...more livable if we have many friends.Getting a friend is easy and you can choose someone who can be your friend,but getting a best friend is too difficult to find.Best friend is different from a friend in every way.Because she/he is not only our friend but also she/he is our mirror.We share our private problems with them. Everyone has a best friend in their life. They can be from his/her school or they can be neighbour.But my best friend is a bit different from them.My mum is my best friend.In my short eighteen years I realized that friends come and go but there is just one person who has always stayed by my side through and thin is my mom.Whatever I do,she always be by my side and love me jus the same as before.I know,I can always trust my mom in my whole life.She has lived with me since I was born and she will stay with me forever. Firstly,you could see that her clothes are basic and formal;but if you know her as I do,you could realize that she has every kind of clothes; cheap,expensive,basic,formal,sportive,informal,soft and whatever you know.She has all of them. Her clothes are so different that I like them and sometimes she dresses my clothes because of our similarities.Her clothes are fit and casual.But there is just one coat that I don't like at all,it is too tall and heavy.And its colour is a bit different that I don't like this colour.But in generally,she dresses fit well with the way she looks. Moving to her appearance,my mother has always her hair cut a bit short.Now...
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...In The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls, Liz is an exceptionally intelligent and independent child for someone her age, of only fifteen years old. Because of her extreme responsibility and compassion for those around her, she is a great role model for Bean, her little sister. Other than being a role model, Liz's main purpose is to serve as the maternal figure for Bean since their birth mother leaves for weeks at a time, and is not around to support them. Liz shows her role by always taking care of Bean when their mom decides to leave. To begin, Liz achieved her maternal role to Bean, by getting a job of her own, "Liz had been doing some babysitting, but after Mom had been gone a week, she decided to take on extra work, and I got a job delivering Grit, a newspaper with useful stories..." (Walls 15). Liz knows that if she is not independent and got a job then there was no way that her and Bean could survive without their mother. Also it was her idea to leave for Byler so that the bandersnatchers, which is the girls word for the police, would not be able to take them away to Child Protective Services. Liz always knew what to do in these kind of situations, as we are told by Bean, which makes Liz very dependable. Also, Liz is remarkably intelligent, which we know because she is always complimented by teachers, parents and other adults about how outstanding she is. But not only is Liz considered to be smart in school, or "book smart", she also knows how to deal with the...
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...CEOs subtly undermine empowerment. Employees are often unprepared or unwilling to assume the new responsibilities it entails. Even change professionals stifle it. External commitment-or contractual compliance-is what employees display when they have little control over their destinies and are accustomed to working under the command-and-control model. Internal commitment occurs when employees are committed to a particular project, person, or program for their own individual reason or motivations. Without commitment, the implementation of any new initiative or idea would be seriously compromised. Human beings can commit themselves in two fundamentally different ways; externally and internally. Both are valuable in the workplace, but only internal commitment reinforces empowerment. External commitment is what an organization gets when workers have little control over their destinies. That commitment is external because all that is left for employees is to do what is expected of them. The employees will not feel responsible for the way the situation itself is defined. If management wants employees to take more responsibility for their own destiny, it must encourage the development of internal commitment. By definition, internal commitment is participatory and very closely allied with empowerment. The degree to which internal commitment is plausible in any organization is certainly limited. Moreover, the extent of participation in corporate goals and aspirations will vary with each...
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...traces of Willy natural and subconscious inclinations also constantly show up in the novel. Therefore, as a result, Willy achieved virtually nothing in his life just like his belief in American Dream, which is surreal and intangible as well. Throughout the novel, the outward conformity and inward questioning of Willy often create contradicting tension. Willy often make contradicting statements from his previous assertions in order to conform his later statements into the standard of his American Dream. For example, Willy earlier stated that Biff is lazy, but he later denied Biff's laziness. He does so in order to retain his hope in Biff, wishing that someday he will achieve his American Dream through Biff. Another example of self contradiction is also manifested when Willy said that he will attain a more successful business than Charley because he believes himself to be more “well-liked.” But he later claim that Charley is more successful because he is more “well-liked” than himself. And that in reality, Charley acquired his success through diligent works from the root rather than being “well- liked” as Willy said. Flipping his words back and worth, Willy is able to interpret the situation base on his own...
