Modern Halloween has become less literal about ghosts and ghouls and more about costumes and candy. The holiday is overflowing with action on its reserved night. Kids are so anxious to drag their parents out the door, show off their creative costumes, and ring their first doorbell for a fun-filled night of trick-or-treating as soon as the dismissal bell for school rings. High school students wait until the whole group of friends is together before they head out into the misty darkness with only the flickering street light to guide them. Meanwhile, adults are sipping on their witches brew at a local party or nightclub.…
I like to relate this to growth development experience through my own life and others. I believe it is very common to make a bad decision and then later learn from it but begin to…
One hot day in Frisco Texas I was outside on my sidewalk in the shade of my tree coloring with the new chalk I just got. I looked down my street because I heard the sound of a rolling scooter screeching down the road, and I saw Hadley’s annoying little brother coming my way. Hadley’s was my best friend and her brother’s name was Griffin which means a dangerous person from Middle English...Just saying. He yelled at me at the top of his lungs “I’m getting my water gun!!” I wasn’t going to let a 6 year old take me down,so I needed to think of a plan. Once I was sure he was gone,I sprinted to my garage to find a water gun. I quickly filled up my water gun with the hose and hid behind a bush.…
Everyday mistakes are made but for every single one of them a lesson is learned .Sometimes looking back at our past can benefit us in the future by learning from our mistakes and being able it look back and gain from our strengths and weaknesses.…
Everyone that does something bad ends up doing something good in life. With every mistake there is a lesson. If you don’t learn a lesson then you didn’t make a mistake. Mistakes can be just about everything. You can say the wrong words to the wrong person. That can be a mistake and it can end really badly. Lying is a mistake, because once you start you never stop. You can’t get anywhere in life if you lie. Are you gonna lie on a job resume? That can find out if you’re lying. Learn from the people you look up to, they mostly made a mistake. It can be a really bad mistake or a little one. Every mistake can be prevented. Everything happens for a reason.…
As I drive up to the Stone Center, I notice there were people and children already here. When I walk inside the Stone Center, there were Halloween decorates all over the place. The tables were cover with a black cloth, orange Halloween bucket filled with crayon for the children, and Halloween coloring books on the tables. Don't get me start on the food. The smell of the delicious food reminds me of my mother homecooked meal and the cupcakes look beautiful with orange frosting and colorful, Halloween sprinkler on top of it. As people started coming in, I got to worry that we didn't have enough chairs as so many people there was.…
It was a boring summer day. My cousin Henry, Jake, and myself decided to go shoot BB guns at the old Nike site, which was now a park. We climbed up to the top of the abandoned radar tower with our BB guns and pretending to be sharp shooters, we shot the BB guns at three cans we lined up on the ground. Some kids from the neighborhood adjacent to ours came to the same park with fireworks. We climbed down to meet them. They shared their fireworks with us and we shared our BB guns with them. We were having a blast throwing the bottle rockets and fire crackers off the tower. We giggled at the pop which echoed around the park. The neighbors, whose houses backed up to the park, did not enjoy our early fourth of July show. A few minutes later we saw…
I realised that the responsibility of the decisions was mine alone and the fact that I should accept the blame when the decisions back fired with a straight face, at the end of the day maybe I was wrong but even importantly I realised it was ok to mistakes but what was unacceptable was repeating them. At some point in everybody’s life, there comes a time when they have to make a choice and its often a crisis between what they actually want to be and the expectations, peer pressure and lot of other factors .While some do despite all barriers follow what their heart says, some bow down to the pressure that the society and other factors inflict on them and eventually the passion that drove them fizzes out and they become used to a template sort of life. But that was not the sort of life I wanted , following my heart, chasing my dreams with the passion for making them come true being the major motivating factor , I dint want to ever stop trying and get sucked into the conventional life that millions live every day. After years into the future , I did not want to regret about the way I had lived my life or rue about missed chances that I could have taken and changed the course of my life.…
My friend germs invited me to a house party. When I got there I saw his best friend Tim and some other guys who went to the same school as germs. They were all grouped up in a corner talking about something, as I entered…
