FreeWriting In the article, “FreeWriting”, Mr. Elbow states,” next time you write, notice how often you stop yourself from writing down something you were gonna write down. Or else cross out what’s been written. “Naturally” you say, “it wasn’t any good”. I can definitely relate to the view Peter Elbow takes in his article. Starting an assignment is always the hardest step for me .Like in the very beginning, when you are digging for words to tie your point together; it’s always a struggle building that creative momentum.
I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.'' ( Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man 11) The narrator certainly profited from behaving that way since he got the chance to go to college in the end: ''On my graduation day I delivered an oration in which I showed that humility was the secret, indeed, the very essence of progress.''
If whatever happens in a form of literature is the opposite of what takes place, then the reader just experienced situational irony. "I've quit my job at Donnegan's Plastic Box Company." "....I knew of it when Mr. Donnegan showed me the petition." This would have been least expected from the reader for many reasons. He would believe that Charlie would have gotten a promotion or even a raise because Charlie had saved his manager, Mr. Donnegan, money, and he was also at work every day, unless he had surgery.
That’s how it must be for Charlie, ever since he regressed. The whole experiment failed and he is the one who paid the biggest price. He will always look back at his previous progress report and look at his grammar and how much he knew. Now he can’t even use normal everyday vocabulary. He will always remember how much he once loved Miss Kinnian so much and now he can’t even talk to her right without having her cry.
I found out shortly that when things go array the blame falls on the one with the power first. Though I had no real power, through my over confidence I had assumed the role of the leader and soon the other members of Team C, started questioning my decisions and soon all of our profits started to dwindle. No serious bonds were broken or stretched between our group and through this failure we actually learned more about this game from the actual experience. For instance we learned that the game accounted for reality by having delays in the communication between the four stations. We noticed this when I first changed the number of orders of production which ultimately didn’t arrive until “2 weeks later,” causing the confusion and the beginning of the end of our first attempt.
Meursault is also described as being very dismissive to the outside world, “Looking back on it, I wasn’t unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that but when I had to give up my studies, I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.” (Camus 41). Although
He used to say, “learn to die, and you'll learn to live.” That if you strip away all the “stuff” and focus on the essentials, you see everything around you differently. Over the past 14 weeks, I have learned from Morrie, many valuable lessons that we tend to forget as we live our daily lives. Morrie was a strong believer in disregarding popular culture, and living life on our own terms. He used to say, “ sometimes you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it. Create your own.“ He always told us that society shouldn't be allowed to determine what values you want to follow, choose for yourself.
Decision-Making Process Paper MGT/230 Bonnie Mason January 20, 2014 Going back to school has to be one of the hardest decisions that I have ever made. I had so many different things that were running through my head. “It is easy to become so focused on maximizing on one goal that you lose sight of other important goals. You’re optimizing if you make sure that no important result suffers too much unnecessarily.” I had so much focus in my family that I had forgotten what it truly was that made me happy and why I really needed to go back to school. I have always wanted to be on the top of the pole in the career area.
Looking back, there were several poignant moments when I was struggling with my classes and would have given up trying to achieve my goals. However, I chose to endure those moments because I believe that those challenges were there for my betterment. For example, my Accounting and Microeconomics class last semester served to be one of the greatest challenges I had to go through. There came a point when I almost failed several long tests and had a low grade in several class activities. The difficulty pushed me to work harder and harder.
This evening I would like to talk you about procrastination. However, I put off writing this speech for so long that I did not get around to actually determining what to tell you about procrastination. Okay...I am just kidding. I only procrastinated until Saturday, and that was only because I wanted to put off grading some essays written by my Senior Composition class. As you may already know, procrastination is one of the easiest ways to not finish your work.