...woke up to my alarm at 6:15 and clicked the snooze button until it was just about at seven in the morning .Always pushing myself to rush my morning. This morning instead of riding the bus like I usually did, I had convinced my father to drive me to school to drop me off along with my bike. A group of four friends and I planned on biking after school to my friend Joe’s house to stay the night, as well as a couple other things for the day. Before I had gotten down the stairs and to the truck my father had already thrown my bike in the trunk of our F-150. When we reached the school, I was grabbing my bag. While my father was pulling the bike out of the truck. My father walked me over to the bike rack, along with my bike and he chained it up for me. After that I told him I loved him. Just like what most people say to there parent before they leave. He left for work and I went about the usual last day of school the pointless saying goodbye to friends and teachers we would most likely not see during our summer. Signing every ones year books, the thing I never bothered to ask my dad to buy me. Sense it was the last day of school it was a half day. I would not be pointlessly stuck at school for a full day. School had just finally ended and it was still only eleven. It still hasn't even reached lunch yet. I had the whole day with my friends, I was excited. Joe told us he wanted to show us someplace cool. I walked over to the bike rack heading over to meet up with my four friends Joe, Jared...
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...perpetually bracing himself against a strong wind. “Straddle-legged” means that the legs are wide apart. This means that Seabiscuit was resting his legs since he was injured he had his legs wide open to rest them up. Page 217 – “Shimmered” – A smile shimmered over smith’s face. “Shimmered” means shine with a soft tremulous light. This means that Smith had a bright smile on his face. 2. Chapter 14: I really like the picture on chapter1 that’s when Howard was driving his Buick race car. this car is an antique and that was his first business which he was really successful at even though he traded his cars with horses he was still successful which is pretty impressing! 3. Chapter 16: Smith was the one that said “but I know my horse” he know something was wrong with Seabiscuit. I had a cat when I was back in Dubai she was only 6 weeks old when we adopted her from her mom, so she would eat or drink at all for couple day so...
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...Pro’s and con’s of organ donation -Theis TEXT 1: We must change the organ donation system – An article written by Denis Campbell, published in The Guardian News. The narrator Denis Campbell stays very neutral to the issue throughout the whole article and he only seems interested in knowing other peoples opinion. As a result of such he interviewed two different persons and had their opinion on the matter. Sir Liam Donaldson, the chief medical officer in England – States that he wants the current system switched in the UK. He, among many people in the UK thinks change is overdue. The current system for organ donation in the UK have an opt-in system that only allows retrieving of organs from citizens who either have a donor card or are signed up in the Organ Donor Register. He would like the whole policy of organ donation to change into what’s known as presumed consent which allows the retrieving of organs from all citizens after their death that haven’t already, before death, refused permission for that to happen. His argument for the system change lies within the massive organs that are wasted. The organs of all the citizens who haven’t got a donor card or are registered for donation will be wasted because they simply didn’t care about organ donation. By changing the system no dead citizen or his/hers family will get upset and organ donation will be possible for a way larger group than now. Natalie Sillince – Explains how the current system forced a very unpleasant and...
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...2, 1942. At age 3 her father “disappeared” and Barrios was forced to take on the role of mother and father. So she chose to relocate with her three children to Chile. This would be the first of many “homes” for Allende. In fact, she moves so much during an interview she stated, “I have been a foreigner all my life” (Sethi). However, the decision to constantly relocate was not always voluntary but rather necessary. For instance, in 1973 when she was contracted by a military coup, that had brought Augusto Pinochet to power, to help people who were on the wanted list escape. This ceased when Allende discovered her name on the list at which point she decided to flee to Venezuela where she held residence for 13 years. Even though some of her travels hold unpleasant memories one that brought her much joy was her trip to California in 1988. Here she met her second husband Willie Gordon. Allende’s first marriage was to Miguel Frias with whom she had two children Paula and Nicolas. Her daughter Paula was actually one of the main characters in a novel Allende wrote titled, Paula. The novel Paula is similar to The House of the Spirits both of which are letters to loved ones. Paula had fallen victim to Porphyria which caused her to slip into a coma from which she never awoke. The letters were...
