My Life 's Journey - Original Writing

My literary journey is not an exciting one, there are no major twists, turns or even bumps in the road. I had no major obstacles to overcome in learning how to read or write. But in a way this journey is a metaphor for so many other things in my life, you will learn in the coming pages of my short attention span, failure to stay motivated and my struggles to remain enthused to learn.

Seven years earlier, I migrated to Hawaii when I was twenty-three. I had flown away from my mother and my life in the Philippines. Like young adults and being rebellious, I wanted to live on my own away from my mother 's roof. I left the city life I grew up with in the Philippines in hope of a better life in another country.

Animism is common among African and Native American religions. It is the belief that all of earth is alive even in the form of spirits or animals. This idea embraces harmony among all living things and that humans are essentially no better than say a fish. If the harmony becomes out of balance, sacrifice or ritual is often performed in order to restore the balance that has been lost. The Native Americans believe that the highest spirit lives in

Animism: Animism is the belief that non-human creatures and inanimate objects can possess spiritual qualities. This belief is enforced in many religions and societies. For example, Hindu people worship the cow, because they believe it has a spiritual essence. Other religions

At the start of the semester I had become more aware and grounded in my voice. In my everyday life, I would notice if I was holding my breath. The reason for this was because over the summer I had to stand-up to one of my shut-up judges, my dad. The incident was extremely emotional, and I coped with it through the use of my actor training; instead of checking out and holding tension, I chose to breathe deeply and stay grounded. This allowed me to speak up even when I was told to shut-up. This awareness of breath was developed through necessity rather than choice. I had to be strong. My strength didn’t only come from being grounded in my breath, but it also came using breathe to stay present in the room. The use of breath also allowed me to go into my body and release the build-up of emotions. As a result of these experiences, my voice was able to drop more consistently to my lower resonator rather than my typical chest voice.

Building vocabulary is an important task in the early grades. There has long been debate on how one should go about teaching vocabulary such as, it is better to teach a limited number of words fully and more intense or expose children to many words to enhance “incidental learning”. Research has proven that incorporating both into instruction is most effective. Read-aloud and teachers increase use of vocabulary have also been proven to help vocabulary and word knowledge. There are three tiers of words that children are presented in their life. Tier one words are those that they are most familiar with such as park, tier 2 are the increasingly hard words such as fortunate and finally the tier 3 words are words that students have rarely been exposed

sp;  Animism – belief that everything has a spirit no matter if it is living or if it is not

Animism- The term “animism” is used in a spiritual sense to describe the belief a soul or spirit inhabited all objects. This description has been applied to some of the oldest myths and legends told by the early man, known originally as a concept formed from people of primitive nature. The significance of elements in nature, and elements in the stars held a greater sense of emotion in early religion (religions that were relevant before Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam). The modern extent seen of animism can be found in the core beliefs of Haitian VooDoo, and Chinese folk religion.

Animism, what is it? Well, animism is the belief that all plants, animals, the sun, moon & stars and even lifeless inanimate objects have spirits. An animist, as the dictionary defines, ‘is a person who believes in the existence of individual spirits that inhabit natural objects and phenomena’. An animist offers sacrifices, prayers or other kinds of religious worship to gain protection to avoid being harmed by the spirit. They believe that these spirits can be transferred into other objects or even transform into an ‘evil spirit’ and possess a human body.

Animism: The views and beliefs of animism are based on inanimate and animate. They believe that all inanimate and animate objects have spirits. Their beliefs have connected spiritual qualities to these objects inanimate or animate. These religions honor important

Animism is a powerful belief that everything has a soul. It is ancient, and because of this it has more primitive elements such as respect for all living things. Like animism, the indigenous beliefs of Buddhism are the foundation of many contemporary religions. Buddhism could be considered the next evolution of the belief of animism because Buddhism shares the belief that everything has a soul. Buddhism is also based on respecting all living things. This is what environmentalists and hippies are attracted to in

Animism: The belief that not only humane creatures have souls; non-intelligent organisms such as plants and animals may house spirits

I was on the patio today, and a drone flew by. I was shocked! As often as I see those little buggers on the news, I never thought I would see one buzzing by me on my in-law's patio. Nevertheless, there it was, zooming by.

Animism is usually applied to any religious beliefs that recognize spirits or a spirit world inherent in the physical world (Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF) International, n.d.). Spiritual beings are everywhere and they shape all that happens. The basic of animism is that the spirit world is stronger than humans. The spirit world controls everything in life.

As a very small child I don’t remember too much, but the things that I do remember were seen through a child’s eyes that has made me the person that I am today and I will always have those memory’s with me until my last breath on this earth. In this essay I intend to show how my childhood and adult life to this point has influenced my life, my journey. By utilizing the adult development theories from this class I also intend on showing how they relate to my Life experiences and where I am today as an Adult student.