David Lindsay-Abaire

It is never too late to learn skills and develop yourself. My preposition is to implement personal development lectures on student’s daily education. Personal development helps identify the strengths of a student. Students face different circumstances in life that can cause them to feel no hope looking into the future, personal development lectures explain what procrastination is, how to recognize the best learning style, and understand personality traits. Growing up and accepting the…

JetBlue didn’t realize how serious the problem was or that it would span over the next five days. All issues which impacted the companies operation and income. The company empowered its employees to make decision concerning operations and ability to cancel when necessary. An excerpt from JetBlue’s 2007 Environmental and Social Responsibility Report: “we were negatively impacted by an ice storm that hit the New York metropolitan area and caused the cancellation of about 1,200 flights over a…

In “Let It Snow”, David Sedaris retells a seemingly innocent story of being in fifth grade and having a week off from school because of snow days. On the fifth snow day, Sedaris’ mother has a breakdown and ends up kicking Sedaris and his siblings out of the house so she can have time to herself. Sedaris and his siblings take the opportunity to go sledding and after returning a few hours later, realize their mother is still refusing to let them inside. As day turns to night, panic sets in and the…

An Agent of Competency As children, many young boys and girls watch sports on television with the hopes of one day being the one who is scoring the game winning touchdown, or shooting the game winning shot at the buzzer, or landing the perfect 10 to bring home the gold. Upon growing up, many of these same children realize only a select few will achieve that goal and must look for other ways to earn a living. One career path that can be taken that allows one to be part of the sport they love is…

David Bosch, considered to be a foremost mission theologian, presents thorough scholarship drawing upon a vast number and breadth of sources, covering the entire chronological scope to the present era of NT church history from a "emerging ecumenical paradigm of mission" perspective in an amazingly compact fashion. The epochal treatment of missions by Bosch is notable, also in it’s scope from Primitive Christianity, Hellenistic period, middle ages Roman Catholic, Reformation, Modern…

Many of our standard societal interactions rely on the assumption that people are responsible for their actions. When someone does something good, he or she can be rewarded in some way for this act, such as getting a promotion or a medal of honor. Conversely, when one commits a wrongdoing, he or she can be punished, like when a criminal is put in jail. These interactions work because the person in question is assumed to be responsible for their actions; in other words, he or she freely chose to…

The Time I Got Stitches The worst thing that’s happened to me in my life was the time I had to get stitches. It was the summer of 2012. The weather was warm, but the wind was blazing. My cousin and I, who happened to live next door to each other in our old apartments were playing volleyball in the middle of the street, while our family were in the house hanging out. The ball we used was not hard so it could move with the wind. There were another set of apartments which everyone called the…

Ahjussi (아저씨), also known by it’s English title The Man from Nowhere, is an action packed, thriller film starring Won Bin as the movie’s protagonist, Cha Tae Sik. The movie was released on August 4, 2010 and was directed by Lee Jeong Bum. The story begin with Cha Tae Sik, the owner of a pawnshop, who lives by himself and leads a quiet life. He is a quiet man and does not have any friends except for a little girl, Somi, who lives next door with her mom. Somi frequents the pawn shop, often selling…

Remembering Babylon In the book Remembering Babylon by David Malouf we see a story of many mixed emotions that includes: sadness, happiness, and even the emotion of anger. The protagonist of the story is the thirteen year old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, who we see grow up throughout the story. Gemmy got cast ashore on the far north part of Australia and he was taken in by the Aborigines. Gemmy was not one of them but they took him in since he was still a kid who needed a safe place to…

When studying any form of history, it is necessary to assess all of the sources, whether they be primary or secondary, in order to receive a better evaluation of the credibility and information provided in the text. It is important to study primary sources in history because they can be directly related to the topic and time period that you are addressing and, when thoroughly studying the author, the intent, and background information, you can have a firsthand experience compared to a textbooks…