...Justin Dhanda Ms. Hicok Parker English 1A Narrative Essay #2 Final Draft 15 September, 2011 Never Give Up If I was able to answer the question, “how many siblings would you like to have and what gender would you like them to be?” I would without a doubt reply, “I’ll take two brothers please!” But you see life isn’t just a fast food restaurant. It’s way more complex than that. You really have to just take what you get and make dew with it because in reality things do not always go your way. I wasn’t blessed at birth with the two brothers I wanted so badly, but that didn’t mean I couldn’t have a great childhood. I had an amazing family who loved me unconditionally, and wouldn’t you know it. I had two sisters! They were both several years older. But, I wouldn’t trade these girls for the world because they cared for me and showed their love by always playing games with me and just being around to make me happy. But as I grew older and headed to third grade, I needed something more, something stronger than two wimpy girls to wrestle or fight with. At this time, it was almost if God came down from the Heavens to answer my prayers. My parents walked in the room and informed me that we were moving to Niles. A beautiful, little town in Fremont. And I’ll never forget the glorious moment when they said, “it will be great for you Justin, you’ll be living right down the street from your two cousins, Jack and Athen.” I exploded with excitement as if I was a firework on the...
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...Louie planned crash into the ocean, only three survived Phil, Mac and him. Louie was determined to get rescued. For example, “On the fifth day, Mac snapped. After having said almost nothing for days, he suddenly began screaming that they were doomed. Wild-eyed and raving he couldn’t stop shouting. Louie slapped him. Mac was silent.”(109) Louie didn’t want the negative, he wanted to be positive, he wanted him and his “brothers” to go home. Also “Soon after the crash, Louie began peppering Phil and Mac with questions on every conceivable subject. They shared their histories, from first memories onward.” The three men did this because the read one time, these other men were lost at sea and they lost their minds because they didn’t keep their brains working properly. Louie wanted them and himself lucid. In addition, “He had an idea. He used fishing line to tie large hooks to his pinky, middle finger, and thumb, orienting them like claws. He held his hand over the water and waited.” The guys were starving, so Louie was determined to get food for...
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...type of proccesion. Another point we need to refer is that IBM changed all the time its systems for ordering dissatisfying its partners that couldn’t follow this changes.Thus the companies couldn’t trust IBM, cause it didn’t have established practises and taking decissions without consider their needs. So we can see that IBM didn’t have a satisfactory communication in B2B. Both IBM and Magirus seems to be initiative companies for different reasons. IBM needs was to establish a global system for communication via its partners, and saw an oppurtinity creating a system with Magirus that would use after for all of its partners.On the other side, Magirus wanted efficiancy in ordering items, looking for fast, low cost, and not complex proccedures. At the during of their collaboration, they had some communications problems they wanted to solve.IBM first invention was in PC/S system, an organization structure for ordering that was not succed because of the incompability of the pre-exist ordering system of Magirus. Magirus didn’t have another choice except using PC/S system although needed to pass two times all orders, loosing that way time, efforts and money.Without smooth communication between Magirus and IBM opportunities where given to the competitors of IBM. The second invention, EDI, it was an effort that failed according to its limited capability and some technical problems. The third and last invention,...
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...I Don’t Know Who I Am In the movie Wanted directed by Timur Bekmambetov, a young man finds out his long lost father is an assassin. When his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father's old organization and trained by a man named Sloan, actor Morgan Freeman, to follow in his dad's footsteps. The anxious, clumsy and abused office clerk Wesley Allan Gibson, actor James McAvoy, has a boring routine life: his obese boss humiliates him all the time and his girlfriend betrays him with his colleague and best friend. When he meets the attractive Fox, actress Angelina Jolie, Wesley is informed that his father was a professional killer that belonged to an ancient organization called Fraternity and killed by the skilled and powerful Cross, a hit-man that has betrayed the Fraternity. Wesley learns that his anxiety actually is a symptom of his hidden abilities and he joins the society under the command of Sloan. Trained by Fox, he changes his personality and attitude, being prepared to face the dangerous Cross and find out the shocking truth. James McAvoy plays the role of the young and mediocre office clerk. He is a five foot seven one hundred and sixty pound man of the age of thirty. He is of Scottish nationality and in the movie Wanted he has scruffy brown hair with no facial hair. Wesley Gibson was, for a lack of a better word, as average as they get. James McAvoy’s character in Wanted, Wesley Gibson, is initially frail and practically everyone’s personal pushover even...
