...Journey of the Self The road I’m traveling on I see as a dirt road through a light forest in the mountains of northern California. I’m not sure exactly where I am, but it is a bright day with some clouds and blue skies, but off to the distance I can see storm clouds. All I have with me is my backpack containing a notebook, a pen, a pair of gym shorts, a spare t-shirt, a pack of cigarettes with a lighter, a bottle of water and a couple of granola bars. In my pockets I have a cell phone with a dead battery, a pocketknife, and my wallet with five dollars and my I.D. inside. I’m walking, surrounded by trees of all types. There is a light breeze, but it’s quiet as I walk and look around. As I’m walking, the road is flat and somewhat narrow, but it is easy going for the most part, with random spots where the road becomes rocky and somewhat stressful, but it evens itself out and becomes smooth for a period of time again. I feel happy and serene, but exhausted at times and in need of a bit of rest, but I always continue and begin to walk again. As I’m walking, I come to a two-way fork in the road with a sign in the middle. The sign has two arrows with words printed on them. Each arrow is pointing in the opposite direction of the other. To the left I have the choice to walk to the city, while to the right I have the choice to walk to a small country town. After some thought and consideration of both of my choices, I eventually choose to head towards the Country. I’m not sure exactly...
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...choose the side where you are facing oncoming traffic. In North America, this is the left side of the road. This gives you the best chance to see traffic approaching closest to you and take evasive action when needed. • Cross Safely: Mom was right: look both ways before crossing any street. At controlled intersections, it is wise to cross only when you have the pedestrian crossing light, but even then, drivers and bikers may have a green light to turn and won't be expecting you to be in the crosswalk. Make eye contact with any drivers who may be turning. Give them a wave. Make sure they see you. In a car-walker interaction, you can only lose. • Walk Single File: Unless you are on a sidewalk separated from the road or a wide bike lane, you should walk in single file. This is especially important on a road with lots curves, where traffic has only a split second chance of seeing you before hitting you. While it can be enjoyable to walk down the road two to three abreast chatting merrily, drivers don't expect it and you may lose your best walking buddies. • Stay Aware of Bikes and Runners: Share the road and path with bikes and runners. Bike riders should alert you when approaching from behind with a bike bell or a "passing on the left/right." Listen for them, and move to walk single file, allowing them to pass safely. Runners should also call out for passing. Bike-walker collisions can result in broken bones or head injury for either — and you aren't wearing a helmet. • Be...
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...“Pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.” (Hurst 318), how can one word have life and death in it? In the story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, the narrator teaches his disabled brother, Doodle, how to walk. When successfully teaching Doodle how to walk, the narrator pushes Doodle to learn swimming, running, and other physical activities. The narrator takes Doodle into a web of high expectations which both of them don’t come out of till the saddening death of Doodle. Throughout the story the narrator shows the good side of pride, confidence, and the bad side of pride, ego. The helpful side of pride, confidence, which gives people motivation to achieve goals and stand up tall, is shown in the story...
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...Lincoln Square Fieldwork Assignment Walk down to Lincoln Square on a Sunday afternoon, and you will find yourself immersed in a world without problems. At least that is how it looks from the outside, just observing. People walk around with their families, pushing strollers or walking their dogs, conversing with each other and taking the time to talk to people they meet. You see nice cars and beautiful houses, restaurants and patios, library and cinema, the Old Town school of Music, Lillstreet Art Center and the Dank-Haus a museum slash cultural center, in other words it is an enclave where you can find everything you need without having to leave the area. It seems like everybody knows each other either because they live in the same area or because their usual Sunday afternoon or stroll time usually happens here and they got to know each other. When I say Lincoln Square I am referring to the commercial heart of Lincoln Square neighborhood located where Lincoln, Lawrence and Western avenues meet. It is “the heart of the city’s German culture” (Solomon). Community area 4, 7 miles north of the loop serviced by the Brown Line, it is a part of the Greater Lincoln square along with other neighborhoods, namely Ravenswood Manor, Ravenswood Gardens, Ravenswood, Bowmanville and Budlong Woods( Wikipedia). The City of Chicago gave Lincoln square its name in 1925, three decades before a statue of the president was actually put here in 1956. During the 1900 and 1950 Lincoln Square was...
