In Raymond Carver's "A Small, Good Thing" a little boy named Scotty is hit by a car, hospitalized, and is unconscious. This is an accident that could happen to anyone and that does happen often to people that would never expect it. Scotty's parents are Howard and Ann and their lives have been jus...
Success is a number of things resulting in the various levels of adventures on which we embark, but can be bring it to life. Sure, we can, we could turn a person, place, thing, or idea into something that is a living thing that is part of the success we achieved. One could pinpoint such a concept on...
Each day people around the United States are exposed to an average of 1500 ads (The Ad and the Ego). Everywhere that you go advertising and the media are sure to be there. Advertising has been around for a very long time, in different kinds of forms. It may have started with just a sign on a build...
Confidence is a feeling of assurance. Assurance in its most technical form is freedom from doubt. It seems like an easy concept to grasp, but everyone doubts at least some aspect of themselves. It is our nature. Society has made confidence a hard issue to understand, because there is no medium. ...
The road to a healthy personality is like a road itself. It has many curves and blind corners. Ones ability to adapt to this constantly changing road is one of the most important components of a healthy personality. That is, the ability to adapt to a changing world. Another important component is th...
Men, Are They Really Human? Isn't it amazing how the brain can register the sound of something that we have never heard before and know what it is the very first time we"re hearing it? Bats make a very distinct sound when the fly. Birds can fly with wings soundlessly. Bats flap. I know this to...