...“A Christian’s Perspective on Debt” The year 1990began a 10 year downward spiral into the pits of hell for me. After twenty years of marriage, my husband and I decided to get a divorce. I was left with nothing…no house, no furniture, a car I could not afford and the responsibility of providing for four children. All of a sudden, I was left alone to run a household and to raise four children singlehandedly. I was as green as grass, did not have a clue. I thought I could handle it all since I am a smart, educated, independent woman with a good job.I had excellent credit and a wallet full of credit cards. Never before had I been responsible for paying bills, my ex-husband paid foreverything. All of a sudden, I had a house note, car note, insurance, utilities, clothes, food, credit cards, and the list of bills just kept going on and onand on. Before I could get one bill paid the next one was in the mailbox. I knew that I had a decent job with a good pay but I was spending money faster than I was making it and pretty soon I did not make enough money to cover everything. Every time I turned around something was broken and needed to be repaired or one of the kids needed something. I began to usea credit card to purchase gas for my car to go to work. I used a different credit card to buy groceries. I paid tuition with a credit card. I bought books with a credit card. Pretty soon, I began to usea credit card to pay other credit cards. I was trapped in a vicious cycle of debt. I tried...
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...Discover The Universal Secret Of Health, Wealth, Freedom, Joy, And Life-Changing, Non-Stop Abundance! 1 All Rights Reserved Copyright 2012 www.ManifestationMiracle.com No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted or distributed in any form or by any means, electrical or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system without permission in writing from ManifestationMiracle.com. The information contained in this book is provided ‘as is’ without warranty of any kind. The entire risk as to the results and the performance of the information is assumed by the user, and in no event shall ManifestationMiracle.com be liable for any consequential, incidental or direct damages suffered in the course of using the information in this book. Manifestation Miracle Secret System Table of Contents Foreword ............................................................................................................ 7 Introduction ......................................................................................................... 9 Part 1: You Are Destined for Success Chapter 1: The Secret Ingredient That Will Send You on the Path to Your Dreams ....................................................................................... 14 Exercise: Heartstorming ................................................................................. 20 Chapter 2: You Aren’t What You Eat....You Are What You Think, Feel, See and Vibrate ....
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...THE SECRET by Rhonda Byrne - Reaction Paper The Secret is a book written by Rhonda Byrne, which is known as the best-selling book in 2006. I was amazed when I entered the classroom and found out that we’ll be viewing/watching the DVD about The Secret. I have heard about this documentary since I was in 3rd year college and by this time I finally got the chance to watch a masterpiece. I wanted to watch this since but I never had the chance to because I got so busy with school activities but right now I think I am lucky that I am a part who knows The Secret and I am thankful to know it. To begin with, The Secret is a life changing, it makes you financially independent, it let your mind powerful and lastly, it will make you successful. The Secret is kept hidden from thousands of people and they let their ignorance spread to people; it was buried, coveted, suppressed and it was never revealed to the public. According to Bob Proctor, a philosopher, the secret gives you anything you want; happiness, health, and wealth. He also said that “we become what we think”, which means whatever we think it predict our future. The law of Attraction is The Secret; what we see, hold, or even our thoughts are equivalent to what we need, want or even demand and it attracts to you. Like what I watched and jotted down, an optimistic thought is a thousand’s more powerful than pessimistic thought. The more you think, the more it will happen because the universe is reacting to what you want; which...
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...Happy Together: “messages sent to no one” The scene in which Chang takes Fai’s tape-‐recorded sadness to the “end of the world” represents a different kind of feeling compared to the theme of the rest of the movie. The “end of the world” is the only one scene which is characterized by magnificence, brightness, and the revealing of happiness upon the release of sadness. In the film, sadness is materialized as the tape recording of one person’s past thoughts, language and emotions. This concept represents a special relationship between time and memory: recording is a method of missing, and the action of leaving tape in the end of the world is to forget completely. In this film, Fai misses his controversial life with Bo-‐wing that is full of love and sadness. So, Fai wants to forget the whole past life, since the deeper he loves Bo-‐wing, the more sadness he will suffer...
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...In this essay, I would like to compare and contrast gender roles/marriage and primarily show through two literary works found in my textbook the differences and likenesses of each story, as they are being told to the audience. The short stories that I have chosen to discuss for this essay are “The Necklace”, by Guy de Maupassant and “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, by James Thurber. I will try to compare and contrast both stories and give the audience a brief summary, explaining the likenesses and differences and engaging the reader, while doing so. In the short summary of the short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty". This short-story tells the tale of Walter Mitty while on a trip into town with his wife, the bossy and serious Mrs. Mitty. Walter is sadly incompetent of doing many things; he forgets a lot of things, is very absent-minded while driving, and cannot handle the simplest tasks. But, what makes Walter unique throughout this short-story is his imagination. While Walter goes through his tasks, he escapes into a world of many fantasies, each brought on by reality. While driving his car he starts to day dream that he is a commander on a “Navy hydroplane" going through a storm. (Clugston, 2010). While passing a hospital, he believes he is a famous surgeon, known throughout the world for saving lives. He imagines he is being interrogated in court on a case, when he hears a newsboy shouting about a trial. Also, when he is waiting for his wife, he imagines himself...
