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    Make 8 Difference Journal 9/8/2014 My first Make a Difference act took place in the computer lab at the GTCC campus today. I was in the computer lab finishing up a paper for my Psychology class. I had a gentleman sitting beside me and he looked like he was about to scream trying to complete a resume. I printed my paper and moved to him. I assisted him with the resume for over an hour. He was not yet enrolled in classes he was trying to get through a work study program and he was required to have

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    American lawyer and political leader‚ Robert Green Ingersoll‚ once said that “kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.” In book one‚ “Fantine‚” in the novel Les Miserables‚ author Victor Hugo uses the helpless and beast-like character of Jean Valjean to demonstrate that when an individual‚ at his lowest point of being‚ is exposed to kindness‚ he may rise up and become virtuous‚ so that he may help others achieve this virtue in return. A helpless individual in the midst of a radically unequal

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    Honors 9th Grade Literature March 2‚ 2011   Kindness Critical Analysis   Kindness             -Naomi Shihab Nye   Before you know what kindness really is You must lose things‚ Feel the future dissolve in a moment Like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand‚ What you counted and carefully saved‚ All this must go so you know How desolate the landscape can be Between the regions of kindness. How you ride and ride Thinking the bus will

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    Peter Buffet makes an interesting point that money does not buy kindness or trust therefore kindness is paid in hugs‚ laughs‚ gestures‚ etc. Peter Buffet writes‚ “The kindnesses that allowed me to trust people and in the basic goodness of the world could not be measured in dollars; they were paid for‚ in hugs and ice-cream cones and help with homework” (Pg. 12). Money does not buy kindness because there is no sentimental feelings when money is being used. For example‚ creating huge charities and

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    What if schools taught kindness? What type of changes in our society would we see? Two teachers‚ Laura Pinger and Lisa Flook share their lesson from creating a "kindness curriculum" for young students. This twelve-week curriculum was brought to six schools in the Midwest. A couple of days out the week for twenty minutes‚ pre-kindergarten kids were introduced to stories and practices for paying attention‚ regulating their emotions‚ and cultivating kindness. This curriculum is said to improve kids’

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    During the 1990s‚ Dr. Robert Levine and a group of researchers carried out a cultural study on different cities and its individuals and how they reacted when presented with an opportunity to exhibit kindness to strangers. Levine created multiple variables to test for kindness that individual’s exhibit towards strangers. Levine and his group had to eliminate some of the variables because of certain cultural norms that prohibited the efficiency of the test. Levine then tested random individuals in

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    Biographical Sketches THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TRAINING & EDUCATION NETWORK Alphabetical by Speaker’s Last Name Alexion‚ Art Art is the systems engineer‚ part of the Infrastructure Engineering Group at RHD Enterprise Information Systems. While having a hand in much of the company’s IT infrastructure‚ he is primarily responsible for the email system‚ file servers‚ and deployment and management of mobile devices‚ including phones and tablets. He has spearheaded RHD’s mobile strategy

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    A Little Kindness Goes A Long Way Have you ever thought about what happens when people are kind‚ or how it feels to be filled with benevolence to other human beings? Recently I have found myself being very kind to other people and having concern for their feelings. Time flies by too fast to be hateful or rude to other people. We as humans often underestimate the power of kindness and caring‚ and don’t take into consideration of other peoples feelings. A simple smile or an honest compliment

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    Coercive Acts and Quebec Act The Coercive Acts and the Quebec Acts were British responses to actions that were taking place in the British colonies in America. The Coercive Acts were a series of four acts passed during the spring of 1774. The Boston Port Act closed the port of Boston until the people paid for all the tea that was thrown overboard during the Boston Tea Party. The amount of tea thrown over was equal to more than seven hundred thousand dollars in the year 2007. Parliament also passed

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    Part 1 questions 1. In "Daybreak Express" what happens with the beat of the music and the tempo? The beat and tempo would go high and low. It sounded like a train 2. What mode of transportation was a favorite of Ellington’s and is imitated in several of his songs? Ellingtons favorite transportation was the train. 3. What song was the theme song of Duke Ellington’s band? The theme song was “Sophisticated Lady”. 4. What instrument does Ellington use to set the mood or rhythm

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