This poem was written by JULIA TO OVID.{21}
Written at Twelve Years of Age,
in imitation of Ovid's Epistles. I love it and decide to post it.


Are love and power incapable to meet?
And must they all be wretched who are great?
Enslav'd by titles, and by forms confin'd,
For wretched victims to the state design'd.
What rural maid, that my sad fortune knows,
Would quit her cottage to embrace my woes?
Would be this cursed sacrifice to pow'r,
This wretched daughter of Rome's emperour?
When sick with sighs to absent Ovid given,
I tire with vows the unrelenting Heaven,
Drown'd in my tears, and with my sorrows pale,
What then do all my kindred gods avail?
Let proud Augustus the whole world subdue,
be mine to place all happiness in you;
With nobler pride I can on throes look down,
Can court your love and can despise a crown,--
O Love! thou pleasure never dearly bought!
Whose joys exceed the very lover's thought;
Of that soft passion, when you teach the art,
In gentle sounds it steals into the heart;
With such sweet magic does the soul surprise,
'Tis only taught us better by your eyes.
O Ovid! first of the inspired train,
To Heaven I speak in that enchanting strain,
So sweet a voice can never plead in vain.
Apollo will protect his favourite son,
And all the little Loves unto thy succour run.
The Loves and Muses in thy prayer shall join,
And all their wishes and their vows be thine;
Some god will soften my hard Father's breast,
And work a miracle to make thee blest.
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Hard as this is, I even could this bear,
But greater ills than what I feel, I fear.
My fame--my Ovid--both for ever fled,
what greater evil is there left to dread!
Yes, there is one . . . . . . . . . . .
Avert it, Gods, who do my sorrows see!
Avert it, thou, who art a god to me!
When back to Rome your wishing eyes are cast,
And on the lessening towers you gaze your last--
When fancy shall recal unto your view
The pleasures now for ever lost to you,
The shining court, and all the thousand ways
To melt the nights and pass the happy days--
Will you not sigh, and hate the wretched maid,
Whose fatal love your safety has betray'd?
Say that from me your banishment does come,
And curse the eyes that have expell'd you Rome?
Those eyes, which now are weeping for your woes,
The sleep of death shall then for ever close.

joke about a fat kid

Joke: Fat Kid Successfully Avoids Ridicule by Swimming with Shirt On


If you read what I wrote, the ways in which I discriminate are not discrimination at all. They're just ways in which an overly-sensitive fat person might perceive discrimination. If I made one group of people sit in small seats just to make them uncomfortable, I'd be a nasty person, but I don't do it to make them uncomfortable, I do it because all seats are the same size and they aren't big enough.
When I walk a fat person up the stairs he does more work because he has more weight. When they breathe harder it's because of the weight of their chests.
When I feed a fat person a meal, it's the same meal I give anyone else. The fat person just wants to eat more.
Being fat for most people is a choice. I have great sympathy for those disabled people who cannot do exercise and have weight problems. If I knew any people with genetic disorders that made them fat, I'd have some sympathy for them too. But I'm not going to go out of my way to accommodate something disruptive that's simply a choice someone else has made.
So by following your stupid logic that is the same logic every racist, (a better term would be) sadist uses, someone blind by choice (say five years ago the guy made a stupid mistake) should not be accommodated with the luxuries our technology/civilization can offer to make his life more comfortable.
People should be punished for what you disagree with more consequences than the consequences they are already paying for doing something "Wrong".
Yet I do not get a reason for those consequences other than simple sadism.
Every man carries two bags about with him, one in front and one behind, and both are packed full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others
This is the point I'm making. The things I've listed are treating a fat person normally, but some people seem to think that I should give them the same end result rather than the same input (e.g. satiety when I give a meal, rather than the same amount of food).
If I must attempt to get the same end result for subjective things, or things affected by other people's subjective choices, then I am being far from fair.

Redemption Song

Tile: Bob Marley - Redemption Song

Old pirates, yes, they rob I; Sold I to the merchant ships, Minutes after they took I from the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong …………By the hands of the Almighty. We forward in this generation ……………. Triumphantly. Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? - 'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets, while we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it's just a part of it: We've got to fulfils de book.

Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
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/Guitar break/
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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our mind.
WO! Have no fear for atomic energy, ‘Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets, while we stand aside and look? Yes, some say it's just a part of it: We've got to fulfil de book.
Won't you help to sing……………. The songs of freedom? - 'Cause all I ever had:
Redemption songs -
All I ever had:
Redemption songs:
These songs of freedom,
Songs of freedom.

