...job is multifascited as the exec director, I manage the JMJ centers, 2 centers and mobile centers that go around on an RV. Coordinates everything, helps out in centers, go into the community. What JMJ is, what we do, promote that in the community to help secure volunterrs, fundin,g, promote awareness. Do a lot of strategic planning on how we're gonna grow. Trying to figure out what addicitonal programs we can offer. And then go out and do the speaking and build awareness. Various churches, youth ministries, and drink beer too. Whatever we need to do, oh I'll do it. I'm also an event planner. It's wonderful. Up until july, I was an engineer. Doing it for 11 years. Involved in JMJ, I loved everything about it, I was just busy. I had 3 little kids and work and all kinds of stuff going on. Not as involved as wanted to be. In April, our previous exec director wanted to retire. Looked at husband and said wanted to do this. Very fufilling. Transition into role. Completely new to me. So much fun and so awesome to be able to effect people's lives everyday. See the joy and gratefullness. Beautiful experence. Do you like your job? What do you like about it? I think the biggest thing is to be able to affect people in a positive way. As an enginner, I got to talk to oeopel and develop code, it was kind of boring and wasn't fulfilling. It was comfortable, I appreciated being paid very well. That was the hesitation. Once I made the jump, I realized that to be able to interact with people...
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...been the type to own up to them right off the bat. I find it awkward and sometimes too far off, raising a problem when ignoring it was all you probably needed. The thing is I still think about it. You’re not a idiot; it’s pretty obvious. I think you’re amazing and that won’t change no matter what this manages to morph itself into. And in my opinion, it doesn’t need to. But I think about the song, I think about the poems, I think about the unfinished story rotting because I’ve lost what motivated me to complete it. A story is a what-could-have-been right? When we daydream about our futures, daydream about bravery and acceptance and victory, it’s just a fantasy story of our lives. Sometimes I just have to write it down to make sure I don’t lose it. Don’t forget it. Understand that once upon a time, I was such and such. People say in the future, they’ll look back and laugh. I won’t laugh; I’ll understand. Perhaps not why, why you, why this time, why so silent and why so demanding but I’ll understand the circumstances. I’ll understand what drove me and what tore it apart. My entire life’s story out there for everyone to see. Sometimes I feel so exposed. It’s weaving together assumptions that are sometimes so out there, right in the open. But that’s okay, because even things I write a month ago, I no longer understand. I don’t know whom I was so pissed off at and what made me write a passage on loneliness. I don’t need to. It’s all in the moment. &...
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...I am 47 years old and I live in Texarkana, Texas. I moved to Texarkana about twelve years ago to get away from the craziness in Houston, Texas. So, I decided to move to the country where I now live with my boyfriend, two, toypoodles, a ferret and my boyfriends parents. We all live in the country on 5 ½ acres. Our home is 2 homes in one which are both separated, the parents live on one side and we live on the other. Once you have been use to living the city life and move to the country it can be quite an adjustment because there is not much to do in Texarkana, Tx compared to Houston. For instance, simple things for me like driving to town seem like such a chore. Since moving to the country instead of going shopping for dinner no more then a mile from home I now have to drive over fifteen miles to town. Sometimes i feel like I have wasted my entire day. The up side of living in the country is that it is quite peaceful and you do not have your neighbor in your back yard. I have four children 2 girls and 2 boys. My girls are Diana my oldest 29 who has two children My grandchildren Makelia 7 and Baby Juan 4. My daughter Mary is 28 and she has 3 boys Vince 8, Louie, 3, and Baby Luke who is 1 ½ . Then, my boys are Brigido 26 (he is my trouble child) who gave me my 2 beautiful grandchildren Isaiah 8, and Destiney who is 4. My baby is Cameron he is 22 years old and in college in Austin, Tx. I am not working at this point because I have been working on obtaining custody of my 2...
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...agree on the suggestions he makes or vice versa. His profession requires a large amount of integrity, nobility and honesty because many local congressmen instead of helping the city they have been caught stealing money from projects for the city. “Sometimes I feel really homesick” (Casal). His job makes him travel a lot to Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora. Hermosillo is 450 kilometers away from Nogales, it’s a 4 hour drive, and he stays in Hermosillo for days or even a whole week. These trips distance Moises from his family. He have miss many important family events like his sons college graduation , wedding anniversaries, and even he has been alone in a hotel room during his birthday, and I know all this because Moises Casal is no stranger to me, he is my uncle. “Helping people has been one of my truth passions” (Casal). Moises always loved helping people since he was a little kid and that love for helping made him wanted to be a doctor. When he was 26 years old he graduated from medical school and became a otorhinolaryngologist and his life got better when he married my aunt Teresita. “The happiest day of my life was when I married my beautiful wife” (Casal). “As a doctor I helped a lot of people, but I felt like could do more for my community” (Casal). Moises worked in the medical field for 20 years, and he noticed...
