...Narrowing down to on person who had had an impact on my life is a difficult task, and one that requires a lot of thought. There have been many, but as I travel back through my memories, one person stands out above the rest, my mother. Whether in the classroom or at home, that one individual continuously shines. She knows how to help me when a problem arises, she is there to pick me up when I fall, and she is there as my biggest supporter when all is going well. She always seems to know when to push me or when to just step back and allow me to learn life lessons. One example of her driving me to do my best is a time that I had an extremely tough exam in Chemistry. This was a must pass test and to make it worse, it was over a chapter where I struggled. I came close to giving up and failing the test, but somehow my mom knew I was fighting this battle. She came to me and explained how giving up would interfere with my dream of going to college. It might not keep me out of college, but it would set my standards lower than they needed to be. My mom did not force me to study, but instead, she allowed me to make a decision that would effect me right then and possibly in the future. My mom has made a huge impact in my life in such a positive way. She has pushed me to where I am now. Through her example and our many talks, I have learned that hard work and perserverance can and will take you a long way in this world. I did pass that...
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...Kourtney Blickensdorfer Psy-100 June 28, 2015 Amanda Laster-Loftus Psychology for Life In life stress is everywhere, and we face it every day. Stress is handled at work wither it is a co-worker or customer, and we have to handle it appropriately to ensure our stress levels stay neutral. Stress is also encountered at home because of finances, relationships, and family. Most people do not handle stress well, but I think it is important to understand where your stress comes from, so that you can handle it accordingly. When I took my stress test I knew that I would not be happy with my score, so I was not surprised at all. I am a very high strung individual, and I am always in a hurry. I also take things to heart, so at previous jobs when people got upset with me or the company it upset me also. My stress assessment showed me that I am on the verge of major stress problems. It let me know that I need to slow down, and probably could use some quiet time for myself. I could also channel my stress into something productive. Stress impacts our bodies in different ways when we handle stressful situations like work, or good situations like winning an award. Stress effects the body by triggering the fight or flight response which in normal doses can improve performance. (Kotz 2008) When the body becomes stressed the hypothalamus tells the adrenal glands to release adrenaline or cortisol. Once the stress goes away the body releases hormones that tells it to go back to normal...
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...“actually good”. I feel that what I need to be successful is hands on learning. At ITT I plan to achieve a career, not just to float through life one “job” after another. A goal that I started to attain before leaving high school is developing the ability to see the value in maintaining a positive attitude, regardless of the circumstances. When I include my goal in the curriculum, I have a better understanding on how positive words, positive character traits and positive thinking can impact life immediately now and in the future. Another goal of mine is to be happy. To be happy is the most important thing there is because you only have one life and if you go through it fighting, competing and struggling you have wasted your one life. Being a human on this planet is like winning the lotto and if people would act that way we could all help each other and try to make the time we have not be a waste. I think that's my ultimate goal... I don't know that it's everyone's, if it's THE ultimate goal or even if there is a THE ultimate goal. Also I was thinking that there is a difference between being happy and being gratified. To me being gratified is having enough food, money, air, friends, love, support, a car, a vacation every couple of months, and maybe chocolate brownies... Basically to me being gratified is about having enough good stuff come my way. Whereas being happy seems to me to be the effect of having good stuff come out of me, like kindness,...
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...sleeping the whole day and I got so many thoughts playing on my mind so I choose to rise get the laptop and type. 1. Second to my final destination ( … Well this is not a horror film; this destination I’m talking about is the force or factor that makes me go and face every life’s circumstances I am facing. My ultimate dream is to become a flight attendant, cabin crew, flight crew or whatever they call this. Yes, I’ve been dreaming to become one someday and I am trying to give my very best for this not to become an unclear vision. I want this to manifest, I want this to happen in my life in every good ways or means I can. As I’ve said on my recent posts, I love to go somewhere, I love to experience different culture, and I want to meet new and different people. There are some times in my life when I face mirror, stand classically and gracefully and try to imitate flight attendants posture and speaking. I used to act like there are passengers and I am orienting them with safety procedures inside the plane. To train to become a flight attendant costs so much, that’s why my parents wasn’t able to send me to those schools practicing this course. But I’ve got this what they called life’s principle. I believe with all my heart that nothing is definitely impossible that my future has been planned and decided. I just love the thought that God is faithful, with His words, His promises and plans. I trust Him with this. This is my heart’s very secret petition to heaven and to Jesus. His...
