She told me life isn’t always about doing what’s best for you, but sacrificing for others. You should never depend on anyone to keep you on your feet; you’re strong enough to stand up on your own. It was from her that I learned happiness comes in all sorts of forms, sometimes being happy consists of giving up your own. Through the duration of my parents’ marriage I witnessed so much hurt, mentally and physically. From thrashing choices of words directed towards my Mom, physical contact no child
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My house does not signify one thing about me, instead it signifies many. I decided to split my paper in half to be able to show myself inside and out. On the outside i started to create my house by first deciding what it was going to be made out of. I decided concrete would be best, because physically and mentally i am a very strong person. I try to be tough for myself because i know the tougher i am in life the less ill be taken advantage of. As for the large window, the shape had to be unique because i view myself as a very unusual person
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that I decided to take was the “Buddha” assessment. During this assessment I was able to get a better understanding of the way I accept and/or feel about myself as an individual. My score for this was rated above average with a total of 32; the average rating for this score falls at 25. With these results the study showed that of course I accept myself more than the average person. Which completely true, even though I am not perfect and do have flaws, I understand that no one individual on this
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I completely tried to give attention to my behaviors that I develop when I was negative, critical, and / or judgmental. I realized that I could be very judgmental to my housemates about their behaviors when we are discussing the house issues. Because of being only girl in the house, we have difference of opinion about some different subjects such as the cleaning of the house or shopping. Because our priority is different to each other’s in the house. As a result, I have decided to be more positive
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November 19, 2012 Period 6 AVID Mandala The five symbols in my mandala represent me. Each symbol represents the most important things in my life. These five objects are other visual appealings of myself. The rainbow represents friendship. Friendship is hope, friendship to me is very important because friendship is like a rainbow. Each color of the rainbow represents each one of my friend’s hope, respect, and honesty. My friends are like my family
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assignment to the class, many questions and thoughts came across to me. Will this help me in the future? Why are we doing this? Will I learn from this? Like any student, I thought that this assignment wasn’t going to be helpful because I already knew myself. Of course, I was wrong. As I began to work on this assignment, I realized that this assignment did fulfill its purposes by facilitating my understanding of Psychology and the examined activities related to my success. I gained insight when I compared
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Fiara Causo English 8B 06/6/11 GRAD PROJECT Thesis: TBS helped me find myself as a person and get more confident in myself and who I am. In Costa Rica not only did I get to see how strong I could be but also it helped me be more bonded to everyone. I got to know my classmates like I’ve never knew before, It was extremely interesting for me to see their different personalities and sides. During the hike we all had our problems and difficulties but in the end with everyone’s help we all made it
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I seemed to have an experience that I was just thrown into the wolves’ den and had to fend for myself during the second week at Fegs. I was notified on the fourth day that I would be running the group for the first time. Even though there is curriculum for each group, some of them are not sufficient enough to use it for more than two weeks. On my first day of running the group, I could not access the FEGS curriculum as my username and password wasn’t set up and ready so I used the materials that
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Be able to explain what IB does and why you like it. Talk about how you do different things everyday, work on different stages of different deals. Talk about how IB fits both short-term goals and long-term goals by giving you the skills to work in any other finance field.Talk abt DCF. Calculate Net cash flow. Divide it by 1+APV/WACC raised to the number of years down the road. In the last year of valuation, add NCF and TV and divide it. TV is CF in that year multiplied by 1+g divided by WACC/APV
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and really depressed all the time. I knew this is now how I was going to let myself live and I knew it would be hard to get myself together, but I saw a moment when I could actually learn to live as an adult without relying on mom and dad’s help and It would be myself that I had to depend on for everything and not them. I lived there for about a 2 weeks and found me a good job and eventually found a better job and then about a year to a year after I moved there I was in my own apartment, my vehicle
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Chapter 11 Reflection Paper In this chapter I learned about emotional intelligence and how well I can cope with the demands and pressures I’m faced with everyday. I learned that I’m too hard on myself and I never give myself enough credit. My expatiations are extremely high and if I don’t reach those expatiations I get upset with myself. If I do extremely well on a test, but I make one silly mistake and get a question wrong, I will beat myself up over that silly mistake. I also learned that its not
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identification to be for several different reason. In my paper I will be discussing fours different things to support the reason why I choose the political identity I am. First I will talk about my point of view between the democrats, republicans and independent parties. Next, I will state the partie I would consider myself and why the other parties I didn’t choose didn’t appeal to me. When describing the democrats and republican parties I have learned they both parties have major differences when
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Develop habbits Being a student at NOVA community college truly taught me to push myself in many different ways I never was possible. College life helped me to overcome some of my biggest fears and helped to teach me some of the most important lessons. It helped me to learn more about myself and grow as a person along the way. As stressful as it may seem at times, I know that it is important towards accomplishing my goals and dreams. Growing up in a dysfunctional household, there
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questions in our minds are called a Self Reflection. (1) “Selfreflection enables us to know about ourselves, control our actions, and present ourselves more effectively to others.” Now, the questions are in my mind and I am doing the selfreflection. All the self refection do is to assesses my strengths and weaknesses, contemplates how to reach their goals, and has a wonder how they come across to others. I also learned about myself more through a reflected appraisal process which that I observed and imagined what others think of me
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collection. After completing this course, I have found myself looking at stats in a whole different light. Before I would read articles in the paper or magazines, look at commercials, read product labels or listen to sports announcers talk about stats and was easily manipulated because I never really paid much attention to the numbers. Now I find myself doing the same thing but this time I find myself trying to figure out how these numbers or stats came about. Just as an example, I live in a small town that
