Mind Your Language

didn’t make it ok for me to go against my value system and do the same. Like the girl, had I stood up my conscience would be clear and I would have had inner peace. However, all said and done, this isn’t the easiest habit to live by. But living up to your principles will give you immense satisfaction at the end. Doing things out of peer pressure only…

In the book Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, there were four principles to live by. This included: 1) be impeccable with your words, 2) don’t take anything personally, 3) don’t make assumptions and 4) always do your best. One of the major lessons that I derived from the book was to speak with integrity, to say only what you mean and not use your words as a tool to spread false rumours or gossips that can hurt others but instead use it to spread the truth and love. Secondly I learned another…

in the novel a man named Septimus, describing the struggles he is having with his insanity. As a balanced contrast to Septimus, the short story The Yellow Wallpaper main character, the wife of the short story, has that same type of insanity in her mind as well. They are both insane in such ways that revolve around the idea of someone going “mad” after a traumatic event. This passage provides…

answers the question of what caused the death of Hamlet. In the critiques of “Hamlet” made by Andrew Hui, Eric P. Levy, and Alan L. Ackerman, a common thread connects all three: the mind. Each, in their own unique…

Ginsberg: A Modern Whitman with a Twist Postmodernism, a movement in the late 20th century, followed the Modernism movement during the late 19th and early 20th century. The Modernism movement is characterized as a movement that steered away from 19th century traditions in art, religion and faith, and literature. It encouraged rebellion against the cultural norm, was a change for the believed “outdated” day to day life, and focused on finding the meaning/root. At the time, it was…

monkey mind? You may have heard the phrase monkey mind. What does it mean? The monkey mind is constantly busy moving from one idea to another. it is the conversation in our head, the worrying, the judging, the listmaking. there is nothing wrong with having a monkey mind, often we need to assess multiple things at one time. for example reading a person's body language while listening to their words and then flicking back to their powerpoint presentation. However, the dangers of a monkey mind to…

In Munro’s essay “Traveling through the Photograph”, Munro writes “ Your perception and belief originates from your experience in the world.” (1) In Traveling through the Photograph Munro talks about author Errol Morris’s idea that our knowledge of something is based on how it is encountered. This idea is quite similar to Schulz’s idea of inductive…

aphrodisiac. H.H.’s florid language should shock the reader much more than his legal –affairs-. Nabokov had a sense of this; with eleven novels, remarkable translations to and from English, and several poems and short stories, the fairly ripped Russian polyglot was nothing of a noob. The selection of such topic in a context in which he knew a topic of such nature will be surely banned was not accidental. Is it that the lepidopterist was also a pervert whose twisted mind could do nothing but…

Career Fear? Mind Your Interview Manners. Don’t let yourself Down. Tips on Interview Etiquette. When an interview is pending it’s wise to go through all the well documented suggestions in the course of preparation. Learn your CV, practice your responses, know your skill sets and repeat them over and over in your mind. All this is fine and essential if you want to be able to make any kind of an impression with your interviewer. However practice and more practice can over-do it and responses…

incredible approach to pass on your outline thought, accomplish a design goal and get an early response. At the point when attempting to carry on a design thought, states of mind, emotions and comfy stuff like that are difficult to convey. So to read and understand such emotions, experts take mood board into action to: accumulate feelings, pictures and content identified with reference to designed prototype as a source of feedback. There are several other…