...for my parents, because they waited many years before deciding on having children. I never had the opportunity to live the same life many children were able to experience because of that decision. Due to their fairly old age, my parents were sometimes struggling to keep up with my siblings and I as growing up. Even though doing a great job raising us, it didn’t go unnoticed that the years were taking their toll on my parents one after another, much sooner than the parents with kids our age should’ve. Similarly to my parents, my wife Serena and I were married last year at young ages 20 and 23 respectively. Even though we both have ambitious plans for our near future – Serena heading out to Med school while I’m going to keep on studying computer science and possibly even attend in a Law School later on - in planning out our lives we do not want to make the same mistake that my parents once made. We want to have our first child before the age of thirty-five because we want to be physiologically healthy, we want to have energy to spend with our children, and start our family at young age. The first reason I want to have children before the age of 35 is so that Serena and I are both physiologically healthy and readily able to conceive a child. Though we are still in the beginning stages of our marriage, being healthy and active is an incredibly important part of our lives. If we are financially able to have children at a younger age than 35, our bodies, especially reproductive organs...
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...Eon Research Standing for Everything or nothing is a production company founded in 1961 and based in London. It was founded by Albert. R Broccoli and Harry Saltzman and are parented by Danjaq, LLC. This company production company is responsible for the James Bond Films. 22 Bond films have been produced since 1962 with huge successes. Since 1962 EON have only made one other non-bond film which was ‘Call Me Bwana’ in 1963 This may seem like a limitation, but in 2008 EON signed a deal with Columbia Pictures to create fifteen thrillers and family films outside the Bond franchise and have a budget of up to $80 million (£40 million) Sony’s Ownerships Columbia Pictures – MGM- Skyfall Brief synopsis; MI6 is under attack and James Bond must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost is of doing so, as well as M’s loyalty being tested as her past comes back to haunt her. Genre; Action Adventure, Drama Release Date UK; October 26th 2012 Release Date USA; November 9th 2012 Director; Sam Mendes Main Cast; Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem and Naomie Harris Production Company(s); EON Productions, Danjaq and B23 Distribution Company(S); Sony and Columbia Pictures Budget; $200 million Filming Locations; England, China, Istanbul, Turkey, Scotland and Japan Number of Cinemas Released in UK; 587 theatres making $32.5 million (opening weekend) Most theatres- 593 theatres (2nd week) Number of Cinemas Release in USA; 3505 theatres making $88.4 million (opening...
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...acceptable behavior—because hey, why not? YOLO! The carpe diem sentiment of “you only live once” has a long history predating its punchy acronymic clipping. Garson O’Toole, on his Quote Investigator blog, traces variations on the theme back to the 18th century, as in this line from Samuel Richardson’s novel “Clarissa”: “We live but once in this world; and when gone, are gone from it for ever.” The exact wording of “you only live once” begins cropping up in the late 19th century, and by 1937 it was popular enough to be used as the title of a Fritz Lang film noir. One wry elaboration, credited to the comedian Joe E. Lewis in 1952, is “You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough.” Today’s young purveyors of YOLO do indeed appear to be trying to work it right, though what that means is up for debate. Eble’s students illustrate its typical use, as a carefree tag to explain an impulsive choice: “You want to park illegally in this spot? YOLO!” “Should I buy these shoes or pay rent? YOLO!” The word has also found favor as a verb, as in this Yelp review of a Jersey City pizzeria: “All the times I come home after a night of YOLO-ing, I crave a delish slice to soak up the booze and sober me up.” But as the term has circulated over the past several months, a YOLO backlash has set in. Jason Salcedo, a high school senior from Stuart, Fla., recently blogged that YOLO is now “used by teens only as an...
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...slang term is YOLO. If you are over 25, YOLO likely means nothing to you. If you are under 25, you may be so familiar with YOLO that you’re already completely sick of it. A tip to the oldsters: YOLO is an acronym for “You Only Live Once.” It shot to fame earlier this year thanks to the rapper Drake, whose song “The Motto” has the hook, “You only live once, that’s the motto...YOLO, and we ’bout it every day, every day, every day.” After a video for the song was released in February, the buzzword spread quickly among the high school and college-age set by word of mouth, not just in person but through the turbocharged vehicle of social media. How quickly? Consider the lists of slang compiled every semester by students of Connie Eble, a professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. YOLO was entirely absent from the submissions by Eble’s fall 2011 classes. By the spring semester, YOLO had become the most frequently mentioned slang term among the students, just edging out “totes” for “totally” and “cray” (or “cray-cray”) for “crazy.” What accounts for the meteoric rise of YOLO, and how has it gone virtually unnoticed by nonmillennials? Its appeal to the youthful is self-evident. YOLO as a shorthand mantra defines youth, on a certain level. What is teenagehood if not the adventurous, often foolhardy, desire to test the limits of acceptable behavior—because hey, why not? YOLO! The carpe diem sentiment of “you only live once” has a long history predating...
