Accept

Acceptance is when people truly see you for who you are, not just what to look like, or what you talk like. In the book Freak the Mighty, Freak is shown as ‘robot boy’, or being ‘crippled.’ However, our main character, Max, doesn’t think of him this way. He sees him as Kevin, the smart boy who lives across the street. This is just one of the many examples of acceptance in the book. I think that Freak the Mighty is a story of acceptance, and here's why: First of all, what is acceptance? Acceptance

would explain to the other employees that I want to provide them with the best possible training. I would also explain to them I need their full support and cooperation in order for the training to successful for all of us. Making a decision to accept a job as an OD practitioner should be one based upon objective information. The decision should not be

value and implement the significant principles I have been taught: including love, compassion, and empathy. But as I’ve grown into adulthood and formed opinions and views of my own, the one thing I feel that was never stressed enough in church was to accept everyone as they are. After all, shouldn’t love, compassion and empathy encompass acceptance? My parents are of different races, my mother being white and my father being black. In a sizeable and more culturally diverse city I probably would not

The play Fences by August Wilson is a story about Troy Maxson a legendary baseball player whose dreams and legacy died with the Negro Leagues. Wilson portrays Troy as a conflicted and complicated character. Is Troy a good or a bad person? Is a controversial question among the audience. Throughout the play, he has gone through so much that there is a drastic change from the beginning of the play to the end. He had many positive traits that conflicted with his negative traits. Even though he made

There is a massive difference between wanting to keep a tradition alive and being so avid about living in sameness that it becomes dangerous. Fluidity and being open to revision is necessary in order to survive in an ever changing environment. In The Naked Citadel, Susan Faludi recounts the events that occurred during the period that Shannon Faulkner fought for acceptance to the Citadel, the military college of South Carolina. Throughout this time, the school community experienced utter chaos as

crossing the street and calling his former friend, Jane, creates Holden to be an unrestful teen searching for the ability to accept one day he will disappear and be in Allie’s place. Furthermore, the fear of another loss results from his fear of disappearing. Just as Allie disappears from Holden’s life his life becomes a frantic worry of another travesty. Holden's world consists of fear and depression because of the possibility “people will not mourn him long, no longer than they mourned Allie, and

Quote: “Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do.”(18) Deeper Meaning:This quote make me realize that different people have different qualities and technique. Everybody is unique in their own way we are not good at everything. We should accept the fact that we are just human and not perfect. If we cannot accept this fact, we would not be happy.People compare themselves with others and want to be the best. However, it is just putting so much pressure on yourself . They are unhappy

My initial reactions to change in the workplace is, “how will this affect me and does it offer me growth here at the company”. Previously, in my professional career I have experienced change as an employee thereby having the role to accept and apply the changes. I have yet to have the role of implement or creating changes in a company. For me change is necessary and a refreshing modification in a workplace. I have always welcomed changed both in my professional career as well as my personal life

When we read a story there is a message that connects with us. The themes and life lessons that are shown in the stories can change the way we think and feel. Sometimes, stories leave a lasting impact on us because we are experiencing similar themes in our lives. While reading a variety of stories, there will be some that are good, and some that never translate well with a person. During class this semester, while not every story may have had a lasting impression, it did always leave room for the

his grandmother has a condition that will end in her demise, “before the end of summer”. Initially, Bennie is not able to cope with this news, he does not possess the maturity needed to accept her fate. Through a series of events in the story, after experiencing, first-hand, the effects of death, he is able to accept crude nature