...Miranda, Charlotte fl P. A.203 Crazy Little Thing Called Love The first 15 minutes of the movie was the introduction of the characters and the situation the characters were in. The story is centered on an average, plain-looking and dark-skinned girl named Nam who is secretly in love with an older Grade 10 guy named Shone . Shone, a new student, a rumored troublemaker and a photography enthusiast, easily becomes a popular student in school because of his good looks and soccer-playing skills. The plot was very simple but its simplicity caught my attention. Dark skinned, with glasses and braces = the complete cliché package of an ugly girl falls in love with unbelievably handsome and charming upperclassman. Of course he has to be perfect in every way possible, all sensitive and artistic (but athletic and hot at the same time) while she is the clumsy nerd in the shadows. The movie opens up with Nam's quirky group of friends and a teacher who is too straightforward for her own good. A few juvenile scenes of picking out crushes, passing notes during class and stolen glimpses and suddenly, the story becomes all too familiar. All those enchantment-believing, book-reading and daydreaming moments could might as well be anybody else's story and it was that gravitation to something so recognizable to all, I think, that made this movie so popular and endearing to people who have a heart and once used it for something no matter how one-sided and futile the experience was. But of course...
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...F. Belinario ACT 211 COMARTS3 Little Things What we learned becomes a part of who we are. I can say that one of the most memorable and remarkable chapter of my life was my childhood. Why? Because when we were little, this is just the time where you can do anything you want, have anything you want, a time where you don’t mind anything around you unless it will give happiness to you, you don’t mind problems or anything that you think will bother you, and of course dreaming and wishing where the sky is only your limit. As a child, we are all curious in all the things that surround us; we always question everything new in our sight, we always want to experience and explore new things every day. Back then, Candies and Chocolates are my childhood and opening the wrap of lollipop is the hardest thing to do for me, going back to that stuffs, I always feel so happy every time may Nanay gave me those whenever she come home from the market. Another memorable event in my childhood is that talking and sharing some epic stories with some of my friends and playmates. Looking back, playing is a serious learning for me, it is really my work, no doubt, and it is also yours. Since earlier I stated about our curiosities, let me share to you some products of it when I was a kid: First, I tried to balance the on and off switch of our light, the second one is that In the mall, I always try not to step on the outline of the tiles, next is Me and my little brother always play bahay-bahayan...
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...All the Small Things I am a firm believer that everyone should enjoy all the small things life has to offer. We often get lost in all the day to day routines. I am just as guilty. We wake up and rush through the early morning fog of waking up, getting coffee, getting dressed, waking up kids and spouses. We all go through it. Then once we have reached school or work, you rush through the day of trying to get everything done that has to be done by the time that bell rings or it’s time to hit that time clock. But for me, when my little girl started preschool, it was a major eye opener. There I sat in my car in the parking lot, sobbing my eyes out. How did four years pass me by so quickly? That’s when it hit me to stop everything. I had to take a moment to just recollect back over the years, when she walked, talked and even that time she ran through that backyard in only her socks, trying to catch a butterfly. I finally gathered myself enough to leave the parking lot and go on about my day. But that day has forever changed my life. I now come home from work and leave work at work, just like that. It took me awhile to get it fully. But I do not want to miss another moment and sit and wonder where the time has gone. I literally stop and smell the roses, in my mother’s front yard or even when I’m passing by a flower shop on my way out that day. I now have a list of questions we ask each other at the dinner table every night. No one is perfect, and I know I am not. I fail...