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...with individuals highly charged and highly emotional, it can be a place of conflict between colleagues. It can be a place of clashing cultures and belief systems where discrimination can happen. Worse, it can be a place where harassment happens due to clash of cultures, competition and personality conflicts where authority and position can be abused to further personal interests. This discussion is going to center on one of these issues, providing a sample case. It will also present motivational and leadership theories that can be utilized to handle said issue. The Case: Workplace Bullying The workplace I am familiar with is a retail store. I have had experience in such a setting as working as a clerk and cashier in certain retail stores in my community has helped me to get started in life, providing me opportunities to learn at work and then study to move myself further in the qualifications and...
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...is written by Elizabeth Cohen. The text is about how people use more time on Facebook than on social activities. Newton has a daughter on 12 years old. Newton cannot help her daughter with the homework, because she spends too much time on Facebook. Another example is Paula Pile, who is a therapist. Paula has three clients with different Facebook issues. That conclude that Facebook leads people from the real world into the network world, because people enjoy more time on Facebook than in real life. Newton checks her Facebook-site many times in a day, for social updates about her friends, she checks Facebook everywhere at work and home. Facebook can give people a wrong understanding of what identity means. Joanna Lipari is psychologist and expert in social network, sees Facebook a kind like the movie “The Truman Show”. Joanna thinks Facebook is like a world without boundaries. 2. An outline of the positive and negative sides of social networking presented in the three texts: In the first text “What is social networking?”, we hear about how social networks has an effect to make it easier to get new online friends over social networks, examples as Facebook, Skype and Twitter. Now a day, we can have difference friends among the world from Denmark to USA and easy learn each other’s traditions, religion, culture and language. Negatives sites of social networks are, that it is easy for hackers and bad people to get into your computer system and give you virus or malware and destroy...
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...Organ Donation 1. ”I’m donating my kidney to a stranger” is an article written by journalist Richard Wilson in 2008. The article is about Paula MacKinnon, who is thought to be the first altruistic organ donor in Scotland. Paula’s mother, Katherine, suffered kidney failure in 2007, and Paula wanted to donate her kidney to her mother. However their blood groups weren’t compatible, so Paula decided to donate her kidney anyway, to whoever might need it. Neither of Paula’s parents was particularly fond of this idea, but Paula is the kind of person, who will help anyone in need. Paula’s husband, Colin, understands why she is donating her kidney. They are both BBC journalists and highly involved in charity. Colin worked on a programme about orphaned children in Ukraine in 2006, and Paula went there to help for three months. 2. The first text, “We must change the organ donation system” by Denis Campbell, describes (as the title implies) how Britain needs an update of their organ donation system. Three people die in Britain every day, due to shortage of organs, so his solution would be to adopt the “presumed content” system, just like many other European countries have done. The presumed content system allows surgeons to retrieve the organs of a dead citizen, unless said citizen has already refused permission for them to do so, or if their family members object. The second text, “The Ethics of Organ Donation by Living Donors” by Robert D. Truog, describes three categories...
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...there who did not have any friends. Then I met Paula Scott, a mom years older than myself who recognized I was desperate to fill a void in my life, and she knew I could help fill a need for our local PTA. Soon, I was eager to work with the organization to meet the goals of helping our local school district. Sure, I helped raise money, but it was not all about the money. Even though the PTA is viewed by many Americans as a fundraiser organization to support the needs of the local school districts helping, I’ve found my time in the PTA just as important to my personal development. I, like so many Americans, viewed the PTA as a Fund raising organization. I have many fond memories of my school days seeing my own mother in the halls of our elementary school on holiday party days, school field trips or just seeing her get dressed up to go attend one of our local PTA meetings. My understanding of what the PTA was implanted from memories of moms holding the monthly meetings, fundraisers or school holiday parties but never seeing behind the scenes of what the back bone of the association provides our schools and families across America. Like parents from generations before me, I joined my local PTA to build friendships in the school district. When my children were of school age, we moved into a small close knit community. As the new young mom in the community, I needed to make a way to establish friends and a local support for group for my family. Outside of my small church family, I was...
