The Unexpected

curriculum in schools across the country that would educate students about birth control and sex. Doing so would allow students from sixth grade to high school to gain consciousness in methods of contraception, and understanding the results of an unexpected pregnancy. A fifth strategy would be to create an application available on smartphones and computers that would allow individuals to educate themselves on the benefits and disadvantages to abortion, which could help the patient to make an…

This week’s readings on family decision-making and financial literacy offered insight into the struggles low-income households face each month to survive, much less invest or save. In particular, the volatile and unpredictable nature of working hours, predicted income, and unforeseen expenditures affect low-income individuals’ ability to draw on resources and grow assets over the course of a lifetime. By necessity, low-income and asset poor individuals are unable to accumulate wealth to build…

John Updike’s “A&P” and Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” contain main characters who experience an unexpected change in the way they view the world from people that they’ve formed a stereotype of. In “A&P”, Sammy, the main character, is influenced by three young girls while in “Cathedral”, the husband, is influenced by Robert to bring out this change in them. In both texts, the objects for change are similar in that the narrators viewed them negatively, they unexpectedly came in to the narrator’s…

The five leadership practices included: spiritual, heartbeat, abilities, personality, and experience. The spiritual part of leadership begins with the author’s relationship with God first. God is first, because, Matthew 22:37-38 records, “And He said to Him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, this is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself, indicating, the two greatest…

possible to consider number of lives that will be lost in each outcome because it is clear that whenever you can you should save as many lives as possible. However, I would argue we should interfere only if we know that what we do will prevent an unexpected outcome, this way we play it safe, and prevent the skepticism of lives lost. My position on this issue is good one for several reasons. One is that although you may be taking a few lives you are preventing an infinite amount of possibilities…

In the novel Grendel by John Gardner, the reader sees Grendel encounter many unexpected people and events. Gardner’s writing style throughout the novel incorporates the building of suspense at certain points, and its purpose is to make these encounters unexpected to the reader. This specific passage takes place when Grendel sees new visitors arrive who later turn out to be a group of men led by Beowulf who have come to help the locals get rid of Grendel once and for all. This passage builds…

Including coal. This is how we make our living, and how we pay our way in the world. That our competitors (which includes the USA) should try to hamper us by all means is not unexpected. It is not fair, but it is not unexpected. And that goes for coal as well as all of our other competing exports, which they will also be seeking to outdo us on. The "fair" competition based on price, quality, reliability, and so on, is only a small part of the picture…

Chapter five of the book Bad Boy is called Bad Boy. Walter talks mainly about how a lot of unexpected things that had happened to him during this time of his life in chapters five and six. In chapter five, Walter had first realized that he had a speech problem. Walter had known that kids in his class would make fun of him but he just thought they were doing just because. Walter talks more about how kids teased him for having this problem, as you go deeper into the chapter. Kids teased Walter…

little unexpected and this began to lead him into connecting the need to recognize that we serve a God who does things unexpectedly. Then he went into the story of how Joshua had to step into some pretty huge shoes and to fill those he had to trust God. Joshua was Moses’s right hand man, and he knew everything that Moses did, yet even Moses was not a person who was at the top of the list socially. When he explained the problems Moses had, he tied that point to how God even uses unexpected people…

As well as bathroom, kitchen is assumed to be the room where most of dangerous and unexpected situations happen with children in the house. So what can you do to protect your child from potential danger in the kitchen? The suggestion of not allowing your kid in the kitchen might help ensure safety, but it’s absolutely not practical. Three following tips can possibly help you put aside the worries and avoid unexpected situations that may happen to your little kid. Using cabinet locks The most…