The Power of Preparation
There is an old adage that claims it is better to be safe than sorry. Most people living on planet Earth would agree. The art of preparation is a skill every old person wants the youth of America to possess. Business leaders want their employees to be better prepared. Simple everyday people want to be ready for all kinds of disasters that life may have in store for them. Someone who was trying to be wise once said, ¡°Dig the well before you are thirsty¡±. This person was obviously relatively smart. Preparation is an essential tool for making life a more positive experience.
First, success could come more easily if enough work was done beforehand. For example, many students dislike final examinations for one reason: the ¡°cramming¡± study method. This method is ineffective, and makes students cranky and tired. Relationships at all levels become strained, and everyone is unhappy with everyone else. This situation can easily be avoided with one simple solution. It is preparation. If they had reviewed their notes and read their books periodically, then they would most likely retain all the necessary information to pass any final.
Second, preparation can make lives of thousands more pleasant. Picture a red-brick building that is large enough for approximately 1,400 young adults. Now, picture about 400 extra people. Are there any problems that could rise from this high population density? Perhaps, there would be difficulties shifting from room to room...
The Germans wanted to control the size of the Jewish population by forcing Jews to lived in segregated sections of towns call Jewish residential quarters or ghettos. They created over 400 ghettos where Jewish adults and children were forced to reside and survive. Most ghettos were located in the oldest, most run-down places in town, that German soldiers to pick to make life in the ghetto as hard as possible. Overcrowding was frequent, several families lived in one apartment, plumbing was apprehended, human excrement was thrown out with the garbage, contagious diseases ran rapid, and hunger was everywhere. During the winter, heating was scarce, and many did not have the appropriate clothing to survive. Jerry Koenig, a Polish Jewish child, remembers: “The situation in the Warsaw Ghetto was truly horrendous- food, water, and sanitary conditions were non-existent. You couldn’t wash, people were hungry, and very susceptible to disease...
As Scout is exposed to Aunt Alexandra’s ideas regarding the hierarchy of society, she also begins to understand why Aunt Alexandra holds such opinions. When Aunt Alexandra comes to stay with the children, she also brings along her unending gossip about other families in Maycomb. Scout explains that “Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of lands, the
The whole point of moving the Jews to the ghettos was to keep them in one area waiting for their death (Meltzer 79). They were moved to the ghettos around February 1940 - July 1943 (Altman
The Jewish people faced endless horrors during the Holocaust. One of the horrors they experienced was the ghettos. A ghetto was a specified neighborhood where all Jewish people were required to live. The ghettos were not meant to be permanent residences, instead, they were meant to be a middle ground between freedom and concentration camps. Life inside the ghettos was appalling. Death and disease were rampant, and the possibility of deportation was a constant fear. The Institute for Jewish Research explains the atrocious living conditions inside the ghettos best saying, “Overcrowding, lack of sanitary infrastructure, and poor building standards took a toll upon the physical state of ghetto residents.” By withholding adequate infrastructure and forcing
A successful student is always prepared for any planned event which he or she is attending. I think I exemplified this whenever I went to clinicals, because I believe one is not able to have a successful
The article “How to Be a Success” by Malcom Gladwell speaks about how success is something that can be achieved if you put the time and work into it, and how success is not achieved overnight but rather through long hours of constant practice. His article is targeted to more than one group of individuals. The groups of individuals that his article targets are teenage students, young adults, adults, people who want to become an expert, or want to succeed in something they have an interest in and in general society. Another article also related to the success of an individual “An A+ Student Regrets His Grades” by Afraj Gill describes how in society many schools focus more on students’ grades, rather than their learning, and how a student is
Forces pushed the Jewish population by the thousands into segregated areas of a city. These areas, known as ghettos, were small. The large ghetto in Sighet that Elie Wiesel describes in Night consisted of only four streets and originally housed around ten thousand Jews. The families that were required to relocate were only allowed to bring what they could carry, leaving the majority of their belongings and life behind. Forced into the designated districted, “fifteen to twenty-four people occupied a single room” (Fischthal). Living conditions were overcrowded and food was scarce. In the Dąbrowa Górnicza ghetto, lining up for bread rations was the morning routine, but “for Jews and dogs there is no bread available” (qtd. in Fischthal). Cut off from the rest of civilization, Jews relied on the Nazis f...
