...fond an obsessive relationship to a paticular bench in a park and she do not like to share it with others but one day she meets another young woman at the bench. The main character finds out that this woman is not able to get pregnant and she desides to give her baby to her when she has given birth, but she ends up keeping her daughter. This meeting might have been destiny, even though destiny is not something she believes in. The main character suffers from really bad selfesteem. This reflects in statements like ”I'm bad news. I hang around in pubs after work. I'm not going to amount to anything. It's not like I'm going to find a decent bloke and get married”[1]. She sees herself as a giving person who would share at any time. In the text it says”It's not that i don't like sharing. I'd give anyone the shirt off my back, or the food off my plate ... i just like to be consulted first”[2]. It is true that she does not mind sharing material things but this statement testifies she cannot share her bench with random people, because it feels like having her personal spfere invaded and she will not share intimacy. She likes to think of that bench as ”my bench”[3]. The bench is personified in her own description of it - it gives her the feeling like someone is waiting for her and it is mentioned that the bench is like a cousin who don not mind being left stuck with her[4]. People with a healthy, functional social life do not need a bench to have make them feel like someone is...
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...5% average CHD risk and the low risk is 3%. Ok so according to this I’m doing ok just need to adjust my diet to get it to that 5% range or lower. Chapter 10 Thinking About Chronic Illness 1. I would only be thinking about how do I tell my daughter 2. Me being the person that I am, I would do my best to make the student feel very comfortable in the “new” her, by first giving pleasantries to her and tell her how good it is see her back and give her well wishes in this tough Health 101 class . I would be doing this while giving those that I overheard direct eye contact letting them know my distaste with their comments 3. I would have a family meeting and let them know my situation and explain that life as ordinary is going to change and that I am going to need to lean on their strength as we as a unit get through this difficult time and I need their patience and understanding as I put all my focus and concentration on my well-being. 4. Being that I’m very active and have loads of energy, I would probably accept the fact that it’s no longer a secret, embrace my walker by naming her BECKY and get movin’ on with LIFE 5. I would keep in touch with family and friends through text messaging and emails and social media sites to stay abreast on what’s going on in the world. I would inquire with different agencies for the blind and disabled to find out what services offer for my condition such as a companion pet, and mobile services such as...
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...XXXX Sociology 101 XXXXXX How I Handle Role Conflicts and Role Strains Life has never been easy since my family and I moved here from the Philippines. I practically left my very easy and comfortable life there. Before, I'm just a plain college student, asking my allowance from mom, dropped off to school by dad and my brother even helped me with my school works. But everything changed when we lived here. I need to stop schooling and to sustain our everyday living; all of us need to work. With that situation, I don’t get to see them a lot often because we don’t have the same days off. I’m always left alone at home when they’re at work and at the early age of 18, I’ve already learned to be independent. I’m a working student and the roles I portray are difficult. They may be stressful and have conflict sometimes but I’m making ways to make it all easy for me. I work at a Filipino fast food 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. I need to wake up at 5:00AM just to be ready for work. It’s always busy at the store and it makes me very tired when I get off. But I still need to prepare for school. I need to do my home works for my two evening class. I really need to cope up with all of those school works because I don’t want to fail any of my classes. To tell you honestly, being a working student is such a strain for me and most of the people who are sharing the same situation as mine. Actually, before I entered school, I’ve already asked one of my coworkers to give me a tip on how to...
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...Spiritual Paper I have a better comprehension and appreciation of the Hispanic and Latino culture, after reading the material this week. This culture has their way of communicating with one another. Within the Hispanic and Latino cultures we repeatedly see magic, religion, faith and tradition play big parts in their lives. In this essay, I will discuss four of the stories that I feel show how these elements play a part in their day to day lives. I have chosen four pieces, “Curving Woman,” by Alejandro Morales, “Seven Long Times,” by Piri Thomas, “Tales Told under the Mango Tree, “ by Judith Ortiz Cofer and last but not least, “The Kite,” by Ed Vega. Religion, Faith, Tradition, and Magic As I stated the Hispanic and Latino cultures rely on religion, faith, traditions and magic. I saw this in the writing, “The Curing Woman” by Alejandro Morales. This story is about Mr.Benidorm, the man of the house, impregnated a servant, and had a daughter. Once the servant's time had been served, she requested to take her daughter, Marcelina, with her. Mrs.Benidorm refused the Marcelina to go with her mother. “She had grown to love Marcelina and besides, the child was a reminder to her husband of his sins of infidelity.” (Morales, 1986). This nine-year-old girl spent the next four years with Mr. and Mrs. Benidorm and never seeing her mother during this time. Then at thirteen years old Marcelina saw her mother again. Marcelina’s mother taught her daughter who to heals the...
