Category: Family

Artifact 1

According to my friend, this artifact is called Classic Hits, a mixed media using found objects, paints, with approximately 363X243 size from the Men Talk series of an artist who calls himself or herself Gypsy. He displays this framed painting on his balcony and said he likes it so much because it reminds him of his aggression and youth. But most importantly, he added, it has a message that he likes.

Hans George Gadamer (1989) said that there is a sense in which all thought is a kind of artifact as well as a product of history so that it is easy to say that an artifact actually tells something about a person who is closely linked to it, either the creator, the owner or the admirer of an artifact.

In the case of my friend and the Classic Hits art piece, while it is reasonable to say that being a male, he had the interest of males such as guns or ammunition. Thus, he had been drawn to view the art piece in an exhibition he attended. With an underlying message using limbs, legs, and decapitated bodies amidst weapons and technology represented by chips and coded remote, the use of gold paint, the art piece has a gross, albeit urgent message sent across as the title itself wants to play: Classic Hits. My friend is a pacifist. Despite his claim for aggression, he is by nature against war and all hypes on terrorism. He believes that terrorism is a hype that promotes war to sell arms. And he once said that the winner is always the arms manufacturer.

Thus, the art piece Classic Hits successfully conveys many messages about my friend.

Artifact 2

Recently, I have been actively doing what I can for the environment and came across a lot of consumable products online that are practical and useful for everyday use. I have chosen this recycled magazine greeting card as an artifact to represent me because I have purchased some and plan to send it to many of my friends and relatives. The greeting cards (www.dd4sale.blogspot.com) are made up of actual newspapers or magazines, using as a focal point the photos of celebrities, also from publications or magazines.

Many times, we admire and view the faces of these famous Hollywood celebrities just for their good looks. We buy newspapers or magazines because their faces grace the pages of these magazines. Then, we end up throwing these magazines. This endeavor hits a lot of useful marks for what we generally view as trash and use with wit.

The cover of the greeting card has an embossed shout-out message, Look who I got to greet you today!!! and inside is the photo of the lucky Hollywood celebrity asking in a classic smile the I dont have an idea why I am here question, Uhh, whats the occasion again?

I believe that my dry sense of humor is expressed in these cards and that at the same time, I am sending in the message to my friends that we should all do our part for the environment. Recycle.

Reference

Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1989). Truth and Method. 2^nd ed. New York: Crossroad.

Deconstructed Designs. (2008). In Good Use. Web.

Introduction

There is so much joy in a being a grand parent, especially because it presents a great opportunity to fall in love again, to play and to appreciate the thrill of developing minds. Grandparents have a chance to share those things that are and have been passionate to them with a new audience. They is joy in seeing the world through the eyes of younger minds, grandparent have a chance to engage in music, reading, nature, gardening and other interests in the company of young, curious mind.

Interactions with grandchildren

Grandchildren are a great source of love, laughter, optimism, energy, acitivity, and youthfulness to the grandparents. All these virtues help a grandparent to age gracefully and appreciate life and understand life purpose. A clear picture of what life is created in grandparent minds, and they are able to see things from an entirely different point of view.

Through interactions with their grandchildren, grandparents have a chance use their extensive experience as parents to encourage their grandchildren and help them to do things differently. It also presents a good opportunity to watch children as they develop through all stages of their young lives. Children benefits from unconditional love from their grandparents. Grand parenting acts like an invitation to learn about childrens passions, their interest and provides those inputs that their parents cannot be able to provide. Grandparents are the family historians and are important in passing rich family traditions to a childs life. Besides, the close contacts between the children and grandparent helps in teaching the children to have positive mind-set towards old age and the process of aging.

As the rate of separation ascends and as increasing amounts of marriages collapse, cohabitation has grown to be the admired substitute to several people in North America. Professionals calculate that around 2.2 million people are presently sharing bed and board in a live-in agreement; this is roughly 1% of the entire population. (Qu, 2003, p 36) Cohabitation, more properly acknowledged as nonmarital cohabitation, is an appealing lifestyle.

In reality, above one-fourth of all unattached couples cohabitation near the beginning of 1990s were between 25 and 35 years old, and an extra 19 percent were 45 and above. (Qu, 2003, p-37) Even though cohabitation is not a recent discovery, the bond has yet to be legitimized with an acceptable identification. Presented expressions for instance shacking up or living in peccadillo are just some of the unsophisticated names being marked to people cohabitation. Cohabitation can be a helpful replacement for marriage, a solution for marital dilemmas, plus a solution to the issue of everyday divorce.

