...I wake up to the sound of war. It’s normal now, I’ve been here for a while. My back aches and I have mosquito bites all over my body. I’m forced to sleep on the concrete floor in my camp every night. Last night, I dreamt that I was home with my family, playing with my friends at school and eating a meal at my home. I haven’t had a real meal for so long. I know that I won’t get breakfast this morning, I haven’t eaten breakfast for a month now, since they abducted me. I get a few snacks here and there, just to keep me alive, but it’s never anything good. My commander walks in and yells at us to line up. Everyone stands up and gets into a line, except for a young soldier who refuses to stand up. We all watch as he gets dragged outside to be tortured. Some of us try hard to hold back our tears, but the children who have been here longer, have forgotten how to feel sadness. Our commander leads us outside, and we try to keep our eyes off of the screaming boy. It’s time to get our drugs. One by one, we get a slit cut in our arm, and the drug ‘brown brown’ rubbed into our new wound. It’s my turn. I watch as the knife slides across my arm. It hurts a little, but not as much as it did the first time. My commander rubs the cocaine and gunpowder mixture into my blood stream, and I instantly feel better. I’m addicted. I need to kill. We march in a straight line with our AK47’s in our hands. It’s a long walk, and my legs start to ache and burn. None of us have shoes to wear, so we’ve gotten...
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...Now that there is the Tec-9, a crappy spray gun from South Miami. This gun is advertised as the most popular gun in American crime. Do you believe that shit? It actually says that in the little book that comes with it: the most popular gun in American crime. Like they're actually proud of that shit. You think water moves fast? You should see ice. It moves like it has a mind. Like it knows it killed the world once and got a taste for murder. After the avalanche, it took us a week to climb out. Now, I don't know exactly when we turned on each other, but I know that seven of us survived the slide... and only five made it out. Now we took an oath, that I'm breaking now. We said we'd say it was the snow that killed the other two, but it wasn't. Nature is lethal but it doesn't hold a candle to man. You think water moves fast? You should see ice. It moves like it has a mind. Like it knows it killed the world once and got a taste for murder. After the avalanche, it took us a week to climb out. Now, I don't know exactly when we turned on each other, but I know that seven of us survived the slide... and only five made it out. Now we took an oath, that I'm breaking now. We said we'd say it was the snow that killed the other two, but it wasn't. Nature is lethal but it doesn't hold a candle to man. Now that there is the Tec-9, a crappy spray gun from South Miami. This gun is advertised as the most popular gun in American crime. Do you believe that shit? It actually says that in the...
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...Even as I leave, I know there is the funeral. Even as I climb into our cheap convertible, and the rain comes down and the roof goes up, I know. You have been a good friend, even though our lives are so busy now we are sometimes like strangers. You have been a good friend, and now your dad is dead. The road is long and windy and wet. The Wicklow hills call from the far coast, and in between the car is stuffy and hot to keep the windshield fog off, and I shuffle to get comfortable and try not (for my dear driver’s sake) to nod off. But I have never been good with staying awake, and besides, although I talk for Ireland, a passenger seat is the one place I get lost in my thoughts, climb into my self and am silent, then asleep… I jolt awake with a smack to the head, and the sound of a smile in my ears. We cannot have my head collapsing on him as he drives our cheap convertible with no airbags. We cannot have it. So I fight the battle with my eyelids who go on strike so often I think of hiring a crane to prop them up. The light is green tea and amber now, the trees form a canopy. A light mist has replaced the rain and sleep rises from me as contentment settles down. We pass a house with horse-head pillar stones, and a lady with squeaky wipers, and a three-legged dog ambling along, and he drives me deeper into the heart of nothing. We have other friends who need us this weekend, it’s all arranged. Unlike the funeral and I’ve been told that up the North they do things strange...
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...Dr. Warren Bennis' book, On Becoming a Leader, is a great book about leadership and does a great job defining how leaders are developed. Dr. Bennis states knowing thyself then, means separating who you are and who you want to be from what the world thinks you are and wants you to be (Bennis, 2009, p.5). Knowing yourself was an amazing chapter and forced me to reflect on how I progressed and matured over the years. The process of knowing your self doesn’t begin at the same time for everyone, but when it begins it helps you have a stronger sense of self. Throughout my life I have climbed many mountains, some of which I wasn’t prepared for. I am aware that everyone climbs mountains, hills, and faces obstacles in their lives, I believe the success of the battles I have won have built a great foundation upon which I can succeed and become a great leader. It was in those moments when I thought I had nothing left that I learned when you make it through one trail it becomes easier the next time around, forcing you to grow and evolve. Having a child at 19 was the beginning stages of getting to know myself. I was forced to grow up and become a mother. I would not accept mediocrity as my destined end so I begin to find who I was and strive to become better. Being a young parent is not easy by any means, but thriving through the chaos and succeeding is one of the most gratifying moments in my life. As I look back I now understand the trials that I have faced have allowed me to have...
