...There are so many people that influence me greatly. It’s difficult to just narrow them down to three! Each person in my life is special to me in their own way. The three that I am going to write about today are quite exceptional though, they are three extraordinary women that have been with me through thick and thin. They have all helped me overcome many obstacles whether it’s been for three months, a year, or even fifteen years; all three of them have helped me in one way or another. The first person I chose to discuss is my mother. I’m not even sure where to begin. This woman means so much to me, and I could probably go on for pages about her. She is the only person that I can ultimately trust and rely on for everything. She has been with me every step of the way; from school problems, to personal dilemmas, she has never let me down. She is an amazing women and I am lucky to have her in my life. My mom is my role model; I remember growing up and wanting to do every single thing that she did growing up. To this day, I would still like to do some of the things that she did because she has had such an adventurous and exhilarating life. Sometimes, I believe that I take advantage of what she does for me. She washes my clothes, folds them, cooks for me everyday, is my personal chauffer, gives me money to spend, and much more. Most times, I don’t even say thank you, I’ve just gotten accustomed to her doing these things for me. I am very thankful for all that my mom has done for me...
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...The impact involving the most influential Power in Society Brew Watts WGU GKE1 Themes in U.S. and World History GKE1: task 2 July 01, 2013 The impact involving the most influential Power in Society Nelson and a Human Movement One of the two most significant influences of Nelson Mandela on society involves him as one of 20th Century’s most dedicated human rights activists who fought for the movement of Anti-apartheid / Reformation and social change within world history. At the age of 9, after the death of his father, he began learning the role and qualities of a consensus leader under the guardianship of Jongintaba Dalindyebo of the powerful Thembu Regent. He later attended the Methodist primary and secondary institutions modeled after British schools at which he was introduced to western cultural values; he later received a B.A in correspondence at the University of South America and also a B.S in law from the University of Witwatersrand. In 1944 the African National Congress (ANC) was establish. He became their key negotiator, beginning his life’s journey of promoting the eradication of Apartheid in a nonviolent manner and establishing equal opportunities’/ privileges’ of all individuals in South Africa. He stood for the abolishment of the 1948 Afrikaner-dominated National Parties policy which allowed South Africa’s racial segregation that classified individuals according to their racial groups which banned them from living together, dictated where one could...
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...There are always going to be people who tell you what you should do and who you should become; parents, teachers, siblings, grandparents. Everyone always wants to chime in on the person that they expect you to be. When in reality none of them have to live your life for you, none of them get to become you, so in all seriousness, why do they get a vote? Why do we allow the important, influential people in our lives to make us feel small, inferior, and intimidated based on their expectations? I went to Carmel Middle School in Colorado Springs, Colorado and in the eighth grade I started to understand what it was to truly be myself and to accept the person I was and some of the limitations I had. I learned to be okay with the skin I was in and not...
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...everyone is the member of his family.The simple word “family” can conjure up many meanings, images and emotions. They could be warm and pleasant, at the same time they can be sad and dismal. But for most, the word “family” is one of the greatest words in the world, it brings a lot of unforgettable and joyful memories about their childhood and past, enormous number of happy and funny moments, and of course it brings the picture of your family members, whom you truly love, who really mean a lot for you and who are the most influential and important people in your life. Your family members simply cared about you when you were sick even if it meant staying up all the night just to make sure your fever stayed down. There were also times when they let you make your own choices and allowed you to suffer the consequences it brings if you made a bad decision. Sometimes they pushed you in certain directions and had high expectations for you. Your family is not only people that you biologically related to and those who will love you unconditionally, but they are your first friends, whom you can trust and always count on when you need them. Family members have the biggest influence on you, through their love, discipline, encouragement and living. One of the important persons in the life of anyone is father. He is the first person responsible for the well-being of the family members. For me, my father is an example of a successful person, who is in spite of any hardship and difficulties made...
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...NOT OURS TO EAT, WEAR, EXPERIMENT ON, USE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, OR ABUSE IN ANY OTHER WAY.” They really do care for animals. However, they do not have the funding to competition with these organization. Also, they are really broad on the issues. They are fighting to many battles at once. They also facing multi million corportation, Also the fact they said eat would make people less incline to rally to their cause, Everyone at some point in their lives has ate an animal, We need to eat animals to survive. If they target just the entertainment issue, the abuse, or the experiment...
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...following statements. Do you believe the statement to be true or false? 1. College students who disapprove of cheating do not cheat on tests; it is only the students who view cheating as acceptable who do cheat. 2. When segregation was still legal, hotel and restaurant owners with racial stereotypes toward Chinese people would not serve them food or allow them to stay at their establishments. 3. How well people like their jobs is predictive of people’s job attendance. Those who like their jobs are less likely to miss a day of work. 4. During the 1970s, people who felt that the energy crisis was a significant problem used less energy than did those who did not really believe that there was a crisis. 5. Regardless of whether an employer makes a snap judgment or deliberates extensively about a hiring decision, if the employer has a negative attitude toward working women, a female candidate will not be hired. All of these commonsense statements assume that people’s attitudes influence their actions and decisions. In fact, as we will see in this chapter, none of these five statements is correct. The basic finding of decades of research is that sometimes people act in accordance with their attitudes, and other times they act in ways that are quite inconsistent with their attitudes. In this chapter, we address three fundamental questions regarding the attitude–behavior relation (Zanna & Fazio, 1982). First, is there a relation? That is, do attitudes influence behavior? ...
