...Essay- 12 Years a Slave Rich to poor. Free to imprisoned. Accepted and now treated like a thing. This was the normal routine of black me, who were kidnapped and sold by white people. The movie 12 Years a slave shows in a real way this horrible situation in this difficult time. When someone told me something about slavery, I could hardly understand and feel how slaves felt back during the 1800s. Slaves were brutally beaten and worked all day long. Slave masters had no mercy with the black. They have beaten them sometimes until they were dead. What students are taught in lessons gives only the view of how slaves were treated. Because of this perspective I felt sorry for them and I felt lucky to be born in this century. I think the whole truth must be seen to understand. Born and raised as a free man, Solomon Northup was robbed of his free papers, and then he was sold into slavery. When Northup was brought into slavery, his first master, William Ford, was a kind master. He spoke only good things and encouraged his slaves to do better. But Ford was just one of thousands who treated his slave like, let’s say in a nice way. There were not many masters like him. He never beat them with a whip or humiliated them in front of their peers. So in comparison to other slave holders he was nice. I think this changes the view of the viewers of what slavery was like during this time. There may have been many slave masters who were brutal to their slaves, but slave masters like Ford changes...
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...assessment of the same qualities in both Sources. Another common weakness is a failure to realise that comparisons are only relevant if they relate to the issue raised in the question. * Sequencing is a major problem. There is a reluctance to select issues and themes from the two Sources and build the comparison around these. Many candidates, often able, prefer paraphrase. Two separate accounts are provided with perhaps a final paragraph making a few belated comparisons. * Not focusing on content is a weakness for many, especially the more able who have been well trained in the consideration of provenance as a means of comparing, and thus focus too exclusively on this single aspect. Comparison of content is the foundation for a good answer and should be carried out with precision. Candidates are inclined to provide a general comparison of the two Sources rather than a...
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...having a good day. If not it will get better. Hello how are you? I hope you are having a good day. If not it will get better. Hello how are you? I hope you are having a good day. If not it will get better. Hello how are you? I hope you are having a good day. If not it will get better. Hello how are you? I hope you are having a good day. If not it will get better. Hello how are you? I hope you are having a good day. If not it will get better. Hello how are you? I hope you are having a good day. If not it will get better. Hello how are you? I hope you are having a good day. If not it will get better. Hello how are you? I hope you are having a good day. If not it will get better. Hello how are you? I hope you are having a good day. If not it will get better. Hello how are you? I hope you are having a good day. If not it will get better. Hello how are you? I hope you are having a good day. If not it will get better. Hello how are you? I hope you are having a good day. If not it will get better. Hello how are you? I hope you are having a good day. If not it will get better. Hello how are you? I hope you are having a good day. If not it will get better. Hello how are you? I hope you are having a good day. If not it will get better. Hello how are you? I hope you are having a good day. If not it will get better. Hello how are you? I hope you are having a good day. If not it will get better. Hello how are you? I hope you are having a good day. If not...
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...Today is the day I have been waiting on. It has been a while since I had a day to myself. Today is that day, a day of peace. My alarm was set for 8; 00 am. The exact time the kid’s bus arrives for pick up and my wife leaves for work as I lay in the bed tossing and turning, I could hear the family scrambling throughout the house. You can hear my wife yelling at the kids to be ready for the bus. Then my alarm rings, ding. Ding…ding….is reached over to shut my alarm off and was greeted by the family at my bed. Good mourning dad we love you was all I heard as the kids darted out the door off to school. It is time to get my day started. As I walk through the bed room door my wife greets me with a kiss as she heads out the door. She turns and says “breakfast is in the microwave sweetie. I replied; ok have a good day as she leaves. I can smell the aroma of the food in the air as I entered the kitchen. As good as the food smelled I need a cup of coffee to start my day. As my coffee brewed I got my self-ready for the day. Since today is a day set for my hobbies, I decided to start it off with coffee and video gaming. I spent about four hours playing play station 3. Now that my gaming was over, it was time for the park. Armed with my camera I headed out to the park for a day with nature. As I was driving to the park I passed a dairy queen, so I decided to add a treat to my day. The park was beautiful, the sun was shining bright and the birds were chirping. I walked through the park capturing...
