In Thoreau’s third chapter he talks about reading and the importance of reading.  Too often now a days reading has become something that we see as boring and un-entertaining.  We don’t want to read a book when it rains and the sale of books seem to have gone down a little, especially if the book is a collection of poetry.  We don’t want to read anymore because it seems to take to long.  We want things now at this very moment and it is so hard for us to get entertain with a book.  Novels don’t seem to hold our attentions anymore which is why it is so hard to get teens to read a good book like Walden.  That is why too many people think Walden is boring that it is hard to understand.  Thoreau sys many different things about reading and what reading can do for us.  His ideas in this chapter are just as powerful and thought provoking as the past two chapters.

The very first line in the chapter is one that makes you really think about what it says.  With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students.  What Thoreau is saying is that we are all students no matter if we are in school or not.  Everyday we live we are actively learning new things.  Whenever we decide to do something we learn everything we can about that thing.  We become students to that specific thing.  For example I know someone who has been studying tuba playing for ten years or more and one who has been studying pipe organ performance for longer than ten years.  We chose or pursuits in things and we become students of those things.  We are always students no matter the age, gender, income level, or occupation.  We are students of the world.  Students of life and no matter what there is something more us to learn each day and there is a saying that follows that idea: you learn something new everyday.  Learning is something we constantly do.  Learning doesn’t end when we graduate from high school or college.

With more deliberation we can become better people based on the things we decide to do or not do.  We can decide to take time a hike through the woods and learn about the different trees and see how different animals act in the wild.  We need to take an active role in learning, but even if we don’t we still learn new things just by talking to the people around us.  We are deliberate in our choices of what we want to learn and pay attention to, even if we don’t think about it.  We still make choices about what we want to do and what we want to learn.  We need to be deliberate in our learnings and the things we allow to take up our times.  When we become students of the world we pay attention to different things and the dependence on the luxuries like computers and televisions wouldn’t matter and would become less important.  The quote continues to say and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike.  Is Thoreau saying when we make it a point to learn more we become more interesting?  I should say so, because we will be able to have more to talk about on many different subjects.  We become someone interesting to talk about because of our ideas and theories based on what we learned.

Another quote that can make a difference is A written word is the choicest of relics.  It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art.  It is the work of art nearest to life itself.  When he says the written word is choices of relics means that the written word will be around forever.  No one can stop the written word from being produced as long as we have writers and we always will.  The written word was seen as a way to preserve a person, making them almost immortal because they were written about.  Literature is more intimate with us because we need to think and form our own ideas with it.  It provokes our imagination and makes us imagine the setting, characters and time.  Nothing else can make us do that, sure art is thought provoking and makes us think about the work itself.  But it doesn’t make us think of other things the way literature does.  A written word is the choicest of relics.  The written word is something that people will keep going back to in order to learn about the past.  We read classic literature to help us understand things of the past.  Thoreau’s book, even if he didn’t realize it helps us understand the thinking of transcendentalists in his time because the movement was big then.

Literature, according to Thoreau is the only form of art that is closest to life because it is life itself.  People have written about life no matter if it is non-fiction or not.  Even if a story is fiction, there are still some non-fiction elements to it.  “The Awakening” for example is a great work of art that displays the norms and values place on women during the time that Kate Chopin wrote it.  While it is a fiction novel the expectation of women were still true.  When an author writes something they put a little bit of themselves into it, making it life itself.  No matter who you are, you will find something to relate to in almost any story that you read whether it is a mystery, romance or Christian fiction.  While artwork (paintings, sculptures) have reallife aspects, it doesn’t come to life the same way literature does.  He says that it is the work of art is the nearest to life is because it makes us think about life the most.  There are books and novels that provoke emotion in our hearts and makes us pay attention to what has happened in the past.  Books like Eli Weisel’s novel “Night” help us understand what it was like to survive the Holocaust, Malcolm X’s biography helps us understand why he did the things he did and why he believed what he did.  Langston Hughes’ poetry makes us think about the struggle African Americans had to endure to get the rights the so deserved.

