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In Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif,” Twyla Benson retells the story of her time in St. Bonaventure shelter and encounters with Roberta Frisk, but they remember different things each time they reminisce on the past. Twyla finds herself evaluating what really happened in her life, shifting ideas based on her own memories and what Roberta thinks. Her thoughts are ultimately distorted, raising questions on what is actually true. Twyla, as the narrator, tells the story with her own bias, making it…

Short Term 12 (2013) is an inspiring movie to watch; the director/writer Destin Daniel Cretton put real life situations in this movie and it is so touching. Short Term 12 is full of hope; this is a place that children go as a safe haven and the main characters Grace and Mason are in charge of helping and caring for the children. As the children get older and turn 18 they have to leave Short Term 12. Also Grace and Jayden have learned a lot about each other; consequently, they find out that they…

Wall-E is an ingenious film which subtly portrays the future being destroyed by consumer culture. We are living in time where we’re always thinking of our future and how our society can further progress our civilization. Through Wall-E, the movie creatively acknowledges the concerns of corporate control and how consumer culture is devastating our way of living in the present and ultimately the future. With the contrast between the past and the future throughout the film, there is an evident…

hours. Because the school day is extended by one and a half hours, scheduling conflicts with school, family, and community activities will occur. For example, the extended school time will affect the starting and stopping times of sports, and as a result, games would be prolonged. With that, students would have less time to do homework and projects after late games. Also, extending schools hours would interfere with parent’s work schedule. Parents would have to accommodate their schedules so…

urology procedural unit I recently started working for, management had devised a new procedural flow study with the aim to improve time management for nurses and overall waiting time for patients in the urology department. The current waiting times for patients were about one to one and a half hours to be seen by a physician and three to four hours’ total visit time. About three quarters of the nurses on my team had been working in the unit for about twenty-years plus. Many of them were not…

recommend writing your goals down on a piece of paper or in the notes section of your phone. It is important to remember the famous equation Short Term = Long Term (ST=LT). If you achieve your short term goals, you will achieve your long-term goals. Set time aside each day to review them. This will help keep you motivated and focused! Find a Mentor: In my opinion, this may be the most important step. Also, included in this step is listening to people who have the same end goal. Finding someone…

reshaped my entire identity and made me realize what I used to want in life was nowhere near where I truly wanted to be. I am thankful for my past and how I got to where I am today, but I would never want to go back to a soul who is lost within a world full of misunderstandings. I misunderstood who I was, and what aspects of my identity were done for me or for others. I now know the meaning of life and it is to find what path one must take to live an exemplary life. I may keep switching paths…

In this fast moving world, we have lost our internal affiliation. Reliability is a fight. Everyone is fighting for some position. There is no time for your self. Throughout the day we lose energies dealing with our daily problems. Life is going away from us because of this. Society is looking around for real life, and searching for a solution to their stressful life. There is a new mechanism we can implemente in our life. It is called, ‘Mindfulness’. Mindfulness is a condition of dynamic, open…

24 hours. We all have the same amount of time each and every single day. What we choose to do with that time is entirely up to us. My late father, Sam, who never promoted past grade school, managed to help his parents raise their family in the Philippines when he was a child, married and worked to get all of my half siblings to America “in search of the American Dream”, and along with his second wife, my mother, raised both my only full brother and I, to be hard-working, respectable adults.…

Imagine living in a world full of questions and uncertainty with little knowledge if it will be your last day to walk this earth. If your destiny was in the hands of someone else, would you allow it? More often than we know, we take the opportunity of life for granted. It is not on purpose, but we live in a society where we are able to do so. Unfortunate events do occur but it is not something we have prior knowledge of. In the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, the people of the…