...Of all that I have witnessed, I have never seen the sun. These tunnels run dark and deep beneath the city, and though there are those of my kind whose paths rise above, mine does not. City planners decided the subway routes below the city long before I was built, Yet, perhaps the terms of my employment are not so undesirable. It would be worse to see what is beyond my reach, to know the sun I cannot feel and the city I cannot inhabit. Manhattan reveals itself torturously enough to me through its people, but my performance does not falter. I am made of tougher things than flesh and bone, for I am the carrier. As much as I prefer to consider myself a carrier of people, I am often a carrier of disease. I have been vomited, bled, and sneezed...
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...wishes had a face full of emotion and contemplation. However, his desires and dreams had overpowered and clouded his judgment. Was I being selfish in expressing my irritation at his decision? Perhaps! But perhaps he should have considered my commitments at work and to my family. To just up and leave without considering the bigger picture demonstrates the self-centredness of Michael, the dog-eat-dog mentality of Michael and the disregard of the close friends and family by Michael. Nevertheless, he’d come home every Christmas, and maybe a few weeks in the summer. Long distance relationships can work and we could phone each other every weekend. I’m hopeful our relationship would remain intact; however the possibility of us drifting apart was becoming more realistic. The first telling sign was through the unpleasantness of possibly, our final meal. Last night’s dinner wasn’t what I expected it to be. The conversation drastically changed from a pleasurable small talk to a heated argument. I demanded Michael to answer to my somewhat simple question, “So how long are you going be there for”. “I cannot say for exact, it could possibly be a long time,” he replied, calmly as if he did not have a care in the world or any ounce of guilt. “What do you mean you don’t know how long, I feel you are starting to neglect us.” I answered back in rage. “How am I neglecting you?” he yelled....
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...family. The poem “How Falling in Love is like Owning a Dog” by Taylor Mali explains how love is like a dog. The dog in both the poem and the book represent love. This dog literature helps us to examine love relationships. In The Art of Racing in The Rain by Garth Stein and the poem “How Falling in Love is like Owning a Dog” by Taylor Mali, it is illustrated how love and dogs are a like in ways most people do not notice. Just like you do not leave your’ dog alone for very long, you cannot leave love alone for too long either. In “How Falling in Love is like Owning a Dog”, Taylor Mali uses, “Love doesn’t like being left alone for long. / But come home and love is always happy to see you” (15-16). To show that both love and dogs need plenty of...
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...unbearable. I remember when this place was filled with breathtaking lights and now it’s all gone. Now all that’s left to enjoy out here is the infinite amount of stars at night and the amazing sunsets. We must have took what we had for granted at the time. Well, now that we’re at this type of low we can see. It’s a shame we always find out how much some things are taken for granted for when they're gone. All of a sudden, a Berserker came rushing out of nowhere and tried throwing Melody against the wall, luckily I shot a few 20 mm. bullets straight through its head. It fell to the ground, shaking the Earth as it fell onto the rock-hard asphalt. We keep going, and finally, just as dusk hit we made it to the CDC. Though we made it, Melody was in bad shape. She’s been walking on the leg for a fair while until I realized how much pain she was in and had her piggyback on me. Luckily we made it to the CDC when we did, I don’t know how much longer she could’ve taken. We knocked on the steel gate, hoping for a response. Suddenly, the speaker to the left of us turned on and a man started to talk to us. “Hello. Who goes...
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...Santiago has had more than a person should have of bad luck within his fishing career. Despite his old age, he wants to make up for all of the fish that he didn’t catch in his eighty-four days of bad luck. The relationship that the old man has with the sea and the creatures of the sea is what gives him hope and the endurance to not give up. Endurance is having the strength and courage to keep moving forward to reach your goal, no matter what battles may try to get in the way of that goal. On his fishing journey, the old man catches a big marlin that really puts his endurance to the test. One quote that was said by Santiago was, “I may not be as strong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.” (23) This quote from the book is saying that the old man is aware that he is not as strong as he used to be when he was a young fisherman; however, he is wise enough to keep moving forward. He has had enough experience at sea to know what to do when something goes wrong, and he knows how to control a strong fish that puts up a fight such as the marlin that he caught. Santiago was willing to do anything to hold on to the big fish and to stop it from getting off of the line....
