outside one ’s regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation. While there are many benefits of pursuing a hobby during your free time‚ it can even be said to be of importance to continue your hobby throughout the day for short periods of time. A hobby can bring stress relief‚ distract your mind‚ and has even been known to ease pain. Certainly one of the best advantages of pursuing a hobby is allowing quiet time away from the daily grind to decompress. Maintaining focus on something
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According to the article “But I’m Not Tired!” by Alice Park‚ she states that last year the National Sleep Foundation reported that nearly 60% of 7-12 year-olds said they felt tired during the day‚ and 15% nodded off at school. Kid’s now are not getting as much sleep as they should be getting a good education. For kids to do well in school the article states that for the most school-age children‚ 10 ½ hours of sleep is ideal. A lot of parents and kids think that the right amount of time to sleep
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Let’s Help Make this Documentary a Success! BY: Srithaja #1 The documentary‚ "God Grew Tired of Us" is a tragic story about the three Lost Boys of Sudan written by Christopher Dillon Quinn. It shows how the life of a refugee is and how they are discriminated against for their skin colour and for the way they act in America. There are many aspects I like about the documentary such as how the three Lost Boys in the documentary stayed positive throughout the film‚ even when they started getting
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Pursuing a master’s degree is a responsibility I owe to myself as well as a commitment I have to others. I call it a responsibility because I have an enthusiastic outlook on life‚ which makes me relentlessly find and pursue the things I want to achieve. I call it a commitment because I want to be an illustration to others of what hard work and dedication can achieve. My first introduction to Human Recourses Management came as a result of an encounter with Karen Choate‚ Human Resources Manager‚
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While pursuing academic excellence‚ I have also been an active member of student council‚ a member of FBLA‚ a cheerleader and a member of _______. These pursuits have given me a visual perspective of society and introduced me to social and cultural differences
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and skilled practitioner in their respective field. This is my goal as well. I want to be the most effective as well as the most enlightened clinician‚ I can be. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said‚ “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” Pursuing clinical knowledge with reckless abandon has pushed me forward in the field of nursing. During this pursuit of information‚ I have slowly molded myself into a resource for the staff on my unit‚ thus earning the opportunity to train and pass this
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a long thought process‚ I had realized that you need some form of a college degree to obtain a solid well paying job. This was when I understood that college would be the path I would take for that life I wanted. After thinking about college‚ not only did I comprehend that college was the road toward a good job but also would open up a world of opportunities that I was willing to take. Given these opportunities will better help me understand the meaning of hard work‚ time management‚ and experience
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The general argument made by Scott Dannemiller in “Busy Is a Sickness‚” is that being busy is not well for a person’s mental health. To be more specific‚ he argues that most of the time‚ we create the stress that comes with being busy ourselves. He writes “In America‚ we are defined by what we do” (Dannemiller 2)‚ and “The implication is that if I am not busy doing something‚ I am somehow less than. Not worthy” (Dannemiller 2). Dannemiller is explaining how many people try to find something to do
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she is only interested in materialistic things does not deny the dream because she is constantly striving to achieve the American dream at the cost of her marriage and happiness.
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God Grew Tired of Us By: Winnie Wat God Grew Tired of Us documents the journey of three Sudanese men who were part of the “Lost Boys of Sudan”‚ a refugee camp home to thousands of young men who fled Sudan amidst the wars that went on since the 1980s. The three young men were one of the few who were invited to live in America and the documentary follows the men on their journey of adapting to the North American culture‚ customs and the new found freedom they never had back in Sudan. Throughout
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