...Throughout my life, I have always aspired to become a leader. There were many struggles along the way that stopped me from chasing my dream such as being afraid of being judged based on how I look and mostly because of my hijab. As a Muslim girl wearing the hijab, it is hard to get leadership positions since not everyone sees eye to eye on what I think about certain topics and other times people were quick to judge and say that I wasn't capable of running a club. However, this was the barrier I used to help push myself into becoming a leader in school clubs and have my voice be heard among high school students. Setting an example for my family and siblings to show that I wasn't shy or embarrassed by who I was and I was ready to conquer the...
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...In the aforementioned “I Have a Dream Speech”, Martin Luther King needed to change the way many people in America were thinking with the threat of death hanging around him. The type of courage that Dr. King must have needed had to be long lasting, strong, and aware of what consequences could occur. But for many people, this type of courage isn’t always needed. In an online survey conducted, participants were asked to give their definition of what bravery/courage was. After four days, the survey showed 75% of the answers were defined with verbs such as “overcoming” and “standing up for”, making their definitions of bravery and courage as actions. In addition to this, in some situations, there simply is no time for a long thought process to occur in order to be brave. In the conventional heroic acts of courage that most people think of, like rescuing someone from danger, it isn’t possible to complete the process to accomplish what needs to be done. Additionally, though courage may take some time to build up, this is not the same as courage being a process. It is undeniable that...
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...when he makes up for his mistakes, overcomes his fears and acknowledges his misdeeds. Amir is a credible protagonist as he took the recognition to become a better person and seek redemption for all his mistakes. Although at first he tried to bury his sins by forgetting the past and living in the present day America, he was called home with an unexpected opportunity to work towards forgiveness. “There is a way to be good again…Rahim Khan had said on the phone just before hanging up, said it almost as an after thought.” (Hosseini, 202) Amir’s opportunity to be “good again” appears unforeseen, when suddenly returning to Afghan seems like the only way to atone for his sins now. He seeks out for Hassan’s orphaned son, Sohrab as he risks his life in order to rescue him. Through saving Sohrab’s life in a way, Amir has saved his own. “Been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.”(Hosseini, 1) This is a little teaser in the beginning of the book that hints an event that has largely defined the course of Amir’s life ever since. This foreshadows the incident in the alley and him being unable to conceal his feelings because his guilt kept arising. In addition to under going a series of nightmares, which caused him to go on a desperate quest for redemption. Proving to the reader that he is willing to make up for his past selfishness and rectify the situation by going back. Due to Amir’s ability to defeat his fears, it brings out...
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...new the situation is, change may require difficult habituation and the overcoming of hardships. “All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.” (Keller, 1960) The autobiography The Story of my Life by Helen Keller and the novel The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri reflect this quotation. The life experiences of non-fiction character, Helen Keller, greatly reflect those of fictional character, Ashima Ganguli. Both of these women and their families are faced with the similar challenges of adaptation, overcoming adversity and forming a positive sense of identity throughout their lives. These challenges are overcome using literature and the consistent,...
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...Simone Smith Essay #1 My Hero November 3, 2012 Humanities 1301 Ms. Alexander I had never really thought about who was my hero until now and I had to reflect on my past. Looking back over the years I guess I must have taken a lot for granted. I have been lucky because I have a lot of people around me that have helped to enrich my life. The one person, who stands out to me, is my grandmother she really was and still is my hero. As I reflect on good times and bad times, she always seem to be there with words of encouragement and with words I may have not wanted to hear, but she always steered me in the right direction. My grandmother was a woman who wise and good natured and so full of energy, willing to help anyone who needed help. My grandmother believed in family. My grandmother was the seventh of fourteen children, born in Brookhaven Mississippi, in 1926. This was a time when people gave birth at home, so she was born on a farm, where she helped raise and care for her brothers and sisters. The children went to school and helped work the land for the family. In later years, she attended high school where she played basketball, when they only played half court, she was very good and well-liked by her class her classmates. After graduating from high school and having three children of her own, she needed to more income. The cotton fields that she worked, wasn’t providing enough money to sustain a good life. My grandmother knew she would have...
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...perspectives. Each character in Romeo and Juliet has a corresponding character in West Side Story. Romeo and Juliet correspond to Tony and Maria, respectively. Romeo and Tony are very similar. At the beginning of the story, both of them mention that they sense something big about to happen. Romeo says, “I fear too early, for my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful date.” Tony has a similar premonition in the song “Something’s Coming.” In addition, they both fall in love with their love interest quickly and passionately, as both plays take place over the course of a couple days. Juliet and Maria also have similarities. Maria came to America for an arranged marriage to her brother’s friend, Chino. She confesses to her brother’s girlfriend Anita (the parallel character of the nurse) that she isn’t truly in love with Chino. Juliet tells the same thing to her nurse and mother in the first act of Romeo and Juliet. However, Maria is in a much different situation than Juliet. As an immigrant, Maria is constantly experiencing new things and is very enthusiastic. In the song “America”, Maria and her friends sing about how superior America is to Puerto Rico. Because Juliet has lived in Verona her whole life, we don’t see this energy or enthusiasm in her. In adapted stories, the plot of a story can diverge from its source material to better suit its medium. West Side Story is a musical written in the 1950s, so it’s obviously aimed towards...