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...The role and importance that religion plays when it comes to education is a controversial topic that continues to spark debate in the world today. In Walter Feinberg's peer review of Warren A. Nord's Does God Make a Difference!, the idea that religion be made compulsory in public schools is brought to discussion. In the review, Feinberg speaks about the reasons as to why religion courses taken at school may be favourable, on what ground those religious courses be taught on should they be incorporated into the school system, and the invalidity of Nord's argument in favour of religion in public school. Where Nord believes that the reason religion should be studied in schools is to provide balance with the large amount of secular courses taken, Feinberg disagrees, stating that this is not reason enough to evoke the mandation of religion courses. Rather, Feinberg feels that since students are exposed to an environment instilled with religion, providing them different perspectives of their current understandings may envoke self-reflection and self-criticism towards their own beliefs. Moreover, he states that this type of learning will promotoe critical thinking due to the exposition of alternative worldviews because it introduces them to a different way that they see the world. Feinberg goes on further to say that a way of going about this would be to allow students to interpret sacred texts, but having them understand it the way they choose to. As a result, this aim brings forth...
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... "The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world" can be viewed as a paradox because it provokes the thought of how mystery and beauty can both be seen in the same idea (68). This quote is often thought of as a paradox because it causes the reader to think of how a place can be mysterious and beautiful at the same time. Often times, a place or object is either mysterious or beautiful, but there are several things that can contain both of these traits. One thing that contains both traits of being mysterious and beautiful is one's future. On page 69, Nick says, "anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridge ... anything at all. Even Gatsby could happen, without any particular wonder". Nick is expressing that now that Gatsby and he are inside of the city of New York, anything that one can imagine can happen and that there is a certain beauty inside of it. The mystery inside of this quote is that Nick doesn't actually know what will happen inside of the city, and he is expressing how that so many things can happen and that Nick may even get a chance to get Gatsby. The beauty behind this is how it reflects many of our futures, and how one may not know where they are headed, but they follow down that path of mystery with determination and confidence. This makes the quote hit a little closer to home because if one were to think deeply of this quote, they would see...
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...Paradox Therapy Paradoxes gure prominantly in this book, but most of them are purely intellectual. Paradoxical statements are apparent impossibilities that seem well supported by apparently good arguments. Interestingly, there are paradoxical commands as well as paradoxical statements. A very simple example is the command \don't follow this command!" Whatever you choose to do seems to violate the command. In order to obey it you must disobey it, but in disobeying it, you seem to obey it. Now, at rst it might seem that such a command is rather silly and easy to ignore. But suppose you are in the army and the command is given by a superior ocer, or you're a child and the command is given by a parent, or you're in love and the command is given by your lover. In short, imagine that the command occurs in a markedly unequal relationship. Second, suppose that you can't step outside the situation to point out the absurdity of the command. There is no judge that you can appeal to. Then you would be in a major bind indeed. You would be in what psychologists call a \double bind": Anything you do can and will be used against you. Thus we see the three ingredients of a paradoxical command or double bind: (1) a strong complementary or asymmetrical relationship (ocer-subordinate) (2) that can't simply be terminated (because of society, laws, and so on) and (3) an apparently meaningful but logically contradictory order. A realistic example of a double bind is described...
