...Topic: My mother Name: College: Unstable life in the Middle East since she was born, 42 years ago, was not favorable to her, and five years ago she left the place. She has then stayed in the United States of America for the past five years. She was a normal lady in her teenage, and she struggled with mistakes and adventures people make and go through in adolescence stage. The most notable thing about her by then is that she seemed to understand things quickly and make stable decisions in life. At that stage, many ladies who moved from childhood to adulthood seemed to be confused and undecided. Many of them could go through it and come out with regrets as they advance to adulthood. She, however, passed through it without any blemish. Furthermore, she was the type that all villagers admired in character and personality. She was used by villagers as an example to describe a girl they would like their little daughters to be when they grow up. My mother’s exceptional features in her adolescence have never left her. She is still the most adorned person that any man may yearn to have as a companion in life. Weighing about 135 pounds, she is 5 feet 6 inches tall, which makes her visible from far among ladies. The most adorned part that describes my mother’s innocence is her eyes. She has grey eyes that look at a person with genuine innocence I have never seen in many people. The most visible part that shows my resemblance to her is her nose. They are thin and oval...
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...Reagan Rooney English 101 09/16/2015 It has been a few years since I have listened to music just for the pure pleasure of listening to music. As I’ve been racking my brain day in and day out for the past two weeks, I figured out that I did actually used to enjoy listening to music for the following reasons: the lyrics, the vocals and the happy memories that would come rushing back when I would hear a certain song. There were many songs that I would listen to over and over again because of the lyrics in the song and the message that the song portrayed to me. Christina Aguilera’s song titled “Beautiful”, to me, really portrays an uplifting and powerful message: You are beautiful no matter what they say Words can't bring you down....oh no You are beautiful in every single way Yes, words can't bring you down, oh, no So don't you bring me down today... I think that is a really important message for everyone to know. People in this world can be really cruel and hurtful, especially to younger people who may not fit the “perfect body” profile. Another song I love simply because of the lyrics is Mariah Carey’s “One Sweet Day”. I believe the song’s lyrics can be really helpful to someone during a time of loss: And I know you're shining down on me from heaven Like so many friends we've lost along the way And I know eventually we'll be together One sweet day Another song that I really love just for the lyrics and the simple message that the song portrays is a song...
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...INTEGRITY | 1. Describe a professional situation where the resolution clearly reflected your level of integrity. | FLEXIBILITY | 1. Describe a time when you needed to function effectively under ambiguous circumstances. | | 2. Occasionally we all have to deal with someone whose personality or work style differs from our own. Tell me about a time when this happened to you. | | 3. Learning to function in an unfamiliar organization can be a daunting experience for newcomers. Have you experienced this before? Describe your approach to understanding the new organization. How did you go about coming up to speed? | INITIATIVE | 1. Have you ever spotted a hot business opportunity long before others caught on? Describe the situation and how you pursued it. | | 2. Can you give some examples of things that would not have gotten done had you not intervened to get the ball rolling? | PRESENCE (Intensity & Energy Level) | 1. How do you stay focused during lengthy/tedious work sessions? | TEAMWORK | 1. Tell me about a time when you felt truly collaborative in working with others. What was the situation? Describe your role in the process. | | 2. From time to time we’ve all had to work with someone who is difficult to get along with. Can you remember a time when this occurred? Describe how you handled it. | | 3. To what extent have you shared knowledge or taught others your...
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...English 202 8 June 2014 Final Paper In “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Oscar Wilde unmasks the societal contradictions of modern Victorian society. In a way this story is a Comedy of Manners because it makes fun of the idea of the upper class and how the people in it went about getting married. I think Wilde was trying to accomplish something when writing this story and that was to show how ridiculous the process of marriage was in the upper class in particular. His main point of this story is to show how shallow and hypocritical Victorian society is. The main two characters in the story are Jack and Algernon. They both have alter ego’s in order to escape the restraints that Victorian society impresses upon them. Jack is expected to take care of the young Cecily but he cannot resist the urge to party and have fun. As a result, he comes up with an alter ego named Ernest. He tells Cecily that Ernest is his younger brother and that he gets in trouble all the time. Being that he is the older brother he expresses that he has to get his Ernest out of trouble all the time when really he is just partying and escaping the life he really doesn’t want to live. Algernon also has an alter ego named Bunbury whose grave health conditions provide him with the excuse to escape to the country as and when he pleases. The fact that the two main characters have created alter egos to escape the life they are currently living shows that Wilde wanted to portray how people would do certain...
