past...
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...We can easily find friends but have you ever thought of what kinds of people you should make friend with? Friends are really important in our lives and they should be loyal, supportive, loving and kind-and we should give that loyalty, support, love and kindness back in return. How many friends we have is not as have a few friends who have similarity to you. Decide what kinds of friends who suitable for you is difficult, right? Here is a list of top three kinds of friends we should cultivate. The listener is a kind of friend who can sit near and listen to you. Sound strange, right? Of course, if you have a chat with your friends about your happiness, they will always listen to you; however, what if you talk to them about your family trouble, will all of them be able to sit patiently listen to you? If you can friends who can do that, hold them into your life because they are the listener. Another kind of friend is the twin. Have you ever met someone who has nearly every single interest similar to you? The twin is the one who seems to share every single interest that you have. For example, you both like country music and love reading. In short the twin is a friend who is just like you. It is really rare to find this kind of friend but you already have one, you are very lucky! The last one is the motivator. Sometimes, we think that having friends who can accept who we really are is enough but if we can find someone who can make our lives better, it would be the best. It does...
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...forms of relation that exist on this earth. Getting a sincere and loving friend is perhaps the best gift from God, which only lucky a few get. In fact, life becomes so very meaningless without a true friend’s presence beside you. Isn’t it? Millions memories,thousand inside jokes, hundreds of shared secrets, and one reason, BEST FRIEND !!I am so grateful to have such a great friend in my life! We met in Junior High, one of the toughest years for any adolescent. In a time where we were bonded and became life long friends. I don't really remember at what point in the day we actually met, but some things struck me when I was getting to know Joey. As her best friend, I KeSin must say something on this special moment. Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank you all for coming to my best friend’s 24th birthday party.Today im going to tell a short story about what make us bond together. Throughout the past 11 years, our friendship is still the same, still strong as before .I’m lucky to have her. She was sincere, thoughtful, kind, and full of energy. Her patient, humble, and sunshine bright smile make me feel comfortable and never have to worry about how she judges me for things that I love to do as I always expect unbiased, honest advice from her. Now I understand. She has the ability to lift up one's spirits and provide encouragement when times are roughThank you for always being there, as a friend and someone to talk to, and to make me my dinner when I come home from university...
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...practitioner of self-deprecating humor. Situational: Humor arising out of quotidian situations; it is the basis of sitcoms, or situation comedies. Situational comedies employ elements of farce, screwball, slapstick, and other types of humor. FRIENDS VS GOLDEN GIRLS The Golden Girls was one of the first sit-com shows that I remember watching with my grandmother who was a huge fan. As a result, I’ve always had a great fondness for the show. I’ve hummed its theme song and the still remarkable fact that it was a hit starring three women in their 60s. In the meantime, I’ve seen every episode of Friends and to this day would rather watch its re-reruns than almost anything else on TV. Friends may be hugely popular and beloved by mainly girls but that does not make it bad (it just makes it an easy target). Who would not laugh when they watch Monica dance with a turkey on her head? I assumed that Friends would win easily. But after re-watching The Golden Girls again now that I’m older, the competition has tightened up. Since Friends ended its ten-season run in 2004, audiences have been treated to/tortured by one clone after another. But before we lived in a world where there were dozens of shows just like Friends, there was Friends, which was a show sort of like...
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...Friends and the Realities of an Adult Social Life On television, the young adult, just beginning to make their own life is portrayed to have a family based on friends; while their contact with their biological family has diminished, their emotional closeness with their friends as a source for comfort and security has sky rocketed. However, in the Warner Brother’s hit sitcom, “Friends,” the life of Ross Geller takes the idea too far—those familiar with the show will remember the endless scenes of all six friends lounging around, often either talking in the coffee house, or in Monica’s apartment. However, the viewer will also struggle to remember where each character does for a living, and remembering any scenes that depict them at their jobs because, with the possible exception of Rachel during her waitressing years, the characters are rarely shown to work. Ross is the most unrealistically portrayed of them all: as a palaeontologist who also is a professor at New York University, and being a father sharing custody with an ex-wife it is difficult to understand how he has the time to socialize as much as the show depicts him too. “Friends” provides an unrealistic portrayal of how active Ross Geller’s social life is in comparison to his work and family commitments during the late 20th and early 21st century. Friends shows that most adults will frequently be able to engage in sexual intercourse regularly and with many different partners in the span of a few years. While Ross is...
