...Ashley Mae Bartolo Ms. Jocelyn Salo Ab-Eng3 Instructress Eng 28 Dance with Dreams of Life -RERo RERo wrote this poem to possibly show the huge effect of the meaning of life has on one’s everyday life. For example without the dreams, life would be meaningless , and hollow to it’s side. However , the dreams that make life to live, grateful and beautiful indeed. The author also goes further to show the meaning of life, how it takes to live with passion and embracing the uncertainty chapters in our lives. Everyone experiences troubles and hardships as a part of living in this world. We all would like to avoid them if possible. However, in the process of solving our problems in life, the soul acquires various experiences and learns many different lessons. These experiences and lessons are nourishment for the soul’s growth. The author claims that the there is “magic” when to two hearts cling, never part the dance of life; meaning when two people find it’s own partner it is what we called fate or destiny.Everyone has two hearts. They are both meant to sustain, create and enjoy life.Being without one is like being without both. A person cannot live without the first heart and should not try to live without the second.I believe the...
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...human life, which is the greatest lesson Gilgamesh learns in The Epic of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh is bitter that only the gods can live forever and says as much when Enkidu warns him away from their fight with Humbaba. Life is short, the two warriors tell each other on their way to the deadly confrontation in the Cedar Forest, and the only thing that lasts is fame. After killing the Bull of Heaven, Enkidu is awakened from a chilling dream that foreshadows his death. In the dream, the gods were angry with him and Gilgamesh, so they met to decide their fate. Enkidu’s dream about the underworld anticipates the journey upon which the heartbroken Gilgamesh will soon embark, “the dream has shown that misery comes at last to the healthy man, the end of life is sorrow” (93). Shamash, the sun god, consoles Enkidu by reminding him how rich his life has been. The comfort the sun god offers Enkidu is indeed humanistic. The god tells him that love, glory, and the pleasures of a cultivated life are important, as are being loved while alive and mourned when dead. This consolation offers a strange kind of comfort, since he is essentially saying that the recompense for losing the life he cherished is the life he cherished. The dream proves true when Enkidu is cursed with an inglorious, painful death. Enkidu finally resigns himself to his fate, and as a result, Gilgamesh is terrified by the thought of his own death. Gilgamesh takes it upon himself to go on a quest in search of eternal life. One of the...
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...Wisdom” is to focus on areas of unbalance in my life and plan my approach to getting them in balance. The following is my approach and thoughts on self confidence Believing in one’s self is a structured characteristic. Self confidence isn’t obtained easily this is because there are several aspects of one’s life that must be balanced in order for self confidence to be obtained. One can’t just get confidence it is an earned characteristic and must be tried and tested. High ego or cockiness can easily be mistaken for confidence because most people associate lack of fear with being confident. However confidence is an understanding of who you are and realizing that with hard work, sound planning, and self sacrifice you can accomplish your goals. Confidence also is the acceptance of failure and realizing that not every goal is achieved the first time. You may need to re-analyze, meditate, and re-plan. Having confidence helps make this process fluid. Remember some goals take a longer time to achieve...
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...The song discusses how society is where Tupac stays. “I've got no place to go I've got nowhere to run They love to watch me fall They think they know it all” (Lines 26-29). In this line, Tupac is referring to how he has really no place to go and everything around him is going down. Then he also mentions how they would love to see him fall that refers to many people the police the government and his enemies. Tupac states, “The years were two of the most turbulent in a tragically brief life that was already scarred by poverty, drug abuse, police harassment, imprisonment, and death.” Tupac directly mentions his issues he faced during his two years of his life in...
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...Sometimes I feel like that is high school. When switching buildings from the middle school to the high school, makes kids feel empowered. They are one step closer to graduating and being able to go off on their own. But when the first day hits, it’s not as cool as it seems in the movies. I always have felt like a deer in headlights and now as a senior I no longer feel that way. There is always new trends, new students, and new relationships changing consistently. Freshmen running around, worried if they can make it to...
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...parents if they've met them in person," says Maureen Black, Ph.D., professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland medical school. In other words, build relationships with the teachers, and your children won't get away with anything. Planning tip: Since the school calendar is set by Labor Day, ink in the year's events as soon as you can so there won't be conflicts later. HAVE 5-MINUTE CONVERSATIONS If you're running late and the kid comes in while you're shaving, don't tell him to beat it. Instead, "Hoist him on the sink, let him help you lather, and answer his questions--he'll have lots of them," says Robert Frank, Ph.D., author of Parenting Partners. Answering them all is impossible--we have no idea why that glob of shaving cream looks like Uncle Bobby--but any man can give a kid 5 or 10 minutes. The payoff: Spontaneous chats bond kids to their dads in ways planned activities can't, Frank says. TURN OFF THE RADIO Don't waste the nightly 20-minute drive to tae kwon do classes listening to stock reports. Instead, just listen. Frank says paying attention to what your kids are saying now makes it more likely they'll listen to you later. Trouble getting through to your teen? Take your kid's friends along. Teen-agers are more forthcoming with their peers' parents, Frank says. So you're more likely to hear about a bully or a bad teacher from your boy's buddy than from him. DOUBLE-DARE THEM Research shows that a dad's less-fearful approach to parenting--letting...