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...Mandi Arabbo Elizabeth Natter English 1180 9 October 2014 Work Hard, But Not Too Hard! How do you think society measures “perfection”? Is it measured in cups of coffee or make-up? How about the number on a scale or the reflection we see in the mirror? In a female’s perspective, women become fascinated with everything that is exposed to them; they feel that it is mandatory to follow the “New Trend.” A lot of the females do not understand that the celebrities may say to maintain their nice physique they eat healthy. Yet in reality 95% of them either have gone through plastic surgery or some other procedure that will harm their body severely. They are so concerned on competing and being the best one out there that they forget what their body can and cannot handle. Most of the time the outcome of being over obsessed with their diets, leads to damaging their health and spending money on unnecessary products as well as develop some kind of eating disorder. Tori Spelling, an amazing actress and author reports that she lost 45 pounds after her fourth baby, by simply working out and maintaining a healthy diet. Little did you know she published a book six months later called “Spelling It Like It Is,” confessing that she never worked out a day in her life. She lost 45 pounds the old fashion way by eating nothing but air. Tori later explained in her novel the only reason she lied to her fans and readers was because her publicist gave her strict instructions, to look good in front of...
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...Henry Larsen, the director of engineering, called Gary into his office. Henry Larsen : “Gary, I just heard that Space Technology will be putting out an RFP for Orion Shield by the end of this month with a thirty-day response time. I've been waiting a long time for this to come along so I can experiment with some ideas of my own. This is going to be my baby all the way, and I want you to head up the proposal team. It has to be an engineer. I'll make sure that you get a good proposal manager. If we start working now, we can get close to two months of research in. That'll give us a month's edge on everyone else”. **Gary was pleased to be involved in such an effort. He had no trouble getting functional support for the R&D effort necessary to put together a technical proposal. All of the functional managers continually remarked to Gary "This must be a biggy. The director of engineering has thrown all of his support behind you." On December 2, the RFP was received. Gary identified one trouble area. The technical specifications stated that all components must be able to operate normally and successfully through a temperature range of -65 degrees F to 145 degrees F . Current testing indicated the Scientific Engineering Corporation design would not function above 130 degrees F. An intensive R&D effort was conducted over the next three weeks. Everywhere Gary looked, it appeared that the entire organization was working on his technical proposal. Gary and Henry Larsen met a week...
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...Organ donation 1. Write a summary of “I am donating my kidney to a stranger” (text 3) in about 150 words. The text main character is Paula MacKinnon and lives in Scotland. The text is about MacKinnon and how she had donated a kidney to a stranger, which is called altruistic. Her parents and her friends think that she is being foolish and they are worried about her. She knows that it is just because they care about her and that’s why they are trying to talk her out of it. The only person who is fine with all of this is her husband Colin. After all she is still donating her kidney to a stranger. It all began last year when her mother, Katherine 68-year-old, suffered from kidney failure. MacKinnon wants to donate her kidney but their bloods group was not compatible. So then Mackinnon realised when she could not do it for her mother then she could just as well give her kidney to another who needs it more than her. But even if she is a caring person and will give her kidney to a stranger, she will only do if its not doing any harm to herself. But this operation has minimal risks. 2. Give an outline of the various attitudes to organ donation in text 1, 2 and 3. In Denis Campbell´s article, Campbell focuses on the desperate need of a new organ donation system in Britain. People are dying because of the shortage. Campbell also thinks that UK should adopt the “Presumed consent” system, which always exists in many European countries. Robert D. Truog outlines the ethical...
