...but you are definitely not the only one who will be going through such a nerve racking experience. Always keep your head up and take each day one step at a time. A few good experiences of mine have been meeting and surrounding myself with the right people. You will notice that there is no such thing as a “clique”, which may be the best thing for someone who is meeting new people for the first time. Another great thing that has gotten me through such a difficult 4 months is the extra help we as athletes receive. I spent most of my time at the academic center, and that is probably the best tip I could give you. The academic center is a miracle, along with all the amazing people that work in there; you will never get steered in the wrong direction. I thought that having to adapt to a new team, and an all-girls team at that would be the biggest challenge going into college, but it has been the best experience of my life. You will come to find that these girls are going to be like your second family and that you can always go to talk to them for any advice that you might need. My overall experience in my first semester of college has been a blast, and I have the perfect idea on what the real world has to offer me. Some not-so great things that have happened...
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...uncontrollable events. William Faulkner's life is an astonishing accomplishment; however, it is crucial to explore his styles of writing, and how one particular style of writing was able to alter my path in the way I approach my goals in life. He adjusts the style to fit the topic, able to adapt a more traditional type as he easily can invent new, complicated techniques of writing. Throughout his early education, he would work conscientiously at reading, spelling, writing, and arithmetic. However, he especially enjoyed drawing. When Faulkner got promoted to the third grade, skipping the second grade, he was asked by his teacher what he wanted to be when he grew up. He replied, "I want to be a writer just like my great granddaddy"(Minter 18). Faulkner took interest in poetry around 1910, but no one in Oxford, Mississippi, could tell him what to do with his poems. Shortly after, he met a man named Phil Stone. So one afternoon, Stone went to Faulkner's house to get to know him better, and during his visit he received several written verses from Faulkner's poetry. Stone not only became a very close friend of Faulkner's, but also a mentor to the young writer at the beginning of his career. Stone immediately gave the potential poet encouragement, advice, and models for his study of literature (Minter 29). As Faulkner grew older he began to lose interest in his...
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...Mountains are tall. If you are stupid enough to jump off one you fall fast and you land hard. The five-paragraph theme is my mountain and I have just jumped right off it. There don't seem to be any outcroppings to grab for, and my assignment is to discuss my cliff as I continue to drop from it. So I will not grab. I will let myself fall, and hope for pillows at the end. I feel lost without my introduction to conclusion formula started at the beginning of this paper. Why do I have to do this assignment? Oh, I understand that I need to break a mold that has been added to, layer upon dreadful layer, for the past eight years or so. The only problem isHOW? I think that what I am feeling is not unique to me, and that the instructor will more than likely read these same words a dozen times in other fonts. I do not want to spend my entire paper feeling sorry for myself and wasting paper complaining that the answer to my question is not right under my nose. I would pity my reader. I would also hope that I am a stronger writer than that. Strong writers should be able to get beyond the theme. I propose that the theme is no more than a weak writer's response to demands tired English teachers put on them, or a Lazy Writer's cop out. The theme is easy. We know how it works and we crank it out like so many machines. My question is this: what normal everyday Joe in his right mind would not take the easy route to writing a paper? There is no reason to make things harder than they have...
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...memories is the 1992 NBA Finals, I was eight years old and from that moment on I breathed basketball. Everyday after school I ran in the house completed my choirs and ran back out the door to play basketball. That was my life for next seven years. During middle school there was a bit of a buzz in my neighborhood about how good I had become and a lot people wanting to see play at the high school level. I don’t want to toot my own horn but I excelled at that level as well my freshman and sophmore years then my attention began shift. Basketball was no longer my first love, I really started to pay more attention to the ladies. My junior and senior year I made the team but quit both times my focus was elsewhere, if I could do it all over again I would marry my basketball. After high school I immediately starting working for a steel mill company, it wasn’t hard work but working in the elements the heat, cold, etc it takes a toll on you day in and day out. One year later I found myself in an Airforce recruiter’s office inquiring about joining the military. The recruiter denied me because of medical reasons, so over the next 4 years I worked for three different companies as a forklift operator. I found very little pleasure in being a forklift operator but I did enjoy all the learning and life experiences along the way. I got to a point where I had had enough didn’t like my job, personal life was a mess, so I decided I needed a change of scenery. I found myself in a familiar place...
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...a”flamboyant and vivacious playwright of the 19th century” (Campbell, Samuel. "Best Oscar Wilde Plays." Stage Milk. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Dec. 2015.) for the unyielding wit and cleverness displayed in most of the pieces of literature that he wrote. In “The Importance of Being Earnest”, Wilde expresses this form of cleverness through each of the characters that he created in the short play which only consists of three acts. Humor and irony are used throughout the play to assist, enhance, hurt or help the characters that are portrayed throughout each act in the play. “The Importance of Being Earnest” is a play based around a man named Jack, whom as an infant, was abandoned by his mother and left in a basket. He was adopted by a man named Thoman Cardew shortly after being found abandoned.Now as an adult, Jack is at the pinnicle of his class and one of the most important people within his community. However, at the beginning of the first act, Jack is introduced as “Ernest”. Even through the continuation of the act, he i referred to as Jack on script, but is Ernest while in character. Oscar wilde used irony and humor to help introduce, enhance, hurt and develop the characters throughout the play....