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...The Punch The Punch The most important thing to remember about leaving the past behind is to never look back, no matter how tempting it might be. That means leaving the physical and mental pain with the past. They never explained how much your fist hurts after that swing. The fact that the cheekbone of boy your age is as firm as the cement floors just a few metres away. This is the easy pain though. The pain which hurts most is when your throbbing fist becomes still and the adrenaline you felt is all but a memory. I tried to argue to the ref that he was being a grub all game, that I was provoked, that he threw the first punch and that some sort of justification would ease my pain. Constant vulgarities being tossed at me, elbows to the face, rubbing my face into my own home turf ground, tasting the bitterness of the mud and feeling the dirt seeping into my pores. There’s a limit to how many times you can tell someone to back off, before the testosterone within you breaks through your self-control barrier and forces you to make sudden decisions which affect your life. So I threw my punch. Then he threw his. Exchanging rapid punches like an eager child opening a birthday present. Constant yelling from the sidelines, in the background; whether it was abusive or positive comments. We didn’t hear the words, not in our current state. Those punches and jabs were far from swift though. Still half the time they scraped past our slippery shoulders. That didn’t die down the velocity...
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...knowing her exact age. This however, only comes out later, when he is being prosecuted for murdering the Arab man, when it turns out, that instead of being the observer, Mersault is now the one being observed. He changed after his time in prison by losing his sense of empowerment and being unable to live in the moment and not thing about his future, this lets him realize that he is no longer the observer but rather the one being observed and judged by society. Throughout the whole book Mersault has always been portrayed as the observer of society. The man, who silently sits on his balcony, having a smoke, and watches the pedestrians walk through their life. But after being imprisoned, Mersault doesn’t feel his sense of empowerment anymore due to being in prison and forgetting how society acts. Normally a man in prison sooner or later forgets how society behaves (at least the little things). But Mersault doesn’t only forget this, but also loses his sense of empowerment, his little god-complex, sitting on the balcony, watching the people walk by. He no longer observes people, and instead is not invisible on the balcony anymore, but is being watched in a little cell. He...
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...How Males and Females Should Interact. The main purpose of what you are about to read is to be inform people of something important which they do not seem to know. How to act around the opposite sex and how that will help form you a healthy relationship with them. First it is important to see what a healthy relationship looks like from an outside perspective. Next you will figure out what you could improve to make a more healthy relationship. You will learn about what our media makes it seem like people feel they have to do to get into a relationship. Most people around the age most likely to be looking for that special someone do not realize that there are other ways to go about it. You will also need to know how to talk, and use your body language to your benefit while interacting with others. It is interesting how the smallest subtleties are able to make such a big difference in how others view you. How others view you effects what social classification you end up in. This makes it very important to watch carefully and see how you portray yourself in the community. When you look into your own mind and try and pull out a successful relationship what do you picture? Chances are a good looking couple is part of the picture. While yes, it is important to be attracted to one another, it is not what your world should evolve around. When I picture a healthy partnership I see two people with positive energy surrounding them. I see both parties engaged in the relationship. I...
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...After reading the poem “Dust of Snow” by Robert Frost, it appears that Frost is trying to hint at the fact that its the little things in our lives that can make huge changes in our future. It also shows that if we can take the hard times in life and keep moving that something will eventually happen to change our situation into happier times. And even though these little things may go unnoticed, they help bail you out in the long run. Aside from my first impression of the poem, I was able to notice certain symbols appear. For example, there is slight irony displayed to me in the first couple lines of the poem. In the first line of the poem Frost mentions a crow. Normally in literature and in life, crows are used as symbols to represent both death and fear. But as I read the second and third lines I was able to recognize slight irony. On those lines when Frost said that the crow “Shook down on me/ The dust of snow” it was as if the crow was doing him a favor. This is the ironic part because as I mentioned earlier, crows are normally used as symbols for both death and fear but in this instance the crow did a good deed by shaking off the snow. It is also ironic the type of tree that Frost has the crow standing upon. Frost didn’t choose any ordinary random tree. He purposely chose to use a hemlock tree. Many may not realize they ironic image that Frost is displaying because a hemlock tree is usually associated with poison and toxicity. This image is ironic because he has a crow (a...