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...Empathy Exercise Gina Krazer PSY/220 December 13, 2011 Mary Jeanell Buck Snap judgments have a negative effect of hindering one’s ability to foster empathy. Often, such judgments can prove to be incorrect about a person, if the time is taken out to get to know him/her. According to Bolt (2004, p. 51), “People are not always what they seem at first glance. This is not to say that negative judgments are always erroneous or that people never contribute to their own failure, merely that life situations are unique and shape people’s actions more than we know.” Almost every individual is guilty of making these snap judgments, including myself. However, I can only think of one person that I presently have negative feelings toward. I am not in the position to say that I know this person well either. She is a coworker of mine and one certain situation influenced my judgments about her. If I found that I was wrong, I would change my opinion and work to change the basic relationship that she and I hold. The circumstances that created this snap judgment occurred during the time I was training her to be a server. On the second day of her training, I had about three tables in a row not leave any tips. Since this does not normally happen, I had suspected that she may have taken the tips, because she was cleaning all of my tables. I had my general manager check the cameras and, as I suspected, she had taken the tips. I confronted her about it and she immediately apologized...
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...Functional Analysis A functional analysis is a process of learning about people before intervening in their lives. It is a systematic process for describing difficult behavior, identifying environmental factors and setting events that predict the behavior, and guiding the development of effective and efficient behavior support plans. Three important beliefs underlying a functional analysis are that 1) all behavior that persists serves some purpose, 2) every person is unique, and 3) the best way to help someone change their behavior is to first understand the reasons behind the behavior. This worksheet includes the components of a functional analysis which should be used to develop a positive behavior support plan, if one is needed for a participant. Depending on the person, some items may not need to be addressed. |Clear Description of the Behavior -- What does the challenging behavior look like? What does it sound like? Does it occur in conjunction with other behaviors or | |in isolation? How long does it last? How long has it been a problem? | | | |Antecedents -- Is there any warning from the person before the targeted behavior starts? What are some of the preliminary behaviors before the person shows the ...
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...and probably always will be. My friends like me for that quality. That’s with friends though. One of my teachers this year constantly harps on my quietness. He says hi to me in the mornings, and it seems to me that he always says something like, “Why do you always sound so timid when I say hi to you? You’re not like that during class. So, why so shy now?” I’ve never legitimately answered him. But, I honestly don’t know why, because I’m only like that in school. Sure, I’m a little soft spoken, and sure I’m not the most talkative in that class, but I’m not unconfident. I’m just naturally soft spoken. I don’t normally raise my hand and blurt out answers, or go up to a teacher and have a random conversation. I don’t like talking in front of people, because I’m afraid of what they think. I’m afraid of being judged. It’s like I’m a whole other person. Frightened, and timid. On the other hand, at home I am a COMPLETELY different person. If my mom was to hear any of my teachers say, “She’s just an angel.”, or “She’s just so sweet.” .My mom probably wouldn’t believe any of them. At home I’m loud and I tend to speak my mind. Plus, my brother and I NEVER get along. I can get along with everyone else in the world but him. Something about him just sets me off. From the time I was born till about the age of five I was, in fact, a perfect little angel. After my brother had been around for a year things started...
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...environment. Having many different people working together provides for many perspectives. You learn to work with people who have different views and values than yourself. In a collaborative environment you have the opportunity to discuss in detail how and why others view things the way they do. In a group people are able to speak about questions they have so they may better understand an issue or topic. Understanding where others stand on a subject gives you the opportunity to learn something new or even expand your own point of view. • How might factors such as diversity, attitude, learning, and work styles affect collaboration? In a collaborative environment factors like diversity, attitude, learning, and work style can affect the outcome of a project. People learn in many different ways and in a group you have to work together. If someone has a negative attitude it could cause problems for the group. With so many different backgrounds and race language could be a main factor for some people. For some people English is not their first language so it may be difficult for them to communicate their thoughts. If someone has trouble explaining their ideas can make a collaborative environment hard for them to work to the best of their abilities. • How does personal responsibility influence the work and success of a group? Personal responsibility can influence the work and success of a group in many ways. People have different work ethics which could...
