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Pat enjoyed being part of the ladies golf group and partaking in Art Association classes and in later years became an active member of the book group and a bridge player. She also was an avid reader, love to take cruises and marveled at the unique places, such as St. Petersburg, Russia, Berlin, and Iceland, that she got to visit as well as her trips on the QE2 and the Concorde. She stayed informed seeking out the daily news and reading…

in verbs;” however, the real emphasis lies in weaving the characters into your subject matter. Williams points out that characters and their actions, will often help you to “retell the story to yourself” during periods of intense reading. Being an avid reader myself, this…

staying true to oneself throughout this process. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry focuses on Elsa. She is a seven year old living with her pregnant mother and her mom’s boyfriend. Elsa is very different from other kids her age; she is an avid reader and does not conform to society’s standards of young girls. This causes her issues at school and prevents her from making friends. In fact, her only friend is her Granny, who lives in the same building as her. They do everything…

Technology has existed ever since the cavemen sharpened tree branches to kill animals for food. Essentially, technology is anything that is created to make some aspect in life easier or more efficient. The world today is in an era of constant innovation. Most forms of technology are created to make life easier, but in many instances they have turned out to have a negative impact on the productivity of people’s lives. The invention of the mobile phone has turned out to have a negative impact on…

Chances are most of what you think you know about therapy is misinterpreted in the media. Why? Because our culture’s negative view of what happens in therapy is primarily based on fictional psychologists. Fictional psychologists were introduced to film in 1931 and since then have been interpreted in film in a variety of ways. Unfortunately in most films, psychologists are portrayed in a negative way. A 1991 film called What About Bob? has been analyzed by psychologists and film critics over the…

The book I chose for my independent reading project was The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, by Michelle Hodkin. I would recommend this book to people between the ages of 14 and 18. Hopkin's book is in the category of young adult novels which describes the ages I would recommend. There were definitely negative points to this book but the positives outweighed them. The negative components to this book were present throughout the novel. From the first paragraph I I could tell the writing style would…

9:30pm Monday 6 April 1970 Dear dairy today was a very sad day. I lost a very good friend of mine today Basil Davis. The National Joint Action Committee (NJAC) lost one of its most avid supporters and the revolution lost someone that was most vocal and passionate to its cause. The day started like any other day that I had grown accustomed to. I was therefore not prepared for what was to follow this day. I was to meet Basil at his mother’s home in Barataria and we both would make the trek down to…

and France. Getting all 3 parties together was not easy because Stalin did not want to leave leave his country, he did not trust flying on planes, and Roosevelt was physically disabled and could not travel. Although prime minister Churchill was an avid traveller, it was a challenge for all of them to get together. A meeting was needed urgently and they finally agreed on meeting in Tehran, Iran. The conference was set to start at four in the afternoon on 28th of November. Stalin was the first…

Do Stalker Ads Creep You Out? A few months ago I decided to leave home and rent out some office space. I splurged and bought a new office equipment, furniture and general supplies. I’m an avid online shopper and Amazon.com is one of my best friends. Sometimes Amazon can get a little creepy when it decides to stalk me. Over the next month as I settled into the new office, I kept seeing ads for trash cans, binder clips and desk chairs. Amazon went above and beyond in making sure that I had a place…

I observed a young Asian woman, vigorously washing her hands in the girl’s bathroom in the Homewood location. She then slowly put on her Johns Hopkins sweater. It was interesting to see her focus on her sweater rather than herself as she looked in the mirror. I asked her if she was a student and she nodded negatively. She shared with me that she was visiting from another campus, doing research at Johns Hopkins. Exiting the bathroom, I saw the young woman walk into a lush green landscape…