This reading, in a high sense, not that which lulls us as a luxury and suffers the nobler facilities to sleep.  What Henry David Thoreau is saying in this part is that reading no longer is a luxury.  It puts people to sleep because they see it as boring and many do not give it half a chance.  It is already in the mind set that it boring and will put us to sleep so it does.  Reading was once such a luxury, something done as a past-time and it was seen as a high honor if someone read your work.  It was a desired quality in women to be readers and read to their husbands or children.  Now a days there aren’t too many men who would want a woman who reads a lot.  It is even rarer to find a man who reads for the fun of it.  Reading is no longer seen as a great quality; no longer a luxury for some, but a hinderance and burden for some.  Students in high school or college groan and complain when they need to read and then write about what they read.

As we see reading can have great advantages and helps us form ideas about things we wouldn’t normally think about.  Going back to the quote about the written word being the choicest of relics, it should be seen as a luxury and a accomplishment to be well read in many genres of literature.  Instead of reading a book we turn the television on.  Television and computer softwares have taken the place of luxury that books once had.  Reading was once considered something that you did to show you education, and standing but now a lot of people think reading is a sign of geekdom or being a shut in.  People relate reading to something that like their grandmother would do or something that “old people” do.  It is rare for someone in their teens to want to read and then really discuss what they read the way it was done in the time Thoreau wrote “Walden.”

When it comes to our level of reading, Henry David Thoreau is a little harsh.  He says yet we learn to read only as far as Easy reading, the primers and class-books, and when we leave school, the “Little Reading and story books, which are for boys and beginners; and our reading, our conversation and thinking, are all on a very low level.  He basically says that our reading level has become the equivalent to grade school.  He thinks that we learn to read only for the basics, only the minimum of what we would need to get a job or something.  He thinks we don’t increase our reading level to read more challenging books other than beginner books and story books that young children would be reading.  He says we learn easy reading and don’t really challenge ourselves with something harder than say Little Red Ridinghood.  And honestly how many of us can say we read and understand Shakespeare?

When our reading is on a low level, Thoreau says our thinking and our conversation levels become lower in level as well.  Which would make sense because the lower your reading ability is, the less you will be able to talk about.  It takes us back to the quote about being essential students.  When we read we learn and our reading level increases as well as our thinking and conversation levels.  So as students we learn to increase every level which helps us grow as people; but when we spend too much time focused and dependant on the so called luxuries of life like watching television all the time or spending the day on the computer instead of reading we don’t really grow higher.  We are stuck at a certain level and it is possible that the level can decrease as well.  I mean the more you read Shakespeare, Thoreau, Emerson, Euripides and others the easier it is to understand them.

Thoreau talks about so many different things in his novel.  He goes from luxuries hindering us, to us needing to cut back on things in our lives to the importance of reading.  And we are only in the third chapter! What else could this man talk about simply from spending two years in nature.  He thought about everything he dealt with on a daily basis and how the things in oure lives effect ourselves for good or for bad.  It is how we use the things we have in life that matters.  Sure computers are a luxury and they can help us keep in touch with friends and family, some use it to earn some money, others use it to shop, but it can also hinder  us because we can spend too much time on it and waste away the day doing frivolous things like watching videos on youtube.  It has become so difficult for us to sit down with a book on the porch to read.  We cannot spend two minutes away from the computer or television, so our cell phones have internet capabilities and video messaging so we can watch different things via our cell phones and other hand held things.  We need to get back to reading more.

One thing we can do to help inprove those levels, is we can <gasp> read more.  We can pick up different books and read them.  We can read a little Emerson, then a little McCourt.  If we really want a challenge try Dante’s Divine Comedy and something easier with John Grishom.  There are always things we can read to learn more and improve our reading levels and the more we read the better our levels in everything can become.  When we read the newspaper we can improve our knowledge in politics, economics and more.  We need to be more well rounded with the things we read and have for conversation purposes.  When we read more we can develop our ideas and theories more.  I have noticed the more I have read the more developed my theology has become.  Read more and become more well rounded.  I know we all have something we find interesting to read.  We can be deliberate as Thoreau said and become well versed in mystery novels.  Read.  Develop those conversation skills and thinking levels.  Thoreau was harsh, but for a reason.

