...Many types of people have had an effect on the world such as government officials, activists and scientists. One the most interesting types of people that can also have an effect on the world around them are the artists using their medium of choice, such as the visual artist creating a new style never seen before or reviving an old style for future generations. This can also be seen in the musical artist who can bring people together after a tragic event or rally people together to share a message of change. It can also be seen in more so than most with the writer who writes about the ills of a society to bring it to the forefront of the people’s mind. It is in these ways and others that the three artists that we will be looking at have had an effect on the world around them, but before we look at that we should look at the people themselves. The first person we will be examining is the visual artist Chuck Close who was born in 1940 and is part of the Photorealism...
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...My husband The most influential person in my life is my husband. Sometimes in life people might meet somebody who could completely change their lives. Influence doesn’t always have to be positive. Unfortunately, some people are influenced in a negative way, but not in my case. I am a very lucky person, because I have met exactly that man, who transformed my life to the best. When I first time came to the US, I met this wonderful Ukrainian man who is 6.23 ft. and has the most beautiful hazel color eyes I ever seen. We met several years ago and since then my husband was an example in many ways for me. My husband influenced me in three key ways: he taught me to value the education, to be closer to parents, and he awoke a passion of cooking in me. First, my husband taught me to value education. Up until moving to USA my parents treated me like a princess and I thought life would be easy as that always. My parents used to be solving all my problems, deciding all important decisions for me, and I thought that will be last forever. But when I met, at that time my future husband, I felt that I want something more than just be behind my parents’ comfortable backs. After a lot of thinking, I made my first own decision – to move to U.S.A. Very soon my husband proposed to me and we married after some months. Watching him work full time as a brilliant engineer and still pursuing his master’s degree I realized it was time for me to become more independent. I decided to go to college and...
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...3 October 2009 Out of the Ordinary To think of something or a person who has influenced me is a very difficult task. It took me some time to think of something until I came to this object. Most people would focus on the typical aspect of writing an influential paper on being a human. The interesting thing is, is that this object has been the television. Well, not just television, but the reality and fictional shows on television. If you can believe it, my goals that I have for my future have been based on some shows I have seen on television. When growing up, I always knew I wanted to be in a profession where I would help people. Whether it was to be a veterinarian, nurse, a doctor, dentist, surgeon, pediatrician, I wanted to do it all. Blood, guts, and gore were not a factor in making this decision. The one factor that did however was a surgeon on a reality television show. This show deals with so many different cases of people who want to improve their looks or fix a birth defect. Before I knew it, Dr. 90210 was leading me to the next big step in my life. Well-known surgeons from Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York were a part of this show. They each had their own unique talents and different “style” of performing surgeries. The person who I spend the most time watching is Robert Rey. He is performing the type of surgeries that interest me the most which is strictly “plastics”. The other surgeons are also dermatologists and OBGYN’s instead of focusing on just...
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...Angel Zamora Ms. Elliot AP Psychology, Period. 5 10-10-12 Nature Vs. Nurture The natural characteristics of a person can be either similar or different to the unnatural characteristics of a person. The natural characteristics of a person are the traits that come from their parents, which are the ones that people are born with which are passed on when you first are born. These traits are developed biologically. The nurtured characteristics of a person are the traits that people develop themselves throughout life. The environment of a person’s life determines a lot of their personality. The traits a person has after they were born were obtained because of the environment they lived in. There are many traits that I have inherited naturally from my mom and dad. I can tell that my athleticism has been inherited from my dad because he is a very hard worker at everything he does and he used to play soccer, football, basketball and volleyball when he was my age. My mom is also a hard worker and she is very smart in math, she is the one that always has to see everything cleaned in the house and homework finished, she basically takes control of any situation every time, which I know, I have inherited. I have also inherited some of my dad’s physical characteristics because my body is almost like his when he was young it came naturally and also some of my mom’s physical traits like her tallness, her whole family is tall, parents, and brothers. I can also tell that I have inherited...
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...that are very important to me. My values that I carry with me all the time day and night originated from my family, friends, and teachers that are important in my life. The people that have influenced me and taught me most of my values is my family. My family is the people that have been there with me through the “good” and “bad”. They are the people who taught me the “dos” and “don’ts” in life. My parents are the ones who made me who I am today. By being there everyday of my life my family has taught me the meaning of loyalty, I’m a smart, loving, caring, trustworthy, hardworking, and successful because my parents helped guide me in the right direction. They will be there to support me until the very end. I don’t know what I would do without my family. If it wasn’t for them I wouldn’t be the person I’m today. My family has taught me never to give up and to keep going even when times get rough. They have instilled in me to reach my goals and strive for the best. I will reach my goals in life to the best of my potential. With this in mind, I go to school everyday to reach my short-term goal of graduating with honors and start my next goal of becoming a sophomore in college. My family has taught me everything that I believe in such as religion and working hard for what you want. When I got to school I get taught many things from my teachers, which helps me become a more well rounded and educated person. My friends are also the people who encourage me to be a hard worker and...