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...Chapter 1 - Another Round - 2 Treasures 1) After exiting the restroom, go over to the slot machine. 2) The next treasure is just a few feet away, behind the bar counter, you can't miss either one of these! Chapter 2 - Greatness from Small Beginnings - 7 Treasures 1) The first treasure is right at the start, the third right cannon 2) The following treasure is next to the last one, just walk into the dark room in front of you, it's easy to spot under the hanging light. 3) Out on the streets, walk past the blue car, behind the pillars and it's right in front of the red door. 4) Keep going until you reach the food market, walk up to the blue merchant stand, next to it is a stone display, holding a lot of glass jars, look in between the glass jars and the treasure is there. 5) In the same food market area, make a left turn, then another left turn up the stairs, the treasure is at the top of the stairs. 6) You can't miss this next treasure because it's on the path to progression. When you see the white sign that says "24 Horas" just look to the left of your screen for the sparkly treasure. Yummy! 7) Soon after the previous treasure comes the next. You'll jump and grab onto a large hotel sign. Instead of dropping down to continue, climb up a bit, the treasure is inside the letter "O." Chapter 3 - Second-Story Work - 3 Treasures 1) When you get on a large red roofing, don't jump into the opened window, instead run over to the left and climb down onto the level below you...
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...“Hills Like White Elephants” there is a controversy at the end of the story, whether or not the couple decides to have the abortion. Through out the story Hemingway uses symbolism to show two different paths the couple may choose to take; the fertile green side or the barren side with the white hills. The paths are two train tracks on either side of the train station. Although Hemingway may leave the ending of the story up to the reader, I think it can be argued that the couple didn’t go through with the abortion. The setting and surroundings of the train station are very important because they symbolize the two paths the couple may take. In the beginning of the story Hemingway explains the setting, “On this side there was no shade and no trees/ The girl was looking off at the line of hills. They were white in the sun and country was brown and dry” (Hemingway 132). This is the side where the couple is sitting as they drink. This side symbolizes abortion because it is so barren, and the white hills are also on that side. The girl states in the story that the white hills look like “white elephants” to her. A white elephant can be symbolized as something unwanted or useless, in this case the baby may be considered a white elephant. On the other side of the train station the scenery is much different; Hemingway explains, “Across, on the other side, were fields of grain and trees along the banks of the Ebro” (134). This side symbolizes fertility because it is so full of life. The couple...
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...attended Ike High School in rialto, where he saw kids getting high before school, having sex on campus and, fighting every day. “The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, replaying itself over and over” (O’Brien 31). Even though Taurelle’s life was not so easy growing up, he told himself as a freshman in high school he wanted to change that when he became older. Taurelle played three years of varsity basketball and always had aspirations of coaching. The love he has for his job is irreplaceable. Taurelle is a special and dedicated person to the youth in his community. Taurelle Johnson’s day begins with securing and mentoring kids and ends after sunset with coaching a high school basketball varsity team. In between is a 10 hour shift as a security guard at Kaiser high school in Fontana California. The campus is very clean, and most of the kids that attend the school walk, mostly because the school is in a big neighborhood where kid’s homes are close. Taurelle starts at five in the morning, primarily because of zero period, and he needs to be there early enough before the students to unlock the two main entrance gates. After the ten hour shift as the head security guard he coaches varsity basketball for another three hours. Taurelle’s morning freshly starts out with a morning conference with all of the security guards. They go over what happened the day before, and who are some of the kids to keep a watch on, and then he walks out the door and greets most...
