Diversity Role Written Assignment Being a Jew Texas State University COMM 1310: Fundamentals of Human Characteristics Andrew Biggs Being a Jew My name is Adam Baruch; I am 21 year old college student, and I am Jewish. Being a Jew means that I believe in Judaism, which is a monotheistic religion. According to Satlow, M. L. (2006) Judaism is an ancient religion that involves a broad spectrum of theological positions and practices, with the Torah as its foundational text. The Torah is part of
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industry is the engine of the American economy. Without the trucking industry, American prosperity would not be what it currently is. Growing up in a small town in Florida, a large trucking firm, Davis Express, was started in my hometown of Starke. This company is a mass transporter for Publix stores and a large employer in the area. Having a trucking company so close to home has shown me the critical values of the trucking industry and how critical it is to the American way of life. Since my childhood
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As we grow up we take what we have learned from our families into our own lives as well as adapt to our own personal identity which is where we will use our morals and our values that we were taught growing up. Sometimes we may not have been brought up in the healthiest of environments but have the willingness to change. Growing up I really never had the chance to be around a diverse culture. In my small community we had an African American family move in when I was in middle school but that was
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as the head of the Veterinarian’s Association. He constantly had a story to tell me, or a lesson to teach me. “I worked my way through all ten years of college. I even lived in the back of an animal hospital for a year or so, and delivered meds. It was worth it though. I had to work hard, but it got me everything I wanted in life.” Between innings of a Cubs’ baseball game he would relive his childhood with me. He was raised in the small town of Belle Plain, Kansas, and raised by his paternal
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Honesty. There are a lot of moral values that we learn through experiences and advice, and they play an important role in our personality. Every human being has a moral code – which means everyone creates a set of basic values, but prioritizes them in a different order. Honesty is one of the key elements in any kind of relationship (family, friends, coworkers). That is why I believe that honesty is one of the most important values of all, being honest always has a reward. But I did not always think
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Human society has been wanting answers to some of our most viable questions who created us who are we what is our purpose what is the universe and how was it started who rules the skies who rules the oceans many stories and tales have been created to assist in answering and is anyway possible to the most fundamental questions we called those myths. Deriving from the Greek word Mythos, myth in its most basic form of definition is an "ancient narrative that attempts to answer our fundamental human
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celebrated with a school-sanctioned Christmas party in the second floor library of Beijing Normal University High School #2. It was nothing special: for the main course, a Chinese interpretation of Domino's pizza; For dessert, watching a troupe of old Chinese women dancing in colorful masks. The end of the party was just another night out with friends.until it turned into the first time I genuinely began to feel comfortable exploring and accepting my sexuality. I know what you're thinking right now, but
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would provide me the wisdom of who I should interview. Thirty minutes later, I received a text message from a good friend of mine that I hadn’t talked to in a couple months. A couple minutes later I received another text message from a different friend as well. Both were non-believers. Automatically, I looked up and thought, “Thank you Lord but can you work that fast all the time? I would really appreciate it.” Both of these friends are non-believers. Laura, the first to contact me, is someone
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best friends since we met in first grade in Venice Elementary School in Florida.He was only real friend, everyone else just pitied me because my mother was murdered and the case was never solved. I was also short tempered, didn't talk much and was too factual for my classmates, but Steve understood me and did not judge me for who I am. Steve was the complete opposite of me, he was patient, popular and intelligent. Our friendship was as solid as rock and as transparent as glass. We would do anything
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“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore tags: memories 6,487 people liked it like “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise tags: lost-innocence, memories 2,391 people liked it like “The town was paper, but the memories were not.” ― John Green, Paper Towns tags: memories 1,936 people liked it like “The worst part of holding the
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