...young to realize it at the time, but now it scares me whenever he goes to a bar. He has never gotten physical once he has too much to drink, but he does like to yell and cuss. It scares me to this day. Due to my father smoking in wherever we lived, I can’t be in a confined space with cigarette smoke because it makes me nauseous to be around a lot of people who smoke. That was also one of the smells that were familiar to me whenever he was around. Not only did he smoke, but so did his friends that hung around us whenever I would go up to the bowling alley with him for his bowling league. Another thing that is similar but different is the moving....
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...Raymond Correa This I Believe Essay I believe in the power of music. Ever since I was young, music always seemed to calm me down or simply make me feel better. Music is like a medicine to me, and my parents would laugh at how much I enjoyed music. Whenever a song would come on, my parents would sit and watch me, while giggling to each other, as i stop bouncing off walls and calm down to the sound of music. I listen to music every day because of how much I appreciate and love it. The reason why I love music so much is because music always tends to suck me in to what is being sung. Often when I listen to a song, no matter what the song is, I get sucked into the song. What I mean by this is that when I am listening to a song, I imagine the song was intended for me. I relate to the song whether it is from my past, present, or future. This is what causes me to relax whenever I’m listening to music. This is why I view music as a powerful thing. I remember when I was younger and didn’t really relate or pay as much time listening to music like the way I do now. Whenever I heard a song, I never gave it much thought that it actually had meaning behind the lyrics that the artist was trying to get across. I would just nod my head to the beat of the music instead of relating to it like I do now. It took me till freshman year of high school to start seeing and hearing the power in music. During that year, I bought a nice pair of headphones to go along with my IPod. Only then did I...
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... You've been good, busier than ever, We small talk, work and the weather, Your guard is up and I know why. Because the last time you saw me Is still burned in the back of your mind. You gave me roses and I left them there to die. So this is me swallowing my pride, Standing in front of you saying, "I'm sorry for that night," And I go back to December all the time. It turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you. Wishing I'd realized what I had when you were mine. I'd go back to December, turn around and make it all right. I go back to December all the time. These days I haven't been sleeping, Staying up, playing back myself leavin'. When your birthday passed and I didn't call. And I think about summer, all the beautiful times, I watched you laughing from the passenger side. Realized I loved you in the fall. And then the cold came, the dark days when fear crept into my mind You gave me all your love and all I gave you was "Goodbye". So this is me swallowing my pride Standing in front of you saying, "I'm sorry for that night." And I go back to December all the time. It turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you, Wishing I'd realized what I had when you were mine. I'd go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go back to December all the time. I miss your tanned skin, your sweet smile, So good to me, so right And how you held me in your arms that September night The first time you ever saw me cry. Maybe this is wishful...
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...I told him that he could tell me that I can practice with the launchies the next day. He could be the one to give all the commands, to be the leader, the person everyone follows and respects. He could be the “winner” here, because despite every ridiculous thing he’ll punish me for, or consequence me with, it was undeniable that I had beaten him. Petra also taught me how to shoot with the gun. Relax, aim carefully, get close, be fast, and shoot. She’s been helping me improve on my shooting a lot, we usually practice in the mornings. I think she’s my friend now too, but unlike my friendship with Alai, I’m still unsure. The night I got promoted I said goodbye to him. He was my first real friend since I got here, and he still is. I remember thinking that everything was going too fast; the transfer was unfair, there needed to be a change just when I started thinking that this school may not be so bad afterall. I thought that my life would always be changing and that I always had to say goodbye to the people I learned to care for the most. I would lose my only friend. But that night, Alai also told me “Salaam,” a word so sacred, meaningful, and filled with emotion that I could not understand what it truly meant. A word that opened himself to me, that assured me that maybe I won’t lose him entirely...
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...What is your IGN?: Ploted How old are you?: 15 Current rank: Default Do you have a microphone?: Yes, Razer Kraken What country do you live in?: United States What timezone do you live in?: EST What languages do you speak fluently?: I can speak English [Fluent], Spanish [Somewhat] Do you use Skype?(Don't post it here): Yes, i'll pm if needed What can you bring to the Staff team?: I can bring multiple accepted traits to the staff team which are loyalty, responsibility, experience and courage. Any other staff member can have those traits but I take mine to an extent, even tho I am not staff now I am always non toxic in chat, I help others when needed. I am very educated when it comes to screen sharing as my first time being screen shared, the staff member let me...
