What if you got rid of your prize possession to buy your loved one a gift, but they ended up selling their possession that your gift was for. Man talk about irony. The “Gift of the Magi” is a story that shows a lot of irony. In the story a woman buys a gift for her husband but she had to sell her hair to get the gift. She bought a gift for her husbands watch and her husband had to sell his watch to buy something for her hair. The theme of the story would be, if one is poor, they may have to make…
America has left many gifts for my generation. We all see gifts as presents and we take what we have for granted. America’s gift to my generation is opportunities, possibilities, and scholarship. One of the gifts for my generation in America is opportunities. Without opportunities we do not get possibilities, therefore we have to have opportunities. With opportunities we can get a job, but there are many possibilities for how much we get paid. We as Americans have the opportunities for…
The Christmas Gift Mousy the Mouse was simply not the most usual. He was always forgetting something that was important two seconds after he thought of it. Now his friend Torty the Tortoise, was always trying his hardest to keep Mousy going. Christmas was always the worst time of year for that. Mousy always got so caught up in the Christmas cheer that he always forgot everything. Torty wanted to make sure that Mousy got everybody a gift, that he…
with you and introduce them to the wonders of living healthy through a "healthy" gift, you might want to think twice about what you're going to offer them. You don't want to send the wrong message by offering your friend a fitness DVD called "How to lose weight" complemented by a digital weighing scale and a "Good Luck" card... Despite your possible good intentions, that's not even a gift, that's just mean. Healthy gifts should be offered in a way that's thoughtful and sensitive, but most…
editing and improving, final script emerged. After several practices it was recorded using some of the drama elements and a few props like books and photos were used. Windows movie maker was used to edit the movie effectively. The short film ‘The Gift’ was chosen for viewing for ‘Arts responding’ aspect of the assessment. The drama brought tears and had a very important message for everyone. ‘Being rich is not about how much you have, but how much you give’. This drama helped in understanding…
are your top two spiritual gifts? Do you agree with the results? Why or why not? Taking the Spiritual Test Assessment resulted in two spiritual gifts identified as the highest-ranking spiritual abilities, which I appear to possess. The two dominant gifts are administration and pastor/shepherd. I personally would agree with this evaluation since much of my life has been in management and now I have been entrusted to shepherd a small rural church. Examining first the gift of administration,…
eventually keep moving forward until you reach your goal. Transitions can encompass experiences from one part of life to another, or through the journeys we take in life to get us to where we need to go despite obstructions and hardships. In The Simple Gift, this is apparent through the character of Billy. He is rebellious but determined, as he…
individual’s life. The pain associated with the loss of someone significant is the worst of all; the feeling of emptiness in an individual’s hands when they try to hold onto them for a moment longer as they slip through their fingers is unlike any other. In Gift Shop – (For Gord), Shane Koyczan wants the reader…
Henry also expresses the love that James and Della have for each other. Della doesn’t just cry when she realizes that she doesn’t have the money for a great gift for James, she howls. She greatly hugs him when he returns home and gets to his flat. After cutting her hair and receiving the money to buy his gift she was so ecstatic that her sacrifice seemed to not bother her until she got home and looked at it, and even then she was only worried that James wouldn’t like her without hair. She…
If I had the gift of all of the time and money in the world, there would be a couple of causes I would commit my efforts to. I know it is very important to give back and to help the world that helps me. One of our duties as God’s children is to take care of our “neighbors” and community. If I had all of the necessary money and time needed to do so, I would support a lot of organizations that can make the world a better place. The first cause would have to be the adoption of children specifically…