It is not the rows of trophies and plaques that he has acquired over his lifetime that bring him the most joy; it is in simply being with those that he loves that he feels complete. His most prized possession is his family. Every Sunday he meets his brother for 8:00 A.M mass. They sit and talk for hours; he then comes home and calls his mother and sisters in St. Louis. He is always checking in on them, making sure everything is all right. He believes that in your family you develop the basis of whom you are and who you will become. He time and time again tells his four kids that no one will stand by you like your family, through thick and thin they will always be there. He is truly a family man.
He has the most simplistic philosophy on life. He merely says to live it. He once told me that he has three goals in life, one, to give his children; the best education, two, give his family the best health care possible, and three, above everything, bring happiness to everyone he meets. In happiness, he doesn't mean simply smiling as he goes about his day to day activities; he means helping out anyone he can at anytime with anything. Whenever his kids are sad or mad he always says, "You are the only one who can make yourself happy and you are the only one who can make your self sad. You choose what you want to be."" I've heard these few sentences repeated all my life, at times I wished he would say something other than that phrase, because I never understood the power that was behind his words. I am just now realizing how true the words he speaks are and how much I still have to learn about life.
My dad taught me that giving is always better than receiving; a true cliché, something easy to say, but hard to actually live. Yet, somehow he manages to do it. He never takes more than he needs and always puts others before himself. He gets by with the least of accommodations, but is always thankful for what he has.
The Misconception of an Average Guy Just because I"m bigger than you doesn't mean I"m a killer. ... I am a little larger than the average guy, and most of my friends are average. ... Then again, I get that kind of stuff all the time though I have never done anything to receive that reputation. ... I"m just a bigger than average nice guy....
In the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia, there weren't many options concerning your future. In fact, there were only two. If you were lucky, you would go to college on a football scholarship, or you would end up working in the coalmines for the rest of your life. But Homer Hickam decided to do ...
The fact that Ed Gein's below average childhood evolved a deranged murderer declared criminally insane was very interesting. ... Born at the turn of the century into the small farming community of Plainfield, Wisconsin, Gein lived a repressive and solitary life on the family homestead with a weak, ineffectual older brother and domineering mother who taught him from an early age that sex, women, and anything impure was a sinful thing abominable to God. ... Physically speaking, Gein was an average man with a regular build, brown hair and light eyes. ... As a way of eliminating grief, he i...
"I Just Wanna be Average," is written by Mike Rose, a successful author of various acclaimed books about Education in America. ... He even quotes his classmate, Ken Harvey, who stated, "I just wanna be average.... Though "Looking for Work" and "I Just Wanna be Average" are similar in some ways they also have numerous differences. ... "Looking for Work" and "I Just Wanna be Average" truly define determination and drive and are uplifting pieces of literature. After completing these stories, readers are left to believe that anything they wish...
The teachers weren't so happy about how Einstein was doing and once, one of his teachers told him; "you know Einstein, you will never amount to anything. ... Einstein, being an average student, finished his studies with a diploma degree in July 1900. ...
Samuel Beckett isn't your average playwright, and in accordance with that, I found this play to be very different and intriguing. ... Krapp is looking at his past life remarking on the things he regretted and the things that he perhaps should have done differently, but barely lets himself finish a thought about the past before he thinks or gestures that it is hopeless now to do anything about it, and that he should accept the effects that his actions have caused. ...
Charles Manson is an average white male that grew up in a broken home and consequentially experienced many psychological as well as emotional problems throughout his lifetime. ... There wasn't anything strange about a group of hippies cruising California in an old school bus or living in a small isolated colony. ... In two days, one Beverly Hills sporting goods store sold over 200 firearms, whereas prior to the murders they were averaging selling two to three a day. ...
Holmes who probably had no interest in the batting .averages of Babe Ruth. It didn't matter if he had a .200 or . 500 average. ... He got 12 dots when the average man only got about 8 on the chart. The test demonstrates Ruth would have been the "Home run King" in almost anything he chose to follow in life. ... That his senses and brain function more rapidly than do those of the average person. ...
Cell phones, laptops, tablets, anything you can think of that connects to the internet has made it easy for teens to connect and check their news-feed. ... The average teen has over two hundred and one friends on Facebook (Lenhart). ... Students who use social media have an average grade point average of 3.06 versus non-users who have an average great point average of 3.82" (Kirschner). College students who average about one hundred and six minutes on Facebook their grades drop zero point twelve points for every ninety three minutes above the average time spent on Facebook (Daly). ...
