...thoughts go empty and a decision has to be made. Not thinking anything else but just left with a thought of what needs to be done. Instinct pursues you and you do it. Thrilling isn’t it? A taste of the wild creature’s freedom - a weasel’s perhaps. We are all creatures with the desire to move hastily using our first instinct. What makes human superior above all creatures is our ability to elect on conscientious decisions that is, human instinct. Annie Dillard’s “Living Like Weasels’s” does not perceive it that way. Dillard’s essay is an exploration of how to live life. She suggests living life in simplicity without any complications or restrictions. She also stated that we can do whatever we want. “We can live any way we want.” (Dillard 101) She is a writer of nature and looks at it for inspiration. She introduced the scenery by the Hollins pond also called Murray’s Pond, as calm and inhibits a portrayal of open mind allowing deep observation and connection to nature. She comes across a weasel with analysis of its characteristics and behavior, she thought of evaluating her own life. “I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.” (Dillard 100) She then suggests what we can learn from a weasel’s nature of living. “But I might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical senses and the dignity of living without bias or motive.” (Dillard 100) She states that we should focus only on one goal and one goal alone. The goal is basic survival. We need...
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...course should not be compared to some thing like for an example buying a dress for a special occasion and when realization comes into your mind that you don’t want it, you’ll return it or maybe get your money back. No, this isn’t right, because in college life, you have to treat every second as an important detail of your life. You should not waste every moment in it. So choosing the course which you think fits your capabilities is very important. Studying a specific course in college is not only about paying the fees rather the most important things here are the time and effort spent. Money, time and effort are the most precious things in one’s life and once it is used or spent, it’s hard to gain again or worst you may never have it at all. So the time these are wasted for nothing, for sure the blame for this mistake will be felt truly. When looking at the profile of those students who are working and at the same time is studying, you would notice that they never dare wasting their time. For them, every second counts. Make an observation and you will find out that almost all of the working students are working too hard to finish their studies. For them, wasting their effort, time and money is such a big mistake. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY The objective of studying this matter is to know the profile of the working students and the implication on the class standing. Specifically, they need to answer these following questions: 1. What was the working students are going through...
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...1. Specifically, what should the Carters cover in their new employee orientation program and how should they convey this information? Employee orientation is done so that the new employees can be informed of everything they need to function and also it should help the employees get emotionally attached to the firm. Orientation content: * Information on employee benefits * Working Hours * Vacations * Supervisory reporting relationship * Familiarizing employee with colleagues and workplace * Personnel policies * The daily routine * Company organization and operations * Safety measures and regulations * Facilities tour This information can be conveyed through various mediums. One way is through an employee handbook. This would state the company policies, benefits, and regulations. It is the expectations from the employee and also from the company. It should also contain the employee’s rights. It states the general employment information. Another way they can convey the information is through orientation technology. They can take advantage of the web and have all their information placed online so that the employee can easily access the information and learn about the company. They can also use videos and lectures and different exercises to inform the employees on different aspects of the company. 2. In the HR management course Jennifer took, the book suggested using a job instruction sheet to identify tasks performed by an employee...
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...formula for longevity. But if you ask the average American what the optimal formula of longevity is, they probably couldn't tell you. They've probably heard of the South Beach Diet, or the Atkins Diet. You have the USDA food pyramid. There is what Oprah tells us. There is what Doctor Oz tells us. The fact of the matter is there is a lot of confusion around what really helps us live longer better. Should you be running marathons or doing yoga? Should you eat organic meats or should you be eating tofu? When it comes to supplements, should you be taking them?How about these hormones or resveratrol? And does purpose play into it? Spirituality? And how about how we socialize? Well, our approach to finding longevity was to team up with National Geographic, and the National Institute on Aging, to find the four demographically confirmed areas that are geographically defined. And then bring a team of experts in there to methodically go through exactly what these people do, to distill down the cross-cultural distillation. And at the end of this I'm going to tell you what that distillation is. But first I'd like to debunk some common myths when it comes to longevity. And the first myth is if you try really hard you can live to be 100. False. The problem is, only about one out of 5,000 people in America live to be 100. Your chances are very low. Even though it's the fastest growing demographic in America, it's hard to reach 100. The problem is that we're not programmed for longevity. We...
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...two days later. II. (Information Hunger) Here isquestion for you, how many people in the United States do you think get leukemia in a year? According to the American Cancer Society, 43,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with leukemia each year III. (Purpose) After my speech today, you will know more information about leukemia. IV. (Thesis) The following content I will be discussing is about leukemia, what it is and different treatments. Body I. What is leukemia? 1. According to Medical News Today, It is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow. 2. The word leukemia comes from the Greek words, leukos and aima A. Leukos means white B. Aima means blood 3. Leukemia happens when the DNA of immature blood cells become damaged. A. This happens to mainly the white blood cells. B. This will make the blood cells grow and divide chaotically. C. Then the “bad” cells will take up more and more of the space to where the “good” cells will suffer and become ill also. 4. Different types of leukemia and their survival ratio in 5 years according to WebMD and MD Anderson Cancer Center. A. Acute leukemia involves an overgrowth of very immature blood cells. 1. (ALL) a. Acute Lymphoblastic b. 39 people out of 100...