A popular foundation for cohabitation is that it is the best means to have a try out. This experimental marriage is an outcome of the escalating divorce rate. Scores of couples are scared of marriage and decide to share a house with the objective to pursue marriage if the transitory pact is flourishing. The couples expect to lessen their chances of a potential ruinous marriage; any conflicting manners toward social actions, monetary arrangements, or domestic errands will be discovered and optimistically resolved while the couple lives in concert. If an unsolvable clash takes place, the couple can terminate their wedding preparations and break out the aching exercise of split-up. Cohabitation eventually can assess the couples compatibility and help them truly become acquainted with each other.

For numerous, non-marital cohabitation is exercised by the couple as a personal backing method, offering mental and physical assistance. The affecting benefaction can be a precious asset to the couple as loads of cohabiters are juvenile and searching for their own position in the complicated career environment. The support that a person can receive from their spouse can be very soothing to them, and can be a good way in from reliance on their families to autonomy. The protection from the emotional and physical help practiced by several cohabiters can facilitate their focus on or her career targets without: the dissatisfaction of divided dynamics among dating, career expansion, and economic prolongation. (Baxter, 2005, pp 307-309)

The load of living can be combined as the couple trail personal objective and desires. Cohabitation, for instance, can present a bothered student with emotional and at times substantial economic aid from a compassionate colleague.

To conclude, increasing number of people are shifting to the notion of cohabitation as the emotional, corporal, societal, profitable, and lawful improvements are much better choices than the outcomes that can come up from a disastrous marriage. Definitely, not all couples prefer to take in cohabitation as a transitory step in their courtship, yet the alternative to be roomies is becoming well-liked with time. (Markey, 2001, pp 11-13)The independence allied with cohabitation is an essential feature, because after an epoch of time the couple may choose to get hitched, to conclude the rapport, or simply carry on living together. As future styles continue, and more marriages do not succeed, the number of couples who cohabit is going to amplify in consequence of the constructive benefits.

References

Baxter, Janeen. To marry or not to marry: marital status and the household division of labor. Journal of Family Issues v.26 no.3 2005: 300-321.

Markey, B., Cohabitation: reacting or responding? Threshold no.68 2001: 10-17.

Qu, L., Expectations of marriage among cohabiting couples. Family Matters no.64 2003: 36-39.

Introduction

Historically, big cities were always centers of commerce and economic growth, offering greater security and job opportunities. To this day, leaving the desperation of the countryside for the success of a huge metropolis is a popular trope in culture and media. Although it is common to romanticize the lifestyle of big city dwellers, living in a large urban area comes at a high cost. Metropolitan residents do indeed enjoy a tremendous amount of career and quality of life advantages; however, it is not a secret that living in big cities is often associated with a lack of meaningful interpersonal interactions.

Benefits

On the one hand, big city life offers excellent opportunities for economic growth. According to Loschiavo (2021), urban concentration enhances productivity, which, in turn, spurs national economic growth (p. 5). Due to their sheer massiveness, big metropolitan areas provide their inhabitants with a greater number of open vacancies and increased competitive salaries. In addition, dwellers of such cities benefit from easy access to various quality-of-life services, such as different specialty stores, pharmacies, hospitals, restaurants, and entertainment options. Massive city residents enjoy the best medical service and numerous means of mass transportation.

Disadvantages

On the other hand, big city dwellers suffer from a lack of meaningful interpersonal relationships. Loschiavo (2021) claims that big-city dwellers are exposed to unceasing external contacts with numbers of persons that are nevertheless impersonal and transitory (p. 10). According to his research, people in larger cities tend to create relationships to meet their needs rather than form meaningful mutual connections. Moreover, a competitive environment in areas of large economic growth contributes to the dissolution of cooperation and thus leads to increased residents unhappiness.

Conclusion

In conclusion, life in a big city has advantages and disadvantages. Large urban areas offer better job opportunities and easy access to the best possible medicine, transport, and leisure. However, the competitive and transitory nature of metropolises contributes to the decadence of cooperation and interpersonal relationships. Although big cities offer numerous career-related opportunities, those aspiring to move there must be prepared for lack of satisfaction in their personal life.

Reference

Loschiavo, D. (2021). Big-city life (dis) satisfaction? The effect of urban living on subjective well-being. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 192, 740-764.

