...In “I thought it was just me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of a Shame”. Brene Brown uses strategically planted rhetorical devices to influence the reader’s reaction to women reclaiming their ability to be courageous. Social injustice was even harder to try to put to an end for a women like Harriet Tubman, but the world has slightly improved on social injustice. Social injustice is unfair, everyone deserves to be treated with privacy and respect. The three most common ones are Discrimination, Homophobia, and Ageism. There are plenty examples of social injustice in the world today, although, there has been some trials to stop it in the past. Tubman did her best to fight against racial discrimination. Harriet Tubman was the beginning leverage for the success of the African Culture. For over 200 years, African Americans have had to fight with their pride. Many people have died, but the chain on the African culture hasn’t. Blacks still have to fight daily to stop racial discrimination upon them. Why is this? Why is the African American culture still at oppression? Studies show that police are more likely to pull over and frisk blacks than whites. For African Americans, every day is a day of social injustice. Recently, many blacks have been shot and killed by policemen based on the color of their skin....
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...Say Never and thought in Kanye West’s Can’t Tell Me Nothing using approaches developed by G.N. Leech, M.H. Short and S. Rimmon-Kenan. I will use the aspects of Leech and Short’s essay ‘Speech and Thought Presentation’ that I consider to be constructive and compensate the shortcomings of their essay with the improvements – in my view – made in Rimmon-Kenan’s essay. Also, since Rimmon-Kenan’s essay ‘Narration: speech representation’ does not include an account of thought representation, I will convert his distinctions of speech representation. Thus “diegetic summary” (DS) will be “diegetic thought summary” (DTS); “Summary, less ‘purely’ diegetic” will be “Thought Summary, purely diegetic” (TS); “Indirect content paraphrase”(ICP) will be “Indirect thought content paraphrase” (ITC); “Indirect discourse, mimetic to some degree”(ID) will be “ Indirect thought, mimetic to some degree” (IT): “Free indirect discourse” (FID) will be “Free indirect thought” (FIT); “Direct discourse” (DD) will Be “Direct thought” (DT) and “Free direct discourse”(FDD) will be “Free Direct thought” (FDT). ITC, FIT, DT and FDT correspond with Leech and Short’s distinctions (in definition and symbol, except for ITC which correspond with their IT). I will give examples of DTS, TS and ITS: DTS: The bare report of a thought, without any specification of how the thinker felt or the language the thinker used to think. E.g., ‘He wondered about her love for him’ TS: Summary which represents thought in that it...
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... If you wanted me to tall you something, I guess I could tell you about how I thought the deadline for my essay was tomorrow 2359 but it's actually today, at 12pm. Thank god I woke up at 5am. I have 7 hours to do it, inclusive of printing and travelling to pass up the hard copy. Wish me luck! This paper is about nothing. Absolutely nothing. If you wanted me to tall you something, I guess I could tell you about how I thought the deadline for my essay was tomorrow 2359 but it's actually today, at 12pm. Thank god I woke up at 5am. I have 7 hours to do it, inclusive of printing and travelling to pass up the hard copy. Wish me luck! This paper is about nothing. Absolutely nothing. If you wanted me to tall you something, I guess I could tell you about how I thought the deadline for my essay was tomorrow 2359 but it's actually today, at 12pm. Thank god I woke up at 5am. I have 7 hours to do it, inclusive of printing and travelling to pass up the hard copy. Wish me luck! This paper is about nothing. Absolutely nothing. If you wanted me to tall you something, I guess I could tell you about how I thought the deadline for my essay was tomorrow 2359 but it's actually today, at 12pm. Thank god I woke up at 5am. I have 7 hours to do it, inclusive of printing and travelling to pass up the hard copy. Wish me luck! This paper is about nothing. Absolutely nothing. If you wanted me to tall you something, I guess I could tell you about how I thought the deadline for...