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...of media for a whole twenty four hours is pretty hard. During this time of pure meditation from the digital world was a good way for me to understand, why we need media and why it’s also not needed. Since I was born, I’ve always been surrounded by technology, even the earliest stages of the internet. Most of us today use social media, television, or even our phones to obtain news and information around us. Personally I couldn’t tell you the last time I read a newspaper to know what’s going on in my community. Media is making our lifestyles a microwavable generation where everything is quick and handed to us. Not knocking technology or social media because I feel like it’s much easier to get information in the palm of your hand. But one thing I notice about using too much technology is that we are slowly losing face to face communication skills. More people use texting as a main source of communication and I’ve seen my peers write essay papers like the way they text which isn’t a good trait to obtain. By doing this fasting from technology, I felt at peace for a while, felt like I didn’t have worry about people or the world. Sometimes we don’t even realize how stuck on our phones we be or even the fact that we check our phones even when no one has called or text us. Media is influencing us in our everyday lives, by commercials, reality shows, and even game shows. Realizing that it’s more to life than just watching television, being on social media, and just being a couch potato...
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...25 Ideas To Improve Your Workplace by ADL Associate Barbara Glanz, CSP Study after study has shown that what workers want from their jobs in the year 2000 is not better benefits or more money. Rather, it is the small things that make workers feel commitment to an organization. One study shows the top three things workers want are interesting work, full appreciation for the work they do, and a feeling of being in on things . Baxter Labs recently did a global study in which they asked their employees worldwide what they could do to make things better for them. The resounding answer was that employees wanted to be "respected as whole human beings with a life outside of work." What seems critical, then, in workplaces today is for leaders to respond to workers as HUMAN BEINGS and to foster an atmosphere that is inclusive, caring, creative, appreciative and joyful. People are looking for a deeper sense of meaning and purpose in their work, and above all, they want to be respected and valued. In my book CARE Packages for the Workplace-Dozens of Little Things You Can Do to Regenerate Spirit at Work (McGraw-Hill 1996), I have used the acronym CARE as the elements of a spirited workplace: C = Creative Communication A = Atmosphere and Appreciation for All R = Respect and Reason for Being E = Empathy and Enthusiasm In each of the chapters I have included dozens of mostly no-cost or low cost ideas which can be implemented almost immediately in today's workplaces to engender a new...
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...the job and left the mill. I worked at this job, Mastec an electrical contractor, for twelve years. After 1 year, I received a promotion and was given my own crew. I worked very hard for this company and loved my job. During the twelve years I had my third child and at this time decided I wanted more. I applied for a job with the main power company, Progress Energy, and got the job. Progress Energy was my overall dream job. Working with any power company can require many hours away from home. Being away from home can be very stressful on a family. Long hours away from home you can miss watching your children grow and time with your spouse and overall these were the most important things to me. When a parent works long hours, and I know that this cannot always be helped, you tend to miss the little things. For example, my son plays football and baseball and I have had to miss games or taking him to practice. Once I even missed a homerun. I realize life is short, and although something like this is small to one person, it is huge to me. Going back to college at this time in my life is what’s right for me. Furthering my career I can move...
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...are figurative language, symbolisms, metaphor, simile, and personification. Figurative language is words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation. Symbolisms are the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. In the essay we will discuss the ideas of how the author uses different ways that they have put there thought together in the poem. Metaphor is a term of used to imply comparison between two literally incompatible items; it does not use explicit connective words. Simile is an explicit comparison of items from different classes using words such as like, as, appears, or seems. Personification is attributing human feelings or characteristics to abstractions or inanimate objects. These are some things that you might find with in the poem that we are going to come to a come closer understanding of by the end of this essay. Although we might not find every single one of these with in each...