Love is one of the most perplexing issues of life. There is perhaps no subject about which so many stories, songs, and poems have been written. Love is an emotion that has been framed eloquently by media and art, and people often experience happiness or sadness based on their perception of love and their need for it. It has been scientifically proved that people do need love. American psychologist Harry Harlow conducted experiments on love using infant macaque monkeys that exhibited similarity of behavior with human children with respect to nursing, contact, clinging, affection, etc.

He studied monkey babies who grew up in the presence of mother monkeys made of cloth. His experiments showed that monkey babies raised by these surrogate mothers were psychologically more stable than those who had none. Another interesting finding of Harlow was that no matter how abusive the evil mothers were, the baby monkeys always came back and displayed affection towards them.

This proved that even in the face of abuse, the need for love was overwhelming and moreover shows that love is not just a biological need. Sayings such as No man is an island and Man is a social animal underline the fact that people need each other love for basic survival and for progress through the ages. Thesis: People search for love because it fulfills their vital needs at four levels: physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual.

The physical aspects of love include providing help, sharing activities, and sex. According to the choice theory, humans are driven by basic needs that are genetic in origin. All human behavior represents an attempt to control the world to best satisfy these needs. The five basic needs are generally listed as survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. Of these five, the first one, survival is a physical need.

The physical need is said to be driven by nerve centers in the brain. Peoples genes instruct these neurological centers to carry out the survival activities that promote health and reproduction such as physical arousal, pleasure, and satisfaction. The early stages of a romantic relationship are more physical in nature and sexual attraction plays an important part. This is when people search for love to satisfy their physical longings. But later on one finds that purely physical love does not satisfy an individual. Only adolescents in the first wild rush of sexuality often relate to one another at this primitive level (DeVille et al, 1980).

On the intellectual plane, love satisfies four basic needs of a person: belonging, power, freedom, and fun. People marry and have family networks because they have an inner need for belonging. This need is satisfied not only through marital relationships but also through other family, friends, groups, classes, and even pets. People also desire a need to be in control. The power need or the inner control need is satisfied when they are listened to and respected.

It is also possible to have the power need satisfied by working for the common good. Power is ultimately a sense of self-worth and can be met by valuing oneself. People need the freedom to choose how they live their lives or at least some aspects of their lives. By providing the element of trust, love allows people the freedom to explore life while having a sense of belonging as well. Above all, love is a fun activity. To share views, opinions, argue, discuss and have conflicts are all fun activities that provide zest to life. In love, people share common tastes and interests and have fun. Sharing a strong need for fun supports all human relationships and is a vital ingredient in successful marriages. People thus seek love to satisfy their psychological needs of belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

Love by itself can be perceived as an emotional need. It indicates the emotional needs that everyone has for affection, care, recognition, acceptance, self-worth, and basic communication. When emotional needs are not met, often people get into destructive activities. For example, teenagers in inner cities often join street gangs and participate in criminal behavior in their attempt to fulfill their needs to feel accepted and valued. When a person is loved, he feels worthy as a person. This probably explains why ancient kings prided themselves on their self-worth by having many wives. Love fulfills the emotional needs of a person in a legitimate manner.

The two most frequent causes that people cite for feeling loving or falling in love are the fact that the beloved provides something that the person wanted, needed, or loved; and the fact that the beloved expressed love, need, or appreciation of the person. Both of these are emotional needs. Thus, love is more satisfying to the emotions. It can also be seen as an escape route from loneliness in the future. Many people desire marriage and family so that they would not be lonely in the future. Moreover, being loved makes people more socially accepted, which is another basic need. This shows that people search for love to satisfy their emotional needs.

Apart from the physical, intellectual, and emotional needs of a person, love also satisfies spiritual needs. People seek to love to find soul mates who can complement them at various levels. Such partners when found, find a deeply spiritual connection that is difficult to express in words. The quest for love needs a person to be selfless and focused. Love provides a person the opportunity to expand himself. He is no longer centered on his own physical and emotional needs. Love calls for inner spiritual expansion. The quest for love also requires a person to be courageous and responsible. The quest gives meaning to life. All of this provides spiritual satisfaction to the person seeking love. Thus love is spiritually satisfying both during the journey part and during the destination part.

Thus, love is an important factor on four planes to every human being: physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual. In love, peoples survival needs are met. They then get a sense of belonging, a sense of power, and some fun from love. Love also gives people self-worth, care, acceptance, and value. Ultimately love enables people to move beyond the self and experience spirituality. People search for love to have their needs on these four planes met.

