...Ghosts have always been with me. Not by choice. At least not on my part. It just happens. I don’t want to believe… but they’ve forced themselves on me. (Thoughtful) Perhaps the old Indian woman did it to me. I lived in her house too long as a child. (Looks at ceiling) At night, footsteps paced the ceiling. Over and over, an impatient march, forever in step to the silent drum. If only this had been my only encounter, I could dismiss it. “The house is settling,” my mother said… but this wasn’t all the house did. (Lights slightly flicker) Lights dimmed and glowed. Her ghostly will stronger than the new world magic conjured by GE. Sometimes she preferred a blackout. She didn’t care for my brother’s taste in music. Blackout! (Blackout) My brother was scared turdless. (Lights come up dimly again. She smiles at the memory of her brother. She is thoughtful a moment and her expression darkens) These spirits are on me like dogs on turds. Always sniffing around. Marking me. (Goes to sofa. Sits and slowly makes her way under the quilt and lays her head sleepily against the back of the sofa during the following) I slept in my room. Well, not really slept. Sleep was never something I did much of, especially early on. My worries at seven far outweighed my need for sleep. Awake. Forever awake. My father had left me. My mother… (Sits up. Then gets up and crosses to coffin) I was always worried mother would leave me too. (She touches the coffin lovingly. Then stops looking very...
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...The best advice I have received was the advice from my mom who said " everything thing happens for good". My mothers advice was so true and applicable . It gave me hope that when bad things happened to me or things don't turn out the way I want them because of my mom's advice I understood it was is for a reason. I followed it also because through out my life it was easy to find situations where I could get upset. Since I was a little girl I heard my mom say "everything happens for Good" I heard her say it both for the good and the bad things that happened. hearing her telling me this when she saw me upset made me put it in my mind and apply it in my everyday life. Finding myself in small situations being mad like missing the bus to get to school or being rejected by a friend, I remember always getting mad at myself , people or even God. The time I applied for a job and after waiting two weeks for interview I was mad because I didn't the new job. This days thanks to God I have been changed because my mom' advice was so true and applicable. Now rather than just worrying myself why things always don't work out as I expected I learned not to give in or give up easily in every situations I found myself in but always I try to see beyond what is in front of me or try to focus on the positive sides of situations as they saying goes " you can either think the cup is half full or half empty". The best counsel that I got from my mother when I connected it with what I read on the...
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...Williams Phil-1-L02 2/28/2014 Week 7 essay assignment The stoics idea that all things that happen are meant to happen is something that I live by strongly. I think that when you stress about what to come or the past circumstances you can become anxious and stressed. The stoics have sort of a “go with the flow” philosophy, so they tend to stay calm about things to come. I do agree that the test of faith is anxiety, because when you worry about an out come of a situation it tends to make you anxious rather than letting the will of God be done. I use this philosophy in my life everyday. I think that the stoics were correct in saying that those who let the divine plan be done will lose all anxiety, because it means you will worry not about the bad or good things that can happen. People always say that you shouldn't let bad things get to you, so it seems that that there philosophy would be correct. I've personally met people in my life who seem to be unafraid and not effected by the bad that may come of this world, because they have accepted that it bad things happen, and it is just apart of everyday life. I do think that just because there is a divine plan for our life doesn't mean we just sit and let life pass us by, and I think a lot of people get that mixed up. For example the path of my life may be to become a doctor, but siting at home claiming that if it's meant to happen it'll happen will get me there, I must take the initiative to become a doctor and if circumstances...
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...both the person and the supernatural force that can take that person over. Watching this video of 9/11 and the way it affected people was very touching and at the same time very irritating to me. I am a Christian and I do believe in evil but once something like this happens it shows that even the people that think that they have so much faith can lose all that faith that they think that they had in a split second. I know that this was hard and I know that I cannot relate with these people as far as losing a loved one in this catastrophe but out of this catastrophe you can relate it to everyday things that happen. It might not be as EXTREME but it does fit. To hear someone say “this is the best reason to not believe in God” saddened my heart but also made me think about how many people say that after every bad and evil thing that happens. God is not the reason that any evil thing happened. It was said perfectly by an agnostic man in the video. He said “God is not the one who pushes people off of a cliff with his finger. It is our Game and we are the ones moving the pieces”. This video helped me see the diverse perspectives of evil in all the different religions. Just like any other evil thing that happens in the world it had a push/pull effect on everybody and their beliefs. The...
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...definition a miracle can never happen.” Discuss. The known definition of a miracle is “an extraordinary and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore attributed to a divine agency.” However, Peter Vardy in The Puzzle of God gave four different definitions provided by many different scholars, including Aquinas and Hume, with Hume believing they are impossible but cannot be disproved compared to Aquinas believing they are completely possible even within the system of natural activity. What a miracle is can be debated forever due to the many different interpretations of who and why they come about, with psychologists such as Freud arguing they are just an illusion and Wiles arguing that miracles do exist but not as a result of God’s will. The real question is whether the laws of nature can ever be broken and to that affect – do miracles define themselves into non-existence? The definition of a miracle provided by Hume is “a transgression of the laws of nature brought about by the volition of a deity.” He believes that miracles are simply an interposition by some invisible agent, but he however goes on to challenge this definition with his theoretical case miracles which argued that the laws of nature we experience are constant and therefore cannot be changed, In response to this, as the laws of nature cannot be defied, (if they could be broken they would not be laws), by Hume’s definition, miracles can never happen, as laws of nature are fixed...
