...themselves on Facebook. A lot of college students have Facebook pages that can affect their future job and friends. Sometimes people do not think before they write. When someone posts an ugly comment about someone else, it escalates on Facebook and maybe to where you are known. There are times that people will post nasty videos on their wall so others can view. For example I have a Facebook page and someone post up a video of a High School girl doing something that she is not supposed to be doing on tape. Well, I did not recognize the person but someone else did and now everybody knows that it was her. The High School girl was treated like garbage, students call her bad names, and she got teased. That same High School girl know that she as being video tape but she did not know that she was staring on Facebook for everyone to see. Posting personal information about you or someone on Facebook or any other media sites can affect your future job, lack of respect from others, and possible termination from current job. One thing that I would not post on my Facebook page is a rude comment about someone else. When I see others posting rude comments about others, I personally feel that person is trying to accumulate respect but to me I think it is disrespectful and pointless. I barley post up things on my Facebook page and I do not know when last I have been on Facebook but to other is like Facebook is their live. Some of them probably think that it is fun to post rude comment about others and...
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...world is against me, nor am I an overly sophisticated “know-it-all” who doesn’t take time to pay attention to my surroundings. I can’t say I’m like every other eighteen year old because there are certain things that make me a unique individual. What I can say is that I am progressing to make a brighter future for myself. My name is Samantha. My mom has alwtays loved the name Samantha when she was growing up. She knew when she was going to have a daughter that her name was going to be Samantha. I got my middle name from my mom as well. Her mom’s name was Rose and she passed away a few months before I was born, and she wanted her name to be a part of mine. There were times when I was younger that I wanted to change my name because I didn’t like how it sounded compared to everyone else’s. But over time, I began to accept it and love it. It’s a great feeling knowing how sentimental my name is to my mom, she is the most important person in the world to me. I don’t know who I would be without my parents. They have done so much to support me in my life and I couldn’t thank them enough for everything. They helped me become the woman I am today, and they support me in whatever it is I choose to do in life. I can always go to them for advice, or when I just need somebody to talk to. Everything that I wanted to do or needed, they always did their best and went out of their way to do. My parents will forever be my number one fans and my biggest supporters, and they shaped me into who I am...
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...A majority of adoptions are rather depressing and heart-wrenching tales that are full of smoke screens and dreary details that can really affect the adoptee. When my mother told me that I was adopted, I knew, but I was still shocked to a degree. My family is a group of Southern Methodist, ultra-conservative, military, white individuals, who look the complete opposite of me. Not only am I just not a different shade of color, but also I am of a completely different race. My adoption from South Korea at the age of three was a blessing, but being comfortable about who I was, was the greatest challenge. In all family photos, I was the one that stood out, and it was not because of a goofy smile or a silly sweater. It was because I was simply a dark-haired, tan, South Korean against a white canvas. Starting school and trying to explain to people that my uber-athletic, short, white brother, Colsen, was in fact my brother, could have been part of the show “Punked” due to people’s reactions. Their mouths dropped, and always began with an awkward pause, and then the generic question, “Well you are adopted then right?” The question used to be the hardest one to answer because it was asked so many times and always ended with pity. The question itself depressed me because it made me feel as if I did not belong, and made me...
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...Why do we even have names? Names are such a funny thing, giving a name to a human being is showing ownership so why do we name them if we do not own them? Naming a food dish to label it is understood, but naming a child, you are about to have might be a little weird I think. Names meaning so many different things, so many different spellings, different interpretation just makes it so confusing. But what if we did not have names where would we be then? Rebecca is not even my name, many people do not even realize that my full name is Rebecca. Many people think that Becca is it, short and sweet. Rebecca is only my name when I have to fill out paperwork and sign things. Rebecca is like my professional name that I only use when I need to. Rebecca...
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...offers the opportunity for you to test your courage and commitment to the markets that you want to impact. * Please complete 7 surveys with the following people that live near your hometown with people that you know, a mutual acquaintance. * Please complete at least one survey with a referral: * Your parent(s)/guardian * Business Owner * Married Couple * College Student * Retiree or 55 + * Professor/personal advisor/coach * Single, young, professional * We prefer that these surveys are conducted face-to-face. (If you are away at school, please conduct over the phone or via Skype or webchat) * Before starting the surveys, please read over the questions to familiarize yourself with them. * Expectation: acquire at least 21 referrals (favorable introductions). Please be aware that any referrals that you get over 21 would be beneficial to you in this program. * After completing these surveys, we ask that you respond to the questions in the Summary/De-brief. We will discuss what you learned throughout this process in the 2nd interview. Please note, for privacy issues, these assignments are yours to keep. They will not be kept by us, nor will we use any sort of contact information or names that you receive during this process. The...