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...WHAT IS THE BEST WAY to drive innovative work inside organizations? Important clues hide in the stories of world-renowned creators. ItturnS out that ordinary scientists, marketers, programmers, and other unsung knowledge workers, whose jobs require creative productivity every day, have more in common with famous innovators than most managers realize. The workday events that ignite their emotions, fuel their motivation, and trigger their perceptions are fundamentally the same. The Double Helix, James Watson's 1968 memoir about discovering the structure of DNA, describes the roller coaster of emotions he and Francis Crick experienced through the progress and setbacks of the work that eventually earned them the Nobel Prize. After the excitement of their first attempt to build a DNA model, Watson and Crick noticed some serious flaws. According to Watson, "Our first minutes with the models…were not joyous." Later that evening, "a shape began to emerge which brought back our spirits." But when they showed their "breakthrough" to colleagues, they found that their model would not work. Dark days of doubt and ebbing motivation followed. When the duo finally had their bona fide breakthrough, and their colleagues found no fault with it, Watson wrote, "My morale skyrocketed, for I suspected that we now had the answer to the riddle." Watson and Crick were so driven by this success that they practically lived in the lab, trying to complete the work. Throughout these episodes, Watson and...
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...My community service experience In The Beginning I really wasn’t interested in doing community service, I thought it was a waste of time and was going to interfere with my free time. As I started and time passed I realized how good it felt giving back and helping others. I’m always willing to give a hand but once I started to help the people gathering signatures for a community called NICE ,this is responsible of give to undocumented inmigrants rights and fight against fraud to them, and for second project i participed on the new york city marathon ,i was giving water to the runners and puted in order emptys water bottles ,and for last i gave breakfast to the different workers on the street during thanskgiving day , some Images flood my mind as I journey into memories and sad moments I’ve spent with them. Helping the workers and listening to their stories made me realize how blessed I am. Some of these workers people have been through the worst and I felt so ecstatic after helping them. I first started my project in a coorporation called NICE i began on november it was consist in go to differents houses for to know if the people will vote or no . We have to touch the rings tones and also we did a cuestionary . Something funny that happen doing this when i was try to touch one ring come a dog so my friend and me was scared about . For my second time doing community service on the...
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...September 12, 2012 G. Grunow English 131 A State of Trance “Hanady! Hanady! Hey where’s Hanady, she isn’t responding.” “She must be upstairs listening to music.” Music to me is almost like a third language. It not only provides insight but it allows me to feel as if I’m in another world. Music comes in many forms from rap, r&b, rock, pop, and many more but nothing speaks to me more than the power of trance. Trance is a genre of music that alters a mix of electric dance and repeated lyrics and beats. Throughout my school years I managed to have many friends but ones who weren’t really setting me up for a good future. I would do things, such as homework and studies, at my own pace and school wasn’t my first priority. It was fall of 2009, when my cousin Jay, introduced me to the world of trance. I remember that very first song he had me listen to called “On a good day” by Oceanlab. After hearing it several times I almost felt as if I were able to escape from the world I was living and came to realize that it was almost my little piece of heaven. Trance makes me so relaxed and motivated when I listen to it. It was almost like a friend to me because the lyrics that came along with it were more insightful than the words that came out of my friend’s mouths I hung out with. At that point in my life I moved away from friends and moved in a better direction. Sports have been a huge part of my life. I played soccer and volleyball all throughout high school and I remember specifically...
