...I believe that the events in my life are shaped by my environment and aid in the developmental of my future, both personally and professionally. I am not positive I would have understood this concept until I was subjected to various adult development theories as part of this course. In this paper, I will provide detail into a few of my key life experiences that aided in my development as an adult and will analyze these experiences utilizing adult development theories such as cultural influences and nature versus nurture. Analysis of the adult development theories from this class allows me to understand my past and establish goals for my future. I was born in 1976 during a time where old family photos show my parents as happy and loving. However, the photographs do not tell the whole story. There was trouble in my parent’s marriage, and when I was five years of age, my sister was four years of age, my parents announced they were getting divorced. Through the years they have learned to be amicable to each other however at that moment, in the eyes and heart of a five year old, the divorce was anything but amicable. My parents chose to split custody of the children. I would live with my father, and my sister would live with my mother. In that moment I lost the childhood memories of growing up with a mom and my sister, and was forced to resort to every other weekend visits. My dad and I soon learned to be independent, but changes in my family structure, to include my dad losing...
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...My entire life I have spent looking forward to the future. I was always asking to start something new, play a new sport, join a new club, or play a new game. As a result of this, I was never very patient as a child. I can remember sitting in dentist offices, bouncing in my chair, waiting for a nurse to enter the lobby and call my name. Now, as a 15 year old, I have grown to be much more composed but I still possess these enthusiastic qualities. Thought elementary school I couldn’t wait to enter middle school. In middle school, I was eager to begin high school. Currently I am in 9th grade, attending American Heritage School in Plantation, Florida. Just today, as I am writing this, was the day the students in freshman year chose our classes for 10th grade. Even though I have become tolerant than I was in my childhood, I can compare myself today while choosing my 10th grade courses, to that day in the dentist. As I am progressing through my...
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...“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back everything's different…” by C.S. Lewis. Looking back at September from today a lot has changed, some of it gradually and some of it is sudden. Before you know it a routine is altered and sometimes you do not realize it until you look back because there is so much going on that it blurs out those moments. When looking back at those memories they become part of a different perspective that appears to focus on what is different now versus then. Academically, this year was definitely the most challenging one that I have had out of my past years here at Godinez. Math has never been my strong point, but this year it seems that the different kind of math that we are being taught...
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...Hello, Harry. How are you doing? I hope you had a wonderful Sunday. Thank you for your sweet, lovely, caring message. You know I can't wait to receive and read your messages because they're such inspirations for my heart and soul; I feel warm, happy, strong, and ready to endure whatever the life brings. Even we didn't meet face to face, I feel that I know you since longer time, and I love to correspond with you and send my blessings to you and your family; makes me feel nice knowing that you like me, feel happy with my messages, think of me all time, I've touched your heart in the nicest way possible, I'm an angel, pretty, diamond, queen of your heart, etc... Please forgive me repeating all your words, but, I want you to make sure that I really pay attention to your messages, your words, your declared feelings for me, what I mean to you and your life, and everything makes me feel splendid, happy, strong, loved, and those are sensational. I don't know where you are, but, would be possible to tell me where you live? You know I live in California, and you coming here just to meet me, I feel worried because we just started communicating and don't know too many important things about each other, so, I think is too soon for you come to the United States right now. Let me tell you some facts about me. I'm a dentist from Brasil but, as soon as I graduated, I came with my mother to the United States to try a new life over here; I arrived in Oregon because we have many Brazilian and Russian...