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...1. The Promise Breaker This friend constantly disappoints you or breaks promises, most likely because she herself was constantly disappointed during her formative years. Your friend is unable to stop herself from repeating that pattern. It is an annoying but comfortable pattern for your friend, and without psychological help, it may be hard for her or him to alter this pattern. You could abandon the friend and the friendship, or you could find a way to detach yourself by lowering your expectations for this friendship. If she promises to do something for you, even to meet you for a cup of coffee, you can say, "Sure," but protect yourself by knowing, in the back of your mind, that this friend "nine times out of 10" is going to cancel on you. Although your friend may always have been this way, she may have also recently acquired this trait because of something she is going through right now. If a friend who has always been there for you, through thick and thin, has only recently become less reliable, you might want to cut her some slack. You have to decide if this is a lifelong trait that will be hard or impossible to change, a temporary condition that will be short-lived, or something, if it does continue indefinitely, that you are willing to accept and handle. One way to try to change the Promise Breaker is to help her to understand the consequences of your ignored pledges. Perhaps you have been keeping your disappointments about this to yourself. Try telling her how it...
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...IMAGINARY FRIEND; IS IT A PROBLEM? IMAGINARY FRIEND; IS IT A PROBLEM? It is quite common among children to have imaginary friends, with whom they talk, play, and even fight. It is also usual parental concerns regarding this issue, and the multiple visits to pediatricians, for fear that your child is suffering from some kind of disorder that could affect her future. Children at the age of 2 to 3 years old often begin to develop skills such as imagination, and it is at this stage when they begin to know their imaginary friends, almost establishing a parallel life to theirs. According to many experts, having unreal companions will not bring problems to our kids in their development. Actually, this fictitious world of fairies, princesses, and superheroes helps them grow and develop their emotions and creativity. Through these imaginary friends, children release positive and negative feelings, projecting. for instance, his conflicts with the diaper. The nonexistent relationships can strike up conversations and friendships that may help kids to understand better what´s right and wrong, and can even help them to broaden social skills. For example, children can start sharing their toys or clothes, blaming their fantastic friend for their mistakes ... etc. Parents should not participate in this world, but neither should repress nor reprimand the child for this game because it could create a conflict for the child and can make her to keep her imaginary friends from the...
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...Friend is the definition of a person who likes and enjoys being with someone. It started when I’m in middle school in 8th grade during the lunch period. I met a student name Brandon which we sat in a same table. I don’t talked to Brandon much because I was quiet. Supposedly, I mostly stay quiet for not talking to student too much and have conversation. When I’m with my new friend I wonder if Brandon is a good friend to hang out with. I decided to watch Brandon every time I see him around in lunch period. This way Brandon’s true nature reveals to me. The result of being social with Brandon tells me everything I need to know about himself. Even when I get to know him better, it’s still the same thing when Brandon reveal himself to me and I would do the same. I supposed to tell Brandon about one of the things about myself, but not everything about me. One of the most important attributes that I value a great deal in any friend of mine, and that makes up a great portion of my best friend, hence the importance, is trust. Without...
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...child talking with his own imaginary friend? It is quite a normal phenomenon which happens to children at the age of four or five. Some parents concern about this appearance. They think that it can be the result of physiological disorder of their child. This phenomenon can even been accepted as avoidance of reality. However, doctors claim that the fact of having imaginary friends shows some good qualities of children and has an important influence on them. The most significant result of having fictional friends is developed imagination of the person. These imaginary companions have certain personalities and behaviors which are given by their creators. For example, some of them can be brave and courageous character, the others shy and weak. All of them have different names, different jobs, different interests and different gender. The researches suggest that children are more likely to have unreal friends with similar gender. Also, it is a fact that most of the children borrow names for their creations from the names of surrounding them people or from the cartoons they like. This phenomenon may show another important impact on children in developing language and communication skills because they get more linguistic practice during conversations with their imaginary friends than with friends in real life. In addition, it makes them to be more friendly and communicable with schoolmates in future. Talking and playing with unreal friends can practice good manners, vocabulary...
