...A letter is a way to express feelings in written form. Whether delivered by hand, mail, pigeon or romantically left in a secret location, the letter may be anything from a short and simple message of love to a lengthy explanation of feelings. Letters may move through the widest range of emotions - devotion, disappointment, grief and indignation, self-confidence, ambition, impatience and resignation. It is personal and that means of, affecting, or belonging to a particular person rather than to anyone else. Why? If this letter is personal then why do I have to broadcast this letter that is meant to you? I am just a lady who mockingly says to everyone that I don’t want to break promises. Also, as much as I could, I want to stand up for what I have said and what I believe in. Sadly, I do not do that as much. I am a lady who knows how to figure out problems in the world beside mine and that’s ironic. It has been a roller coaster year and I hope you will forgive me for being too indecisive. I opened myself up to love. To love a person who reflects me, who exhibited the ideal man criterion every woman craved for when they were young but I ended up being taken for granted and I was hurt badly. From then on, I closed myself up again. I protected myself because I refuse to be hurt again even if it means I have to be the one doing the hurting. I became the most selfish person. I have been entering and leaving the room just like I’m jumping up and down. It is fast but you know what...
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...of course, much like mine. My father is a baker and always came home smelling like donuts or cookie dough. His eyes are almost as blue as the sky itself and his smile will make anyone laugh with joy and love. Bret, my father, did not graduate college. But in all reality, this day in age that does not even matter anymore. He has gone so far in life and I believe this is because of all the hardship he has gone through in his life and even though the rough patches has brought him down in life from time to time, he always had a smile on and said that he will try again and again. He taught me that life will get rough and when you are at your worst, life will test you until you fight back and realize that it will all get better. He said "Time to get back up and try again." And I truly believe that is why, even as a baker in a Publix grocery store, that my dad is truly happy what he is doing. Happy because he knows that's what he loves doing, and that's all that matters. My father is tough and I've never seen him give...
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...that they be someone who provides you with an honest opinion. Their names need not be included on the survey form. Collect the survey forms and then use them to complete this week’s assignment as outlined in the course syllabus. PEER PERCEPTION SURVEY Instructions: _________________ has asked you to fill out this survey to help him/her better understand how he/she is perceived by others. Please answer the following questions regarding your perception of him/her. Be sure to include an answer as to what particular observed behavior has led you to form such impressions. Honest responses are the most helpful and there is no need to include your name on this form. Thanks for your time. 1. I perceive him/her to be ___________. A) self-confident B) insecure Based on what observed behavior? 2. I perceive him/her to be ___________. A) positive B) negative Based on what observed behavior? 3. I perceive him/her to ___________ most other people. A) like B) dislike Based on what observed behavior? 4. I perceive him/her to be ___________. A) friendly B) unfriendly Based on what observed behavior? 5. I perceive him/her to be ___________. A)...
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...The Power of a praying parent. Stormie Omartian “Summary by Sugnét van Wyk” - 0834014517 Lamentations.2:19 “Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift your hands toward Him for the life of your young children.” We can never be “perfect” parents, but we can be praying parents. 1.Lord, make me a praying parent. PRAYER Lord, I submit myself to You. I realize that parenting a child in the way You would have me to is beyond my human abilities. I know I need you to help me. I want to partner with you and partake of Your gifts of wisdom, discernment, revelation and guidance. I also need Your strength and patience, along with a generous portion of your love flowing through me. Teach me how to love the way You love. Where I needed to be healed, delivered, changed, matured, or made whole, I invite You to do that in me. Help me to walk in righteousness and integrity before You. Teach me Your ways, enable me to obey Your commandments and do only what is pleasing in Your sight. May the beauty of Your Spirit be so evident in me that I will be a godly role model. Give me the communication, teaching and nurturing skills that I must have. Make me the parent You want me to be and teach me how to pray and truly intercede for the life of this child. Lord, You said in Your Word,”Whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive”(Matthew 21:22). In Jesus’ name I ask that be so evident in me that I will be a godly role model. Give...
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...This is shown through his actions regarding Connie. Let us start with his stalking of Connie. The first time Connie sees him, he calls to her “Gonna get you, baby,” and she turns away, dismissing him (Oates 209). When a pretty girl is out in public, cat calls can come at any time in any place, however, they are usually just that; cat calls that mean nothing, and that are forgotten about by the end of the day. Arnold Friend takes the cat call to a whole new level, showing up at Connie’s house the following Sunday afternoon. What started off as a simple lewd remark turned into him tracking her down, like Arnold Friend is hunting Connie. He does not come alone. He brings his friend Ellie Oscar along, to aid in retrieving her. Connie is not worried at first; her youthful and love-seeking mind is just racing, seeing that two men have shown up at her house. She worries about her appearance for these two men, “she whispered ‘Christ. Christ,’ wondering how bad she looked,” (Oates 210). She wants to look good for them, even though she doesn’t know who they are. Connie does not recognize Arnold Friend at first, saying “I don’t even know who you are,” and “Look, I don’t even know who you are,” (Oates 210,...