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...Reilly-Harrington / New Harbinger Publications. Permission is granted to the reader to reproduce this form for personal use. The Bipolar II Disorder Workbook Daily Diary Card ADDITIONAL NOTES ON MEDICATIONS MOOD TRACKING (CHECK ONE) +3 SEVERELY ELEVATED (Significant Impairment; Not Able to Work) +2 MODERATELY ELEVATED (Significant Impairment; Able to Work) +1 MILDLY ELEVATED (No Significant Impairment; Able to Work) ±0 BASELINE (“Normal”/Grounded/Capable & Able/Productive) – MILDLY DEPRESSED (No Significant Impairment) 1 – MODERATELY DEPRESSED (Significant Impairment; Able to Work) 2 – SEVERELY DEPRESSED (Significant Impairment; Not Able to Work) 3 Any thoughts of suicide today? Anxiety Rating*: COMMENTS: Irritability Rating*: COMMENTS: * Rating: 0 = NONE, 1 = MILD, 2 = MODERATE, 3 = SEVERE © 2014 Stephanie McMurrich Roberts, Louisa Sylvia, and Noreen Reilly-Harrington / New Harbinger Publications. Permission is granted to the reader to reproduce this form for personal use....
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...Blues My mom always hated the thought, so she would end the conversation before it started. As soon as eighteen rolled around though, the appointment was made. It was something that was always on my list of things to do. I went out and got a tattoo on my eighteenth birthday, my excitement was shared with everyone, but it lead to anxiety, bullying from classmates and disappointment in myself. The one thing that was etched on my skin forever was constantly on my mind. Troubles arose when choosing what design to go with. I had thoughts of a bird and flower for the longest time, but the idea changed right before the appointment. A simple flower and leaf design is...
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...stages to the creative process. The first stage is to search for challenges regularly. Not all challenges will be just black and white. Some challenges require one to utilize their creative thought process to allow their mind to think of areas that may need a little improving. The second stage is to express the problem or issue. Perhaps writing out different thought patterns and coming up with an idea that best match the correct or needed result can stimulate progress in the process. The third stage in the creative process is investigating the problem or issue. If you encountered a specific problem or issue that you couldn’t resolve, you may need to ask someone with more experience or research the issue to reach an adequate solution. Producing ideas is the fourth and final stage. One must make a precise decision to determine which ideal concept they will take. In this stage there lie two obstacles. While trying to produce ideas one must fight the urge to limit your ideas. The other obstacle is not settling on the first idea that comes to mind and to try harder to come up with something different. Some may think their first thought is also the best result, but you should challenge yourself to think past your first thought to chime into your creative nature. A personal challenge for me was going back to school. I had to think of all the different obstacles going back to school would pose on my normal day to day routine. Returning to school would interfere with my work...
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...1) Love the way you lie part two I didn’t stop doing it. It wasn’t just in my head but also outside my head. It wasn’t just me who had crazy thoughts, but it really happened. I couldn’t help it. In the few seconds every each time I let myself get carried away and let myself do that to her, I never thought about what I did. I just did it. I can’t explain why. I've lost counts of how many times I've done it to her and I'm sorry, but I don’t think she's aware of it. I had lost my mind. I maybe seemed insane. Maybe people would call me a masochist, but I couldn’t help it. It wasn’t because I didn’t love her, because I did. Maybe I did it because I loved her. I loved her too much. I thought several times about whether she thought I was crazy, and when my mind said that she thought it, it made me want to hurt her even more. But it wasn’t her voice speaking, it was my mind. She thought I was evil, and maybe I was, but I wish that I could do it over again. I hope that she knew that I never wanted to hurt her in that way and I never wanted to kill her even though I said I would if she left me. When I said that I would kill her if she left me, I was afraid. I was lost without her, without her I was nothing. I was just a psycho masochist. Our relationship grew stronger, but not healthier. Together, we could move mountains. Together, we would live forever, but if I were alone I wouldn’t make it. I continued holding on you physically and mentally, because I could not without you. I couldn’t...
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...high street. People must have thought I was mad. I thought I was mad! A scrap piece of paper! Just one piece of paper and there I was running after it like my life depended on it. I was just so desperate to write to you, even after what you’ve done to me. I sat down while the rain trickled down the side of the wall as I was leaning against it. I was trembling with fear whilst my teeth were clattering because of the cold. My hairs lank now sticky and dark with grease and there are so many thoughts whirling round in my head and I can’t control them. I haven’t showered since I’d been neglected by my own parents; I have to sleep on the hard ground, hoping that one of the dirty men will stop staring at me. My clothes were dirty, torn and old, after what happened that night… I never thought that this would happen to me, a normal sixteen year old teenager. I was walking home through the woods which was something I did everyday but usually with my friends. This day felt different. I was alone. Suddenly a man came from behind and grabbed my neck and threatened to kill me if tried to get away or screamed. He vigorously pushed me to the ground and took control of my body and I just felt like I was paralysed. I couldn’t do anything but panic and think about the disgust I was going through. The pain was never ending. I couldn’t do anything to get this atrocious beast off me. All I could was to scream at the top of my voice. The brute still wouldn’t get off me so my body and brain just gave...
