...singer and songwriter who has accomplished many achievements. He was born on August 8, 1998 in Toronto, Canada and his nationality is considered Canadian. He was raised in Pickering with his parents having a decent job and being financially stable. As a child, he lived a normal childhood without fame or popularity. It was until his teenage years, that he rose to fame and blossomed from there. Shawn Mendes is now an inspiration and sensation all around the world. To begin with, Shawn Mendes parents have been a major contribution to his success by supporting his career choice. Karen Rayment, Shawn’s mother, is a real estate agent while his father, Manuel Mendes, is a businessman selling bar and restaurant supplies...
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...I have chosen to write about the TV show Drop Dead Diva, since it is my latest Netflix obsession. I am almost done binge watching all six seasons, and I am hooked. The show itself is not what I would call violent, since it is about an aspiring model who is killed and returns as an overweight lawyer, and has to live out the rest of that life; it’s more of a girl’s comedy-drama. In one of the episodes, Jane, who is the main character, is helping out a client who is trying to sue a “girls gone wild” producer for releasing a video of his 18 year old daughter showing her breasts. While in mediation, to try to settle, the producer makes a comment about his daughter that was repulsive and the father punched the producer in the face. He let out his anger, not only for is daughters negligence, but his anger towards the producer, through a violent act of physical harm. The show is based in California, at a law firm, and both the father and the producer in this scene are white male. The father seems to be in his 40’s and the producer in his 30’s. The scene takes place at the esteemed law firm, in the conference room. Since this show is considered a drama, I think that, by having an angry father hit the producer, it is scratching a needed itch in this scenario. Nobody wants to see their child embarrassed, especially when it involves nudity that is about to be displayed in store worldwide. The producer is a jerk, and the comment about the daughter’s breasts were inappropriate. I think...
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...Who is the Most Influential Person in my Life? I would say the person who has had a significant influence on my life would be my dad. My dad has taught me about life and people at a very young age. As I grew older he taught me about values; what kind of person do I want to be? How do I want to be perceived by my peers? He taught me to be loyal, honest, loving, and most of all have integrity. Your moral soundness is the foundation for which you build and live your life. It is that foundation on which your character is built. Having good character has always been my dad’s way of thinking. He always said “It starts from there and ends there. Weak character, weak foundation.” My dad has taught me to think for myself, stand on my own two feet, never be a follower, and always be a leader. He said it not about knowing right from wrong; we all know the difference. It’s about having the strength to follow the right path. The right thing to do is usually the hardest. Taking the easy way out is always easier. My dad has always taught me to be loyal. Your word is your bond and sometimes that’s all someone can give. It’s worth more than money. I’ll never forget the saying he used, “Never judge a man by the size of his wallet, judge on how he treats his family and others, judge him on his character.” My dad owns his own business and sometimes I would go to work with him. I think that’s when I realized what kind of man my father was and what kind of man I wanted to be...
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...The leader that has a significant presence in my life is my father,He is the first person that I think of when the word leadership comes to mind. Leadership, to me, means much more now than just a word. I’ve learned that leadership is not only a word it’s a process. It’s the process which an individual influences others to achieve a common goal. This process develops over time and becomes stronger as it progresses. Also, leadership is all about new ways to push a group of people toward higher levels of accomplishments. Once those accomplishments are met then one should simply set higher goals and strive to achieve them. Having said this, my father is a great example of a well rounded leader and his drive has inspired me tremendously. He is the owner and head boss of a sand blasting and paint company. He started this company by his self 30 years ago. It was a one man operation in the beginning and he was only making enough to provide our bare necessities. However, thanks to his leadership skills and ability to strive for more, he now has employed 5 others to join him. The company makes well over enough money to support all of our needs. The company’s success made it possible for 3 of his children to go to college and provides high paying jobs for his son and son-in-law. His ability to set high goals and actually achieve them over time says a lot about the type of leader he is. He never gives up. He also got two other people, his son and son-in-law, to follow him. They...
