Bless Me

The Righteous Sufferer The Bible is filled with wonderful stories that both inspire and more often than not, teach a lesson or rather allows readers to draw knowledge from the individuals within the stories. One such book is the book of Job, which is the story of a man who goes from living the good life, losing it all, and then getting it all back again. In the book of Job, In the Hebrew Bible, the author, uses imagery, symbolism, and irony to…

I have a quote that I want you to read and then tell me if you know who wrote it: “Enjoying what we do is not always a feeling of enjoyment; it is sometimes the gritty resolution a man or woman shows in doing what must be done — perhaps with inner dread and yet without whimpering self-pity. I like the phrase, “without whimpering self-pity.” It sounds much more dramatic and important than the phrase, “without complaining.” I also like the phrase, “gritty resolution.” Was there anything that you…

was written in 1940 by songwriter Woody Guthrie. This Land is Your Land was written in response to the song God Bless America which songwriter Woody Guthrie disagreed. He wanted is own representation of a patriotic song that he felt would more accurately relate to American citizens at the time. In an article by Mark Allen Jackson, Jackson sates that “it is a musical response to God Bless America” (Jackson 251). In order to best understand the song it must be interpreted through historical…

As many of you readers may not know it, I have taken the liberty of including it into this article. I myself didn 't know the words until a colleague of mine, who had the pleasure to work with the Air Core, gave them to me upon my request. So here are the lyrics to "Off We Go Into The Wild Blue Thunder." "Off we go into the wild blue yonder, climbing high into the sky, here they come zooming to meet our thunder, At em boys give er the gun (give er the gun now) Down we…

READ TO ME, I’LL READ TO YOU!” All my children screaming that sentence together reflect my ideal format for literacy development. My literate experience, with English as a Second Language, was unconventional; and, it somewhat mirrored the children’s book, You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You, by Mary Ann Hoberman. (Hoberman & Emberley, 2001) When you flip through the book, you can’t miss the colors accenting how the author wants her readers to interact with each other, the method that helped me…

have to collide. Some have to burn out to make room for the next. It’s freshman year and my mom helps me move cross-state from Colorado to Nebraska, unload my stuff in giant rolling laundry carts into McGloin Hall, my home for the next nine months. McGloin is supposed to be just for sophomores, but I waited until the last minute with the application, all the freshman dorms filled up so they stuck me in, too. It’s half-reward, half-punishment. Newer and nicer but isolated, tucked and hidden…

FORGIVING OURSELVES I know more people who have had trouble with this than I can name. This is one of the issues that people I have worked with in recovery have shared with me, “how do I forgive myself for what I have done”? That is a great question and not an easy one to answer. I have an old friend, an elderly gentleman. He always keeps it simple and says “if you want to feel good, do good” so one of the ways we can start to feel better about ourselves is to begin to perpetuate good things…

better. Get the school involved earlier and push for my street to step up. Possibly even expand how many streets I cover so I can have a better opportunity to get donations. This may not have gone as I have planned and who knows how my street will help me these next couple of days before I completely finish the pet drive. However, I do know that I learned from this and that it’s not always so easy to make a community project happen without extensive planning or good connections that will for…

that it entails. As a current social work student and a professional working with clients in the social work and mental health field I must conduct myself accordingly. The reason why is because I have guidelines to adhere to and clients that depend on me to represent them for their social needs. I feel that I am growing professionally in the social work field. I have grown since I first entered the social work program. I held jobs where I worked with clients and I had…

Becoming a pharmacist is the perfect match for me because pharmacists are key players in a wide variety of health care settings, and play a critical role in the medication management for patients. Pharmacists are vital health care professionals that help people to achieve positive results from their…