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...: publication@kmspks.org Copyright © 2001 by Thich Nhat Hanh All Rights Reserved. 3 Content Taking Good Care of Our Habit Energies 6 All in One, One in All 31 Going to the Shore of Non – suffering 60 Overcoming the Fear of Death 92 Five Mindfulness Trainings 129 4 Dear Reader, if you wish to share in the printing cost of this and many other beautiful Dharma Books for free distribution, so that more people could be touched by the beauty of Dharma and be inspired to live a happy and meaningful life, please photocopy the Contribution Slip at the end of this books, fill in your particular and return to us. “ The gift of Dharma excels all gifts” 5 Taking Good Care of Our Habit Energies Dear friends, welcome to the Summer Opening in Plum Village. Who is three years old? Who is less than three years old? I would like to introduce to you Bao-tich who is four years old. He just celebrated his birthday two days ago. Here is Bao-tich. This is his second year in Plum Village to practice. Can you turn around? He came last year and he practiced very well. He was so happy, so this year he came again. Bao-tich is his name. It means the store of jewels. I am very happy that he is here. He has a great time being in Plum Village. He came about ten days ago and I had the opportunity to drink tea with him and to play with him. I am very happy when I am surrounded by young people. They look like flowers to me, very fresh, very...
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...Kaplan University Arsianna Walker Comp II Final Project “Fear, which, in turn, is utilized as a rationalization for discrimination and prejudice” (Akhtar, 2014). According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics since 1990 an average of 590,400 inmates have been released annually from federal/state prisons. The amount of people that have been incarcerated is a multiplying number yearly in this country. America should be more tolerant if not accepting to the idea of convicted felon’s reintegration in to society. It is disheartening that people still live in fear or look down on others whom have had to be incarcerated. If we overcome our discriminations against convicted felons, they can successfully re-enter society, and become productive law abiding citizens. Imagine applying for job after job, with no luck at all even though your credentials qualify you. With no income to provide much less survive, how can anyone make it? The opportunity that someone with a clean criminal history has is incomparable to that of someone with even just one prior conviction. Jobs as well as housing are not as easily attained by a convicted felon. I myself would not know what to do or how to handle the heavy weight of re-entering society. I am not one to make excuses, pacify or enable anyone. This is a real issue that families are suffering the consequences of. Unfortunately the view on imprisonment has been distorted by society ideas to label it as a way to lock up a “bad person and throw...
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...owner from the West Indies, brought to America to spread his ideas on how to keep an entire race enslaved for centuries. This is the beginning... Gentlemen, I greet you here on the bank of the James River in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twelve. First, I shall thank you, the gentlemen of the Colony of Virginia, for bringing me here. I am here to help you solve some of your problems with slaves. Your invitation reached me on my modest plantation in the West Indies where I have experimented with some of the newest and still the oldest methods of controlling slaves. Ancient Rome would envy us if my program were implemented. As our boat sailed south on the James River, named for our illustrious King, whose version of the Bible we cherish, I saw enough to know that your problem is not unique. While Rome used cords of wood as crosses for standing human bodies along its highways in great numbers, you are here using the tree and the rope on occasion. I caught the whiff of a dead slave hanging from a tree a couple of miles back. You are not only losing a valuable stock by hangings, you are having uprisings, slaves are running away, your crops are sometimes left in the fields too long for maximum profit, you suffer occasional fires, your animals are killed. Gentlemen, you know what your problems are: I do not need to elaborate. I am not here to enumerate your problems, I am here to introduce you to a method of solving them. In my bag here, I have a fool proof method...
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...happened in America. A tragedy that changed America forever and brought attention to the importance of the need for strong emergency services. America lost nearly 4,000 people that day and 400 of them were firefighters and police officers. They represented on that day what the definition of a hero is. A hero is somebody who puts their life before others, who shows bravery in time of trouble and who didn’t ask for recognition for their heroism. With two buildings going down and civilians still inside, the New York Firefighters and Police Officers put their lives on the line. Their responsibility was to make sure they could get as many people out as to the best of their ability. The Officers and Firefighters had to come to terms with the fact that their chances of getting out of this was not very high. Even though they could not save everyone, the emergency service tried to complete their job to the fullest. They were going to make sure as many people could get out of the building and be taken care of by the paramedics down below. Without their bravery and courageous acts many of the people that survived would...
