...Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff Abstract This book report is about Richard Carlson’s book, “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and it’s All Small Stuff”. The book explores how small the small things can cause stress to people, and gives advice on how to combat those small things. Carlson (1997) describes different ways to calm down during the hectic, day-to-day life, and how to remove stress by changing your perspective about things. Carlson offers 100 different sections of advice, organized in chapter formats. Carlson teaches the reader to look at life another way and gives relevant examples on how to do this to eliminate daily stress. Carlson gives such advice as to “live in the present moment” and “to make peace with imperfection”, among other stress reliving advice. Carlson’s main objective is to shift the reader’s paradigm on what is really important in the day-to-day life and how changing your thinking can greatly impact your life. The book “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and it’s all Small Stuff” by Richard Carlson was a very profound book to read. It was both eye-opening, and an effective reminder that negative or bad things that happen to us can’t always be taken too seriously. We go about our lives and react to things, treating things as a constant emergency and don’t stop to think what that reaction may cause. This is the biggest point that Carlson tries to makes in the book, in that how we relate to our problems...
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...“That’s all human beings are! Just blind people.” This is what Emily Webb notices near the end of Thornton Wilder’s play, Our Town. However, Scout Finch learns just the opposite. She learns that we all are trying to be good people, and we just have a few blind spots. Scout and Emily notice very different things throughout their lives, Scout notices that most people are good while Emily notices that we are all blind; Scout notices that we all have different circumstances while Emily notices that we all live the same life; and Scout learns to focus on the big picture while Emily notices that we should focus more on the small things. While Emily is learning that we are all living life blind, Scout discovers that we all have good intentions and a few blind spots. From Mr. Cunningham to Boo Radley, Scout learns from her father and from experience that people are only acting in their own self interest with good intentions. Mr. Cunningham shows her that even people who are doing bad things generally have good intentions. Boo Radley shows her that even people who seem evil can be the nicest people in the world. People are only acting in the best way they can, and we can’t understand them unless we walk in their shoes. On the other hand, Emily notices that all people are blind to...
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...for, make sure the team has an above average small forward. Small forwards are without a doubt the most important position in basketball due to their great dominance. A great small forward will be able to lead you and your NBA team to the championship due to their great versatility. This has been demonstrated to us many times in history. For example, the past thirty teams to win the championship have had the best small forwards. Every position in basketball is important, but the small forward is continually the most influential player on the court. Small forwards are the most versatile players in the NBA. The reasons why a Small forward is so versatile is because on average they are around 6’8, which is very beneficial for all the things they need to do. They are right in the middle of the other positions because of their height and skills, meaning they do just about everything on the court. Small forwards need to have the ability to dribble around defenders to score, as well as having the basketball IQ and ability to pass the ball to open teammates. A small forward is such a versatile position in basketball because they share qualities of each other position. Just...
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...When you’re not paying close attention to all of 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...
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...simple words: confidence, and togetherness. Confidence is not the same as trust. Trust is often based as much on hope as on reason, and is lost for small reasons or no reason at all. One instance of poor judgment can break a person's trust in another. Confidence is…knowing beyond a shadow of doubt that he or she will be there, with his/her strengths and his weaknesses for sure. The thing is, confidence works in both directions. Fortunately, increasing confidence in one direction also increases it in the other. Which leads to the first simple step of improving a relationship: increase his/her confidence in you. Improvements don't happen all at once: they are made up of small steps in the right direction. Anyone can take these small steps to improve the confidence others have in him/her. By taking them, you automatically improve the quality of the relationship. Here are some of the small steps…some of the things you can do today, tomorrow, and every day. Keep your promise and word. Physically, be where you say you will be. If she/he expects you to be home when she/he gets there, be there, or leave a note saying why you are not and when you will be back. It seems a small, almost unimportant, thing, but it is perhaps the most important of all in building confidence. People are disappointed by many people every day. All you have to do is be the one person who almost never disappoints. It really is very easy. Just be there. This does not mean you are at she/he beck...
