...In today’s society one problem that many have is the ability to overcome obstacles. This is not something that has just been introduced in the modern day. It has been prevalent in the lives of many for hundreds of years. It is only a part of life. As time evolves the ability to triumph over good or evil is the difference between those that sit at the bottom, and those that rise to the top. As in this medieval period, overcoming certain obstacles has been part of the human life cycle and is still present in the modern day. The Medieval period in which Hamlet took place demonstrates one character trying to overcome not only one obstacle, but many. Major conflict arises even at the beginning of the play. Although Hamlet has no control of what goes on between Gertrude and Claudius, in his mind a solution must ascend. After the cruel overtaking of power by Claudius, Prince Hamlet must find a way in order to avenge his father’s death. The truth has been exposed by a ghost resembling King Hamlet. Now it is time for him to strategize in order to find which solution is the best. Killing him would do the trick, but is that the answer? Some options arise in the famous “To be or not to be” soliloquy. “Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them. (Shakespeare, Hamlet)” Prince Hamlet really struggles in this situation on his next move. As much as he wants to avenge his father’s...
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...Task 4: Overcoming barriers to communication The four key barriers to communication are process barriers, personal barriers, physical barriers, and semantic barriers. As an effective manager, I will have to overcome these barriers. The first barrier that I would have to overcome is the process barrier. 1). Process barriers: The process of communication involves a sender of information and a receiver of information. Communication can be defined as the process of transmitting information and common understanding from one person to another. There has to be a common understanding in the exchange of information. This is called the process of communication. The process of communication can break down. Every step of the communication process is necessary for effective and good communication . Any step that is blocked in the process can be a barrier. The way to overcome the process barrier is to make sure that all phases of the communication process are being used effectively from the sender to the encoder, from the encoder to the decoder, and from the decoder to the receiver. The language that is being spoken must be able to be understood. That is the bottom line in overcoming the process barriers to communication. Clarity, purpose, and proper planning are important to overcoming process barriers in communication. The end of this process is for the receiver to respond or react to the sender. This is called feedback. The kind of feedback that is given will be...
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...1 Dagmar D’Agostino ENG4U July 19th, 2016 Overcoming Racism My ISU is focussed on the theme of racism. I have selected the poem “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou to provide perspective and insight to my chosen topic. Maya Angelou is an African American poet digging deep into not only the pain racism has caused during the days of slavery, but her own experiences with modern forms. This poem supports my chosen thesis sending a strong message to the hearer or reader with the authors use of tone, poetic devices, and distinct theme to convey overcoming racism. Maya Angelou has effectively provided several different tones which all tie together to contribute to the triumphant title and meaning of the poem. The first three lines begin the poem with disgust in the poor teaching of the history of race inequality. “You may write me down in history, with your bitter twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt” (1-3) describes Angelou’s frustration with the lack of truth history books hold about the subject of racism which she has experienced for her very own. However, she closes the stanza with “but still, like dust, I’ll rise” (4) to display strength despite her frustration. Angelou expresses a great amount of confidence and self assurance in her voice as she questions others confusion by her confidence. For example, stanza two reads: “Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room.” (5-8)...
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...be a negative person. I might of not meet the people I met and I am very grateful for the friends I made when I moved. I remember when I was in fourth grade my family decided we were gonna move from the bay area to Modesto. I felt really upset and did not want to move because it meant I would have to leave all my friends, that I had been friends with since kindergarten or 1st grade. It would also mean that I would have to make new friends and get used to a new school. This terrified me and I really was not ready for the change. I tried to keep a positive mind and not as a bad situation. When I started school here, I was surprised by the kids because they were all very nice to me and they made me feel welcomed. One lesson I learned from overcoming that obstacle is that sometimes situations will turn out differently and maybe even better from what you imagined. I also learned that sometimes you need to get out of your comfort zone and just go for it. Another element I learned was that you should not judge people or assume anything before it happens. Overall, I learned that you should think positively and not in a negative way. You never know what is to come your way and it might surprise you at the end of the day. I learned a lot of lessons from that obstacle and because of that I look at problems differently now. I think these are some very important lessons and although it seemed difficult at the moment to overcome. In the end, I was glad that at did because I learned many lessons...