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...INTRO Imagine this...you just gave a stellar presentation at your company’s monthly meeting. You were nervous, but you don’t think anyone really noticed...so you confidently head back to your seat at the conference table, Patting yourself on the back, and as you go to sit down the chair rolls from right underneath you and you PLOP..right on the floor..and it that wasn’t enough.... as you fell, you kind of let out this yell of several obscenities! Something like a Oh Shhh...OH Fffffff...something like that! You look up from the floor.. and your Boss is there..your Boss’s Boss is there, and that person you've been trying to Holla at for months from Accounting...There’s always someone from accounting your trying Holla out..Anyway...There you are ON the Floor...time has actually stood still....Well What do you do? Do you get up and run crying out the room? Do you get up quickly and sit in the chair and try to pretend nothing happened....Or do you...take a moment..then lift your hands up and say...THank you..I do all my Stunts.....Well according to an article written in Psychology Today by sociologist Erving Goffman...”It’s not the embarrassing moment that makes or brakes us...IT’s the recovery...It’s how we recover” People will remember our reaction, more than they will remember the actually embarrassing moment! Now lets face it..Everyone has had a moment when they wish they could just disappear right then and there. Unfortunately, it is not that easy!But once we learn how to...
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...Throughout Lord of The Flies, William Golding makes strong use of themes. One of the main themes is fear. The boys are always filled with fear and think that something bad is going to happen to them or others and when they feared things many things followed that taught the readers about fear. One of the messages that the author sends about fear is that it can be purely imagination. In Lord of The Flies the boys fear a beastie which in reality does not exist. Believe it or not, fear can actually make some people motivated. It causes people to start to do whatever it takes to stop the fear from becoming a reality. In the novel the boys start to build spears and become stronger in order to be able to fight the beast and this is because fear made...
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...the good things that can happen to you throughout the day, you don’t really notice how many small things there are that can have a positive effect. Small things on their own aren’t much, but when you start to add them up they can become something huge. For instance, playing fetch with my Labrador Buddy, or giving in to that craving of chocolate and enjoying every bite are very small things in the grand scheme of things, but take either out of my life and it would be a tragedy. Every once in a while something happens that is clearly a big good thing, but they don’t happen often enough to really get you through that daily grind. For instance, my mom recently celebrated her 70th birthday after a year when she had a pretty serious health scare, and celebrating that milestone with her and my family was huge. Being able to see her turn a year older was a great feeling, and feeling like I might lose her was really scary. The day she had her surgery was another big one. Seeing her wake up and smile after everything went well was one of the good moments of the past year that stands out to me the most. These are the moments that make you feel stronger as a person and make you realize how close you are to your family. The little things don’t hit you so powerfully though. Over the course of my 21 day experiment I noticed that things like the smell of a good candle, eating a home cooked meal, and just enjoying a great workout always make me happy, but were the sort of things that I was...
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...e2 ung ginawa ko.. wag na wag nyong kokopyahin ean mahahalata tau ni mam.. guide lang 2 para sa inyo :D goodluck guys. isa pa ha.. wag nyong i CTRL+C ... CTRL+V to ha.. respeto naman.. (most thrilling experience) title: Do an apple a day keeps the doctor away ? 1st: *intro* give meaning or quote about a certain topic included in your outline.. (in short isesegway nyo) E2 ung akin...... Family is just accident. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are. Still then they are nature's masterpiece for us. They aren't just normal people we see everyday, they are not just projection of our subconscious, they are people that beholds the invicible chord between you and them that never breaks even in the worst calamity. That is who they are, but what if destiny tries to cut this unbreakable line? Is destiny powerful enough to break it? Let me tell you a story of mine that defines how strong this chord can be. 2nd: *1st part of your body* here is where you give another introduction to your main idea, then you have to give some spoilers about it. (d2 ung parang intro nung body nyo.) Ganto ung flow nung akin...... It's not easy living with one's family. With so many oddballs that make up a family, it is tough to find a common ground, yet, family is the most refined of all human relations. What makes up a family is the mother, father, brother, and sister. In my case I have no sister and I also have no father, the one that act...
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...Augustine’s views are that things have happened in history can only be things that are in our minds, things that are present are only true because we can see them, and things that are going to happen in the future are only our expectations of what will happen. With this belief, Augustine believes that God only exists within time. Augustine is using his logic to come up with a theory as to why God decided to create the world in the time that he did and not at some other time. This lead him to wonder what exactly is time and how did it become to exist. By wondering about these questions he had to look into Christianity. He states that “before God created us there was no time”. What led him to this theory of no time existed before we were created, just because there was no history before our existence. The arguments strength is that it is a good theory as to how time did become to exist if not for us. But just because there is no coexistence before us does not mean that time was not in existence. If time did not exist then how was God able to become and exist whether it was on earth, in heaven, or in the past without time? Many people could ask questions of this forever, but most people chose to believe what is written in books or what there is proof of. The weakness of this theory is that the past exists not in our minds but in fact due to documented reports written and kept safe just so we can have a history on this planet that God created. We remember things that happened to us...