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...English essay A teenage-life isne Isaksen like an adventure. Each day brings something new and you never know what to expect. For me, a teenager-life is hard to live. I can feel how the body changes. Many thoughts go into my mind. Many problems accurse; problems I did not have to deal with when I was 13 years old. Problems with my boyfriend and at home; that is a new task for me. It is hard to focus when these problems are in my head. To pretend to be happy at all times is difficult in the age of 13-17. All kinds of problems pop into my head and I have no idea how to handle them. For me the exams are just around the corner and it is not exactly easy to cope with the pressure when I don’t feel ready. Perhaps I grew up to fast; I did not focus on my schooling – it was much more fun to smoke and drink with my friends weekend after weekend. I am paying for it now. I really want to make an effort when it comes to my schooling. My parents are divorced and it is not easy to be a child and listen to what they have to say to each other. My parents’ divorce was stressful to me and I never wanted them to separate. My mother moves to Dubai for five years – I will see my mother ten times during ten years. I wish I could see her more. Love is difficult. It has been a struggle for me to find a boyfriend but I have been very lucky to meet a young man who loves me. He treats me like a princess and I feel happy and safe with him. I have made a lot of mistakes the last two years and...
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...girl I always thought it was a treat to visit McDonalds. This magical place had a giant play-place, ice cream, French fries and of course that special surprise toy contained inside the happy meal. What else could I have wanted? This world lost all of its glamour however, when I became a teen who experienced the inner workings of this land from the side of employment. I will never forget the place that was to be my first experience of the working world. My Fifteenth birthday had just passed and this meant I was finally old enough to enter the work force. So I went to the only place in the area that would hire a kid without experience or a driver’s license, McDonalds. Now, I wasn't entirely thrilled about the idea of working in this environment but if I wanted to get a car in the next year it was off to work for me. Somewhat sullenly, I donned my uniformed baseball cap and made my way behind the service counter. Feeling a little nervous, I fumbled as I attempted to tie my apron behind my back. I began to wonder what I might be assigned to do first. "Well, as long as I can work behind the scenes and avoid talking to people I should be okay." I thought. Standing motionless, I observed the fast-food frenzied scene. Employees were running here and there yelling to one another, order screens were flashing, various machines were buzzing incessantly and a mass of customers waited to be attended...
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...“the day I lost Louise, a day I prayed I would never see,” he continued, “I did my normal morning routine. On my way out, I kissed Louise goodbye. There’s no doubt that I loved her. I had no idea that would be the last time I saw her wonderful smile. Such an amazing woman, inside and out. Sometimes I felt like giving up on her because of the heart trouble, but I quickly fell back under her spell − so kind-hearted and loving. I learned to deal with such…oppression, that is, knowing that it was something she had absolutely no control over. She was genuinely the woman I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. At times, I wish I had been the one to go that day. Then I imagine how she would have felt if I would have been the one to die. She sure wouldn’t have been any better off than I was in that moment. She sure wouldn’t be any more depressed than I am now…sure wouldn’t be any more uncertain about the future than I am,” he explained. “It was such an unfortunate loss, Brent. I just can’t even imagine how you could live and move on from that,” Richards said. “Well, Rich, it’s certainly not as easy as I thought it would be,” Brently explained, “and, not to mention, I still feel somewhat responsible for her death.” Brently felt guilty for sure, but not so much as relieved, after the passing of Louise. It was almost as if he had been suffocating in his marriage, and now that Louise was out of his life, he could finally breathe after so many years of not being able to. Brently had...