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...Colleen Alhabbal ID: 900850740 English 2132 (online) Professor: Mr. Lee Jones Georgia Perimeter College Online June 6, 2006 Overcoming Ourselves The goal of feminist literature is to secure equality for women socially, economically, and politically. Some writers do this by depicting women in subordinate positions to men and how their struggle for equality results in detrimental consequences. However, some feminist writers achieve the promotion of women’s rights for equality through the depiction of the innate power that already exists in every woman. Two such successful feminist authors of 19th century literature are Emily Dickinson and Kate Chopin. Although both have extensive works to choose from, focusing on one example of each writer will provide a precise and clear proof of their ability to empower the women of their time to break through society’s mental barriers by shocking their sensibilities with scandalous models of free thought. Emily Dickinson’s 1862 poem, ‘The Soul Selects Her Society,’ places women as having power over men, certainly not indicative of the 19th century patriarchal society. The ‘Soul’ is definitely feminine in this work and yet Dickinson has attributed characteristics to the ‘Soul’ that at the time are considered masculine. This feminine ‘Soul’ is steady, “Like stone,” commanding, “select(ing) her own Society,” imposing, “Unmoved — an Emperor be kneeling Upon her Mat” and decisive, “Then — close the Valves of her attention.” The male in this...
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...HOW I OVERCAME DEPRESSION I was born and raised in Indonesia, within a close knit family. Growing up, I was very close to my family even though life was difficult because of the economic situation in Singapore. Still we made do for a very long time. From a very young age my parents had high expectations of me and this put a lot of pressure on me to always be the best I can be. I started working at age 11 for my mother’s company while I was still in school. After I finished school, I got a job with a radio station in Indonesia that was lovely and exciting but I needed to do more. I had the opportunity to move to the United States to attend community college and therefore I took it. I felt very lucky for this, moving away from the pressures of home I felt was all I needed. I had started feeling lowly and unhappy at the age of eighteen, so I felt moving away was a perfect way to start over a new and wonderful life. When I got to California, I was excited and felt overjoyed. The first few weeks were exhilarating and I completely forgot my sadness. I was so involved in finding a job, starting school and everything was perfect. I liked the view from the apartment I got, and every day I would sit and stare out the window wondering how I got to be that lucky. Then slowly at first, my thoughts as I stared out of the window all had guilty undertones, I was mad and questioned myself on why I had felt happy leaving my only family behind. So I stopped going to the window, but the thoughts...
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...Raveena Bhogal 68533 0011 Justify ways of overcoming difficulties that may arise when implementing anti-discriminatory practices in health and social care settings. Anti-discrimination is promoted when dealing with conflict as it stops individuals from discriminating against others. Dealing with conflict correctly is needed in health and social care settings to promote anti-discriminatory behaviour as aggression and tension can build up between the service users or staff. It is important for a health and social care professional to be trained to deal with conflict correctly so that the service users don’t become stressed or feel unvalued. If the conflict is dealt with professionally and positively then discrimination will not take place, therefore this promotes anti-discrimination by ensuring that no individuals feel discriminated against. All of the service users or staff members are treated equally, they are treated the way they want and need to be. On the other hand, difficulties may arise if the conflict is not dealt with in the correct manner. If a member of staff was to treat one service user better than another, then this will cause a larger conflict and will make the situation become very negative. For example, if a two service users wanted to watch two different TV programs that were showing at the same time then a member of staff should be trained to deal with this type of situation. The professional should treat the service users equally; they should say to the...
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...a result, my father had realized what type of person he had become; in addition, he became the humble man he one was. When he adjusted his venture once again, he changed the name to my grandmother’s name in her honor, and he never made anyone who had less than him feel bad about themselves. In fact, he gave to those in need. As you can see, the obstacle of not having money or economic stability had made my father a humble person. All in all, any hindrance or disadvantage can be turned into something positive in the long run. Hence, I learned to become an independent person, and I recognized to appreciate what you have because you never know when it’ll be gone. Also, my father learned how to be the caring and humble person he is by overcoming the challenging obstacles that got in his way...
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...This essay will be about overcoming obstacles in your life. Life brings a lot of obstacles that gives adults trouble. I will talk about one of the obstacles that adults struggle with, that is emotional stress. Emotional stress is a very difficult obstacle to get over. You get to doubting yourself to the point where your mind don’t think straight so, you will not be able to do your work correctly. To get your mind on track you will have to start thinking positive thoughts and telling yourself that you can do what you set your mind to do. If you keep having negative thoughts you will end up failing everything you do. If you keep positive thoughts you will have a better outcome on your tasks. So, whatever you do in your life just remember to...
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...Overcoming Procrastination Edwin Scott GEN/200 02/15/2011 Dawn Ducoty . Who is a procrastinator? In a perfect world, just about everyone at some point in their life has been or will be a procrastinator. As a whole we put things off for several reasons. Some of them are because we just don’t want to do it, think or assume that we don’t have the time to do it or we just don’t like doing it. It’s a part of being human and the purpose of this paper we will try and determine what we can do to overcome being procrastinators. What exactly is procrastination? Don Marquis, an American writer, poet and playwright said, “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday”. You can find this quote at thinkexists.com. I like to think he was saying that we have a tendency of thinking that we have lots of time before something is due. According to “Webster’s college dictionary”, it is to put off taking action, to postpone or delay something that has to be done. This can be very detrimental to one’s private and daily life as long as with their professional settings also. The outline of procrastination can be started in many different manners. We will examine the actions of why one procrastinate, and come up with a course of action to prevent, minimize, or correct the art of procrastination. We will do in a series of steps. Chapters 2-4 of Jane B. Burka and Lenora M. Yuen’s Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About. Reading, MA; Addison- Wesley Publishing Company...