Today I read an article in our local newspaper that stated an independent research organization was commissioned to study whether the left leaning MSNBC has influenced the parent NBC network and moved their reporting more to the left. The study proved that MSNBC had not influenced NBC in that the NBC news coverage was not “less favorable toward republicans than the media as a whole.”

I find the wording remarkable. The organization doing the study must have a bit more ethics than expected, since the study was careful not to say that the reporting was unbiased. It just stated that it was no more biased than the media as a whole. I am certain the media would have preferred the report to say that news reporting was not biased.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to find any political news report that is not biased. Those news organizations that favor republicans will spin news reports in the favor of republicans, and those that favor democrats will slant in that direction. Unless it is directly quoted, a report of a Republican or Democrat speech will look entirely different depending upon the bias of the news organization, and most organizations will not directly quote unless the quote exemplifies their position or can be used to ridicule. But all media organizations want people to assume their news reports to be unbiased, and their opinions to be limited to the editorial comments.

So when NBC commissioned a study of their news reporting, the study group had to provide a report that was not critical of NBC. And finding that NBC news was no worse than any other news media was an acceptable conclusion. Think of how simple things would be if all groups or individuals performing studies or reviews would take the same tact. A restaurant reviewer could find that Joe’s Gourmet Grill is no worse than any other restaurant of that type, or a auto service reviewer could find that one automobile dealer is no worse than any other. This simplicity could even extend to the school report cards, as the teacher’s report could easily state that one child was no worse than any other.

But it would really benefit the public if during elections years, such as this one, reports would conclude that one candidate is no worse than any other. Then, perhaps, media news reports would concentrate on providing information on important issues so the voting public could get accurate unbiased information.

Author: Bill Bryson

Atmosphere of the story: Extremely Dangerous

Central Characaters:

Deirde Macken- A journalist on the Sydney Morning Herald.

Glent Hunt- Young photographer.

Plot:

It so happens that Australia has more things that will kill you than anywhere else on earth. And oddly enough, these dangers seems to be sought after by its natives. On one trip, they had an interesting offer of guidance from a journalist on the Sydney morning  herald named Deirde Macken. An Alert and cheerful lady, Deirde met me at my hotel with a young photographer named Glent hunt, They  are the two Sydneysiders,as residents of the great city are quantity known. They showed all.

Australia really is extraordinary lethal. It is a tough place. Of course, if you can always do what I finally did, go off to a museum to look at the material and minerals. They aren’t so exciting but they that compensating virtue that almost never if they attack you.

The climax part is really cool because there was an attack of a wild shark and it is suspense. Most of the character believe that they can survive in the situation they encounter.

Symbol: Shark

Why to read it:

The story is really nice and very useful and suspense. Everyone will love reading it and it is cheap and not so think book.

Henry David Thoreau did something we today would cringe to even think about: he spent two years living in the woods, away from any civilization.  He spent those two years almost as a hermit living off the land and learning how to survive solely on the things that nature provided.  Why did he do such a thing; and then write about it?  He wanted to learn all that nature could teach him and he wrote about it so that future generations could understand his ideas.  Many of his theories and ideas came to him while he spent those two years in the woods.  He talks about different things in his book: “Walden.”  But barely anyone reads his work.  I hope to be able to help people understand his purpose more, and see into a mind that is long gone.  With his quotes we can understand why nature was so important to the transcendentalist movement, and the importance nature still has today.  Let us take a look into the world of Henry David Thoreau and see what he was talking about.  I have already talked about what he was trying to say in his first chapter of the book.  In the second chapter and on he talks about being changed and how nature could be what helps a person change.  He talks about different things in each chapter as we go through each chapter we will see the difference and similarities between his time and our own.

