Because you have been conditioned to respond to the sound of the ringer your heart beats a little faster and your brain tells you to pick it up. ... I was in my local Starbucks a quarter after noon and one to five people were wither reading or talking with their friends while the other majority were on their devices. ... She explains, " College students rarely plan ahead; they simply call their friends and get together in the moment. ... As I begun to distance myself off of the site I realized how many more of my friends started to have cool new cell phones and Facebook or Myspace sites. ...

• Word Count: 1480
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

First of all, Plato would have his guardians feel no attachment to those around them whereas Confucius emphasizes the importance of relationships with family and friends. ... While this scenario might be a little extreme, I believe that it is easier to teach somebody to love rather than not. ... In addition, there is great emphasis throughout the book placed on the importance of a gentlemen being trustworthy and honest in their interactions with friends. The stress on the importance of friends and family creates a gentleman and sage with strong emotional ties to the ones around him. ...

• Word Count: 1371
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Some of us let our imagination create our own special details to make the story a little more catchy, others may have heard the story several times by different people and consequently combine the two or three different versions to make the story more accurate while others just say the story the way they heard it. ... Little details like this make the story informal and it also makes the reader feel free to think of the story the way he feels towards it, being able to tell the story to someone else from his point of view, of course without changing the original story. ... But, throughout the ...

• Word Count: 890
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are empirical results that actually affirm the validity of these two assumptions (Diener, 1984), which is a little a questionable to me. ... There are different kinds of happiness, such as someone can have an overwhelmingly happy due to the love they from their family and friends even though they have a crappy job as to someone who is the same level of happiness with no family or love but lots of money and wealth. ... This actually made me laugh a little bit and I became curious to see in my yearbook who was truly smiling. ...

• Word Count: 731
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The yellow flowers in the kitchen at Aubrey's house show a little bit of life and a fresh feeling in an unfamiliar, dull environment, similar to the nursing home. The little pots of flowers also represent bits of hope for Grant as he begins to feel loneliness due to Fiona's absence. ... Indeed they had a simple life together in the nursing home, they'd play cards with friends, take walks, and Aubrey would draw pictures of Fiona. ...

• Word Count: 2434
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This child should successfully form secure primary attachments, have the self-confidence to approach and to master new challenges, and be inclined to establish secure, mutual-trust relationships with friends and spouses later in life. ... Avoidant attachment is an insecure infant/caregiver bond, characterized by little separation protest and a tendency of the child to avoid or ignore the caregiver. ...

• Word Count: 1163
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There is very little motivation for an athlete at this time and this will adversely affect the psychological healing process as well as the rehabilitation process because it is hard for an athlete to find inspiration when strong feelings of helplessness because there is no way the athlete will be able in time to help his team. ... Family and close friends are considered providers for listening support, emotional support, as well as personal and material assistance. ...

• Word Count: 1804
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Like many other diary writers, James' decision to write a little every day was in hope that it might "bring relief as an outlet to that geyser of emotions, sensations, speculations, and reflections which ferments perpetually within my poor old carcass for its sins," (Edel, 25) for her inner turmoil was motivated by a desperate sense of isolation. ...

• Word Count: 2383
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate