...Carter This first-person short story starts off with the waitress telling her friend Rita how her experience with a fat man that has changed the dynamics of her relationship. She gives a very detailed description of how the man eats, what he eats and how he has to puff s sometimes. Out of all the people who were seated in the restaurant, he was the center of attention. He’s big, very big. Even though he’s nicely dressed this couldn’t take the waitresses attention off of his huge fingers; “Long, thick, creamy fingers.” When the waitress gets behind the kitchen where her boyfriend Rudy is, she gets annoyed by him mocking the fat man. “He can’t help it” she says. Who would’ve thought that the same woman who was thinking what everyone else were thinking, would get mad when boyfriend said it out loud? She stood up for him. She could see though his outer looks, in her eyes he was more than just a fat man. So she started to bring him even more food, she started to have a real conversation. She could see that this fat man actually was really nice and kind to talk to. After the waitress came home she noticed something. She started to think; What if she and Rudy had a child and it would end up like that? What would Rudy then do? Would he act the same way as he did just now, mock and bully his own obese child. She started to look at herself, is she even happy being in a relationship with a man who can accept others? She had taken a shower, and went to bed. Rudy then made love with the...
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...matured Liesel she was always destined to be, through the new relationships she discovered with her foster parents, Hans and Rosa, Rudy a young boy she learned to call a friend and Max a Jew who stole her heart and mind as she looked to him for advice and guidance. Liesel's trust had to be earned. In the beginning, she had...
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...leadership skills of Rudy Giuliani will be examined in detail as he exuberates great confidence, optimism, strong beliefs, relentless preparation and courage as he lead the American public through one of the most horrific attacks on September 11, 2001. Giuliani’s leadership was inspiring as he stimulates others to achieve worthwhile goals as he was able to demonstrate emotional intelligence by using the ability to manage his emotions in order to successfully lead. Giuliani uses his strong beliefs and values along with his ability to adapt to situations to lead others to and brought together a country that was both dismayed and grieving. The use of emotional intelligence and other attributes has enabled Rudy Giuliani to gain a following and has allowed him to portray his beliefs by communicating them through speeches and publishing a book. This discussion will also demonstrate what Giuliani sees in strong leaders and the competencies that are needed to lead most organizations. Overall, Rudy Giuliani exhibits very strong leadership abilities and characteristics which has contributed to making him one of the most famous and influential leaders since 9/11. Rudy Giuliani: Leadership Case Study #2 Rudolph “Rudy” Giuliani was born on May 28, 1944 in the New York City borough of Brooklyn to a working class family. Rudy Giuliani is of Italian descent and “learned a strong work ethic and deep respect for America’s ideal of equal opportunity” (“Biography of Rudy Giuliani,” n.d.)...
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...country/track and field coach, Rudy Horvath. Coach Rudy was a well-known and greatly admired individual who not only exhibited great leadership skills throughout the school, but also in his community. Coach Rudy has been a member of the faculty at Cabrini High School for 14 years. Not only was he a skilled teaching, teaching both history and psychology courses, but in my opinion of the best track coaches that I’ve ever had the pleasuring of working with. Rudy Horvath was like a father figure to most with his protective demeanor and powerful words of wisdom. I truly believe that Coach Rudy was and still can be considered a great leader simply because he has experience working with other individuals and does an extraordinary job of motivating them to be the best at something. He’s also creating a positive atmosphere to set examples in order for others to reach their goals. Chapter 1- The Nature and Importance of Leadership Coach Rudy believes that leadership is important when it comes to things such as teaching and/or being a part of a sports team because it influences behaviors. Leadership in a teaching or school related environment is important because teachers are the only ones who can improve education. When a teacher possesses leadership skills then he or she is expected to positively impact student achievement. A good leader will also seek to build a well-rounded sport organization in hopes of operating as smoothly as possible. Coach Rudy added that an effective leader...
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...As I progressed into the novel, “The Book Thief” a few interesting events have been included in this story’s plot. A short time after Liesel moved into her foster parents home, a Jewish man came knocking on the Hubermanns’ door. He was seeking refuge from the Nazis, since at that time, almost all Jews were segregated from the German population. This would turn out to be a large problem for both Liesel and her foster parents, since they would have to live in secrecy for a large amount of time. Further into this novel, the narrator provides many hints that one of the major characters, Rudy Steiner, might die. This was especially surprising due to the fact that he played a primary role in the plot of the story. This novel includes absorbing language...
