Zick Reflection on: Turn Off the Phone (and the Tension) Jenna Wortham/New York Times/Aug. 25‚ 2012 The article‚ “Turn Off the Phone (and the Tension)” by Jenna Wortham‚ from the New York Times‚ can be related to most people in our generation. Our generation is filled with new technology and doing things faster and more efficient. I would say the majority of teenagers have smart phones with texting and/or internet. I feel that most people have forgotten to live in the moment and just to enjoy what
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Living in the Moment As much as we all want to fully enjoy life we don’t know how‚ we experience enjoyment in such variability that we’re not able to pin it down to an exact science. The thing is living is easy‚ but truly enjoying and appreciating life’s most memorable moments takes a conscious effort. When was the last time you allowed yourself to just sit and savor the present moment – not reminiscing about the past and not anticipating the future? Not doing anything just being. Being in the here
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Live in the Moment: A personal response to "Snapshots" Life never goes the way you think it might. This year has been pretty bad for me and it seemsthat everything that can go wrong has gone wrong. Getting out of a rut is never easy and the worst part of it is that knowingly people that you thought you could depend on to be there walking away when things gets tough. It really feels like life doesn’t have any meaning anymore at a point and all you can feel is an emptiness
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September 2012 The Shape Issue “I refused to accept it‚” stated Adriana Munguia‚ the 42 year old‚ now retired‚ runway model as she makes a trip down memory line. Little did she or anyone know‚ she would rejuvenate the fashion industry like no one ever before. Now‚ besides being one of the most influential women in the fashion industry‚ she is the owner of the now high ranked fashion industry for petite woman. “I was only ten when I first came to the U.S and everything around me was just too beautiful
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The films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are said to represent the so-called slacker genre. Slackers are individuals in society who have no direction and no reasonable expectation or realistic goals in life. This term is mainly used with Generation X’ers (people born between 1961 and 1981) (Casto‚ “What’s A Slacker Movie?”). Slacker movies are films that deal with the ordinary day-to-day life of these people. In Before Sunrise and Before Sunset the characters sense of wandering and the feel of
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Samah Lababneh Andresa Jeffeson ENGL CEL 28 February 2013 Memorable Moments It didn’t take me much effort to decide on what to write about when the instructor announced the next assignment "three memorable events". This phrase was enough and those three events jumped immediately to my mind‚ that school trip to Petra in 2009 was un forgettable one‚ yet that incident when I lost my passport in De Gaulle airport Paris was terrifying
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CJ 133 | Guns and Gun Control | Writing Assignment 6 | Katie Epps 1/18/2009 | Gun control has been one of the biggest topics facing our nation aside from abortion and homosexual marriages. There are so many different angles and arguments that surround it‚ its no wonder a definite decision can not be made. Violent crimes remain one of the most serious problems in the United States‚ in many of the violent crimes committed guns are used but an actual link between the two remains pretty
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young girl assumes she will not be attending school after all. But her mom does not hesitate to start off towards yet another local elementary school. At this point she begins to realize her mother’s determination. After arriving at Walker-Jones a new rush of feelings begins to sweep over her. As her mother fumbled to find the registration paperwork she notices a young girl who is clearly better off than she is. Her anger is apparent. She doesn’t understand why this process looks so easy for the girl
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Texting While Driving vs Drinking While Driving For decades‚ drunk driving has been at the forefront of debate. Stricter laws have been passed across the nation leading to a decrease in drunk driving accidents. However‚ a new driving threat is quickly taking its place. That threat is texting while driving and many say that it is actually more dangerous than drunk driving. Texting while driving a vehicle has now replaced drinking while driving as the leading cause of accidents and deaths of teenage
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"He throws like a girl!" This insult is heard all too often and is harsh to boys because of the perception of girls being weak. We are constantly bombarded with moments emphasizing gender in everyday situations. After training myself to see these differences my eyes have been opened to something I have previously believed "natural" and allowed a new perspective to push through. I see attitudes and behavior now as socially constructed and not usually inherent. In R. W. Connel’s book Gender‚ he
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