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...Socialization is the lifelong social experiences where people develop their human potential of attitudes, values, and behaviors that are appropriate and expected by their culture and community. We start shaping this from the first day we are born. Those who ‘welcome’ us into the world, cuddle us, and feed us, in those first few minutes of life, will help develop the individual we become. We continue to grow through life and life’s experiences daily. Every day we interact with people in our lives. It could be babysitters, doctors, neighbors, teachers, professors, coaches, and our own family, to name a few. As we move through life we thus develop our own personal image of ourselves. This is not only created from our own thoughts, about ourselves, but also the influence and the perceptions that others have of us. This concept is called the ‘looking-glass self’. According to Dictionary.reference.com, the definition of this is, ‘the self-image an individual forms by imagining what others think of his or her behavior and appearance.’ The key word here is, ‘imagine.’ We are not influenced by the actual voiced opinion of others but we are influenced by what we believe or think we imagine other people’s opinions to be. Our perceptions of how others see us can be correct, or incorrect, thus feeding our imagination possible inaccurate thoughts and beliefs. Charles Horton Cooley (August 17, 1864 – May 7, 1929), an American sociologist and the eighth president of the American...
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...Things we cannot see when our eyes are closed Carla Foust ANT 101 Introductions to Cultural Anthropology Jonathan Brooks December 10, 2012 Do you know any other culture besides your own? Culture is the way people do things, and it is transferred from generation to generation. In this paper I will attempt to inform you about the Zulu culture. Zulu mean people of heaven. The Zulu are an African ethnic group who live in the Southern region of Africa. The Zulu people come from a Pastoral background as their primary mode of subsistence. The men where dominate and had full control of the food supply. The Zulu people are known for their complex beliefs and values, sickness and healing, and gender relations. In the eastern portion of southern Africa, the Zulus are the most well known clan. The Zulu settled in the late 18th century along with Xhosa, Pando, and Swazi people. This area is now known as KwaZulu-Natal. These collective clans all speak related languages and share similar cultures. This clan looked at this land as one of “milk and honey”, a fertile land with grass and patches of dense bush with numerous rivers and streams. This then was the birth place of the Zulu nation. There were struggles between the clans for grazing rights which resulted in shouting insults and assegai throwing. The tribe’s primary mode of subsistence. Before the mid-nineteenth century the Zulu depended on horticulture and the raising of livestock. Their staple crop was farm corn, and vegetables...
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...blog every one of you will be offended. You will think that I know nothing about parenting, that I am slightly imbalanced, and that I should not be allowed to parent my own children. Though all of that is true sometimes, I assure you I am not as crazy as I sound, that my children are healthy and happy, and that most of the time they really do like me. Since having children, I have noticed some things. I have noticed that every time I see a smattering of stick people stickers on the back of a minivan, my soul dies a little. That commercials really are brainwashing my kids into thinking they need whatever new sugar frosted chocolate bombs in the shapes of kitties and bunnies cereal Kellogg’s has released this month. That if we don’t trek our children to Disneyworld before they are 5 years old, I’m pretty sure Walt Disney himself will rise from the dead and smite us all. But most of all, I have noticed the multitude of ways that we are ruining our children. 1. Participation trophies. Participation trophies are the biggest load of bull I have ever witnessed. The only time they are appropriate is if your child is playing in a 3 year old soccer league (quite frankly, I can’t believe this exists), and all they do is run around in circles, pick at the grass and their nose, and dig for bugs in the middle of the field. If they can make it through an entire game, they deserve a trophy. But everyone else, not so much. Let me let you in on a little secret that you might not want to...
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...Waiting Many critics consider Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, rst performed in Paris in 1953, the most important twentieth-century play in the Western canon. Despite the undeniable historical and aesthetic signi cance of Waiting for Godot, however, the question poses itself: to what extent may an absurdist play—about two bums waiting on the side of a country road for a person who never arrives— still strike us as relevant today? is question cannot be answered univocally, but depends on the interpretive choices made in the actual process of producing Beckett’s play on stage. My goal as the director of this Kennedy eatre production is to create a thoroughly contemporary experience that evades the usual clichés many have come to associate with Beckett’s style, such as monotony and leadenness. From this vantage point, I will now identify two major challenges to any stage production of Waiting for Godot in 2010—challenges relating to the historical and metaphysical background of the play. e setting (country road, tree), costume items (bowler hats, halfhunter watch), and habits of the characters (the pipe-smoking Pozzo), as well as the poverty and frugality of the two protagonists (a diet of turnips, radishes and carrots for Vladimir and Estragon), clearly suggest earlier historical periods such as the Irish Potato Famine from around 1850, the wasteland of northern France in the wake of the trench warfare of WWI, or America’s Great Depression in the 1930s. e names of the characters...