Throughout the book of Walden, Henry David Thoreau has many quotes that are powerful and will stick in your mind.  One of the first quotes that makes an impact is not far from the beginning of the second chapter.  Thoreau states We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.   What he is talking in this quote is that we need to reawaken ourselves to not relying on modern conveniences not just to wake up in the morning, but to generally live our daily lives.  Thoreau already thinks that modern conveniences hinder us from advancing and really appreciating things.  He thinks we need to stop relying on things and learn to do things on our own.  Somewhat of listening to our bodies.  When I think of that quote and what he talks about, I think of the Amish and how they live their lives with no modern luxuries.  They provide for themselves and they are happy and entertain themselves without the need for cars, movies, television and the such.  Why can’t we do the same thing?

In the very next paragraph Henry tells us why he went to live in the woods which he says he did deliberately.  I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.  Henry David Thoreau went into the woods to see what nature could teach him about living the simplistic life.  He wanted to be able to think that he really lived a full life, which he thinks can be done by living simplistically.  He wanted to learn the essentials of life, the basics of living life almost like survival of the fittest.  How many of us can say that we would know how to survive without certain luxuries if we had to?  I mean if we didn’t have stores to buy our food, would we be able to go out and get it ourselves?  Many of us don’t even know how to us a gun to hunt for our food, or know which kind of plants are poisonous and which aren’t.  These are the kind of things that Thoreau basically learned during his two years in the woods.  We should learn everything that nature has to teach us no matter what it is.

Thoreau didn’t want to die and learn that he really didn’t live his life to the fullest, and I think he felt that succumbing to the luxuries of life meant he didn’t live it to the fullest.  I see it in my life and the lives of others.  Instead of going out and taking a hike in the woods, we would rather stay in and sit on the couch.  We walk on treadmills while watching television instead of going outside getting fresh air and seeing the nature around.  That is one thing we can cut out of our lives the exercise equipment we don’t need.  Who needs a treadmill when you can walk around your block, or go to the part and walk the track, or better yet, find a hiking trail at the park and hike in the woods.  Save the money and go outside and see what nature has to teach you while you are getting the exercise that you want to get.  There are always ways we can find something to help us learn everything we can through nature and the educational system.  I am like Thoreau, I don’t want to die and then learn that I didn’t live my life to the fullest.

The chapter goes on to say that we need to simplify, simplify, simplify.  By that he means we need to cut down on things.  We need to cut down our expenses, instead of having twenty purses ladies should have at most five.  He says we should have dealings with two or three companies instead of ten or more.  That can be done today; there are companies where you can have your cable, telephone, and internet in one instead of a different company for each one, but Thoreau would see all those as luxuries that we don’t need.  We need to limit our portions of everything we acquire in life; Thoreau uses the example of food saying instead of three meals a day eat one, or instead of five meals reduce it to five.  He says that everything in our lives can be reduced so that we can become more sufficient on ourselves and not the modern comforts of the day.  We need to make our lives more simplified and easier.  Too often we complain of things being hard and busy, yet nine chances out of ten; we are able to make things simpler by limiting certain things in our lives.  Making smaller proportions in our daily lives with everything we can see things changing.

Simplify, simplify, simplify.  Just one word repeated, this could be one of the most powerful quotes in the book, there are plenty of them.  Simplify…simplify.  It seems like he is answering a question not in the book.  It seems so easy doesn’t it.  Simplify.  Make things easier on yourself.  Cut out things that you don’t need, stop buying knick knacks that are useless.  People complain about being in debt, but we use credit cards and buy things on credit instead of just using the money we have.  I have heard a motto that I agree with and if Thoreau heard it I am sure he would agree as well: If you don’t have the money don’t buy it.  As I stated Thoreau was saying we needed to have smaller portions in things that we don’t need.  I look around and wonder do we need everything within our lives/homes.

