...but you are definitely not the only one who will be going through such a nerve racking experience. Always keep your head up and take each day one step at a time. A few good experiences of mine have been meeting and surrounding myself with the right people. You will notice that there is no such thing as a “clique”, which may be the best thing for someone who is meeting new people for the first time. Another great thing that has gotten me through such a difficult 4 months is the extra help we as athletes receive. I spent most of my time at the academic center, and that is probably the best tip I could give you. The academic center is a miracle, along with all the amazing people that work in there; you will never get steered in the wrong direction. I thought that having to adapt to a new team, and an all-girls team at that would be the biggest challenge going into college, but it has been the best experience of my life. You will come to find that these girls are going to be like your second family and that you can always go to talk to them for any advice that you might need. My overall experience in my first semester of college has been a blast, and I have the perfect idea on what the real world has to offer me. Some not-so great things that have happened...
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...uncontrollable events. William Faulkner's life is an astonishing accomplishment; however, it is crucial to explore his styles of writing, and how one particular style of writing was able to alter my path in the way I approach my goals in life. He adjusts the style to fit the topic, able to adapt a more traditional type as he easily can invent new, complicated techniques of writing. Throughout his early education, he would work conscientiously at reading, spelling, writing, and arithmetic. However, he especially enjoyed drawing. When Faulkner got promoted to the third grade, skipping the second grade, he was asked by his teacher what he wanted to be when he grew up. He replied, "I want to be a writer just like my great granddaddy"(Minter 18). Faulkner took interest in poetry around 1910, but no one in Oxford, Mississippi, could tell him what to do with his poems. Shortly after, he met a man named Phil Stone. So one afternoon, Stone went to Faulkner's house to get to know him better, and during his visit he received several written verses from Faulkner's poetry. Stone not only became a very close friend of Faulkner's, but also a mentor to the young writer at the beginning of his career. Stone immediately gave the potential poet encouragement, advice, and models for his study of literature (Minter 29). As Faulkner grew older he began to lose interest in his...
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...Mountains are tall. If you are stupid enough to jump off one you fall fast and you land hard. The five-paragraph theme is my mountain and I have just jumped right off it. There don't seem to be any outcroppings to grab for, and my assignment is to discuss my cliff as I continue to drop from it. So I will not grab. I will let myself fall, and hope for pillows at the end. I feel lost without my introduction to conclusion formula started at the beginning of this paper. Why do I have to do this assignment? Oh, I understand that I need to break a mold that has been added to, layer upon dreadful layer, for the past eight years or so. The only problem isHOW? I think that what I am feeling is not unique to me, and that the instructor will more than likely read these same words a dozen times in other fonts. I do not want to spend my entire paper feeling sorry for myself and wasting paper complaining that the answer to my question is not right under my nose. I would pity my reader. I would also hope that I am a stronger writer than that. Strong writers should be able to get beyond the theme. I propose that the theme is no more than a weak writer's response to demands tired English teachers put on them, or a Lazy Writer's cop out. The theme is easy. We know how it works and we crank it out like so many machines. My question is this: what normal everyday Joe in his right mind would not take the easy route to writing a paper? There is no reason to make things harder than they have...
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...Over the span of my eighteen year-long lifetime, I have set hundreds of goals for myself, from scoring goals in soccer games to getting an “A” on this next math exam. Goals are a great tool to use to focus one’s attention towards things that benefit one who needs to get something done. Back in July, I wrote a few goals that I wanted to achieve during my first semester of sophomore year in West Virginia University. My first of these goals was to earn at least a 3.5 grade point average over the semester. All throughout school back in my hometown, I had gotten one “C”, one “B”, and many “A”s. I was used to being one of the smart kids with the good grades. In college, I assumed that everything would be different, and that I would struggle a lot more than I had. Just recently, in the middle of the second half of the semester, I calculated my expected GPA. If I end with the grades that I expect to have for the semester, I will have a 3.7! When I wrote down my goal, I thought that I was setting the bar too high so that I would push myself to achieve the goal. Now I realize that I really can do better than I expected, and plan to push myself similarly in the future! I also wanted to stick out to my teachers during my first semester. I have met...