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...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 in your circle of thought (local ethics). You don't find happiness, you choose happiness; it is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run. Happiness is...
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...in maintaining relationships. Most of the characters, in her stories have been facing a difficulty in communicating their feelings to the opposite character. Jhumpa Lahiri is an American Indian, who was born in London and brought up in the United states. Through her stories, in the book ‘Interpreter of Maladies’, she communicates her thoughts about relationship problems faced by couples, parents and american indian children. Some of the characters from the book are engaged in an arranged marriage, whereas the others commit in a love marriage.Couples fitting in both the categories have been facing relationship problems due to different reasons. In the story, ‘interpreter of Maladies’, Communication breaks down repeatedly often with hurtful consequences. Mr Kapasi is engaged in an arrange marriage, whereas Mr and Mrs Das are committed in a love marriage. Mr. Kapasi, who is the interpreter of maladies, has lost his ability to communicate with his wife, forcing him to drink his tea in silence at night and leading to a loveless marriage. Mr and Mrs Das have lost the ability to communicate because Mrs Das has been keeping a dark secret from Mr Das which can kill their marriage. On the other hand, Shukumar in ‘The Temporary Matter’, has not had a proper conversation with his wife, since their child’s death. The...
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...Every family has its discord, but none a bad as Biff and Happy from ‘Death of a Salesman’. These two brothers were very close when they were younger, but one incident changed the whole dynamic of the family’s relationship. Biff, the eldest son of Willy and Linda Loman, was supposed to be the one with the most potential, but fell short of the goals everyone set for him. The three main differences of these two brothers was their age and responsibilities that came with the age, the fact that Biff was a realist while Happy was ignorant and delusional like his father, and the and attention. The eldest is always burdened with more knowledge, higher expectations and more secrets than the younger one. Biff is the only one who knows the real Willy Loman. He knows him as a cheat, a liar and a man riddled with suicidal tendencies. When Biff failed his math test he rushed to Boston where his father was on a ‘business’ trip and discovers the mistress who had been receiving all of his mother’s stockings. He knows that Willy lies about being well liked and making all the money that he does, he borrows most of it and takes it as his own accomplishments. He is also the only person to find the evidence that Willy had tried to kill himself of Monoxide poisoning with a small tube Willy hid behind the water heater. Happy on the other hand sees nothing wrong with his father in the same way the father saw nothing wrong with Biff. In the end Happy follows his father’s exact footsteps in his own attempt...
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...headmaster’s office. The headmaster, Mr. Woodsworth, tells Jerome that his father has died in an accident. Jerome has always thought that his father was some Secret Service Agent for Britain. He therefore assumes that his father was killed in a gunfight. Mr. Woodsworth then tells that his father was killed by a pig fallen on him. Jerome reacts in a special way; he doesn’t cry or show any grief. The accident is rather comical than sad to other people. When Jerome gets older he is ashamed of telling people how his father died. At some point people starts to call him pig. When Jerome gets engaged later in life he still is embarrassed about the accident. Jerome and his fiancée Sally avoid his aunt. But when his aunt finally tells Sally about the accident Sally doesn’t laugh, but she becomes saddened to what happened. This makes Jerome happy and he finally has a bright positive attitude. Jerome becomes a happier person at the end of the story. Sally changes him in a good way. 3. At the beginning of the story Jerome becomes a victim of his father’s death. He gets more and more embarrassed of the accident and people starts to call him pig. This makes Jerome’s life hard and embarrassed. But at the end his fiancé hears about the accident. But she doesn’t laugh, she gets sad. This is changes Jerome’s life. He gets a more positive attitude and he is happy. 2. The irony is placed between the dialogue between the headmaster and Jerome at the beginning of the story. The circumstance...
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...because that was what she was used to? Was it alright for her to pull the strings in everyone else’s life because she wasn’t happy with hers? Does love justify these actions with a powerful claim to make you jealous, envious, and malicious to the receiver? Hedda Gabbler used the absence of love to continue to hurt people who cared about her and loved her. Hedda was a controlling kind of person who basically cared about what other people thought of her more than what she thought of herself. The fact that she was bored with her life wasn’t any better so I guess she thought she was justified in making others life’s worst. I think this was an excuse because her father never showed her love at all when he was alive. The fact that she had his picture still watching over her she was never really fully able to show her true emotions. She would never be happy because of her past and she’s paying for it in her present. I thought this is just like so many people in the world today, even though she had a father she probably couldn’t express herself like she wanted to because it would be looked down upon. That’s why she was never happy in the house she had or the husband she married it all was a part of her status. When Love Bourg came back into the picture you could tell that they had something going on because she couldn’t let Mrs. Elvsted be happy and she would tell all of her secrets to make him not want to be around. This reminded me of the mean girls in high school who used to prey...
