The Mind-Personal Narrative

Growing up with a father in the military, you move around a lot more than you would like to. I was born just east of St. Louis in a city called Shiloh in Illinois. When I was two years old my dad got the assignment to move to Hawaii. We spent seven great years in Hawaii, we had one of the greatest churches I have ever been to name New Hope. New Hope was a lot like Olivet's atmosphere, the people were always friendly and there always something to keep someone busy. I used to dance at church, I did hip-hop and interpretive dance, but you could never tell that from the way I look now.

The prominence of a few themes - amputation, fate and death - create the catharsis required in a tragedy, mainly incidents which “arousing] pity and fear,” (definition). The repetition of these eerie and morbid themes keep them at the forefront of a reader’s mind, and put them in an uneasy emotional state, leading to a sense of catharsis at the end of the long, marathon novel. One main motif through the novel is that of amputation, and armlessness, which come to symbolize loss, helplessness, and the way in which sometimes one’s hands are bound, at the will of something greater. For example, after Owen accidentally kills John’s mother, he borrows John’s stuffed armadillo, a prized playing toy, and returns it without its claws, rendering it “USELESS TO JohN QUOTE,” which Owen means to signify “QUOTE ABOUT IM AM GODS MESSENGER.” This theme is touched upon many more times, and becomes somewhat of an obsession for Owen, who repeatedly removes or adds arms to female figures, including John’s deceased mother’s dressmaker’s dummy, a large catholic stature of a saint, which he desecrates. In irony, or perhaps a fate Owen had foreseen, the novel concludes with Owen losing his arms, protecting a group of Vietnamese children, in his last act of heroism. In addition to the theme of amputation, the theme of fate, and predestiny from God, is woven throughout, particularly perpetuated by Owen, who sees himself as God’s instrument. Owen consistently reminds John of the certainty of fate, and is angered when John does not share his blind faith. Owen believed “there were no accidents; there was a reason for that baseball - just as there was a reason for Owen being small, and a reason for his voice. In Owen's opinion, he had INTERRUPTED AN ANGEL, he had DISTURBED AN ANGEL AT WORK, he had UPSET THE SCHEME OF THINGS (page 102).” Is it Owen’s blind

Over my years of school, one big influence on me has always been sports. Ever since a young age, I have always enjoyed playing and watching sports. In my four years in high school, I have fell in love with the sport of lacrosse.

The stone was cold and I could feel the pain swelling up inside. I took a step towards the edge, I thought to myself, “One more step and the worries would end…” if only it was that easy.

In an attempt to take away some of the guilt he has placed upon himself from the Vietnam War, O’Brien tells his tales –in the fictional book The Things They Carried- of the many challenges he faced as a soldier. In On the Rainy River, through the illusions on the banks of the river he sees his past, present and future each memory reveals a part of him. O’Brien’s thoughtful story about death -shown in The Man I Killed- illustrates that the jungles of Vietnam blur boundaries between hallucinations and actuality. The killing of soldiers both American and Vietnamese feed into the disillusions and sensations built up from war, but soldiers use an “anesthetic” to shelter themselves from everything that goes on.

“I’ll see you soon. I’ll see you when we all live in peace and harmony. I’ll see you on the other side.” My great-grandmother, Minda, was a ninety-one year old lady from Russia who had a passion for dance and music. Minda, I called her Omi, filled any room with joy and happiness. Omi fell deaf at a very early age, which led to her family's move to America to get a stapedectomy which repairs hearing loss. Unfortunately, doctors in America were unable to save her hearing. Even though she was deaf, she still sang and danced her way through life, until the very end.

The case from the first section that had the greatest impact on me was the man who fell out of Bed. Sacks’ tells a story of a man who had a limb but would suddenly became unware the leg belonged to him; he felt as if a phantom leg had

Hello, My Facebook Family! I’m Tommie Nichole! Today, I’m going to bring to you a little topic that I am focusing on this week and my new The Mom Standard group. I would love to have you guys join me over there. I am really encouraging and uplifting mom and bring them in a community where they can come and get any types of resource. But, have you ever had somebody to tell you the truth?

I was assigned to practice some form of mindfulness with choices of a range of meditation, formal and informal mindfulness practices, and to keep a journal of my experiences. Although I have tried some of them to keep myself more aware and present at the here and now moment since several years ago, I didn’t really know that some of the things that I had done are parts of mindfulness practice. I, also, have noticed that I was more interested to do the informal mindfulness practices than the formal, which can be because of my personality and how I was raised. My family love nature, and since I can recall we went to the nature and had outside picnic with loud music and dancing around. I think that is one of the main reasons that I felt more comfortable to practice the informal mindfulness to be present at the moment and improved my level of acceptance.

When reading through the points listed in the article, I found myself connecting to all them. Some I found to be more of a weakness than others, but all the same, they were relatable.

Prompt 6: My favorite academic subject by far is psychology. I’ve always been intrigued by why people do what they do and once I started watching the TV show criminal minds, my interest sparked in psychology. The way they profile people and really give an understanding of human actions makes my brain wander off. So that inspired me to take regular psychology last year and take AP-Psychology this year. My first year in psychology really caught my eye because the material was relatable and the work was challenging. We wrote essays, had class discussions, and worked on public speaking. Participating in all of these helpful assignments has made me realize I love a good challenge and that public speaking is easy for me. So far in AP-Psychology,

I many great times at my house. When I am at home I do many things one of the things I like to do the most is play video games other on my PlayStation or on my computer. When I play on my computer there is this program called steam. Steam is an interactive game store that has all of your favorite games. Depending on how good your computer is depends which games you will be able to play. You can build your own computer just for gaming. This peticular task could be very difficult depending on what you know. The most I important things you will need is a way to power the computer a cooling system, processors, graphics card and other important items. You could just buy a computer meant for gaming but sometimes those are overpriced and don't have very good graphics cards and processors. When console gaming there is a big difference becuase all you need to do is go to your local GameStop and pick up some games to play with your brand new console and play with some friends or play singelepalyer.

You want to know what is really funny? When you're asked to talk about yourself and you suddenly don't even know who you are. Just gonna write down whatever comes to mind. Here goes: I am actually really excited for this class. Psychology is a really interesting field and expanding my knowledge on this subject can really give you some insight on why you and the people around you do the things we do. I am also excited for my transfer to NC State next fall. I'm ready to get out there and experience life a little. I am ready for summer to be OVER. I hate the season..I'd rather it be fall or spring all the time. I am a photographer on my free time. Love doing it and can't imagine life without my camera. I am looking forward to making connections

Wilfred Owen exhibits the intense fear of warfare through “Dulce Et Decorum Est”. Owen wakens the memories of the passing of one of his allies. He had succumbed to the excruciating pain of sulfur gas right before Owen’s eyes, leaving him traumatized. “Dulce Et Decorum Est” is an allegory for bound, ill-fated camaraderie. Through the use of oxymora, imagery, and allusion, Owen is able demonstrate core-shaking loss.

It told me some of the things that are going wrong economically in our government and what we need to do to fix them. One of the passages that caught my eye was our debt. We are up to our ears in it, and we're doing absolutely nothing to fix it. This is why we need to cut our freedoms and raise all taxes through the roof to start paying our debts, but by doing so we'd have to vote for someone who is going to do this. You will never hear of a candidate saying he is going to raise the taxes five times more than they already are and still get votes from the people. We are a greedy nation who will accept nothing but free and more