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...memories is the 1992 NBA Finals, I was eight years old and from that moment on I breathed basketball. Everyday after school I ran in the house completed my choirs and ran back out the door to play basketball. That was my life for next seven years. During middle school there was a bit of a buzz in my neighborhood about how good I had become and a lot people wanting to see play at the high school level. I don’t want to toot my own horn but I excelled at that level as well my freshman and sophmore years then my attention began shift. Basketball was no longer my first love, I really started to pay more attention to the ladies. My junior and senior year I made the team but quit both times my focus was elsewhere, if I could do it all over again I would marry my basketball. After high school I immediately starting working for a steel mill company, it wasn’t hard work but working in the elements the heat, cold, etc it takes a toll on you day in and day out. One year later I found myself in an Airforce recruiter’s office inquiring about joining the military. The recruiter denied me because of medical reasons, so over the next 4 years I worked for three different companies as a forklift operator. I found very little pleasure in being a forklift operator but I did enjoy all the learning and life experiences along the way. I got to a point where I had had enough didn’t like my job, personal life was a mess, so I decided I needed a change of scenery. I found myself in a familiar place...
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...a”flamboyant and vivacious playwright of the 19th century” (Campbell, Samuel. "Best Oscar Wilde Plays." Stage Milk. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Dec. 2015.) for the unyielding wit and cleverness displayed in most of the pieces of literature that he wrote. In “The Importance of Being Earnest”, Wilde expresses this form of cleverness through each of the characters that he created in the short play which only consists of three acts. Humor and irony are used throughout the play to assist, enhance, hurt or help the characters that are portrayed throughout each act in the play. “The Importance of Being Earnest” is a play based around a man named Jack, whom as an infant, was abandoned by his mother and left in a basket. He was adopted by a man named Thoman Cardew shortly after being found abandoned.Now as an adult, Jack is at the pinnicle of his class and one of the most important people within his community. However, at the beginning of the first act, Jack is introduced as “Ernest”. Even through the continuation of the act, he i referred to as Jack on script, but is Ernest while in character. Oscar wilde used irony and humor to help introduce, enhance, hurt and develop the characters throughout the play....
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...of you watch race car driving? Have you ever been to a NASCAR race? NASCAR stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. I was born in April 1951 and grew up in Car Town, North Carolina with my parents Ralph and Martha Earnhardt along with my brothers and sisters Kaye, Kathy, Randy, and Danny. My daddy worked in a cotton mill in Kannapolis and did some race car driving on the side. My daddy didn’t graduate from high school with a diploma and told me I needed a good education so I could one day support my family. School was hard for me and I would rather hang around the shop with my daddy where I would watch and learn how to take cars apart and put them together, change the oil, grease the...
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...The Inspiration behind my Motivation My Opa was a Russian Romeo who fell madly in love with my Oma, his German Juliet. This love they shared was strictly forbidden, since Russia and Germany were not on good terms. Had they gotten caught there would have been serious repercussions. I wouldn't even exist and would lack the ability to tell you this story. Nevertheless, they were married and raised three children together in Germany. When my mother was 20 years old when she decided to move to the United States and attend college. This is where she met and married my father. but once she became pregnant she returned to Germany. My Opa passed away two days before I was born and even though I never got to meet him, I am proud to be his granddaughter. When I was approximately six weeks old my mother flew back to the states and reunited with my father. I was raised in the swampy state of Louisiana until my 14th birthday. My present was a one-way ticket to Neufarhn, Germany where I was to meet and live with my Oma. It was over the next 3.5 years that I had the privilege of getting to know my Oma, the woman that continues to inspire me to this day. A few days after my arrival, my Oma showed me a photo that she had taken during WWII. In the photo was Adolf Hitler, Dr. Josef Mengele and various Nazi Generals, laughing and smiling while eating dinner in our family restaurant, which is still in business. They were seated at a large round table with a miniature christmas...
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...Looking back When I first walked through the doors of Brunswick High School four years ago, I saw an open door to multiple opportunities. I remember everyone telling me how this would be the best four years of my life. Since that day a lot has changed. My surroundings have changed, my image has changed, my friends have changed, and my knowledge has advanced. From the beginning of high school I have met some very important people. In class on my first day of school I remember I met numerous people and I could not even match names with faces on the second day. I remember most of all how welcoming everyone was and how warm hearted and kind the teachers were. Of course now as a senior, four years later I pass the faces of people that were once close friends that have now become strangers and I pass teachers I used to adore and look the other direction. It is a sad thing to think about but life goes on. In my opinion, high school prepares students for the real world. It doesn’t just give us knowledge on mathematics and how to translate shakespeare. It teaches us the ins and outs, and the ups and downs of life. You meet real people, ones that would cross an ocean for you, and the ones that wouldn’t cross a puddle. You meet yourself, you learn who you are, who you want to be, and what you want to accomplish. You make mistakes while there is still room for improvement. You find parts of education interesting that you thought you would never care about. You watch the people around...