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...of you watch race car driving? Have you ever been to a NASCAR race? NASCAR stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. I was born in April 1951 and grew up in Car Town, North Carolina with my parents Ralph and Martha Earnhardt along with my brothers and sisters Kaye, Kathy, Randy, and Danny. My daddy worked in a cotton mill in Kannapolis and did some race car driving on the side. My daddy didn’t graduate from high school with a diploma and told me I needed a good education so I could one day support my family. School was hard for me and I would rather hang around the shop with my daddy where I would watch and learn how to take cars apart and put them together, change the oil, grease the...
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...The Inspiration behind my Motivation My Opa was a Russian Romeo who fell madly in love with my Oma, his German Juliet. This love they shared was strictly forbidden, since Russia and Germany were not on good terms. Had they gotten caught there would have been serious repercussions. I wouldn't even exist and would lack the ability to tell you this story. Nevertheless, they were married and raised three children together in Germany. When my mother was 20 years old when she decided to move to the United States and attend college. This is where she met and married my father. but once she became pregnant she returned to Germany. My Opa passed away two days before I was born and even though I never got to meet him, I am proud to be his granddaughter. When I was approximately six weeks old my mother flew back to the states and reunited with my father. I was raised in the swampy state of Louisiana until my 14th birthday. My present was a one-way ticket to Neufarhn, Germany where I was to meet and live with my Oma. It was over the next 3.5 years that I had the privilege of getting to know my Oma, the woman that continues to inspire me to this day. A few days after my arrival, my Oma showed me a photo that she had taken during WWII. In the photo was Adolf Hitler, Dr. Josef Mengele and various Nazi Generals, laughing and smiling while eating dinner in our family restaurant, which is still in business. They were seated at a large round table with a miniature christmas...
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...Looking back When I first walked through the doors of Brunswick High School four years ago, I saw an open door to multiple opportunities. I remember everyone telling me how this would be the best four years of my life. Since that day a lot has changed. My surroundings have changed, my image has changed, my friends have changed, and my knowledge has advanced. From the beginning of high school I have met some very important people. In class on my first day of school I remember I met numerous people and I could not even match names with faces on the second day. I remember most of all how welcoming everyone was and how warm hearted and kind the teachers were. Of course now as a senior, four years later I pass the faces of people that were once close friends that have now become strangers and I pass teachers I used to adore and look the other direction. It is a sad thing to think about but life goes on. In my opinion, high school prepares students for the real world. It doesn’t just give us knowledge on mathematics and how to translate shakespeare. It teaches us the ins and outs, and the ups and downs of life. You meet real people, ones that would cross an ocean for you, and the ones that wouldn’t cross a puddle. You meet yourself, you learn who you are, who you want to be, and what you want to accomplish. You make mistakes while there is still room for improvement. You find parts of education interesting that you thought you would never care about. You watch the people around...
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...easy, I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”, Michael Scott, General Manager-The Office. This was the first thing I thought of when assigned a comprehensive leadership paper, and I figured something funny always draws the reader in. I want to start my paper with my leadership interview. As I mentioned in class, I wanted to get more of an honest interview with my sweet, yet beleaguered new Plant Manager. He is not only a wonderful man, but also being assigned to our facility to develop and nurture a not yet defined “culture”; he has done so with patience and class. On his first day, he spoke to all of us in our break area, stating he wanted to know who we were, what our spouse’s name was, what some of our hobbies were, and where we saw ourselves in the scheme of our corporation. What challenges I foresee my manager facing is not the newer employees in our facility, but the manufacturers and line men that have been working for thirty plus years. It has been my experience that if you can really get through to the old timers, you have won half the battle trying to change the culture because they are the influencers. Do you think leadership develops with experience? Experience is the only way I have gotten better with anything I have done. To be more specific the more I failed, the better I got at what I had set my goal to. Are there one or two experiences you look back on as having been especially valuable in helping develop your won leadership? I can think...
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...suitable spouse is the bond between the two families, rather than the relationship between the couple being married. Property or land with the aim of securing social status sometimes seals marriage agreements. The boy and the girl have to agree or disagree for a marriage proposal, set up by his or her parents, after the first meeting. For Indians that are born and brought up in America have a difficult time adjusting with people that they are arranged with from India. It is a difficult task for a girl to adjust easily with the guy’s family after marriage. Indian culture, society, and religion differ excessively from American. The most important common issues in arranged marriages are communication, background, and faithfulness. “One Sunday, I was woken by a call at 9 A.M. A woman with a heavy Indian...