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...DEATH TAKES THE TRAIN by D. M. Larson Copyright (c) 2012 by Freedrama.net A train car is empty. Groups of people shuffle in and settle in to seats to the right. People are talking about their trips and their destinations and how tired or hungry they are. Then after a pause, the Grim Reaper walks on to the train and sits alone at the left side of the train car. MEL Is that who I think it is? MITCH I think so. MEL What's he doing on this train? TINA How do you know it's a he? MEL Death is always a guy. TINA Always? MEL I think so. TINA But he's wearing a dress. MITCH Or is more of a moo-moo. MEL Robe... it's a robe. Guys can wear robes. TINA After a shower. MITCH Or if they are some kind of judge. TINA Death is a like a judge. MEL True... I see what you mean. TINA A justice of the peace? MITCH A justice of rest in peace. TINA Nice one. MITCH Thanks. TINA You're welcome. MITCH So what's he doing here? TINA He's got a client I guess. MEL One of us? TINA No, he's probably on his way somewhere. MITCH Why is death taking the train? MEL His winged horse o' death didn't have the guts to go there... get it... because it's a skeleton horse... no guts... TINA Please don't explain the joke. It's not funny if you have to explain it. MEL Geez... I'll just let Mitch make all the jokes then. TINA Thank you. MITCH You're welcome. TINA Death taking the train doesn't make any sense. Doesn't that take too long? Wouldn't death...
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...Dickinson's poem, "I Like to See it Lap the Miles," she uses personification, alliteration, and extended metaphors to enhance her writing. First, Emily Dickinson uses personification to make her writing more alive. Personification is when you take something that isn’t living, for this case, a train, and give it human characteristics. For example, she uses, as the poem states: "And stop to feed itself at Tanks" this clearly shows how the train, an important part of the poem, is "feeding" itself at the tank, really referring to the train refilling its tanks so it can continue to move. Also, the poem states: "And lick the Valleys up -" this quote shows how the train is "licking" the valleys, even though trains cannot lick. Therefore, the quote really means that the train is taking a lot of space out of the valley. Plus, the poem states: "Complaining all the while" this quote above shows the train is "complaining" and once again, since a train cannot complain, this really shows the train blowing the whistle to announce its arrival. Hence, this is one reason why Dickinson uses personification in her writing; to make her writing more interesting....
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...lips as they mouth words from the paper in her hands. Was she a student? An office worker? You would never know because she got off at the next stop. She existed in between the stops you noticed her. We don’t take the train. We squeeze into a bubble that goes from A to B. The stops in between are our meditation places; the time: our infinity. The average commute time on the subway for a New Yorker is 54 minutes a day. According to the MTA, 4.3 million people take the subway everyday. This means that daily, the amount of time spent in the subway for people in total is 232 million minutes or about 4 million hours. Practically infinity....
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...The Amtrak train arrived on schedule at 6 a.m. or so, as I'm sitting in the Boston train station still attaching - as it turned out unnecessary - locks to my luggage. Hustling to the train dragging two large suitcases was a feat. One kept twisting and turning, refusing to stay on its wheels. As if it didn't want me to leave. I hugged my daughter and blew kisses to the baby. Suddenly, I'm welling up with tears. I'd told the entire family that I was traveling for the next two months at least. The adventures I'd imagined and the time by myself didn't factor in the reality that I'd miss them terribly. Would the baby forget me in two months? How would they get along without me? Would my absense leave a hole during events? My daughter texts me a few minutes later asking me not to leave. Too late as the train rolls out of South Station. We're both crying and texting as the wheels put more distance between us. It's my first time away from home, and the first time she'll be without me. The older daughter seems fine with my departure. She understands it's an adventure, and professes a bit of...
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... The result is a new ice age that wipes out all life on earth. The last survivors of humanity live on a train, created by the godlike Wilford, that is in perpetual motion around the globe and at this time the train has been circling the world for almost 18 years. The train is separated into an elaborate caste system, based upon the type of ticket passengers had when they first boarded. Those with first class tickets live towards the front of the train with every luxury imaginable. Those that had 3rd class tickets or were free riders live at the end of the train and lost all of their human rights. In the film, the class distinctions on the train mirror the class struggles between Karl Marx's bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Those in the front of the train represent the bourgeoisie or capitalists and those at the back of the train represent the proletariat whose “work” is to procreate. The most obvious scene that suggests Marxism is when, Claude, the right hand of Wilford, enters the back of the train to take children of a certain size again. At one point the father of a seized child throws his shoe at her head. After which Minister Mason, represents Wilford who doesn’t leave the front of the train, comes in to bestow the punishment for this so called atrocity, along with a speech; “Order is the barrier that holds back the flood of death. We must all of us on this train of life remain in our allotted station. We must each of us occupy our preordained particular position. Would...