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...My Reflection for Mother Teresa Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. The one quote that Mother Teresa has said impact me. For me, she is an unique individual with an exceptional love for mankind and the needy. She is simple and dedicated. She helped the poorest of the poor, the downtrodden and the rejected, gave them courage to live and the feeling of their worth. For me Mother Teresa is like Christ because she helped many people and gave them hope to them live their with simplicity. Mother Teresa’s life proved that the only real revolution in human affairs flows from service to others and self-sacrifice out of love for Jesus Christ. He life-long devotion to the poor, the sick and the disadvantaged was the highest examples of service to humanity. Many obstacles has passed through Mother Teresa but she overcome them. People criticize her but instead of making pay of what they did, Mother Teresa has clarified to them her work and also her responsibilities as a nun. Her life was one of the best examples of service to God. Many of us was touched by the mission of Mother Teresa. Throughout her life on earth, and now even more fully in the Kingdom, she stands as a beacon of light reflecting the heart of God to those who seek Him, who seek signs of His nearness and care in the darkness of human suffering and sin. For me she is “something beautiful that is made by God and for God”. By serving the poor through by “small things done with great...
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...is satisfied with his choice, neither gaining or losing… Neither gaining or losing anything he is satisfied with his choice. Harwood, in contrast, conveys the mother’s loss through juxtaposing imagery. As she nurses her youngest child and says to the wind that her children have metaphorically “eaten (her) alive”, Harwood’s narrator reinforces the sacrifice and consequences of selflessness. Both “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and “In the Park” by Gwen Harwood, explore the idea of “loss” from different perspectives. Where Frost focuses on the loss of opportunities, Harwood displays the loss of self-worth and identity associated with parenthood. Ironically, both feel resignation to the choices made and the roles expected. Poets Christina Rossetti and W.H Auden, in their poems, “Remember” and “Stop All the Clocks”, explore the idea of death diversely. Where Rossetti portrays death as a physical finality but not one to be tormented by, W.H Auden’s sonnet sees it as excruciatingly...
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...In the Victorian Era, people had a fear of living life another way other than the one they were supposed to live because of the consequences they would face. In the poem of Goblin Market, it shows how the Victorians challenge the biblical truth and traditional religious faith. The poem talks about how the Goblin’s make people have a want and need for the fruits. The Goblins lure people to buy fruits by their cry, which is “Come buy, come buy.” Once falling to buy their fruit the fallen ones will no longer hear the goblin’s cry. In Goblin Market, Rossetti shows how in life everything comes with consequences due to temptation through the symbolism of the Laura, Lizzie, and the fruit. First of all, Laura in Goblin Market shows symbolism of Adam and Eve due to temptation for fruit. Laura in Goblin Market is mischievous, she does not listen to her sister, and she has a temptation for the goblin’s fruit. One symbol she shows as a temptation for the fruit is where Rossetti says, “Curious Laura chose to linger/ Wondering at each merchant man” (lines 69-70). Laura was curious about the goblin’s cry when they cried, “come buy, come buy.” Lizzie, her sister, told Laura to not fall for the goblin’s cry and took look away yet innocent Laura did not listen. She decided to look and was tempted by the goblins and their fruit. Another symbol Laura resembles Adam and Eve is where Rossetti says, “Laura stared but did not stir/ Longed, but had no money” (lines 105-106). Rossetti is trying to make...
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...A Person Who Made An Impacted On My Life The person who made an impact on my life is my son. Emmanuel is the reason that my life is what it is now. If it wasn’t for him I would be somewhere doing the wrong things. Since Emmanuel is only two, he doesn’t understand the impact that he made on my life, but my family. My mother Melba Peterson and my two older brothers TraeVon McKinney and Michael Peterson, do know understand how Emmanuel made the huge significtly impacted on my life. My mother Melba can tell you a whole story about my life, but the most thing she likes to talk about is me growing up and becoming a respectful young lady by bringing my pride and joy Emmanuel in to world; he changed my life to give him a better future. My mother would tell all her friends about Emmanuel and how special he is to her. Her favorite story is the day Emmanuel was born. For some odd reason my mother and Emmanuel became real close after he was born. I asked my mother how Emmanuel made an impact on my life. My mother responded by saying, she don’t know how I graduated high school when I barely went before I had Emmanuel, but after I had him she made sure I went every day. My mother also talks about how I use to run the streets, get into fights with anybody, getting arrested more than 10 times and doing things that a girl my age at the time shouldn’t been doing. She would always want me to do well but I never did. She says when Emmanuel came into my life my behavior started to improve; I...
