...Agbasi 11/27/2012 Significant Event My most significant event would have to be the passing of my great grandfather. He was 78 years old and died 2 weeks before my 12th birthday. He was carrying a coffin for another World War 2 veteran when he had a stroke. He was rushed to the hospital and was not on life support for 3 days. His heart was beating for a full 24 hours after his brain and stopped working. The man was a fighter. He was an Army Ranger one of the first. He loved what he did and passed that love of the army on to me. He taught me a lot of life lessons and how to be a good man to not only my family but others around me. He helped raise me due to my mother being 15 years old when she had me in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I would have to say that this event is completely accurate due to me being at the funeral. I was there to help with the funeral and do the setup. It is possible that due to my age that some of the details were left out or even exaggerated more than what happen. It also could be due to the frantic stat that everyone was in I also could have left out some details or exaggerated some of the details. Due to my knowledge of the situation I am pretty accurate. I can tell you everything about the flowers that were on the grave and the color of the tombstone. I can even tell you the exact location that he fell while carrying the coffin to the burial site. I can also show you the plot where the veteran was buried at. So to my knowledge and memory I have a pretty...
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... My most significant event would have to be the passing of my Uncle. He was 40 years old and died 2 months before my 20th birthday. It was early morning and he had seizures. He was rushed to the hospital and he was on life support for 8 years. His heart was beating for a full 24 hours after his brain had stopped working. The man was a fighter. He was a Software Engineer. He loved what he did and passed that love on to me. He taught me a lot of life lessons and how to be a good women to not only my family but others around me. I would have to say that this event is completely accurate due to me being at the funeral. I was there to help with the funeral and do the setup. It is possible that due to my age that some of the details were left out or even exaggerated more than what happen. It also could be due to the frantic stat that everyone was in I also could have left out some details or exaggerated some of the details. Due to my knowledge of the situation I am pretty accurate. I can tell you everything about the flowers that were on the grave and the color of the tombstone. So to my knowledge and memory I have a pretty accurate encounter with this situation and memory of what happened. Well going from the definition out of the book. “Subjective well-being means the individuals’ global judgments of their own life satisfaction.” (Introduction, 2008) I would have to say my subjective well-being would be that I am very happy and satisfied with my life up to this point. Due to the...
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...don’t like to share my life with anyone but this is an exception. LaRita Nicole Curier, born to Theodis Curier and Rita Dawson on August 23, 1981 at 12:01 a.m. This date was special because it’s also the same date of birth as my father. I was born in Birmingham, Alabama at Cooper Green Hospital. I’m the second child of five and had to grow up fast due to having to help with my siblings. I didn’t have much of a choice in the matter but I adapted well to the life I became accustomed to. I attended Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, Glenn Middle School, and Ensley High School where I did not graduate. I received my G.E.D from Virginia College of Birmingham in 2000 because I knew I wanted to further my education and was to smart to be so stupid. I later attended Virginia College for there Pharmacy Technician program which I didn’t complete due to medical circumstances. Being in a large family taught me a lot of independency and nurturing. I can honestly say it made me into the woman I am today. I’m a loner, in spite of all the siblings. I’m not a people person at all but I get along with everybody, how ironic. My attitude is stand offish and very reserved. These are just a few traits that make me who I am. When I was 15 years old my mother decided to leave my younger siblings and I with my dad. That was the lowest point of my life. I felt as if my world was crashing. I had to help raise and care for my two brothers and...
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...Throughout my childhood, I had trouble figuring out which category I belonged to and my maturity was widespread and ubiquitous. Between third to eighth grade, I switched from being the talkative kid, to the quiet kid, the trouble maker, the loner, the music kid, and the average kid. When I graduated 8th grade in 2015, I received an award for being considerably artistic. It was a unanimous decision made by all of my teachers and my peers. Among various arts, I enjoyed expressing myself through drawing, music, and writing. However, due to the constant pressure to succeed in school, I stopped enjoying what I loved habitually. It developed to a point that a fear of failure in high school and the idea of perfectionism stopped me from succeeding. As a result of this, I did not know who I was and I became a walking contradiction. Over time, I disconnected from myself and from others and I was depressed and lonely. I had problems recurring in my social life, school life, and more importantly, my home and my personal life. I never wanted to tell anyone these problems mainly due to a fear and not wanting to be a burden to them. My parents were rarely home and I could not even talk to my friends, due to their busy schedules. Despite thinking that I was in...
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...My Reflection of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind While reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, several things about William Kamkwamba and his family stood out to me. For example, the endless hours that William and his father worked daily in the fields to provide their family with food. Also, how little belongings he and his family possessed. Located in Malawi, Africa, their home being made of mud, clay walls, dirt floors, single sheet of steel as a roof, a pump outside the home for water, and no electricity. All of this during recent times, too, dating from 1989 to 2007. Being that I am from America, and have the luxury of having the world at my fingertips, I find it hard to imagine that this was William’s normal everyday life. However,...
