I try to remain productive in my spare time‚ using it for self-betterment whenever I can. Life is competitive‚ so even though I try to relax and enjoy the time I have to myself‚ I do things that help me develop useful skills and healthy habits. Reading is a great passion of mine. From fiction to biographies‚ my tastes are eclectic and span many genres‚ all of them useful. Biographies reveal the flaws and merits of successful people‚ which are invaluable for reflection. Fiction allows one to enter
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do so much that I don’t have time for my assignments. Learning how to overcome that obstacle will lead me in the right direction as it ties in with my professional obstacles as well. I will have to learn to tell my supervisors that I can’t work overtime if I have homework to complete or a class to attend. What are two specific time-management strategies you can use to help maximize your time during this class and reach your educational goals? One specific time-management strategy would be
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What is professionalism? There are many different forms of professionalism depending on whose opinion of professionalism it is. I will go with my opinion of professionalism. For the thirty years of my life I must say‚ I have learned a lot about my experiences in life. I’ve learned from myself‚ I have learned from my friends‚ and I have learned from mere strangers. I have seen people succeed in their goals. I have seen people fail in their goals. Failing doesn’t mean that you can’t try again
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papers and a TED Talk presentation reflecting on how the accelerating pace of life and the distractions/noise in form of new means of communication are affecting our concentration and vanishing our “sanctuary” where we can dedicate time for thoughtful reflections. * “No time to think: Reflections on information technology and contemplative scholarship”‚ David M. Levy. (2007) * “Speed and the Unsettling of Knowledge in the Digital University”‚ Ray Land‚ (2011). * TED Talk “5 ways to listen better”
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the moon‚ or even another galaxy could be skipped by taking a shortcut. Now imagine time as a ribbon with ripples. The same idea could be applied to time. What if you took the ribbon at the base of two ripples and joined it? The longer distance between those two points in time‚ now out in a loop‚ could be skipped by passing where the ribbon touches. There are a few problems though. When travelling through time‚ one can only travel forward. Travelling backward seems impossible because changing
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In the Time of the Butterflies By Julia Alvaraz Concept Analysis By Jessie Jensen Organizational Patterns: In the Time of the Butterflies is organized into three parts—Part I‚ Part II‚ and Part III. These parts are followed by an Epilogue critical to the story. Each part of the book consists of four chapters‚ each chapter is told by a different narrator. The narrators are the four Mirabal sisters (aka the butterflies)‚ Dede‚ Minerva‚ Maria Teresa‚ and Patria. As each chapter changes narrators
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observe this painting notice there is depth and a statement is trying to be made…the lapse of time during sleep (Background 1). The contents of this painting are enigmatic and difficult to grasp the meaning of‚ but the message is all but to clear. The painting appeals to peoples’ inner feelings of dreams elapsing of time‚ and ultimate death. The somewhat logical aspect to the painting’s meaning is that time seems irrelevant during sleep and only memories persist. In this particular painting it seems
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The Hard Times in Life Thinking of truly difficult times is life is far from difficult. Reminiscing on difficult times will always bring back sad memories and feelings. It seems as though the most difficult times are the easiest to remember. Personally‚ the most difficult time of my life was the first few days after my father’s bicycle accident. For almost three days‚ I could not see my father who had gotten hit head-on by a red Chevrolet truck. It was truly the most difficult thing I’ve ever
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Time Machine If I had a time machine and could bring back one person from the past I think it would be the singer Left Eye. I would bring her back so I can interview her because before she died I didn’t really believe in spirits coming after you until it happened to her. I think the way she died was really scary and I would like to ask her about how she went thru everything with knowing that spirits were after her. If I was to bring Left Eye back the first thing I would do bring her to her family
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The Time Machine" is primarily a social critique of H.G. Wells’s Victorian England projected into the distant future. Wells was a Socialist for most of his life with Communist leanings‚ and he argued in both his novels and non-fiction works that capitalism was one of the great ills of modern society. The most obvious theme you could explore when writing your essay is that of a continuing class struggle‚ even 800‚000 years in the future. As the Time Traveller overlooks the future Earth he notices
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