A Good Thing

it also feels like the semester has flown by. I have learned many things about myself and I have grown and matured though the process. The thing that taught me the most about myself and caused me the most stress in my first semester of college was my dorm experience. Having chosen my first roommate during Connections, I thought that I was going to have a great semester. My roommate convinced me that he wanted the same things that I did. We agreed to no…

and I'm with you as far as the musicals go. I think the first thing I saw her in was Music Man. Then I saw Oklahoma! later. So then it was many years later when I heard about and watched Partridge Family. I had missed that show 'cause I grew up on all the musicals since I was a music person. {pause} Well, maybe they'll bring Shirley Jones back for a film, and you can be with her in another film. I hope so. And that's the great thing about Hallmark. They have really great casts. They're getting…

it more meaningful. Well, I’m guessing that you wish the holidays would provide a deeper meaning. You want more good...no...GREAT memories. You love God and you want that love to be experienced at your dinner table with your cherished ones. So how do you make the most out of your Thanksgiving this year? Well, it all starts with you. Yup, that’s right. All you baby! The only thing we can change is ourselves, not our loved ones, boss’, neighbors or anyone else You can only change…

Imagine a world where all the children actually used their electronic devices for educational purposes. The kid runs home from school like a track runner in the Olympics and picks up his or her iPad and proceeds to play educational math or reading games. That scenario sounds great, but is not something you hear of a child doing on a regular basis which is why that will never happen. Some may argue that the parents should monitor if the child is actually using it for learning purposes, while…

From the very beginning of the novel, there is a uniform struggle amongst the characters to search for meaning in their lives. The main hindrance to their own personal discoveries is materialism. Materialism prevents the characters from flying by "weigh[ing] [them] down" the way a peacock with "all th[e] jewelry" on its tail "weighs it down" (Morrison 179). The only way for the peacock to "soar" is to relieve itself of its "jewelry" much like Milkman, Hagar, and Pilate are only able to find…

based on wealth. It is based on happiness. I feel successful when I know I did the best I could. People are often times put into the bracket of success based on the thing they have. In my grandparents village they see the a person with a nice new Cadillac and think they are well off. However in this day and age people with nice things are often compensating for something they don't have. Success. They are not mentally successful, even though they could possibly be one of the richest persons in…

Now in days everyone is a “winner” every one gets to go home with a trophy even if they didn’t even win. They have always been praised for just being there, even if they don’t try. If someone tells you that you’re a winner, then you automatically just are. Winning is never giving up even after you have lost. It was the most basic of mornings that I woke up to. The sun was not yet shining its warmth on my pint-sized world, however I still dragged myself out of my warm consuming bed, leaving it…

made. Many guys are under the impression that because they are physically grown, they are men. However, this isn’t the case because physical growth doesn’t make you a man. What makes a male a man is how well he is able to maintain his dignity through good and bad times. A man stays true to himself at all times. He does not break, bend, or relinquish his values at anytime. No matter how difficult his circumstances become, he remains grounded in principles. Life does have its challenges and men…

When taking my health risk assessment, I found that overall my personal wellness score was a 99. This was a good score and based on the assessment, I am on track to a healthy lifestyle. Things that I need to keep doing is maintain my weight, not use tobacco products, wear a seatbelt, keep my LDL within the healthy range, and keep eating a diet high in fiber. Some things I need to change are exercising three to five times a week and reduce the amount of fat in your diet (see Appendix A). This was…

see the word family as to the people we are somehow related to by birth. Family for me is more than that is more about those people who open the life door and let us in, like friends and in-law relatives. The meaning can differ different meaningful things and it all depends on when and how we use it. In the story “sonny’s blues” by Baldwin James, the theme family was out in a situation very common now a days because there’s always the “bad” son/daughter who is the trouble of the family. There…