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To fill in the painting and to show its miens we need to have a backbone for each other. Everybody represents a e are in life like pieces of special magnetic, a side of it puzzle! pushes us a way to busy life Several parts that look different in own their colors, dreams, goals and and the other one holds. Because of life’s nature we plot of days. will not walk on the same We are a cycle of a long chain that catena. Either will see by are related but separated! same eye’s angel nor will love Because at the end, we represent that whole picture made by each and by the same way! And here is the secret of the beauty everyone. perfection when we get Morals influence us, and behaviors along with other. translate our intentions. Our life is a Paradise! When We are like birds feel the freedom in the sky. We become happy with a we intend to instill a strong nice word, and we feel relieve with a root that its original is fixed in the ground and soon pure smile.
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extended to the sky. Our life is a small haven that we hold in our hearts and grow it with everything go out from inside to shortly come back to us. There is nothing in a Paradise is scattered dust! If we are reconciled with our souls, will create the most beautiful puzzle that will shine to others during and after life.
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Editorial Staff Esraa Almeras, The head of Serotonin Mera Ran, Editor
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ELEMENT Element (Single) which is one by itself. It expresses the time when people take a decision to do something, but they are a lone, confused and puzzled. decision to do something but they are a lone, confused and puzzled.
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appiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the LIGHTS.
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“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn” -Benjamin Franklin-
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eople who are in element steps feel like they are living alone by themselves and only with their passion, confusing.
One of Sarah Khaled’s dreams is that to be a famous painter with her own path. She has a passion to carry a special message with every single painting and that will distribute the power and positivity around the world. Khaled Adheres to hope of being a painter who can expresses life in colors and lines. Art is a way for Khaled to express herself, her feelings and thoughts. As Khaled said that art is a private world, where she can hide the tough moments and hard time of her life. Khaled states, “Honestly, I consider Art as the way of freedom.” Khaled took her first step as a painter in a childhood, and she noticed that she likes art.
Showing the challenging side of Khaled’s Art is the start bottom. The fact is that the start bottom is hard for everyone to begin a new idea, thought or work. As well as with Khaled, working on art pieces is a serious step especially if she does not have a strong feeling inside her to do it. Khaled feels like there is something controls her. It is a case that does not help her to hear anything around unless silence. But the solution is always there. It is only, and just only, holding pens, drawing and shading lines and colors that take out every negative sense of her. Yes, my dear, turning dreams to reality is not easy, but also is not impossible. It needs you to believe in the gifts you have and be responsible for all the situations you will face and make their decision soon.
“I can say I’m still in the beginning, trying to improve my skills and learn new techniques,” with a deep smile Khaled sighed quietly and said. She knows that she obtains a high ambitious that makes her feel like she still has time and a long path to reach her target but in the speed era who know if there is time or not!
As Khaled said that she started to improve her work and seek to reach the dream that she plans. However, the highlighted thing that is under Khaled dream is to spend few months in Italy, the capital city of art, and live among arts and civilizations. Khaled wants to taste colors from a close distance and scrub her hands on the various Art’s techniques. She believes in the proverb of Benjamin Franklin that said “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn” So, what about you? what is your inspirational city that you want to touch its soul? It is something really worth thinking about.
Khaled tried to remember the first painting that she has done, but she only remembers the favorite painting that took her a month to be done. The painting was made of fabric and thread. It was about a woman on the boat who was playing in one of the musical instruments in 2012 at the last semester of the graduation year.
Khaled ended her story with a very passion and inspirational goal if she gets a chance to open a gallery that said, “I would like to call it “liberté.” As liberté in French means freedom and liberty in everything. Khaled added, “The liberté will be focused in two kinds of artworks which are Coal plates and oil paintings.”
falling in love with arts is not enough to be a painter. It is only a single step for what is going to come in talented people’s lives or what is going to shape their lives.
