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My Journal - Chronicling Daily Life Experiences It is the start of a new year and I thought I would start a journal chronicling my daily experiences. Tonight we decided to go to the local F.O.P. lodge to a New Years Eve party. We had a pretty good time but what happened later that evening is something that I hope I don’t forget for a long time to come. Still fresh in my mind was the conversation Angela and I had on Christmas night. She was hinting that she wasn’t sure if she wanted to be in a serious relationship this soon after the breakup of her previous one. If that wasn’t hard enough on Christmas she also was to ill to attend my brothers wedding with me in Madison Indiana . To add to all the confusion in my head, on my way home I stopped and got her a rose and a â€Å"happy New Years† balloon. She seemed quite touched by the gesture but also visibly troubled by it. I asked her if she was ready to have a good time tonight and she said â€Å"I was but now I don’t know.† Now what in the world does that mean! I tried applying all sorts of significant meanings to that statement but in the end I decided to just let it go and let events unfold as they would. Fast forward to 2 minutes before midnight. Angela is an absolute goddess, she is very beautiful and one of the nicest, sweetest woman I have ever met, but she is not one given to affection, especially public affection. Well at 2 minutes till she laid a kiss on me that lasted well after midnight. She absolutely blew me away!! The rest of the night was nice, we went to a couple more clubs but that moment is burned into my memory. Everything else paled in comparison. I don’t know if it is possible but I think I kissed her with my heart as well as my lips. I have heard of your â€Å"minds eye†, but tonight I found my â€Å"hearts mouth†................. January 2, 1997 I slept very happily all morning. I guess we were up a little later than I thought. I think my mind is still reeling from last night. I don’t know what I’m going to do with my self since Monday Night football is off, and Buffalo is out of the playoffs.

A Piece of String

Tim Gadwell Ms. Bryant April 12, 2010 Period 1-B Pg. 953 Essay In the story â€Å"A Piece of String† the story focuses on an old man named Maitre Houchecome. The story goes through a certain timeline of cause and effect which in the end results in his demise. Then on top of that he was said to have a bad experience with lying in the past. The events in the story had coincidentally occurred in sequential order rather than occurring at random times. The causes in the story produced more effects than one. IT all starts when Market Day occurs and as a result farmers and gardeners were all taking their possessions they were ready to sell to get money. Maitre Houchecome was walking towards the public square when he stopped and saw a piece of string lying on the ground. The story says Houchecome was economically like a true Norman. So as he bends over to pick up the string his back is hurting due to his reumatism and then he notices his arch nemesis Maitre Maladain, the Harness-Maker. Because Houchecome and Maladain were not on good terms with each other Houchecome felt that he needed to watch what he was doing at all times so he didn’t look stupid in front of Maladain. This choice Houchecome made showed that he was a very pride filled person and worried what people thought about him especially Maladain. Houchecome then picks up the string but then tries to conceal it so that Maladain does not se what he grabbed. He thought that Maladain would surely judge him for picking up a useless thing like that. As the day went by people were finishing up there sales and all of them went into a restaurant to eat due to the all the sales they went through. Then when they finish an announcer walks up and says that Someone lost their pocketbook (wallet) that morning along the road of Benzeville, containing 500 francs. Then the police had come and specifically asked for Maitre Houchecome and they escorted him the Mayor’s office where he learns that he was suspected of stealing the wallet. This is where cause and effect ties in, because Houchecome was acting weird and didn’t want Maladain to see what he was picking up Maladain suspected that he took the wallet and went and told the Mayor. Also because Houchecome had lied in the past it made it very hard to believe that he was innocent. Also because he was suspected he turned out his pockets and grew very angry with them. Again because of his past it made the townspeople believe that he took the wallet. This made him plead his innocence but his words were empty in the ears of the townspeople. Then the wallet gets found and still no one believes him because they think that he had a partner that had the wallet and then turned it back in to prove his innocence. The townspeople found this situation very humorous from the jump and kept teasing him and poking fun at him. This troubled Houchecome very much and he thought night and day of how to make people believe that he was innocent. He was said to have gone home ashamed indignant and was choking with anger and confusion. The situation consumed his heart and made him wear himself out for no particular reason and then he wasted away. Even in the end he was very troubled and pleaded his innocence while he was dying.

