Personal Experience The novel‚ The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens‚ can relate to me in multiple ways. One of my many shared experiences to the book is when the author states in the book that when he was a boy he played football‚ just like I do. He wasn’t the greatest at the sport for a few reasons; one being he was small and another was that he was slow. You see‚ I was never the one to be slow‚ but small‚ however‚ I was. I have been playing football for a good eight years now‚ and to myself
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Charlotte Russell 1/6/15 Essay period 2 In the novel “Inside Out and Back Again” by Thanha Lai‚ the universal refugee experience is expressed through the title‚ and Ha’s individual experience of fleeing and finding home. This essay will show the hardships of turning inside out and how hard it is coming back again. In “Inside Out and Back Again” an independent‚ determined girl named Ha flees her home in Vietnam because of war and poverty. Ha and her family flee to
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Anyone who flees their home country due to war or persecution is referred as a refugee. In Inside Out and Back Again‚ we are introduced to the narrator‚ Ha. Ha is a refugee who fled her country‚ Vietnam‚ because of political warfare. In the novel‚ she explains her experiences being in the middle of the war feeling confused and sad at most times‚ not knowing what’s going on. This causes her brother needing to explain everything to her. Ha‚ and her family‚ after fleeing from the North Vietnamese Communists
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free life. Habit 7 "Sharpen the Saw"‚ is the most important chapter because it talks about how important it is to renew yourself in order to accomplish tasks and situations with ease in short period of time. Many people say that taking care of yourself is selfish and is a waste of time. However‚ taking time to renew yourself makes you have a clear head which can help you think of ways to solve any problems or situations easier and faster. In the book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens" there’s
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Restoring The Character Ethic By Stephen R. Covey While I was reading ‘The 7 habits of highly effective people’ by Stephen R. Convey‚ many things were running through my mind. Stephen R. Convey’s words encourages us to live our life by some specific “principles” which can represent our overall effectiveness as a human in individual or social context. This book helps us to know “ How our habits can affect our character” and “ How our character
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In the novel Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai is set in South Vietnam in the year 1975. In this novel‚ Ha‚ her mother‚ and three brothers‚ Quang‚ Vu‚ and Khoi are Vietnamese refugees that travel to America. In America they find semi-permanent shelter in the state of Alabama. The family goes through challenges almost all refugees go through‚ such as devastation in loss and frustration in learning a new language. Ha is brave‚ persistent‚ and happy. Her traits change as her journey continues
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Pick a random person on the street‚ there’s a chance that they could be a refugee. Refugees are people just like you‚ but they have a lot more challenges that they have to conquer. They have to leave their country‚ their home‚ they place they grew up. In the novel Inside Out & Back Again‚ the main character‚ Ha‚ had to flee from her home‚ and changed throughout the book. In the beginning of the novel‚ Ha was jealous of the fact that there was things that she couldn’t do‚ that she didn’t fit in with
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Stephen Covey’s book “The 7 habits of highly effective people” will help me in a number of different ways in the year to come. Not only with being effective in my career‚ but also my personal life and graduate school. Covey talks about character and personality traits‚ and uses a great example of being in Chicago and having excellent map and reference skills‚ but if you have a map of Detroit you will not be able to find your way around no matter how good your secondary skills are. This is a great
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In the novel Inside Out & Back Again‚ by Thanhha Lai. We have characters named Ha‚ Mother‚ Vu‚ Quang‚ Pam‚ Steven‚ Cowboy‚ and Miss Washington. It takes in Vietnam in 1975-1976. They will go through lots of the troubles that other refugees experience too‚ this is called the universal refugee experience. They will have trouble leaving home and finding a new home‚ they will be inside out for a while. They will also have trouble when they eventually come back again. They will experience very similar
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Ms.Rizza Valdez BSENT II-1 Reaction Paper: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Life is more complex‚ more stressful‚ more demanding. I’m impressed when I read the foreword of this book because all of these statements are true. We face challenges and problems in our personal lives‚ our families‚ and our organizations. These are not only of a new order of magnitude. They are altogether different in kind. There’s so many people today are gripped with a sense of fear. Yes this is true
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