1. prepare a meal for a homeless person 2. smile :) 3. call your mother to tell her you love her 4. write a handwritten note 5. knit a beanie or blanket for a homeless person 6. put change in the washer/dryer for the next person 7. fill an expired or about to expire parking meter 8. leave some extra money in the vending machine 9. buy a little extra grocery for the local food bank 10. plant a tree 11. send your favorite grade school teacher flowers 12. write a thank you letter to your parents 13
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a complicated kindness Setting: Nomi lives in East Village (pg. 6) It is more commonly known as the East Reserve in Manitoba It was one of two pieces of land set aside by the Canadian government for the immigrant Mennonites coming from Russia It’s southernmost boundary is about 20 miles from the US border Mennonites had been adjusted in Russia to life in the open steppes (grasslands‚ prairies of russia) and preferred the open prairies. This would explain why the mennonites chose to settle
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“Ghosts” by Naomi Wood We have a choice in life. A choice that is going to define our lives. You can either live in the moment‚ or you can live in the past. You can be a ghost in your own life‚ or you can be the creator of it. What is time? What is age? And can we even count these things? Fyscicans constantly find new discoveries about time‚ particles and these sorts of fysician things. Making us question what time means‚ and how to count it. The question is more likely what we do with our time
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Volume 8‚ Book 73‚ Number 41 : Narrated by Anas bin Malik The Prophet said‚ "If any Muslim plants any plant and a human being or an animal eats of it‚ he will be rewarded as if he had given that much in charity." Volume 8‚ Book 73‚ Number 84 : Narrated by Abu Huraira The Prophet said‚ "The worst people in the Sight of Allah on the Day of Resurrection will be the double faced people who appear to some people with one face and to other people with another face." Volume 8‚ Book 73‚ Number
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3e I am going to recount all the stressors in the following incidents to my best recollection I am having a hard time concentrating to do this and feel very irritable and stressed out. I know I need to write it down and even feel more weak because I am having issues with my life and how I have handled things. I feel I am a substandard soldier for not being strong enough to handle myself. I was deployed to Shank Afghanistan In June of 2010 and was there until feb 2011. The first night In shank
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One of the theories that Naomi Zacks talks about is the theory of genetics. Zacks stated that there are two possible ways that race can be hereditary. First the physical traits are passed down through genes. The second way is that race is usually transferred from parent to child or through ancestors and that is how a person can identify themselves into a race category. Zacks theory is that there is transmission of genetics and genealogical heredity and through genealogy race is either found though
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Kindness – “Catalyst for Change” “Being different is a good thing‚ it means you are special‚” was the phrase I use to hear a lot from my parents growing up. Being one of the few Filipinos among a predominantly white community‚ especially in school‚ it was only a matter of time before I was being confronted with a question about my race. I became conscious about how others identified me. I became aware of my own actions when interacting with others of a different race. I learned that I have to
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Naomi Klein addresses the issue women workers face while working in sweatshops. When women hit around their twenties they are laid off‚ because they no longer have the proper fingers for the job. Naomi Klein says that 90% of sweatshops workers are women it made me think why do women face such hard conditions. In the video‚ we watched in class los angeles one of the women asked about her rights she was laid off. This made me think how little workers have a choice in the amount of hours they work.
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Parents always want what is best for their children‚ regardless of culture or ethnicity. In The Joy Luck Club‚ by Amy Tan‚ and in "Life With Father" by Itabari Njeri‚ the parents express their parental methods upon their daughters. Children will all react differently to their parent’s methods‚ as do Waverly‚ June‚ and Itabari‚ but they still share a common resentment for their parents. It is shown in the two stories how parental methods expressed to children can be misinterpreted‚ thus influencing
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creatures. There will typically be no cause other than to induce the smile of the people‚ or be more pleased. Either impulsive or deliberate‚ random acts of kindness are promoted by several societies. Ann Herbert (1982)‚ a renowned peace militant of California‚ supposedly composed on a placemat in a restaurant “Exercise random acts of kindness and pointless acts of beauty.” The phrases left a depression on an associate diner‚ who afterwards broadcast the word to other people. The word energized much
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