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...Nature Vs Nurture Of My Life The natural characteristics of a person can either be quite similar or quite different to the unnatural characteristics of a person. The natural characteristics of a person are the traits that come from their parents; the ones that people are born with which are genetically. These traits are developed biologically. The unnatural characteristics of a person, or the nurtured characteristics, are the traits that people develop themselves after they are born. The environment of a person’s life greatly determines their personality. The traits a person has that they weren’t born with are the traits that the environment has influenced on them. There are many traits that I have inherited naturally through genetics from my mom and dad. I can tell that my work ethic has been inherited from my dad because he is a very hard worker and I also strive to achieve my personal best. My mom tends to be very sensitive at times and concerned for other people’s feelings, which I know, I have inherited. I have also inherited my dad’s super mathematical skills and my mom’s loving abilities. I can also tell that I have inherited a good sense of well being from my mom. There are also many behaviors that I have developed from the environment I grew up in. I have learned to respect all people from being influenced at school and by my parents. I’ve also been trained to be responsible of things such as doing my work. I learned that if I am not responsible and don’t do my work...
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...Throughout my life I have been influenced in my leading style by many amazing leaders who I one day aspire to be like. The main influence on my leadership has been my mother, who is a teacher and an amazingly invested leader. She is dedicated to the growth of the people she leads and teaches them to be advocates for themselves and gives them room to learn to develop their own ideas. She is a firm believer in the idea of stewardship, and cares about and gets to know the students she leads. I have also been influenced by several of my science teacher throughout the years, not only to pursue a science career, but also to grow my leadership skills through finding my passion, looking to the future, and learning from my mistakes and growing from...
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...Example essay on Nature vs Nurture: The natural characteristics of a person can either be quite similar or quite different to the unnatural characteristics of a person. The natural characteristics of a person are the traits that come from their parents; the ones that people are born with which are genetical. These traits are developed biologically. The unnatural characteristics of a person, or the nurtured characteristics, are the traits that people develop themselves after they are born. The environment of a person’s life greatly determines their personality. The traits a person has that they weren’t born with are the traits that the environment has influenced on them. There are many traits that I have inherited naturally through genetics from my mom and dad. I can tell that my work ethic has been inherited from my dad because he is a very hard worker and I also strive to achieve my personal best. My mom tends to be very sensitive at times and concerned for other people’s feelings, which I know, I have inherited. I have also inherited my dad’s super mathematical skills and my mom’s artistic abilities. I can also tell that I have inherited a good sense of well being from my mom. There are also many behaviors that I have developed from the environment I grew up in. I have learned to respect all people from being influenced at school and by my parents. I’ve also been trained to be responsible of things such as doing my work. I learned that if I am not responsible and don’t do...
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...The Person Who Influenced Me the Most Everyone is affected by certain events that greatly change their life. There has been one person that has influenced me during my life. The wonderful person that has had a special effect on me is my husband. In the thirty years that I have known him I know with out a doubt he has been my best friend, and have helped to transform me from an insecure woman into a self-confident woman. Popular wisdom has it that, "You judge a man by his friends." Earlier in my life, that would have been difficult, because I had few friends other than my cousins. I concentrated mostly on school, paying little attention to life outside my studies. My high grades made me the target of torment during grade school, the name calling: nerd, and worse, was so bad that I was ostracized by some of the class, and I shielded myself by further isolation However there was this young man who always seem to come to my rescue and I knew he was special, and we would be friends for life. My husband has been an inspiration to me because of his strong determination to become all that he could be and has encourage me to become all that I can be. Sacrifice had to be made in order to reach our goals. Even though it has not been easy, in the end it was well worth it. At one time our dreams seem so far out of reach but we learned that they could be an attainable. My husband has been my motivator, and encourager from the very start. Even though this is my first...
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...Changes are inevitable. Most of the things are bound to change while few remains as it is. Changes happen as people continue to grow with their life. Similar to what old saying goes: “What you had, shapes who you are” which implies that people are shape to what they become because of those changes they had experienced. The study of developmental psychology holds the similar objective of this cliché phrase. Developmental psychology, as it says, study the various factors and influences that are bound to affect and form people as to who will they become. As I go through various changes in life myself, some experiences I have been through brings out the best of me; however, there are some that still haunts me down. These changes in my development...