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...In Lord Of the Flies, Piggy is characterized as both smart and sensitive. In Lord Of the Flies, by William Golding, Piggy is characterized as both smart and sensitive. When the kids get on the island, Piggy acts like the only one that knows what most things are and what to do. Piggy seems like the only one with common sense. Piggy says, “ an’ this is an island. Nobody don’t know we’re here. Your dad don’t know, nobody don’t know−” (14) Piggy is the only one that thinks no one knows the kids are on the island. This shows Piggy is very clever because he is using common sense and proving his point. Piggy also knows what the shell they find is, and shows common sense towards it, “−a conch; ever so expensive. I bet if you wanted to buy one you’d have to pay pounds and pounds and pounds− he had it on his garden wall, and my auntie−” (16) This quote shows that Piggy knows what the conch is. Therefore, he is characterized as smart. During this same scene, Piggy tells Roger what to use the conch for, "We can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They’ll come when they hear us—" (16) this quote tells us that Piggy appears very intelligent because he knows how to use the conch. He knows that the conch is loud enough for everyone on the island to hear it and come together. Piggy is also characterized as very sensitive. He gets bullied a lot and ganged up on by the people on the island. This is why Piggy gets very easily offended by people. The one person that is especially mean...
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...When automobiles industry popularizes a technique of producing vehicles, and falls its cost, nowadays, an increasing number of people can afford to purchase a private car. Consequently, a challenge of excess cars on roads ensues. In virtually all cities, traffic congestion occurs every single day at the peak time. However, it is generally believed that this problem can be managed through governmental policies as well as individual behavior. The following essay will firstly outline three viable solutions, namely developments from taxes and road infrastructure, improvements in public transport services, and a decrease in the use of private automobiles, to solve the impact of traffic jams in most cities. It, furthermore, will discuss the pros and cons of each countermeasure. Finally, the evaluation of every method will be demonstrated. To begin with governmental policies, one possible method of reducing traffic congestion is to raise road pricing and to expand road infrastructure. Castle (1967) notes that charging fees on the main road at the rush hours can cut down a number of automobiles effectively because people do not want to spend extra money. Additionally, according to ideas of road pricing (Castle 1967) and park restrictions (Knoflacher 2006), it is believed that as long as governments impose road or parking fees, the usage of roads at the peak time can be reduced in metropolis, such as Singapore as well as London, and further authorities are able to spend the taxes from...
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...WWANTED: A CHAPERON Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero To the memory of Amalia B. Reyes First Performance: The Filipino Players, under the author’s direction, at St. Cecilia’s Hall, November 21, 1940 CHARACTERS: DON FRANCISCO (the father) DOÑA PETRA (the mother) NENA (their daughter) ROBERTING (their son) DOÑA DOLORES FRED (her son) FRANCISCO (the servant) PABLO (the mayordomo) TIME : One Sunday morning, at about eleven. SCENE: The living-room. Simply furnished. A window on the right. At the rear, a corridor. A door on the left Sofa, chairs, etc. at the discretion of the director. When the curtain rises, DON FRANCISCO, about sixty, is seen sitting on the sofa, smoking a cigar He wears a nice-looking lounging robe. Presently ROBERTING, his twenty-year old son, good-looking, well-dressed, enters. He wants to ask some. thing from his father, but before he gathers enough courage, he maneuvers about the stage and clears his throat several times before he finally approaches him. ROBERTING (Clearing his throat). Ehem-ehem-ehem! FRANCISCO (Looking up briefly). Ehem ROBERTING. -Father- FRANCISCO (Without looking at him). What? ROBERTING. Father- FRANCISCO. Well? ROBERTING. Father- FRANCISCO. Again? ROBERTING. Well, you see it's like this- FRANCISCO. Like what? ROBERTING. It's not easy to explain, Father FRANCISCO. If it isn't then come back when I'm through with the paper ROBERTING. Better now, Father. It's about-money. FRANCISCO. Money! What...