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...Health Benefits of Exercise Assignment Exercise Science 1103 Chandan Badesha 9/5/14 A Walk to the Monument By: Chandan Badesha A walk to the National Monument Seemed like such a simple assignment But it was more than that A steady heart rate was kept throughout the whole walk as a constant pace was maintained We walked down 24th farther than I’d ever gone I was amazed by how much I hadn’t seen D.C was beggining to look more like I pictured There were cars being driven by people going to work But I didn’t see many cabs It was a different side of city that I had never seen before After about 20 minutes of walking though, the surroundings began to change We were in a park; nature surrounded us Everything was so calm I felt relaxed A feeling that I had not felt in a while There were a lot of people in the park Whether it was biking or taking a simple stroll, everyone seemed to be occupied Very few interactions between people however something that I thought was a little odd We got to the end of the park and there stood the Washington Monument overlooking the city At the end of the walk a sudden rush of euphoria hit me I had no idea where it came from I took a moment to reflect on this feeling of happiness but couldn’t find a solution Within a few minutes the feeling began to subdue By the time it was time to head back, I was totally back to normal It was an strange occurrence that left me puzzled But then I thought to myself, “I don’t think...
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...Can you learn life through a poem? In “Where the sidewalk ends” by Shel Silverstein he expresses laughter and living. Shel Silverstein always wants his readers to laugh, learn and have fun reading his poems. You will always be able to take something good from his poems and share to others. Shel Silverstein is one of the best Writers who’s poems will always be remembered. The poem “Where the Sidewalk ends” is teaching readers about youth, exploring, and versions of reality. In “Where the sidewalk ends” youth is a main part, because it is one of the targeted audiences who reads this poem. Also he teaches youth about growing up and being smart. As in this line “ for the children, they mark, and the children, they know the place where...
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...The area of the two-story house on where the store is located is 3600 ft.². Eighteen months ago a College Town Mall was built but because of the money they were making at the time they could not lease a space. Now that the business is doing well, they felt as though it was time to relocate to the College Town Mall. The space of a wanted was currently lease to another individual canceled on the lease so now the two brothers saw the opportunity to sign a five-year leasing contract in the College Town Mall. It was an outstanding location that was bounded by prestigious homes, a short walk from campus and two blocks away from downtown. By the following week the mall developer wanted the Moore Brothers to provide him with a complete layouts of the new 2800 ft.² store they least so that he will be able to assign an emergency workroom to complete the store for its grand opening. Assembling the new store is 40' x 70' and is rectangular in shape; I will explain the layout for the new store and decide what merchandise should be placed where. I will also decide the size of the office and storage space that is needed and where counters should be placed. Other external considerations will also be included in the layout and why they should be there. Although Mike and Earl Moore are moving on up, they are also moving on up to a place that has less space. There will be eight hundred square feet less to be exact. Assuming the store will be placed to where customers enter at the 40 foot front...
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...investigating team needs to search for evidence in a field where the field is overgrown, a grid search is a good search to utilize. When a field is overgrown, the searches may have to crawl on their hands and knees to locate any evidence and perform a thorough search. A grid line search consists of searchers following a line pattern and then following another line pattern that is perpendicular to the first line pattern (Lee, Palmbach, & Miller, 2001). The grid search pattern is a good search to utilize because it allows two different searchers, or the same searcher, to search the same area twice. Therefore, the searchers a more likely not to miss any evidence that needs to be collected. A con to the grid line search is that it is very time consuming and if the boundaries to be searched are not well established, than the search will not be very thorough (Lee, Palmbach, & Miller, 2001). The grid line search was chosen for this scenario because a thorough search can be accomplished by having two different searchers look over the same area. If one searcher missed evidence that could be pertinent to the case, the other searcher is likely to notice the missed evidence. Another search pattern that would be very effective in this type of scenario would be a line search. During a line search, searchers walk arm lengths apart from one end of the scene to the other end, move a little farther from where they just walked, and walk back toward the other...