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...rectangle. If you look at its profile, it is a triangle. The design is for the capacity. There is a red plastic zipper on the top. Red is a main color of the pen bag. It is two double, and the materials are different. The outside is the soft plastic, and the inside is the hard cotton. If it is dirty, you can clean it with water, or wipe it with wet rag. If you have time, you can try to make a pen bag. It is very easy, and making one does not need much time. Firstly, you need to find some materials. You can use the old curtain, or bed sheet. If you want to make a new one, you can buy the fabric in the Wal-Mart. If you want a simple style, you can choose a pure color fabric. If you want a Korean style, you can choose a calico. Another thing you need is fusible interlining. You can buy the zipper when you buy the fabric. They should be in the same place in the Wal-Mart. The quality of the zipper is very important because its importance reflect the quality of the pen bag. The color of the zipper has better be similar as the fabric, or same as the main color of the fabric. You need some strings which color is same as the zipper. Moreover, we start to make a pen bag. You cut two cloths as 22*18 cm, and cut the fusible interlining in the same way. Then you iron them separately, one cloth with one fusible interlining. The edges of the fabric are folded inwards about 0.7cm, and stable with secure with pins. The next step is a litter difficult, which you have to sew the zipper...
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...! SUMMARY/ANALYSIS:! ! Back to 1969, 6 policemen walking towards it: dramatic effect with this long build up.! Violence in their heart. Hunting of an animal. Long detailed description of the small things with many pauses (line breaks), a feeling of something coming, suspense.! The policemen carry batons but are thinking of machine guns.! When they arrive they have the feeling of being responsible for “Touchable futur”.! They wake Velutha with their heavy boots by kicking him.! The children wake up by: ”to the shout of sleep surprised by shattered kneecaps”. They don’t know that Velutha was there. There are paralysed by fear and disbelief.! The police beat V= extreme violence, skull cracking, broken ribs puncturing his lungs, damaged spine, broken teeth, ruptured intestine…! The twins are too young to understand. The policemen are “history’s henchmen” acting out the inevitable.! Estha and Rahel learn that blood smells "sicksweet. Like roses on a breeze”! Rahel tells Estha that she can tell that it isn't Velutha – she says it's Urumban, his "twin" who was at the march. Estha says nothing because he is "unwilling to seek refuge in fiction”. Rahel retreats into fantasy and ignorance.! The six policemen take all of Estha and Rahel's toys for their kids. The only thing they leave behind is Rahel's watch, which has the fake time painted on it. they wonder if Velutha really kidnapped them.! Climatic tragedy, violence unlike Sophie Mol’s death.! The police achieve...
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...Do the small actions we make cause big consequences? It’s the little things that we do that make a positive or negative effect. Whether that is recycling, conserving water, or smoking for the first time. All actions have a consequence whether they have a good or bad effect. Bradbury uses imagery and figurative language to convey that small actions have big consequences. Imagery is used to create vividness and capture details. One way bradbury uses imagery is in this quote “ It fell to the floor, an exquisite thing, a small thing could upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then big dominoes and then gigantic dominoes, all down the years across time.” In this quote, Bradbury uses imagery to give an image of how small actions...
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...Name ___________Morgan_____________ Date _______November 6, 2015_______________ Please copy your Unit II persuasive essay here: Open and closed. These are just metaphors for cities and small towns. With cities you are closed in and with the small towns you have open space to do whatever you want. In small towns there are many opportunities to live a wonderful and happy life. Small towns give off a homely feel to whoever comes strolling through. It doesn’t matter what you are there for you and always get something that makes you feel like you are at home with your whole family. Everyone wants to feel welcomed no one wants to feel apart from everyone else, that’s how life is in a small town no one is sectioned off to be all alone there is...
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...Once upon a shop: Jeanette Winterson Modern society and modern life with a modern market. The small and private owned little shops, we’ve seen them all. In every town, every city, right next to the big grocery stores Tesco or Sainsbury’s they are located; unable to compete with these international and wide-spread super-markets. Stores with irresistible low prices and kilometre wide range of food variants, such as Jeanette Wintersons’ vegetable shop” Verde”, which she writes about in her personal essay” Once upon a shop”, aren’t able to cope with. An analysis of “Once upon a shop” shows which challenges small private shows have in the food industry today, and through Jeanette Winterson’s argument-tation we get an insight into her attitude toward the subject and what she advocates for. As modern people we might take it as “that’s how the market works”, but Winterson’s see the domi-nance of big food chains as a problem. Her personal essay is an advocating essay where she ex-presses her opinions about food industry and how it has changed. Thereby, it is interesting to take a look at how she argues. Is her arguments present in a way that works advocating and actually makes the reader think and act different in proportion to the food industry? If you look at her way of arguing, then the most prominent element in the argumentation is her way of using own experiences and making it clear to the reader that it is her own view on the situation, which is clear when she writes: “We...