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...Cultural Event Report (Museum) HUM 112 World Culture II September 11, 2011 South Carolina State Museum 301 Gervais Street Columbia, South Carolina Friday, September 9, 2011 Cultural Event Report (Museum) The South Carolina State Museum tells the story of South Carolina through its many exhibits and programs. The museum shares many cultural history, natural history, science, technology, and art that display an interconnection to its tourists. The museum is located in the Columbia, South Carolina downtown area in a large building that holds many historical items and accommodates large groups of people. The museum’s elevator has a capacity that holds about 75 people, which is larger than the average elevator. There are four floors of historical pieces for viewing. The museum exhibits some of South Carolina most tangible and historical collection of the early 18th, 19th and 20th centuries including an area dedicated to the civic war, African American (slavery) and first discovered equipment such as, various communication equipment, audio, television, and electricity. The African American area exhibits some inspiring cultural displays. During my visit to the South Carolina State Museum on Friday, September 9, 2011, my most memorable African America exhibit was the African America Custom Funeral display. The museum displayed a hearse that African American used to carry a coffin for the decease. The black box hearse had a glass view on both sides revealing...
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...The B&O Railroad By: Jaime Lewis For: Professor Knutson November 26, 2013 CON 101 Abstract The construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad started in July of 1828. The city of Baltimore came up with the idea to build this railroad from Baltimore to Ohio because of the competition throughout the popular seaports in the United States. Baltimore was already a popular city, but adding a train that could carry people as well as goods would make more people travel to Baltimore, and other places along the train’s route, bring goods into Baltimore, and help keep Baltimore alive. The B&O railroad was always expanding. The railroad is best known for being the first railroad in the United States that used a steam locomotive. B&O Railroad Why was there a need for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad? The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was built due to competition throughout the main seaports in the United States. Due to the fact that Baltimore is at the top of the Chesapeake Bay, it had many advantages over other ports. Another way for goods to be transported from Baltimore all they way to Ohio was a great idea for Baltimore, therefore causing the plan for the B&O Railroad. During this time Baltimore was flooding with business. They constantly had ships coming into the harbor as well as trucks riding the highways. Baltimore was (and still is) such a popular and thriving city, so the railroad made sense to help keep business, and the city, alive. Baltimore had to...
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...Sheriff Toasty I was on my break, with no interest of fighting crime like a good man. I was at the Olie lolly South, a restaurant on good old Main street- the only street in the town. It was a small town, an attraction for train passengers. Only about 100 citizens lived here, but we all knew each other. After eating my chewy chicken fried steak, and a delicious, salty, buttery mashed potato, I went to the back room, put my feet up, and drank some nice warm coffee. The coffee felt like an exciting sizzle on my tongue, it was hot. This was the normal life for me, I would scout the whole town in the morning and then at 2 o'clock I would get some food, and relax until the next day. That morning was specifically tiring since all crime had stopped, except one man. A strange man he was, since nobody has ever seen his face. He is most famous for the smuggle of 75’. A huge train was stopped in it’s tracks, and he was seen sneaking off with piles of loot. He had robbed another small choo choo this morning and I had no chance of getting on him. I leaned back and thought to myself, tomorrow i’ll catch that fool. The next morning came fast, I ate my porridge breakfast, then...
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...Sex/Gender • On the subway, I noticed the gender of riders are almost split evenly, but I feel like that there are more females then males on the train. • The people who sit down mostly on the train are predominately females, elderly, and women traveling with young children. Most people will offer a seat to pregnant woman, elderly and women with young children. • The females have more privileges over seat and more women tend to sit more over men. Men tends like to stand more over women due to gender role as men are expected to be muscular and standing up kind of show their muscularity than sitting down. • The people who stand on the train and hold the handrail are predominately-young people and males. Race/Ethnicity • On the subway,...
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...September 18, 1984 Dear Diary, I was late again! I woke up twenty minutes late this morning for the second time this week. From the moment I got up, I had a feeling it was going to be a long and dull day. Everything wasn’t going according to schedule and how I would like it to be. Earlier this week, when I arrived at the Yokosuka station at this time the train had already been long gone. However, today by walking with a slight jog, I was able to make it onto the train at the nick of time. Looking around in my second-class cabin, it was pretty empty; there were only a few others that I noticed. Upon a few stops, a young girl walked in, she wasn’t someone I would normally take interest in, but something about her did. It wasn’t the clothes she was wearing that appealed to me or even her looks. It was the third-class ticket she was holding in her hands. Since she got on was second-class, I assumed that this would be her very first time on a train; either that or she was just plain stupid. Throughout the ride she held the ticket with a firm grip. It almost felt like she was holding a part of her life that she can’t afford to lose. After a couple of minutes, she began to yank at the window trying to get it open, though it was meant to be closed during the ride. The window flew open with a loud “BANG”. As the smoke was slowly clearing, she lunged half her body out the side of the train. She had picked up the tangerines which she was carrying on her...
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...as orphans no place to go. Chapter 1 Alone (Nava)- I don’t remember much before it happened. All I can remember was my mom scrambling to hide Asher and I from the Nazis. My father was stashing (hiding) away books, money, and valuables. Then they came. The Nazis took my mother and she started screaming (yelling) she loved us. The Nazi’s told her to be quiet but she wouldn’t....
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