Introduction

Combat survivors usually talk about the terror and the excitement of playing in a death match. People are taking risks because nowadays everyday risk is minimized and people want to be challenged according to Joy Marr, 43, an adventure racer who was the only woman member of a five-person team that finished the 1998 Raid Gauloises, the granddaddy of all adventure races as given in the article Life On The Edge, TIME, September 6, 1999.

Old generations didnt need to seek out risk. It can be easily reflected from global wars, childbirth complications, diseases and pandemics from the flu to polio, dangerous products and even the omnipresent cold war threat of mutually assured destruction (TIME, ). Many of those traditional risks have been reduced by science, government or legions of personal-injury lawyers for recent generations. Life expectancy has increased whereas violent crime is down. One is 57% less likely to die of heart disease than older generations. Diseases like smallpox, measles and polio have virtually been eradicated.

Risk With Present Generation

Children running towards danger and people attempting suicide generally do so to attract attention. Risk-aversion definitely kills innovation. One should always be ready to try out ideas. If youre not making mistakes, youre not taking risks, and that means youre not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win, says John W. Holt, Jr. Many people step into risk because they usually are natural problem solvers. Some believe that it is the way to make a difference in the lives of others. The risk is justified if taken for the right reasons.

Teenagers are usually more risk taker. They indulge in more high-risk behavior than most adults. The understanding of why teens take big risks is a key to good parenting.

Every day we hear of middle-of-the-night automobile accidents due to speed, alcohol and fatigue with young drivers. Teenagers are accounted more for markedly more fatal automobile accidents than do adults. They are not bad drivers. Many of the young drivers are very competent. They have gone through recent and latest driver education. They have practiced and honed their driving skills.

Teenagers continue to take such risks despite of the fact that they are very-well educated. According to an article in the April issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, an adolescent brain is far from fully developed. Full brain development is reached somewhere beyond the age of 18, as far as the issue of high-risk behavior is concerned. Some researchers even have suggested that brain development continues until the late 20s. According to Kathy Gates, When you are faced with risk, uncertainty, and the unpredictable, your ability to deal with it is directly tied to your ability to absorb the consequences. Successful people know that in order to be choosey in life, in order to put themselves in a place of control over their lives, in order to make decisions on what they want instead of what they have to do, they must first have reserves.

Countries like America have always been defined by risk. Let it be their predominant national characteristic. It can be called as a country founded by risk takers fed up with the English Crown and expanded by pioneers. It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people dont. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever says Philip Adams.

Conclusion

Research with brain imaging technology indicates that the area of the brain that regulates impulse and emotions is not yet fully developed before the age of eighteen. The brain system regulating logic and reasoning is developed much earlier. This means that people especially teenagers may have a full intellectual understanding of risk and they may have every intention of avoiding a particular high-risk activity, but they the full capacity to control themselves is absent.

Risk taking is a natural instinct just like the instinct for survival and dominance. We all are wired to take risks. Often, people stay in jobs that they despise rather than taking a risk by changing their work to an area that they love. Sometimes, we fall into the trap of thinking we are secure in our positions, and believe it is better to remain where we are rather than change jobs says Catherine Pulsifer in Love What You Do. People adopt various safety measures like automatic brakes, safety belts, speed limits and fat-free foods and go ahead to add the element of risk to life. They take a cruise, leap off bridges dangling from an elastic cord, get buffeted by a frothing river in a fragile boat, slip down an icy slope or choose to wander in the Himalayas. In fact, people pay for all this. People starting act recklessly when life becomes predictable. A sense of complete safety is always balanced by the spirit of adventure. It is the craving for risk that has sustained the human through evolution. According to Paulo Coelho, You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

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General purpose: To understand and information.

Sprecific purpose: Why beautiful women resist the stereotype that beautiful women only marry attractive men as per the understanding of professionals in the field of interpersonal communication.

Central idea: Beautiful women consider inner traits more than the superficiality of physical attractiveness.

Introduction

Beauty begets beauty. Have you ever heard that before? Most often it refers to a beautiful woman ending up with a good looking/handsome guy. But does that really apply in real life?

Dubner wrote the article Why Do Beautiful Women Sometimes Marry Unattractive Men? in order to discuss research by Satoshi Kanazawa wherein he indicated that women have a propensity to choose unattractive men only because of the law of supply and demand. This means that there are simply more attractive women than men. In reality, there are more valid reasons for such a pairing. In my opinion, there is actually a complimentary scenario going on these days that fuel such mismatched marriages. If we go by the reasoning that Dubner quoted from Kanazawa, it will be difficult to understand why these mismatched love pairs often end up married.

