I once came across a proverb regarding life which stuck in my head more than the usual mix of sayings and advice one might encounter in his or her time. The proverb read ?Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.? I will always remember that saying not only for the fact that I have it written down for safe keeping, but also because I found it at the time I needed it most during my collegiate career. What appeared to be most dire situation during college turned out to probably be the most significant event during my college days. Although it is difficult to pinpoint the exact event which I consider to be the most significant, I can say for sure that it was the culmination of a collection events which I consider to be most significant to my development as a student. The culmination of events I am referring to is the time I pulled myself out from under a deluge of work with nothing more than my own self-motivation and a fear of failure. I remember the weekend being especially cold fall during my first semester at college. I knew I had been procrastinating a little more excessively than I had in the past due to the fact that I had been enjoying the experience of having the freedom college provided. I knew that I had a few major papers due around the same time, but had neglected to realize that the time they were due was all in the same week. It had also skipped my mind that there would be the other usual homework in those classes as well. The weekend came and I had the usual teenager-at-college plans. I knew in the back of my mind that midterms had just passed and the due dates for my papers was fast approaching, but the amount of work I actually had to do didn?t hit me until I was walking...
I particularly remember the weather because when I realized what I had to do I stopped dead in my tracks, mouth agape, and just felt the cold air blow right through me. To this day I do not know if it was an actual gust of wind or just the chill of realizing the amount of pages I needed to type by this time next week was about triple the amount of years I had been alive. I do distinctly recall standing still in the night and a definite cold air running through me. I am not sure how long I stood there motionless, but I do recall exactly what was going through my mind. My first thought was to go through with my plans for the evening and then just get to work on Saturday. I knew that it would be very easy for me to cancel my plans for Saturday and just work as hard as I could for as long as I could that Saturday and Sunday. If I was finished by Sunday night I would have a clean slate on Monday, as far as term papers were concerned, and that I would just have to find time during the week to complete the homework which was assigned each night. I could even come up with an excuse here or there to get an extension on some of the work I needed to do. One option I did not have was coming down with an ?illness? and gaining an extension by not attending class. My term papers were due and I did not want to get on my professors? bad sides by missing class on the designated due date for term papers. So that was it. I decided to go enjoy myself one last night before cracking down the upcoming weekend.
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Furthermore, when groups began people naturally turned to the group leader for direction and advice. It would be accurate to state that most of the relating was to the group leader at that point. However, by exercising linking behavior, I was able to get the group members to look to each other for understanding and help. Initially, I had to point out when people were saying things that would indicate
Breast Cancer Treatment Breast cancer is not an illness which can be cured with medication, it is a fatal disease. If not detected at an early stage it is incurable. A famous Chinese proverb states "We cannot control the wind, but we have the power to adjust its sails"; in the same manner, we cannot prevent breast cancer, but it is in our power to take appropriate measures to reduce its
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Jackson was born in San Francisco, to father Leslie Jackson, an English immigrant and Geraldine Bugbee Jackson, who was related to the famous California architects, an association some give credit for driving her sense of place and detail for architecture in her stories. She spent most of her years in Vermont and is associated as a New England writer. The last work Jackson published, like the Lottery was one
Home-schooling can be a safe alternative to normative schooling. For decades, across the country, there is an abundance of statistical data demonstrating that national averages including tests scores, frequency of student suspension, and occurrence of school violence are all on the rise. While it is true that not all schools are prone to or experience excessive violence, it can be argued that overall, the school environment is less safe and
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