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...Usman Quddus Khan The sun glaring through the window woke me up. I got out of bed and got dressed. I proceeded into the kitchen where I ate cold cereal for breakfast, just like every morning for the past 3 years. It was time to go to work. I stepped outside and walked at a leisurely pace down Malcolm Ave. It was the best time of year for my line of work: the summer when all of the tourists came to New York. I got to the city square, and as usual, the very same cliques were there, and in numbers today. 'It looks to be a very good day,' I thought as I smiled to myself. I saw a white man in his late 30's. Guessed he looked kind of lost. 'Perfect,' I thought to myself. “Time to work.” I calmly and confidently stepped up to the man. "Hello, sir. Can I help you?" "Yes. I am looking for the Malcolm Hotel." "Yes, yes... Oh, okay. Go three blocks down, and take a right. It will be on your left. You can't miss it" "Thank you." "You're welcome. Have a good day sir." I walked away with not only a smile on my face, but with the man's wallet in my pocket. I opened it up to see 48 dollars, a Discover, and a MasterCard. A couple of hours and 4 wallets later, I decided to get lunch. So far, I had acquired 6 credit cards, 726 dollars, and several patent leather, hand-made Italian billfolds. I decided to go to my favourite place a little bistro called daVinci's. They have the best pizza. But then, I saw the man. He was about 6 feet tall, with a dark chocolate complexion. He was actually...
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...I have had in the past, I have however encountered two bosses that were different in their way of leading but both unfortunately didn’t get to the desired results which I will explain in more details. One of my longest job positions I have occupied was at this store called Chou Chou , a boutique for women shoes. The store was a part of a small chain of three other boutiques that my boss himself opened up. My first impression of Mr. Saragosti was that he was nice, friendly and knew what he was doing. However I came to realize through my own and other’s experiences that it was a nightmare to work for him. He was very commanding (coercive) in his style of work and that because he had that drive to achieve a certain amount of sales per day. All he really cared about was money. I’m not trying to discriminate in anyway but knowing he was Jewish, I thought to myself that maybe its normal that money/ profit is the primary source of his interest. I mean it is for everyone who owns a business but to a certain extent. In the case of Saragosti, he took it too far to the point that he wasn’t rational anymore. His actions and behavior were inconsistent and whenever things would go wrong he would blame it on us, the staff. He sort of had this concept that if he’s not around to command us he won’t achieve his numbers, so that could be linked also with the pacesetting type. He made sure first of all to hire all youngster has sales persons so he can direct them, because he thought that if...
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...Job BEEEEP! I rolled over and pressed snooze for about the tenth time that morning because it was summer and sleeping in only seemed mandatory. I felt the warmth of the sun come in through my large bedroom window and make direct contact with my half open eyes. I immediately knew that today was going to be a good day. Just like any other summer morning I woke up around noon, slowly drudged out of bed and walked over to the sink where I would typically fall asleep brushing my teeth. But on this particular day I remember being wide-awake with a ready to go mentality. I quickly brushed my teeth and went downstairs to enjoy some breakfast. One bowl of milk with exactly 3 handfuls of Captain Crunch cereal was a tradition; so I got my bowl and sat down to enjoy the wonderful meal that awaited me. I was enjoying the bowl of cereal and watching House, my favorite television show when I saw a bright little screen light up. I slowly turned my head to look at my phone and saw a text from my friend. It said “Hey you can come by today and interview if you want.” At that moment my day went from being just another summer day to the most important summer day. This was the day that I would be applying for my first real job. I hurriedly unlocked my phone; 0-8-8-0 a password that was meant to take no time to enter did the trick and text awaited me. I replied saying, “Great I’ll come by later today.” At this point a multitude of emotions hit me. First, I felt happy and excited because...
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...Just a few days. In the city of Reno, Nevada, there was a restaurant called, Jimmy’s Ristorante Italiano. The owner, Jimmy, who was usually lonely, even though he had lots of friends, plus the other people who worked at the restaurant, wanted to have somebody who could keep him company. But today was Jimmy’s big day, today some executives were going to come and inspect his restaurant, and if it was up to their standards, Jimmy’s restaurant would be made in several cities. Just a couple of miles away from Jimmy’s Ristorante Italiano, there was a kid named, Timothy, whose parents had left him when he was 5 years old. Timothy was heading into town to see if he could find some food, the food had before entering the city was stolen by some hoodlum, in one of the restaurant’s dumpsters. The first restaurant he searched, 4th St. Bistro, had emptied their dumpsters the day before. The second restaurant he searched, Jimmy’s Ristorante Italiano, had a lot of uneaten food in their dumpster. Timothy was so hungry that he wasted no time getting into the dumpster. After eating some of...