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...Brooks English 101, Section 02 June 17th, 2014 “Personal Literacy Autobiography” (Edited for a better grade, fixing all grammar you edited) I know the definition of a literate person is being able to read and write. If that’s what we are really writing about here, that would be rather boring. You would be reading autobiography after autobiography about how students learned to read and write in Kindergarten or pre-school. Clearly that is not what you are looking for. I have learned over years of writing classes, literacy is so much more than being able to read and write. Being literate also involves being able to write down every thought and feeling, in hopes to perhaps give the reader chills. They feel so into it like it is their own thought or their own feeling. Also, being a strong literate person, to me, is going into a horrible situation and coming out 10 times stronger and more motivated. Personally, I do not really have a list of individuals that made a big enough significance in my life to change it. Well, no one except my daughter. I believe my Daughter, Sophia, made me a more literate person. Having her was a huge, meaningful event that shaped me into who I am today. It all started summer of 2012. I had just graduated high school that June. I knew I had to go to college, but wasn’t really that into it. I just knew that it had to happen because my mom and grandma had always said I had to go to college to get anywhere in life. The summer I graduated I didn’t really...
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...Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Throughout this work, I discuss how ASD can cause significant social, communication, and behavior challenges. I identify many signs and symptoms to look for as children are growing. I share research on an investigation into a tilt test and also a study on siblings that are at high and low risk for ASD. My own personal experience as the mother of a child diagnosed with ASD and early childhood educator is discussed in great length. Awareness of the symptoms, special tests, and typical development are mentioned so that a child with ASD can be diagnosed early and receive services to support their learning and success throughout life. Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Tests, Signs, and Symptoms That Aid in Early Intervention Introduction Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a subject close to my heart. My oldest daughter was diagnosed several years ago at about nine years old. She was extremely high functioning with above average language skills throughout her early childhood. Her speech was quite formal for a young child, but this really made her sound intelligent. Having strong language skills made it more difficult to see the delayed social conventions. As a young child, my daughter had difficulty listening to others and allowing for the give and take nature of a conversation. She sometimes had wandering eyes when others spoke to her as well. My daughter had difficulty developing relationships with her peers...
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...K Mrs. G ENG2D1 6 January 2015 To Kill a Mockingbird: A Excellent Adaptation To Kill a Mockingbird, according to many people is one of the finest books written in modern American Literature, which spreads the honorable message of racial injustice in the 1930’s in an informative and creative way. By showing a family known as “the Finches” experience and face the trials of living in a small Alabaman Town called Maycomb. The book itself was written by Harper Lee, a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist. When the novel was turned to a movie, there were many challenges that the director had to face while turning this classic novel into life. The director Robert Mulligan had to make sure the movie itself is an excellent adaptation of the book within the restrictions of creating a movie such as time limit, audience restrictions, money, and making sure to not replicate the entire book. This is why a book is better in an aspect as there are not as many restrictions to when creating a book compared to a movie. The film and the novel itself has many similarities and differences, however it is upon whether or not the film is a successful adaptation and portrays the theme of racial injustice. This film is a reasonable adaptation as it demonstrates the message of the film using the same context as the book and brings the characters to life in a creative way. There is great screenplay and dialogue amongst the characters which allows the audience to understand the movie thoroughly. However...