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...Multicultural Awareness Multiculturalism has a vital role in counseling. According to Hays (2010) this type of counseling pays attention to the cultural diversities of clients in order to offer better services. To achieve multicultural awareness, the counselor has to know his or her own cultural characteristics. This article will contain the results of the multicultural-assessments I completed, my reflection on being “other,” as well as my statement of counseling identity and the explanation why multicultural awareness is important in the mental health counseling profession. Results of Self-Assessment Completing Petrone’s (2004) multicultural self-assessment was interesting and eye opening. In this test, choice number 1 means seldom, if ever; number 5 means almost always. Most of my scores were either fours or fives; these results tell me that I am interested in other people, paying attention to listen, and I am comfortable with new situations. I scored three threes in the following subjects: 1) I ask questions until I am sure I understand what others are saying; 2) If I were at an event with people who differed from me, I would make every effort to talk with them; 3) I try not to assume anything. Reaction to Self-Assessment After I finished the self-assessment, I immediately started thinking about the results. I realized that my not asking questions until I understand what others are saying is connected to the lower score about not assuming anything. Levitt (2010) talked...
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...Abstract The Goblin’s Market is a poem written by Christina Rossetti, it is about two sisters living near the goblin’s market. One of them called Laura is tempted to go there to know exactly what happens there even after her sister told her not to go. Once she got there, she tried goblin’s fruit that she found tasty and gave them a part of her beautiful golden curly hair in exchange. Once she got home her sister Lizzie noticed she started to waste away. When her sister saw it, she decided to go down there and meet the goblin’s men who violated her after she refused to eat their fruits. They spread their fruit’s juice on Lizzie who gave that to her sister when she got back home, once she drank it, Laura got healed. Like a lot of other poems, Goblin’s Market wrote by the poet Christina Rossetti is full of some characteristics of the Romantic Era. The Romantic Era also known as the Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1840.The aim of our essay will be to discuss how Goblin Market exemplifies characteristics of Romantic Era. Goblin’s Market is a rich poem equipped with an unbelievable textured language talking about two sisters Laura and Lizzie. Living beside the goblins market that appears to be a place where horrible creatures exposed and forced women to eat their prohibited fruits. This poem shows the love existing...
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...Reflection Paper We just watched a movie A Crazy little thing alled love(First Love) Actually this is the second times that i watched this movie. But, even i've watched it second times, My eyes always kept teary and it always make me giggling. Ofourse, i can't stop make sad, beause when nam confessed her feelings to shone on the swimming pool. Nam was satisfied when she tell the truth to shone. but, she saw something on shone's shirt saying ''Pin Love Shone', aww! It's really hurt! but name she just pretending that she's okay though she's not really okay. Okay, Let's start my reflection about this movie. Firstly, the title sounds interesting when you hear the word First love what comes to your mind? A lot of meaning right? Sometimes when you you fallin for someone you are willing to do anything like, you want to know his/her name right? or should i say that you will be a stalker sometimes because you are willing to know about him/her. when that person is your First love, and who changed your world.'' Love at first sight'' Secondly,I'm so happy and i appreiate what nam does to shone. She deserved to be with shone because she has done anything so that she an be suitable with him, and also nam make's shone to be her inspiration she make to be a number 1 of her shool and also she changed her looks but still she have a good attitude. though, lately her friends get angry with her because nam she didn't came to cheer's birthday, at that time she's with shone's friends. but, after...
