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Practice Mindfulness Mindfulness is awareness of the present moment with acceptance and without judgment. The tendency of the mind is to judge our experience as pleasant/unpleasant, good/bad, and then we attempt to avoid or numb out the experiences that we judge as unpleasant, such as grief. We can’t selectively numb our pain without also numbing positive emotions, like joy. See if you can allow the feelings of grief to be and simply notice them with compassion. When we can open our hearts to…

The informative speech I gave on Wednesday about “GM Foods” did not go better than I expected that I could have done because I felt time pressure to organize a verbal outline as closer to written outline. On the topic “GM Foods”, my rhetoric was mainly to inform audiences about negative impact of GM foods on human health. The most difficult part of this informative speech for me is the topic selection. Going through the struggle of finding the topic of large public/audiences interest which can…

Unfortunately, his English paper is not submitted because the music is louder than the alarm. Rosecrans Baldwin, writer of “Throw Away Your Earbuds, Boredom Is Good” suggests that being without earbuds is a good thing because it invites boredom; which gives him time to think about daily life. While earbuds are a nice distraction there are other ways to spend time. One reason to lessen our use of earbuds…

In 2013, at Bowie State University Michelle Obama made an extremely motivational commencement speech to the graduating class. Obama’s speech was incredibly powerful and heartfelt. She talked about the possible struggles and tough times that individuals went through to become educated, the history of the school, history of how African-Americans couldn’t become educated and several other topics. However, topic in particular stood out, and it was that countless young adults just don’t care about…

Ever heard of the nursery rhyme, 'A-Tisket a -Tasket'? I haven't. Not until I met him. Tisket was the name he always introduced himself as. At the time, when anyone asked why 'Tisket', he would give you this look of amusement or boredom and tell you to simply, "Look it up." It made no sense, but then again neither did he. Of course, we could have looked up his picture in one of his old school yearbooks, or simply asked his parents but the mystery was fun. I mean, not many people used a nursery…

hour technology fast from Saturday 10 PM to 1 PM Sunday morning. I selfishly chose this time frame because I knew that any other time during the week would be nearly impossible to accomplish. Since, I am indebted to my technological devices to complete assignment, manage my schedule, and meet required responsibilities. In addition, I chose to include sleeping hours because it would cut a majority of the time that I would be without technology. However, I did not want to fully exclude myself from…

something new.” (Brian Tracy) Cross country is a sport where you can either work as a team or work as an individual. Cross country, sometimes makes you as a runner work with someone you’ve never expected to worked with before because we all have our good days and bad days as runners. Cross country is not an easy sport, and neither are the practices; practicing in cross country can range from individual work to teamwork. Indian run is an exercise where the team has to collaborate by jogging in…

Synthesis Essay “Wow, time has passed and things have changed.” There are many instances in life where we would realize this and wonder how much we have grown as humans. Unfortunately, life is not a stopwatch where we could press the go button and press stop whenever we want to. It doesn’t work that way. Time doesn’t stop and everyone is living their lives as we try to progress forward. However, that doesn’t stop us from looking back, because that is what photographs are for. It captures the…

photo is of us hugging, with makeup completed, and stretching smiles after the realization we were now a part of a bigger family, that shared the same passion of dance. Jenna gave me these photos as a Christmas gift, so we could think of all the good times we shared. I gave her a single bracelet in return for her being a great friend, because medal doesn’t easily break, and I hoped our friendship wouldn’t either. It’s funny too, because Jenna and I knew Guinevere, who we met in fourth grade,…

A good example of a static character would be Rosicky in “Neighbour Rosicky”, by Willa Cather. Rosicky would be static because he doesn’t change. Rosicky is the same through the story. His life doesn’t change when he hears about the bad news that he got from the doctor. He simply just ignores it and stays happy like he always is. Rosicky always in the story remained calm…