...economic and social wellbeing than his/her family of origin (Little, D. 2009). The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the similarities and differences between myself, my parents and my grandparents in regard to various stratification variables such as: education, religion, income, occupation, area of residence, consumption patterns, and political participation. What caused the differences, have they changed or influenced my attitudes and behaviors. Last I will explain how these differences change my life from how it was when I was young. Similarities and Differences The similarities between my parents and me are obtaining our high school diploma, attended college, stable job, and always had income. The similarities between my grandparents and me are getting our high school diploma, attend church service, Republican Party and always had income. The differences between my parent and I are we don’t believe in the same religion. I am a Christian and my dad is of a Jewish religion. I live in Jacksonville and my father lives in Kendall, Florida and my mother lives in California. My political participation is with the Republican Party and my parents are with the Democratic Party. The differences between my grandparents and me are they never went to college and I attend college, my grandma only worked at a high...
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...Billy Markowitz One Mistake Can Change So Many Lives The loss of a loved one in someone’s family is the most tragic thing to happen in life. So many lives are changed when someone close dies from a natural death or some other cause such as murder, car accident, or even Mother Nature (I.E. hurricanes, tornadoes, fire, storm, or lightning strike). I know that this is true because my family and I have suffered through the loss of a loved one. Over a year ago, we lost someone very close to us, Andy Markowitz, my father. It is in times like these that the saying, “One Mistake Changes So Many Lives,” is definitely true. On May 16, 2010, we received the worst news we have ever gotten. At approximately 10 PM, my brother’s phone started ringing and Kim, my step-mother’s name was showing up on the phone. When Danny, my brother answered the phone, Kim told him to give the phone to my mom. A few minutes later, we heard my mother scream into the phone, “What do you mean he’s gone?” We never got the chance to ask her what happened because she ran out the door and drove away. While I was staring out the window, my brother turned to me and said, “I think Daddy went to heaven.” Those are words that I will never forget. I didn’t have an answer for him, but I knew that he was probably right. My mother came back home around midnight that night and called us into the living room. I could tell instantly that she had been crying and I knew that it was going to be serious because I have never seen...
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...How Harry Potter Changed My Life Written by: Colin Rhoney English 111 (A2) Ever since I first began to read, books have always been a major influence in my life. My childhood was full of many memories of reading many wonderful books. I remember spending hours upon hours going from shelf to shelf, looking for new books. The library became almost like a treasure hunt, searching every row and every book before discovering just the right book to read. The most exciting part was when I would come across a new book that I could immerse myself into and imagine all the possible adventures I could have. The library became a safe haven, a place where I could escape the outside world and the troubles it brought, and jump into many great books where happy endings are endless. As I grew up, my yearning and passion for books gradually turned into a lost joy. The excitement I got from going to the library was no longer present; the happiness I received from secluding myself from the world in my room, spending hours of time reading, was gone. All to be blamed by one small step in my life: middle school. So when, in ninth grade, a group of classmates longed for me to read a book called Harry Potter, I was a little skeptical and curious as to what it was and why they wanted me to read it. Since my obsession for books was pretty much gone, I was a little hesitant and it took me a while to actually pick up the first book. After long debates and discussions of how fascinating the books were...
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...honorable, but my opinion of would be literacy is totally different than others. I think of literacy as a source, what teaches us to learn how to live and go on. I think this way because when I was very little, I got bullied. I cry every day after I came from school. Then my life responded in the way of Forrest Gump’s quote about, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” One day I took a bite in a type of chocolate that just changed my life and bought a light. I discovered how to read. After that day, the only best friend of mine was booked. I learn to do everything from a book, it taught how to go on also, who to go with? It taught me many things. It taught me the meaning of my life and the power I have, whom I hate and whom I really trust in this big world of unknown. These books really change the view of the world from my distinct. Though the real book to affect my life and change my point of view of the world was wonder and art book. Wonder was one of the first books I ever read. It was about a little boy who had deformed face. No one would play with him because of his deformed face. He was homeschooled, because of his face. The first time he tried to go to school and went to school. He was treated differently, more of like a monster. Whoever he wanted to talk with ran way, he was all alone. Life isn’t always fair to everyone, he would be an example. Through what I love about this book is the time didn’t stay the same all the time. Life changes...