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life.  This quote comes from near the end of the second chapter which was called Where I Lived.  Thoreau asks many questions throughout this chapter and the entire book for that matter.  He asks us why do we waste life by being in such a hurry.  Why do we live lives that are so crammed with busy-ness?  We busy ourselves with things that he considered fruitless.  Many times we get up and are don’t stop until the end of the day when we get to bed.  When is it that we have time to enjoy the fruits of life?  Do we know the fruits of life?  Thoreau thought many things in life helps us waste our time, and I am sure if he lived today with these same ideas he would have a slew of things that he would see as time-wasters such as television.  In fact many people think watching television together is a good thing to do for quality time.  But according to Dr. Gary Chapman, author of “The Five Love Languages,” it could take away from the relationships in life.  What Thoreau and Dr. Chapman would say we should do is spend time talking to each other and finding ways to connect.

Henry David Thoreau had his ideas and theories based on what he learned in while living in the woods, and we haven’t cracked the surface of the book just yet.  His ideas and thoughts can be applied to how we live our lives today and even further into the future.  He talks a lot of living a simpler life and that is something we all need to try and do.  We are too focused on having the newer things and the best of those things, and that is what Thoreau says we can do without.  He went as far as to say that he could do without the post office because he didn’t receive letters often enough and he didn’t send letters often enough. We can access the internet with our desktops, laptops, cell phones, blackberries, palm pilots (do people still use those or is there something bigger and better?) why do we need to access the internet with our mobile phones?  Can’t we go a few hours away from home without access the internet?  Not to mention that instead of using a phone to call people, we use it to text message each other even if we are in the same house!

We can learn so much from Henry David Thoreau’s words and ideas.  He was so insightful and when you are reading “Walden” you feel like you are reading something that is talking about today not at least one hundred years ago, “Walden” was published in 1854.  You cannot read his words and not think about your own life and wonder if there was something you can do to make things easier on yourself and simplify things to live a better life and not waste your time as Thoreau asks.  “Walden” is such a powerful piece of literature that needs to be read.

INTRODUCTION

Improving your writing skills can be easy if you always love to read books and research lots of things that you want to know then it will be one factor to improve your skills in writings. Learning to love the library will be a great solution for your problem. Going to the library can be as enriching as one maybe expect it to be. This place is full of countless words that is really informative and useful for your writing ability. If you always dream to be a good writer then the first thing you need to do is conduct lots of research and read and read.

OBSERVING THE RULES AND INSTRUCTIONS

By following the rules and instructions properly, it means that you are really paying some attention so you need to start by following any rules and instructions that you will encounter.

Reading and Note-taking

If you are conducting some research or if you are reading some textbook then you need to take some note for it to be more helpful and you can use it in the near future. You don’t need to copy the whole text as long that you understand what you are reading then you just need to copy the important details that you need.Researching will make solve the problem easily.

Keep reading and reading all the materials that you can see in the library so that you will gain more knowledge to all the things around you. History is very important then you better read some and then try to experiment something new.

Look for a topic that interest you and will not make you bored so that you will focus reading it. Don’t read fast because speed doesn’t matter. What you need is to understand every word and you will have many ideas on what you can write.

Based on your field of specialization, you can select what type of research topic you can use. If you are finish reading some of the topic you decided to read then its time for you to start making a summary of it using your own word then in this case, you will practices your writing skills. Keep writing and always carry your dictionary for helping words.

By writing, first you need to have your introduction and tell the people what it is all about and as questions and in the second paragraph, answer the questions you’ve tackled to the first paragraph for the climax level and then for the third paragraph, explain all about it.

Writing will be easier as what i’ve said if your passion is here and if your interest is here then everything will be easy for you on how to improve it.

I personally have never been big on devotionals and I’ve tried quite a number of them, but when a friend handed me a copy of Rebecca’s Daily in Your Presence, I immediately fell in love with it. This book is great if you are not used to having a devotional time, and it’s great if you are a “senior believer” and are really good at it. This is a great way to freshen up you time with the Lord.

Rebecca Barlow Jordan is a wonderful speaker and author, and some of her titles are: 40 Days in God’s Blessing, 40 Days in God’s Presence: a Devotional Encounter, Daily in Your Presence, Daily in Your Image, At Home in My Heart and Preparing a Place for His Presence.

