In order to better understand how different individuals can relate to one another it is wise to look into how one individual sees him or herself. About wisdom, the Bible says, “Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight” (Proverbs 4:6-7, English Standard Version). It is wise to look into one’s personality in order to gain insight into how life can be lived fully and in right standing with God. The Prentice Hall’s Self-Assessment shows how a person’s personality, values, motivations, and decision making styles can be transformed to make the person a better leader and co-worker. While the questionnaire does not correlate all of these traits together, it does explain how these different areas can be improved at each stage. Needs work As a student with many years of training and experience in law enforcement, I am pretty set in my ways. I have worked hard to achieve better listening skills, leadership skills,…
In the modern world there are many different communities with different social values. While there are “rules” that almost everyone can agree on, such as murder or taking another’s property is wrong, there are several rules that, from inside a community, seem immutable or common sense, but from the outside they are flippant, arbitrary, and restricted. In the story “Good People” David Foster Wallace uses the circumstances of an unplanned pregnancy to examine the social isolation that can occur…
When anyone asks me what my culture identity is, the first thing to pop into my head is everything I am surrounded by and the closest people to me, also the activities I do on the daily and how it is done. Culture is something that is shared and learned as you grow up. What you learned is partially who you end up being in the future whether you can identify it or not. I define my culture identity as the things I am closest to and who I am closest to, which happens to be Jehovah God, his word the…
There are many versions and translations of the bible, just as there are many types of people reading the bible there are many different versions to accommodate the variety of people reading . Although all of the versions and translations are accurate and there is an overall message for each verse that all the versions stick to, there are definitely a lot of differences among the versions. The above table shows the differences among just three versions of the same verse. The First translation,…
With the standards of technology growing every day and the demand for businesses to maintain with the rapid pace, there is a constant need for advancements. Simple Getaways is an excellent example of this need. Since Simple Getaways spans the Western United States with 12 different offices and requires the ability to accommodate for more, but they need the tools to accomplish this. With approximately 2-300 employees operating in a Microsoft based environment, some form of information…
Comparing and Contrasting Shakespeare's Play Romeo and Juliet and the Movie Version "[. . . E]mblems of mafia gang-land hostility: guns, fast cars, and tattoos [. . .]" (Walker 5) are not the usual images found in a Shakespearean play. Baz Luhrmann's 1996 production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is: [. . .] told in a setting [. . .] that is modern and yet unfamiliar: a world where the youth might conceivably always go armed; a world where love can still be so thwarted and…
Various covers of three of the greatest hits. Since the beginning of time people from all aspects of the world have took music as a way of life. To the art form of how music was made to the beats, rhythm, and the way music makes you feel. Some of music’s greatest legends have done many cover songs, such as Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt”, Guns N’ Roses – “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door”, and Muse’s cover of ‘Feeling Good’. While many may believe the original version of the song itself sounds better…
20). Considering that the staff were being overworked, it is to no surprise that some mistakes were made, especially with the typographic detailing, which became deficient, resulting in several titles using different variations of the Gill Sans type family, which can especially be seen in Siamese White by Maurice Collis in 1940, using a different version of the capital ‘W’ in the title (Baines, p. 20). While this may have been considered somewhat sloppy at the time, over the years, the books…
Singing a cover version of an already famous song is an opportunity for new artists to introduce themselves to the public. Sometimes, indeed, cover can become as conventional as the original song. Here are my top six cover versions of popular songs that are said to be as good as their originals. 1. Swedish / Moroccan singer and songwriter Sofia Karlberg became known for her version of Beyonce's "Crazy in Love." After uploading a cover of the famous R&B song, all at once Karlberg's version…
‘Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door’ is the classic Bob Dylan song which has been covered and recorded by a plethora of artists, including Guns N’ Roses, who released it as a single in 1992 (O’Shea 134). Over the years, many artists cover songs to make them their own distinct sound. Some make the song more famous than the original version, while others do not do such a good job. Dissimilar versions of the same song can mean different things to other people. It all depends on the person listening to the…