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...where the tiny house would parked. These are some features the tiny house would have to have is enough storage to put clothes, and other things, room for a twin size bed, and a good size restroom. The tiny house hunt would probably be a pretty difficult time, because the tiny house might not have all the things i will want in a tiny house. My budget for a tiny house is $15,00 but the most i will go over my main budget is $20,00. This...
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...happens unexpectedly, people respond in different ways. Anything small can impact something big. In the book, The Tipping Point, small expected and unexpected events lead to significant changes. This book by Malcolm Gladwell contains numerous examples of how little things can make big differences. Significant changes can occur from the slightest of impacts; these impacts can be caused intentionally, can be caused unintentionally, and, in the end, can cause epidemics. Minor, unintentional events can have big impacts on a society. First, sometimes events happen accidentally and cause big changes, like the flu for example. Gladwell states,“The ones causing the epidemic to grow —the ones who were infecting two and three and...
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...Agustín Reyes Torres Roy’s Inglish in The God of Small Things: A Language... 195 ROY’S INGLISH IN THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS: A LANGUAGE FOR SUBVERSION, RECONCILIATION AND REASSERTION1 Agustín Reyes Torres, Universitat de València Email: agustin.reyes@uv.es Abstract: In The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy separates English from Englishspeakers. She reappropriates the language not only to portray complex characters and narrative themes, but also to create a postcolonial discourse that criticizes, questions and subverts the old dominance of the imperial colonizer. Mainly addressed to a western audience, the use of Inglish in this novel is a crucial factor to reveal the development of a hybrid conscience, reassert the Indian identity and make the reader feel displaced from their native tongue Keywords: English language, postcolonial, hybridity, Indian identity, discourse Título en español: El Inglish de Roy en The God of Small Things: Una lengua para la subversión, la reconciliación y la rea¿rmación. Resumen: En The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy distancia al hablante-nativo de inglés de su propia lengua. El inglés que utiliza no solo presenta personajes y temas complejos, sino que crea un discurso poscolonial que critica, cuestiona y socava el antiguo dominio del colonizador. Dirigida principalmente a un lector occidental, el Inglish de Roy en esta novela es determinante para representar el desarrollo de una conciencia hibrida, rea¿rmar la identidad india y lograr...
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...Good Morning to one all present here. Respected sisters, teachers and all my dear friends. I Angelina Joyce of Class IIIB, standing before you would like to say a few lines on the topic "A stitch in time saves nine" "A stitch in time saves nine" Is a proverb which literally means that a small tear in a cloth or garment can be corrected or remedied if attended to in time . But if ignored this small tear may widen leading to more work or the garment may have to be discarded. We all love stories – Isn’t it. Now I will tell you a story LEAKING ROOF The pouring rain just stopped. John’s house was collapsed. John was very sad because all his things were drenched and now he has no house to live. His friend Peter came and enquired and suggested John “you should have repaired the roof before it collapsed”. Then John answered “I too though like that. But when there is no rain there is no need to repair. When there is rain it leaks, then it is not possible to repair. Finally today it collapsed.” So John lost all his property. Everything drenched in water and became useless. We too have the same concept about our sins and work. So friends what did we learn from this story. Had John repaired the roof the day it started leaking, his house wouldn’t have collapsed. Had he not postponed the repair work for tomorrow, his house would have been saved. This proverb warns us against neglecting small faults or imperfections which...
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...could turn away any website they like. Internet service providers are trying to push for this kind of internet, a money based internet where they don’t have to show any competitors websites at all. This doesn't sound like a good thing for the internet we know and love. In order to protect the fundamental principle that the internet was based on, and small web-based companies, net neutrality Must be protected and preserved. To understand why Net Neutrality must be preserved first you have to understand it, the economics of it, the arguments against the system, and the effect its change would have on small web-based companies. Net Neutrality can be defined very simply, that all websites are treated equally and distributed to the consumer or business equally. According to Tim wu, a professor at Columbia law School, he says on his personal website article Network Neutrality FAQ “The idea is that a maximally useful public information network aspires to treat all content, sites, and platforms equally.” What he is saying here is that basic concept of Net Neutrality is that no matter what provider, or platform (computer, tablet, or phone e.t.c) all content must be treated with equal delivery privileges. In other words, large companies can’t buy the top internet delivery speeds, leaving small web-based companies in the dust. However the United states Government has introduced bills, specifically The Internet Preservation Act, that do allow for Q.O.S (quality of service) discrimination...
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