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...provoked to learn that her husband expected his friend, Gouvernail, up to spend a week or two on the plantation. They had entertained a good deal during the winter; much of the time had also been passed in New Orleans in various forms of mild dissipation. She was looking forward to a period of unbroken rest, now, and undisturbed tete-a-tete with her husband, when he informed her that Gouvernail was coming up to stay a week or two. This was a man she had heard much of but never seen. He had been her husband's college friend; was now a journalist, and in no sense a society man or "a man about town," which were, perhaps, some of the reasons she had never met him. But she had unconsciously formed an image of him in her mind. She pictured him tall, slim, cynical; with eye-glasses, and his hands in his pockets; and she did not like him. Gouvernail was slim enough, but he wasn't very tall nor very cynical; neither did he wear eyeglasses nor carry his hands in his pockets. And she rather liked him when he first presented himself. But why she liked him she could not explain satisfactorily to herself when she partly attempted to do so. She could discover in him none of those brilliant and promising traits which Gaston, her husband, had often assured her that he possessed. On the contrary, he sat rather mute and receptive before her chatty eagerness to make him feel at home and in face of Gaston's frank and wordy hospitality. His manner was as courteous toward her as the most exacting...
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...make her husband satisfied and happy. Unfortunately , Mary’s spouse, Patrick, is not thankful nor shows any liking for her in the story, and shortly is asking for a divorce. Enraged and in shock by his proposal of a divorce, Mary kills her husband with a leg of lamb, as readers would have never expect her to do so, making her...
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...deadline for completion. Give the member the resources he needs. Ask the member to provide periodic progress reports. C Tell the member when you want the proposal and discuss its importance. Explain what you want in the report. Outline steps the member should take to learn more about the equipment. Listen to the member’s concerns and use his ideas when possible. Set weekly meetings to track his progress. D Ask the member to produce the proposal and discuss its importance. Explore the barriers he foresees and strategies for removing them. Ask him to set a deadline for completion and periodically check with him to track progress. 2) Your project team has been working hard to complete its project plan. A new member has joined the team. He must present cost figures in a report format at the end of next week but he knows nothing about the report requirements and format. He is eager to learn more about his role in the group. You would... A Tell him exactly what is needed. Specify...
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...delicious French toast in front of her, this diner makes the best French Toast in the world. She drifted back to her thoughts, the way her life went, and how it turned out. It's full of events that she would describe as... Exciting. No, not exciting, she wasn't Excited when her friend died right in front of her eyes, they're just... Significant. yeah, that's it, each event carried a different meaning and feeling, but they were all important, they made her the woman she is. She took a deep breath in, looked at the beauty around her, and exhaled slowly. This world seems so happy, it IS so happy. Happy and beautiful. This beauty around her never fails to make her think about her life. She laid her head back, letting her eyes gaze at the blue sky, and like an old movie, her whole life flashed in front of her eyes. She misses her dad. her mom died when she was a little kid, so her dad was the only family she ever knew. SHe remembers how every Saturday they did something together, it was their day, they would go swimming, play football, or when it was way too cold outside, they would just stay home and read a book together next to the fire place. Her childhood was magical. Well, half of her childhood was magical. When she was ten, or was it eleven? the age doesn't matter. What matters is, that her dad fell madly in love. She didn't like the woman, but she was happy that her dad stopped spending hours staring at his long lost wife's picture, or talking to her grave, He never showed his pain...
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...dive into the mind of a woman who talks about her relationship with a guy from the beginning to the end. She dives into her worries and issues in her mind. The emotions she goes through, and how she sticks around even when she feels like running away. In this short story she begins with talking about how she meets this guy and how they get to know each other. She quickly jumps into how they speak of moving in together. She has mixed feeling about it but she gives in. She doesn’t forget to lay down the rules. She lays out rules for him including that their relationship is nonexclusive. She doesn’t move any furniture around, only makes room for her things in his closet. Finally living with him she and she begin to refer to him as her “family”. She goes to a family wedding from his side and his relatives quickly start investigating and asking when is their wedding. They also begin to make comments on how lovely they look together. She feels a sense of uneasiness because her feelings for him are not as serious as his relatives believe. After the wedding they attend she begins to have thoughts of restlessness. She doesn’t feel how she feels. She goes out and she starts looking at other men and not about him. She then goes on to say that she met a guy whom she begins to have an affair with. After the first night of sleeping with the guy she’s seeing she goes back to her house with her boyfriend with thoughts of confusion and disgust...