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...Reaction Paper Human beings are regarded as the ultimate life form on earth. Why is that? How different are we from other living creatures that make us superior from them? It’s simple, our brain. The human brain is a fascinating subject, and the videos shown to us on Thursday, February 18, 2016 were only a fraction of what is to learn about the brain. What distinguishes us from other animals that have brains is the ability to reason, to think, to process, to speak, and many more. I learned that there are different regions in the brain that control different functions in our body. The fact that a single organ controls me, and is aware of itself, it is so amazing to me. We were shown a caricature of person, where it shows that the largest parts are the parts of the body that are given a lot more attention by our brain, the lips and the hands in particular. It makes sense that our hands require more brain activity because we use it for almost everything we do every day. The brain works to keep us alive and functioning all the time, and it never rests. I learned that the brain is symmetrical on both sides, and the two sides of the brain are referred to as the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere. I learned that the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and is focused more on things that require logic. On the other hand, the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and is focused on more creative tasks. Although the brain has two hemispheres...
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...IN THIS CHAPTER YOU WILL . . . Learn three key facts about shor t-run economic fluctuations Consider how the economy in the shor t run dif fers from the economy in the long run A G G R E G AT E AND DEMAND S U P P LY Use the model of aggregate demand and aggregate supply to explain economic fluctuations A G G R E G AT E Economic activity fluctuates from year to year. In most years, the production of goods and services rises. Because of increases in the labor force, increases in the capital stock, and advances in technological knowledge, the economy can produce more and more over time. This growth allows everyone to enjoy a higher standard of living. On average over the past 50 years, the production of the U.S. economy as measured by real GDP has grown by about 3 percent per year. In some years, however, this normal growth does not occur. Firms find themselves unable to sell all of the goods and services they have to offer, so they cut back on production. Workers are laid off, unemployment rises, and factories are left idle. With the economy producing fewer goods and services, real GDP and other measures of income fall. Such a period of falling incomes and rising 413 See how shifts in aggregate demand or aggregate supply can cause booms and recessions 414 PA R T E I G H T S H O R T - R U N E C O N O M I C F L U C T U AT I O N S recession a period of declining real incomes and rising unemployment depression a severe recession unemployment is...
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...“Yards tell how long something is. We use yards to measure objects that are about three or more feet long.” b. Illustrates the unit. The teacher would draw a yard length line on the board to show the students how long a yard actually is. c. The teacher would demonstrate how to use the measuring tools (for this lesson a yard stick would be a measuring tool). d. Presents application exercises in which students determining the appropriate tool to use when measuring an object....
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...“Don’t leave like this” he screamed from the bottom of his lungs. His wife was leaving him for another man, as she got their daughter in to the car she looked at him and mimed with her lips. “this is the way it has to be” there was nothing David could do he had pleaded and begged for Jessica to stay, Jessica had left and had taken Louise with her, his only child. David slammed the door behind him with all of his force. David did not know what to do or how to get them back. He swung round and punched the wall leaving a hole as deep as a cave. He was so angry he was like a tsunami destroying everything in his path. David did not know how to cope with being sad so he became angry but then he didn’t know how to deal with anger so he would hurt someone or himself or destroy things. David did not know what to do over the next few days so he kept himself busy he fixed the cave he had left in the wall and he had left thousands of voicemails on Jessica’s phone asking what he had done wrong and how he can fix it. Little did he know at the moment he was leaving the voicemails telling Jessica how much he loved her she was already living with her new boyfriend Blair, playing happy family’s with Louise. Jessica had been seeing Blair for a long time now and she had this break up planned, David had stopped showing Jessica affection so she found it elsewhere with Blair. David had just finished fixing the wall when he sat down on the sofa staring at his phone waiting for Jessica to call him saying...
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...to the point where I almost could not stand and tired to the extent of exhaustion, at the end of my gymnastics practice, already having worked out five hours today I still had one hour remaining. Practice seemed to be going on forever. I stood by this big window getting ready to practice the turn I was having trouble with while watching my coach walk towards the front of the building to talk to one of the parents. Once I saw her reach her destination, I started to practice. After a few minutes of practicing I became really frustrated about not being able to get my turn correct, I took a deep breath and tried again. Suddenly, my foot slipped out from underneath me and I feel the ground rising up to meet me. I shut my eyes, preparing myself for the pain that was sure to come. The pain I felt when I hit the ground was something far worse than I prepared for. My back erupted in sharp-shooting pain that left me paralyzed in my left leg and the left side of my back. While lying on the ground I thought to myself, I don’t think I’m going to be able to get off the ground. A few minutes later I finally got the courage to stand. Making my way slowly towards my coach, I walked up to her saying, “I just fell and my left leg and side went numb, now it’s just tingling.” “Oh, you will be okay; just keep practicing.” She responded. I looked at her thinking to myself, Are you crazy? I walked off going to do what she told me, even though I was terrified of falling...