1. Why women do not give weight to physical attraction.
2. What do women really consider when looking for a life partner.

Body

Why women do not give weight to physical attraction

According to Von Pfetten (2008) women tend to have passed through an Ugly Duckling stage during their childhood and adult years, causing those whom they considered being attractive men to reject them:

• According to Von Pfetten (2008), such rejection is often carried by women all their lives and therefore serves as one of the bases for the relationships they seek. By seeking out a complementary relationship with a less attractive or ugly male, women feel that they risk less rejection, and the ugly men, who in turn have been rejected by attractive women early on, seek more of complementing relationship with them. The ugly men give the attractive women a sense of completion in their relationship and vice versa.
• At some point during a relationship between a good-looking man and woman, they will tire of the physicality of the attraction and then seek out a deeper meaning in their relationship. One that will actually help them complement each other. Through a complementary relationship, as in between a beautiful woman and an ugly man, the shortcomings of each person are instead filled in by the other partner, resulting in a complementing style of relationship.

Dubner stated that Kanazawas research indicated that women also indicate the DNA and intellectual capabilities of men when considering a life partner. Although this accounts for the criteria of a woman in choosing her life partner, it does not fully explain why she would opt for an ugly man to marry:

• If we were to follow the analogy stated in Dubners article, Kanazawa had basically whittled down the choice of a life partner to a simple scientific compatibility test. The better the DNA of an ugly man, the more likely a beautiful woman is to marry him. However, there is another, more realistic basis for attracting a person. These concepts rely on intellect, religion, proximity, complementary, and similarity concepts.
• Dubners article indicates that by Kanazawas concept, an ugly man will get a beautiful woman to marry him with no basis of physical attraction. For as long as a man knows how to treat a woman properly and works hard on making her feel special, he will win her heart and eventually marry her.

What do women really consider when looking for a life partner

Beauty is a trait more valuable for women than men:

• According to Dubner, Kanazawas indicated a 36% probability that good-looking parents would have a baby daughter as a child instead of a first-born son. Therefore, women tend to value beauty more than men. Selection pressure means that if parents have a domineering trait that is best passed unto boys than girls, the tendency will be to have a boy first and vice versa. However, in the case of heritable traits, there are more positive results when daughters are firstborn.
• In this case scenario, there is evidence that the complementary aspect of a relationship would tend to dictate the choice of a life partner for a woman. Heritable traits are after all considered to be a complementary aspect of a married couples union and therefore would help the interpersonal relationship between the couple and their children.

Ugly men make beautiful women feel special:

• According to Dubner, Sakagawa attributed the attraction of beautiful women to ugly men to the law of supply and demand. In reality, ugly men have a specific way of treating beautiful women that they do not get from handsome men. However, Maria (2007) argued that ugly men try harder to make women feel special while handsome men prefer to have the women work on making them feel special. In effect, the imperfection of the male becomes a relationship attribute instead of a weakness. Therefore such relationships have room for growth on both sides and a complete understanding of each others faults and shortcomings.
• Therefore, there is truth to Dubners belief in Sakagawas statement that Beauty is just one female trait. The complementary aspect of a relationship is more important than any physical or intellectual shortcomings in a relationship. By marrying a man who compliments her strengths and weaknesses, a woman assures herself of having a well-balanced series of traits in her children.

Conclusion

Summary Statement: Therefore, one can surmise that the actual reason a woman chooses to marry an ugly man has everything to do with actually providing herself with a happy and content environment more than basking in the idea of having a good-looking relationship that is empty on the inside.

We have to remember the basis of the article. The reason a woman will choose to marry an ugly man has everything to do with genetics and self-fulfillment aside from the law of supply and demand.

Thank you very much for your time.

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Billdoll.com (2008) Why do beautiful women prefer ugly men?. BillDoll.com  The Billion Dollar Site. Web.

Bryner, Jenna. (2008). Why beautiful women marry less attractive men. Live Science. Web.

Dubner, Stephen J. (2006). Why do beautiful women sometimes marry unattractive men?. The New York Times. Web.

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Need to prepare a practice makes perfect essay, paragraph, or speech? Writing such a text might be challenging, whether it is a 3-words piece or a longer story. Below, youll find everything you might need to get inspired.