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... Misleading 100 As usual, I sauntered in the hallway, dreading getting to my American literature class. Mrs. Fisher announced to the class, “Your next assignment is a research paper on an individual that had a great impact on Black History.” As soon as I heard the announcement, my heart beat increased and my palms began to sweat. Literally, I dropped my face on my desk and whispered, “God help us all; I’m about to fail this class.” I had a gut feeling that the assignment was going to be difficult and time consuming. Immediately I imagined the many hours that I would have to assert on the assignment, and the thought depressed me. Little did I know that doing the assignment would bring me one of the greatest surprises of my academic life and taught me that the writing process can’t be rushed. Mrs. Fisher paced back and forth in front of the class room as she explained how someone inspired her to become a teacher. At some point I stopped listing and was on the verge of dozing off. Suddenlty my attention snapped back to her as her words “I get to assign you the person to do this essay on” pushed themselves into my consciousness. Up this point I had thought that we can pick our own person and had settle on Martin Luther King, Jr. Mrs. Fisher proceed to assing different historical figures to different students while the fear of not getting MLK creeped over me. Finally, Mrs. Fisher said,”Santiago Torres, MLK.” For the first time in that class, I felt hopeful. 3 days later we had...
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...the hectic, day-to-day life, and how to remove stress by changing your perspective about things. Carlson offers 100 different sections of advice, organized in chapter formats. Carlson teaches the reader to look at life another way and gives relevant examples on how to do this to eliminate daily stress. Carlson gives such advice as to “live in the present moment” and “to make peace with imperfection”, among other stress reliving advice. Carlson’s main objective is to shift the reader’s paradigm on what is really important in the day-to-day life and how changing your thinking can greatly impact your life. The book “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and it’s all Small Stuff” by Richard Carlson was a very profound book to read. It was both eye-opening, and an effective reminder that negative or bad things that happen to us can’t always be taken too seriously. We go about our lives and react to things, treating things as a constant emergency and don’t stop to think what that reaction may cause. This is the biggest point that Carlson tries to makes in the book, in that how we relate to our problems can have a big impact on how we effectively solve them (Carlson, 1997). The book gives us 100 specific, yet simple strategies that have proven effective to both Carlson, his clients, and his students over the years. His approach is also the way he approaches his own life: the path of least resistance. Although Carlson has provided 100 different strategies...
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...Description of Participant The participant in this Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) is “Patty,” a twenty-one year old student at a university in central Pennsylvania. The participant is one of the observer’s roommates. Patty has a rigorous schedule, juggling a complicated home-life, a part-time retail job and a full course load of classes. She is complimented for her hard work and integrity at work and receives above average grades in her college classes. Patty has also been dealing with her anxiety disorder on top of all of her daily duties. The observer asked Patty if she would like to be in a study in which a chosen behavior would be monitored in both a baseline phase and an intervention phase. Overall, the duration of the study would span over four weeks. Despite her hectic schedule, the participant is enthusiastic to be a part of the observer’s FBA. She immediately told the observers about behaviors she would like to and would be willing to change. Description of Target Behavior and Justification for FBA Patty quickly narrowed her choices for her target behavior to her lack of exercising. She wants to improve her quality of life by making healthy choices about exercise. Since coming to college two years ago she has gained fifteen unwanted pounds. Gaining weight is potentially harmful to her health because Patty’s has a family history of cardiovascular cancer and diabetes. She fears she will follow in the footsteps of her family members, making poor...
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... Age Number of respondents Percentage 15-17 73 26.94 18-20 155 57.20 21 up 43 15.86 Total 271 100% This table shows that 73 respondents or 26.94% out of 271 respondents from first year to third year has the age of 15-17, 155 respondents or 57.20% out of 271 respondents has the age of 18-20, and 43 respondents or 15.86% out of 271 respondents has the age of 21 and above. Gender Number of respondents Percentage male 57 21.03 female 214 78.96 Total 271 100% Table 2 This table shows that 57 respondents or 21.03% out of 271 respondents from first year to third year are male and 214 respondents or 78.96% out of 271 respondents are female. Part I Question #1 Number of respondents Percentage First year 92 33.95 Second year 79 29.15 Third year 100 36.90 Total 271 100% This table shows that 92 respondents or 33.95% out of 271 respondents are first year, 79 respondents or 29.15% are second year, and 92 respondents or 33.95% are third year. Question #2 Number of respondents Percentage Public 266 98.15 Private 5 1.85 Total 271 100% This table shows that 266 respondents or 98.15% out of 271 respondents are from public school, 5 respondents or 1.85% is from private school. Question #3 Number of respondents Percentage 1-3 147 52.03 4-6 89 31.37 7-10 35 16.61 Total 271 100% This table shows that 147 respondents or 52.03% out of 271 respondents have 1 to 3 siblings, 89 respondents or...
