...does in the story in a real life situation. I picked Madame Loisel over Monsieur Loisel because, in my opinion, her character in the story is the most unbelievable. One of the biggest reasons that I think Madame Loisel is not believable as a character is because she worked for ten years to pay off a debt that could have been prevented in the first place. She could have prevented the debt by her just simply not losing the necklace, because, in reality, it would be very hard to lose a necklace because it is literally attached to her neck so, unless if she took it off, or it broke, it would be nearly impossible to lose it. Nevertheless, even if she did end up breaking it, she could have had it repaired and returned it to her friend with no questions asked....
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... Acura Integra Repair Manual Review Do you own a car and have had to take it in for maintenance or for any type of reason at any auto shop whether it’s the dealer or your local automotive shop? You leave out of their feeling like you got robbed for your money. I personally never had that feeling just because I work on my own car but I know people who have. That’s why I strongly advise you to purchase your own repair manual for your vehicle. As I received my repair manual for my car I was happy to say that I was very satisfied for what I purchased, it provided me with the opportunity to save money by helping myself look up problem for my car, if I was ever in trouble and needed something to help me fix my car, instead of wasting money on a mechanic. I have a 1991 Acura Integra which has been a little sick lately that’s why I took matter into my own hands and purchased a repair manual. My expectations on this product fully met and exceeded my expectations. It met my expectations by giving me more information I wanted to know about my vehicle. I thought I knew everything there is to know about my vehicle but that quickly got proven wrong by this manual. I have learned to read cell codes and how to troubleshoot the code. In addition this manual has taught me how to properly inspect my car if I ever have any problems in the future. My expectation as I received my item was very positive, I was so happy when it arrived. The moment it arrived I began...
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...them around nine to eleven each line. Doing this allows the poem to flow seemingly without effort. The opening statement in the first stanza states that losing is not hard to master. She then follows by personifying "loss" that it was "filled with intent to be lost" . This implies that "loss" wants to be lost, giving "loss" an implication of want. She then states that because things are meant to be lost losing them will "not be disaster". People lose things every day and telling people to accept lost is to prepare people for the bigger losses in life. Losing trivial items such as a set of keys or an hour badly spent may seem really easy as she suggests but it could even cause a sane person to go crazy. After the lost of an item, the meaning is also lost and therefore no longer matters. With losing consistently losing then becomes a habit. This is indicated through the third stanza where she now tells people to start losing faster and losing more. Eventually one will start to lose more items because now it is in their nature to lose. They will gradually start to lose more significant items, "places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel", and then those too will start to lose their meaning. When she repeats her refrain in line six the meaning of the refrain gradually shifts as the poem goes on. Instead of just admitting that "the art of losing" is hard she insist that "none of these will bring disaster." In the process of trying to convince the reader she is also trying...
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...merchandise and potential buyers to place bids on a variety of items. The length of a auction can last anywhere from a couple days to a couple weeks. While the auction is going on people are all making bids on the merchandise that they are interested in buying. At the end of the auction the person with the highest bid has won the item. The items that are on Ebay range from trading cards to automobiles. In order to buy or sell anything on Ebay a person has to create a profile and after this is done then they can began the process of either buying or selling. Some of the advantages of using Ebay are that it is an online marketplace where you can buy things from all over the world, without leaving your home. You can get things that you would never think anyone would bother to sell, and you can get them cheaply. The search engine allows you to find things that you weren’t even actually looking for. Not only that, but you can send money quickly and electronically to almost all of these sellers, without worrying about currency conversion or exchange rates or anything else. Now some of the disadvantages of using Ebay are that some people never really thought about how much it cost to send even the smallest thing to the other side of the world. The prices sometimes are very high and it will make people think twice about using Ebay. Then another thing is that Ebay is packed with people trying to fraud and scam you, preying on the innocent users who’ve heard that Ebay is a great...
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...Techniques You Must Know If you are interested in losing weight, make sure to avoid unhealthy food items or fat diets because these food items will rarely benefit you. If you become habitual of consuming unhealthy food items or junk foods, then it may also serve as an obstacle. By consuming healthy diet and doing good amount of exercise, you can lose nearly 3 pounds of body weight in a week. By following a healthy eating plan, you can start your process of weight loss, but if you want to achieve the results at a faster pace, it is imperative to exercise. The first few weeks of a weight loss diet program can bring weight loss results, but these results may be the result of reducing water weight. It may be because of the fluid retention capacity of your body is reduced when you minimize the intake of salt and starches. Piracetam stimulates Acetylcholine receptor sites, have a word with your physical instructor before using it....