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...Kaffir Boy” by Mark Mathabane, “Two Kinds” by Nicholas Gage, and “The Teacher Who Changed My Life” by Amy Tan all have examples for overcoming expectations. The characters in all these stories make their ways in life by changing the expectations of the world around them, but it is not always in a positive way. “The Kaffir Boy” represents overcoming many expectations, which allows Mark to get somewhere in life. “Your father didn’t go to school” (Mark Mathabane 7). By not attending school, it is hard for even the brightest people to do anything with their life. By going to school, Mark could shatter people’s expectations, proving he would not follow in his father’s path of a life on the streets. “...he doesn’t have money to waste paying for you to get what he calls a useless education” (Mark Mathabane 6). Mark is pressured by his father to not attend school, which is his expectation of his son. Mark breaks that expectation and goes to school. By going to school, the people around Mark expect new things, and they are positive things that will change his life. Nicholas Gage in “The...
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...How has Anne’s life changed my life? Anne’s life has indeed affected mine the way I think, speak, and see the world around me. It’s not exactly that I see different things but instead it is the way I see them. My perspective has changed, I think about situations in a different way. Before I used to think racial violence was just plain stupid but now I think about the races that are fighting each other and why are they fighting. My perspective was changed after reading the Diary of Anne Frank play as well as watching the 2001 movie. Racial violent is of racist but there is always a reason as to why two or more races are fighting. Maybe it’s because they are judging one another because of skin colour or racist stereotypes. Though that is true Hitler killed Jews because he simply hated them there was hardly any reason for him to hate the Jewish race but he just had to blame them for hardly any reason. That is why as well as how he created his army. This is also why my perspective about life changed. Reading the Diary of Anne Frank play was like putting on some magic glasses that changed my perspective....
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...Liberty University BMAL 560 January 25, 2015 STEP 1 To what extent should personal religious beliefs impact our decisions about business ethics? Personal religious beliefs should impact all decisions about business ethics. If your beliefs are truly mandated in your life, then you have no choice but to be fair and honest about your business decisions. Business decisions can sometimes be difficult and harsh, but that is no reason to comprise the integrity of what you believe in. In 2012, Summers & Summers concluded that from the “Christian worldview”, God is the source and creator of all things. This means that God has provided all the resources we need in order for those needs to be satisfied. Our task is to use these resources properly. (pp. 30). Psalms 24:1 tells us “The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters” (NIV). To what extent do your personal religious (or non-religious) beliefs about life impact your sense of business ethics and personal decision-making? The extent of my owm personal religious beliefs about life impacted my sense of business ethics and personal decicion-making. As a new Revenue Agent for the Internal Revenue Service, my on-the-job trainer told me to always assume the taxpayer was a liar. I was not able to do that. I always let the records speak for themselves and I counted on my good and Godly instincts to lead me to the right decisions...
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...The Days That Changed My Life… Amanda Mathis ECPI University The days that changed my life forever were two of the greatest gifts I could have ever imagined! I was preparing myself for months leading up to those days but I had no idea when those days came it would change who I was, or even how I thought. It took a few days after to realize that all of this wasn’t a dream it became reality. I hoped and prayed for these days to come one day. I couldn’t have been more thrilled when they finally arrived. I keep thinking to myself is there anything I need to do better, what I needed to do, how my life will be different and there is no going back. All I could do was breath and enjoy every precious moment God has given me. When all else fails I know these were the days I can look back and always know I had done something right. July 8, 2009 came and what a day this was. This is the day I had my son Kelbyn and I remember this day very well. I woke up at 5 am to get ready and head to the hospital. We finally arrived at 6 am little did I know what I was about to go through. What I did know for sure was I was going to hold my son for the first time in my arms that day. By 8 am they started to induce me and this process wasn’t too pleasant. I was actually in labor for hours and pushed I know for 2 hours. The incredible thing that actually kept me going was getting to actually watch my son be born. Was it the craziest thing I have ever seen or even went through, yes it was by far? Them...