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...My life in the US Air Force I have spent the past nine years of my life serving in the best branch of the US Armed Forces, the US Air Force. I will discuss how it has molded me into the individual I am today. I have been able to work with the most intelligent, caring, and hardworking characters the US military has to offer. My job has also afforded me the opportunity to travel the world. I will discuss my decision to join the military has had the most impact on my life thus far. I left my hometown on 13 Dec 05 for Lackland AFB, Texas to begin basic training. I didn’t know what to expect other than a lot of yelling and PT. We arrived about midnight and in processed our respective units. I remember this day like it was yesterday. A Training Instructor loaded us on the bus and transported us to our living quarters. We got 2 hours of sleep before they awoke us by yelling and screaming. My Training Instructor wasn’t a tall and intimidating male. Instead, her name was Tech Sergeant Martin. A 5’1 Hispanic female with an impeccable uniform who carried herself with a no-nonsense attitude that I had never seen in a person. She was in tip top shape, fearless, motivating, and quite blunt. From the day she took us in, she taught us the custom and courtesies of the US Military, and how attention to detail was very important. She taught us to be thorough and accomplish all tasks appointed to you by your superiors. I knew this trait would apply in the law enforcement career field...
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...TO MY FIRST LOVE I can’t say that I loved you from the moment that we met. I can’t say that we were meant to be or that after years of separation we’ll finally break the walls that separate us and be one once more. I can’t say that in the time we’ve been apart I’ve become a better person, better for you….better for us. If I said anything along these lines it would have been a lie. There’s much I want to tell you and a lot that I know I shouldn’t. Let’s start at the beginning: I remember when we met. You were one of the popular people. I was not. Everyday prior to our meeting I was nothing more than a background image on a less-than-boring wall. But for some reason on this day you chose to acknowledge me. On this day you chose to talk to me. I’ll probably never know why, or care why for that matter, but you did and since then my life has never been the same. As if you pulled me into light from the dark, or as though you created something out of nothing I had existence. I had meaning in my life. And that meaning was you. I would wake up every morning just to see you smile. I would miss my bus on purpose just to spend a few extra moments in your presence. I would shed the few nickels and dimes I had to give you whatever happiness money could buy. I would have given you the earth, the moon and even the sun if it so pleased you. I would have done it all. When you’re young everyone tells you to shoot for the stars, but no one tells you how dangerous ambition can be. No one...
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...HMaegan Fields HIS 121-451 Essay 2 My Dearest Emily, I am writing you a series of letters, good and bad, of what my life was like. You have just been born and are a mere 3 days old and I am gravely sick. I wish for you to know what your mother’s life was like so you can use it to learn and love from and to also come to terms of your own if times have not changed. I have asked your father not to give you these until you are of age at the year 1213 or so. This medieval society will have evolved greatly by then. Your father and the lords will have already chosen your husband and I hope you love him as much as I have loved your father. I never want you to be unhappy and as an only child you should have the life I would have dreamed you to have. Ultimately our family is wealthy enough if you choose to serve god and join the nunnery and your father may not mention this because he has never been a fan. (Kagan, 217) I gained great skills as young child baking and sewing and until I fell ill I was able to help your father bring in plenty of money for us to sustain a good life. I had always dreamed of being able to become a doctor or veterinarian someday, hopefully you may have such dreams, but they would not allow us as women to have learned professions of medicine, law or scholarly concepts. (Kagan, pg. 218) You should never just consider yourself homely to make children and take care of your husband. Use your skills and try and be free, as your father always allowed me to be...
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...Greetings from the past! If you are reading my letter then that means you have found the time capsule that we have left for you. I am hopeful that you will enjoy the new information you learn from me. My name is Brandy Taylor, I am writing this to give you my perspective and my knowledge of my present life and the society that I currently live in here in 2013. My hope is that with the information I tell you, you will gain a better understanding of how life is for me and my family during this time. A brief description of me is that I am a single mother of three amazing children that are currently ages 20, 15 & 13. I am in my late 30’s and live a very healthy lifestyle that does not make me look my age. My children and I currently reside in Dallas, Texas, where the summers are hot and the winters are mild. I am currently employed for an audio/visual, lighting company called LMG, Inc. as an Administrative Assistant this is at least until I finish college. My current work schedule is Monday through Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm, with weekends and major holidays off. Also, I am currently enrolled in college at Kaplan University with one term left till I earn my Bachelors Degree in Business Administration with a career focus of Human Resource Management. Although I am satisfied with my current job it is my goal to obtain a position in my dream career of Human Resources; this is a passion for me. My current week consists of working till 5:00pm, dinner with the kids, doing some class...