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...next level of my career,” I told myself a few months ago. Life and life experiences have put me in the right place at the right time to make my daydream a reality. As a natural born citizen of another country and as a newly-married person, I have a unique perspective as well as a set of obstacles and opportunities on the road ahead as I pursue my Executive MBA while being in transition. GOALS My current short-term goal professionally is to find a job that not only fulfills my current ambition of being technical leader but also a management leader in the IT world, where as my long-term goal is to start my own business (Repurposing and creatively painting old leather products into house decor) along with my life-partner in the next 3-4 years. My personal goal is to again relive my artistic side, paint and be creative and get my spouse involved in the artistic world that I like. I am at a juncture of my career where in both my personal goal of working with my life-partner coincides with my ambition of starting up a new business and apply whatever knowledge I gathered during class. My goal as far as EMBA classes is to actually be able to not only learn Finance and Accounting but actually try to master it is as much as possible because when my goal of opening up my business becomes a reality, I want to make sure I have command over that. NEGOTIATIONS In my previous company, I had the opportunity to be a part of some important negotiations which helped me as well as the project...
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...to my guys in situations where both of us need to compromise to get what we want. The first chapter talks about not bargaining over positions. Most people negotiate by staking out extreme positions in the beginning and then negotiating towards a middle ground compromise. This is a bad idea because right from the start both sides are committed to their position and will defend it to the end. This chapter talks about a new way of negotiation by negotiation on the merits. This is where you separate the people from the problem and focus on the interests not the positions. Then you invent mutual options for personal gain and insist that the results be based on some standard. The next section I enjoyed talks about separating the people from the problem. When negotiating you must make sure that both sides are involved in the negotiations at every state so they will know what is coming in the deal so the feel like they are making the decision and not being dictated to. When my employees come to me for a problem I have learned to talk it out with them and try to make them see it from my side as well. This has really helped because it takes out the “me” side of their problem and it allows us to find a solution to the problem together. I allow them to express their emotions and vent their feelings to help them calm down. After that it is easier to talk it out and they are more willing to work as a team. The book talks about stopping the other side and asking “To be clear...
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...boy. They also tell you about the process of letting her son grow up and accomplish this task on his own. So, we are learning how the a parent has to let go and let the child grow up. The theme of the poem is about parents is that they want let my their son grow up and wont let him do thing for his self. The parents are hesitant about their son walking to school and they follow him in the distance as he walk to school. They do this after he leaves for school they follow him to see why do he want to walk to school by himself. He is “semi-alone” this means that he shows freedom and responsibility to walk to school each morning. The parents are not happy about the situation and don’t want anything to happen to him. The next thing that I will talk about is the two literary works that describe the story of the Red Hat. The first literary work that I seen in the poem is symbolism. The first symbolism is “Parallel paths part”( Clugston,2014). This is where the parents let him part way and let him go to school on his own. They do not notice what makes him want to walk alone. The other symbolism is “already ties are feeling and not fact”(Clugston,2014). These meaning that the author is trying to put out is that the connection and bond between the parents are no longer concrete. This...
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...royal welcome from the British as thousands cheer the gracious young member of one of Europe's oldest ruling families. After three days of continuous activity and a visit to Buckingham Palace, Ann flew to Amsterdam where Her Royal Highness dedicated the new International Aid Building and christened an ocean liner. Then went to Paris where she attended many official functions designed to cement trade relations between her country and the Western European nations. And so to Rome, the eternal city, where the Princess' visit was marked by a spectacular military parade highlighted by the band of the crack Piersa Yeri Regiment. The smiling young Princess showed no sign of the strain of the week's continuous public appearances. And at her country's embassy that evening, a formal reception and ball in her honor was given by her country's ambassador to Italy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (The Embassy ballroom. People fill the floor of the room. A fanfare sounds. The Master of Ceremonies appears and the people clear a path down the middle of the hall in front of him. The Master of Ceremonies announces "Her Royal Highness"--first in Italian, then in English.) (The orchestra starts playing as the Master of Ceremonies walks down the newly-formed aisle. Princess Ann, resplendent in her ballgown, diamond tiara, and necklace, appears at the door accompanied by the Ambassador in formal military dress....
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