Personal life

Educating Rita – Exploring Transitions Good morning/afternoon Mr Hope, and class. Have you ever wondered what exploring transitions means? Well It basically refers to ways individuals experience the journey into new phases of life and a new social context. The transition from one way of life or social background into another can change the person who is moving as well as those they meet along the way. This is deeply portrayed in Willy Russel’s “Educating Rita” which depicts the characters…

Secrets to Living a Balanced Life Have you ever been on a circus, watching a tightrope walker? Obviously, the only thing he’s stepping on is a rope. As he shifts his body forward, his hands are gripped tightly around a balancing pole. He has to walk from one end to the other. Above that, he is also balancing another pole on his chin and on the top of that pole is a plate. Just like the performance of a tightrope walker, life is very much a balancing act. If things start to drift off balance,…

the foundation for the wellness model. The original model consisted of five life tasks, these tasks where spirituality, self-regulation, work, friendship and love. Based on the research using an assessment instruments developed from the model (Myers, Sweeney, Hattie, 2000). the results concluded a sample of 3,000 individuals, which the life tasks of work were subdivided into two tasks of work and leisure. Furthermore, the life tasks of self-regulation were divided into seven components. Thus,…

control is a broad topic and can be divided into internal and external locus of control. An internal locus of control is described as “the perception that you control your own fate” (Myers 578). “The perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate” (Myers 578) is the idea of external locus of control. A person who has an internal locus of control believes that they are able to make a change in the world, causing them to be more confident, motivated, and…

my life , like many teenagers, I felt invincible. I later would realize this invisibility was only a fasaud and I had not experienced enough to accurately weight out the pros and cons of the decisions I made. As for myself i like to see what I can do and what I can accomplish outside of the everyday norm. I don’t want to conform to a certain ideology and way of life because that’s how I was raised I want to find myself. I believe that our family and friends are vital support networks in life,…

Secret Life of Bees: Mother Having the absence of a mother would affect any child growing up, whether it’s physically standing out, or being able to connect emotionally. We all look for that role in our life: someone that can make us feel the embrace of a mother’s love. Having the influence of a mother in your life molds you into who you are today. My mother has always been a strict overbearing mom. In most cases you will hear me complaining about her seeming unjust rules, however, looking…

years ago on a hot summer day. I was outside playing basketball with my little brother when my grandpa came outside and asked me, “Do you want to go to the lake?” I replied, “Sure, but I can 't swim that good.” He exclaimed, “You can wear one of my life jackets.” I agreed and ran in the house as fast as I could to get dressed and make some food to bring. It was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, some Doritos and a root beer . When I 'm finished making my food I put it in the…

website called Famousbirthdays. Life is not easy, so having an influential person in the world, is the most desirable way of living life, to some people. To start, many people around the world most likely has someone in their life, that influence them. Either it would be in an impactful way, or not at all. A YouTuber that has changed plentiful of lives,…

Depression has become so encrypted into our daily life. It would not be rash to suggest that almost every single person has had experience of depression whether that be personal, or illness of a loved one. Goleman (1992) makes an interesting observation that people born after 1945 are ten times more likely to suffer with depression than people born before this date. What does this mean? Well, firstly it shows that the root cause of most depression cannot be due to increasing chemical imbalances.…

happiness and minimizing harm for the aggregate”. A theory such as Utilitarianism is very attractive and makes moral sense intuitively. But there are some things that are wrong with such a vast overarching theory, such as the concept of happiness and personal relationships.…