lead. Even though these individuals Values‚ Assumptions‚ Beliefs‚ and Expectations (VABEs) are unobservable‚ they are essential in knowing your employees’ behaviors. I have learned to indentify personal VABEs within my own experiences and in everyday life. The first situation that occurred where I was able to identify my personal VABEs took place a couple of weekends ago. I was at a bar with a large group of my friends celebrating our mutual friend’s 21st birthday. We were obviously drinking alcoholic
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How I Got Chased By a Dog: One of the Worst Days of My Life Looking back when I was a little girl about the age of 7‚ I always wanted a pet‚ I didn’t care what I just wanted one. So I told my mom about it and she let me get 1 fish. I loved that fish‚ I named him Samuel. Samuel was an angelfish‚ he was blue and he had a smaller fin on his right side. I chose him‚ assuming he wouldn’t get picked by anyone else. He only lived for a week and a half. After Samuel died‚ my mom didn’t think I would be ready
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yesterday." Author unknown this quote reminds me of Elijah traveling back to Buxton with a baby all alone still being a kid. "Rather fail with honor than succeed with fraud" this one reminds me of The preacher he could have done better things with his life and worked hard to get his own
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The True Story of Slavery The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a riveting story that shows how cruel and dehumanizing slavery truly is. Slavery was an issue for nearly all of the 70 years it plagued America. In this narrative Douglass brings to light the sickening experience that slavery is for slaves themselves. Douglass is able to communicate how terrible the institution of slavery is because of the physical abuse many masters forced the slaves to endure‚ the necessities that were
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In Douglass’s narrative‚ titled “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass‚ an American Slave”‚ Douglass demonstrates that slaveholding can have a negative effect on‚ not only the slave‚ but also the slave’s owner. Douglass illustrates this point in detail by telling us about the slaveholders he had throughout his many years as a slave. The author’s purpose is to show his reader that slaveholding causes problems within the owner’s family‚ it can have a detrimental effect on the owner’s mental
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A Day in the Life of a Doorknob Well it’s another day. There is a chill in the air The sun is rising and shines on me. That warms me right up. Let me introduce myself. My name is Daisy and I am a doorknob of a car. We belong to a woman named Melanie. She has a little daughter named Sophie. I am sitting in the parking lot waiting for Melanie. It’s about seven thirty and time to drop Sophie off to school. I see them
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to me‚ losing a prized possession‚ etc. Everyone hopes these things will never happen‚ but I know one day I will‚ even when trying to avoid them‚ it’s impossible. However‚ there was one moment that made me realize all the grateful things I already have around me. This day‚ was Thanksgiving day of 2012‚ in Central Park‚ Pasadena‚ when I was helping out at a little event for the homeless. This day was to give to the people who are in adversity and need more than people who have everything they need
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A Worst Teacher I have a terrible teacher in my middle school life‚ his name is Jian Yang. Mr. Yang was my Chinese teacher‚ he has model stature‚ but every time I bethink his face‚ I feel nausea. I had dreamed about him several times‚ his face was clearly emerging in my mind‚ I will never forget his pair of fierce eyes and that wicked mouth. Mr. Yang was the worst teacher in my middle school‚ although most my middle school’s teachers are not very good. My middle school is a private school.
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Sunday‚ March 19‚ 2017 is a day I will never forget. A friend and I were at Rhino Coffee Downtown having some girl time and playing catch up. As I was sipping on my glass of prosecco‚ owner Andrew Crawford walked in and we spoke. After our initial greeting‚ he uttered five words that shattered my world‚ "They aren’t any oysters this year". I IMMEDIATELY knew what he was talking about. There was no question about it. Andrew had just burst my Shreveport Derby Day bubble by letting me know that I wouldn’t
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down by her mom and waited for a response. Through the tears and sniffling‚ Ashley explains to Aliyah the reasons why she has been so inattentive in their lives. Ashley was suffering from cervical cancer and was going in to get treated every other day‚ when Aliyah asked her mom why she didn’t tell her she was heartbroken by the answer. Her mom had been hiding her sickness from Aliyah and Cole because she did not want them to worry about what could happen. She wanted her kids to be able to enjoy their
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