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...goes home for Diwali. His grandmothers, haunted by the memory of Rohan's estranged brother, Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan), sit Rohan down, and in their grief, tell him the story of his family. Yashvardhan Raichand (Amitabh Bachchan) is a famous, wealthy Indian businessman. He and his wife Nandini (Jaya Badhuri) adopted a baby, Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan), and raised him as their own. Nine years later they had a natural son, Rohan (Hrithik Roshan), and considered their family complete. Rahul was raised as the beloved eldest son, and promised his father he would always uphold the respect and traditions of the Raichand family, and always do his parents proud. However, love intervenes... On his way to deliver medication for Daijaan, the nanny who raised both him and his brother, Rahul sees a beautiful girl, Anjali Sharma (Kajol) celebrating India's cricket win in the street. Enchanted by her exuberance, he watches her dance and then follows her into her family's sweet shop. There, she mistakes him for the prospective groom of her best friend. Thinking him to be Ashfaque the poet, who is set to marry her friend, Anjali recites her original work, much to Rahul's confusion. She then drags him over to look at the day's paper, where there is a picture of "the big snob" (as she terms him) Yash Raichand and his son. Anjali realizes her mistake too late, and is humiliated. Rahul, however, is highly amused and too taken with the outspoken girl to take any offense. Their repartee is interrupted...
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...grief. In “Home Burial”, a woman is unable to move on from the loss of her child, which results in the separation from her husband. In “The Death of a Hired Man,” a married couple express their different feelings toward a man who used to work for them and that had come home to die. In these poems, the husband and wife respond to death in different ways. As a result, they disagree with each other have difficulty understanding the feelings of their partner. Frost uses dialogue in “Home Burial” and “The Death of a Hired Man” to show us the way that death affects the world and the people in it. In the beginning of “Home Burial”, we see Amy coming down the stairs of her home. On her way down the stairwell she “look[s] back over her shoulder in some fear”(Frost 3) and turns away. Her husband sees her asks her what she is looking at, “What is it you see / From up there always—for I want to know” (Frost 6-7). It is clear that the wife is petrified of her husband as she is unable to look at him. She is also uncomfortable in his presence as “her face change[s] from terrified to dull” (Frost 9). The husband is “Mounting until she cowered under him” (Frost 11). In this line, we realize that the husband is controlling in the way that he stands over her. He looks strong and powerful while the wife looks weak and submissive. The wife tells him that even if he looks, he...
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...the world. But the creatures that hid had hidden from a demon of great power. This demon was from the ancient times of life, and was recently released from his prison in the earth. His original name was a mystery, but people call him Darkness. Centuries ago Darkness had tampered with God’s kingdom, destroying his creations as he went. Many had tried to fight against him, to save their families. But Darkness was too strong, his army was too strong. None that fought him ever survived. There was no hero among this world that could save them. Darkness continued to grow stronger with every waking day. Finally God grew tired of his games, but he could do nothing himself. He could not intervene in the world below. It was among his ideal rules that he could not intervene and of the angels that followed him. The angels however grew tired of watching these creatures suffer. They tried to persuade him to jump in and save them, but he would not. He had decided, however, to create a man. One who could not be defeated in battle, and who had the strength of one hundred men. He sent this man to earth and called him Daniel. Darkness had heard of this creature and how he had not feared him. Darkness laughed at the thought of this man. How could a man defeat him, when all other men were his slaves? All the women had been locked away in cages, so that no man could breed with them. He continued to take all the children and cast them into the depths of hell to grow and learn in the ways of demons...
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...then : A = 0 and B = 5 If statement B is not satisfactory, but better than A:, then A = 1 or 2 and B = 4 or 3 1. If a friend of mine had a “personality conflict” with a mutual acquaintance of ours and I thought it was important for them to get along, I would: _5__A. Tell my friend that I felt s/he was partially responsible for any problems with this other person and try to let him/her know how the person was being affected by him/her. _0__B. Not get involved because I wouldn’t be able to continue to get along with both of them once I had entered into their conflict in any way. 2. If one of my friends and I had a heated argument in the past and I realized that s/he was ill at ease around me from that time on, I would: _2_ A. Just let the whole thing drop to avoid making things worse by discussing it. _3_ B. Bring up his/her behavior and ask how s/he felt the argument had affected our relationship. 3. If a friend began to avoid me and act in an aloof and withdrawn manner, I would: _5_ A. Tell him/her about his/her behavior and suggest that s/he tell me what was on his/her mind. _0_ B. Follow his/her lead & keep our contact brief & aloof since that seems to be what s/he wants. 4. If two of my friends and I were talking and one of them slipped and brought up a personal problem of mine that involved the other friend, of which s/he...
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...Pilate as a character contradicting to standards in society by her outer appearance and her home at the outskirt of town. Her self-made earring, her short hairs, and her shabby outfits distinguish her from mainstream and express her uniqueness. Furthermore, her female-centered home where she earns her living by making wine indicates...
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