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...O’Sullivan English 101-207 2/5/2014 Andy the Great In 2009, I moved to the wild and wonderful state of West Virginia. My family welcomed me with open arms. Over the four years I lived in Charleston, I began to view my step-father, Andy as a father figure. We spent the summers four-wheeling with friends and family, fishing and creating fond memories. He may have not been my biological father, but he was the next best thing. In the early hours of October 27, 2013, I woke up to a text message that seemed odd. My little sister wrote, “Andy has been in an accident. We’re at the hospital. Please call.” I was in shock! In fact, I was astonished by the horrid news. I called my sister right after the doctor pronounced Andy dead. I immediately began sulking in my pillow. I thought, “Why? How could this have happened?” I couldn’t process this information fast enough. I was completely traumatized. Andy was gone in a blink of an eye because he made the choice to not wear his seatbelt. I attempted to lie back down, but every memory of us kept running through my head. I especially remember the time in which Andy attempted to jump on the trampoline with my sister and I. He jumped too hard, he nearly touched the ground as he came back down. I also thought about how my mom was going to deal with this as she was recently diagnosed with lymph node cancer. Thoughts continued to trickle through my mind until I drifted into sleep. The next morning I started my drive back to...
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...defend a black person due to race. By taking this case, Atticus potentially puts his family in danger because of a careless man named Bob Ewell who is out to get Atticus and his family because he thinks the colored man, Tom Robinson, raped his daughter Mayella. Even though Atticus knows he won’t win this case, he still tries, and that shows how he has integrity. This is how it makes...
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...TAL 101 Sep 28, 2012 Reflect on Noddings’s Care Basically, Nel Noddings poses a disagreement on the liberal education of how schools provided a dangerous model of education with standardization on fulfill the text materials on achieving its academic levels. Apart from academic standards in school curricula, she strongly encourage that education should be mainly focus on “growth of competent, caring, loving, and lovable people”, in her words, which are more suitable for today’s schools in 21 century. It was very impressive that at the first part of the article, Nel Noddings raise a question of “What do children need for education”, follow on the national answer of children need more on the “academic training” which will benefits for both satisfying countries’ needs and safe them from “poverty, crime, and other evils of current society”. Ironically, this is my third college year and I forgot most of what I have learned from my mathematics and sciences teachers, of course, I have no contribution to the society, and my country doesn’t has a strong need on me. Moreover, I am not in that kind of poverty which needs someone to save me from an impoverished situation, I did no crime, and not that evil to the society except sometimes I do not pay quarters for parking. With Nel Noddings idea, she against an ideology of “control that forces all students to study a particular, narrowly prescribed curriculum devoid of content they might really care about”. Her words go deeply into my...
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...Not long ago, a young lad was standing in the dead centre of nowhere. He was scrambling to see anything. After a while, everything went colourful , but soon after he heard breathing. He started wondering what and where it was coming from? When things became 101% clear, he saw in the corner of his eye a shadow of a beast that was coming close. Suddenly, something made him frolic with fear, he aimed to make a run for the closest civilisation he could find but he went numb with fear. The breath of the beast was so strong, the man could smell it from a distance. As the mysterious figure came from the shadow, It turned out it was a legendary beast known as a Griffin. But as the man was glancing at it, the man noticed something that made him swallow with disgust, in its mouth was a big, brown free range chicken. The man was so disgusted about how that Griffin gobbled that chicken up so fast he didn’t notice anything irregular going on in the backdrop. But then he did notice something going on, when he heard it, he could tell it was coming up closer by the second, the man started thinking he was back at his childhood farm and that his old horse was standing before him. “ I must be dreaming” the man wondered to himself “My horse died a long time ago and I’m pretty sure that Griffins weren’t around at that time?” but a that time, he realised that the horse standing before him, in fact, wasn’t a horse. As he took a better look at it, he thought of a creature it could be, but then hesitated...