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...Everest Tragedy 1996 Question 1. After understanding and analyzing the tragedy of Mount Everest , May 1996 that took lives of eight climbers during summit attempts, we can conclude that the tragedy may occur due to several root causes whether it is by nature or human error. The major factor that leads to this tragedy is that all the climbers are lack of team work and communication. Even though they are in the same expedition but they have their own individual’s goal, eager to reach at the summit. For example, Jon Krakauer one of the clients of Adventure Consultant said that he felt disconnected from the climbers around him, they were a team in name only. Supposedly, during the acclimatization exercises, the climbers should take time to get to know each other, learn their responsibilities as a team build their confidence and trust to their teammates, instead they were doubting each other whether they could rely own their team member during difficult times. That also might cause this tragedy, which is lack of trust towards team member. One of the potential causes of the tragedy was overconfidence. Overconfidence occurs when leaders believe that their experience, abilities, skill, or maybe even luck, will allow them to overcome any challenge they face. Research has shown that such overconfidence can lead to poor decision making as leaders substitute their own personal skill for careful analysis of the situation and planning. Hall, in particular, may have been prone to overconfidence...
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...After understanding and analyzing the tragedy of Mount Everest , May 1996 that took lives of eight climbers during summit attempts, we can conclude that the tragedy may occur due to several root causes whether it is by nature or human error. The major factor that leads to this tragedy is that all the climbers are lack of team work and communication. Even though they are in the same expedition but they have their own individual’s goal, eager to reach at the summit. For example, Jon Krakauer one of the clients of Adventure Consultant said that he felt disconnected from the climbers around him, they were a team in name only. Supposedly, during the acclimatization exercises, the climbers should take time to get to know each other, learn their responsibilities as a team build their confidence and trust to their teammates, instead they were doubting each other whether they could rely own their team member during difficult times. That also might cause this tragedy, which is lack of trust towards team member. One of the potential causes of the tragedy was overconfidence. Overconfidence occurs when leaders believe that their experience, abilities, skill, or maybe even luck, will allow them to overcome any challenge they face. Research has shown that such overconfidence can lead to poor decision making as leaders substitute their own personal skill for careful analysis of the situation and planning. Hall, in particular, may have been prone to overconfidence. He had reached the summit...
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...Everyone wants to live a successful life, and for this to become viable for most they must receive a good education. Because of this it is not a shock that a lot of people view the American Dream as being well educated. One example of this is in an article by Isabel Wilkerson in the New York Times article titled “Angela Whitiker’s Climb” which depicts just that, “She had only recently become the first woman in her family with a college degree and, if everything went well this day, would be the first nurse anybody in her family knew personally.” Angela Whitiker has fought to do what no one in her family had done before her, get a college degree. Her dream is to get the education she needs to become a nurse. Even though she dreams to receive an education, this is really just a short term goal towards a longer term goal of success. Her long term American Dream is to be successful but for her to be able to do this she needs to get a good education. Her long term dream is success, but her short term dream is a quality education. This is the case for most people. They dream to...
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...DeVry University Principle of Economics ECON-312N Jmp092656@hotmail.com Introduction…………………………………………………………………………2 Unemployment………………………………………………………………………2 Inflation, GDP, and Unemployment…………………………………………………4 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………6 Reference……………………………………………………………………………..7 February 14, 2014 Slippery Climb Up: To Recovery Introduction In the past five years the climb to get out of the effects of the Great Recession of 2008 has been very slippery. The current macroeconomic situation in the United States has been a very slow recovery and the public’s behavior is demonstrating much concerned. The concerns are unemployment, the value of their homes, and stagnant wages. Economic forecasters” believe that 2014 will be the “break out year” for the U.S. economy” (Hernandez, 2014). This paper will discuss the concept of inflation and unemployment and the GDP have on the economy; also what fiscal policies and monetary policies would be appropriate at this time for our economy. Unemployment The U.S. unemployment rate hit a new five year low of 6.6 percent in January 2014. Since October the jobless rate has decreased by 0.6 percentage point. The unemployment...
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...Climbing Mount Everest is a bad idea because it’s dangerous for the climber because of the Climate zone,Accidents and the environment. (Body Paragraph 1) Climbing mount everest is a bad idea because of the environment. For example According to The Textbook in page(420) it states that “The environment was very trashy.”In the past many climbers left their trash on the mountain piles of Cans,Bottles and Garbage that could been seen.This shows that the environment was really trashy and was a unsafe place to climb. Another example of why it is a bad idea to climb Mount Everest is, according to the textbook in page 422 it states that “When a population grows too large the area is likely to be damaged. (How does this piece of evidence support your topic sentence and your thesis statement?) This shows that if more people come to the mountain and leave their trash there behind it causes the mountain and the climbers to be in trashy environment....