I heard this music some time last year at my girl friend birthday party; I was so touched by the wordings , and thought about the struggle and suffering the Liberians were going through because of power greed and ambitious. Their so called president Taylor and his loyal rebel soldiers ill treated their fellow citizens as though they were slave, the poor Liberians cry days and nights for freedom, they also hope that one day united nation will come to the aid and rescue them from the hands of devil .( Charles Taylor.)

Most Liberians live in fears and fled their mothers land because they wanted freedom, and wanted to free themselves from mental slavery, some Liberians loose their parents, kids, and all they earn in life. Others live as refugees and suffer a hard cost of living due to the lack of food, cloths, water and illness. Even though most Liberians live in neighboring countries as refugees, most of them were ill treated by the fellow citizen of those countries. Some were rape; man was mad handle and so on. They suffer a lot. As God could have it, and with the help of the united nation most Liberians received help and was also resettle to various European countries and also the united state of America to help them improve their lives from worst to better. Through this process most Liberians got their freedom, and felt what a means to be free again. This music Redemption song, relates to what so ever happen during the Liberia civil war, and the wordings are so touching to me.

Emotional Honesty

Reveal your emotional reactions, both Positive and negative, to the events of your life, particularly to your spouse's behavior.
Some people find it difficult to openly express negative reactions. They may fear that their response will be interpreted as criticism. Or they may feel ashamed of their own reactions, telling themselves they should not feel the way they do. They may want unconditional acceptance from their spouses and consider that their negative reactions prove their own inability to be unconditionally accepting. Whatever the reasons, many spouses try to avoid expressing their negative emotional reactions.

While positive reactions are easier to communicate, many couples have not learned to express these feelings, either. This failure not only misses an important opportunity to accurately communicate basic feelings, but it also misses an opportunity to deposit love units. Whenever your spouse has made you feel good, if you express those feelings clearly and enthusiastically, you'll reward your spouse for having made an appropriate adjustment to you. That, in turn, makes your spouse feel good.

If you want to meet each other's emotional needs, and you want to overcome Love Busters, one essential ingredient is an honest expression of your emotional reactions to each other. What makes a marriage successful is your willingness and ability to accommodate each other's feelings. And without the facts about those feelings, an otherwise happy couple can become very unhappy as the events of life change.

The conditions that existed at the time of your marriage were partly responsible for the love you had for each other. Those conditions made it easy for you to meet each other's emotional needs, and tended to ward off Love Busters. They may have made you feel perfect for each other, because you did not have to do much to make each other happy.

But if you are like most couples, those conditions changed right after your marriage and have continued to change right up to the present. If you have not been able to adjust to those changes, you are probably very disillusioned about your compatibility. What had seemed effortless at first may seem impossible for you now.

But adjustment in marriage is not impossible. In fact, it may be quite a bit easier than you think. Because of the way your brain is put together, you have the ability to make remarkable adjustments to each other throughout life, as your environment changes. But in order to be successful, you must do four things:

First, you must realize that these changes will take place, whether you want them to or not. Many of the circumstances surrounding you cannot be controlled and will be changing constantly.

Second, you must stick to your goal of meeting each other's most important emotional needs, and avoiding Love Busters regardless of the change in conditions. A change can be very distracting, and can cause both of you to lose sight of your primary objectives in life. Don't let these changes cause you to lose sight of each other.

Third, you must be totally committed to making all of your decisions jointly and enthusiastically. Changes in circumstances require new decisions, and each must be made with each other's feelings in mind. Otherwise, the changes will leave one of you in the dust. Don't go on in life unless you are both on board.

And finally, in order to make the best decisions, you must be radically honest with each other about your emotional reactions to the changes in your lives. The best decisions take the emotional reactions of both of you into account simultaneously, but without an honest expression of those reactions, you will be missing the target.

While some couples may fail to make a successful adjustment after feelings are honestly explained, failure is almost guaranteed when the need for adjustment is never communicated. Always take each other's complains seriously. As I mentioned earlier, your emotional reactions are a gauge of whether you are making a good adjustment to each other. If you both feel good, you need no adjustment. If one or both of you feel bad, a change is indicated.