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...Most wanted 14 years old, inundated by sex and with a little sister who has turned into a thief. Your parents are engrossed by other matters, so when finding out about your little sister it starts a long row that continue into the small hours while you’re trying to sleep. The atmosphere at home gets more and more intense and as a crisis with your best friend results in none of you talking to each other, you are suddenly faced with the problem at home all by yourself. This is what the narrator in the British short story “Most Wanted” (2000) by Amanda Coe experiences in her childhood growing up with her little sister and her father and mother. She is almost a grown up, but doesn’t want to be. The short story takes its beginning with a small introduction of the main character and her family’s problems which let us know, that it is in the past. It takes place in Mrs. Church’s house and in the main characters house, which, judging by the fact that the father has to pick up Michelle in car from Mrs. Church’s house must not be close to each other. The exact location however remains unknown. It is indicated that the family is of a middle class. They live in a two floor house, both the children go to school and Michelle has lent some books from the Millbank Junior library. Furthermore does the invitation for tea indicate a higher upper class: “Mom suggested that Alison Church should be invited for tea” (ll.31-32). The 14-year-old narrator’s personality develops throughout the story...
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...Today’s families problems did not exist when our grandparents were children. When they where children a normal family was a working dad, a mom who works at home and three or maybe four children going to school without any trouble, this does not exist any more. Today both parents are working and the children almost do what they want to. They are much more demanding and wanting a lot of attention just like in this story. Everything’s look so pretty on the outside, but if you look inside every family, you can’t find one perfect. In the story we hear about the little sister Michelle, the two parents and the narrator. Michelle is 8 years old when the family finds out that she is stealing. It is of course a big chock for them. My impression of the father is that he is not god to handle the situation with his stealing daughter. He is yelling at her and he hits her bottom in public. My first impression of him was okay because when he picks up Michelle at her friend Allison’s house the narrator says that he does not do that very often. The father is maybe afraid to talk to other parents he is used to sit in his chair at home and watching television without doing anything. The father is a very proud man, the way he handle the situation with his daughter, when he make her apologies shows how embarrassed he is by his youngest daughter. He don’t want to be the man with the stealing daughter that people are afraid to let into their houses in the fear that she would steal something...
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...Culture shock is a problem we face up to every day, especially when we travel abroad. Culture shock is precipitated by the anxiety results from losing all the familiar signs and symbols of the social intercourse. To deal with this, we should find out the reason for ir and understand how it is influence our lives.Misunderstanding native languages including body languages or being unfamiliar with new food are responsible for the culture shock. When you visit a foreign country, you will find it difficult to understand the language, even when you know the language, that makes you buzzled. Some people use slangs so you can't look them up in the dictionary to get the real meaning, For instance, when you are in Vietnam, you will hear a man say something like" ong noi may day" when they want to threat or play a joke. "ong noi may day" does not mean "grandfather" but just means "I". Besides, food is also an important element attributed to the culture shock. My friend, who is studying in German told me that the first time she came there, she couldn't eat cheese or pizza, that made her lose 5 kilos in 1 month.And what is effects of these problems? Misunderstanding the languages makes you confused so much. For example, when Westerners visit Vietnam, they may feel disturbed when hear "what are you doing?" or "Where are you going?". Indeed, these sentences are just "Hi" or "good morning"...And the strange food sometimes makes you suffer from intestinal disturbance, especially when you taste...
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...IT IS VERY EASY TO GIVE WHAT YOU HAVE IN EXCESS, but can you give what you need and what you want?” This is the question one has to answer before one does volunteer work. At first I thought that it was easy to answer with a yes, but when super-typhoon “Reming” struck the Bicol Region and left us in darkness, literally and figuratively, I had second thoughts. However, when I thought of my responsibility, I joined the relief and rehabilitation operations of our University called “Anduyog AQ: Tabang Sa Tugang.” Anduyog AQ endeavored to help the victims of Reming by distributing relief goods, providing psycho-social therapy like stress debriefing and other services. I felt out of place in our group of volunteers because more than half were nursing students (nursing is the most popular course in our school). I kept asking myself, what is a political science student doing here? I did not know how to dress a wound; I actually hated to see the wounds of other people. The first night that I had to sleep in the relief center, I felt very uncomfortable. There were no lights, no beddings, not even a good bed. The food that we had to eat was a foretaste of what we would be eating for the next few weeks: mostly overcooked rice and “karninas” a combination of “karne” (meat) and “sardinas” (sardines). That time, I thought of only one word: “agony.” But when I remembered what I had seen when we went around Albay right after the typhoon, I stopped complaining. At least I have food to eat...