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...adolescent struggling against the unfair, sometimes cruel nature of the adult world and sees the hypocrisy and attempts to flee it. Salinger uses Holden’s character to express his views on the 1950’s America and gives us as readers an insight through the first person narrative to the average American boy’s life. Throughout the novel we are able to identify that Holden holds many critical views on the society around him which results in his inability to connect to it. He expresses this insecurity by criticising the flaws that he finds, for example, the unfair class system. At the beginning of the extract when Holden is talking to the two children, he tells them “you should” learn about how Egyptians bury the dead, yet this is a clear contradiction to what Holden himself is like as he doesn’t care about his own education, yet is advising others. Here I believe that Holden is being what he calls ‘phony’ and in this circumstance phony refers to the false pretences and the way he acts like someone he isn’t. However, though Holden uses the word ‘phony’ repeatedly throughout the novel, it doesn’t always mean the same thing. It’s what he uses for describing the superficiality, hypocrisy, pretension, and shallowness that he encounters in the world around him and it stands as an emblem of everything that’s wrong in the world around him and provides an excuse for him to withdraw into his cynical isolation. In the novel, Holden also likes to make out that he doesn’t need anyone, this is...
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...The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is told in first person by the main character and narrator Holden Caulfield. Holden directly launches into his contradictory nature even on the first page. This does not stop throughout the whole of the book. Holden begins to contradict himself every time he has opinion of something that involves himself and another person. There are many accounts of this because contradicting himself seems to be a habit to Holden. These repeated accounts of Holden's contradiction kick off where he says "I'm not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography or anything" (Salinger 1) and yet for the duration of the next few pages he continues to explain plenty of information about himself. Though it is slight, it still shows that Holden's contradictions are a major part of who he is. Another instance of this is when Holden makes a statement saying "I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw. It's awful" (16). This in and of itself is a contradiction, one moment he calls himself a terrific liar and yet he calls it awful. This example leads to the fact that Holden is quite partial to the word "phony," where he calls people out on not being true to who they are, however he lies and pretends to be something different constantly. Closely following is a more mild example where Holden states"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot." (18) literally saying that he is unable to read but does so anyway. Soon after that he describes himself as someone who is immature...
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...Mathematical Writing by Donald E. Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, and Paul M. Roberts This report is based on a course of the same name given at Stanford University during autumn quarter, 1987. Here’s the catalog description: CS 209. Mathematical Writing—Issues of technical writing and the effective presentation of mathematics and computer science. Preparation of theses, papers, books, and “literate” computer programs. A term paper on a topic of your choice; this paper may be used for credit in another course. The first three lectures were a “minicourse” that summarized the basics. About two hundred people attended those three sessions, which were devoted primarily to a discussion of the points in §1 of this report. An exercise (§2) and a suggested solution (§3) were also part of the minicourse. The remaining 28 lectures covered these and other issues in depth. We saw many examples of “before” and “after” from manuscripts in progress. We learned how to avoid excessive subscripts and superscripts. We discussed the documentation of algorithms, computer programs, and user manuals. We considered the process of refereeing and editing. We studied how to make effective diagrams and tables, and how to find appropriate quotations to spice up a text. Some of the material duplicated some of what would be discussed in writing classes offered by the English department, but the vast majority of the lectures were devoted to issues that are specific to mathematics and/or computer science. Guest lectures by...
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...multitudes of people. Which seems appropriate and very wise. Yet, the some of the best decisions in life may result in unhappiness. However, Utilitarianism focuses on the overall happiness of the majority not the minority. Such reasoning adapts from the idea of Hedonic Calculus, which is intelligent but flawed. Hedonic Calculus mathematically determines right action by evaluating the harms and benefits of taking a particular action, providing a summation of the overall level of happiness. For example, in a zombie apocalypse your mom got bit in the leg and will soon transform into a zombie if you don't amputate her leg, but she needs all the antibiotics you have to remain human and your group containing twelve people will die from illness if you don't give them antibiotics. Do you sacrifice one for the survival of twelve or sacrifice twelve for your mom? According to Hedonic Calculus the right decision will be to save the group and sacrifice your mom because their quality of life is more profitable than saving the life of one. However, hedonic calculus may never be able to successfully measure the proper amount of pain felt by a person. Because no one can truly know whose pain is greater. Even though pain of the mass majority, mathematically seems greater than the pain of one, but do we truly know that? Pain perception is very different from person to person. And such a method cannot accurately determine morally right decisions because who decides what is moral and immoral; the...