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...growing up spending most of time in my mother’s small clinic. Mother alone diagnost symptoms and prescribe medication for the patient. when I was finally older enough to help mother in her clinic, she was thrilled to have me as a little helper. I’ve witness a lot of pain and suffer. I’ve seen the terminal cancer patient lying there in pain, begging to die. I’ve heard the scream of women give birth to a child. I’ve seen mothers crying hysterically because her child is severely injured. I have always wished that I could help them. My father had type 1 diabetic. He was my long term patient until I came to US in 1999. Mother taught me how to give insulin injection to my father. And monitoring father’s diet. Father past away 2004. Please tell us about your career goals and any plans you may have for graduate study. I wish to become a pharmacist specialized in diabetic. Most common type 2 diabetic is a chronic disease that can be cure with cautiously monitoring and adjusting diet plus exercise. Who was the most influential person in your life? How did this person make you want to become better? That is certainly my mother. I admired her; she’s a hard working woman with a kindest heart. Mother works more than 10 hours day, 7 days a week. she never took a day off, even on the new years eve. There were few regular patients that did not have money to pay. Mother always help them for free. 10. Are there any ways in which your student "career" has been unusual (that are...
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...“It takes a little bit of crazy to make a difference in the world,” said Steven Tallarico, or more commonly known as Steven Tyler. Born on March 26, 1948 in Yonkers, New York, Steven grew up in a musical family with a father who was a Juilliard trained pianist. With this musical influence, he started his first band at 16 called the Strangeurs. As he started to get older, as teenager, he was very rebellious. He was in gangs, got into fights, did drugs, etc. Even though he may have had a rough start as a child and through his teenage years, Steven Tyler, the lead singer of Aerosmith, is a significant person because he is an influential musician since has won many awards, supports charities and owns his own charity, and has overcome a horrible alcohol and drug addiction. First off, Steven Tyler is a significant person because he is an influential musician since has won...
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...this paper, I chose to write about my own childhood. To be honest, I grew up like any average kid, and like most, I had my own individual personality, that which will be discussed later on whether my personality is because of nature or nurture, or what people say the biggest debate in human history. I was born on April 3, 1976 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which I still reside to this day. I was the second child born, of two daughters, of which my sister is four years older than myself. I grew up in a town considered still to be Pittsburgh but was called Homewood, nowadays is a very unsafe area, or what is called the “ghetto”. My childhood was fairly normal, during the summer months we were constantly playing outside, whether it was riding bikes, playing kick ball or even hide and go seek. Back then, neighborhoods were safer, so there really was not any worrying from our parents, and when it was time to go in, all they had to do was call our names. Personally, I was more of the “tom boy” type so I had Matchbox cars and a basketball, etc. I most definitely did not have dolls, unlike my sister who was into playing with dolls and reading books. As I look back, my parents did not encourage many activities other than go play outside. Unless of course I was helping my dad work on the car. Adolescence to me seemed pretty easy going. I kind of turned into the “rebel teen”. People randomly say that I could have been acting out because of my parent’s divorce, but that did not...
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...Ibsen’s Influential Individuals Whenever people read A Doll’s House, they usually focus on the main character Nora. Because of her decision to abandon her children, many people have grown to dislike her. Although Nora ultimately decides to leave her children in the hands of a possessive man, she is not fully responsible for her actions. Ibsen cleverly includes feminist, possessive, loving, and desperate characters in order to create a controversial play. The characters in A Doll’s House affect each other, Nora’s development, and her decision to abandon her family in order to become independent. Anne Marie has a strong influence on Nora Helmer. She had given up her child, whom she had out of wedlock, for adoption. Instead of running away and marrying another man, she decides to work in order to send money to her daughter whom she is still in contact with. By not doing what was expected during the 1800s, Anne Marie proves to be a feminist. After seeing a woman who does not let society rule her, Nora is influenced to become a feminist by not allowing her husband or society to control her. Although Anne Marie inspires Nora to become independent, Anne Marie is not considered an independent woman. Anne Marie belongs to the lower class, so independence is not an option. Money is much more important than liberation for Anne Marie because it is a means of survival. She does not abandon her child in order to become independent but gives her daughter up for adoption because she cannot...
