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MART 450 Tobin Addington Week 2/Due 09/10/16 Op-Ed Essay: How Does a Child become a Successful Adult The issue: Many children are not being taught life lessons to develop needed tools going forward in life to become successful adults. The successful adult: Are there specific parameters parents could follow in raising their children so they become successful adults and not burdens on society? Wow! I have to stop already and first get my head wrapped around the definition of “The Successful…

"The courtship of Benedick and Beatrice has a beautiful observed reality, a poise and maturity, a refreshing humour which makes the operatic main plot seem absurdly unreal." It is clear that Beatrice and Benedick are in love from the first we see of them; it is not simply through the Prince's intervention that the seeds of love are sown between them. When Beatrice is informed that Don Pedro and his party are coming to Messina, her first thought is for her 'Senior Mountanto'. Within four spoken…

In life, who a person is defines them. One must first discover their social identity in order to understand who they are as a person. Some college students determine their own identity because they have their own views on who they want to be and can make their own decisions. However, Students’ environment plays a bigger role because they influence a student on who they should be. In Accidental Billionaire written by Ben Mezrich, he tells the story of the creation of Facebook through the eyes of…

“Hew out of the mountain of despair to a stone of hope, and you can make your life a splendid one.” This is my grandfather’s favorite quote. He kept saying that to me when he tried to pass on his life experience to me. Not paid much attention to it, I never thought that hope is the power to wake up my sleepy potentials. It was not until have seen the Shawshank Repetition directed by Frank Darabont that I realized how the hope can motivate me when I suffered. I developed constant sense of hope…

I am taking this class because I’m interested to learn more about Asian American health issues. Before taking this class, I didn’t know Asian Americans had genetic health problems. Other than my uncle who passed away when he was young from eating too much sugar and dying from diabetes, my family has always been healthy. Family members who have died, have died from a genocide, natural causes, or a car accident. I’ve always been healthy my entire body which may be unsurprising because I’m young.…

There is a scale of sympathy for certain characters in the course of any story. We side with the heroes and hate the villains. Curley’s wife is a complex character in the novella ‘Of Mice and Men’. Some view her as the protagonist and others view her as the antagonist. How much sympathy does this character really deserve? Curley’s wife emerges an interesting and complex character, she oscillates between innocence and seductiveness so that the reader sympathizes with her at some points and…

Having a local farm within a community can contribute positively to the community and the environment. In particular, Oxford College’s local farm run by Daniel Parson the farmer can serve as a nexus for community relationships to develop between individuals and the environment. Local farming has many benefits to the surrounding community including building relationships between people, cutting the costs of transportation and middle-men, connecting the dots between food on the farm and food on…

The Associated Press. "Driver in Long Island Street Race That Killed 5 Gets Jail Sentence." The New York Times. The New York Times, 20 May 2016. Web. 23 May 2016. This article was written by the associated press of The New York Times about Cory Gloe a driver who participated in a street race on Long Island that killed five other teenagers and was sentenced to six months in jail and probation. Justice Terence Murphy of State Supreme Court nevertheless granted Gloe youthful-offender status because…

What is a dream? Is it a well thought illusion that’s been shaped and formed into a goal that a person can achieve? Or is it more of a poisonous hypnosis, making the person believe that such an ambition could be reached one day? Everyone has goals in life. A fat lot of them have started off just young, innocent kids. Some wanted to become teachers, some doctors, lawyers, firefighters, astronauts, and countless more down a long list. However, as we take each step towards maturity and adulthood,…

life. (Brennan, 2016) But now that unending sadness has also seeped into my adult life where it is stealing my joy and happiness from me. So I plan to combat this depression by seeking professional help and attending the DBSA support group here in Riverside county. Also I have fallen victim to using food to self-medicate and to improve uncomfortable feelings, but this contributes to my constant weight gain. Making this another bad habit, but I plan to break this cycle by substituting it with…