How to Want What You Have “It’s not having what you want. It’s wanting what you’ve got.” - Sheryl Crow The 45-minute drive home last Wednesday night from Leavenworth to Overland Park‚ Kansas gave me some time to think. I just dropped off my younger son‚ Andrew‚ for a five-day personal development seminar‚ and I welcomed the chance to remember a similar night six years ago. Andrew‚ I concluded‚ was fortunate. Attending as a 17-year-old would give him valuable resources he could use for his
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fuzzy socks and favorite pajamas‚ I pull out my writing utensils from under my bed. My mechanical pencil and journal take its form as a sharp sword and glistening armor as I charge toward the land of Nirvana. In this idealistic land‚ anything and everything can happen as long as there is enough .7 lead in the pencil barrel. By the use of letters‚ words‚ and sentences‚ Little Red Riding Hood could have befriended the big bad wolf‚ and Goldilocks could have never fallen asleep. A simple letter can change
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there are a number of things I have learned about myself. I have learned about my likes and dislikes as well as my strength and weaknesses. I have had to make goals and start planning my future. Through out planning‚ my choices have been influenced by people and issues. I have had to take in numerous considerations in making my decisions. I have chosen a career field‚ a major‚ and laid out a plan for my future in visual communications. My first two years of college have been not only an exploration
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to give something back by becoming more" says Anthony Robbins. If we take the opportunity we are given and we achieve it then with responsibility we choose to have what we want for a good life. To be able to provide my family and myself with sincerity and dedication‚ by being ambitious‚ committed‚ focused‚ and whole hearted. And how I go about doing that is to be hard working and determined in everything I do. How I’m doing that is by going to school to focus on my career in Justice Administrative
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What I learned in the six weeks in HMNT 1001-10 Kimberly Allen Walden University What I learned in the six weeks in HMNT 1001-10 Before this course‚ I had no clue how I was going to manage learning in college. All I knew‚ I wanted to go. I wanted to improve myself no matter how naive I was. Presently‚ it is the end of the class. But it is only the beginning for me at Walden University‚ and because of this course‚ I now know what to expect and what to do to be a successful Walden student (
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I have always known my brother was different. From the day he was born he was hooked up on beeping machines and glow fingers‚ he wasn’t on them for very long but enough to make me always remember the way they sounded. I knew he had a scar on his chest‚ I knew he looked different from me. I always just wanted to know why. I would never know why until middle school. Middle school was when I started noticing the kids that where different. I noticed the kids that screamed down the hall‚ the ones who
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double sidedness of pride. Brother’s pride pushes him to give Doodle a life away from his rubber sheet on the bed. When Brother’s obsession with turning Doodle into the "ideal" Brother goes too far‚ his pride pushes Doodle to his early death. “I should have already admitted defeat but my pride wouldn’t let me.”(346) When he takes Doodle to Horsehead Swamp that Saturday before the first day of school‚ he knows it’s too late to meet the goals he set for Doodle. Again we see shame and pride coming together
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Essay about the short story‚ Four (with focus on narrative technique and the obsession with celebrities). In the blue sky an airplane fly with two kind of human a man and a woman. Poem by Rasmus Broendt (2011) In an airplane‚ a woman sits beside a famous man. This is in the 21. Century and the chances lead the woman and the celebrity together: “If I were a more self-assured person I would not have volunteered to give up my seat on an overcrowded flight‚ would
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Throughout the years I have dreaded writing because I lacked the skills necessary to be an efficient writer. I would spend so much time stressing over all the skills I didn’t know that I never had the time to enjoy the writing process. By taking this course‚ I have learned valuable and essential skills to make the writing process more enjoyable. Furthermore‚ over the course of this semester I have flourished into a more confident and focused writer. A major factor that has contributed to this shift
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semester I have learned multiple things in English 100. Learning different formatting styles‚ grammar‚ annotation styles‚ along with editing and revising drafts has helped me grow as a writer. I have gained new knowledge along with skills such as references‚ writing in MLA format‚ which I never knew before. I have learned new things while receiving comments from the instructor on my essays. Most of them did not have much detail and needed more. I learned that detail is key to writing‚ so that readers
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