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...How to Eat to Live Book 1 "There is no way for us to learn the right way to eat in order to live a long life, except through the guidance and teachings of Allah, Who came in the person of Master Fard Muhammad." The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, How to Eat to Live...Book one Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Right Way to Eat Vegetables Food God Suggests Why They Urge You to Eat the Swine The Pig...Swine Fasting One Meal A Day Beware of Starchy Foods and Sweets How Allah's Way Prolongs Life How To Keep Food from Hurting Us The Proper Food and the Proper Time to Eat it The Right Food and the Proper Time to Eat it is becoming a "MUST" Fruit is digested better when eaten Raw Overindulgence, The Enemy Our Biggest Problem is Eating too Much and too Often Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Why and How we Fast in December The Food and It's Eater Food Can be Life or Death How to Live More than 100 Years Proper Food for Body and Mind Equals Good Health The Benefits of Eating Once a Day A List of Foods We Must Not Eat You Don't Need Numerous Diets; Just Eat Once Daily Feeding Babies Meat, Part 1 Know the Truth About the Flesh of The Swine Live a Thousand Years Train Yourself to Eat as Allah has Prescribed...
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...No matter who you are or where you have come from, you have undoubtedly heard of the American Dream. The idea that no matter who you are or where you have come from, you can do whatever it is you desire in America. What was once one the main driving forces for immigrants to flock to the new world, has slowly changed over the years, but still holds its value in the eyes of those who are looking for a promising new place to live. The American dream might not hold the same awe inspiring sound that it once did, but for many generations before ours, it was a beacon of hope that helped build the foundation that the United States was built on. And still today the American dream might not be as achievable as it once was, but it is still an important symbol to the American ideology....
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...“For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins (Matthew 6:14-15). As believers, we are obligated to forgive those who hurt us and leave it to God for justice. Forgiveness may be hard, but it is one of the key elements in life to move on and pursue happiness. Although we may never forget the offense one has done to us, forgiveness allows us to not only be at peace with ourselves, but also live in the imagine and likeness of God. In the book Left to...
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...Consumerism Fight Club shows us that consumerism plays a huge role in our everyday lives, everywhere you look there are adds drawing your attention for the soul purpose of selling things that are not needed, advertising has made it extremely easy to become addicted to the basic consumption of goods. All of society at some point wants to fit in so they buy what they believe to be is the new “HOT” item or what television says will make their lives easier, and by doing so people become part of a superficial world that is obsessed by material possessions and forget what truly matters, such as our most basic needs and ourselves. Once we have become part of this world we start defining ourselves by what we own, not by the type of people we truly are. Jack (bathroom) “I had become a slave to the Ikea nesting instinct”, with the consumption of goods people begin to feel a false sense of self. People who are unhappy with their lives use shopping as a copping mechanism to fill the void they have, and this is what starts their addiction to consumerism. Jack (walking to the kitchen) “what kind of dinning set defines me”, some people with social and emotional problems use material possessions to define them selves because it is one of the only things that make them feel better, along with telling who they are. Jack (bar) “I was close to being complete”. Shopping gives us a false sense of completion, once making a purchase people feel complete and have a sense of wholeness.This is the high...
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...Best Ways to Give Up the Ghost You only live once but if you do it right, once is enough. The thing is we mess it up most of the time. People who are fortunate to be born in a well-off family end up spending all their wealth and end up miserable. People who were born miserable die miserable. Life is full of struggles, pain, and misery that I ask myself, why do people still want to live in this world? I mean, seeing all these tragedies, why would they still want to endure all this pain? I came up with one solution on how to stop these troubles, suicide. There are, of course, a lot of ways to die. But I will show you the best ways to die that even at the very last moment, you can catch a glimpse of happiness. Included on the list is to have an honorable death, to be a hero! Defending your friends from the massive zombie invasion will gain you awesomeness and respect. Although your survival chances are minimum, the feeling of being the last stand is great. But the best part of it is after you die, you become immortal! Isn’t that amazing? You are going to live again without any problems your past life did give you. This is surely and epic way to die. If you don’t want to die painful deaths, there are painless ways to die. You just have to gather every medicine tablet you could find and medicate yourself with it. An antibiotic would be the best supplement for this. Just think that after taking all these medicines, we will be immune to all kinds of diseases due to the...
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...“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ― Oscar Wilde “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ― Mae West “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” ― Dr. Seuss “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” ― Mark Twain “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” ― Albert Einstein “Death ends a life, not a relationship.” ― Mitch Albom “Where there is love there is life.” ― Mahatma Gandhi “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.” ― John Greenleaf Whittier “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.” ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged “When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.” ― Jess C. Scott “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.” ― Walt Disney Company “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die...