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...According to Merriam and Webster the definition of a person who is involved, as an activist is a doctrine or practice that emphasizes direct vigorous action especially in support of or opposition to one side of a controversial issue. Malcolm X as a civil rights activist is a man to be thanked by many, because of his courageous actions. By standing up to an issue with such force as a black man in such a color driven society, he shall be among the greats in history. In The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1964), Malcolm X was able to be such an influential man and leader because he learned much from his father’s death, his experiences and time in prison, and also becoming a leader of Islam. Malcolm X’s father’s death had a great significance on his adult life and the way he interacted within societies norms. His father, Earl Little was a man that had strong feelings for black pride among African Americans in his day, and this probably rubbed off onto Malcolm X, also known then as Malcolm Little. One day his father came home and was already irritated with the threats of Black Legion, dinner had to be cooked so Earl grabbed a rabbit out of the pen of which they raised rabbits to be sold, and began to twist the neck off of this rabbit. Malcolm’s mother, Louise Little started to cry and made Earl so upset and angry that he stormed out of the house and marched off up the road. Supposively Louise had a vision of something horrible happening to her husband. So she tried to run after him...
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...Are Fathers Necessary for Children’s Well-Being? Abraham Bartoah [Institutional Affiliation(s)] Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Gender Abstract The content of this essay is to observe my opinion on fathers and how they impact growth of a child. This essay will note from the text researches conducted on others view on the topic. Also it will explain in detail my thought and opposition I have after reading the text. Are Fathers Necessary for Children’s Well-Being? Since Adam and Eve the idea of there being a mother and father to raise a child has existed. But most certainly since then the world and ways of life have changed drastically. In today society many can argue the importance of having father around to raise a child. It can also be argued that father or no father a child can grow up to just as healthy and able as a child raised with both parents. From personal experience the need of a father in a child growth is not crucial. Being a boy doesn’t mean that only a male can teach you to be a man. There are many aspects to child growth that anyone can provide whether it’s a mother and father, just a father or just a mother. I feel that child growth is more based on the personality and attitudes that that child is surrounded by. According to professor Natasha J. Cabrera and the EHS studies they suggest that a father who has a highs school degree or higher have their children performing better in development. this in my opinion isn’t accurate. The test conducted where only conducted...
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...he studied theology. To maintain himself while a student Calvin secured a small chaplaincy attached to Noon Cathedral. In 1528 he went to Orleans to study Law, and one year later Calvin went to Bourges also to study Law. Calvin was pressurized by his father to study Law but in 1531 his father died giving Calvin the freedom to resume his religious studies. In the same year that his father died, Calvin went to the College de France in Paris to study Greek. This college was noted for its Humanistic approach to learning. In fact, all the colleges that Calvin attended had Humanistic leanings and it was only natural that this influenced Calvin. He became an admirer of Erasmus. At some point between 1528 and 1533 he experienced a “sudden conversion” and grasped Protestantism. “God subdued my soul to docility by a sudden conversion” was how Calvin described this experience. Many historians look on the time from 1531 to 1533 as being the key time as this was the first time that he had been free from his father’s ‘shackles’. Calvin was highly critical of the abuses in the French Catholic church but he never doubted that he was God’s chosen instrument in the spiritual regeneration of the world. At this time in France his ideas would have been heretical especially after the Day of the Placards incident when Francis I felt personally threatened by the Protestants and joined with the Sorbonne and the Parliament of Paris to hunt out heretics. Calvin lived at a dangerous time for heretics and...