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...The bulling continued along with my depression, in addition to my depression I began to fear the outside mainly people. The constant judgment was to much to handle and caused me to skip school and stay home. I played being sick throughout freshmen year, while the time I was at home I began to venture into self harm. Self harm is known has self inflection of pain, but in my eyes it relieved the pain. The continuous cycle carried throughout freshmen year into sophomore year. Sophomore year was the year that my main medical condition began, which led to my near death experience. I had no control in the external world nor in my internal and as humans we crave control. I found my control in my weight mainly my food. I began to restrict the daily meals in which teens need to grow. My breakfast contained a celery stick and a piece of bread. I consumed this meal only throughout the day no more if I did then I would work out for an extensive amount of time. On average I would exorcise for for 5 hours. the weight began to fall off and like drugs I became addicted. I loved the feeling of the number decreasing daily. This point of feeling great about myself ended when I became unhappy with the amount of weight I was loosing. I continued with the same routine throughout sophomore year at this point I was 160 lbs. In the beginning of Jr the amount of stress rose when the school requirement of performance...
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...Shannon Ben SCIE206 Professor Jantz 18 September 2013 My Stages Through Lupus To ESRF(End Stage Renal Failure) Important events happen on a regular basis, but achieving the goals set up for yourself while over coming obstacles with things that pop up along the way making it a even harder struggle. In 2011 I began my fall semester classes, and during this time I became very ill, but I was still attending classes with pneumonia (that I suspected). This went on for 3 weeks in October, until I was at home barely breathing, so I had to call 9-1-1 and was rushed to the hospital. My friends and family continuously kept telling me to go to the doctor, although all I kept insisting was “It’s a cold; I have class!” My education was and still is my main priority, and I refused to let anyone or anything stand in my way. While lying in the hospital bed with tubes up my arms, I was lonely in a isolated room and my visitors wearing mask made me feel even more isolated. I had all kind of crazy things running to the finish line to see what the problem was and why was I isolated from the world? Once the doctors came in and asked me all kinds of questions like; “Have you ever passed out or have you ever felt any kind of illness? “No!” However, after all the questions and answers the doctor announced that I was blessed, because I have Lupus and End Stage Renal Disease, and my kidneys were at a 19%. The Important Event in my life is when I overcame “End Stage Renal Failure.” End Stage Renal...
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...or explain, are considered fate. The things people can control are just events in their life. Fate is an imaginary crutch people use to explain things that they cannot make sense of or control. I believe my life consists of numerous events and fate has no role in it. In eighth grade, I moved to Saint Clair from Cincinnati, Ohio. This was not due to fate. I moved to Saint Clair because of my father. My father is a chemical engineer that works for a paper company. In Ohio, the company he worked at was fifty miles away from our house. He was required to drive there and back every day, which was inconvenient for him and for us. He heard about a better job opportunity in Saint Clair and decided to take it to make our lives easier. It was my father's choice that led me and my family to move to Saint Clair. Fate had no influence on his decision. Diseases such as diabetes are not brought on by fate. My father is a Type II diabetic, like many of my other relatives. He became affected by diabetes because of the poor health choices he made in his youth. These juvenile choices are what led to his disease. If he had eaten healthier and had been more active, then he could have delayed the effects of this disease. My father is a diabetic that needs...
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...In my life, I surely must have experienced multiple nightmares, those unavoidable terrors that spring from the fears we met in our everyday life. However, now as I have grown, there is only a singular nightmare I can still recall in detail. (Reflecting on it now, some part of me scoffs at how my young self managed to find such a dream to be a nightmare, but upon deeper thought, I now understand that though my fear was not traditional in the way of that which comes with most nightmares that I have since heard described by young children, it was still just as excruciating to my young self.) I suppose that I remember this one so intensely when compared to other nightmares that I had, as this one concerns a more serious topic than spiders or heights,...
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...August 15, 1412 BC Well here I am, in the need of that Olive Tree. My life is more than chaotic and I need that peace. You would think that being in a land surrounded by rivers, I would find the peace and tranquility that I seek. Yet there is always a strife. I guess it could be bad like my friend, who had to pay to live here and be treated as an equal since she is not originally from here. She brought over a piece of bronze and told me to look at the shiny beam and always think of my life as such. That was a nice gesture. Friends are sometimes hard to come by. I struggled with the issue of feeling free. A lot of my people feel we should be free as long as we follow the laws of Greece. Not to mention in 508 BC we became one of the first cities to establish democracy. Thinking back over how I arrived at the time in life I am, I think back to my ancestors. I have been told they originated as early as 5000BCE. Maybe even 7000BCE. I know my life is little in comparison to theirs but not much has changed. Due to our location, the soil was not setup for large agriculture so my people had to rely heavily on trade. Thank goodness my husband was and original Athens. That affords us the luxury of not having to pay those darn taxes. He is a metal maker, who helped make weapons. But the thing that makes me mad is he gets to go out and vote and yet I am stuck here mainly in the house. And not to mention he gets to go to the Olympic Games. Always saying he wishes he were in the...