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...The Top Fat Loss Secrets for Flat Six-Pack Abs and a Lean Stomach an interview by Geovanni Derice with Mike Geary - Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Personal Trainer I had the pleasure of being interviewed recently by a fitness professional from NYC, Certified Personal Trainer, Geovanni Derice. The interview is below and I think you're going to like it... I reveal some of the hardest hitting strategies for getting rid of that stubborn stomach fat to uncover those flat six pack abs that everyone wants. "GD: Welcome Mike to our 4-ever-Toned Fitness Journal. For those who do not know you, please tell us a few things about yourself and how you can help our readers with their fitness and health. MG: Thanks for having me, Geo. Well, to go back a little, I have been heavily involved in fitness and sports for about 17 years now, ever since I was a teenager. Being involved in sports in high school got me interested in strength training and conditioning. At that point, once I started feeling more energetic, getting stronger, and looking better, I was instantly hooked for life. I'm 33 now and still addicted to the way living a healthy and fit lifestyle makes me feel energetic, confident, strong, and youthful on a daily basis. I decided earlier in my 20's that I wanted to make the commitment to help other people experience the excitement of being fit and getting in the best shape of their lives, especially since we've reached an epidemic of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer...
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...Self-Regulation and Willpower Instructions: Use this worksheet to reflect on self-regulation and willpower. Items with an asterisk require completion (*). 1. Summarize the main ideas from the video and article. Each summary should be at least three sentences. A. Video – “The Science of Willpower: An Interview with Kelly McGonigal”* According to Kelly, willpower is the ability to make a choices with your biggest goals even those choices are against your will. Your goal serves as your motivation for you to have the "I will" attitude. There might be hindrances that will stop you achieve your goal but your "I won't" power should be strengthened inorder to overcome your resisting impulses. Your "I will" power will be your motivation as to what do you want to be in the future. It will give you a sense to see your future self. Willpower is something you need if you really want something to change in your life even if you have to go through things that you're not interested. Instead of thinking of the things that you will go through towards your goal, you'll focus yourself on the bigger picture on what you will become when you achieve your ultimate goal. B. Article – “Academic Delay of Gratification, Motivation, and Self-regulated Learning Strategies”* This article is about the benefits of delay of gratification in your educational assignments. Most people wants or expects the results right away. Some students tend to stay on their task than to look for alternatives...
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...cars?” Drivers go down the streets of their city just letting the music blast, shaking and vibrating homeowner’s items in the houses. Some may find this highly annoying, but the drivers find it pretty showcasing. But this is advanced car audio and not many, know how to install this. This is why I’m here to inform you about it. Step 1: Finding What’s Appropriate for Your Vehicle People say that you can never have too much “bang.” This can be true, but more than likely it isn’t. You want to find the right size subwoofers and the size amperage amplifier. Usually, 12 inch subwoofers and a 1000 to 3000 watt amplifier is the typical limit that you want in a car. 15 inch subwoofers and 3100 to 5000 watt amplifier are for trucks. SUV’s are basically the same exact specifications for trucks except, the amp can be from 5000+. You don’t want to overload you vehicle and have it vibrated apart but the power from the system. Step 2: Find the Appropriate Wiring Kit The wiring kit size depends on the size of the amplifier. It will say what size it is on the package itself. This kit comes complete with RCA cables, thick power wire, ground wire, speaker wire, a large fuse, remote turn on wire and hardware to install and hold the wire down so that it doesn’t come lose and catch fire. Step 3: Figure out Where You Want Your Amp Installed In this step, you need to see where you want you amplifier installed. For cars, usually the trunk, trucks, under the backseat. These don’t necessarily have to...
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...retailers rely on buying large quantities of items at a very cheap wholesale price. As consumers some of us are content with buying items that are cheaply priced and being more mainstream. Others need to have that feeling that they are getting something that represents them. Something that makes them feel exclusive. In this paper I will be explaining why big name companies are not able to effectively create a counter image for their products, by trying to make them more exclusive. As well as why big box stores cannot try to compete with items that are sold in a more exclusive store like an Urban Outfitters. Reasons that make exclusivity valuable to a franchise or company. Lastly I will discuss my opinion why I agree with the Glen Senk the CEO of Urban Outfitters on why shopping is largely entertainment. How Exclusivity Makes a Difference in a Market First off I would like to describe counterculture which is a term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day. (Wikipedia, 2004) So why does Wal-mart not try to target people who tend to drift to a style of their own that is unique to either a place of group of people. Well the main reason is it would just be financial suicide for the company. Wal-mart is a company that sells items cheaply and in bulk for profit. The only way to be able to make that work is to buy mass-produced items to be able to carry over the low cost...
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...give your account number and bank routing information to anyone you don’t know. In this tip, you should not give your account information to a company you are not familiar with or if you have not initiated the transaction. Many times criminals will contact you and pretend to be a sales person to sell you a product or service. They convince you to purchase their product or service, and you provide your information. You will then be out of the product you thought you were purchasing and also they will have your account information where they can then withdraw money, make transactions, or if they received enough information they could even steal your identity. Tip number two is Review your monthly statement. By reviewing your monthly statement you can ensure that all of the transactions that are being debited or credited on your account are actually yours. Banks do have fraud detection departments to look for anything that is unusual or typical fraudulent activity. But the only person that can truly say if a transaction is authorized or unauthorized is the customer. Tip number three is Notify your bank about any problems as soon as possible. The soon you notify your bank about a missing / stolen card or checks or of fraudulent activity on your account, the sooner you can have your funds returned and also prevents additional funds from being fraudulently removed from your account. Tip number four is If you don’t have enough money in your account, don’t write the check...
