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Values of a person are the things that they believe are important in their lives. It is a way to know how the person is, almost like “judging a book by its cover”, except the cover is their value. I did not know what my values were. It was not until today that I found out. Although my values are different from the ones when I was a kid, I believe the values I have now are the right ones. At a young age, I can remember that my values were fun and friends. The values that I had back then are not…

Advocate Illinois Masonic has a rich history in how it became the hospital it is today. Before it was called Illinois Masonic, it was Chicago Union Hospital. The Union Hospital was organized during the time of rebuilding post the great Chicago fire in 1901. Belden Avenue Baptist Church Steadfast Sunday School organized the union hospital. Amongst the board members of the hospital were some Masons who formed an association for the purpose of providing free medical and surgical treatment for…

Dating can be difficult. This is especially true if you lack confidence in yourself. However, once you build up your confidence with some easy confidence building exercises, you will see how quickly your dating life can change. One of the first things that you must change is your attitude. You may have spent years saying negative things to yourself. Over time you begin to believe them. You may not even realize how many negative things that you say to yourself throughout the day. This is a sad…

My Big Move I have lived most of my life in the city. At that time, I lived in an apartment in Newark, Ohio. I saw people walking around outside, I heard the loud cars roaring by, and the noise from the sirens is incredibly noisy on most days. I have finally decided to move on with my life. I had been in three serious relationships in the past, none of which worked out for whatever the reason. I am glad because I have three kids now from that, no boyfriend nor husband though. I have just…

King of Aragon plays a large role in Machiavelli’s The Prince. Although Machiavelli utilizes Cesare Borgia as the central example figure, Ferdinand II is the ultimate example of Machiavelli’s teachings and message. Ferdinand is ruthless, his mind is always preoccupied with war, he acts on his ambitions swiftly and before others can, and has achieved a balance of being both pious and cruel. In the text he’s described as “an almost new prince,” one whose example you can find none which are “more…

When a couple becomes parents for the first time, there are many issues that might need to be negotiated, for example, how the couple decides they want to raise their children. Society as a whole is made up of many different family dynamics so it is important that a mother and father have the same ideas about how they are going to raise their own children. A couple may need to determine how many children they are going to have, what their names are going to be, if they are going to send them to…

Does technology ruin family life? Since the impact of popular culture and the improvement in technology we are able to use it in various ways to improve our family life as we know it. But do you really think that technology is assisting your family? Or is it pulling it apart? People feel pressured into using technology but feel empowered when they are using it. So are we turning our backs on quality of time together and rather spend time with a screen. Although technology is a great help to our…

Addiction is more common than many people in the population may realize. There are a variety of things that people may become addicted to. Sure, there are the obvious ones of alcohol and tobacco, but there are other, not so obvious, ones such as internet and video game addictions as well. These next few paragraphs are based off of an interview with one of my roommates who had been addicted to video games in the past. After getting to know my roommate better throughout this last year or so that…

College career students come across classes that they are forced to take. Whether it’s a gen-ed (general education), a core requirement, or prerequisite for another class. From that many students come to the conclusion that the classes they come across as believed to be a waste of time, regret taking the class , most of the time they either didn’t learn anything. But from taking this course I can honestly say I learned a lot of things that are useful. Writing is a crucial way in one expressing…

Searching for a job could be considered as a pretty easy or extremely difficult task to do. Well it’s way more hard when you’re sixteen, still in high school, and have no other job experience. That was me, and let 's just say that it was a long and hard thing to do. On the contrary I do have a job now, and through this experience I’ve learned multiple things that’ll help me with my life out in the real world. Two years prior, to me having a job today, is when I started thinking about…