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...At the end of eighth grade, his mom had been sober for a year and in a steady relationship. He was doing well in school and his sister, Lindsay, had gotten married and had a baby. His Aunt Wee also had two kids. As school progressed things got so bad with his mom that Vance went to live with his Mamaw. However, an opportunity for Vance was when he would stay with Mamaw for extended periods of time and his life suddenly seemed so much better. There are many threats in Vance’s life, however, the most important threat to Vance was his own mother. He tried telling Mamaw about his mother’s potential relapse, but because no longer lived with her, she couldn’t see how bad his mother had gotten. The summer after eighth grade he experienced his first personal acknowledgment of a weakness, not wanting his life to have no safety net again. Another weakness Vance experiences...
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...and being successful in life. For me, I have learned and gain much more knowledge about oppression than it is when we started the course. In fact, I have come to realize some of my oppression as a student because of our discussions about oppression. The subject of oppression has been a difficult topic for me to comprehend, but the discussions, lectures,...
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...easy, I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”, Michael Scott, General Manager-The Office. This was the first thing I thought of when assigned a comprehensive leadership paper, and I figured something funny always draws the reader in. I want to start my paper with my leadership interview. As I mentioned in class, I wanted to get more of an honest interview with my sweet, yet beleaguered new Plant Manager. He is not only a wonderful man, but also being assigned to our facility to develop and nurture a not yet defined “culture”; he has done so with patience and class. On his first day, he spoke to all of us in our break area, stating he wanted to know who we were, what our spouse’s name was, what some of our hobbies were, and where we saw ourselves in the scheme of our corporation. What challenges I foresee my manager facing is not the newer employees in our facility, but the manufacturers and line men that have been working for thirty plus years. It has been my experience that if you can really get through to the old timers, you have won half the battle trying to change the culture because they are the influencers. Do you think leadership develops with experience? Experience is the only way I have gotten better with anything I have done. To be more specific the more I failed, the better I got at what I had set my goal to. Are there one or two experiences you look back on as having been especially valuable in helping develop your won leadership? I can think...
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...Embryonic Stem Cell Research: The Next Best Thing Have you ever gone to the doctor when you are not feeling well? The doctor probably gave you some good advice and maybe a pill and you felt better in about a week. This happens every day all over the country every day. But what happens when good advice and a pill will not help this time? A diagnosis of organ failure, spinal cord injury, and diabetes, Parkinson’s disease or Huntington’s disease is life altering. After the shock wears off you might start researching different therapies and come across something called stem cell research. Stem cell research has been around since the 1970’s but has gotten a lot of attention in the last several years. It has even risen to the level of Presidential campaigns: Senator John Kerry (D) made embryonic stem cell research a major theme in his 2004 run for President. The controversial issue comes in when the discussion turns toward embryonic stem cell versus adult stem cells. Stem cells are undifferentiated cells found throughout the body in tissue and organs. Undifferentiated cell are cells that have not specialized. They are there to repair and maintain the tissue or organ where they are found. Stem cells are also found in in the cord blood in the umbilical cord of newborns. The last place is embryonic stem cells. Embryonic stem cells are very special because they are pluripotent; they are capable of becoming any cell in the body as opposed to an adult stem cell that is limited...
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...suitable spouse is the bond between the two families, rather than the relationship between the couple being married. Property or land with the aim of securing social status sometimes seals marriage agreements. The boy and the girl have to agree or disagree for a marriage proposal, set up by his or her parents, after the first meeting. For Indians that are born and brought up in America have a difficult time adjusting with people that they are arranged with from India. It is a difficult task for a girl to adjust easily with the guy’s family after marriage. Indian culture, society, and religion differ excessively from American. The most important common issues in arranged marriages are communication, background, and faithfulness. “One Sunday, I was woken by a call at 9 A.M. A woman with a heavy Indian...
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...What has Technology Become? By: April Wright November 30, 2015 Soc/100 – Jennifer Hudgins Technology is the scientific term for engineering, making something better, problem solving, a machine, etc. Technology is constantly changing to meet every individual’s personal needs. Social change refers to change in society over time. It could mean behavioral changes, changes in beliefs, or values as time goes on. I believe technology and social change go hand in hand. With the way technology has advanced since the beginning of the 20th century, social change along with it. The older generation now own a cell phone, and had never heard of a mobile phone in their younger years. With access to the internet, every question you could ever imagine can be answered within a few seconds. Now that most of the population has access to the internet and cell phones, the lack of problem solving is more prominent. People rely on a device to solve their problems when in reality they should be racking their own mind to figure out exactly what they should be doing. Each sociological perspective (evolutionary, conflict, and functionalists) has a different views on technology, social change, and the effects of society, and some of the same views along with the equilibrium model. With so many people of society owning a cell phone and having access to the internet at their fingertips, they rely on this a form of communication instead of a face-to-face setting. Families are more connected to the outside...
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