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...Most of us would say that the person who made a big influence to them was their mother or their father .Some of us would say that their friends were the ones who influenced them, especially those people that have the same age like me. Someone might consider the influence one has and how the environment impacts his or her personality. Since when I was young, I used to be with my relatives so I can’t say that my mother or even my father, where my influence to be who I am since I don’t grow up on them . The person who made a big influence to me is my auntie. She was the one who raised me and took care of me since birth. Her name is Gloria and she is the older sister of my mother. Ever since I was a kid, she and my other aunts were the ones who took care of me because my mother is working abroad particularly on a cruise ship .My auntie is very much hands on towards me and she makes sure that I have the things that I need rather than what I want .She’ has time for me even if she’s not my mother and supported me to the things that I wanted .She has helped me many ways; she pushes me to be the best and she possesses good qualities that I try to obtain. She has taught me that to constant hard work, I will never fail. Even though, at times I get annoyed with her always pushing me, I know that she is just doing it because she wants the best for me. And so far, I have succeeded every time I have listened to her. At times I think the advice she is giving me is wrong, but I still listen...
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...For me, some of the most powerful influences in the world are my parents and my school teachers. My parents influenced me in my way of thinking and perceiving the world. They taught me what was the best way of expressing myself, my feelings and words. My parents always wanted me to give the best I can of myself in everything I do in life. My school teachers influenced me in giving me the help I needed in areas that I thought I wouldn’t be successful, they influenced me to try harder and to challenge myself. My influences on my point of view of the world have not changed because my way of thinking is similar to that of my parents. They influenced my life so deeply that my views of the world and people are almost never wrong. I come from a Hispanic background and most people assume we are all catholic’s because that’s the “norm”. However, to many people’s surprise, I was raised as a Presbyterian and to top it off as a Republican. As a child I was taught that I should never accept democratic views or be involved with other religions. My mother was a very strict person and there was never a gray color, it was black or white but never in between. For her a lie was a lie, and my siblings and I were never allowed to even consider lying to her. My childhood was very different than that of my friends, I guess because my mother never wanted to go through an embarrassing moment. She said she would never let myself get in trouble because she was not about to go to a precinct, much...
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...mentality that I do not want to share my knowledge to others 8. Not sensitive to others 9. People pleaser 10. Pessimistic thinking on a situation. A role model is an individual who is looked up to and revered by someone else. A role model is someone who other individuals aspire to be like, either in the present or in the future. A role model may be someone who you know and interact with on a regular basis, or may be someone who you've never met. For me,my role model is my father. One of the qualities that he has that made him my role model is that his ability to solve problems and come up with answers swiftly. In addition, he is a very logical thinker. As Booker T. Washington once said, “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome.” My dad has atoned to this statement whe re in I saw the challenges he brushed off just to give me this kind of life. He influenced me to become a better person. I also strive to become a logical person. He influenced me in such a way I try to become like him when faced with adversity. The impact of my role model is mostly behavioral. I have seen myself more humble in most situations. I also acquired the silent trait as I call it wherein I tend to become a more quie t person and tend to become more polite in communicating with othe...
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...boys who grow and change throughout their lives. Most importantly, Elie changed drastically throughout the novel Night. First of all, Elie lost his faith. The story states, “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?” (33). Elie...
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... Paragraph #1: Purpose: Describe Write a complete paragraph about a person who has influenced you in positive ways. Focus on at least one way in which this person has made an important impact upon you. Use specific ideas and examples to illustrate your points and make sure to refer to the Paragraph Structure chart located at the end of the Unit 4 Reading. Include a topic sentence, supporting details and a conclusion (minimum 5 complete sentences). There have been many people who have influenced various aspects of my life and career; based on their values, characteristics and commitment. Out of all the people that I’ve encountered, the person that stands out the most, who has influenced me in a positive way; has been my first “Supervisor”. In the five years that I have known and reported to her, she helped me to enhance my attributes in financial reporting within the healthcare company we worked for. One of my responsibilities was to analyze the finances and report them to senior management. During my tenure with my supervisor; she taught me how to navigate and understand the process of the financial reporting within the healthcare company, relative to our work. Nonetheless, with this new knowledge and understanding; my reporting was much more structured, precise and accurate. As a result, this has impacted my career throughout the healthcare industry and has since made me more successful. Paragraph #2: Purpose: Share an Opinion Write...
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