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...People didn’t have enough time. Yes they did because they have the same 24 hours, the same 1440 minutes. But they didn’t have the skills of managing the time that was available to them. For some people time management is nothing but common sense. They are doing well at their job so they must be managing their time just fine. Maybe, but it’s more likely that they are successful in spite of their time management practices. Common sense isn’t all that common these days. For some, they work better under pressure; time management would take away the edge. But nobody works better under pressure; what really happens is they do the best they can under the circumstances. Usually this is nothing but a subconscious rationale for procrastinating. If people put off a major task until the last minute, with the excuse that they work better under pressure, they leave themselves no time to do the planning that would produce superior results. Some people use a calendar appointment or a “to-do the list”. The calendar tells where they are today, but doesn’t help much with next month, and it’s almost impossible to retrieve something from the past. The best time management tool is an integrated system, one that allows retrieving information. People take time management too seriously and for them it that takes all the fun out of life. For them it also takes away their freedom. Time management is not fundamentally about routine; it’s about self-discipline. Effective time management...
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...Nora’s marriage is more about appearances, role-playing and control tactics than true love. Marriage should be an institution about two souls entwining through the medium of love. In the 19th century it was considered to be an extremely sacred bond that a wife and husband had to abide by. The concepts of roles or game playing are a key role in approaching the themes of the play “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen. The title itself gives an indication of how the play is similar to a doll’s house; the characters, the settings and the situations depicted in the play are false at times and the play shows how certain aspects are different from reality. The entire play is woven around Torvald Helmer and Nora’s relationship. Their relationship seems perfect on the surface. They appear to be in love with each other and are happily married. Nora’s role in the play shows that she needs to be in control, to take the lead role, and that she is merely using other people as supporting characters because she does what she wants to do. She controls Torvald through by her childish behavior and flirts with Dr. Rank to assert herself on him. One question that frequently arises: How can one woman make so many unexpected transitions? She keeps changing her attitude and portrays many roles in the play ranging from a child-wife and adult tease to a determined businesswoman who is smart and manipulative and to an independent woman who puts herself before her family. Torvald’s role is more about being...
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...I do it because I can, I can because I want to, I want to because you said I couldn't. If someone is stupid enough to walk away from you, be smart enough to let them go. Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. One of the hardest decisions in life, is whether to walk away or try even harder. Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right. Nobody wants to hear this, but sometimes...the person you want most is the person you're best without. A relationship with God is the most important relationship you can have. Trust him and everything will always turn out fine. Pretend you don’t love him, just pretend. 2 things might happen. He’ll realize he misses you or you’ll realize how much you don’t need him.. I'm currently making some changes in my life. If you don't hear from me anymore, then you're probably one of them. "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." Beverly Sills "To dream of the person you wish to be is to waste the person you are." Author Unknown "Do what you can with what you've got wherever you are." Theodore Roosevelt "Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." Henry Van Dyke "It is not length of...
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...There is a place where we can go, when our weary hearts need rest. We can lay our burdens at the feet of the One who loves us most. He is Jesus. In order to succeed you must fail, in order to love you must love yourself and in order to live your life must shed all negative aspects of your life."~ ♥ * One of the greatest blessings in the world is to be able to be happy even when things in life are not going the way we planned. Sometimes the road you travel doesn't lead to the destination you had hoped for. But if you can look back on the trip and still smile...then it was worth it. PUT YOUR FAITH, TRUST AND EXPECTATIONS IN THE LORD! GOD BLESS. Sometimes you have to accept that things won't ever change, no matter how much time, effort and thought you put into it. Life's not about all the steps you've taken, or all the places you have been ~ but the footprints you've left behind. If life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, then let’s get wasted and have the time of our lives. ~"Everyone wants happiness, and nobody wants pain. But how can you make a rainbow, without any rain?."~ We don't always know what God plans for us. We must know that His Ways are not our ways, but His ways are always the best. Be Grateful each & everyday with your life that you have because there's somebody out there that would love to switch places with you in a heartbeat "Things happen because we choose to. There may be regrets but blaming is not an option. We get...
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...moon looks like a toenail And I love you when you say my name If you wanna know Here it goes Gonna tell you this The part of me that'll show if you're close Gonna let you see everything But remember that you asked for it I'll try to do my best to impress But it's easier to let you take a guess at the rest But you wanna hear what lives in my brain My heart, will you ask for it, for your perusing? At times confusing, slightly amusing Introducing me Doo doo, doo doo doo doo to Doo doo, doo doo doo doo to La la la la La la la la la la la la, da I never trust a dog to watch my food And I like to use to the word "dude" As a noun, or an adverb, or an adjective And I've never really been into cars I like really cool guitars and superheroes And checks with lots of zeros on 'em I love the sound of violins And making someone smile If you wanna know Here it goes Gonna tell you this The part of me that'll show if you're close Gonna let you see everything But remember that you asked for it I'll try to do my best to impress But it's easier to let you take a guess at the rest But you wanna hear what lives in my brain My heart, will you ask for it, for your perusing? At times confusing, possibly amusing Introducing me Well, you probably know more than you ever wanted to So be careful when you ask next time So if you wanna know Here it goes Gonna tell you this The part of me that'll show if you're close Gonna let you see everything But remember that you asked for it I'll try to do my best...
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