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...scrambled eggs, next I headed to work. Traffic was especially bad that day. Still sitting in traffic, my phone rang. “Hi this is Monica McMann with Sunshine Real Estate. How may I help you?” The voice was low, I could barely hear. “I would like to see the house on Escambia Street.” “Okay, can I have a name for registry?” “Um, Chace Ott.” “What time would you prefer, Mr. Ott?” “2 is fine.” “Okay I will see you at 2.” “Yes, yes you will.” And the line went silent. As the dingy potato sack was lifted off my head, I saw two men. One looked familiar, I knew his name automatically, Todd,...
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...Story: Freak Show, a character named Jimmy Darling, expressed, They don’t even know us. If they just got to know us they would see we are just like them. What this quote is trying to say is that just because one person is different than the other, it does not mean they are not human. In the show American Horror Story: Freak Show, People are described as “freaks” because they look different than others. When in reality the real “freak” is the serial killer because he is going around slaughtering people, but the members of the Jupiter, Florida community do not suspect the serial killer, Dandy, to be a suspect, because he is rich and looks ordinary, so instead, the police suspect the “freaks”and think it is them who is killing all of these people, because they look...
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...In the popular horror series, American Horror Story: Freak Show, a character named Jimmy Darling, expressed, They don’t even know us. If they just got to know us they would see we are just like them. What this quote is trying to say is that just because one person is different than the other, it does not mean they are not human. In the show American Horror Story: Freak Show, People are described as “freaks” because they look different than others. When in reality the real “freak” is the serial killer because he is going around slaughtering people, but the members of the Jupiter, Florida community, do not suspect the serial killer, Dandy, to be a suspect, because he is rich and looks ordinary, so instead, the police suspect the “freaks”and...
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...hurt me, if I left, how would I look after myself? I didn’t know. The only thing I could hear was my heart beating rapidly and my breath rasping into my lungs. Running so rapidly for so long, from someone you are petrified of, really takes effect once you stop. My lungs burnt like I have never felt before. I dropped to the ground, I was exhausted. That is where I stayed until I woke. I was paranoid for who knows how long. Looking over my shoulder all the time, just to make sure Clinton hadn’t found me. It was a terrible time. This is not how God wanted me to live my life. On the run from my stepmothers partner. From what I was told by my father when I was very young, God wanted...
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...My Best Friend We may be able to have a hundred or a thousand friends, or even more. But there is only one friend who really has loyalty on you if you really think about it, that is best friend. My best friend is my best partner for living my life. His name is _, and I used to call him__. He is someone who really knows me deeply. He knows the characteristic of me, from the outside and even inside of me. Someone who is able to feel my mood. He knows when I feel happy and when I feel very sad. He is also sad when I look sad, and he is also happy when I feel happy. Someone who knows how to respond any kind of my mood, he knows how to comfort me. Someone who is always there for me. He is there when I am happy and he is also there when I feel facing failure. Someone who is able to understand me the most. There is no relative between us, but there are many similarities in our characteristics. He is like me and I am also like him. The similar characteristics have given an ease for us to be able to understand each other. He is someone who is faithful and always taking care of me. He is a nice person, a friend who is able to share each other, in joy and sorrow. Someone who is always there and always supporting me for reaching what I want. Someone who is able to make me feel comfort if I take life with him and feel easy to fight any kind of life problems. But it is different if I am alone without him; everything seems too difficult to fight. He is my best friend, someone who is...
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...reason for attending? Choose one option. a. I’m going to attend lots of presentations so I can keep up-to-date with developments in my industry. b. I’m hoping to meet lots of interesting people – maybe some of them will be useful for my future career. c. I have a target of twenty people that I want to meet, so I can persuade them to buy our products. On the first evening, you attend a ‘welcome party’. You arrive in a large hall filled with about 500 people. They all seem to be talking to each other in groups. There’s nobody that you recognise. What do you do? a. Go up to one of the groups, introduce yourself and ask if you can join them. b. Go up to one of the groups and listen to the conversation. Maybe you can join in later. c. Find where the food is being served and try to start a conversation with someone in the queue. d. Walk around the hall, pretending to be looking for someone. Avoid eye contact with other people. e. Turn around and go home. At the conference party, which of these problems would be worse for you? a. No-one wants to talk to you. b. A really boring person wants to talk to you … and you can’t escape from him/her. Where is the best place to stand if you want people to talk to you? a. In the middle of the hall. b. By the wall. c. Outside. d. By the buffet / bar. Which topics of conversation could you use to break the ice with someone? a. How much you hate parties like this. b. The conference. c. Your work. d. Sport. e. The weather. f. Politics. g. How bad the food...
