Even with my glasses‚ or is it because of my glasses‚ I still could not see. In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens‚ Sean Covey explains that having incomplete or flawed paradigms about yourself and others is like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. Taking a first step and walking through a new door can create the beginning to a paradigm shift. I walked in wearing a wacked pair of glasses. Those jacked-up glasses kept telling me that I could not‚ would not‚ and did not fit in. The glasses
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Covey presents in his book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens‚ a series of tips aimed at personal improvement with which the high effectiveness is achieved. The book teaches us that being young can be wonderful but challenging at the same time. In The 7 habits of highly effective teens‚ Covey applies the timeless principles of the 7 Habits to the difficult circumstances and decisions faced by young people. Funny way‚ the author presents a guide that helps teens to improve
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Ha‚ from “Inside Out and Back Again” and refugees in the transcript “Forgotten Ship” feel inside out through the process of them trying to leave their home country and escape to a new‚ safer country. For example‚ “The first hot bite of freshly cooked rice‚ plump and nutty‚ makes me imagine the taste of ripe papaya although one has nothing to do with the other.” (Lai 78) Ha has not had freshly cooked rice or any hot food in a number of days so is giving her a feeling of inside out because she is
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Inside out and back again Refugees are people like us. They just went through a hard time by fleeing home and then finding home just like Hà. Hà is a Vietnamese girl who fled her home because of war. In the articles‚ “Children of War‚ Refugees Who‚ Where‚ and Why” and in article “Canada‚” there is a war and families fleeing and becoming refugees. In the novel Inside Out and Back Again by Thanna Lai‚ Hà’s life gets turned inside out and her family has to flee their home and become refugees. Hà’s
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individual resiliency. The main character‚ Ha‚ from Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai‚ dealt with numerous difficulties when adjusting to her new school in Alabama. Refugees often battle with not being accepted by peers when arriving to their new school until they meet and become friends with new people. When a foreigner is adjusting to a new school‚ they often feel like they don’t fit in. For example‚ in the book‚ Inside Out and Back Again‚ “I eat candy in toilet.” Ha doesn’t really know
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been millions of refugees fleeing their homes. Refugees are people who are forced to leave their home because of the fear that they are unsafe. When they are forced to leave‚ they leave behind many dear possessions. When that happens their lives start to turn “inside out”. But‚ when they mourn those losses and finally accept that those losses are gone‚ their lives finally start to go “back again”. In the novel “Inside Out and Back Again”‚ Ha; a girl who just turned 10‚ lives in south Vietnam during
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Shouts ring out like gunfire; flashes of light exploding from small green bombs; deafening‚ murderous. These memories replay throughout countless refugees’ minds everyday‚ kindling feelings of trauma day by day. Not only are refugees cursed with these events which are stained in their minds- but they also experience constant racism‚ anxiety‚ and hopelessness as they attempt to assimilate into a culture that is now being forced onto them. The everyday struggles of a refugee‚ or a person forced to
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over the world‚ who are looking for a new home. These refugees have thousands of things in common with one another when they are going into their new lives‚ or‚ when their lives are turning “inside out and back again.” This is a representation of what all they have in common. In the book‚ “Inside Out and Back Again”‚ Ha‚ a ten year old girl‚ becomes a refugee due to the Vietnam War. Her entire family leaves their home‚ fleeing on a large ship with thousands of others on board. Once they all reach their
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Refugees are some of the strongest people in the world‚ but why? Some may say it’s because they have gone through a lot to get to where they are‚ others may say it’s because they have hope. The answer is all of that. In one book “Inside Out and Back Again” by Thanna Lai‚ we have a Vietnamese family in Saigon as war breaks out. The book is very descriptive on what a family has to go through during those tough times. The main character‚ named Ha‚ is an only girl in a family of 3 older brothers and
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Sandra Senye Johan Schäfer Anika Datz [62499] [60829] [48896] [62149] Organizations Inside Out [CU03859] International Business and Management Studies HZ University of Applied Sciences Lecturer: C. J. du Pon 1st semester of Academic School Year 2012/2013 Vlissingen‚ January 2013 Executive Summary This analysis report serves as a written assignment in course Organizations Inside Out [CU3859] as taught by Mrs. du Pon at HZ University of Applied Sciences. Distinctive use was made
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