What do you desire? What inspires and motivates you to live? What sort of job would you be willing to wake up for and do from 8:30am to 5:00pm every working day? If you know this for sure then you are amongst the very few graduate students who do. Good evening toastmaster and guest speakers. Tonight I will deliver a speech that tackles the transition of students into the working world‚ a usually very tough transition that is. And I feel like bestowing something inspiring upon you all. I am in my
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may appear reserved‚ secretive and sometimes distant; but I am actually more than anxious to be liked. I am very deeply attached to my emotional‚ familial and social values; I am generous (and I could be more) because I like to make others happy. Being an Empath‚ I cry easily. I am very emotional. I easily feel and carry other people’s emotions even indirectly. I always cry over spilled (even the not yet spilt) milk‚ so to speak. I cry when I am happy‚ I cry when I am excited‚ I cry when over-whelmed
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Question 3 what reading have you enjoyed most in the past year and why? The reading I have enjoyed the most in the past year is ‘To kill a mocking bird’ by Harper Lee. The story’s main theme is about racial discrimination and gender inequality. It used a child’s point of view to tell the story so I can throw myself into the main character Scout. Thanks to her naivety‚ the injustice and the hypocrisy of Maycomb folks are enhanced. The most exciting part of the story is the fight in the court. Scout’s
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A Foolish‚ Homeless Con-Artist’s Quest to Ease Loneliness as Displayed in Sherman Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” In Sherman Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem‚” the protagonist exemplifies how to be a professional homeless con artist‚ and reveals how to use an actual stolen family artifact to prey on the human capacity for compassion. It’s a story in which our protagonist with the same first and last name‚ Jackson Jackson‚ stumbles across a garb made by his grandmother in a local
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current working practices and develop the best‚ unbiased business solutions. Inspired by the challenge‚ I initially didn’t understand the reluctance of senior staff to objectively evaluate their current practices. In their minds‚ any improvement we identified was a criticism of the current system‚ rather than an opportunity for progress. My challenge was further complicated by the directive to properly adjust headcount‚ which plant personnel flatly refused to consider. They considered my presence as
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Alex Dang “What Kind Of Asian Are You” The theme of this poem is not only about Asians/being Asian‚ but also the idea of stereotypicality‚ the way people are judged based solely on their appearance‚ background‚ religion and culture‚ and the things they like/dislike. The poet describes how‚ as an Asian‚ he is expected to be the most Asian-like things such as a math genius‚ even though he may not necessarily be that way. The poem goes on to talk about the things that are implied‚ rather than said
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but I remember almost none of it. It would be very beneficial to me‚ as I work with the public in a city that has a lot of Hispanics. And I’ve always wanted to learn a language. There are countless recources on the internet and apps that can teach you how to speak different languages. I know several people who speak Spanish quite fluently. And if needs be‚ I could take a college class. I would like to learn it within the next few years. My use of media isn’t too bad. I don’t have accounts to most
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Essay 1: “What You Pawn‚ I Will Redeem” Sherman Alexie’s "What you Pawn‚ I Will Redeem" appears on the surface to be a simply written story of a homeless‚ alcoholic Indian in Seattle who is trying to earn enough money to reclaim his grandmothers Pow Wow regalia from a local pawn shop. But upon looking closely‚ there are many symbolic passages that my lead a person to much deeper conclusions. Throughout the story there are many clues that hint at the fact that this quest may not have been real‚ but
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What You Can Do to Control Ebola Ebola is now talked about across the globe. The fever and severe internal bleeding that are due to the disease are not only fatal‚ but there is also no complete or known cure at this time. Also‚ the disease is highly contagious as Ebola has not become contained‚ so this continues to alarm people around the world. Yet at a more personal level‚ the urgency of learning what to do about the control of Ebola and how to not become infected are all key to staying safe
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Gender in As You Like It One of the most intriguing aspects of the treatment of love in As You Like It concerns the issue of gender. And this issue‚ for obvious reasons‚ has generated a special interest in recent times. The principal reason for such a thematic concern in the play is the cross dressing and role playing. The central love interest between Rosalind and Orlando calls into question the conventional wisdom about men’s and women’s gender roles and challenges our preconceptions about these
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