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...in your library, and getting personal recommendations any time you click In the Store. • A New Store. The iTunes Store has been completely redesigned and now features a clean look that makes it simpler than ever to see what's hot and discover new favorites. • Play purchases from iCloud. Your music, movie, and TV show purchases in iCloud now appear inside your library. Just sign-in with your Apple ID to see them. Double-click to play them directly from iCloud or download a copy you can sync to a device or play while offline. • Up Next. It's now simple to see which songs are playing next, all from a single place. Just click the Up Next icon in the center display and they'll instantly appear. You can even reorder, add, or skip songs whenever you like. • New MiniPlayer. You can now do a whole lot more with a lot less space. In addition to showing what's playing, MiniPlayer now includes album art, adds Up Next, and makes it easy to search for something new to play—all from a smaller and more elegant design. • Improved search. It's never been easier to find what you're looking for in iTunes. Just type in the search field and you'll instantly see results from across your entire library. Select any result and iTunes takes you right to it. • Playback syncing. iCloud now remembers your place in a movie or TV show for you. Whenever you play the same movie or episode from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple TV, it will continue right where you left...
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...because I thought I was equipped with the necessary skills to survive any harsh environment. The reason for me to do this is “I want to become a hero so anyone can rely on me.” However, that is not important anymore because now, I am facing the reaper. He is holding a gun and can shoot me to death whenever he want. How can I escape from this? When I was a kid, I always wanted to become someone who was useful and reliable. Superman was an important character in my childhood. I had always considered him as an idol who I really wanted to become. That was the reason why I always tried to stay at the top in both academic and social fields. Christopher Reeve says, “What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.” Supermans may not be the best compared to Batman, Spiderman, Storm, etc…However, he was the first character I knew from a comic book I got from my uncle. It had been twelve years since I started to live under his “shadow”. Not only his power, no one could deny his wisdom and maturity which significantly impacted his life. No one knew about his true self. He lived under the cover of a normal man but always appeared whenever someone called for help. Without hesitation, he could finish his enemy instantly. Everyone including myself loved him for his generosity and heroism....
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...Lessons Everyone has gotten in trouble before in their life and everyone has different consequences. Whenever I get in trouble my parents usually get pretty mad at me and ground me. There have been some, times when I have gotten in trouble for having bad grades. Ever since I have gotten in trouble for having bad grades I always end up trying really hard to get them back up. Usually my parents try to motivate me a lot to get good grades in school because they want the best for me and they want me to have a great future. So whenever I see them stressed or mad about me when I get a bad grade I try my hardest to improve the grade. One time I remembered I didn’t have the best grades in one of my classes. So my parents found out and they were...
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...what they were doing for me. My parents never let any of my needs go unfulfilled. Still, I always demanded more and more of them. My father worked his shoes off to be able to provide for me while my mother sacrificed everything from her time to her energy for raising me. She taught me, cleaned after me, cared for me, and helped me strive for success in life. But alas, I was young, I was naïve. I never recognized what they would do for me. Whenever they could not fulfill my wishes on time, I would feel discontent with life. Whenever they could not tend to any one of my silly needs, I would be angry and upset with them. Whenever they forbid me from doing something, I would argue with them, not realizing that it was for my own good that they always forbade me. Today, I sit here in my house, my own house, thinking of how stupid and child-like I used to be. Through the efforts of my parents, I’ve become what you would say a ‘success’ in life. I have a stable job, my own family, my own car, my own house; but is this everything that matters? No. Now as I sit in my lounge, I realize that I would have been nothing in life had it not been for my parents. They taught me the core values of life so that I could be a respectable part of society. They educated me so that I could make a satisfying living. They groomed me so that I was able to raise my own family. Above all, they are the sole reason for everything I am today, they are the...
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...“badboy” group acknowledge me and they wanted to be friends with me. I said without a doubt, Yes ! I wanted to be in their group because they are cool. We played DotA everyday after class. We played pranks and hangout every free time. The 2nd periodic examination had passed. The giving of cards arrived. I went to look at the list of the top students top to bottom but I can’t find my name there. I was confused. Then I realized that I got kicked out from the list because of my grades. The first thing that got in to me was embarrassment. Everyone expected me to “dominate” our batch yet my name can’t be found on the list. I felt very sad because I disappointed them. Then I began to feel scared. How will I ever report this to my parents. They have high regards and standards of me ever since I got a high grade when I was little. I became angry of my “buddies”. I blamed them for what had happen to me. After my confrontation with my parents especially with my mother. I felt guilty, after all it is my fault. It is my own doings of what I become. For me the real reason why I got kicked out from the list was I became irresponsible. When I got into a group or peer. I failed to manage...