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...Week two Hybrid My childhood wasn’t the best; I grew up in Magna, Utah with six other siblings in a four bedroom home. We didn’t know what love was. My stepmother was too busy with reading her books and playing computer games while my father was always busy working or doing whatever he did essentially never being there for us. My mother passed away when I was very young of cancer. Up until maybe six or seven years old, we were actively going to church each week and happily enjoying each other as a family. I remember being as a kid very friendly and very respecting of my parents. As I grew older that changed, I realized how immoral parents they were. We were treated like it was in the latter day’s society. While they ate steak, sea food or Chinese, we ate mac and cheese. I felt like a red headed step child. As a teenager I leaned a very good skill that still is with me today. Around 14 years old I was bored getting into trouble and into marijuana with my friends. I learned of this job through a friend doing landscaping and mowing lawns. I learned great work ethics working this job for several years all the way through high school. Aalst there was a down fall in having a job through my parents eyes, I had to fend for myself in the means of buying my own food and school cloths. The second part of that was that I had money and didn’t know what to do with it. My parents were to busy to teach me about finance and money. I figured that if I have money, go spend it. I never learned...
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...of Moral Values in Our Life Essay Positive moral values are important because they allow you to have an overall feeling of peace and joy. Moral values can give meaning and purpose to your life. You are able to direct your behavior towards beneficial and fulfilling activities. When you live your life according to moral values that are based on honesty, compassion, courage, modesty, and forgiveness, then you can also form positive bonds with other people. Incorporating the moral value of honesty in your life make you trustworthy. You will have a clear conscience because you can respect yourself. The people that you come into contact with will be able to count on you to be fair and sincere. Your integrity will allow you to advance in both your personal and professional life. There are more opportunities for you to fully experience life when you are an honest person. In addition to honesty, you also need to incorporate the moral value of compassion into your life. Compassion allows you to have sympathy for the misfortunes of other people. It also motivates you to want to give them any type of assistance that you can. Compassion results in your having feelings of mercy towards other people. When you have compassion as a moral value people are more likely to put their trust in you because you will be non-judgmental of their circumstances. Thirdly, the moral value of courage gives you the determination to face anything that impedes your progress through life. You will also be able...
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...going to reveal secrets never heard before and change your perception of life forever. It is amazing how the stories you will hear, happened so far back in the past are applicable for our life today. Host: Hello Gilgamesh and Achilles. You look amazing tonight. How do you feel? Gilgamesh: Great! Achilles: A little old, but good! Host: How do you like the couch? Is it comfortable enough for you? Gilgamesh: Well, my bed in Uruk was much better, but I can survive on that coach for an hour. Achilles: It’s better than sitting on the floor. Host: You are funny! I will ask to be changed next time you come. Ok. Let’s start with the serious part now. Gilgamesh, Achilles, you know that you are the most famous heroes of all time, and all the people around the world who are watching you now have read your stories in the books “The Epic of Gilgamesh” and “Iliad”. Everybody knows what happened in your lives and the descriptions of your journeys. How does it feel to be still known by everybody after more than 2,000 years and be still the greatest heroes ever? Gilgamesh: To be honest, I never expected that my story will live for such a long time, and I really appreciate it. When I see all people’s faces who are watching me now and admire me even more than my people in Uruk, the feeling is just amazing. It cannot be described with words. Achilles: I knew that I was going to be remembered forever, because that was my...