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...thrown to us. Words are powerful that it can cause big changes in anyone’s life. As I read the bestselling novel of Markus Zusak entitled The Book Thief, aside from realizing how powerful words are, I realized also that being an author of a book is strenuous. It requires creativity, lots of courage, perseverance and of course experiences. Also, authors around the planet have different backgrounds, different styles, different motives and different ideas which make their stories unique and whimsical. There are several thoughts and realizations that were formed when I finished reading the book and there is this one question lingering in my mind: Why does Liesel keep on stealing books? Markus Zusak, based on my researches, was born in Sydney, Australia on June 23, 1975. Markus’ parents Lisa and Helmut Zusak, told stories to him about Second World War. His mother was from Munich, Germany and his father was from Vienna, Austria. They literally experienced and saw what happened during the Second World War. To start the story, the narrator, Death, began when Liesel Meminger, the protagonist, was on a train in January 1939 travelling to Himmel Street located in a small fictional town of Molching, Germany where Liesel and her brother Werner were to be adopted by the Hubermanns for an unknown reason at that time. But unfortunately, Werner didn’t make it. He died on their way to Molching. The thievery of a nine year old Liesel Meminger started when she took the fallen book from a young gravedigger...
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...which is threaded through each page of The Book Thief. In the end, Liesel’s thievery keeps her alive. The Grave Digger’s Handbook was the first to be in the possession of Liesel Meminger. It was black with silver writing on the cover, found lodged in the snow of a “nameless” (22) town. After the burial of her little brother, Werner, had been cut short and Liesel and her mother would soon again board the train from the cemetery (this time with one less person), Liesel spotted the rectangular...
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...The Statement shows how when Liesel describes her kiss with rudy she used very powerful words. For instance when she says “he tasted like regret” she means that she should have kissed him sooner. It shows how that word “regret” takes the reader all the way back to everytime rudy wanted to kiss liesel. Also in the second example used the word “colors” to describe how he wants to like Werner but can't. The setting may also show my theme is used in the book. On page 27 it states “the buildings appear to be glued together,mostly small houses and apartment blocks that look nervous. There is murky snow spread like carpet. There is concrete , empty hat stand trees and gray air.” Also on page 157 it states “ On the streets of molching that day , each window was decorated for the fuhrer. In some places like Frau Dillers, the glass was vigorously washed and the swastika looked like a jewel on a red and white...
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...EL RINCON DEL MUNDO The small town of Guadalupe has Spanish history, as does most of the southwest region of the USA. Most of Guadalupe’s jobs center around agriculture. “El Rincon del mundo” which is what the region was thought of, literally mean the edge of the world in English. The name of Guadalupe is derived from either “La virgen de Guadalupe” or “Rancho de Guadalupe”. THE SKINNY BEAR Oso Flaco or (skinny bear) is a salt water lake near Guadalupe, gets it’s name from a story of a Spanish adventurer who kills a bear then eats its meat not knowing that the bear had been poisoned by the local Native Americans. The teens of Guadalupe organize a youth group called “Thee Group B”. “The Group B” has it’s own house band called “Soul Explosion” which eventually changes it’s name to “Congress”. Soul Explosion and Thee Group B have bonfires and party at the outskirts of town. THE DUNE THAT NEVER MOVES In 1923 The Ten Commandments a silent movie by Cecil B. DeMille is shot at the southern end of Guadalupe. A gigantic set is created for the film, complete with 20-ton pharaoh statues and a “City of Pharaohs”. After completion of the film the set is bulldozed with sand giving it term “The Dune that never moves”. To big city folk like those whom make movies there, Guadalupe and her surrounding area looks very different from what they are used to, from it’s farmland, to the fact that in the whole town there is not a single traffic light, to it’s cities building’s...
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...Victims’ Rights and Vengeance Rudy Vasquez CJS/211 June-06-2016 Victims’ Rights and Vengeance In today’s justice system victims of crimes and family members who have been affected, have more rights than they have ever had in the past and they are able to let their concerns, pains, and emotions be heard. In 2002, a cousin around the same age of myself was shot multiple times on a busy street in central Fresno and a few short hours later, died in the hospital. At the time of the trial I was stationed in Japan and was not able to attend the court proceedings, because of my distance, my family asked me to write a letter to the judge. I was under the impression that it was just in case the judge was able to get around to it that he or she would. I wrote my emotional letter and eventually the case ended with the accused being sent to prison for a few years. In 2012 while I was deployed in Afghanistan, a horrible thing happened to a very young niece of mine. A family member was sent to jail, multiple families were torn apart, and months of court dates followed. I returned towards the end of the court proceedings, and the lawyer asked multiple family members to write letters of describing the emotional stresses that have occurred and how lives have been affected by this act of misplaced and horrible misuse of trust and if they would be able to read them in court in order to help with sentencing. Everyone let their emotions flow and sadness and grief took the...
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...Today we look at the future and wonder? Have you ever wondered about the past? We will discuss were we came from in forms of region, religion, as well as artistic expression. If you grew up in North America with in the last thirty years there are things that you would automatically know, such as baseball, hotdogs, rock stars, J.F.K. and Martin Luther King. Why would you know these things? Well first Hot dogs no matter where you came from in the country you had a hotdog either at a family barbeque, quick meal on the go or a sporting event. The idea of such things like sporting events like Baseball and Football pro and college alike, in some areas these can be as inspirational as religion. It may seem like a cliché as the underdog stories like “Rudy”, League of their own or Major League. What do all these things have in common? They each talk of the man or men even women doing what might seem as impossible at the time but what might be need at that time. They each bring hope and inspiration to their characters. Sporting events aren’t the only source of modern day inspiration every now and then we come across great men and women that will inspire or motivate a generation some good and some bad. Let’s us look back at George Washington, Harriet Tubman, Hitler, Martin Luther King and Obama. Each has their place in history President Washington some say the greatest president of all time, Harriet Tubman the bravest women of all time. Then we have Hitler one of history’s most notorious...