But let me also explain what honesty is not. It is not selfish demands or disrespectful judgments or angry outbursts.

Expressing a feeling is not the same as expressing demands. If you try to tell your spouse what to do, you are not revealing an honest feeling; you are making a demand. If your spouse does something that bothers you, the correct way to express it is simply say that it bothers you. The Policy of Joint Agreement would take over from that point to help you try to resolve the problem.

If you tell your spouse that he or she is wrong about something, you're not being honest, you are being judgmental. While you should be free to express your beliefs and opinions, you should respect your spouse's beliefs and opinions. If you try to "straighten out" your spouse, you are not being honest; you are making a disrespectful judgment. The expression of feeling should not carry judgmental baggage with it.

It goes without saying that angry outbursts are not expressions of honesty, either. When people have them, they often think that they are being honest, but that's their Taker trying to rationalize what is actually cruel and destructive. Whatever it is you have to say when you are angry is not worth saying. Keep that basic principle in mind so that you will keep your mouth shut when you feel angry. When you have recovered from your anger, it's safe to tell your spouse what was bothering you.

Failure to express negative feelings perpetuates the withdrawal of love units. It prevents a resolution to a marital conflict, because the conflict is not expressed. Negative feelings provide evidence that a couple has not yet achieved a successful marital adjustment. More work is needed.

But positive feelings not only offer proof for a successful adjustment, but they also provide a reward to the spouse that has been successful. Don't neglect to tell each other how you feel when you are happy.

The spring break

I am choosing spending my spring break in Blaine medical hospital, in Blaine , Minnesota as volunteer worker. My friends find that to be very stupid of me but I think I like what I am doing.
One of things that encourage me to work voluntarily is, I love helping those in need most especially the sick people. When I got accepted to do this job over the spring break, I was very excited over the fact that I will be the to help some one who really needs help. “It’s a lot better experience and a lot more meaning in my life than the merry making with friends.
The medical center also serves as an eye-opener to my career, because I am a nursing student, and this volunteer job will help give me a broad knowledge on what I am going into for life.
“This is actually my first time working in such facility “I've never done anything like this.” Working in medical center and also joining other nurses in the neighborhoods as part of a Homeless Coalition program called Spring Serves, which is intended to smash stereotypes and educate students.
Nine of us undergraduates interact with some of the 1,400 homeless people in the area, and we also learned more than 400 of them are children. We also learned that
So many people are born into homelessness, “through a workshop held by the Homeless Coalition. “It's not a decision they necessarily make.”
We the students also work at soup kitchen on Tuesday, and serve more than 150 people that day, and they said the experience would change them. One of the students (Janet) said “It’s been extremely humbling, you know, leaving your home, friends and having really good time in the morning by helping needed people. She feels really comfortable about that. I had fun doing this job also; I met a lot of new friends and got an opportunity to work with other students when ever I am on a brake, what a nice thing to do. I am so excited about that.
Wow, wow fun is over, getting ready for school on Monday, this is the hardest part, because I have a lot of assignment to do, this dose not sound like fun anymore fun is over.hope other students had fun as I did, and getting into trouble .life is so sweet to mess around with.

