Serenity

recovery from misuse of crystal methamphetamine. This was a closed meeting which encourages that all attendees identify as addicts. The structural format of this meeting was similar to that of the AA meeting. They opened up with the reciting of the serenity prayer and followed up with the readings of a preamble and a portion of The Big Book. The readings here were more specific to recovery from crystal meth. Although the 12-step program followed by this group is based on AA 's, some of the…

As we get older we mature through what we experience. Maturing can teach you how to handle situations and how to be less childish. In order to take control of a circumstance that requires serenity, you need to know how to be to be mature. For example, my friend works at a pet shelter and the manager left her in charge in case anything went wrong. As she was checking everything was in place, she noticed a guinea pig was missing from its’ cage. Instead of causing a chaos, she decided to get…

In Touching Spirit Bear, I think Cole Matthews has character traits similar to those of a bear. One similar trait I noticed is how dangerous a bear and Cole can be. At first sight you would think that a bear is the most dangerous and violent creature to inhabit it a forest. It’s the same concept with Cole. People see him and are frightened because of his mean, gruff looking appearance. In Touching Spirit Bear, page 7, chapter 1, the narrator states, “Still, no one ratted on Cole Matthews…

Family Elder Law is passionate about representing, counseling and assisting seniors and their families with a variety of legal issues with the primary emphasis being to promote the highest quality of life. To assist in this process, Family Elder Law has a specialized Client Care Program that provides clients with legal, medical and financial guidance as well as assists with social and family issues that one faces during the aging process. In 2010, Jason recruited former Pastor, Ken Bish, as the…

This essay looks into a topic in which authors and directors have tried to paint their own versions of time travel. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a common mental trauma that concerns mainly those who participate in war/war veterans. Slaughterhouse Five goes into the affects of post-traumatic stress disorder (or PTSD for short), the consequences of those affects, and how veterans deal with PTSD differently. The time travel and aliens mentioned in this book are all part of a collection of…

Not So Serine Anymore Growing up on a street called Serenity Court, everything was so serene. I lived in a house on a big hill so we would never play basketball because someone would always end up chasing it down the hill. I was one of the boys growing up, as my dad would say. Every day, we would get home from school me and my three neighbors across the street would all get together and play. We would have lemonade stands, go swimming, or just chase each other around in our yards. It was like a…

believed Pharaohs were gods as well or had the same power of a god. The face of the Sphinx is the idealized face of a male Pharaoh, showing the stylized ceremonial beard and the striped head cloth worn by the Pharaohs which in this case represents serenity. Hatshepsut chose to be represented as a male Pharaoh despite her gender. This was a way of showing her power and dominion. Hatshepsut’s Sphinx and her statues were found at The Funerary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut located at what we now call…

“We see that everything in Nature called destruction must be creation - a change from beauty to beauty.” - John Muir. This quote from John Muir’s My First Summer in the Sierra, interprets that nature is both beautiful through destruction and creation. Authors such as Al Martinez, Anais Nin, and Robinson Jeffers illustrate the disasters of fires to reflect the beauty of recreation from its destruction. As as result, a common understanding is established of accepting nature in it’s positives and…

Robert J. Convenient, a Seattle news coverage and math instructor, established PEMCO Insurance in 1949. Initially its motivation was to safeguard educators who were individuals from School Employees Credit Union of Washington , which Handy had made years before and stays subsidiary with PEMCO today.Excited by the possibility of making a monetary establishment with a heart, Handy was one of the first to exploit the credit union idea in Washington. In 1936, only three years after the Washington…

TBoth “The Lego Movie” and “Brave New World” have a lot of things in common, Lord Business and Mustafa Mond control their respective worlds with very distinctive approaches, but at the end, both want a stabilized, ordered, and balanced society. When it comes to Lord Business, he makes sure every citizen strictly follows a manual of how to fit in with the rest; the manual even goes over basic everyday exercises like breathing, and how to do it properly. Every person must follow these instructions…