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...08 March 2010 The American Dream, like any idea that has stood the test of time, appeals to so many people because it is largely left open to personal interpretation. One person’s idea of the American Dream can be vastly different from another’s, and for some it may even change temporally. In, “Looking Backward: 2000-1887,” the protagonist, Julian West, finds himself torn between two different American Dreams: the American Dream of the capitalists of the nineteenth century, and the American Dream of an enlightened twenty first century metropolis. The only surviving heir to a great family inheritance, West is comfortably adjusted to life in America in the 1880s despite the unsavory politics, rabid economics, growing gap between rich an poor, and frequent labor strikes, all of which threaten to arrest industry and devastate the young nation. After a bizarre experience with “animal hypnotism,” West sleeps for over 113 years and awakes in the year 2000 in the home of Dr. Leete. West finds that the new society has no greed, no corruption, no poverty, no crime, and no war. A society in which everyone’s laundry is professionally laundered, meals are professionally prepared in public kitchens, everyone gets a quality education, working hours are short, and retirement comes at the age of forty-five. Everything is as in a utopia. This utopia, no doubt, represented the aspirations of the book’s nineteenth century author, Edward Bellamy. Channeled through...
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...Can the attempt to create a utopia bring more conflict or bring eternal peace? The concept of a perfect utopia is vividly expressed in the book, “Looking Backwards” by Edward bellani. This book takes place around the time 2000 where a perfect utopia was created, the type that believes in a society that has no class struggle. Interestingly, this utopia was created while Jilian West was alseep, so the start of the utopia is unclear. Throughout the story Jilian West discovers how the utopia became this unbelievable place where people only dream about. However, there are a lot of aspect about this utopia that Jilian does not agree with. Despite having an improved society with less crime and some equality I think this utopia has many greatness and weaknesses but in the end I would not want to live in a utopian society. The society where there is only a common warehouse to buy everything from is one that I can appreciate and admire. This method of one warehouse allows people to save time and expenses. On the other hand, it still has its flaws where the cities that are far from the main warehouse receive things much later than the closer cities. As West asks, “about the variety in the size and cost of house, how is it … with the fact that all citizens have the same income?” I fear that every family would try to have more members in their family to receive more, resulting in overpopulated cities. This in return can lead to chaos as civilians might fight for land. One of the many great...
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...The exploration of the connectedness between texts enhances an understanding of text’s textual integrity. This is evident within William Shakespeare’s ‘King Richard Third’ and Al Pacino’s docudrama ‘Looking For Richard’, where composers portray, through literary and film techniques, texts which reveal to their respective audiences valuable insights into their differing contexts. ‘Looking For Richard’ is based on ‘King Richard Third’ and adapts Shakespeare’s values to a modern context. Exploration of connections between the texts enhances the understanding of the values and contexts of each text. Connections enhances context, character and perspective as these values intensify connections. Through exploring context and character connections between texts, new perspectives of each text are possible, creating textual integrity. Richard Third - Context Richard Third was written to a superstitious Elizabethan audience. It was written as pro-Tudor propaganda, whereby the representation of Richard as a sly and deformed character perpetuates the Tudor Myth, within the context of the War of the Roses. Richard exudes traits of a Machiavellian villain, with imagery exaggerating Richard as a “Deformed, unfinished” man who was “Sent before his time” in order to maintain his discontent. Furthermore, Richards evil characterization and relentless pursuit of power is highlighted to his audience through his opening soliloquy “since I can not prove to be a lover….. I am determined to prove...
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...HSC Advanced English, Module A: Richard III and Looking For Richard, Essay Connections of commonality and dissimilarity may be drawn between a multiplicity of texts through an appreciation of the values and attitudes with which they were composed. Accordingly, the values and attitudes of the individual being may be defined as an acute blend of externally induced, or contextual and internally triggered, or inherent factors. Cultural, historical, political, religious and social influences, dictated by the nature of one’s surroundings, imprint a variable pattern of values and attitudes upon the individual. Thus any deviation in any such factor may instigate an alteration of the contextual component of one’s perspective. By contrast, the psychological fundamentals of humanity are sturdy and whilst they partake in the definition of the values and attitudes of the individual, they are unwavering. Shakespeare’s historical play ‘Richard III’ and Pacino’s docudrama ‘Looking for Richard’ confirm such theory through an exploration of the contextual and inherent. A scrutiny of the contradictory forces of humanism and determinism and the function of women as demonstrated by both texts imparts an incongruity of context. Difference is thus conveyed. Conversely, an acknowledgement of the strength of conscience common to both texts suggests an inherent influence. Thus it is through inspection of the prescribed texts that one may distinguish the degree to which the texts converge on inherent...