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thinking. |Stages of Critical Thinking |How to Move to the Next Stage |Obstacles to Moving to the Next Stage | |EXAMPLE: |Examine my thinking to identify problems |Deceiving myself about the effectiveness of| | |that affect my thinking. |my thinking | |The Unreflective Thinker |
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Accepting Myself Image Women get advertised for their body, face, hair etc. As if we’re suppose to be flawless. If we didn’t have hair dye, face and body implants and weight loss advertisement, all women would learn to love their self image. To reflect on my self image I started with a 6 foot butcher paper, asked someone to draw my outline, and then reviewed my body. The characteristics that I don’t like about myself are my hair, eyesight, body shape and my stretch marks. My hair is
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time. It made me feel good about myself and some days when running the mile in the heat it didn’t stop me from running I pushed myself harder. Also, I noticed I started to become more active I started playing outdoors more with my brothers and after a week I noticed I started to lose some pounds and my personal goal was to feel good about my body and weight and I finally am. PE’s running and daily stretching helped me with my flexibility and with my confidence about myself. Yoga Day/ Weight Room
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goals for myself whether it is long term or short term. I like a challenge in life; I don’t like things so easy. Two of my main goals I have for myself are both lifelong ambitions that I plan to accomplish. You may ask, “So what are those goals you plan to accomplish”? Well one of them is becoming a Physician Assistant which is more of a career goal, and the other one is working out which is more of a physical appearance goal. My approach for achieving these goals that I have set for myself, both the
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The Secret Of My Reflection Throughout my childhood I was very insecure about my appearance.Only recently have I been able to look at myself in a positive way. In the middle of my sophomore year my family went on the paleo diet. Also known as the “caveman” diet. You aren't supposed to eat any processed foods or meat , including sugar and flour. This was a real struggle for me. When I was young eating was my favorite activity. I wasn’t the skinniest child, I snacked whenever
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| Learning Project 1, Part 4-6 | | | LP1, Part 4: What are others' experiences of me when I am my best? Phase 1: Creating the Reflected Best-Self Portrait When I am at best, I help people. I motivate myself and feel motivated when I get to help others. Whether it’s a stranger, colleague, friends, or family, I feel my passion in assisting those in need. As long as it’s within my capability and moral belief that what people ask for help is ethical and legal, I give them my attention
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picked on, about the way I dressed, my skin color and even just the way I talk. I always had negative thoughts towards myself which made me be very insecure, and very sensitive. Teachers, Guidance Counselors, and Family were there for me during those tough times, but when you are a kid you want to be accepted by your peers. Every day I did not think positive about anything, I was depressed. While in those dark times I would always dream of how I might be like in the future. I would dream about having
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Why I Should Be Allowed to Participate in Drug Court The past month has definitely been a learning experience for me. The biggest lesson that I have learned would have to be about complacency. Since I first started attending AA & NA meetings I have heard people say that they became complacent. They felt comfortable where they were in their sobriety and decided that it was okay to slack off a little bit. It was okay to miss the occasional meeting and not call their sponsor every day
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perceptions of ourselves ranging from physical appearance to skill sets in life. The idea of self-esteem helps us create an image of the perfect human being in terms of worth, the person everyone wants to be. Self-esteem is the idea of how we feel about ourselves and how much we feel we are worth. Be it physical appearance or personality, we are constantly looking at ourselves in comparison to others. The term “Ideal Self” is the idea of the perfect human being. It’s who we strive to be and
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distracted and curious but more concerned about what my school life was about to become. I assumed it was too early to discriminate considering it was my first day but I seriously struggled to help my self. Mr Bowerman, the headmaster and also an encouraging one at that looked like the sort of guy who would line all of his different socks up everyday and decide on which pair to wear. I encounted the sloth like head master for the first time as he babbled on about the education the school had to offer
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all others but aside from that I would like to live a simple with good paying job doing something I enjoy. I’d like to finish school not only to make my chances better at getting a job, but to prove to myself and my family that I was able to get through college, something I have always doubted myself on. I would be happy with having a lovely place to call home, not necessarily owning one but just living in a nice home where I spent most of my childhood in California close to my relatives. I want to
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a good grade or have done well on my test. And most of the times I may be sad whenever someone says negative things about me like I’m ugly , I’m just a pretending person or whenever I get in a fight . Socially: I love watching TV, I’m very friendly, love to listen to music, and is also very caring. I will talk to someone like a friend or my family if I have to talk to them about something that their doing wrong or maybe something that I know is bad or maybe a place where they shouldn’t be.
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I see myself working in New York City for a wonderful publication I love and with people I enjoy working with very much. I am back home where I belong! I see myself living in New York City, my big dream come true, in a wonderful neighborhood in Greenwich Village with great neighbors who care about each other and a rent that I can easily afford. I'm doing so well in my career and I'm happy beyond measure. I am writing book! I write about being invisible, disappearing and what that might be like
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2014 English-Period 6 Poem based off of painting Beautiful. I got to write myself beautiful now. I got to treat this girl every once and a while now, and I have no clue where to start. I haven’t spoken words in first person since I `have learned to hide behind the bruises of others, but I figured it out because I have to write myself beautiful now. I know too many ways to use my words to save everyone except myself. This body breaks itself into holes. All that is broken; fuck the healing process
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know that the decision I made was the right one. A huge advantage of returning to school at an older age is that I will appreciate learning in a way that was not possible before. This life experience will give me a perspective of what life is really about. I fell like this time around I will enjoy learning and my grades will be reflective of this. I needed to complete what I set out to do when I was younger. That is why I decided to finish school and actually finish something I have started. My parents
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