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lthough I have grown up to be entirely inept at the art of cooking, as to make even the most wretched chef ridicule my sad baking attempts, my childhood would have indicated otherwise; I was always on the countertop next to my mother’s cooking bowl, adding and mixing ingredients that would doubtlessly create a delicious food. When I was younger, cooking came intrinsically with the holiday season, which made that time of year the prime occasion for me to unite with ounces and ounces of satin dark chocolate, various other messy and gooey ingredients, numerous cooking utensils, and the assistance of my mother to cook what would soon be an edible masterpiece. The most memorable of the holiday works of art were our Chocolate Crinkle Cookies, which my mother and I first made when I was about six and are now made annually for own store. 13
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COMPOUND Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. Norman Vincent Peale
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girl with a brown hair, wearing a red T-shirt is standing behind a reticulate wall, hanging on the iron net. She is gathering words to say something _ a little bit of silence. Take a few minutes until now when the clear night and bright moon helps to explore the essence of Maha Almeran’s story of the changing of her character and increasing the value of her life. The surroundings and environment have a significant effect on her appearance and behavior, as well as a combined experience of all the stages of culture shock that are the Excitement, Withdrawal, Adjustment, and Enthusiasm stages. “Nearly everyone, regardless of previous experience abroad, experiences some degree of culture shock when initially moving to a new country,” Deborah Swallow says . Simply, culture shock expresses three scenes in our lives: a dreamy wedding day; rosy thoughts and a honeymoon with colorful treatments; and a serious life in dark-brown, up and down days.
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ut after a while, everything from a small element to a big object in Almeran’s surroundings is different, is strange and is in English! No one will understand when she said, “I have to learn the language, but it is so hard to acquire in a short amount of time.” That is what she uses to tell herself in an easy way. She tries to overcome this. She goes out, sometimes using a dictionary or pictures if she cannot explain what she wants. She thinks that may help, but it makes her feel disabled, and that leads her to feel frustrated. So, she decides to remain alone, to avoid communicating with people face-to-face until she can handle the language. However, that is absolutely the worst decision lmeran witnesses all culture shock phases, she could have made. simultaneously, and that is very complex. It is Every single night, she cries alone saying normal _ natural _ to have difficulty adjusting to a that she wants to go back, she wants to throw herself new culture, but Almeran does not think it will be as into her mother’s arms. She knows shine is from challenging as she sees and feels it to be. She has lived within, and something comes out of her that tells her, between two different cultures; Cairo, Egypt., and “Before you give up, you have to think about why you here in the United States, Baltimore, MD. It is entirely held on so long.” It is like a song. “… Keep on doing something else. Another life, new people, new diswhat you want to do and hold on ….” Maybe this is covery and new experiences, which means something because she believes in that if we want to find the very interesting and cool. limits of the possible, we must reach beyond them into the impossible.
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he says to herself, “I have to go through it!” When she decides to take the first step outside, she is not prepared, and that is a problem that leads her to repeat over and over, “We are not all the same.” The language barrier is not the only issue. Culture mounted up to an immense piece of the problem. She does not just have to speak like native speakers do here. She has to think and act like they do. At the beginning, “I’m not responsible for what they [native speakers] think or understand, I’m responsible for what I say,” she said. “Maha, never mind!” Nevertheless, she cannot turn her back and act like she does not care because she is living under American governance. She has to respect that American people accept her as a part of their nation, a big family, so she has to live as they live, while still holding on to her culture in which she is so proud. At this moment, Almeran thinks, “I may encounter unfamiliar clothes, weather, food, school and people, but if those are the only obstacles that will be easy. I can never and will never lose my value, my origin, or who I am.” One of Almeran’s friends, Soka Ras said, “Maha always calls me her ‘shield’ because I always encourage her to take risks, make stupid things/mistakes and
dive deeper and deeper to collect her inside treasure stuff.” The challenge is ultimately going to be finding a balance between her new culture and her mother’s culture.