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...family moved to the United States due to the communist activity that was taking place at the time. I meet Marketa about three years ago through a good friend of my name Paula. Over the past few years I have grown close to Marketa and discovered that she is a wonderful friend to have. I am so glad to have meet Marketa and became friends with her through the help of my dearest friend Paula. I enjoyed watching Marketa taking the test because she was really serious about what she was doing. Ms. Gilyard was a very cooperative interviewee. After completing the interview on Ms. Gilyard I noted that she remembers information more accurately is she observes the behavior being preformed. Among the questions that I asked was how did you learn and develop skills used in prison ministry. Interviewee said that she first observed the minister at her church teaching. She would take notes and observe the audience reaction to the information. Base on what she observed her interest was peaked and she then decided to go to the ministry training class. In the training class she observed other methods of teaching. This is how she developed and enhanced her own teaching style by watching the action being performed I would have to agree with my interview I remember information better when I observe the behavior being performed. I grew up watching my father cook and he did not use recipes. As I begin to cook myself I would recall his techniques. I have often tried to cook by using recipe books...
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...that they have these so called “facebook problems” as Paula Pile refers to them, in the text. She says that facebook itself is not a problem, and that actually it is a good way of sharing your life events with your friends but when you start to loose sleep over facebook or you spend more than an hour on there a day, that is some of the factors of addiction. The text continues to discuss other factors of facebook addictions. b) Text number one talks of how social networking is a way of grouping individuals who enjoy the same interest. This is one thing that the internet is good for, meeting new people who we can share information with and in that way connect over similar interest and ideas. Social networking also give us a chance to talk to people from all over the world. Its an opportunity to discuss new cultures or new languages. However, one must always be careful with the information one shares as there are cases of people who pretends to be someone online who they are not, in real life. We don’t exchange valuable information with strangers we meet in person, we have to trust them first, and that too goes, for the people we meet online. Text number two also believes that facebook is good for interaction with our friends. Threapist, Paula Pile says she even shares photos on her facebook of real life events, for her friends to see. The...
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...10 Things Happy People Do Differently 10 strategies happy people incorporate into their lives Published on October 16, 2012 by Paula Davis-Laack, J.D., M.A.P.P. in Pressure Proof Happiness is having a large, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns How happy are you and why? This is a question I spend a fair amount of time thinking about, not only as it applies to my own levels of happiness, but also as it applies to my family, friends, and the people who I work with. Since graduating with my master’s degree in positive psychology, I’ve worked with and observed thousands of people in a wide variety of settings, and happy people just flow with the groove of life in a unique way. Here is what they do differently: 1) They build a strong social fabric. Happy people stay connected to their families, neighbors, places of worship, and communities. These strong connections act as a buffer to depression and create strong, meaningful connections. The rate of depression has increased dramatically in the last 50-75 years. The World Health Organization predicts that by 2020, depression will be the second leading cause of mortality in the world, impacting nearly one-third of all adults (Murray & Lopez, 1996). While several forces are likely behind this increase, one of the most important factors may be the disconnection from people and their families and communities. Related Articles Choosing the Object of Your Devotion Happiness Depends Upon Close Relations The...
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...to be anonymous and, who is so addicted to Facebook that she can’t manage to help her 12-year old daughter with her homework. Even though she admits to have a problem and realize how pathetic it is, she can’t do anything about it. She has several excuses for spending more then 20 hours a week on Facebook; she runs an online business, and as a single parent she also like to flirt with guys on Facebook. A marriage and family therapist named Paula Pile from North Carolina tells that she has had three clients last Friday with the same problem as the mother we just heard about. There is no statistics and there is neither any medical diagnosis on the subject, Pile has made a “Facebook Compulsion Inventory” for those who want’s to find out if they are addicted to Facebook. Paula Pile uses Facebook herself, and she tells how she enjoys posting her daughters wedding photos on the social network. But the big problem in Facebook-addiction is when the addict begins to prefer the world online rather then the real world, and when users ignore family, friends and work obligations. In the 3. Text, researchers from the University of Southern California...
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