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... I believe that the general public was not criticized enough for their part in the collapse, as illogical decisions, specifically with their reliance on credit, led large scale loss in the long term. Where the authors point fingers at borrowers and policy makers for allowing ill-fit people to take out a loan, I blame the people for taking out a loan that they should have known they could never afford in the first place, and explain how we can avoid these economic downturns in the future. The two begin their article by discussing the causes of the housing market crash. They pinpointed the main reason for the crash by discussing how a large number of loans being taken out for things such as homes, cars and boats, were being accepted regardless of credit score or down-payment. When a borrower is no longer able to pay for the loan, the bank who lent the money out, must repossess the purchase. This is not too bad for the bank, but as more and more people began defaulting on these loans forcing the lenders to repossess the purchase, the value of these items begin to drop and the lender now loses...
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...Have you ever known someone full of conceit, envy, and ungratefulness? Madame Loisel, the main character from the short story, "The Necklace" by Gary de Maupassant, expresses all three of these traits. Madame Loisel is a lower middle class citizen but she wishes to live a upper class life. One day, her wish cm true and she and her husband got to attend an extravagant ball. Loisel had borrowed a diamond necklace from a wealthy friend for this occasion, but loses it. She doesn't confess her mistake and spent the remainder of her life in debt, trying to make up for losing the necklace. Madame Loisel is a vain, invidious, thankless character who is guided by her emotions, which makes her a believable character. The audience could tell from the beginning of the story that Madame Loisel is a conceited character. For example, when her husband got her an invitation to the ball, she didn't thank him, but instead felt sorry for herself because she didn't own any fancy clothes. This shows that Loisel does not care about other people's feelings and is only focused on her needs and desires. She puts herself as her first priority, which happens often in reality. Many people put their needs over others because they believe they are more important, like Loisel. In addition, when Loisel and her husband were at the ball,...
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...Happiness in Life Composition 2 Happiness in Life Do you try to impress people with stuff you buy? Do you buy stuff to make you happy? If you answered yes to these questions then you have an issue saving money. In today’s society many people buy things even though they do not have the extra money to spend on them. The commercial Road to Happiness airing in 2007 portrays the message that one can save money and be happy in life. A lot more people are going into debt today since they do not save their money, one tries to show off to their friends and family, and most of society relies on buying stuff to be happy when they are depressed. Society as a whole spends more money today then we have in the past. “We live in a world of surfeit stuff, of big-box stores and 24-hour online shopping opportunities. Members of every socioeconomic bracket can and do deluge themselves with products. There is not any indication that any of these things makes anyone any happier; in fact it seems the reverse may be true” said Graham Hill from the New York Times. .A lot of people are in debt because people feel they have to have things when really all one needs is food, water, and a roof over one’s head to survive. Today more people spend money they do not have which cause them to lose their houses, which then leads to many other problems such as: more homeless people, shelters being full, more people without a job, and people losing family because they can not take care of themselves. Society...
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...If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. In the broadest sense, the whole goal statement is a measure for the project; if the goal is accomplished, then there is success. However, there are usually several short-term or small measurements that can be built into the goal. Choose a goal with measurable progress, so you can see the change occur. How will you see when you reach your goal? Be specific! “I want to read 3 chapter books of 100 pages on my own before my birthday” shows the specific target to be measure. “I want to be a good reader” is not as measurable. Establish concrete criteria for measuring progress toward the attainment of each goal you set. When you measure your progress, you stay on track, reach your target dates, and experience the exhilaration of achievement that spurs you on to continued effort required to reach your goals. Attainable When you identify goals that are most important to you, you begin to figure out ways you can make them come true. You develop that attitudes, abilities, skills, and financial capacity to reach them. Your begin seeing previously overlooked opportunities to bring yourself closer to the achievement of your goals. Goals you set which are too far out of your reach, you probably won’t commit to doing. Although you may start with the best of intentions, the knowledge that it’s too much for you means your subconscious will keep reminding you of this fact and will stop you from even giving it your best. A goal needs...
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...reinforcement is when a certain item is removed after a particular behavior is showed or consequence. The possibility of the behavior happening again in the future is increased because of removing an item or consequence. An example of negative reinforcement will be Belinda always complains of a stomachache when it is time to start doing her homework. Her mother allows her to go to bed without doing her homework every night. This is negative reinforcement because every night she will put on act to have a stomachache so she will not have to do her homework at night. Positive reinforcement is when you reward a good behavior to inspire it. An example of positive reinforcement is when you give your child five dollars for getting straight A’s on his/her report card. The money will encourage the child to keep getting straight A’s. Positive punishment is when you attempt to decrease the likelihood of a bad behavior happening again in the future. An example will be you're late to a doctor’s appointment one morning; you drive over the speed limit through a school zone. As a result, you get pulled over by a police officer and receive a ticket. Negative punishment is a behavior that’s stopping, removing or avoiding a negative outcome. An example will be a teenager sneaks out the house to go to a party and she get caught so her parents grounds her for a month because of her behavior. A situation where this often occurs is in the school. Children who act up in class want attention from the teacher...
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