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...The Man Who Can Do it All John Green is a talented American author, but also a video blogger, writer, producer, actor, and editor. John Green was born on August 24, 1977, in Indianapolis along with his brother and sister, Henry Green and Alice Green. After graduating Kenyon College John had double graduation degrees in English and Religious Studies and worked as a student chaplain at a children’s hospital. John Green’s first book “Looking for Alaska” made a record staying at New York Times best-seller list in the span of seven years. John Green’s books have been published in more than 55 languages and over 24 million copies are in print. ¨The Fault in Our Stars¨ by John Green supports the idea that friendship can help someone battle and...
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...breakthroughs and education, cancer became less of a mum word and more of a buzzword. Hollywood jumped on the drama surrounding the disease, and soon films like Terms of Endearment and Beaches were keeping tissue companies in business. Novels and magazine articles highlighted survivor stories; television started adding characters afflicted with illness. Even Sex and the City's carousing Samantha had her share of chemo. In recent years, the trend has gone one step beyond talking about cancer — the goal now, at least for pop culture, is to find the humor in it. Fortunately, John Green is the kind of writer to deliver it. John Green is the New York Times best-selling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns. John Green is the New York Times best-selling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns. Ton Koene Green writes books for young adults, but his voice is so compulsively readable that it defies categorization. He writes for youth, rather than to them, and the...
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...have been designed by ergonomics experts and widely prescribed to relieve the symptoms of typing-related RSI. They should be performed several times per day (during breaks for example). Arm Across Chest This will stretch out your shoulders, upper arms and upper back and improve your posture whilst you work on your computer. * Place your right arm across your chest, and your left hand just above your elbow. * Pull your arm across chest and hold for 10 seconds. * Relax and then repeat on other arm. Arm Massage This will massage your arms. By loosening these muscles your blood flow will improve and help flush out the toxins released when typing. * Roll up your sleeves. * Using your thumb and fingers, massage both sides of your arm from elbow to hand. Repeat on other arm. Backwards Lean This exercise helps stretch the back muscles. When you sit your posture tends to hunch due to gravity. By stretching your back you prevent poor sitting posture. * Stand with your feet shoulder width apart and hands on lower back. * Looking straight ahead, slowly lean back, keeping legs straight. Bend Head Forwards This stretch is useful for the upper back and neck which are common areas of tension. * Bend head forward and gently push down until you feel a comfortable stretch. * Relax, and repeat several times. Calf Stretch Prolonged sitting can lead to poor blood circulation in the lower limbs...
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...after the budget was settled. A movie is great if it reached a large percentage of the population and that population determined through criticism and good reviews that the movie is worthy to be seen for a second, third, or fourth time. Another justification of greatness is if the film warrants purchasing the film on Blu-ray disc or a digitally copy to put on your computers hard drive. I will be critiquing the 1985 film Back to the Future starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and Thomas F. Wilson. These are the main characters of the film for which the story revolves around. Michal J. Fox plays the main character, Marty McFly, who travels back in time in a Delorean time machine invented by Christopher Lloyd’s character, Dr. Emmett Brown. Lea Thompson plays Lorraine McFly, Marty’s mother, Crispin Glover plays George McFly, Marty’s father. Thomas F. Wilson is the antagonist as Biff Tannen. There are plenty of supporting roles throughout the film but the main characters will be the focus of the critique. Director for Back to the Future is Robert Zemeckis, he role is to translate the screenwriters story so the actors and crew can carry it out. He is the boss in every stage of the film making process and often receives an outsize measure of credit or the blame. The cinematographer is Dean Cundey, his responsibilities are the look of the...