The book focuses on the Names and attributes of God: one for each day. It has a verse from the Scripture that presents that name or attribute, a message From the Father’s Heart, a natural response to the Father’s message formulated as A Grateful Response and it concludes with a Simple Truth. There are 366 devotionals, but they are not dated so it doesn’t really matter when you start reading it. You don’t have to read a specific one designed for a precise day. This is especially practical if you’re like me and skip a day or two, here and there. The fact that it’s not dated allows you to read every devotional one after the other and not miss any of the blessings. As a reminder I like to write down the date myself every time I read. It’s also a great reminder of how God blessed me through that passage before.

The messages are like fresh water for a thirsty soul. They were especially a blessing for me when I was going through a rather difficult spiritual time and the short but full of essence devotionals proved to be like balm. They are short enough to read them in under a minute, but deep enough to build you and give you something to meditate on for a whole day.

I believe the key factor that makes these devotionals so special is the direct and personal way the author chose to address them. They don’t sound like a general or abstract thought, or as a philosophical explanation of a simple truth — it’s rather like the Father Himself addresses you and your needs in a direct and personal way.
These devotionals literally drew me closer to God and I highly recommend them to anyone: young or old believer, but especially to those who want to experience God at a new level of intimacy. Daily in Your Presence is the book to point you in the right direction!

INTRODUCTION

Every language is unique and nice to learn. German language is one of the high standard language in Europe and I always want to know it. I will share some of the words that I knew and I hope that this will help.Learning knew culture and tradition will add more of our knowledge about it.

ENGLISH ALPHABET                                                    GERMAN ALPHABET

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z-    A BI TI D E F GI HA I YOT KA L M N O P Q R S T U       PHAU  V EX  UPSILON ZIT

NUMBERS

1- EIN

2-ZWEI

3-DREI

4-VIER

5-FUNF

6-SECHS

7-SIEBEN

8-ACHT

9-NEUN

10-ZEHN

DAYS

Monday-Montague, Tuesday-Dunstag, Wednesday-mittwoch, Thursday-Domertsag, Friday-fritag, Saturday-Samstag,Sunday-sonnenshein

BASIC QUESTIONS

1. Woher kommst do? or Where do you come from?

2. Wohin gehst du? or Where will you go?

3. Wei geht es dir? or How are you?

4. Ich liebe dich or I love you

5. Ich vermisse dich or I miss you

6. Ich hasse dich or I hate you

7. Ich spliest gittare or I play guitar

8. Ich mag schokolade or I like chocolate

9. Ich esse paste or I ate pasta

10. Was ist eine auto? or What is a car?

THE COLORS OR DIE FARBEN

Red-rot, green-grun, blue-blau, white-weiss, schwarzz-black, gelb-yellow, pink-rose

The fruits or das obst

der apfel or the apple, die banane or the banana

die ananas or the pineapple, die kuschen or the cherry

SINGULAR

Ich-I,Du-you,Er-he,sie-she,es-it

PLURAL

Wir-we,Ihr-you,sie she/plural

Hope these will guide your for your basic lesson in German.Always take you ball pen and notebook.

It seems that no matter how much or how little experience we have in regard to writing, there is always room for improvement.  We all constantly strive to make our articles more attractive and interesting to our audience.  There are some things we can consider whenever we begin our writing, that can help bring attention to our articles, and at the same time, keep the reader’s interest peaked.  Here are a few tips to help us improve our writing and reach our desired audience.

We know that narrative adds interest to any type of writing.  “Telling a story,” is an excellent way to attract your reader’s attention at the beginning of your article.  Its a great way to start, but remember we don’t want to stop there.  Our goal is to keep our reader hungry for more information.  If you can begin your article by introducing a good story line, the chances of your article reaching more reader’s will be maximized.