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...Fear: Do We Control It, Or Does It Control Us? TLJ Honors Psych Fear: Do We Control It, Or Does It Control Us? Abstract Fear is the mind's way of responding to both physical and emotional danger. It has vast effects on an individual's psychological state, and is directly controlled by the amygdala. Fear is a necessary defense, because without it we would not protect ourselves from legitimate threats. Traumas and bad experiences can trigger emotional fears. Though it seems nowadays, we play into these fears -- fears that are not at all life threatening-- all too often allowing them to become irrational fears. Since the beginning of time there has always been an instilment of fear in our minds, whether the fear was that of eating the 'Forbidden Fruit' , to local legends like Slenderman, and even the bizarre idea of a robotic coup de' etat. The only difference between these fears, is how strongly we let them affect us psychologically. Do we allow our fears to be spoon-fed to us by society and the media? Are we completely irrational when it comes to some of these fears? What is the correlation between our fears of the past and those of the present? Finally, what will the future of mankind hold? All of these factors play a major part in understanding the affects fear can have on society as a whole. Keywords: Fear, Irrational, Media, Past, Present, Future Fear: Do We Control It, Or Does It Control Us? Since the dawn of time...
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...we’ve never experienced it ourselves. The second story begins a galaxy away, on the streets of Baltimore, with nothing but the fear of losing your body and mind, where remnants of racism aren’t found in nods or looks but through the conditions of the schools, the preservation of the roads, and the state of your family, where power doesn’t come from your career, instead from the thrill of death and the game of the streets, a place where the kids don’t get to choose to play gangster, but where they have to for survival of both the body and the mind, where mourning is done over bodies not possibilities, for there are none, and where Skittles and toy glocks are in evidence rooms and not in shopping malls, where you beat or are beaten, where the unknowns of the street are known—a place lived in from birth to death, where Meccas can only save a few. This story is told by Ta-Nehisi Coates in his book Between the World and Me, a piece chronicling the experience of what it is to be a black man in the United States. Addressed to his son, Coates uses fervent emotional expression to articulate his ideas about dreams, race, and struggle. Instead of a traditional communicative approach found in his more argumentative essays, he uses narrative intimacy and empathy to create the picture of oppression and manipulation on the streets of Harlem and Baltimore, where my white friends and I dreamed of thrill and power—because we were allowed to dream; we had choices, the privilege of dreaming. The...
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...Reflective Paper Marcy L. Ortiz BSHS/345 July 23, 2014 Ms. Tucker The identification of the complex factors involved in overcoming generational poverty can be difficult because each case has its own special needs. While the challenges the aged face when there is lack of access to employment, women face dilemmas that keep them from obtaining proper work to take care of their families. The perception of these issues must be changed to one of understanding and change. Our world deserves a chance to move in a positive direction, and in order to do that we must begin with ourselves. Only then can we provide proper help to those in need and in unfortunate circumstances. Generational poverty is when a family has at the most two generations that have been produced in poverty (Robyn E. Blummer, 2013). Adults and children that are raised in this type of poverty have a mindset of mere survival. There are many challenges that occur in the life of an individual who is dealing with poverty. Emotionally, a child or adult may feel that he or she may never amount to anything that life can only be living to the minimal. Societal challenges, a child may be discriminated against at school for not having all the supplies he or she may need, therefore being called names, or being judged by teachers. Adults and children who live in poverty deal with stressors such as where the next meal is going to come from or how a bill is going to be paid. Adults and children who live...
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...The universal fear of change: we are afraid of what we don’t know. Fear influences us to do what we can in order to maintain what is already established. At the fundamental level our nation was colonized with the overarching ideals of the Christian religion. The interpretation of the bible was fulfilled by the most conservative and shared with those in such colonies. This evolution of Christianity through the interpretation and ultimately manipulation of the Bible has had a great influence on the exclusion and creation of homophobia within the United States. While ideals of homophobia are interpreted within the Bible the concerns of its regards to gays and lesbians were not discussed until an overarching presence of gays and lesbians became more prevalent in the United States. In this essay I will begin by explaining the views of different denominations within the larger Christian faith regarding homosexual relationships and their existence within the congregations. Following these descriptions I will discuss why this is important when we evaluate the roots of homophobia and where it can be found within the faith. I will conclude my essay with a personal story and share why I believe it is important to understand the evolution of homophobia as we make progress from dismantling it from our society. What’s...
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...Republic of the Philippines UNIVERSITY OF ANTIQUE College of Business and Management Graduate School Sibalom, Antique Subject: Business Policy Topic: Reaction Paper (The Secret) I. Introduction The Secret is a best-selling 2006 self-help book written by Rhonda Byrne, based on the earlier film of the same name. It is based on the law of attraction and claims that positive thinking can create life-changing results such as increased wealth, health, and happiness. The book has sold more than 19 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 44 languages, but has nevertheless attracted a great deal of controversy, as well as being parodied in several TV programs. About the Author Rhonda Byrne (born 12 March 1951) is an Australian television writer and producer, best known for her New Thought works, The Secret—a book and a film by the same name. By the spring of 2007 the book had sold more than 19 million copies and the DVD more than 2 million. She has also been a producer for Sensing Murder. According to an article published by Australia's Herald Sun, Byrne has also worked on the Australian TV series World's Greatest Commercials and Marry Me. In 2007, Byrne was listed among Time Magazine's list of 100 people who shape the world. She gained her fame and fortune after appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show.[2] On 17 August 2010, The Power, which is a sequel to The Secret, was published as both a hardcover edition and audio CD. According to a January 2009...
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