I Was Hoping

The biological parents of Steven Paul Jobs were told to give him up by the parents of his biological father. He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs on the promise that they would make him attend college. He was mischievous as a teenager, but grew interest in building things. He would take apart different appliances to learn how they worked and how to build them. At just age 13, he was given a job for the summer working at Hewlett-Packard. In 1967, Jobs met Steve Wozniak. Jobs and Wozniak became…

bear with me if this is corny and you know I’ m weird with expressing feelings but here … So I guess you could get the credit for this, especially since you were “curved” at homecoming around this time last year and you constantly made your efforts to make sure I remembered who you were after that. You either walked me to class or called me “bae” and for real for real I liked it. Winter break (December 26th, 2014) is where this all started and I’m happy I finally sent that text asking you if…

The motto “Let Us Lead By Serving Others,” acknowledges how others often influence the society. It only takes a few ordinary people to make a chain reaction that can greatly alter society, and the March of Dimes event is a great example of the motto. The March of Dimes is an event that many organizations and corporations join together on a Saturday morning, in order to march for premature babies. It brings awareness to the community and donations to the association. This is a mandatory event…

Them being the I-It relations and I-Thou relations. It is seen that an I-It relation is the normal everyday relation of a human being toward his/ her surroundings in which someone can look at someone as an It and not have a close relationship by any means. On the contrary the I-Thou relation shows the individual within a close relationship with another human with his or her entire being. This relationship becomes a genuine relationship within 2 people. In I-It the person that is the I looks at…

Communication I and Thou Response Paper Martin Buber’s I and Thou contains three sections each consisting of observations and ideas of various lengths. When read individually these observations are not pieces of a story that all chronologically go together, but rather smaller parts of a larger argument that Buber is making. In the first part of the book Buber establishes the foundation for his larger argument, which is that man has two ways of interacting with the world- the way of “I-It”…

bold move in taking over the Hawaiian islands even if he was not next in line to be chief of any of the island. He eventually took over the islands one by one. Kaua’i was the last island that was turned over to him. Kamehameha was a role model and he was loyal because he rewarded his main chiefs with grants of land. He was a role model because he works hard like working in a taro patch. Also setting an example of industry to his subjects. He was loyal because he based government largely on the…

Justinian contributions to the Byzantine empire were magnificent he is also known for a great failure. This failure was trying to reconquer the western Mediterranean provinces when a peace treaty with the Persian empire soon failed to live up to its name. Justinian build a chain of well-equipped fortresses throughout Syria and let his forces free on the central and western Mediterranean. The re-conquest started out well with the restoration of North Africa to the Byzantine Empire. From there…

(354-430 AD), he is known to go by the name of Augustine of Hippo painted an image of himself through his writings and teachings. In A.D. 410, a moment in The Western history, the Vandals, we're under orders of their king; Alaric captured Rome. Rome was known to be called the Eternal City; therefore, the Romans thought it would literally never fall, and the year 410 shook there beliefs to its foundations and ultimately led to the collapse of the Roman Empire. The world seemed to be destroyed…

discussed. Also, how and why Emperor Constantine converted all of Rome to Christianity. Two thousand years ago, Jesus was born in a manger in Bethlehem. Jesus was in danger for his life because King Herod felt threatened by this new Messiah and would later be out to kill him even though Jesus was just a small child. King Herod the Great was the ruler of Israel at that time, though he was not a real king. King Herod had been given his position by the Romans to rule…

Yasmin joked, “Yes, in that movie that comes on at one in the morning, Jaws.” Everybody laughed. Robbie was not amused, “Yeah, the Stephen Spielberg movie Jaws… Remember the scene when she was eaten, that could have been you.” Yasmin hugs Robbie -- clings to him like a little girl, “I promise, Robbie -- I’ll do whatever you want me to.” One of the young men remarked, “Better watch out, Robbie -- I think Yasmin’s trying to get you in her spider’s web!” Robbie chuckled, “She’s harmless,…