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...Breakthrough begins with You! Damon Walton Breakthrough begins with You! Introduction Your next breakthrough begins with you! This book is about effecting a radical change in your life. Is about getting out the rut of the day to day life to go to the next level. I was one of the millions of people who needed a change in one's life. This book about providing a radical change in every aspect of life one has from the professional to the personal. What prompted me to write this book was based on life experiences I had with breakthroughs. I like most people, have a life where it consist of barriers and breakthroughs. I will talk about the common barriers we all face and how to break through them to achieve success in our daily lives. Some of you are wondering how I can help you and why me. To answer your first question, is to read the book. Read the following chapters with an open mind and don't pass judgment. The answer to the second question is that I applied the same advice to my life. Am I a celebrity, famous author, or a self-help guru? No, I am not but I am an ordinary person who effected change in my life through some radical yet common-sense principles. I am not writing this book to become a millionaire or to be famous in my right but effect change in our daily lives. We tend to listen to those who share a common background. Hopefully, my message will resonate with those who are looking for a breakthrough in their daily lives. We all are yearning...
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...with what was, or what may never be, or what could no longer be? Choosing the right path is never easy, its a decision we make with only our hearts to guide us. But sometimes we find our way to something better... sometimes we fight through the regret and the remorse of our mistakes, our malice and our jealousy and the shame we feel for not being the people we were meant to be...and thats when we find our way to something better....or when something better finds its way to us. -Imagine a future moment in your life where all your dreams come true. You know, it's the greatest moment of your life and you get to experience it with one person. Who's standing next to you? -when you stop fighting, you stop living. so.. find your fight. then fight like hell 'til your battle has won. -You have one chance, one life and what you do with it is up to you. -People are going to disappoint you, I get that, I kind of expect that but, what happens if one day you wake-up and realize you are the disappointment -At this moment there are 6,470,818,671 people in the world. Some are running scared. Some are coming home. Some tell lies to make it through the day. Others are just not facing the truth. Some are evil men, at war with good. And some are good, struggling with evil. Six billion people in the world, six billion souls. And sometimes... all you need is one. -Every song ends but is that any reason not to enjoy the music? "Truth is still absolute. Believe that. Even when...
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...thoughts of how to live their life. These two philosophies differ in how they believe to live their lives, and in their goals on what to achieve. I found these two schools of thoughts interesting because of how similar they are except for subtle differences. Taoism is a philosophy that is confusing to read about its not a philosophy with teachings like Buddhism. Taoism is about falling in line with the natural order and keeping the cycle balanced. Buddhism is about learning the dharma's or teachings, and reaching enlightenment to break the spiral and stop suffering. These philosophies over time became religions, and later in China they eventually get brought together as one religion. Buddhism believed in nirvana reaching enlightenment which meant to relieve oneself from being reborn. Buddhist believed life was suffering so they kept themselves unattached to earthly things including family. Buddhism is living in the present and centered around practice, and the four noble truths. In The Buddha and his Teachings: the four noble truths are: " life is suffering, origin, assertion, way to lead assertion." (Bercholz and Kohn 3-222)They learn from a teacher. The teachings are called dharma's. This philosophy is individualized of letting go of earthly possessions. In The Buddha and his Teachings, "it took the Bodhisattva sixteen years to learn the dharma's and reach enlightenment." (Bercholz and Kohn 3-222) Buddhism gives you a path (the Way), but it's not a path to live everyday life...
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...Symbolizing the Journey Introduction Visualize if you can a small child. She is about five years old with bouncy blonde curls that lie upon her tiny shoulders. She is kneeling over a small creature on what seems to be a deserted road. As she begins to weep uncontrollably until her little body is shaking as if she were standing on a fault line during an earthquake. If you look over her tiny shoulder a small white dog lies upon a gravel road. The dog’s eyes seem to be squinting yet all of the dust from the dirt road is almost completely covering its tiny, furry, body. But what is wrong with the dog? Is it dead or only merely injured? How did it get there and can it be saved? These questions that are shaped in the readers mind is indicative of a short story that uses not only imagery but symbols to tell a story. The picture you have formed in your head of the small, sad little girl and her beloved dog is an example of symbolism of the journey. While literally the dog is dead this may also be a symbolism of a girl losing the only thing in her little life that she trusted in a world that has abandoned her like the empty road she finds herself on. The symbolism of the journey and how two authors used this theme is the topic of this paper. Thesis While both Jean Rhys “Used to Live Here Once” and Eudora Weltly, in “A Worn Path” use symbolism and exposition one story is also about death and the other is about helping her grandchild’s life, yet many of the words used in “A Worn...
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...You’re running through a vast field that’s filled with wheat as tall as you. Suddenly a clif appears before you. Unable to stop you feel yourself falling to your inevitable death. Closer and closer. Feet from the ground, you immediately stop. You have found that you have landed on a soft cloud. You relax into a deep serenity as the cloud soars up and floats through the sky. No longer is there a threat of death, but a land of tranquility as you drift off into the sunset for your next adventure. Unfortunately, the world in which we currently live could not provide the same experience that was just described. As humans, we are limited in our perception and our senses. But, the world is evolving and technology is starting to fill the void created...
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