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henever Almeran faces troubles, she said: “It is a bad day, not a bad life. It is one chapter, not the whole book.” On so many occasions, she thinks: “I have had it! Finally, I made it; I did things the correct way. I do not have to be afraid to change. I may lose something good, but I may gain something much better.” The secret is that she has to accept what she cannot change and change what she cannot accept. That is it. She lives, she loses, she misses, she gets hurt, she makes mistakes, but most of all, she learns and because of that she can survive. That all was five years to the day of today. She is now a senior at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA., studying biology. She works with a media productions group as a writer. As Blinder M., a teacher at UMBC English Language Institute said: “Her writing is eloquent. She has a gift of language.” Also, she is a partner of a Lovey Dovey website that cares about children with cancer. Almeran’s story really means that there are no impossibilities or limits to open another door of the world in your life.
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New situations always make me a bit nervous, and my first swimming lesson was no exception. After I changed into my bathing suit in the locker room, I stood timidly by the side of the pool waiting for the teacher and other students to show up. After a couple of minutes, the teacher came over. She smiled and introduced herself, and two more students joined us. Although they were both older than me, they didn’t seem to be embarrassed about not knowing how to swim. I began to feel more at ease.
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REACTION YOU DON’T NEED SOMEONE TO COMPLETE YOU, YOU ONLY NEED SOMEONE TO ACCEPT YOU COMPLETELY Unknown
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verybody rides the rollercoaster of life; it has its ups and downs. Whether your biggest struggle of the day is getting the kids on the school bus in the morning or dreading checking the mail because of the bills that will be coming, everybody can tell a story of their struggles in life. The old saying “without struggle, there is no progress,” rings true. Every one has a story to tell and Ahmed Al-Ghamdi is no different. Al-Ghamdi is a young man who has faced many difficulties in life. Like most of us, he has faced financial troubles and health issues, but his biggest struggle was learning to lead a team to successfully work together in the global network marketing business, Zadly International. He has been a team lead networker since 2010 for Zadly. Al-Ghamdi started from the bottom of the pyramid and worked hard to make his way to the top of the company – he has more than fifty thousand team members. He has worked long, hard hours everyday to help his team reach the top. “Patience and consistency,” Al-Ghamdi says are the biggest tools that shaped him into the leader that he is today. His team works together
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Ahmed said day in and day out, trying to learn from each other, be cohesive and learn from their leader, Al-Ghamdi. He says, “I face a lot of difficulties at work. I must persuade the people around me to work together and trust me.” He says his employees respect his clarity and openness with them, something that took a long time to build up. Al-Ghamdi has a unique way of looking at the curve balls life can throw at you. He says he likes to picture these struggles as a cage. Each day, you are in the cage, facing troubles. Instead of just giving up and remaining stuck in that cage day after day, you have tools and skills you can use, he calls them “keys,” to help you escape what is confining you. For example, he considers good listening skills to be a “key” in having a great conversation with a customer. “Simply,” Al-Ghamdi says, “I use my keys when I can to help me overcome difficult situations. My situations at Zadly International usually involve a problematic customer, issue with the budget or a conflict with a team member. I use my keys to help me unlock my cage and overcome my struggles.” Al-Ghamdi considers this mindset to be a talent that helps him reach his goals every day. Al-Ghamdi says one of the biggest difficulties he personally faces daily
is the worry of money. “I would love to teach all employees in this world that they can invest their money in the right places to become more financially secure and get out from under that stress of money,” he says with passion. Along with that, Al-Ghamdi says that his biggest regret when it comes to money is wasting it. “My biggest regret with the company is that I stayed on an employee [instead of a team lead] for so long and wasted my time,” he says. Al-Ghamdi says he is inspired daily by the world around him. He says life can be difficult, but you should follow your dreams and let them come true. “If you have a dream, you can do it!” Al-Ghamdi’s final words serve as the motto he chooses to live by everyday.
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erry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, “If I were any better, I would be twins!� He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant.
The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
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