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...miniature jeans, the sweatshirt bunched beneath the seat belt’s strap, the hiking boots dangling off the floor like weights. “You OK?” he said. “You have to pee?” He slowed and drove the car onto the shoulder and the boy got out to pee. He looked at him standing on that rise in the brome and the bunchgrass, his little hips pushed forward. When the boy walked back to the car he swung the door open for him, then reached over and pulled the door shut and bumped out on the empty road. Not much had changed, really. A half hour out of Hoquiam he began to see the clear-cuts through the firs: a strange, white light, as if the world dropped away fifty feet out from the pavement. He hoped the boy wouldn’t notice. The two of them had been talking about what to do if you saw a mountain lion (don’t run, never run), and what they’d have for lunch. Twenty minutes later they were past it, and the light behind the trees had disappeared. He’d been at the house by dawn, as he’d promised. He sat in the driveway for a while looking at the yard, the azaleas he’d planted, the grass in the yard beaten flat by the rain. For a long time he hadn’t wanted her back, hadn’t wanted much of anything, really. He went inside, wiping his shoes and ducking his head like a visitor, and when the boy came running into the living room he threw him over his shoulder, careful not to hit his head on...
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...July 7th Brings Tragedy Kortney Higgins Eng 101 x-1 Haney 11, September, 2013 Higgins 1 On June 7, 2013, a Ford Focus struck an old beat up Dodge minivan about five miles south of Macomb. This evening was intended to be a wonderful night, with meatloaf, mac 'n cheese, and green beans for dinner, Kara's favorite meal. Tragedy got in the way of a terrific night's plans; my sister and her boyfriend just happened to be aboard that Ford Focus that evening. “Ring, Ring, Ring.” I picked up to hear the voice of my ex- boyfriend, whom I had not spoken to in quite some time, and I instantly heard the panic in his voice. His cracky voice told me that my sister and Brandon had been in a severe car accident, and Brandon was okay, but Kara was being taken to McDonough District Hospital in Macomb by ambulance. “No, not my best-friend, or my big sister!” This news struck me with emptiness. I couldn't bare the thought of my sister being hurt, or not there at all anymore. Jack tried to keep me calm, and told me to not drive, and to stay put unless I found somebody to take me to her. I knew I had to get to that hospital , so I had my friends drive me. I tried getting hold of my parents, but I failed because they were in Florida, and were out for the night. It was a 30- minute drive, that felt like days. I couldn't keep from getting gruesome pictures in my head, and I couldn't stop thinking the worst had happened. As we were driving to meet Kara at the small town hospital...
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...Side 9 af 12 sider B Skye Brannon Fireweed I t was a remembering day for Baluta. I t began w it h laughter, or a dream o f laughter. I t was Alanso's laugh, flowing like doves out o f her bright smiling mouth. I t was Alanso's laugh, out f ro m between those cheeks that caught the sun and held i t i n a warm glow the rest o f the day. I t was Alanso's laugh, stirred f ro m the dead to wake Baluta. Sometimes remem5 bering began later i n the day, but not today. Baluta had to l if t f ro m beneath a stone o f g rief , so heavy w it h his sister's memory, to get out o f his cot. He had work today, after a ll . Baluta washed i n the shower, cold after his brother and sister-in-law had had theirs. Cold like Kpatawee Falls back home, Baluta thought. Yes. Today would be a remembering io day. He pulled a work shirt over his head. The name ' Joel ' was simply embroidered over the heart. The name had been his brother's idea. "Dese Americans," Jato said, " i f you tel l dem your Mandika name, dey look like you've given dem a riddle. You tell dem your name is Bob, and dey are all smiles." Jato grinned at his younger brother. " Bu t you can't have Bob, dat is mine" is Jato and his w ife , Sama, had already gone. Since Baluta had to have the car to go where the bus route didn't, i t was Jato and Sama who had to wake at f iv e a.m. to catch buses to work. Baluta f el t awfu l f o r this, but he had to work to get a car, and needed a car to get to work. So, here he was...
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