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...Stage I: Infancy (conception to 24 months) M.P is a 21-month old female who weighs about 27 pounds.She weighrd 8 1/2 pounds when she was born so she has tripled her birth weight in the first year as she should have according to the book. She has no known cognitive or physical disorders. The observation took place at their home, and lasted 45 minutes. Biosocial Development: As M.P entered the room she quickly approached me and stared at me. Once her mom said "Sweetie this is Ashley say hello", she said hey and hid behind her mom. She was showing stranger wariness because she didn't smile and she hid behind her mother as if she was scared. Atfer she stared at me for couple of mintues she got bored and started running around the living room. Based on this observation she has developed Gross motor skills. According to Berger, gross motor skills are physical abilities involving large body movements, such as walking and jumping. According to the chart 95% of all infants master running around 20 months. M.P then went into the kitchen looked around her and reached for a fork and a spoon and grabbed one in each hand making a fist. She showed development of fine motor skills. According to Berger fine motor skills are physical abilities involving small body movements, especially of the hands and fingers, such as drawing and picking up a coin. Berger states that toward the end of the first year and throughout the second, finger skills improve, as babies master the pincer movement...
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...get out of this depression and find something he really enjoys. Contrast and Contradiction- During the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden’s older brother, Allie, and younger sister, Phoebe, play an important role in the story. Allie and Phoebe are the only ones Holden goes into depth about. None of the other members of Holden’s family are mentioned like his mom, dad, and other brother DB. In the beginning of the story Holden said he was not going to tell about his whole life, but only about what happened last Christmas. Holden contradicts what he says in the beginning of the story when he tells about his brother and sister, “My brother D.B.’s a writer and all, and my brother Allie, the one that died, that I told you about, was a wizard. I’m the only real dumb one. But you ought to see old Phoebe”(Salinger 88). In this short statement Holden gives a brief description about each of his siblings. This is a contrast and contradiction moment because Holden said in the beginning of the story he was only going to tell about what happened last Christmas but in the chapter where this statement is said he tells about all of his brothers and sister. This moment of contrast and contradiction makes the reader wonder what this information about his siblings being “better” makes Holden feel and if this could be one of the reasons why he is depressed because he feels not good enough. Contrast and Contradiction- Throughout the novel, Holden is portrayed as being a very depressed person with...
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...the settlers. At this time the Constitution was adopted, making abortion more openly advertised. At that time, Abortion wasn't as common as today. “A total of 730,322 abortions were reported to the Centers for Disease control for 2011.” (lifesitenews.com) Remember that time your mom dried you after taking a shower or the time your mom held your hand and tickled you with her other hand? These memories shouldn’t disappear because a woman decides to get rid of their baby. Abortion shouldn’t be legal because of the fact that innocent children are being killed in the most disturbing way, also a woman's dignity is being eliminated....
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...hero inside each American people. Now, we found the life in history about him. George Washington born on February 22,1732,in Westmoreland County, Virginia. George's great grandfather came from England to Virginia. His dad was Augustine and was a successful businesses. His Mom was Mary Ball, and second wife of Augustine. The first wife was Jane Butler and they had three children but she was died in 1729. Augustine married Mary Ball in 1731. George Washington was the eldest of Augustine and Mary’s six children. When George 16 years old, he had mastered growing tobacco, stock raising and surveying. When he was 20, George Washington's brother, Lawrence, died of tuberculosis making him the heir apparent of the Washington lands. Lawrence’s only child, Sarah, died two months later and Washington became the head of one of Virginia's most prominent estates, Mount Vernon. George Washington lived and studied in the church when...
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