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...Embryonic Stem Cell Research: The Next Best Thing Have you ever gone to the doctor when you are not feeling well? The doctor probably gave you some good advice and maybe a pill and you felt better in about a week. This happens every day all over the country every day. But what happens when good advice and a pill will not help this time? A diagnosis of organ failure, spinal cord injury, and diabetes, Parkinson’s disease or Huntington’s disease is life altering. After the shock wears off you might start researching different therapies and come across something called stem cell research. Stem cell research has been around since the 1970’s but has gotten a lot of attention in the last several years. It has even risen to the level of Presidential campaigns: Senator John Kerry (D) made embryonic stem cell research a major theme in his 2004 run for President. The controversial issue comes in when the discussion turns toward embryonic stem cell versus adult stem cells. Stem cells are undifferentiated cells found throughout the body in tissue and organs. Undifferentiated cell are cells that have not specialized. They are there to repair and maintain the tissue or organ where they are found. Stem cells are also found in in the cord blood in the umbilical cord of newborns. The last place is embryonic stem cells. Embryonic stem cells are very special because they are pluripotent; they are capable of becoming any cell in the body as opposed to an adult stem cell that is limited...
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...What has Technology Become? By: April Wright November 30, 2015 Soc/100 – Jennifer Hudgins Technology is the scientific term for engineering, making something better, problem solving, a machine, etc. Technology is constantly changing to meet every individual’s personal needs. Social change refers to change in society over time. It could mean behavioral changes, changes in beliefs, or values as time goes on. I believe technology and social change go hand in hand. With the way technology has advanced since the beginning of the 20th century, social change along with it. The older generation now own a cell phone, and had never heard of a mobile phone in their younger years. With access to the internet, every question you could ever imagine can be answered within a few seconds. Now that most of the population has access to the internet and cell phones, the lack of problem solving is more prominent. People rely on a device to solve their problems when in reality they should be racking their own mind to figure out exactly what they should be doing. Each sociological perspective (evolutionary, conflict, and functionalists) has a different views on technology, social change, and the effects of society, and some of the same views along with the equilibrium model. With so many people of society owning a cell phone and having access to the internet at their fingertips, they rely on this a form of communication instead of a face-to-face setting. Families are more connected to the outside...
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...He had never seen Merlin with a woman and had never heard him speak of one. “Is she… gone?” asked Percival. “Yes. She died. I didn’t know her that long, but that doesn’t make my love for her any less.” Merlin shook his head. “But it’s not a night to be somber.” Percival dropped a hand onto Merlin’s shoulder. “I am sorry. Losing a loved one is always painful.” “Very true… Can I give you some advice, Percival?” “Please do.” “When you find love, hold onto its reins and do not let go for any reason.” Merlin’s advice affected Percival deeply. Percival had spent the last several days trying to deny his growing feelings for Fleur. It’s too soon, he thought. You do not know her well enough to be in love. But from the moment she tumbled into his arms days ago, she had also tumbled into his heart. Percival had always found those songs and poems about love at first glance to be a little silly and unbelievable, but he found himself in that position now. However, he would keep this revelation to himself for the time being; knights did not parade around and confess their...
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...1. This past summer, I worked at the Nike Factory Store in Louisville, KY. It was my first real job, with a paycheck and everything, and I would say that it was definitely a positive experience for me. I was a low level sales associate, although my official title was “Athlete,” and my bosses were “Coaches.” My job was to float around the store and tidy things up. I was one of the only new hires that summer, so a lot of the customer interaction fell on the people who had been there longer than I had. I folded a lot of clothes, boxed up a lot of shoes, and threw away all together way too many disposable socks. I really enjoyed my time at the Nike Store. I met a lot of great people working there and it was a great environment to work in. Aside from the normal, “I can't believe I have the early shift on Saturday,” or, “I need a longer break,” everyone seemed genuinely excited about working there, and it showed. After about two weeks of working, I found out that our store was the number one factory store in the country. Nike Executives were always doing research into what made our store great and we would have special visits from pro athletes as a way to say, “Keep up the good work!” from Nike. I think that a big part of what made our store so great was a lot of what Lencioni talks about in The Advantage. I think that he does a nice job of summing up some of the intangibles that made our store number one. 2. Lencioni says that healthy organizations often exhibit...
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...Speech Analysis Paper Oprah Winfrey Stanford University Graduation 2008 This speech was about three lessons that Oprah Winfrey has come across in her professional and personal life. She talked about striving to be yourself and not anyone else and how you can grasp failure and turn it around by embracing it and finding the solution, and lastly how happiness comes when you give back to others. Her first lesson was about striving to be your own self; she talked about in the beginning of her professional career when she had a job in Baltimore as a news anchor. She was constantly holding Barbara Walters as the image she wanted to be in her career and wanted to be like. So she was always trying to talk like Barbara, look like Barbara and act like Barbara… And she kept getting it wrong. She felt the need to be spontaneous and more of herself when she would read some of the headings…. Especially upsetting headings with disasters involved. So she would sometimes not pre-read any of headings until she was live so it would come across more realistic. She once covered a story of a horrible fire and afterwards ran to the scene and helped the fire victims by providing blankets. She never lost her empathy. She ran into some barriers during this job that ultimately helped her find her true purpose in life. The first barrier was that her boss let her know that they did not like the way she looked, and that they wanted to give her a new name that they thought would be more “friendly” and...
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