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...What is a Black Swan? My first thought when it was mentioned in class during the semester was the film Black Swan that hit theatres in 2011. I, of course, was completely wrong. A Black Swan in the business world, or as Taleb explains, anywhere in the world is an event that comes as surprise effects things drastically and is often looked upon as something that should have been seen coming in hindsight. The Black Swan theory was popularized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and is defined as an event that breaks off from what usually happened in a certain scenario and that is nearly impossible to predict. The theory is most commonly used in the business sense to describe markets, however, Taleb uses it in a sense to describe every sort of event that can happen in the world. The Black Swan is typically characterized by three criteria. These are rarity, extreme impact, and retrospective predictability. These Black Swan events allow for Taleb to discredit many things that are used in the financial world today, such as Gaussian’s bell curve. The theory of the Black Swan has been proved very important topic and is used and talked about by many people in not only the business world but in everything. Taleb gives an example of what the Black Swan name comes from by describing the actual myth of the black swan. For as long as people had known there was no other type of swan besides a white one. Until Australia was discovered no one had ever seen a black swan and it used as a common...
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...For time in general things happen. They either happen for a significant reason or symbolic reason or they happen just all of a sudden. That is the problem with time it gets frustrating that way. The problem of time is crucial because significant things happen simultaneously in that period. For the two stories occur in a framework were things must happen at a significant time for things to work to the advantage of the characters. The stories that will be analyzed will be that of Dante’s inferno and that of Shakespeare’s the tempest. For time characters such as Virgil (Dante’s inferno) and Prospero (the tempest) don’t have enough of. The first person that would be analyzed would be Virgil and his connection with time. Virgil in the story of...
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...When you read a book do you think to yourself sometimes I would love to do what that person in the book just did or omg that is so me? Or maybe even think that you would have been great at playing that part in the book? Well if you do, then you are very much like Scout Finch from Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. The character Scout (Atticus's daughter), in “To Kill A Mockingbird “ she doesn’t know much about anything that is going on, but she plays a very important role in the book. In the book no matter what happens it happens according to Scout, so it basically all centers her and has to do with anything that she does. She is known as a lot of things in the book both good and bad but needs to know when and where it is a good time to reveal what she knows. She is from the ages 6-9 when telling this book, but had wrote it as an adult, Scout has some very interesting character traits such as she is very loyal, to whom she cares about, tomboyish, she doesn't mind getting her hands dirty, and...
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...Changing Perspective PSY/220 Changing Perspective The way that we look at things and problems in life can be very important in the outcome of events and things we think, that maybe what we think we have seen or feel about something, may not be the true story. There is a problem-solving technique that we can learn and put into action that could make solving things much easier for us, and it is called “changing perspectives”. This technique, especially if more than one perspective is being given, can make a difference in the way things are seen and heard. In the following scenario, more than one perspective is being looked at, that can make a big different in the outcome of an event. This will give you, the readers the opportunity to also have a perspective on the event being described. It was a beautiful fall day when John was able to get a ride from some of his friends, to go to another small town, about 20 miles away, to get a part for his car that he was working on. As john, his 2 friends, and one of his friends children got into the car to make the journey, never did anyone dream that today would alter john’s life forever and have people wondering for years to come, exactly what happen. The trip to the junk yard where the car part waited John, was uneventful, just some friends out on one of the last nice fall days, but the trip back was anything but uneventful. Traveling down this two lane highway...
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...people believe, some are not. If you will ask me what I am talking about, well, I just say, it’s not only about Mr./Ms. Right. But what’s the real meaning of destiny? According to Mr. Webster, destiny refers to a predetermined course of events. It is inevitable and unchangeable. Meaning, it is an event that will inevitably happen in the future. No one knows the future, but I do believe that God already knows what will happen in the future. There’s always a purpose behind it. There is a saying that destiny is something people invented to escape in the reality why is it happening to them, they also said that, it is a result of our choice—a free will to choose what path we want to take. It’s also true that what you can conceive, you can achieve. It is just a power of mind, but we must do our part. All of these statements are correct. But it doesn’t mean that destiny isn’t working. People have their own choice but they must do their part, an effort, to achieve their dreams. Sometimes, dream come true, others are not. Sometimes, in our life, we felt unsatisfied, and our effort wasn’t enough to achieve our goal, that means, there is something better for us. That’s what I am telling, if the results of our choice or the path we chose is not good or meant for us, then, it will lead us to another. That is destiny. But all you have to do is to accept the fact that it was happen for a purpose if there’s a thing that you didn’t attain. That’s why there is a chance. Maybe this chance is not...
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