Everybody dreams of being a billionaire, but if you were actually a billionaire what presents would you get and who would you get them for? I personally find it very satisfying to see the look on someone’s face when they receive the perfect gift. All times are great for gift giving but especially now during the holidays when it is a joyous time for everybody.
One person I think really deserves a gift is my mother. My mother loves to help other people, whether it is her own children or other people in need. If I had billions of dollars to spend I would buy my mother the Red Cross foundation. This is the perfect gift for my mother because she loves to give and this would give her the resources to donate to people all around the world and in great amounts. My mother would enjoy owning the Red Cross foundation because it would extend my mother’s worlds boundaries so much because it would give her the ability to help more people. My mother would also adore this gift because she would be able to travel around the world, and help people there too. This gift would really give my mother a c...
Friendship means different things for everyone. It can mean happiness and trust. Friends are important to connect to, talk to, and to help in tough situations. Friends help teach life lessons. Most importantly, friends are there to love and to feel loved. The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick revolves around the friendship between the main characters, Old Bill, Billy, and Caitlin. Their friendship resulted in them learning valuable life lessons and experiencing the power of love.
Gifting technically does not mean buying an object and giving it to another person. The term “gifting” used at “Burning Man” refers to sharing an experience, one
However, as may be expected from our modern society, the custom of giving gifts quickly turned into the practice of exchanging them. If one gives gifts to loved ones at Christmas, the reasoning goes, then those who do not receive gifts from a person are obviously not loved by him/her. So each individual now is required to give a gift to all of his/her friends, or risk communicating to them that s/he no longer loves them -- or perhaps never did! Also, there arises another problem when someone gets a gift from a person to whom they did not give one. The logic here is that the one who gave the gift obviously has a greater love for or places a greater value on the friendship than the one who did not. A decidedly awkward situation arises from this, one can imagine.
The short story The Gift has many layers with in itself on different topics. The topics of discrimination, feminism, friendship, tradition, and power all can be seen in this story. Many literary devices can be seen in the story also. Such as: theme, metaphor, tone and symbol. This story unlike most as that I couldn't predict what was going to happen that made the girls leave the school. Just as it says in the beginning paragraph "No one expected Merceditas Cáceres, on the day Carlotta Rodriguez was expelled from the Sacred Heart, to hang her silk sash from the doorknob, drop her medal of the Congregation of the Angels in the alms box, and walk out through the schools' portico arm in arm with her friend, head held high and without deigning once to look back, with that gesture of paramount disdain so commonplace in those of her social class." (Ferré) Just like no one in the story would have expected the main characters to do this, during the story I could not figure out why they would have done it.
I am not born with a silver spoon on my mouth to host a feeding program nor offer scholarships to others. I am just a college student. However, KINDLE, one of Rotaract Club's program, made me realize that we do not need to be rich in order to be of service to others. We could always help, if we truly want to. Afterall, money is just one of the million ways to
The Christmas Sweater is about a boy named Edward Lee who is twelve years old. In the beginning of the book his father has passed away and his mother is taking him to see his grandparents. He started talking about how his father bought a bakery when he was young. The bakery was called the City Bakery. He talked about how his father enjoyed baking and he could bake very well. He used to makes breads and different desserts. He used to help his father in the bakery. One day he noticed that Mrs. Olsen who was a customer paid his father with a food stamp. Eddie thought that his father was just scammed, but his father told him what a food stamp was. He explained that it was for people who had a financial situation, he told Eddie that Mrs. Olsen was someone who needed it. There was also a man who had food stamps, but Eddie's father said that the man could work, but he chooses not to. On Christmas Eve, he and his mother would go visit his grandparents. Eddie loved to go visit his grandparents, he would play cards with his grandfather and they would also go around the house and look for thei...
This story is about a young Lady that lives in California with her mother and Father. She
Gifts of Rain Seamus Heaney's poem Gifts of Rain is divided into 4 sections. These 4 sections could symbolise the stages of life which consists of birth. childhood, adulthood and death. It could also symbolise the stages of the river in which it suggests the development of the river from its. source to where it gets strong.
Being the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates had already made millions of dollars while also becoming more and more famous for his work with computers. So it came as no surprise when he took over his father’s previous foundation called the William gates Foundation and renaming it the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation in 1997. Quickly donations were made to many universities and colleges such as the University of Washington. They were awarded a donation of twelve million dollars. The Gates Foundation also contributed two million dollars to the Seattle Area YMCA, twenty million dollars to the Seattle Public Library, and one million dollars to the Tacoma Art Museum. The Gates also devised plans to improve public education as well as attacking global issues. Of course one knows that at one point in time technology was only available for the rich or in other words only the rich could obtain certain information or knowledge that the poor couldn’t. Bill and Malinda gates understood this so they created a second program called the Gates Library fou...
worse. Since these people make very little money, their gifts come more from the heart
Living in my current lifestyle, there are many things I have that others are not as privileged of having. For example a full kitchen of food and appliances. If utilized correctly, you can make a change in the world, which is what I did. My mother and I baked several dozen baked goods to sell to both patients and employees in her office. All the money that we raised was then matched by three other people, which means we have four times the amount of money raised to donate to a needy homeless shelter, the Kitsap Rescue Mission.
Mother Teresa should have helped the poor for three reason. Mother Teresa was called to minister to the poor by God, she would help the children of the poor, and she would reflect the love of Christ to the outside...
that person appreciated the gift and it would be almost like a gift to you.
something that was given to them free. Also, people get to give gifts to their
The sacraments have affected me in many ways. I know that the sacraments can bring people together, and it can give new life. It is an important part of our faith as Catholics. Jesus gave them to us so we all can receive the gift of grace. Without them we couldn't receive God’s grace and we would more distant from God.