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...I wanted to be a hero - A profile of James Hunt The white foam sticks to his day old beard, as he takes a sip of his bud light. He suddenly drops the empty bottle so it shatters all over the floor. “Give me one more!” he yells at the terrified bar keeper. It is the fourth of July 2014, and this is James Hunt, a lonely drunk crippling who used to be a first class soldier. “It is my birthday today,” James tells with a sigh. “It is my birthday and the whole land is celebrating, except me. I have nothing to celebrate.” He looks deeply in to a decayed American flag that is hanging across the bar. Two years ago, James was a tall erect soldier with one thing in his mind and that was to serve his country. “I stepped on a landmine after just a week in Afghanistan, I never even got into a fight. Fucking Taliban’s,” he says with despair in his voice. The sound of the firecrackers outside nearly makes him jump out of his skin. He slowly bends down and pulls up both his trouser legs, revealing his artificial limbs. “I will never be able to make love to a woman again.” James bursts in to tears and signals the man in the bar for another beer. “I have given my dead swinging dick for America and for what cause?” Before the accident, James lived a life with both wife and kids, but his injury was too much for them to handle, so they left James on his own. “No one wants to deal with a crippling,” he says with his eyes again focusing on the American flag. Now he lives on the...
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...A constituency is the place a member of parliament will represent, the residents of the specific area eligible to vote will vote who they want to represent them at the house of parliament, there are over 650 constituency’s and all of them have an elected MP who will represent them in Parliament. One reason why turnout has been fallen in the general election since 1997 may be the social and economic mix of the electorate, voter turnout tends to be lower in areas of higher unemployment, below average incomes and social inactivity. These people tend to be voters of the Labour party. The Labour party in 2001 struggled to get their core votes in these comstituency’s, this proving that thousands of people feel totally disengaged from politics and at a local and national level. Another reason why turnout may be low that of disengagement of younger voters and ethnic minorities, the decline of voter participation is highest for young voters also ethnic minorities may feel as if they are not being identified with from the leading UK political parties. The election campaign is a way of determining voting behaviour yes. With the election campaign it is easy to calculate statistics to find out voting behaviour, although you cannot determine why every person is or is not voting it gives us the closest figures we can get for voting behaviour i.e. seeing what figures are from which constituency’s, in the extract we see that in Liverpool Riverside there was a voter turnout of 41.4%...
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...Personal Life of Author and Focus of Book John Ortberg the author of The Life You’ve Always Wanted, If You Want To Walk On Water You’ve Got To Get Out The Boat and Love Beyond Reason was previously the teaching pastor at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois and is now on staff at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in Menlo Park, California. The following book review is concerning his work presented in The Life You’ve Always Wanted. There’s a point in every Christian’s life where you begin to ask questions like; am I doing all that I was created to do? Am I as intimate with God as I ought to be? Is this life I’m living pleasing to God? The list of questions could go on and on. John Ortberg’s book The Life You’ve Always Wanted gives very clear and precise ways for accurate analysis of our lives through a ministerial, biblical and cultural lens. Ortber’s perspectives, life examples and raw truths are vast and practical for pondering and application. This book voices a line of reasoning in the areas of Hope of Transformation, Spiritual Disciplines, a Well-Ordered Heart, and Living a Life of Endurance. Hope of Transformation Ortberg begins this book with the everlasting ache of disappointment many Christians have experienced as they continue in their personal relationships with God. He places great emphasis on the feeling of disappointment. He states “…the feeling of disappointment is not the problem, but a reflection of a deeper problem – my failure to be...
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...Introduction Imagine you’re in a lobby decorated to simulate an open jungle or even better a beach, with palm trees, bean bag cushions and beach chairs. Then you glance over to see glass doors opening up to a plush terrace overlooking the city skyline. You ask the receptionist, “Where am I, on vacation?” and the receptionist responds “No you’re at work. Welcome to Google…” Wow is the only word that comes to mind when thinking of the company culture at Google. Many people would agree working at this company is like walking into a dream every morning. Some more of the amenities offered at various Google office locations are a pub-style lounge in Dublin, Ireland, a pool table in the conference room of Tokyo, Japan, a rock climbing wall adorns the “tech talk” area in Boulder, Colorado. (Google, 2012) Google’s company culture is technically an adaptability culture. According to Draft (2010) adaptability culture is defined as “culture characterized by strategic leaders encouraging values that support the organization’s ability to interpret and translate signals from the environment into new behavior responses”. Google is a company whose values promote individual initiative, experimentation, risk taking, and entrepreneurship. (Draft, 2010) Value’s play an important role in developing any companies culture. For example, the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) prides itself on recruiting well educated black engineers to improve the black community just like Google prides...
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