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...Nature of Thought David Dawson PHL/251 26 May 2014 Abeba Salter-Woods Nature of Thought I think a lot about what it means to be in thought and how an outcome of an individual’s action is exemplified on how they took the time to actually think about what they are doing. In life, as humans, we are challenge through many different scenarios that requires us to put time and effort into thinking things through. That thinking process is the foundation of the aftermath of these scenarios. To me, human thinking is unique because we are one of a kind. I don’t believe that there is another species out there that is capable of producing results that we, as humans, are able to come up with. Other mammals might have brains that allow them to think, but not to the capacity or liking to what I believe is necessary to survive on this planet. According to “Www.ask.com” (2014), “Human thinking is unique because as far as we know, we are the only living creatures who can think and put our thoughts into action. We are the only ones who think before we act. We express our thoughts because it is human nature to want to explore and to learn.” Humans express their thought through their actions. To make are thoughts more realistic, we feel that we have to witness or perform it first hand. A thought will always remain a thought if not utilize. Most of the things that humans think about is normally fantasies and actions that need to or want to be performed, hence the reason on why we act on certain...
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...One thing that stood out to me as I was reading The Iliad is how Chryses offered so many gifts as ransom in order to get his daughter back, but no matter what he offered or how much he begged, Agamemnon refused. He kept telling Chryses that he would not give her back. On page 78, Agamemnon states, “The girl- I won’t give up the girl.” One line that I thought was very powerful was when Agamemnon says to Chryses, “Now go, don’t tempt my wrath- and you may depart alive.” After hearing this, Chryses felt threatened and he obeyed what Agamemnon said. On page 79, Apollo sends a plague upon the Greek army and on this page it states, “he cut them down in droves- and the corpse-fires burned on, night and day, no end in sight.” I thought this was also a very powerful line and it was a line that stood out to me. One thing that stood out to me as I was reading The Iliad is how Chryses offered so many gifts as ransom in order to get his daughter back, but no matter what he offered or how much he begged, Agamemnon refused. He kept telling Chryses that he would not give her back. On page 78, Agamemnon states, “The girl- I won’t give up the girl.” One line that I thought was very powerful was when Agamemnon says to Chryses, “Now go, don’t tempt my wrath- and you may depart alive.” After hearing this, Chryses felt threatened and he obeyed what Agamemnon said. On page 79, Apollo sends a plague upon the Greek army and on this page it states, “he cut them down in droves- and the corpse-fires...
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...of making money and some, like me, use it to vent. I always had writing assignments in school but none of them really had an impact on my life until the summer before junior year in high school. That summer was a terrible summer for me. Nothing went the way I had hoped and I was unhappy. My boyfriend and I broke up the night before my last exam. I would talk to my friends about it but I felt like it became too much for them. I knew they wanted to make me happy so they would listen but I didn’t feel right about putting them through it so I started writing. Whenever I needed a break from everyone around me, I would grab a piece of paper and a pen and just start pouring my thoughts onto paper. It was usually about how I was going through a tough time, which now seems increasingly petty, but at that time paper was my confidant. I wrote everything, even if it was a paragraph, or even barely a line. I used to transfer all the bad thoughts in my mind onto paper and just leave it there. I substituted my friends for paper. Paper wouldn’t talk back or tell me that it wasn’t god for me. It would just listen, absorb, and always be there. And that’s when I fell in love with writing. This is when writing became a habit. When I got over irrelevant boyfriend issues, I still had that craving to write something, anything, so I started writing about my day. If I had had a bad day, I would sit with my book and pen and just write till I overcame the bad thoughts. Those rare but sweet moments...