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...Your Hot Best Friend So, you think being best friends with a hot chick will make you her future boyfriend? Style mo, bulok. Sure, being her best friend gives you front row seats, but it doesn’t put you one step ahead of her other admirers. It just means you’re the guy whom she can boss around because, you know, mag-best friend naman kayo, eh. And before you deny everything and say you never planned to use your best-friend status as a stepping stone, please, umayos ka. Friendship between a heterosexual boy and girl is normal, but the moment you label yourself as a female’s BEST friend, then it’s more likely that you have ulterior, more manyak motives. One Night Stan: How To Seduce Your Hot Best Friend"Guys, ano ba kayo? Close lang talaga kami ni Jenny." (Image via RDSNation.com) Let’s face it: A guy and a girl can’t be best of friends…unless one wants to bang the other. You can suppress what you feel all you want, but sooner or later, you can no longer deny the truth. BFF SEDUCTION: THE 7-STEP STANLEY STRATEGY Lucky for you, I’m an expert when it comes to the art of seduction, even when I’m not trying. (Hey, it’s not my fault if everybody wants to have sex with me—women, men, animals and even some vegetation. I can’t help it.) Anyway, after you decide to stop lying to yourself about why you’re best friends with a member of the opposite sex, you can finally apply these tried and tested techniques of mine to win your girl over to the non-friend zone. Step...
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...Synopsis The Society of Friends is a religion that emerged around the time of the Protestant Reformation in 17th century Great Britain. People of the Society of Friends are informally referred to as the Quakers, because they were said to tremble in fear of God. Religious freedom was not acceptable in England during the 17th century, and those who opposed the Church of England risked prosecution. Despite England’s strive to enforce religious law, the beliefs of the Quakers managed to spread through parts of England, Africa, and eventually North American colonies. Early Life The origination of the Quakers has been traced back as far as 1647. The Society of Friends is believed to have been founded by George Fox, an English Dissenter and a...
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...At the youthful age of twenty-one, I thought I knew of many secrets and strategies of how to win friends and influence people. Meeting strangers is in my comfort zone. I love talking to people; I enjoy learning how others process thoughts which form conversations. It has been said to me many times that I could have a conversation with a brick wall. Anyone that has ever literally tried having a conversation with a brick wall could come to this realization - having a real meaningful and effective conversation requires two logical people both interested in the other. After reading and studying Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, I discovered my tactics for interacting with others weren’t parallel to the ways you can actually triumph in the social world. The quote by Dale Carnegie painted a clear picture for how I should go about interacting with others – “There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.” The techniques used to obtain what we desire from people stem from our interpersonal skills and situational awareness. How to Win Friends and Influence People provides methods and instructions on how to handle people, how to make people like you, how to win people to your way of thinking, and how to be a leader. Within every objective Dale Carnegie presented I discovered an effective approach that would benefit both...
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...millionaire mindset club essential book summaries HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE by Dale Carnegie INTRODUCTION When Dale Carnegie first sat down to write How to Win Friends and Influence People he really didn’t realize exactly what a best seller it would be, nor did he realize that over 70 years later it would still be in print - and be acclaimed as ‘the best all time’ self-help book in the world. The book was first published in 1937 and was developed from the real life experiences of hundreds of people, rather than from just one person’s opinions. The idea for the book was brought about by the results of an investigation conducted by the Carnegie Foundation that was carried out to determine how people became financially successful. The investigation found that success took only fifteen percent of actual technical knowledge, and that the actual key to success rested on the other eighty five percent. This eighty five percent was identified as possessing skills in human engineering: the ability to get on with others well, your individual outlook and people skills. These results came as a shock to many at the time as these skills were not widely taught in courses or classes. A new concept had been discovered and a large hole emerged that needed to be filled by a new peopled-skilled class. This is how the Dale Carnegie Course In Effective Speaking and Human Relations was born – and the book a mere set of ideas on memo cards which were discussed and lectured on. These...
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