Gratitude

Throughout college, I volunteered with at-risk teens in San Diego’s inner-city who needed guidance, tutoring, and companionship. This program exposed me to the heart of the city. Three weeks in a row, I watched an arrest be made at the doorstep of our building. The resilience and optimism displayed by the students despite these dire circumstances forever changed my perspective on the inner-cities. I mentored a teen battling gangs, poverty, and a brain tumor who never failed to dream of a…

I saw it for the first time at my elementary school’s book fair. The cheetah head. A fuzzy keychain with googly eyes and long wiry whiskers and a zipper mouth filled with cheetah facts. Hanging on a white metal bar with other animal heads. Kylee and I looked at each other at the same time with the same look in our eyes. It was the cutest thing we have ever seen and we needed to have it. I don’t remember how I met Kylee, but I remember becoming fast friends. Three hour phone calls and playing…

Personal Journey Carrie Dailor: Gratitude Given, Gratitude Received “But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.” ~Anne Lamott With the arrival of 2016, Carrie Dailor anticipated a significant year. She looked forward to the tenth anniversary of her breast cancer diagnosis in October. “It meant that I was possibly so far out from everything that in a way I would be…

A rhetorical device is a technique a write uses to establish an underlying meaning. In Marc Antony’s remembrance speech at Caesar’s funeral, rhetorical devices were used to convince the audience that Brutus was deceitful. Additionally, in President Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address”, it is evident that the usage of these devices helped to persuade American citizens to unite and remember those who died for our country during the Battle of Gettysburg. Lastly, rhetorical devices are present in Hillary…

to Darcy would harm others’ respect for him, she judges Elizabeth with prejudice towards inferior families, similar to how Elizabeth disliked Darcy for his supposedly arrogant manners. But, Elizabeth, no longer burdened by “duty, nor honour, nor gratitude” that restricts families with no aristocratic lineage, demonstrates her courage and tenaciousness that allows for her to have an unorthodox, but deserving, marriage and future (Austen…

+Relationship: My client in this scenario is the Coach Jim Pitts, a middle school English teacher and boy’s football head coach. My primary focus is Coach Pitts. He is the client with a signed informed consent and he is responsible the financial piece of our professional relationship. Due to confidentiality, I cannot work directly with any of the athletes or parents. However, our agreement allows me to provide mental skills training to both the athletes and the parents as well as the use of…

Voice of Democracy “My Responsibility to America” As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John F. Kennedy. Individuals take an oath to become a US citizen. Others are born here. We all must appreciate all that this great nation offers. If you are an American citizen in order to ensure our country's future you need to show your appreciation for our flag, opportunities, and veterans. When we show…

Wiesel begins his speech by providing a credible background and gaining the trust of the audience by asserting his former life. He expresses this by thanking the audience and amplifying a gratitude for rescuing him from the Nazi army. Wiesel professes “Fifty-four years ago to the day, a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up...Liberated a day earlier by American soldiers, he remembers their rage at what they saw. And if he lives to be a very old man, he will…

has become popular for Christian woman because it reminds them how to connect with God. One Thousand Gifts talks about gratefulness a lot and how it can be a person’s salvation. Boyett states, “One Thousand Gifts is changing my life, not because gratitude is the key to salvation, but because gratefulness brings me into God's presence every time” (Boyett). Boyett explains that the book has shown her…

people that read this will have the same genetic disorder as me and this is the only disease that will tell you you don't have it so if you find yourself or somone trying to purswade you that they are not, they are. But today it's crazy the amount of gratitude I have for living clean and I feel the most amazing I can remember feeling and everything else has been treated so now I…