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...Music in my Life Tina Austin Kaplan University 10/16/12 I have a love for music, all types of music. Music has many different effects on me, from happiness to sadness and it can bring me peace or make me feel wildly crazy. Music is really never boring to me. I live my life through music. The song that immediately pops into my mind when I think of my childhood is Belinda Carlisle’s ‘She’s got the Beat’. This song had a fun, upbeat tempo to it and my childhood best friend and I used to dance and sing this song when at recess in elementary school. It brings me back to a time where life was simple, fun and innocent. Even today, 35 years later, my friend and I will talk about those days and laugh at how silly we were thinking that we would be rock stars and that this song was going to be the one that made us famous (even though it was someone else’s song and we couldn’t sing a single note on key). As a teenager, my taste in music changed, as did my environment. In 1984 my family moved to Arizona and I had to start all over. All of my friends, the close community I lived in and along with that, my friends changed too. My music preference changed to rock and roll, or more specifically, heavy metal. Groups like Metallica, Guns N Roses and Motley Crue were some of the bands I listened too. One song that I recall was my favorite then was ‘School’s Out for Summer’ by Alice Cooper. As a teenager, I despised school, so that song made me happy when it would come on the radio in the...
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...years, I have changed a great deal. I’ve moved from Florida, lived in West Virginia for a year and a half, and finally settled in Virginia, where I have spent the last year and a half. The constant moving and drastically differing areas in which I have lived have taught me much about life, such as the joys that can be found, and more pressing, what is important in life. When I lived in Florida, I wasn’t the worst person in the world, but I wasn’t the best person I could be either. On the inside, I was materialistic and cared more about what pop culture deemed “cool” rather than what I thought truly held value, such as being nice to everyone regardless of what they preferred or looked like. I cared more about my “friends” than my family, and remembering it now makes me realize how wrong that was of me. Yes, I listened to my parents and teachers; however, there really is no other way to put how selfish and vain I was. That changed when I moved to West Virginia one month before I turned fifteen....
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...Media has changed an incredible amount over decades and even every year. The media will continue to grow unless people stop using it, which let’s be honest, will never happen. In my life I have seen how the media has grown, changed, and progressed. There were parts of the media that really drew me in as if I was a part of it while other parts did not have any interest on me. At times there were even some median that I did not even know was out there. Culture and media had significant changes from when I was in Preschool, Elementary, Middle School, High School, and now College. What I found interesting as I looked back was not only did the culture and the media change, but what interested me and the media that caught my attention also changed. PRESCHOOL & ELEMENTARY MEDIA In my preschool years I don’t recall the culture and the media having an influence on me, I don’t even recall the media at all. The media to me was my family and my friends. Going to school and putting on school plays and productions. Sports were the biggest culture and media that was affecting me during this time. Whenever Halloween came around if I wasn’t dressed as a professional dirt bike rider or as a professional baseball player then I wasn’t a “cool” kid. I did believe that if I dressed the part then that portrayed who I actually was or could be. When elementary came my feelings changed a bit, but not much. During this point in my life the media still had not been a big influence on my life and the...
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...September 2014 Life Changing Event A lot of things happen to a person in his life. But, it’s not important that it just happen to him. The important thing that what it has changed in his personality. Has it’s changed it to the worse or to the better. In this Essay I will talk About an Event that has made a change in my life. The most impactful thing that happened in my life was changing from one school to another. When I was in the UAE (United Arab Emirates) I changed my school from the Country system to the British system. I needed to change my school, because my old school didn’t provide the British system. My new school was fantastic, we had a lot of activities, and teachers were great it was going good. The thing that made an impact was making new friends. I always had that thought that friends will come to you, you don’t have to search for them. For the next three weeks I was sitting alone still holding on that thought. Till one day, one teacher came to me and told these simple words, “Friends sometimes come alone and sometimes you to search for them”. From that day I was talking with everybody in my class, knowing what they like and what they don’t. Then I started to choose the ones that were suitable to me. In two weeks I found that I made a lot of friends than the ones I had in my old school. This event has let me learn to be opened minded and accept all kinds of people. In my opinion, this event has changed me to the good...
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