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...Climb High and You See More --A reflection on the course TRA 6115 When I decided to take the course Translation Processes and Methods, I thought I would been required to do a lot of translation practices just as what other translation courses back to undergraduate school asked me to do, only to gain more skills and techniques, to drown myself into the sea of translation, swimming hard and fast, without an awareness of the orientation and destination. Nevertheless, after four times of Baptism in this course, now I feel refreshed and able to stand in a higher place, to get a bird view of the sea, being oriented and determined. Yes, that is what this course means to me—new ideas, new perspectives of view about translation and a much broader horizontal. To be more specific, I list below three points of significance or gifts that this course bestows me with. 1. Being meaningful is the meaning of our life. Long ago, I set my mind to become a translator so as to introduce more Chinese traditional culture to western world. I feel obligated and cheerful for this dream because I always hold the faith that my dream or goal should not be totally personal. I mean it should be constructive to the society and helpful to other people. It must be meaningful. However, from time to time, I was distracted by my petty desires and fears— those worldly concerns, trapping myself into a dilemma, sometimes being self-interested and money-oriented and sometimes struggling to uphold what I have been...
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...Reaction Paper 2 Posted in The New York Times the article “Angela Whitiker’s Climb” tells a tale of an American woman in the middle class. However Angela was not born into the middle class and like many Americans today worked her way up. At the age of 15 Angela was pregnant with her first son and by the age of 23 she was already a mother of five. At her lowest point, she found herself raising her five kids in an extremely bad neighborhood and on the lowest rung of the poverty class in America. Angela understood what it was like living in poverty, so much so that she chose to no longer tolerate this lifestyle. Looking down upon other women who have grown accustomed to their life in poverty Angela took a stand and vowed to get herself out. Her actions proved successful as she is now a registered nurse, but this is more than just a story of living the “American dream.” This is a story that gives us insight to the process legitimation of poverty in America. The process of legitimation is the way in which the system of social stratification, the level of inequality, and the power of the elites in society are made acceptable to the general population. (Kerbo 2011) The process of legitimation can be explained by two processes, the micro and the macro. One of the main factors in the macroprocess of legitimation is the mass media. Most of the major mass media organizations in the United States are in the hands of the upper class and major corporations. The Disney Corporation for example...
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...Horton: “A wonderful book I love to read is, The Rocks Is What We Climb On, where the guy tells the story, the little young boy walking with his sister, she states I can’t find any footing I keep slipping , I can’t find any grounding, it’s all these rocks in the way and he says no, no the rocks is what you stand on. I have taken that and I have doctrine that for my life, I try to stand on hard times, I stand on the rocks. So, with my mother’s passing, I try to tell people, take your health serious, exercise, don’t drink, don’t smoke, eat healthy and if tragedy strikes, then you endure it and go through that difficult dark tunnel. I tell people to value what god has given...
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...Climb ‘Til Your Dream Comes True As students many of us are here in pursuit of our dreams in life but some of us may give up when the going gets tough and the challenges seem impossible, but faith in our hearts is the fuel that will propel us through the challenges we face in life prior to realizing our dreams. According to Helen Steiner Rice a well-known poet, faith is a force that is greater than knowledge or power or skill and many defeats turn to triumph if you trust in God’s wisdom and will. On the journey towards our dreams the road may be tough and many of us will be faced with many tasks more than we can bear; challenges like working to support ourselves, raising children in addition to the course workloads may be very daunting and impossible and many may give up their dreams. But always remember the hills ahead are never as steep as they seem and with faith in our hearts and believe in ourselves we can climb until we reach our dreams. I remembered when my husband was preparing for pharmacy school he was a fulltime student, working for 12 hours a day, taking care of the household expenses, and he barely got 5 hours of sleep a day but despite the challenges he never gave up his dream of becoming a pharmacist. He was relentless in his pursuit of his dream through believe in himself and faith in God; and now he is a practicing pharmacist. As many of us are pursuing our dreams we may be confronted with many challenges, which may abort our dreams if we give up,...
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...Epstein, Zach. “Canalys: Android Dominance Grows as Q1 Market Share Climbs to 35%.” BGR. May 4th, 2011. I. Introduction 1. Summary Market positioning is a crucial ingredient in an organization’s success. In the smartphone market, Android dominates the worldwide smartphone market, having increased its share of the market by 35% in the first quarter of 2011. The article by Epstein (2011) highlights the global comparisons between Android and several other of the smartphone giants in the industry, and breaks down the comparisons by region. 2. Relevant Vocabulary Year-over-year—results compared year by year for a specific part of the year, as, for example, directly comparing the first quarter of 2010 with the first quarter of 2011. There are no difficult terms to identify. 3. Key Concepts Tactical Planning – Process of defining implementation activities that the firm must carry out to achieve its objectives (Ch. 6, p. 185). Android uses two primary methods for tactical planning. One is the use of applications, which number in the thousands, and are important for consumers to use to “personalize” their phones. The second key planning strategy is to use key vendors such as HTC, Samsung, LG, Motorola and Sony Ericsson, which are themselves global leaders. Channel captain – Dominant and controlling member of a marketing channel (Ch. 13, p. 401). Smartphone manufacturers such as Nokia and Andoid are channel captains in that...
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...him and dive into a conversation. I wanted to know what it takes to climb a mountain. e opens up and lets out unimaginable experiences. Confidence keeps him alive. He looks up at the massive mountain in complete awe. Arseneau establishes that “Every mountain has to respected, danger cannot always be seen, but underneath the snow, danger is always there.” Arseneau starts his toughest climb: Jungfrau. Jungfrau the main mountain in the...
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