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...75 year old woman. Whoever sees her thinks she's 40 years old, maximum. I always wondered what was the secret the kept her looks so youthful. I thought it must be a face cream, lots of spa sessions or something like that. The other day while visiting her, I decided to ask, "Grandma, what helps you look so young?" She replied: "I am always happy my child." I found that a bit odd to be honest. How can someone be this old and never face pain or misery? It is statistically impossible. So I asked her one more time "Grandma, how is that possible?" She replied wisely once again: "Every human being has the choice of being happy or not. It is a simple matter of being positive all the time, whatever life threw at me, I looked...
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...is Your Approach to Life? By DeAnn Adler After many years of living, I still don’t have life completely figured out and I’m assuming I never will, but age has given me some wisdom and I have hopefully learned a few things in all that time. I have not one philosophy of life, but many, and all of them put together make me the person I am today. During my senior year in high school over thirty-two years ago, the teacher in my civics class asked what we students thought was the secret to a happy life. A blond, curly headed boy in the class answered that he thought “everything in moderation” was the key to a successful, happy life. I’ve never forgotten those words, even after all this time, and they’ve become a part of who I am and how I’ve lived my life. In ancient Greece, the temple of Apollo at Delphi bore the inscription Meden Agan - 'Nothing in excess'. 1 The ancient Greeks knew what my high school classmate had—that moderation makes life run more smoothly. Moderation in this day and age is not always hip though. What are cool are extremes, from extreme sports to extreme home makeovers. But it seems that for a lot of people, straying from the path of moderation causes nothing but heartache, from the drinker who loses everything to the bottle, to the gambler who loses his life’s savings. The more extreme our wants, the more we must accumulate to make ourselves happy. But I also think moderation can make for an extremely boring life. It’s a life played safely and ...
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...Friends are people without whom your life wouldn’t be complete. They are the people who you know for ages, or even if you don’t you feel like you were born on the same day. They will always be by your side and will help you with any troubles. In the dictionary you can find three definitions of friendship: 1. The quality or condition of being friends 2. A friendly relationship 3. Friendliness, good will In order to know what all these definitions mean we need to figure out what is the definition for friends. A friend is defined as a person whom one knows, likes, and trusts. So friendship is when two people know each other well, and trust each other. Friendship is the relationship between two people who really care about each other. Your friendship will keep you happy, but it is not easy. Friendship demands time and effort, and sometimes you have to step over your pride and put yourself on the place of your friend, and see what she feels even if you think you are correct. But in exchange, a friend can provide a lot of support and comfort in good times and bad. Many things are needed to make friendship a real one, including trustworthiness, support, honesty, and loyalty. Friendship is supposed to make both people happy, and enjoying their relationship. Yes, each person has an individual character and it is hard to find people who share your thoughts. Also, it might occur that at one point of life you are friends, and then something...
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...Secrets Have Consequences In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, the main characters Jane Eyre, Edward Rochester, and Jane’s aunt, Mrs. Reed, learn that one lie or secret can accumulate into many lies or secrets and affects everyone around them as time progresses. In the beginning of the story Jane’s aunt, Mrs. Reed, hides things from Jane as a child, which affects her as a young adult, and Jane learns the secret of Thornfield which not only changes her life, but many others as well. In other words, characters’ lives, personalities, and so much more can change due to lies and secrets, just how Mrs. Reed keeps secrets and lies to Jane as a child that affect her as a young adult. Initially, Mrs. Reed kept secrets and lied to Jane as a young child to not allow Jane to have a good life as a child, and an adult due to her jealousy. For an example, as a child, Jane was punished for actions she did not do, but her cousin John did and got away with because of Mrs. Reed’s jealously. As her punishment, she was sent to the red-room which frightened Jane because her uncle, Mr. Reed, passed away in it. In the red-room there was a secret drawer in the closet. Inside of the secret drawer there were papers, clothes, a jewel-casket, a portrait of Mr. Reed, “and in those last words lies the secret of the red-room—the spell which kept it so lonely in spite of its grandeur” (8). While Jane was in the red-room she began to wonder why she deserved such awful treatment and what has she done to her aunt...
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...What is Your Approach to Life? By DeAnn Adler After many years of living, I still don’t have life completely figured out and I’m assuming I never will, but age has given me some wisdom and I have hopefully learned a few things in all that time. I have not one philosophy of life, but many, and all of them put together make me the person I am today. During my senior year in high school over thirty-two years ago, the teacher in my civics class asked what we students thought was the secret to a happy life. A blond, curly headed boy in the class answered that he thought “everything in moderation” was the key to a successful, happy life. I’ve never forgotten those words, even after all this time, and they’ve become a part of who I am and how I’ve lived my life. In ancient Greece, the temple of Apollo at Delphi bore the inscription Meden Agan - 'Nothing in excess'. 1 The ancient Greeks knew what my high school classmate had—that moderation makes life run more smoothly. Moderation in this day and age is not always hip though. What are cool are extremes, from extreme sports to extreme home makeovers. But it seems that for a lot of people, straying from the path of moderation causes nothing but heartache, from the drinker who loses everything to the bottle, to the gambler who loses his life’s savings. The more extreme our wants, the more we must accumulate to make ourselves happy. But I also think moderation can make for an extremely boring life. It’s a life played safely and without...
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