It used to be that exercising good judgment largely meant “using common sense.” But today, while common sense is still essential, exercising good judgment—consistently— in a business environment that is increasingly complex and dynamic, volatile and uncertain, and under high pressure requires a disciplined process. It also requires an understanding of common traps and biases that can undermine the judgments of even seasoned professionals and boards. Clearly, many audit committee members are attuned to the issue of judgment— particularly as they sharpen their focus on accounting judgments and estimates, to understand how management arrived at a particular estimate, alternatives that were considered and, ultimately, the quality of the decision. Of course, applying a sound judgment process to every key business decision is essential, whether it’s about corporate strategy, acquisitions or risk. Yet, in our surveys, audit committee members continue to cite “groupthink” as a concern, and many express the need to hear more “dissenting views, particularly from down-theline” to support a more rigorous dialogue about the risks facing the company. To this end, highlighted here are insights from Enhancing Board Oversight: Avoiding Judgment Traps and Biases, a new COSO1 paper co-authored by KPMG and Brigham Young University professors Steven M. Glover and Douglas F. Prawitt, on the keys to a robust professional judgment process.…
His name was Horatio. He went to a party with some of his friends and his girlfriend in particular. In that party there was alcohol supplied for all. Horatio and his friends got drunk. Then Horatio’s girlfriend got a call from her friend and got invited to another party. So Horatio and his girlfriend as well as his two other friends hopped in Horatio’s car to go to the next party. During that drive they began to swerve back and forth. Before they knew it they swerved off road and hit a nearby tree. Horatio’s girlfriend and one other friend were thrown forward and went through the windshield. Horatio and the last remaining friend lived, but they weren’t lucky enough to avoid injury. Horatio had broken both his legs and received a concussion and his friend suffered similar injuries. If you looked at the statistics you would’ve seen this coming. The facts are simple, that forty-two percent of fatal car crashes as a result of underage drinking. Also, sixty percent of emergency room visits are a result of drinking…
Since we had nothing more suitable to do, we decided to go. Just as all of us were about to leave, another close friend stopped by my house and wanted to know. If we would care to go to the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, a city north of Pueblo, to go swimming. We choose that as a more desirable alternative than a picnic. We got back home from the Broadmoor swim outing around 3:00 p.m. on that Sunday afternoon. When we turned on my street, I observed many cars parked on both sides of the road, curious, because I was not aware of any events at my house that…
Anyone can have one bad decision that reflects the rest of his/her life and anyone can decide whether they want to dwell on their past or decide that they want to make up for what they did to end up in that position in the first place. For example, my mom was a young teenager when she became pregnant with me. She had to drop out of high school due to complications from her pregnancy. Even though she had a daughter at a young age instead of using me as a crutch to get governmental assistance she went to night school at a local community college until she graduated with her GED and is now graduating with her master’s degree in education.…
As people, we make so many decisions each day. What clothes to wear, what to eat, what we want to do for the day, but there are some decisions in life that are life changing, that those day-to-day decisions can’t even compare to. Being thirteen, I haven’t really been faced with many life changing decisions. That doesn’t mean I haven’t faced any,though. One decision in my life, that had a great affect on me.…
Many times before people have made mistakes in their lives, I remember a time when I made a big mistake and learned from my experience. It was two years ago, I was in the sixth grade at my house on one cold morning, so cold that the water I had left on the kitchen table last night was cold. I was getting ready to go to target with my mom and my big brother named Henry, he was the biggest trouble maker I know. He steels, doesn’t do his homework or doesn’t even go to school sometimes, or doesn’t come home when he’s supposed to, talks back to my mom. I just ignore him whenever he annoys me because I don’t want start an argument. I got my sweater, the one that is one plus my normal size because it is cozy and warm, I took my Nintendo Ds with me to play during the car slowly because I was tired, I walked toward the front door and there standing was a Target employee. Once I entered the door the employee named Mike, said with excitement, “good morning” and I yawned and waved I knew his name tag. My mom like always looks in the women’s area so I just go to the video games with Henry, I put my Ds in my pocket because it is embarrassing when people are looking a new, clean, and awesome versions of Ds’s and then look at my old, dirty, and under conditioned Ds. My Ds has a crack on the outer shell, also it has dirt in the shell and sometimes the games don’t work. I was in the section named Nintendo Ds there I saw a cover for my Ds that was cool and it was the theme of Mario Bros. which would make my Ds look cool, I wanted it so bad but it coast twenty dollars and my mom was already going to buy me clothes plus she would say that she wouldn’t say that she wouldn’t spend money on something I don’t need. I begged and begged until the point where she was about to get me grounded but it didn’t work so I left to where Henry was in the PSP (PlayStation Portable) area, he had his PSP with him and I saw that he was looking at covers for his PSP. I was about to tell him…