Another great way of attracting readers to your article is simple but explosive.  Use a “startling statement” like a fact or opinion, to open your article.   Very few things gain the attention of a reader than an opening sentence that is startling and direct.  You want your reader to be “shocked” into reading further.  You want them to be pulled into your writing or be intrigued with it.  An example might be; The United States plans to bring back the draft in its attempt to wage war with Iran.

One of the most powerful ways of bringing attention to your writing is beginning your article by, “asking a question.”  This introduction has a number of useful purposes that can benefit the author.  By asking a question, we are informing the reader what the article is really about.  This also gives the reader a chance to decide whether or not the article is of interest to them.  This type of writing strategy also stirs a response in the reader, and may even illicit a mental response that will allow the reader to challenge your statement and read further.

The ability to use “specific language” in your writing also helps attract interested reader’s.  Always use specific details and examples to support your statements.  Nothing is less attractive than a writer that cannot support the topic he is writing about.  Always remember, the content in a piece of writing is more important than its style.  If what you are writing about is not interesting, your way of saying it, no matter how skillful, will probably make it less desirable to your audience.

A good writer may also incorporate the use of images, specific active verbs, strong adjectives and descriptive words that convey meaning to our senses and help us delve more deeply into the writing.

I hope these few tips serve as useful tools and help transform some of our articles into interesting topics for our reader’s.

Good luck and great writing!

INTRODUCTION

Everybody is aiming for a good job and to be able to get that, we need to have a good resume. If your resume is not so good then you better make it Pro because it is one of the factor to be successful in applying some jobs. There are lots of templates that you can use after creating your resume. It should be appealing and clean so that the person who will interview you will have a first good impression.

HOW TO CREATE A RESUME

NAME, ADDRESS, CONTACT NUMBER, EMAIL ADD - The first thing you need to do is to put your complete name in bold and in all big letters. Next is your address followed by contact number with regular fond size.

OBJECTIVE -  After your name, address and contact number, you need to put your objective. What is your objective or goal to this company for example: To be able to perform proficiently the learned skills and to be able to continue improving potentially through continued work experience.

WORK EXPERIENCE - After applying your objective, you need to set your work experience and it will add points for your interview. For example: NILE ELECTROMECHANICAL WORKS, Dubai, Secretary receptionist

1. Receive, screen and direct incoming calls on a switchboard

2. Greet and direct visitors to their destinations

3. Answer caller’s inquiries and correspondence

4. Prepare invoices, price inquiries and more

5. Perform other office tasks such as faxing and mail sorting

You can put as many as you want for the experience to make the company more satisfy with your resume.

SKILLS - After dealing with you work experience, you need to put your skills for example:Proficient in Microsoft office, word, excel, outlook.

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Langston Hughes is one of the best poets in the world of poetry.  His work says a lot about life as an African American and the struggles the culture had to go through to get where they are today.  Langston Hughes words leap off the page and make the reader think and contemplate what he has said.  He has many different types of poetry; one of which is called a blues poem.  Blues poetry have a strict pattern: one long line, repeated, and a third line that rhymes with the first two.  Sometimes the second line is repeated, but altered slightly.  The theme of the blues poetry are the same: being in the midst of trouble, friendliness, hunger, and disappointment in love.  Langston Hughes is probably one of the best blues poet I have ever read.

Hughes’ poem “Po’ Boy Blues” has every one of the themes mentioned above.  He talks about the troubles he finds and struggling to make it in the North.  Then he talks about meeting someone and falling in love only to have her leave him and “almost lose ma mind.”  He uses the dialect that African American’s may have used during the Harlem Renessaince.  He starts the poem out saying “When I was home de sunshine seemed like gold.”  To him everything seemed good and happy when he was home.  Where home was in this poem we are unsure of he doesn’t say, but it was probably in the south since he mentions the North being cold.  To him just having another day in the sun brought happiness and light to a world of darkness.  Sunshine is a symbol of happiness of gold of course a symbol of riches so when he was home with families and friends the narrator could have felt like a rich man.  When he was home the sunshine felt as abundant and as precious as gold.  Then being in the North or even simply America it didn’t seem as abundant or clouded by hatred and other things that would make the world around seem cold and heartless.