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...page 1 James Cordell Vicky Edwards Composition I 10 June, 2015 How A Lost One Affected Me After my dad passed due to driving while intoxicated I was devastated and it was one of the hardest times I have ever experienced in my childhood. His death still affects me to this day. Shortly after people would tell me "it would get easier in time." Now that I'm 28, in its own way it has. I still have my days were I grief over my loss. Now days I look at this tragedy and see what positive things it has brought to my life and how I became a better person. The school year after my dad passed was one of the hardest for me. I didn't feel normal anymore. I remember that year after the other boys laughing at me cause I never been hunting and didn't know how. All I could think of before my dad passed when I was bullied he would teach me to defend myself. I still remember when he found out I was getting bullied he showed me how to fight back if I needed to. But now those days was over when I had him to lookup too. For the longest close myself off from everyone around me. As I grew older I still grieve over the loss but not in the same way. I now have made good friends that I could talk to an open up if I needed. I started to feel like was going start to forget him. So I tried to be more like him as much as I could. I started to dress like him. I would wear his jacket and putting my sun glasses on my shirt collar just like I remember him doing. Since my dad painted for...
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...whose grammar is a weakness, but to ensure that those who do qualify for the job is not only punctual and precise but must be an exceptional writer. For the brand he has built, he tests every department as a part of his 'zero tolerance' rule for bad grammar. Not only did he discover that those who are actually great at grammar not only write good but they tend to be extraordinary at irrelevant tasks and tend to pay keen attention to codes , which is very prose in every aspect of life. He also stated that he would pass on a great processor who cannot write. This is a prime example that depicts that not only grammar is one of the most vital and possibly lucrative skills to obtain but , everybody's different and for some, it’s the little things that matter. Devaughn Kelly Larissa Redman English 0309 Summary Good Applicants with Bad Grammar In today’s society grammar can be looked at as judgement. The author stresses grammar can be looked at as a judgement of skills, thus meaning the better you are in grammar, the more “intelligent” you may seem. But does that mean confusing the difference between something like “your” and “you’re” mean you’re unworthy of a higher, more complex job? Mistakes happen, and who knows, grammar standards are always being raised, is it possible that some people could have missed out on some skills due to different education...
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...Narration Essay It was a beautiful day outside when we had left Rhode Island after our week of being on vacation. I got in my sister’s car and sat in the passenger seat, like I always do. We weren't nearly close to being home when I realized how important my life was. I saw my life flash before my eyes in a split second, while hearing the screeching of the tires. There were vivid memories that stuck in my mind; home, happiness, and friends. The thought of how I took everything for granted. Suddenly the car jerked and a loud crushing of metal occurred. My chest was burning from the seatbelt, and somehow my forehead felt like it had been punched. This car accident made me realize how important life is and not to take home, happiness, and friends for granted. While listening to the tires yelling; my mind’s first thought was of home, of my family. Snow was falling on my nose and all six of us were in a huge Christmas tree farm. It is a competition each year to see which one of us finds the fattest and biggest Christmas tree to put in the living room. This was the memory that crossed my mind of my family. The memory of how I didn't tell them that I loved them that day, or even the day of the car accident. I had taken my family for granted; I didn't tell them just how much I loved them before the car accident. I thought about how my family would feel if my sister and I didn’t live through the accident. Thinking about my family made me realize just how important my life is. Happiness...
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...belittle the women for worrying about irrelevant things such as preserve fruits frozen and broken, dirty towel, quilting with uneven stitches, broken birdcage and dead canary instead of useful evidence for the case. After looking around the house, the women found a quilt and decide to bring it with them. Also, they found a dead bird in a box in Mrs. Wright's sewing basket while they were searching for materials for the quilt. The bird was strangled and killed the same way as John Wright. Although Mrs. Peters is hesitant to disobey the men, who are only following the law, she and Mrs. Hale decide to hide the evidence, which will leave the men unable to find any sealing evidence to pin the case on Mrs. Wright. In Trifles by Susan Glaspell, the play reveals a society that revolves around masculine power but the women outsmarted the men with their sensitivity to another woman dilemma. Women pay more attention to the little things that may lead to the solving of a bigger problem than guys who look at the obvious. Lewis Hale utters, "Well, women are used to worrying over trifles" (1067), this is odd because the women found the evidence, and the men didn't. The men were saying things about Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters while the women were examining the quilt. The men were saying things like, "They want to know if she was going to quilt it or knot it" (1070). Since the women concerned themselves with what the men thought was unimportant or of little value, they found the evidence that the men...
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