The Effects of Unconventional Guardians on the Behavior of...

The Effects of Unconventional Guardians on the Behavior of Adolescents We live in a society in which the unconventional or non-traditional family has become more or less the social norm. More and more households are divided or consist of blended families, single parents, gay and lesbian couples, etc., and it can have a major effect on the behavior of youth of today. A predominant factor in all of this is the incidence of divorce. Two people get married too early and decide to have children, then the marriage doesn’t work out for various reasons, and the children are forced to take on a new lifestyle, which can be extremely shocking and potentially traumatizing to them. This can lead to a variety of different behavior problems in†¦show more content†¦In contrast, causes of divorce such as substance abuse, violence, and other mental health disorders (Breslau, Miller, Jin, Sampson, Alonso, Andrade, Bromet, de Girolamo, Demyttenaere, Fayyad, Fukao, Ga˘ la˘on, Gureje, He, Hinkov, Hu, Kovess-Masfety, Matschinger, Medina-Mora, Ormel, Posa da-Villa, Sagar, Scott, Kessler, 2011) can be inherited from the parent, causing the child to still express those traits, but through genetics rather than social learning. In this situation, neither cause of behavioral problems consists of the divorce itself, rather parents who express those traits first. Too often children and parents alike blame the situation (the separation, divorce, remarriage, single parenthood, etc.) rather than what’s been right in front of them for so long. If people would start considering these factors early on, they might hesitate on marrying or having kids if they know that they won’t be able to handle it. Children shouldn’t have to be raised in an environment that is negative to their health, and they certainly shouldn’t have to take the blunt end of the situation because they were simply born into it, because it affects their behavior throughout their lifetime. It is particularly imperative in adolescence to have control ov er thatShow MoreRelatedHomelessness Thesis9057 Words   |  37 PagesReservation Poblacion, Muntinlupa City GENERAL OBJECTIVE : To determine the scope of homelessness. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: 1. To define homelessness. 2. To establish the risk factors of homelessness. 3. To identify the effects of homelessness. 4. To identify the relationship between homelessness and Community awareness. 5. To identify government programs supporting the homeless and legal bases for the protection of the homeless. 6. To provide a prevention solutionsRead MoreHomelessness Thesis9065 Words   |  37 PagesNBP Reservation Poblacion, Muntinlupa City GENERAL OBJECTIVE : To determine the scope of homelessness. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: 1. To define homelessness. 2. To establish the risk factors of homelessness. 3. To identify the effects of homelessness. 4. To identify the relationship between homelessness and Community awareness. 5. To identify government programs supporting the homeless and legal bases for the protection of the homeless. 6. To provide a prevention solutionsRead MoreKhasak14018 Words   |  57 Pagesauthor matured by years. The change in his mentality is reflected in these omissions. To pass on to the appeal of the work, The Legends of Khasak was indeed a new experience to the reading public. It was both applauded and criticized for being unconventional. The youth of the era who carried the embers of rebellion within them relished the novelty of the book. But as a misinterpretation of the Existentialist philosophy, it fostered the birth of a doped and lethargic generation which began to viewRead MoreStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 PagesOrganizational Behavior This page intentionally left blank Organizational Behavior EDITION 15 Stephen P. Robbins —San Diego State University Timothy A. Judge —University of Notre Dame i3iEi35Bj! Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montreal Toronto Delhi Mexico City Sao Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo Editorial Director: Sally Yagan Director of Editorial Services:Read MoreOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 Pagesaround nation-centered themes such as assimilation, push-pull, national identity, debates over national legislation, and diasporas with their attachment to home nations. Enormous and inconclusive social science literatures have tried to gage the effect of immigration and emigration on national economies, political participation, social structures, and national demography. Recent work on â€Å"transnationalism,† â€Å"diaspora,† and migrant networks has tried to move beyond this kind of knowledge, but more