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...Have you ever imaged what a big group of boys would do if they were left on an island with no grownups? In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, it describes Golding's perspective on how a group of boys would act if they were left alone on an island without grownups. Now even though some might agree with Golding, not all of his theories are possibly correct and most likely wouldn't happen. There are many quotes in the book that can prove how parts of the story wouldn't happen. Perspective also has a huge role in how we look at things. The plane, long hair, Piggy's specks, and fire are some examples that Golding takes out of proportion in my opinion. To give an example, how is the plane able to fly off when they crashed onto the...
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... It’s a simple four letter word so how come it’s so difficult to define and to measure and to understand. (1) Love is a powerful emotion, it’s a deep fire like passion inside of you that just can’t be controlled. (2) When you’re in love it’s one of the most exciting, rewarding, scariest things you could possibly do. (3) It hits you like a ton of bricks, like the air just got knocked out of your lungs, like the stinging feeling on your face on a cold winter day. It could possibly be one of the most bittersweet feelings that you experience in your life. It’s like a roller coaster full of ups and downs and turns left to right making you feel sick to your stomach but it’s not always the bad kind of sick feeling it could be the good kind when you’re overfilled with happiness and all you feel is butterflies. I mean I sure felt sick to my stomach whether it was because of those little beautiful butterflies that I shamefully miss so much or the awful heart rending feeling in my gut that brought me down to almost nothing making me feel so crushed and so empty. I really think to myself, how...
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...underrated qualities someone can display in my opinion. I am a sport’s management major so I relate things a lot of times in terms of football, much like this book does. An average football coach can be a great football coach if he is able to exemplify a strong sense of leadership. As I thought of how powerful of a character trait leadership is, it made me think of three things: What do I know about leadership? What do I want to know about leadership? What can I learn about leadership? It honestly left me dumbfounded for quite a while. I knew that behind a successful team, business, or group there had to be great leadership. I knew leadership was easily preached, but very difficult to practice. Throughout my entire childhood and until I graduated high school, my father would consistently remind me the only thing he had ever told me about leadership. “Be a leader, not a follower.” I always took the advice as nonchalantly as possible until my senior season of football. We were successful the previous year and were expected to be a serious contender for the state championship. We were missing one key ingredient: leadership. I saw this before the season even started and I really wanted to take action and do something about it, but I felt as though I was incapable of doing so for some reason. I don’t really know what it was, but when it was obvious something needed to be said I didn’t say it. I was a leader by my actions, but I didn’t have the ability to vocalize my thoughts and concerns...
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...Katie stressed how strenuous it is for people in need to come ask for help, therefore, we must respect their privacy. For example, adults who cannot provide for their family may feel they are failing as parents, and parish members may not want the whole congregation to know of their personal financial situation. I now recognize the strength it took for people to come into the office and admit to their destitute lives. I remember sitting before Katie in the chair across from her desk, closest to the window, and hearing this for the first time. The thought of how awful it must feel to raise children in a home that does not have food or electricity shocked me into silence. I waited for answers because I could not find them on my own. How do you handle these situations? How do you help them? After a few moments of discussion, Katie then told me the main reason we were there is to “Listen to what they have to say. All they want is to be heard.” Even if we could not help them will expensive bills, listening allowed them to express the grief they have suppressed for so long and opened doors for us to help in other...
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...is studying the country to the south. He walks out onto the road and wonders how long it would take to get somewhere warm before it was too late, even though he has no clue what time of the year it is. “He thought it was October but he wasn’t sure. He hadn’t kept a calendar for years”(4). I feel like this is a good quotes to be in the novel because it shows loss of time. To them, time doesn't really matter anymore because of how many years have passed and the fact that they don’t know when or if this will ever end. This I feel can relate to me when i’ve been counting down something for so long it just doesn’t seem to matter any more and slips my mind because I feel like it will never come. “When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him”(3). This is a major example of how the man cares for the boy. Every second he can, he...
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