Exercise 1-C FALLING IN LOVE It is a mystery why we fell in love. It is a mystery how it happens. It is a mystery when it comes.
It is a mystery why some love grows and it is a mystery why some love fails. You can analyze this mystery and look for reasons and causes, but you will never do anymore than life out of the experience. Just as life itself is more than the sum of the bones and muscles and electrical impulses in the body, love is more than the sum of the interests and attractions and commonalities that two people share. And just as life itself is a gift that comes and goes in its own time, so too, the coming of love must be taken as an unfathomable gift that cannot be questioned in its ways. Sometimes, hopefully at least once in your life the gift of love will come to you in full flower, and you will take hold of it and celebrate it in all inexpressible beauty. This is the dream we all share. More often it will come and take hold of you, celebrate you for a brief moment, then move. When this happens to young people, they too often try to grasp the love and hold it to them, refusing to see that it is a gift that is freely given and a gift that just as freely, moves away. When they fall out of love, or the person they love feels the spirit of love leaving, then try desperately to claim the love that is lost rather than accepting the gift for it was, then moving on. They want answers where there are no answers. They want to know what is wrong in them that make the other person no longer love them, or they try to get their lover to change, thinking that if some small things were different, love would bloom again. They blame their circumstances and say that if they go far away and start a new life together, their love will grow. Remember this, and keep it to your heart. Love has its own season, and its own reason for coming and going. You cannot bribe or coerce it, or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you. But if it chooses to leave from your heart of your lover, there is nothing you can do and there is nothing you should do. Love always has been and always will be a mystery. Be glad that it came to live for a moment in your life. IF YOU KEEP YOUR HEART OPEN IT WILL COME AGAIN.
Exercise 2-a
The Twelve Days of Christmas
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, A partridge on the pear tree. On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Two turtledoves. On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Three French hens. On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Four calling birds. On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Five golden rings. On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Six geese a-laying. On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Seven swans a-swimming. On the eighth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Eight maids a-milking. On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Nine ladies dancing. On the tenth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Ten Lords a-leaping. On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Eleven drummers drumming. On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Twelve pipers piping.
Exercise 3-a
Thoughts to keep
All the worlds a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in him time plays many parts. -Shakespeare-as you like it. I believe that love can save tomorrow; I believe the truth can set us free, someone tried to say it and we nailed him to the cross. -Stevie Wonder The proper response to things is use. The proper response to people is love. It is immoral to interchange the two. unknown You can change! tears for fears I believe in the sun even if it doesnt shine. I believe in love even if I dont feel it. I believe in God even if I dont see him written in one of the walls in one Jewish concentration camp in Europe. God has never met his match! unknown In a moment of decision, may we find the inner grace to choose as Jesus would have chosen, where he standing in our place. kline When you reached out plateau, and your strengths almost gone, but the Lord still says go, thats the time to press on. hess The tongue can be a blessing, or the tongue can be a curse; say, friend, how are you using yours; for better or for worse? anon God holds the future in his hands with grace sufficient day by day; through good he gently leads, if we but let him have his way rohrsFaith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 A good name is to be chosen rather than a great riches. Proverbs 22:1
Exercise 5-c 1. INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION SYSTEMS 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Systems Theory 1.2.1. Systems Components 1.2.2. Subsystems 1.2.3. Control Systems 1.2.4. Implications of System Theory 1.3. Business Systems 1.3.1. Levels of Management 1.3.2. Implications of Levels of Management 1.4. Categories of Information Systems 1.4.1. Transaction Processing System 1.4.2. Management Information System 1.4.3. Decision Support System 1.4.4. Executive Information System 1.4.5. Expert System
Exercise 7-a
Associate from those you can learn. Let friendly relations be a school of erudition, and conversation, refined teaching. Make your friends your teachers and blend the usefulness of learning with the pleasure of conversation. Enjoy the company of people of understanding. What you say will b rewarded with applause; what you hear, with earning. What draws us to others, ordinarily, is our own interest, and here that interest is ennobled. The prudent frequent the homes of courtly heroes: theaters of heroism, not palaces of vanity. Some are renowned for their learning and good judgment: oracles of all greatness through example and friendship. Those who accompany they form a courtly academy gallant discretion and wisdom. FIGHTING FORCE Undertake the easy though were difficult, and the difficult as though it were easy, so as not to grow overconfident or discouraged. To avoid doing something, you need only considerate done. But diligence is impossibility. In moments of great danger, dont even think, simply act. Dont dwell on the difficulties. HEAVEN ON EARTH In heaven all is contentment, in hell as is sorrow, and on earth, which is between, we find both. We live between two extremes and partake of both. Luck changes: not all is happiness and all is adversity. This life is in zero: by itself it is nothing. Add the heaven, and it is much. Indifference to the worlds variety is prudence: the wise care little for novelty. Our lives fold and unfold like theater, so be careful to end well. FORGIVE AND FORGET Know how to forget. It takes more luck than skill. The things that should most be forgotten are the ones most easily remembered. Not only does memory behave basely, not coming forward when it is needed, it is also foolish, for it comes to us when it shouldnt. it is prolix when it can give us pain, and careless when remedy. Let us train memory and teach it better manners, for it can give us heaven and hell. Selfsatisfied people never care about this in their silly innocence they are always happy. FORTUNE HUNTER Plan for bad fortune while your fortune is good. In the summer it is wise to provide for winter, and it is easier to do so. Favors are less expensive and friendships abound. It is good to save up for a rainy day, adversity is expensive and all is lacking. Keep a following of friends and grateful people; someday you recognize them. In adversity it is the other way around.