The creation of man




I don’t really understand what this movie is acutely about, but I think man is trying to figure out how God created human. .due to these ideas that runs through our mind, scientist have carried out researches that give no clued about the creation of humans. The are certain thing that mortal man won’t understand about God.
It is interesting that we frequently hear that man was created in God's image, but we never really stop and think about what that means. I'd like to explore that here. I think that we as human have put ourselves in a false dilemma by only allowing two limited interpretations of man being created in the image of God. Actually, this is much more complex but, because as human beings we are so close to the answer, we tend to overlook some of the other aspects of our unique creation.
We know we are created in God's image because the Bible tells us so in Genesis 1:27 where we read, "And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them." Now, this event happened before the fall of man, but we know that we are still in some sense created in the image of God because 1 Corinthians 11:7 reaffirms this fact. Also Genesis 9:6 imposes the death penalty because of the fact that man is made in the image of God. This would argue that the idea of being created in God's image still applies to us today.
The words "image" and "likeness" used in Genesis 1:26-27 express the idea of the whole man being created in this way. In some sense, both a man's material and immaterial aspects are included in this assessment. Now, we know that strictly speaking man's physical body is not patterned after the physical appearance of God. We are taught in John 4 that God is Spirit and does not reside in a physical body. However, this does not preclude the physical body being some part of the image of God. We exist currently as body and soul together. It is meaningless to talk of us a just a soul or just a body when we are alive on earth. Both are intricately intertwined to make you the person you are.
The body reflects God's image by first of all being one in substance. God as a trinity is one being, acting with as much unity as our soul acts with our body. Our bodies are living, and Paul emphasizes that we serve a living God, not one of gold or silver or stone (Act17:29). In fact he says that those idols cannot be God because it would take a living being to create us as living beings. This is a highly rational argument, and difficult to find objectionable.
Paul's ability to appeal to reason demonstrates another way that man is made in the image of God. God by His nature is a rational being. He operates by the laws of logic. He is not constrained by them because they are some kind of "higher force", but they are the natural outflow of His will; they are His nature. He is as much a rational being as He is a loving being. Because only man has the true capacity for rational thinking, he is in this way also made in God's image. Also, man is intelligent; aware of his surroundings and capable of changing them. He does not act on instinct, but should be able to control his natural drives for higher purposes.
God has given man free will, which likewise reflects God's image. Every man has the ability to choose for himself his actions. He is morally aware. Man understands that certain things are good and certain things are evil. Before the fall, Adam and Eve had no experiential knowledge of good and evil, but they most certainly understood that they should obey God's commands. If this were not so, God warning them about punishment if they disobeyed Him would have no meaning to them, and the fall could be viewed as entrapment on God's part. Adam most certainly did understand that disobeying the will of God was wrong, and there could be dire consequences to his actions. Although we now must struggle against our evil nature to obey God, we still have moral understanding and comprehension of good and evil.
Lastly, one of the ways the image of God manifests itself in man is that only man can be aware of God and is capable of fellowshipping with Him. This part of man was exercised freely in the Garden before the fall. All men still are able to comprehend God's existence, but none are able to fellowship with Him unless they have been born again in Christ. Obviously, the universality of religion shows that awareness of God and some need for a relationship with Him is common to man.
Your question has the implication that those people who have mental or physical deficiencies are somehow not created in the image of God. I find that this is not true. Because some of the aspects we associate with God's image may not be operating properly, it doesn't mean the person is devoid of God's image. Rather, it shows that the image is somehow skewed or distorted. I liken this to an analogy of a car being made in a certain likeness (such as the body style of a corvette). When it is wrecked, the damage does not nullify the idea of being formed in that likeness, but shows the image as defective and in need of repair. Every person who is aware, no matter how slight his mental faculties, lives by some ethic, some moral code, and some decision-making processes. This re-emphasizes importance of our Redeemer's work in the lives of men, for only He can create a heart in man that is not distorted and seeks His will. Scientist need to understand that God!!! Is God. He is the Alpha and omega.

Community and school





A community school is both a set of partnerships and a place where services, supports and opportunities lead to improved student learning, stronger families and healthier communities. Using public schools as a hub, inventive, enduring relationships among educators, families, community volunteers, business, health and social service agencies, youth development organizations, and others committed to children are changing the educational landscape - permanently - by transforming traditional schools into partnerships for excellence.

There is a role for all members of a community to play in making community schools a reality. School superintendents, principals, local elected officials, public and private human services agencies, youth development organizations, community organizations and community development groups, business, and civic and religious organizations all can bring leadership and resources to bear’s hope you will be excited by what's happening in these growing experiments and find some way to encourage similar efforts where you live. Why? Because now more than ever, they just make sense. and students, businesspeople, neighbors, and family members come to support and bolster what schools are working hard to accomplish - ensuring young people's academic, interpersonal and career success. Their presence turns schools into places that crackle with the excitement of doing, experiencing and discovering unknown talents and strengths. Community schools open up new channels for learning and self expression. Students come early and stay late - because they want to.Ideally, a full-time community school coordinator oversees the delivery of an array of supports provided by local agency partners and participates on the management team for the school. To achieve their desired results, most community schools over time consciously link activities in the following areas: quality education; positive youth development; family support; family and community engagement in decision-making; and community development.

The school is oriented toward the community, encouraging student learning through community service and service learning. A before- and after-school learning component allows students to build on their classroom experiences, expand their horizons, contribute to their communities and have fun. A family support center helps families with child-rearing, employment, housing and other services. Medical, dental and mental health services are readily accessible.Artists, lawyers, psychologists, college faculty