After the lines about the sunshine being gold he says “since I came up North de whole wide world’s turned cold.”   This line gives the sense that the world seemed completely different from what he knew at home.  It was cold and dark something that he wasn’t used to.  At this point the reader could always speculate why the world seemed cold; maybe he seen new things, things he never wanted to see probably more of how segregated everything was and the African Americans were being treated, not better than he had hoped.  The next stanza starts out saying “I was a good boy never done wrong….” and ends with “..But this world is weary an’ de road is hard an’ long.”  The reader gets the idea that the narrator did everything he was told, everything he was supposed to do and never did anything wrong or to get himself into trouble.  Now he is wondering why the road is so hard now.  It is like all of life is a struggle.  It goes with the idea that the grass isn’t always greener.  One could think that being free wasn’t really “free” after all because there was more struggle now than before.

Saying that the road is long and hard gives insight to the long road ahead to finally finding equality.  It will take years for the African Americans to get the equality they deserved and Hughes most likely saw how long and hard it would be which could be what this whole poem is about.  The struggles to find equality and that everything wasn’t always better as people may have thought.  His poem could have been a way to make people listen and see the struggle that was going on a take interest and try to make things better.  Hughes knew the struggle and pain his people would face in the future.  I think his saying “I’ve been a good boy” makes me think that he felt that doing as he was told and working hard to get to a certain point meant he and others deserved the equality for the work the did, and he was right!  His third stanza tells of how hard it was to get that equality and some of the consequences of trying hard to fight and get what he deserved.

The beginning of the third stanza “I fell in love with a gal” makes me wonder if the gal is really a gal and not a symbol for the idealistic American so many people look for everyday.  Many have referred to America in terms of a woman, saying “she is a powerful country” or “her people” so why wouldn’t one fall in love with a gal that is represented of America and the dream of the perfect American life.  The last line of the stanza he says “an’ almost lose ma mind.” Could it be that trying to achieve that perfect American life as an African American was such a struggle he almost lost his mind.  Or that realizing that almost no African Americans could achieve that dream during that time was possible could make one lose their mind.  I think Hughes was trying to make people see the damage the struggle had not just in a physical way, but also mentally and emotionally.  Struggling for your own equality for work, education, and more had to have been draining in all aspects that would make anyone lose their minds.  The third stanza as well as the whole poem could have been full of symbolism which is the point of poetry isn’t it?

Langston Hughes ends the poem saying “I’s so weary I wish I never been born.”  Could he be saying the hatred and pain he saw day in and day out for himself and his people made him just not want to exist, to never be born.  I have to wonder if Hughes knew of the impact of his poetry as he was writing it.  The last line is a powerful one, probably the most powerful of the poem.  He talks of struggle and falling in love with the idea of a perfect America, yet the struggle and hard work to get there and fight for what’s right was so draining, he felt it would have been better if he just had never been born.  What a feeling to have while struggling to achieve the rights and equality not just for yourself, but an entire culture.  The beginning of the stanza is simply “weary weary, weary early in de morn.”  Morning is supposed to be a time of being refreshed and rejuvenated.  A time when you feel reday to take on the world, but when you are really taking on the world or what seems to be the world, morning isn’t a time of being refreshed, but a time of being so weary of having to face it all over again.

Langston Hughes’ poem is one of many powerful ones he wrote contained in the book “Dream Keeper.”  His work made such a difference in the world; he changed the mindset of so many people.  He made people see what was right and what needed to be done.  Langston Hughes may not have know the power his poetry had, but he molded the future and made it a better place and opened the doors for many young people.  He showed with hard work and determination, anything and everything is possible.  Reading Langston Hughes’ poetry takes you into a world you have never known and seen.  You will see poetry at it’s best and what it should be, Langston Hughes is one of the best poets and his work will be remember for a long time.  Take the time and read at least one of his poem, you will never think the same and you will want to read more.  I guarantee it.