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...let my step father adopt me. He abandoned me when he made the choice to stop talking to me. In fact, I haven't gotten a letter or phone call from him since the fourth grade. I did, however, lose a best friend to death, but she wasn't a person. She was a dog. And I'd known her since I was just a few weeks old. As with most dogs, she died of old age at fourteen. If you ask anyone who knows me well enough, "What is Kayla like?" one of the first things they'd probably tell you is "hyper", with a capital H. I don't think I have ADHD, but I am extremely energetic. So why am I so afraid of talking to or introducing myself to new people? I'm afraid to make a bad impression. I'm scared of being looked down upon because someone new might think I'm weird if I get to know them. The truth is, I'm nothing like the girl most people know me as.When you look at someone new, what's the first thing you think? If the person is pretty or handsome, you may say or think, "Oh, they're probably really snotty. Just look at those clothes!" Or even worse in my opinion, if the person is wearing glasses or has stringy hair, "Look at the nerd! They're probably SO much smarter than I am." Well, what if that snotty, nice-looking person actually had feelings? What if, in the extreme, they were lonely and had no friends? And what if that nerdy kid was incredibly charming and funny and had a good heart? Let's face the facts: you will never truly know what a person is really like unless you get to know them...
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...t he fine art of small talk How to Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills— and Leave a Positive Impression! new york To Jared Fine Holst and Sarah Fine Holst, my inspiration and motivation. And the gentle wind beneath my wings, Steve Tilliss. C ontents Preface ix chapter 1 What’s the Big Deal About Small Talk? 1 chapter 2 Get Over Your Mom’s Good Intentions 12 chapter 3 Take the Plunge: Start a Conversation! 27 chapter 4 Keep the Conversation Going! 37 chapter 5 Let’s Give ’Em Something to Talk About 49 chapter 6 Hearing Aids and Listening Devices 66 viii . contents c hapter 7 Prevent Pregnant Pauses with Preparation 84 chapter 8 Conversational Clout 108 chapter 9 Crimes and Misdemeanors 114 chapter 10 The Graceful Exit 139 chapter 11 The Conversational Ball Is in Your Court! 154 chapter 12 Make the Most of Networking Events! 159 chapter 13 Surviving the Singles Scene 165 chapter 14 Feel-Good Factor 185 chapter 15 Holiday Party Savvy 192 chapter 16 Carpe Diem 195 Acknowledgments 201 Preface W hen I first got into the business of helping people cultivate conversation skills, I ran into a lot of skepticism. Invariably, executives would scoff at the idea of a housewife’s trivial initiative to overcome boredom. Then I would get clandestine calls for assistance from folks with prestigious titles...
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...In the Socratic Seminar I would’ve asked at least four questions. First one being, If you were in Elies shoes, how do you think you would have acted? What do you think would have become of you, and why? If someone else asked that I would’ve replied by saying that I would’ve became sane and would most likely hurt someone. Being in Elie’s shoes, he lost his mom and his sisters in the beginning. Whenever my parents/sisters come home later than the usual I worry and tear up with just the thought of one of my family not being in this world anymore. Now imagine being Elie, he had just started in the holocaust and he lost people.. Afterwards in page 24 there was a women, Mrs. Schachter, who would cry screaming “Fire! I see fire! I see fire”. Being in the car with her would make me crazy, I would want it to be quiet. With someone screaming while I’m going to a place that I know is dangerous, I’d really like it to be quiet. Throughout the book Elie saw and experienced cruelness, people were being killed thoughtlessly. Seeing this, would make me only think of myself. I...
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...I was at my house and my phone rings and it is my brother’s friend. He had got in a car crash because he didn’t see that there was a curve until it was too late. The driver had got his head put in the front windshield and the passenger hit the roof which made his eye have a medium size cut. In hero literature, authors use heroes to symbolize freedom combined with details that describe power corrupts which within the hero genre allow readers to experience birth and ultimately consider the pattern. First, I believe that a hero has to be someone who goes out of his or her name to help or save someone that they know or even don’t know because I always think of someone who walks up to someone who is homeless and gives them something to eat or even some money. The other thing that I think of would be when you see someone in the hall is having trouble and have dropped their things and you go help them pick it up. Second, in the story The Adventures of Robin Hood, Robin Hood is the hero because he shows how he is overpowering the villain. Robin Hood personifies the spring because he talks about it being spring time a lot. Robin Hood rose above the villain once he started to become famous. This story inspires us to rise above the common person and defeat evil because we see that someone else could do it so we have an example of how to overcome the “evil” in our life. Third, I think that Sundiata personifies a coin at the tip of a mountain because if you hit it at all it will fall...
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