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...Essay 1: Descriptive Essay of a Beautiful Friend of Mine Helen Keller once said that “the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart”. How is that even possible when you know someone that has been with you since the day you have met them, the person that considers you a friend but you consider them as something more than just friend sometimes, just sometimes. Having mixed feelings about someone that you know makes you sit and stare at them when you are together as if you are a creep or something. Well, just imagine yourself staring at the most beautiful girl you or the world has ever seen. Christina is a beautiful girl not only through her appearance, but also through her patience and kindness. Christina’s hair is light brown color and it kind of reminds me of the color of a sunbeam that passes through my bedroom window in the morning. As I look at her hair I notice how it attracts to the light and it glistens as the light wind moves it. Her hair is so long that it reaches the middle of her lower back and all you want to do is bury yourself beneath it so that you can hide from everything so that you can become part of her world. Her face is so bright and flawless that it attracts everyone’s attention. Her cheekbones and nose are structured so perfectly that you can easily see her gentleness and softness. Her face is so proportioned and lit up that you would think she is part of royalty. Her body is so little...
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...A poem by Jim on his thoughts of the society and his escape. I’m Jim My colour is fairly dim, But that does not mean I’m an outcast, Meet my friend Huck were gunna leave at last, He’s only thirteen, Yeah that’s right he’s still a teen He’s the only one who sees the good in me He’s the only white teen that stood by me since 1883 When slavery was at its worst And most of us would die of thirst Society is not clear, society is not fair Oh my friend oh my Huck You are my future you’re my luck You’re my escape, You’re not my enemy Hurry up Huck we need to get to the island! If I don’t leave now my body is going to be cheapened We were on our way and my heart was full of excite It was like I was going to see life in a different light I’m no longer going to be neither called nor useless nor an idiot Society is not clear, society is not fair An escape to the island is the only answer for us together Or else we will never be happy, never ever! I will make sure I care for you more than your father did Unfortunately I don’t know how longer I’m gonna keep this away from you But your dad is always watching you Watching me from where he asks I don’t want to talk about it Huck “Come on, cover up, good night kid” The food is gonna get cold Let’s just enjoy ourselves while we can and forget about him, because- Society is not clear, society is not fair All I’ve got left now is Huck I must make sure I look after him, he’s a wise boy Not the ordinary...
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...Parents: I Turn to You - Christina Aguilera I am happy to say that I have a good relationship with both of my parents but in this paper, I want to write about my mom. My mom is one of the most important people in my life. Everything my mom says or does have an impact on my life. She is the only person who knows more about me than I do. No matter what happens in my life, no matter how good of a day or bad of a day I am having she is always there for me. She is the only person who will take time out of her busy schedule to talk to me about the littlest things. She is always there for me and that is why I chose I Turn to You by Christina Aguilera as the song that best describes our relationship. This song has the lyrics that best exemplifies my relationship with my mom. She is always there for me and she is the one person I can turn to for anything. Even when I have friends who let me down I know she will never do that. She cares about me so much and will be there for me through everything. She has never abandoned me in a time of need and I know she never will. As I get older I come to realize how much my mom means to me and what an important factor she is in my life. It would be very hard to pick out a part of the song that I like the best and that describes our relationship the best because the whole song does it. But if I did have to pick out my favourite lyrics of the song, it would be the bridge: For the arms to be my shelter through all the rain/For truth that will never...
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...Noimann ENG 334-004 Children’s Literature December 21st, 2014 Women in the 19th and 20th century Introduction Throughout the course of history, a wide variety of authors implemented hidden messages in their literature. Many of these messages were representations of what was happening in society, two texts, "the goblin market" written by Christina rosette and 'the sick rose" by William Blake focused on the theme of fallen women. This paper will prove that during the 19th and 20th century, women were considered to be inferior beings with no rights. They faced constant oppression in a society dominated by the male. The paper herein thus provides a full-scale discussion of the thematic relationships between the two texts through an insightful analysis by using secondary sources of the original texts. Discussion The Goblin Market Holt provides a profound analysis in her article about the content of the story in the poem, "Goblin Market." The poem was written in 1862 (in the 18th century) as a manifestation of the plight that women went through at that time. Holt notes that the author of the poem, Christina Rossetti made a an insightful presentation of two sisters, Lizzie and Laura who were forced to endure carnal lust just to embrace a higher and perceived purer realm of human sexuality, which is marriage (Holt 51). The poem is evidence of a strong thematic expression of renunciation that revolves around the lives of the two beautiful sisters. In the end...
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