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...English 101 Professor Ramshaw October 3, 2011 The Absence And The Crave That Eats Gilbert Grape Alive In the film What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, the main character Gilbert takes on the “Father Role” to support his family economically and financially. The fact Gilbert is the man of the house causes him to repress his anger. His sorrow begins to strengthen his rage in a very unhealthy manner. The melancholy that leads to Gilberts weakening has its roots in his family which is what begins to eat Gilbert alive. All his family members play important individual roles in finding out what’s eating Gilbert Grape. In the film, Amy, being the eldest sibling and daughter of the Grapes, plays the “Mother Role” having to take care of the household. “My older sister Amy is more like a mother”, explains Gilbert, making him portray the “Father Figure”; as he states, “My father built this house, and it’s my job to do the repairs.” Amy being the voice of reason tries her best to keep the family together, which causes Gilbert to repress his feelings the more Amy tells him “he has to do better”. In the scene when Gilbert leaves Arnie in the bathtub overnight, causes a fright to the family; which is when Amy begins to tell him, “You gotta do better” because without his help the family will fall apart quickly. This builds up Gilbert’s emotion because he knows just as Amy he has an important role in the family to fill in. Ellen, the youngest of the siblings, concentrates on appearances...
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...English 101 March 11, 2014 Have you ever been in true love, a love so deep that you would give your life for someone else to experience it? “The Nightingale and the Rose” by Oscar Wilde tells of just such a love. The short story is set in Europe around the late 1700’s to early 1800’s. Published in 1888, this short story is timeless. It is a tale of true selfless love and love unrequited. This story keeps the reader enthralled with the use of characters, point of view, and theme that are intended to play your heartstrings. The Student is one of the main characters. He is a romantic figure. ‘“She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,’ cried the young Student; ‘but in all my garden there is no red rose”’ (Wilde, 1888, para. 1). His heart belongs to a professor’s daughter, who has said she would dance with him if he brought her red roses. ‘“The Prince gives a ball to-morrow night,’ murmured the young Student, and my love will be of the company. If I bring her a red rose she will dance with me till dawn”’ (para. 5). The Nightingale is the other main character. She is in awe of the love the Student feels for a girl. ‘“Here indeed is the true lover,’ said the Nightingale. ‘What I sing of, he suffers- what is joy to me, to him is pain. Surely, Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds and dearer than fine opals”’ (para. 6). The nightingale searches for a red rose in the garden, being turned away at each stop. “’One red rose is all I want...
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...JUZ JEMS -JUZ 7 Surah Mai’dah 83- Surah Al-Anam 110 We left off yesterday with Allah extensively discussing the other people of the scriptures particulary the Jews and the Chistians, and what they did to what they were revealed as well as their mistakes. As we move onto this juz, Allah is discuss how the Christians will be closer to us and nearer to us than the Jews and Allah explains how its because amongst them are certain priests and monks that aren’t arrogant. And because they are not arrogant, when they see the truth, they recognize it and believe in it. SubhanAllah look how Allah links arrogance with disbelief- how the reason why they are able to see the truth is because they are not arrogant. Arrogance is such a disease, believing the that you’re everything, “you”, “you” and more “you” is a disaster that Allah links to disbelief. The rest of this surah parimarily deals with laws for the Muslims. So previous people of scripture are discussed, now Allah focuses on us and gives us rules regarding oaths, Allah explains to us how intoxicants and gambling are works of shaitan which avert us the remembrance of Allah, Allah speaks more about what is lawful in terms of food, and hunting and game, and about testimonies. And what is really interesting how Allah several times repeats that “There is not upon those who believe and do righteousness [any] blame concerning what they have eaten [in the past] if they [now] fear Allah and believe and do righteous deeds, and then fear Allah...
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...The heading “Pawns, Puppets, and Scapegoat”, encompasses the gist of the book. Especially on page 101 where mature and enlightened students were quoted about what they understood about all the uprising or the cause they are fighting for. The ninth grader Jaime Diaz message was simple and direct. It helped me understand clearly of what the title of the book is all about. In the beginning as I read, I was confused because of all the complex details, but when I reached page 101 and read what he said and the other children’s comments, I could fathom the cause of Mexican-Americans uprising. They were fighting for school integration during those unfair and difficult times for minority groups, especially the Mexicans of origin. Another part I like was the awareness of the Mexican-Americans about the cunning ways the school boards did to segregate the children. Interestingly, because they thought this minority group is intellectually inferior. 7. Does the book reflect ideas that we have learned in class? • The book reflects several ideas that we have learned in class such as the video that was shown in class about the student walkouts led by Sal Castro. In addition...
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