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...of anything in the whole world? Fortunately, the habit of courage can be learned, just as any other skill is learned. To do so, we need to go to work systematically to diminish and eradicate our fears, while simultaneously building the kind of courage that will enable us to deal fearlessly with the inevitable ups and downs of life. Syndicated columnist Ann Landers wrote, "If I were asked to give what I considered the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.' " This is the kind of attitude that leads to victory. The starting point in overcoming fear and developing courage is to look at the factors that predispose us toward fear. The root source of fear is childhood conditioning that caused us to experience two types of fear: the fear of failure, which causes us to think, I can't, I can't, I can't; and the fear of rejection, which causes us to think, I have to, I have to, I have to. Based on those fears, we become preoccupied with the idea of losing our money, our time, our emotional investment in a relationship. We become hypersensitive to the opinions and possible criticisms of...
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...Overcoming Obstacle One of the most challenging obstacles I have had to overcome was learning a second language. To be successful I established two specific few goals to help guide me in the right direction. First, and I feel the most important goal, was to speak the language at all times. The second goal I made was to read the language whenever possible. Speaking the language was the most important goal to me because the act of speaking words helped ingrain those words and their definitions into memory. I always carried a dictionary/translator with me so I could look up words I did not know. In the beginning, not having a proper core knowledge of the language made this goal extremely difficult. As time progressed, however, I realized that it was becoming easier and easier to not only speak, but I required less time to think of what I was trying to say. Reading the language was another important goal to help me learn a second language. Reading the language was very helpful for increasing my vocabulary. I would always read out loud while working on this goal, which in turn also helped me achieve the first goal, as well. As I did with speaking the language, I kept a dictionary close by as to look up the words I did not know. Again as time went on, I noticed that the frequency of having to look up words began to decrease. Having to learn a second language is a difficult task to accomplish. The setting of goals was crucial to the success of my accomplishment...
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...Answers to Seminar activities Week 13 and 14: 1. Describe the specific type of consumer that the Coca-Cola Company is targeting with each of the following products: Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Diet Coke Plus, Coca-Cola Blak, and Full Throttle Blue Demon. What types of demographic segmentation is each product’s marketing most likely to include? The Coca-Cola Company segments markets for its products on the basis of demographic information related to customers’ buying and consuming behavior. Common bases of demographic segmentation are age, gender, income, ethnic background, and family life cycle. DIET COKE: Women who want to lose weight. (Gender segmentation.) COKE ZERO: Men, 18 to 34, who don’t want the sugar and calories in regular soda but don’t like the taste of artificial sweetener. They consider Diet Coke a “girl’s drink” and themselves too cool to be seen drinking it. (Gender and age segmentation.) DIET COKE PLUS: Women who want to lose weight and are concerned about health and nutrition. (Gender segmentation.) COCA-COLA BLAK: Older consumers with more sophisticated tastes that are willing to pay a little more. (Age and income segmentation.) FULL THROTTLE BLUE DEMON: Young Hispanic men. (Age, gender, and ethnic segmentation.) 2. Some industry analysts think soft-drink companies should develop products that will bring new customers into the market rather than just creating variants on the old. They warn that products like Coke Zero will cannibalize lost market share...
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...In my life, there have been many situations where I had to overcome obstacles and determine what is the right thing to do. Recently there was a dilemma where I had to assess the situation and figure out what I wanted to do to overcome the obstacle standing in front of me. It is especially hard to do the right thing when you're torn between what write and wrong. Deciding what I needed to do wasn't easy but eventually, I chose the right path to take and everything worked out. I have played Lacrosse at Lakeland High school for three years now. This year the schools zoning changed. In the past, I was zoned for Lakeland, because Mckeel doesn't have a lacrosse team I was able to play for the school I was zoned for. However, now I am zoned for Kathleen....
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...Everyone is capable of doing great things. The biggest obstacle preventing them from doing so is often themselves. I know I have the potential and skills to go above and beyond, and meet everyone’s expectations. However, even with all this possibility, I still am restricted, grounded by my own laziness and lack of motivation. Doomed with the same fate as Tantalus, desperately grasping at my hopes and dreams, but it always being just out of my reach. So for me, my problem, like many others, is that I find that I never moving outside my comforting box of security, or pushing myself to do more than just the minimum effort of activities. My goal then, is to break this looming curse, and become a more confident and outgoing person. The significance...
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