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...just have to step out there and believe in something you can’t quite see” (The Pact (pg.72)), words that my favorite character George Jenkins wrote in the novel The Pact. He is determined, curious, and inspiring; growing up in Newark, New Jersey he had a vigorous childhood and influential family. Dr. George Jenkins has many different traits but there is only one word that can describe his personaliy and that is optimistic. He had a dream of becoming a dentist and it was just that a dream for an eleven year old boy going to the dentist for a checkup, that turned into curiosity and questions about all the different tools that were being used. The dentist answered all of Georges question and he also showed him how everything was going to be habituated during his visit. After everything the dentist did that day for George he planted a seed that would one day make Georges dream a reality. As a child George lived in the Stella Wright Housing Projects in apartment 5G for the first seven years of his life. There wasn’t much to do most the structures were not in the best condition for a child to play on. His favorite place was the playground, George and his friends were always climbing, jumping, and swinging. When he was seven he moved to High Park Gardens. Georges third grade teacher Miss. Johnson was mainly responsible for why he loved school, she was always happy. “Everybody has a chance to go to college,” “Never say you can’t go because of money. Get that degree. You must get that...
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...When many British settlers came to the new world, they were searching for the myths associated with that land. These myths commonly fell along the rights and freedoms that had been restricted in England. Along with restrictions on rights, the economic situation in England was dreadful. The masses of poor became homeless and jobless. Such restrictions on rights, like freedom of speech and freedom of religion, along with the obvious disparage between the rich and the poor, caused enough discontempt for masses of people to leave the nation in search for something better. These people heard the myths of the new world, being a land where anyone could become rich and free, and instinctively immigrated. These people, being influenced by the myths...
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...Social-Learning theory has most influenced my beliefs and assumptions about individuals. Social-learning theory main concept is the idea that behavior learned through watching others. This term is coined observational learning. Social-Learning theory, in contrast to Behavioral theorist , do not believe that reinforcement is responsible for all learning. In fact Social learning theorist Albert Bandura extended research which not included social learning but also included behavioral and cognitive learning to be incorporated. This was the main reason to which some refer to social learning theory as social-cognitive theory. Social- Learning Theory also assume an individual's behavior, environment and personal qualities influence one another. Social-Learning theory believe that optimal observational learning can be acquired through three model. One of which is live model, in live model an actual person is demonstrating the behavior. The next model is verbal instruction. In this model the individual is instructed in detail the behavior and how to engage in that behavioral. The last model is symbolic, influences in this model includes television, radio, movies, internet, literature etc. As well in the model fictional or real demonstration of the behavior. As well Bandura believed that there are steps in which modeling process involved. The first step is Attention. In Attention one must pay attention to the behavior that is being modeled in order to learn. The second step is Retention...
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...DONALD TRUMP-AMERICAN BUSINESS MAGNATE Over the years, Donald Trump, Chairman and President of the Trump Organization has become a master of situating himself in the limelight with out-spoken interviews, his books, his television show, and especially his king-size lifestyle. Nonetheless behind it all this lies a very sharp businessman. Someone who is a tough negotiator, someone who knows how to build a brand and simply someone who does all this while building successful working relations with others. This starts my essay on why I admire Donald Trump. “I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking about anything, you might as well think big.” Donald Trump. Entrepreneur Donald Trump, through set-backs, controversies and successes, is someone who comes to my mind as a person one can admire and emulate. Donald John Trump was born in Queens, New York on June 14, 1946; the fourth of five children of Mary and Frederick Trump. Frederick (1905-1999) was himself a real-estate developer. Donald’s parent hoped a military school education would greatly benefit him, as it did Dwight Eisenhower, Ted Turner, and Douglas MacArthur to name a few and prepare him to enter the family business. Being an active and energetic child, his parents sent him to the New York Military Academy (est. 1889), located in the Cornwall-on-Hudson, at age 13. They hoped the academy’s discipline program would have an influence on him. By attending the military academy, which was a private boarding...
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