Firstly, rations given to Jews given in this ghetto were next to nothing. On average, a Jewish person living in the ghettos received 186 calories a day and German soldiers occupying the ghettos had 2,613 calories per day. Jewish people living the ghettos often had to rely on their children to smuggle food from outside the ghetto by trading jewellery that the Nazi failed to find, for food and medications. Children were small enough to fit through barbed wire or small tunnels dug under the wall. They would often carry supplies that weighed more than their own body. If a person was caught smuggling food, they were beaten or killed. Although smuggling was a horrible thing to be caught doing, it kept the death rates in the ghettos from steadily increasing.
Elie Wiesel stated “it all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.” The ghettos were really nice to Elie and his family before they went to concentration camp. The ghettos were going to take in Elie and his family when they needed to move. The ghettos played an important role in World War II for the Jewish people. The life that people in the ghettos had was pretty insufferable. About 3-4 families lived in one house which was a crowded room . In the article, “life in the ghettos was usually unbearable. Overcrowding was common. One apartment might have several families living in it”(Life 1). In the ghettos
German made Jewish Ghettos were very crowded sections of cities. Jews were forced into them and all the businesses were shut down. Multiple families were forced to share one apartment, and they were seperated from the rest of the world. One of the biggest was the Warsaw ghetto, more than 400,000 jews were confined there with an area of 1.3 square miles. “Some ghettos existed only a few days. Others lasted for months or years” (Ghettos 1).
The residents of Lodz Ghetto struggled to survive because they were cut off from the rest of the world. They to solely depend on the Germans for all of their necessities which included food and water, housing, sewage, and heat (D 406). However, the Germans did not provide enough of these life essentials, if any. Communication to anyone outside the ghetto was also almost nonexistent in the ghetto. Radios were prohibited, resulting to no news of the war or the outside world (D 408). The residents had to trust what the Germans were telling them were fact. This caused the residents to build false hope when being deported. Many new residents of the ghetto assumed they were going somewhere better than the ghetto, but instead, were taken to Chelmno Killing Center (F 2-3). Being cut off from the world was one of the catalysts to the acute suffering the residents had to endure.
Finally, safety is the number one priority in order to survive and recover from any major catastrophic event. Education is the key to prevention. Know your local area and common disasters that occurs in that particular area. Knowing what they are and how to protect yourself will in terms help the recovery and healing process faster and easier for you and your family.
In today’s current world, many people are truly not survivors, nor are they truly as protected as they believe. As people who started in the woods, using what’s in front of us as means of survival we have all instead become comfortable through the ages depending on what can be offered and manufactured. Today, we have a government that regulates and distributes the resources we want, enlist men and women to protect us to whatever ability they can and we as people, do not question. As a society we just accept what is handed to us, while we cozy up comfortably in our seats, losing all sense of skills that led us to this point. But do people truly know what to do when something goes wrong? Do people know how to defend themselves? What supplies to store? Techniques if they run out of supplies? Despite the fact that we have all grown comfortable in a life that seems safe and protected, in a world that seems to be going downhill, it is still important for people to develop important skills to survive, even if it’s for the “just in case” scenario.
An important question to address when attempting to identify effective study strategies and their relationship with academic performance is, “What are study skills?” The term “study skills” can be defined as proficiency in identifying, organizing, memorizing, and using information in order to succeed academically (Proctor, Prevatt, Adams, Hurst, & Petscher, 2006). Activities identified as study skills include “time management, setting appropriate goals, selecting an appropriate study environment, employing appropriate note-taking strategies, concentrating, selecting main ideas, self-testing, organization, and managing anxiety,” (Proctor et al., 2006). When studying, college students employ a variety of these study strategies that they believe
Success is something individuals aim for through all stages of life. Succeeding at university may entail passing courses, achieving learning goals and consequently graduating, while gaining some experience and exposure. At work, success could take a different form of gaining a job, accomplishing goals, and seeking promotions. While the definition of success may differ for university students and employees at an organisation, the basic principles and skills required are very similar. Individuals require both intrapersonal and interpersonal perception in order to achieve success, whether at university or work. Skills such as self-regulation, self-monitoring, implementing goals and strategies to achieve those goals, as well as harnessing good communication skills and formal relationships are key factors to success. It is with these perceptions that individuals can gain skills that can help overcome barriers to succeed.