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...Prakriti Khanal Mr. Andrew Young ENG 111 1/24/2014 “Memories play a confusing role. They make me laugh when I remember the time I cried together! But make me cry when I remember the time I laughed together. They too can make me mad but, for sure, no matter what emotion they carry, they all share a place deep in my heart.” Every moment, when I recall them in my mind, they appear to be fresh. I cannot make myself believe that I already passed those times and will never be in the same time again. A chill runs down my spine awaking all my senses till date when I remember them. I especially remember the time when I was able to make my whole family proud of me. That was the time when I saw my own future as I had wished that to be. Every time I think of it, it takes me on a voyage of happy moments. In my whole life; it is uncountable how many happy moments that I’ve gone through since I was small. Happy moments are something that made us very happy and it is unforgettable. It will never be erased out of our mind and we will always remind of it for the rest of our life. It might happen daily, weekly, monthly and even annually but it really happened. It makes us smile to the ears and sometimes it tears us down. I just can’t imagine how it feels if we don’t experienced all those happy moments. I was staring at the stars shining in the sky. The city was dark due to the scheduled power outage. People in city were in their mid-sleep but I was standing...
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...T.Ray used to be very stubborn and would not of taken this much effort to find them.He would just hope for them to come and just sit around and wait.Since he met Callie, things have changed, he has been more positive and motivated to find them; it is really showing the caring side of him. Since Callie is very optimistic , it started to rub off on T.Ray. Then one day, they got a call. They rushed to the phone hoping that it was the police finally responding to them. But, it was Lily. She had called but still has not told him where she was. T.Ray tried not to act so worried because she knew that it was not like him to be worried and caring about her. After she hung up. T.Ray thought that there was no hope to finding her. All of a sudden, a smart thought came to Callie’s...
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...Amabile and Steven J. Kramer SPOTLIGHT ON PRODUCTIVITY WHAT IS THE BEST WAY to drive innovative work inside organizations? Important clues hide in the stories of world-renowned creators. It turns out that ordinary scientists, marketers, programmers, and other unsung knowledge workers, whose jobs require creative productivity every day, have more in common with famous innovators than most managers realize. The workday events that ignite their emotions, fuel their motivation, and trigger their perceptions are fundamentally the same. The Double Helix, James Watson’s 1968 memoir about discovering the structure of DNA, describes the roller coaster of emotions he and Francis Crick experienced through the progress and setbacks of the work that eventually earned them the Nobel Prize. After the excitement of their first attempt to build a DNA model, Watson and Crick noticed some serious flaws. According to Watson, “Our first minutes with the models…were not joyous.” Later that evening, “a shape began to emerge which brought back our spirits.” But when they showed their “breakthrough” to colleagues, they found that their model would not work. Dark days of doubt and ebbing motivation followed. When the duo finally had their bona fide breakthrough, and their colleagues found no fault with it, Watson wrote, “My...
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...myself. That is a disaster waiting to happen. Institutional investors do this all day, every day. There is always hype from certain people concerning this profession, but I believe it’s mostly due to their lack of knowledge in the manner. It’s not fair to criticize something that you don’t completely understand. Institutional investors hold a high advantage when it comes to moving around the architecture of corporate policy. Reason being is because they hold a high ownership of stock (Varma, 2001). Owning this high amount of stock gives them the upper hand. They are capable of voting power, and much more. They also hold somewhat of a position of superiority when it comes to attaining information. This is an additional way that they are of great importance to the business world. They are able to actively oversee and supervise a company’s managers (Varma, 2001). I almost like to view this as a discreet check and balance process for firms. Lastly, one of the most important aspects of the institutional investor’s position is to ensure good business ethics. This brings back the comment I made earlier about the checks and balances process. Institutional investors are obligated to hold a responsibility of their own. Their job has the ability to affect thousands or hundreds of thousands of individuals who have trusted their money with them. It is up to them that they see to it that firms uphold good ethics (Block, Hirt, & Danielsen, 2011). If they were not to hold up to this standard...
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