Introduction

Practice is one of the keys to success. Why am I saying this? Practice, talent and being lucky are equally important. They are interconnected in that one cannot exist without the other. No matter how lucky one is, if no practice is done one is bound to fail. We do practice daily on how to live through our experiences which has a possibility of increasing our harvests. No matter how talented one is, one is likely to forget the basic thing if no practice is done.

Why Does Practice Make a Man Perfect?

Ones progress will mostly depend on the frequency engaged in, and the type of outcome needed for improvement which mostly gauges ones determination. The much practice required depends upon the nature of the activity, and upon the individual due to difference in peoples nature and desire to learn and achieve more.

Practice is an important tool to being successful and it helps ones goal come true. I hoped I could pass the practical test of manicure license. Manicure test had two parts, the practical and the written one, so I had to practice more than 10 times a day.

Practice Makes Perfect: Stories & Examples

Practice influences us all the time.

The newborn baby has to practice in order to walk and speak because no baby is born with the capability of either talking or walking. The baby learns from human beings around them. The baby starts learning step by step. Parents always hold the babys hands as they help the baby make small steps.

A baby does have to practice daily until he or she knows how to walk, the baby do fall always however, parents believe that continued practice can help it achieve its goal of walking hence day by day the baby can walk. Parents always worry about its physical problem like falling down and weak legs before it knows how to walk. Finally, they do feel happy and successful after the baby knows how to walk.

Practice makes us to be successful. If you dont practice, you will fail. It did happen to my friend Yuri. We took the same manicure class at Rosemead Beauty School to get the manicure license at the end of the summer. However, before we got the license we had to complete 400 hours, and then apply for the state board test.

We had to stay for the whole day at the beauty school; morning reading classes, afternoon practical. We practiced manicure in case we had customers in the afternoon but if we didnt, we would practice on our parents or on our self. Yuri is a Japanese girl, and she is good at nail art design. She passed all the written quizzes; she even took the higher version quiz than us. While we were practicing manicure with the customers, she always did the nail art design.

She loved to make the designs on the nail tip. She had done so many designs although she never practiced the practical test of state board requirement like: tip, tip overlays, wraps, acrylic nail. She was unwilling to practice with customers even though the teacher always called her to practice. She thought it was not hard for her to pass the practical exam. She never came back for practical after she was done with the 400 hours attendance forgetting that one always performs at the level you practice, she was ever at home.

Finally, as we never thought of it, she did pass the written part, but didnt pass the practical part. My teacher told me that she never practiced thats why she didnt pass. She didnt practice enough before she took the state board test. Yuri was so sad, she regretted, and blamed herself for not practicing. Right now she has to wait for the practical exam again.

And she has to pay the application fee again for the next practical exam. But the saddest thing is that she even doesnt know when the next practical exam is. She has to wait for unknown period of time. Without the manicure license she cant do anything like having customer, if she does, she will be jailed. She even cant find a job. She has learned that practice is very important for success. Right now she practices daily until the schedule come out.

After Yuris case, I learned that practice is very important to pass the practical exam. So I have practiced harder than before. I practice more than 10 times daily for my November 15, 2010 state board test. I usually try the acrylic nail first which I am not good at. Its hard to work on the acrylic nail.

The acrylic nail entails initially placing the nail receptacle on the nail position, second is the combination (of the polymer and the monomer) by use of a brush, then putting the drip at the (nail) line and in the midpoint of the (natural) nail. The bead is then flattened through continuous pressing.

To uniformly distribute the products level remains the most challenging thing in this field. After finishing, I always file the nail to shape the free edge and sidewalls to smoothen the surface. It usually takes 30 minutes for me to finish one finger. The state board test only allows 15minute doing the acrylic nail. I will fail the practical exam if I use this speed. I dont want to fail like Yuri, so I do practice often, right now I only use 10 minutes to finish one finger. I do believe that if I practice more I will pass the practical exam of the state board test.

I dont want to untimely wait for the retest, and repay the application fee once more. I want to do this as soon as I can so that I can get my manicure license, and look for a job which is am interested to have. I dont want to work at the restaurant again. With the license I can have my own customer and earn my money from giving the manicure services.

Conclusion

In conclusion, I am not good at working on the acrylic nail, ever warps, and tip and to sum it up am not an expert in manicure. However, I do believe if I practiced more, I can be a genius of the manicure services.

I also believe that to pass my practical exams and obtain a manicure license, I need to practice more because practice makes perfect and this is the only way to make me successful and make my manicure dream come true. I therefore encourage each and everyone who wants to be perfect in each and everything they desire to achieve must often practice.