The Next Time

me is that I have always admired the work that police officers do by keeping our cities safe. Likewise, I find the career interesting and something I see myself enjoying in the future. Although the process of becoming an officer is competitive and time consuming, I want to be able to reach my goal in four years. With this in mind, I realize the competition will be a tough roadblock. There are a numerous amount of candidates who I have to surpass in order to get hired. However, with hard work and…

you a choice on whether you want to grow up or not. If it were that easy, I would choose to remain a kid forever. I was forced to get older by a familiar thing known as time. Time never slows down, time never stops, and time never rewinds no matter how bad you wish it would. It steadily keeps moving forward until one day your time is up. I…

It is horrifying to see people dumbstrucked watching television for hours and repeat the same absurd routine every day. The poet expresses his uneasiness with the situation in the poem. The Qur’an mentions about time management in Surah Al-‘Asr verses 1-3, “By time. Indeed mankind is in loss. Except for those who have believed and done righteous deeds and advised each other to truth and advised each other to patience.” In these verses, it is stated that mankind is in loss unless for those…

this new technology comes new cost for the company to handle and they have to be ready for that. The company has to be ready for that change as well and not be afraid to take a small lost as first. After the short term changes are complete it is time for the company to transition to their long term…

A time where I faced an obstacle was how I didn’t make OCDA. OCDA is a choir event where you audition and compete against other students around the state of Oklahoma. Taking private lessons helped to prepare for the audition. Compressing your time in practicing is a hard thing to accomplish. In the year past, since I made OCDA seemed like a possibility, however not being one of the finalist was a real setback. Ordinarily, trying to stay positive was a goal to achieve, but nevertheless this was a…

number, rather than their name. However, the article mentions the use of technology can vastly enhance one’s memory of someone’s name, through social media. Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and etc., help one put a face next to a name at any time or place. While I prefer to learn the names of my peers in person, social media does indeed help.…

Looking back on the events where I fell into inevitable failure, nothing stands out to me more than the time I nearly failed pre-algebra in middle school. To be honest, while that awkward 7th grade me focused more on getting others to know my name, I wasn't focusing on the workload or taking notes in class and we all know what happens next. F's, F's, and more F's smacked me in my face, but of course I didn't have any regard of it. Instead I was trying to be popular (which you and I both know…

Rui Zhao Winter 2018 ARTD 252 John Park Reading Response 2 – Can You Hear Me Now? Beyond this article, I've seen a TED talk, "Connected, but alone," and the speaker Shirley Turkel states that the more rapid development of science and technology, in fact, partly reflects that technology is guiding the direction of change in our lives, even in our own direction. This phenomenon, in some situations, is supposed to make us aware of it, but in many cases we unconsciously indulge in it. Are you…

I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his sole support.” (Wiesel 86-87) When Elie saw his father running next to him and he knew he couldn’t leave his father and Elie didn’t want to leave his father. His father is the only family he has now. Sometimes, Elie thinks that it would just be easier to leave his father. Rabbi Eliahu’s son ran faster to get away from…

“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.” - Winston S. Churchill. This period nonetheless, started a long time ago. What we all face today is the consequence of ‘Global Warming’, the result of our delays, isindeed catastrophic. The movie “An Inconvenient Truth” by Davis Guggenheim highlights Al Gore’s lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate who…