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...future. For me, as a 17-years-old student, my only aim for now is to pass my O'level with good grades so that i can get into the course that i want. Even though my mind has been wavering with a lot of thoughts and people's 'suggestion'. It is really hard for me to stick on one dream as i am easily influenced by other people. I wanted to be a business woman when i was young because i saw a movie about a successful business woman and i thought she was cool. After a while, i wanted to be an engineer like my father, a hotel owner after i visited to a grand hotel as i thought it would be awesome and a ballet dancer when i saw a Hong Kong movie about a beautiful ballet dancer. As i grew up i had more and more dreams. I wanted to be spy, detective, singer, and lastly architecture. And now i had realized, no matter how many dreams i had, there are some common factors about the dreams that i want. I wanted those career because i thought it would be cool, famous and mostly money. The fact that i like money does not change. My last dream was to be an architecture because i thought it is a respectable job and i just need to draw a house design to get a lot of money. But then again, as i am easily wavered by people around me, their comments discouraged me. I had a really hard time after that, i felt like i'm a person without any dream. Once, i considered myself as a person with dream who is different from others who have no dream. The worst thing was my father wanted me to...
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...Completion: Assignment no. 3 I evaded the vase and heard it crash into the wall behind me. ‘Goddamn hormones’ I thought, and ducked under the attack of a porcelain dog. I had taken cover behind the sofa, while Margaret was bombarding it with the contents of the living room. ‘Honey,’ I said soothingly, ‘I didn’t mean it like that. You look wonderful in that dress. You are glowing!’ I popped up my head to see if the coast was clear, and was rewarded when one of the stuffed animals, we had bought for the baby hit me right in the face. Fortunately, she had run out of china. ‘Glowing?’ Margaret screamed and armed herself with a brown teddy bear. ‘That wasn’t your exact words, was it now, Darling?’ She threw the toy after the sofa, and grabbed another weapon. ‘This isn’t healthy for the baby.’ I thought nervously. Instantly, as though she had heard my thoughts, the assault stopped. After a minute I dared to take a glance, but not before a toy giraffe had secured the area by looking first, taking the possible upcoming damage. After this security check, I slowly stood up behind the piece of furniture and watched my wife: She had gone all pale, contrary to her red grimace when she was shouting at me. ‘Thomas?’ Margaret said, all her anger had left her. ‘Yes my love?’ I was still crouching a bit, ready to throw myself down if this was a trick. But from the look of her face I didn’t thought so. She took a deep breath and said quietly: ‘I think my water just broke.’ I fought down my...
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...Reflection Paragraph The thought projects I have chosen were Decimal to binary, Density, Speed of Light, Sports and statistics and colors. I chose decimal to binary because i've always been curious as to what the varied combinations of 0 and 1 could produce. I chose density as figuring out how and why materials contain different amounts of mass is intriguing. I chose the speed of light, because i've always been curious to what that entailed in terms of actual velocity. Sports and statistics interested me because i've been an avid sports fan the entirety of my life. Statistics are basically the legitimate version of fortune telling. I chose colors because the different gamma wavelengths, and what the human eye can perceive fascinates me. I chose distance, rate and time to further help me calculate traveling at static and varied paces with stops in between. I hoped to gain more general knowledge from completeing these projects which i did. The two most interesting things from these thought projects were from the colors, which was green being the most distinguishable color to the human eye and the actuality of the speed of light. I believe my mind is now honed and further able to tackle further problem solving and mathmatical problems. The thought projects I have chosen were Decimal to binary, Density, Speed of Light, Sports and statistics and colors. I chose decimal to binary because i've always been curious as to what the varied combinations of 0 and 1 could produce...
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...“Oh, close that noise maker on your face Brinson. I have always wanted you to see me as you do now, so enjoy me with your eyes and hands if you wish. I will never stop you from holding me as Loved One if that is what you wish. You would overlook a tree until you walked into it at sun high if I did not speak plain to you. If my words shock you then that is your own fault. I will not be ashamed that I wish to share all of me with you.” “But, your parents…” “Changed their anger when I told them I wore a dress for you. My mother even helped me with my hair and my father ran down to the shoe merchant to purchase my new slippers. By the way, they feel wonderful.” She lifted the bottom of her dress to show him her new slippers...
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