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...John Singleton’s Boyz in the Hood to Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, black film and the emergence of a subsequent hip-hop visual markers have posited African-American kaleidoscopes of a view into aspects of the so-called ‘black experience’ in social terms. Music and song scores in film today – across the board – are replete with hip-hop representations. Munby maintains that the “low-budget” characteristics of Rudy Ray Moore’s effort to appeal to black audiences in the pre-1980s, given his “irreverent attitude to the laws that govern mainstream moviemaking” had failed to measure up to what hegemonic society deemed as ‘good’ black film (204). Yet, three key areas of discourse of hip-hop influences in cinema persist around the culture of...
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...AUTISM Autistic individuals typically have problems processing auditory information. One auditory processing problem occurs when a person hears speech sounds but he/she does not perceive the meaning of the sounds. For example, if someone says the word ‘shoe,’ the person may hear the speech sound, but he/she does not understand the meaning of the sound. Sometimes the lack of speech comprehension is interpreted by others as an unwillingness to comply. However, the person may not be able to retrieve the meaning of the sound at that particular time. Eric Courchesne of the University of California at San Diego has found significant impairments in auditory processing in autistic individuals using P300 brain wave technology (see Courchesne, 1987 for a review). The P300 brain wave occurs 300 milli-seconds after the presentation of a stimulus. (The ‘P’ refers to the positive polarity of the brain wave.) The P300 is associated with cognitive processing, and this brain wave is considered an indication of long-term memory retrieval (Donchin, Ritter, & McCallum, 1978). Edelson et al. (1999) examined auditory P300 activity prior to and three months following auditory integration training (AIT). Three autistic individuals participated in the experimental AIT group and two autistic individuals participated in a placebo group. Prior to AIT, all five individuals had abnormal auditory P300 activity, indicating an auditory processing problem. Three months following AIT, the results...
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...My Maid Invests in the Stock Market… My Maid Invests in the Stock Market Including: 4 Rules of Making Millions in the Stock Market And Why You Should, Too! Because Everyone Ought to Be Rich Bo sanchez 1 2 My Maid Invests in the Stock Market My Maid Invests in the Stock Market… And Why You Should Too! Because Everyone Ought to Be Rich Bo Sanchez 3 My Maid Invests in the Stock Market And Why You Should, Too! ISBN- 978-971-007-020-6 Copyright © 2010 by Eugenio R. Sanchez, Jr. Requests for information should be addressed to: Shepherd’s Voice Publications, Inc. #60 Chicago St., Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines 1109 P.O. Box 1331, Quezon City Central Post Office 1153 Quezon City Tel. No. (+632) 725-9999; Fax. No. (632) 727-5615 e-mail: sales@shepherdsvoice.com.ph All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, except for brief quotations, without the prior permission of the publisher. Cover Design and Layout by Rey de Guzman 4 My Maid Invests in the Stock Market Disclaimer: Investing involves substantial risk. Neither the author, the publisher nor any of their respective affiliates make any guarantee or other promise as to any results that may be obtained from using this book. No reader should make any investment decision without first consulting his or her own personal financial advisor and conducting his or her own research and due diligence, including carefully reviewing the prospectus and other public filings of the issuer. To the maximum extent...
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...Cultural Event Critique of Musikfest 2010 Alfred J. Haines Humanities 100, Section 010016 Dr. Cynthia Bryson Due September 5, 2010 2 Musikfest 2010 Where: Bethlehem, Pa. When: August 6-15 What: A multicultural musical event covering ten days in historic Bethlehem town center. Once a year the sleepy town of historic Bethlehem is roused to near bliss when the streets come to life with sound. The police barricades and hand painted 'Park Here” signs are the first indication that something is about to awaken in this remote college town. The backdrop for this event is the Moravian College which was founded in 1742 by followers of John Amos Comenius, the 17th century Moravian bishop. Many of the original buildings line the streets along the route of tents and displays, each displaying plagues with descriptions of events that make that place unique. I was able to enjoy three of the ten days mostly with my wife, Diane, one night my teenage daughter even joined us. The distance and my work schedule prevented me from spending even more time at this wonderful event. I have taken notes about the bands and activities that I attended, and some I had only seen in passing. There were more bands and booths than anyone could visit in the little time that was available. My first stop was on at six fifteen when I heard the sound of Jolly Joe Timmer's Polka band. Good old time Polish Polka with dancing in the main tent, my mom would have loved this! The band wore Polish...
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