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...am lucky my future in rugby might be sealed, not to reveal my flaws in education which are faulty because hey, who needs to be able to quote Shakespeare if you can play rugby? I will probably never graduate and if I do then I will be the first. Either by myself or with a baby in or beside me, victim of teen pregnancy with a guy in high school I thought was ‘skux’. Which really sucks. You see ‘cause when push came to shove he couldn’t pay the bucks. While I was focusing on this relationship I was trying to get through NCEA one, two and three purely on luck. Now I am stuck in a muck trying to scrub my skin with ‘lux’, soap. Trying to scrub away the fact that I have added to the brown statistic. While my mother is a gambler and my father is an alcoholic. I will always blame the government and everybody else around me but never myself — because I am brown. And whenever someone tries to breach my comfort zone or whenever I don’t have anything else to say in defense in an argument, I’m going to say that “you’re a racist”. That...
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...the pages, examining his rights, perhaps after he was beaten or after he was thinking about his old life and what he used to be able to do. He knew he deserved better, but he also knew he was the minority. One voice can change the world but only if it comes a powerful source, and Crooks knew he wasn’t a powerful voice. He was a broken man, whose personality collapsed onto himself whenever he was faced with confrontation, who was beaten...
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...You know you love me, I know you care Just shout whenever, and I'll be there You are my love, you are my heart And we will never, ever, ever be apart Are we an item? Girl, quit playin' "We're just friends," what are you sayin'? Said "there's another," and looked right in my eyes My first love broke my heart for the first time And I was like baby, baby, baby, oh Like baby, baby, baby, no Like baby, baby, baby, oh I thought you'd always be mine, mine Baby, baby, baby, oh Like baby, baby, baby, no Like baby, baby, baby, oh I thought you'd always be mine, mine For you, I would have done whatever And I just can't believe we're here together And I wanna play it cool, but I'm losin' you I'll buy you anything, I'll buy you any ring And I'm in pieces, baby fix me And just shake me 'til you wake me from this bad dream I'm goin' down, down, down, down And I just can't believe my first love won't be aroundI hear melodies! When I was 13, I had my first love There was nobody that compared to my baby And nobody came between us who could ever come above She had me going crazy, oh I was starstruck She woke me up daily, don't need no Starbucks She made my heart pound I skip a beat when I see her in the street And at school on the playground But I really wanna see her on a weekend She know she got me dazin' 'cause she was so amazin' And now my heart is breakin' but I just keep on sayin' Baby, baby, baby, oh Like baby, baby, baby, no Like baby...
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...MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM – TCS PAKISTAN 1. Introduction (Today’s Market Scenario) 1.1. The amount of competition faced by organizations today is more intensive than it was ever before. With the ever-expanding number of organizations and products, customers have a wide array of choices available. As a consequence the manufacturers and service providers now have to view their products and services from the customers’ point of view not only to maintain a high quality but also to incorporate the customer-defined improvements whenever needed. In order to remain in business for long term and ensure their survival they have to incorporate techniques that would force the customer to choose them from the rest. 1.2. The change in paradigms has forced many organizations to redefine their mission and strategies. Earlier the focus was merely on price and quality but now because of intensive competition, organizations have to come up with unique strategies that would give them competitive edge in the eyes of the customer, so that he prefers them in the long run. 1.3. Nowadays organizations are gaining advantage through ‘quick response,’ an aspect that is continuously in focus in developed countries. Quick Response mainly came into being from the manufacturing point of view i.e. in order to determine the time of replenishment in the supply chain etc. Hence quick response in the beginning was used for the betterment of the manufacturing industry. But with the rise in service...
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...about is human trafficking. This is an ever growing danger in todays world due to many reasons. With all of the international problems Americans have had in last few decades, human trafficking has flourished among several countries that we were unaware of in the past. Because human trafficking involves not only the basics of sex crimes, but also is involved in terrorists cells including narcotics distribution, it is a danger of a much higher scale. There are few things to remain constant from the beginning of crime, and two of those charactoristics are sex and money. They are always at the forefront of crime driven acts. For this reason I believe we should continue to really allocate much of our resources to the detection and prevention of human trafficking. The second most significant challenge I believe law enforcement will face will be the continued use, and transportation/distribution of narcotics. Drugs are always involved in our most serious crimes from theft to murder. It seems like whenever you hear something like a shooting or a burglary on the news, its either directly related to drugs, about a drug deal going south, about someone stealing something to buy drugs or whatever. If its not about money and drugs, its about drugs alone. I think our law enforcement agencies now are doing a good job about getting specialized units out on the streets that dedicate all of their time and training to stopping drug related crimes, but now with all of these new drugs that are...
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