A strong sense determination has always been a key part of who I am. I've always felt that, like driving a car, unless you take control of your life and grab the steering wheel, you won't get very far, or go in the right direction. In a world full of indecision, seldom do you find someone who knows exactly who or what they want to be in life; someone who bears determination, dedication, and motivation towards their goal. Happiness is knowing one’s potential and acting on it. My ambition in life is to help others reach their goals. This is what drives me. I want to be a social worker for the disabled and rehabilitation. Getting out of bed in the morning for an average person doesn’t require too much effort, but somewhere in the world a 10 year old little girl is missing both of her legs. No one cares, no one took the time out of there busy schedule to believe in her. Somewhere in the world, a mother is telling her little boy why daddy can’t play catch anymore. The neighbors stare in disgust; they don’t know he had his arm blown off by a landmine in Vietnam while defending his country. Someday I will be the one to teach the little boy with a lung disease how to sing, and the kid with the prosthetic foot how to walk. I get my inspiration from my father. My father was born with a mild form of cerebral palsy; a condition due to a lack of sufficient oxygen at birth causing a disability in his legs. This was no one’s fault, his parents and family loved him very much, yet he has had a struggle all his life. He spent much of his childhood in surgery and recovery, including near 2 years in a swimming pool learning how to walk. While other children were learning to run, he was learning to crawl. While other children were learning mathematics, he was in a hospital room. Throughout his life he suffered the inhumanity and absence of compassion that was to be expected from his attending school. Friends weren’t friends; people have a tendency to treat those with…
Step 1. Stand in front of the table with all of the assorted Products to make the Sandwich.…
Specific Purpose: To demonstrate to my audience how to make the perfect peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.…
Sammy’s Decision to not be a Sheep and Change the Course of his Life in John Updike’s short story, “A&P”…
In one of the week 3 discussion questions we discussed the algorithm that would be required to make a peanut butter sandwich. In this CheckPoint you will need to take that one step further and create a program design to make a peanut butter sandwiches. Below you will find a partial program design; you need to complete it by adding the pseudocode in the required areas. You need to add one repetition (loop) control structure and one decision control to complete the program design. The user will decide how many sandwiches are made; this is where the loop will be used. The user will decide if the sandwich includes jelly, and, if it does, what flavor of jelly; to keep it simple we are only allowing grape or strawberry jelly.…
A lot of courage is needed to revolt against a dictator and risk one's life, and possibly other's lives for a country. In the novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez, Minerva Mirabal (one of 4 sisters in the story) shows a lot of courage by standing up against her country's leader, Rafael Trujillo, and for what is right, risking her and her family's lives. She performs in front of him, while knowing his secret, that he is a horrible dictator that abuses his power, she slaps him at a party and them leaves, which is illegal, and she protects her sisters with her life. It takes courage, guts, and bravery, to fight for what you believe in, and the events in this story show these traits.…
"Explore how time and place are used in the prescribed speeches to shape the audience's understanding of how knowledge of the past sheds light on the present" - HSC 2013…
I believe Margaret Drabble’s statement, “Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts,” to be quite true. Throughout history, people of all ages have wanted to be accepted and belong to a group rather than look at the facts and measure what is true and false. It is very evident in our society today that not only do we want to be accepted and belong, but we also are willing to do whatever it takes, no matter what the consequences turn out to be. I agree with Drabble’s statement and believe that it is true all around the world. If you were to step outside our society and look back at it objectively, I can assure you that you would see evidence of this.…
John Locke believed that people are born with the right to life, liberty, property and the right to choose government. These Enlightenment ideas were the main inspiration to both the French and American Revolutions. The French Revolution was an important revolution in Europe, preceded by the American Revolution. Both these revolution had lasting influences and unique social backgrounds creating tension with each individual revolution.…
Some of the possible reasons caseworker were not aware of the conditions in the Jackson home could have been due to the fact that the Jackson made have put up a front every time the caseworker came over by pretending to like and do for the kids, or it could have been that the caseworker knew about the condition but just did not care. It is very hard to believe that these caseworkers really did not know that these kids were being abuse and mistreated.…
Once you have all the material that you need, you can move on to making the sandwich. It’s simple! The next step is to make the sandwich. Position the bread slices on the plate side-by-side, with one slice facing up and the other facing down. Using the knife, scoop a large dollop of peanut butter and apply it to one side. (According a website called “Today I Found Out to you can put peanut butter on both side to prevent it from getting soggy) (Upton). Then you scoop a large dollop of jelly and apply it the same way on the other slice of bread. Then take the slice of bread with the peanut butter on it and flip it on top the slice with the jelly on it. Then cut the sandwich diagonally. Moreover, there you have a delicious peanut butter and jelly sandwich (The Perfect Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich, 2013). It’s…
After both sides of the bread is covered to your desired amount of peanut butter and jelly/jam, place both pieces facing each other together so that the peanutbutter and jelly/jam are touching. Now time to grab your plate and place the sandwich on there. You will need to get your napkin too PB&J can get a little messy. Peanutbutter and jelly is also very enjoyable with a side of chips.…
In the short story "A&P" author John Updike describes in detail what a boy's infatuation with the opposite sex can lead him to do. John Updike goes into great description about the setting. He also makes it a point to be very vivid when he uses characterization. He gives the characters names that subtlety describe their personalities and lets the reader make assumptions and accusations on Sammy's motivations for his quitting his job at the grocery store.…
“It’s our policy” (6), A&P by John Updike, a short story centered on conformity and an adolescent named Sammy claiming his independence. The grocery store represents a box that cages Sammy in and prevents him from experiencing a maturing phase in his life. The every day ritual of the store is “empty” (4) and everyone usually has “nothing much to do” (4). The grocery store never really changes and is a bit of a “Crummy” (6) place to be as customers are as boring as “sheep” (6). Sammy has accepted the bore by molding himself into the store, observing and analyzing every square inch of the building. Sammy feels like the store has control over him, like he has been painted white and camouflaged into its vast walls. He needs to find his own unique colors and paint his own life’s picture.…
First thing I do to make my favorite sandwich is get my condiments out and in the line of order that I use them in. Second, I lay my bread out and get a butter knife and coat it with mayonnaise. Third, I put my ham and turkey on my mayonnaise bread. Fourth, I put mustard and any extra condiments I want on my sandwich. Fifth, I clean up my mess and my condiments.…