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... 100% PART 1 1. Name a. b. c. What’s your full name? Who gave you this name? why did he/ she give you this name? How do others usually call you a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j. k. l. m. n. o. p. q. r. s. t. u. v. w. x. y. z. a) Are you a student or do you have a job? What is your major? Do you like your major and why? What do you want to do when you graduate? Are you keep focusing on this major for a long time? Why did you choose to study that? Do you want to change major? Why? What was the first school you attended? What subjects do you like and dislike? Do you like your high school? What was your feeling about the first day you went to school/college? Which school are you studying in? Why did you choose this university/school? Which city do you study in? Why did you select this city? Do you like ...
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...We always take life for granted in my opinion. Some people think the main point of life is to live a healthy life with a good job, family, and live to be 100+ years old. Why do we measure life by year when we can measure it by good moments. What if you had an accident, and you die regretting to eat that large pizza with fries on your way to your destination? I live by the quote “live life to the fullest”, and “you do you” because I want to be happy on the day I die, not worried or in pain. In the play Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Emily Webb is dead and wishes she could relive a happy moment in her life in act three. I was also living a happy moment too until the accident happened. It was August 3, 2016, 90-100 degrees outside so why would...
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...sure, but my mother pays the cell phone bill 3. How many email accounts do you have? 2 4. How many times a day do you log in to your email? 100 5. How many accounts do you have on the various social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr, or a blog? 1 facebook, 1 twitter, 1 linkedin, 1 pinterest 6. How many times a day do you visit the social networks? 4 7. How many followers do you have on Twitter, friends on Facebook, and contacts in your cell phone?twitter- about 100, facebook- about 1000, phone contacts- about 350 8. What is the significance to you of the number of followers or friends on a social network?- depends on what your using the specific social network for 9. How many texts do you send in one day?30 10. How many hours a day do you send text messages? 2 11. Who do you text and in order to communicate what? Friends, family 12. In what percentage of your classes have you at least once sent a text or an email? 100% 13. How many times in one week have you spent using your electronic devices during classes? 5 times a week 14. How many hours per week do you spend using the internet for your classes? For your job? 20 hours 15. How many hours per day do you spend talking on your cell phone? 2 hours 16. How many times a day do you use the internet on your cell phone? 7 hours 17. What type of sites do you visit on your cell phones everyday? Bank of America, email, shopping websites 18. For you...
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...Living life as we are meant to Life is much simpler that we make it. Life is easier than we are living it. All we need is our basic instincts to live a simple and happy life. Annie Dillard is saying in "Living Like Weasels" that things are easier when your choices are made with instinct and carried through rather than analyzed. We all know that life through an innocent, and simple mind is a wonderful thing. That might be why we remember childhood as an easier time. We grow up and things get complicated and we loose that innocence or mindlessness. “The weasel lives in necessity and we live in choice, hating necessity and dying at the last ignobly in its talons.” (Dillard 100) Choice is something that we make day in and day out. I believe that Dillard is saying that the mindlessness of a weasel is simple to the core and it only making choices based on pure instinct rather than vanity or personal motive. It is a simple mind of a wild animal that uses necessity to make its choices. “People take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience-even of silence-by choice.” (Dillard 101) We choose to ignore our basic natural instincts for personal gain that we hoard for our future needs, but we don’t ever have the time to enjoy all that we have acquired. So why do we move so fast to gain as much as possible to overlook that we don’t have the time to enjoy it. Dillard is arguing that life is moving by to fast and so much is happening right before our eyes. We are so busy with our day-to-day...
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...was a kid in high school all the way up to when he was competing in the 1936 Olympic Games. James Cleveland Owens was born on September 12, 1913 (Turini). His family was a poor sharecropping family from Oakville, Alabama (Turini). Owens parents were named Henry and Emma Owens. His father was a son to former slaves and grew up in the same town as Jesse had. Henry spent most of his life afraid of...
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...2013 | SIOP Lesson Plan Date: | December 4, 2013 | Grade/Class/Subject: | Second grade Science | Unit/Theme: | Life Cycle of the Butterfly | | Content Standard(s): | “Strand 1: Inquiry Process”“Inquiry Process establishes the basis for students’ learning in science. Students use scientific processes: questioning, planning and conducting investigations, using appropriate tools and techniques to gather data, thinking critically and logically about relationships between evidence and explanations, and communicating results” (Arizona Dept. of Education, 2013). | “Concept 1”: “Observations, Questions, and Hypotheses”“Observe, ask questions, and make predictions” (Arizona Dept. of Education, 2013). | PO 1. “Formulate relevant questions about the properties of objects, organisms, and events in the environment.” (See M02-S2C1-01) (Arizona Dept. of Education, 2013) | PO 2. “Predict the results of an investigation (e.g., in animal life cycles, phases of matter, the water cycle)” (Arizona Dept. of Education, 2013). | Key VocabularyLarva CaterpillarEgg ChrysalisPupa CycleButterfly live | Supplementary Materials * Butterfly Life Cycle poster * Book: “I am a Butterfly” by Stephen Swinburne * Printed butterfly work sheets * Power-point on butterfly life cycle * Paper * Pencil * Construction paper * The Children’s Butterfly Site * http://www.kidsbutterfly.org/faq | “SIOP...
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