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...2011 The loss of my mother was devastating and tragic. In 1998, my mother suffered from a brain aneurism that burst. I was 17 yrs old, and lost my best friend. Mom was strong willed and humorous. She finished college on the deans list, and raised four children by her self. She was the matriarch of my family, She was a great woman who cared for humanity. Sadly she also suffered the disease of addiction. Unfortunately that series of events left my poor mother in a nursing home not able to care for her self. Physically she is here, mentally she is not. The loss of my mom brought broken hearts, lost souls and God willing the dawn of a new day. My experience with addiction is that is can be life threatening. In my family alone, I have lost two aunt’s and a mother due to addiction. Before it took their lives, it changed their whole perspective on life. For example, my mother was always loving and compassionate. As an addict she was mean and hateful. The disease of addiction can and will take everything from you and your family. I lost the person who taught me how to be strong and proud no matter what the situation. My mother was an honorable woman and I suffered a dear loss. Addiction is fatal. There are many effects to the person who is an addict. Relationships with family and friends will be damaged. Families become disappointed and distressed due to a family member who is an addict. From my experience, it is very stressful to worry all the time if my loved one is alright...
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...when Beowulf dies, his life is celebrated among the people. His life was celebrated because of all the impact he had on the people around him. He sacrificed his life for his community and he did his very best to make sure they were safe. Without Beowulf, many more lives would have lost. Beowulf earned respect among the people in the land of the Geats, as well as the land of the Danes. He was an honorable man and realized he had the capability of doing something that would help people around him, so he did it. Beowulf lived a great life and achieved all the duties he came across. Because of the great life he lived, Beowulf earned a celebration in the event of his death. People felt a great sorrow when he died, but were able to think of all the great tasks he accomplished and used his life as an example for theirs. In my life, my Grandpa Dale has this effect on me due to his success, his willingness to help others, and the way people remember him presently....
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...Reading the text and cleaning my mother’s garage brought back plenty of memories from my teenage years. Personally I think I went through these stages a little out of order. As a child and through my teens, my mother raised us to have goals and to achieve what others my think impossible. Due to this up bringing I would say I experienced foreclosure in my early teens till graduation. I went to church whenever my mom wanted us to; I attended a private Christian school and never missed a day. I took all honors classes like my mom wanted and graduated Valedictorian. I had one relationship in High School and thought he was my true love. Looking back now I had no clue what love was. I played by all rules and had plans for my life. I would say it was time that I accepted the traditional values of my church and family without many questions. When I graduated high school life was another story. I think I was experiencing identity confusion. Due to a few ups and downs I came to the point where I had no clue what I was going to do with my life. I jumped from date to date and was disorganized and confused. I started college but didn’t make it through the first semester. Life seemed to be falling right out of my hands. I was so sure of what I wanted and where I was going when I was under the direction of my parents. For me this time of my life was my stage of rebellion. Then came the turning point; my moratorium, meeting the man that is now my husband. My time out was the day he and...
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...My Philosophy of Life 1 Final Paper: My Philosophy of Life Amber DeNooy Colorado Christian University HUM 425 Professor: David Mullaney June 7, 2003 My Philosophy of Life 2 Over the past 13 months that I have been attending CCU, I have learned a great deal about myself. This has been especially true during the past five weeks while in the Personal and Social Ethics course. Our philosophy of life greatly influences our ethical decision- making. This paper will discuss several areas related to my philosophy of life, including my character traits, worldview, theory of knowledge and truth, and principals and values that direct my life. Section 1: Character Traits Who am I? The complete answer to this question would be far too long to discuss in the context of this paper. Therefore, in this section, I will focus on one of my most defining characteristics and two other areas that define who I am. I consider being a Christian my most defining characteristic. My beliefs impact everything in my life. Because my beliefs impact my view on life, they will be discussed in greater detail in section two of this paper. Over the course of this Management of Human Resources (MHR) program, I have learned more about two other areas that define who I am. In one of the MHR courses, we took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) (Myers & Briggs, 1993). The MBTI measures personality preferences in four different areas: extraversion (E) versus introversion (I), sensing (S) versus intuition (N)...
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...dimensions due to differing needs and an exponential increase in technological development. Premodern societies demonstrate a lack of flexibility in roles. Ferdinand Tonnies described pre modern societies using the concept of Gemeinschaft (or community) to describe a group of people who are "closely tied by kinship and tradition" (Macionis, 2010). As such, there is more of a stability to roles that have been passed down through tradition and maintained through an extensive kinship network that depends on the continuity of such roles to maintain a continuity of life. In Martin Guerre, for example, roles of authority were deeply divided by gender, with males retaining such positions. Thus, they were ascribed a higher status. Labor was divided by class and gender as well, and it was due to these careful divisions that the functionality of the society was maintained. In our modern social structure, however, there is greater upward mobility and flexibility within roles and statuses, with achieved statuses being more prevalent and there being more room for those of different statuses, regardless of gender, to have the opportunity to pursue different roles and the statuses that accompany those roles. A glass ceiling of sorts still exists that disallows for a completely egalitarian distribution of roles and statuses between the genders, but the important thing to realize is that the possibility of such equality is no longer dismissed as impossible; it may threaten the way of life for these...
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