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...September 9, 2014 Life Lessons Life is full of obstacles that you have to figure out how to maneuver around. It is full of challenges that you have to overcome. When you lose a loved one, you feel like it’s the end for you as well. Hopefully you can overcome the sadness and learn how to deal with not only the pain but also putting your life in order as well. I grew up with an older sister and a younger brother. Our parents were constantly gone. Busy working or out with friends. That left my siblings and I alone a lot. We taught ourselves to take care of each other. Mentally, physically and emotionally we were all each other had. That made the relationship we had with each other stronger than it could ever be. A promise was made between the three of us that we would always be there for one another. We would always help each other no matter what the circumstances were, and we would always protect each other. On January 7, 2009 my world changed forever. My brother was in a severe single vehicle accident that killed him. Alcohol and speed were both factors in the accident. Neither my brother nor his passenger was wearing their seat belts. Both were ejected from the vehicle. My brother lived long enough for me and my sister to get to the hospital and say our final goodbyes. His passenger lived, but sustained a broken neck that has healed. My brother left behind a one year old daughter and a daughter on the way. He had life insurance but did not have a...
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...Wheel of Life Strategies and How They Will Be Applied In My Life I am beginning my applied wheel of life strategy with Les Brown’s “You Gotta Be Hungry” video. I was very skeptical about listening to any motivational speaker over the years of my life because I did not feel anyone could tell me how to improve myself. I have always been a hard worker striving to reach the high pillars of any job I worked. Went to work early, stayed late and did whatever was asked of me by my supervisors until I learned to do things without asking or being asked to do them. This was what I thought living was. As I listened to Les Brown, I began to realize I don’t know jack. Even though my work ethic is stronger than most, I haven’t even scratched the surface of reaching my full potential in life. The first thing that hit me hard was hearing Les tell me to overcome negative conversations and stop listening to the critics and myself and just say ‘NO!’ to them all, including myself. That hit me hard because when I go to an interview I have second thoughts and psych myself out and then I’m all nervous and the interview isn’t as smooth and solid as it should be. Takes me about 10 to 15 minutes into the interview to begin to relax. I know I have what it takes to rock interviews and ensure I am the best candidate for the position I applied for. I have to learn to replace the negative conversations with positive ones. While I am in school, I have been looking for a job until I finish my schooling and get...
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...It was the third-to-last day of first semester. Sean was sitting through another dry lecture in law, and he was feeling lethargic. As Sean was leaving class he thought back to his previous class, music appreciation, a class that Sean loved. Sean knew that his parents wouldn’t ever accept him as a musician. He remembered the night before having a heated discussion over texting when Sean almost jokingly texted his dad, “Can I switch my major to music?” “Under no circumstances will that ever be an acceptable decision,” his dad replied swiftly. He could tell that his parents were not joking around. It took long for Sean to actually choose a college; weighing all the pros and cons; looking at what schools would offer him the best scholarships....
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...‘The Impact of Technology on my Life’ Technology is so much apart of our lives that we could not imagine a life without it. Technology has helped create the world that we live in. The world is a different place than it used to be, even 40 years ago. The internet has been a huge advance. It has allowed people to become more educated than ever. Information is so accessible. As a student of fashion I find the internet a necessity. Fashion is never ending and there is always new information to discover. The internet is the only way to be up to date on the fashion world because it is so fast paced and changeable. I wouldn’t know half the things I do about the fashion world if it weren’t for the thousands of websites dedicated to it. As someone who wants to be involved in the world of fashion I need to be up to date with trends etc. and the best places to look are certain informative sites like Style.com and londonfashioweek.com. I need to know all the new look for each season and I need to be able to identify the designer who created those looks. The only way of keeping so update is by doing a daily or weekly search online for all the new trends and fashion news. Of course I’m not the only one who is learning things on a daily bases from websites. Millions of adults and students are learning new information or skills everyday online. We, as a population, are growing ever more intelligent and I think the internet has a lot to do with that. No one hands hand-written assignments...
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