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...1. a specific task or duty assigned to a person or group of people their mission was to irrigate the desert 2. a person's vocation (often in the phrase mission in life) 3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a group of persons representing or working for a particular country, business, etc., in a foreign country 4. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a. a special embassy sent to a foreign country for a specific purpose b. US a permanent legation 5. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a. a group of people sent by a religious body, esp a Christian church, to a foreign country to do religious and social work 1 : a fair return or equivalent in goods, services, or money for something exchanged 2 : the monetary worth of something : market price 3 : relative worth, utility, or importance 4 : a numerical quantity that is assigned or is determined by calculation or measurement 5 : the relative duration of a musical note 6 a: relative lightness or darkness of a color : luminosity b: the relation of one part in a picture to another with respect to lightness and darkness 7 : something (as a principle or quality) intrinsically valuable or desirable 8 : denomination 2 — val·ue·less \-(ˌ)yü-ləs, -yə-\adjective — val·ue·less·nessnoun See value defined for English-language learners » See value defined for kids » Examples of VALUE 1. The company's stock continues to decline in value. 2. Real estate prices have doubled in value over the last decade...
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...to their work and motivator satisfaction and also the satisfaction of lower-order needs at work for some people. This model may apply in many ways for example in a working place, if a person that is every cautious about his hygiene and cleanliness is employed in a place where they have little or no hygiene tolerance this person would not be a able to function properly because of his environment and would most likely not perform as supposed in his work because they would be more focused on trying to clean and make the environment soothe them most of the time instead of carrying out their activities. Another example that this model may apply to competition in offices when workers are not satisfied with their current level at the job or their current salary they tend to have grudges against each other and this would definitely cause disarray in the office place amongst the workers, this situation occurs very often at many work places. My model would state that life changes according to the way you want it to this means that the way you act or behave towards different situations would determine how your life could change easily in certain circumstances people act differently so this can change the way people would see you because of a certain behavior or attitude. An example in which my model can be as follows, usually people think the quiet people are the weak ones and the harmless ones but it’s usually the other way around because when they get really...
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...describe the feelings I feel for the people behind the shirts at the clothesline project. Especially women who are beat and abused both physically and sexually, as well as raped and manipulated. I had never heard of the clothesline project before but the more than “traumatizing” experience will leave an imprint upon my brain forever. There are two things I wish to mention at the beginning of my paper. As I was walking to the grande ballroom I was asked by a student ambassador to write something upon a wall that inspires me. I wrote “the look on a person’s face when you do something that makes their day.” And as I was walking around looking at the various t-shirts and stories the thought kept coming back: “what inspires these people to act the way they do.” I couldn’t understand why there were so many Fathers beating mothers and children, Grandfathers and uncles molesting loved ones, and so people who have been murdered. Shirt after shirt “I hate you” and “why did you do this to me” “I was only x amount years old” I was appalled. More so for the fact that these experiences are happening to us right in our neighborhoods. At the beginning I thought this was a traveling exhibit, but it is not. This is happening right in our own community, around us every day. The sad part is the fact that in a lot of cases, the victims didn’t say anything for years at a time, or due to circumstances people didn’t even believe them even police officers and people who are supposed to investigate. I...
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...TB133 Lab 4 Task 1: Jung/Myers-Briggs Personality Assessment “E” for Extroversion - Very outgoing and love interacting with people with the hope that I will be the center of attention. “N” for Intuition – Not very detail oriented, rely on gut feelings, a person who lives in the future and often gets bored once they have mastered a task. “T” for Thinking – Very logical people, this type does not make decisions based on their feelings. They do not take other values into consideration when making a decision. Easily identify the flaws of others. Can also be insensitive and lacking compassion? “J” for Judging – Very orderly people with great structure in their lives. This type of person is good at setting and sticking to their goals. Very seldom, would play before their work is done. Eight possible Tips: “E” 1. Discuss new ideas and plans with fellow students. 2. Establish debates or discussion groups with fellow students. “N” 1. Describe how the information received could help others. 2. Viewing new information as a challenge could be helpful when in school. “T” 1. Putting things in order can be helpful when in school, work, ect. 2. Remaining focus can also be a helpful tool to have while in school. “J” 1. Prioritizing task that will need to be completed can be helpful even with something like homework. 2. Setting a schedule and sticking to it can be very helpful and useful as a student. Task 2:...
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...talk says a lot about us. Physical appearance has to do with how a person grooms himself or herself. This narrows down the clothing and accessories one wears. Although appearance should not be how we judge a person, most of us get that habit from our family. Unfortunately, the reality is that people judge others by outer appearance. As Brent Staples describes in his story, “Youngish black man-a broad six feet two inches with a beard and billowing hair, both hands shoved into the pockets of a bulky military jacket-seemed menacingly close.” (Staples 241) The woman walking by him was terrified of him. She was judging him by his appearance; by what he was wearing. Among other things, which form an individual’s appearance besides clothing is how one grooms. We have the tendency of assuming a person is a certain way because of their appearance. In comparison, how a person shaves, does their hair gives them a certain personality. Also the way they talk, move, and smile, says a lot about a person. I have worked in the banking industry for five years and have learned a few things about people. As a result, working in the banking industry you get to see and meet different type of people. There was this one older lady that every morning would stop at the bank and have a cup of our complimentary coffee. She was never groomed her outfit was not up to date with todays fashion; It was like she has just gotten out of bed. First thing that came to my mind was “poor lady she must be homeless...
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