You should always make the choice that feels right to you. When you make decisions you should trust your instincts. Eli the main character from, The Compound, written by S.A. Bodeen, did this well. He knew his dad was trying to hide something from him. When he started finding clues in his dad´s office, he started to realize his dad has been keeping secrets from his own family for the last six years while they were in the compound.…
Home is a strange word because it can contain so many meanings. It can mean things such as habitat for living things, or it could mean a place where you feel as if nothing could hurt the people in it. You feel happiest when found at home, and it feels like a sort of heaven. The idea of a home relates to this text because Long had to leave his in order to be safe. He had to enter a new home, where he felt like a stranger.…
When Finny break the swimming record. Gene said he will called up the Devonian to send reporters and a photographer. Another character foil between Gene and Finny is, Finny does not strive for attention like Gene. This characterized Gene is arrogant and like to brag about his accomplishments. Gene is being egocentric for thinking Finny refused to break the record again to impress Gene.…
In the Strengths Finder survey, my five greatest strengths are adaptability, harmony, responsibility, consistency and an includer (Gallup, 2010). I realized that I had some of those strengths but some of those are new to me. The strength that has always stood out to me that I knew about was responsibility. The other four, I guess I have developed along the way. As I sit and think about my results of my test.…
Peanut Butter and Jelly, Cookies and Cream, Shoes and Socks, Bread and Butter, Ham and Cheese. These well-known duos are great examples of two different objects coming together to make a great duo. This relationship is a great representation of Gene and Phineas relationship. Gene and Finny have completely different personalities which makes them such good friends. One friend’s aptitude is the other friends blemish.…
After reading a few chapters of Strengths Quest, I was instructed to participate in the Strengths Finder assessment (Anderson, Clifton, & Schreiner, 2006). This 30 minute assessment was an interesting tool that pointed out my greatest strengths. It also provided a detailed description of what having those strengths mean and examples of how they are prominent in a person 's life. After taking the StrengthsFinder survey, I discovered that my five dominant strengths are empathy, harmony, consistency, relator, and restorative.…
In the course of the story, Codi's role in the community marks a noticeable change. The community can be as small as her family, and be as big as the city Grace. However, She appears distant and isolated to both community at the beginning of the book. Such characteristics are drawn from her reference to father as Doc Homer, and her habit of fabricating stories of the past, etc. As the course of the story advances, she starts to make a change in her mindset, embracing the past and her family history, joins with her old friends making a piñatas sale.…
My strengths would be my organizational skills and my positive attitude. My organizational skills are my greatest strength. I am capable of keeping many assignments, projects, and exams on track at the same time. I schedule my workload such that I am able to meet all deadlines on time and still have time for extracurricular activities. My other strength would be my positive attitude.…
Even though he feels compassion for Billy, he realizes the necessity of making an example of him to preserve the king's law. Caught between love and duty, he is, on one hand, a tragic figure irrevocably impelled toward duty. In a harsher evaluation, Vere is a mechanical martinet who allows the strictures of the naval code to overrule what he knows to be morally…
Discovering strengths and weaknesses influences personality through the maturing of one’s nature. Exploring this discovery develops character, scholarship, leadership, and service. Through the process of maturing, one’s character begins to evolve. Character is peculiar values and intellectual views on life.…
Discuss the protagonist’s motivations for their decisions. In The Replaced by Kimberly Derting, Kyra and other Returned came out of hiding after intercepting an email suggesting Tyler, Kyra’s boyfriend, was being held at an NSA facility. After realizing what this meant for Tyler, the group knew they had to go rescue him, if not for the fact that he was potentially being experimented on, then because he was involved in the situation because of Kyra. Though the Returned acknowledged the email could have “been a trap”, Kyra, the protagonist, insists they break into the facility in order to save Tyler (Derting 5). Although she knows this means risking her life, Kyra makes the decision the with no hindrance because she feels “ashamed of what…
Another of my characteristics is independent, with makes me a good leader. Leadership requires bravery and courage. If I see someone drop their books or being picked on, I’m not afraid to stand up and react. I enjoy assisting my cousin with her school work. I try to use my good qualities for the better.…
“That’s where you came in. To take words like “Asian” and “American” and race and nation and..and mess them up so badly that no one even knows what they mean anymore because that was Dad’s dream. A world where he can be Jimmy Stewart and a white guy can even be an Asian.” (Hwang 68-69). “Passing”, according to Harvard professor, Randall Kennedy, is the “deception that enables a person to adopt certain roles or identities from which he would be barred by prevailing social standards” (Kennedy 1).…
I would say I rely on all three of these strengths every day and find myself using at least one of them in almost all situations I face. I think all three strengths are beneficial to my cognitive, behavioral and emotional health, but I would say my behavioral health is benefited more by kindness and generosity, my emotional health is benefited more by gratitude and my cognitive health is benefited more by humor and playfulness. Your Top Strength…
Personal Strengths Inventory This strength assessment is very accurate and confirms strengths that I already recognized about myself. My first strength is connectedness. I believe that the strength of connectedness centers on people, your interactions and relationships with them, and how those moments affect your life and the lives of those around you. My second strength is adaptability. Adaptability is the ability to move from task-to-task quickly without becoming disorganized and frustrated.…