16. Taking Chances

Don't know much about your life

Don't know much about your world

but Don't want to be alone tonight

On this planet they call earth.

You don't know about my past

and I don't have a future figured out,

and maybe this is going too fast,

and maybe it's not meant to last

but what do you say to taking chances?

What do you say to jumping off the edge?

Never knowing if there's solid ground below

or hand to hold, or hell to pay,

What do you say,What do you say?

I just want to start again,

and maybe you could show me how to try,

and maybe you could take me in,

Somewhere underneath your skin?

and I had my heart beaten down,

but I always come back for more, yeah.

There’s nothing like love to pull you up,

When you’re laying down on the floor there.

So talk to me, talk to me, Like lovers do.

Yeah walk with me, walk with me, Like lovers do, Like lovers do...

15. If Grief for Grief can Touch Thee

If grief for grief can touch thee,
If answering woe for woe, If any truth can melt thee Come to me now!
I cannot be more lonely,
More drear I cannot be! My worn heart beats so wildly 'Twill break for thee..

And when the world despises..
When Heaven repels my prayer..
Will not mine angel comfort? Mine idol hear?!

Emily Bronte

14. Live One Day at a Time

We cannot change the past;

We just need to keep the good memories and acquire wisdom from the mistakes we've made..

We cannot predict the future;

We just need to hope and pray for the best and what is right, and believe that's how it will be.

We can live a day at a time, enjoying the present and always seeking to become a more loving and better person.

-Karen Berry

13. Pragmatics

We talk to others, to our pets and even to ourselves. It is a fact that since human started to make contact, to live with others and to communicate his taught, feelings and needs; he has created language. Language gives human the means by which he negotiate (tell, say) meaning through symbols and signs. Every single word opens a view to us. The choice of word could be way toward insight of man. The identity of man could be explained through the language, he/she expresses. Language is an activity and it is not only a set of grammar or rules to be considered. How people communicate and interact signify the fact that human can use words, gestures, silence and so on to mean something to affect somebody and to produce certain effect. It shows the importance of verbal and nonverbal effect. Because they are referring to a simple word, slight smile, a long pause or a deep silence, it is full of layers of intention, ideas, feelings, thoughts and activities.

Pragmatics is the science of utterances meaning beyond the sentence meaning and it studies the role which context plays in an utterances meaning. George Yule in the book “Linguistics” defines Pragmatics as: “Concerned with study of meaning as communicated by speaker/writer and interpreted by a listener/reader”.Pragmatics is the study of speaker meaning. Therefore, context is important because its influence is on the meaning. It requires a consideration of how speaker organize what they want to say in accordance with who they are talking to, where, when and under what condition. Pragmatics is the study of contextual meaning.

12. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

1) Physiological Needs: Provide lunch breaks, rest breaks, and wages that are sufficient to purchase the essentials of life.

2) Safety: Provide a safe working environment, retirement benefits, and job security.

3) Social Needs: Create a sense of community via team-based projects and social events.

4) Esteem: Recognize achievements to make employees feel appreciated and valued. Offer job titles that convey the importance of the position.

5) Self-Actualization: Provide employees a challenge and the opportunity to reach their full career potential.

11. Human Motivation

Psychologists from all branches of the discipline study the topic of motivation, an inner state that moves an organism toward the fulfillment of some goal. Over the years, different theories of motivation have been proposed. Some theories state that people are motivated by the need to satisfy physiological needs, whereas others state that people seek to maintain an optimum level of bodily arousal (not too little and not too much). Still other theories focus on the ways in which people respond to external incentives such as money, grades in school, and recognition. Motivation researchers study a wide range of topics, including hunger and obesity, the effects of reward and punishment, and the needs for power, achievement, social acceptance, love, and self-esteem.

In 1954 American psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed that all people are motivated to fulfill a hierarchical pyramid of needs. At the bottom of Maslow’s pyramid are needs essential to survival, such as the needs for food, water, and sleep. The need for safety follows these physiological needs. According to Maslow, higher-level needs become important to us only after our more basic needs are satisfied. These higher needs include the need for love and belongingness, the need for esteem, and the need for self-actualization (in Maslow’s theory, a state in which people realize their greatest potential).

10. Linguistics

Language, the principal means used by human beings to communicate with one another. Language is primarily spoken, although it can be transferred to other media, such as writing. If the spoken means of communication is unavailable, as may be the case among the deaf, visual means such as sign language can be used. A prominent characteristic of language is that the relation between a linguistic sign and its meaning is arbitrary: There is no reason other than convention among speakers of English that a dog should be called dog, and indeed other languages have different names (for example, Spanish perro, Russian sobaka, Japanese inu). Language can be used to discuss a wide range of topics, a characteristic that distinguishes it from animal communication. The dances of honey bees, for example, can be used only to communicate the location of food sources. While the language-learning abilities of apes have surprised many—and there continues to be controversy over the precise limits of these abilities—scientists and scholars generally agree that apes do not progress beyond the linguistic abilities of a two-year-old child.

Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Several of the subfields of linguistics that will be discussed here are concerned with the major components of language: Phonetics is concerned with the sounds of languages, phonology with the way sounds are used in individual languages, morphology with the structure of words, syntax with the structure of phrases and sentences, and semantics with the study of meaning. Another major subfield of linguistics, pragmatics, studies the interaction between language and the contexts in which it is used. Synchronic linguistics studies a language's form at a fixed time in history, past or present. Diachronic, or historical, linguistics, on the other hand, investigates the way a language changes over time. A number of linguistic fields study the relations between language and the subject matter of related academic disciplines, such as sociolinguistics (sociology and language) and psycholinguistics (psychology and language). In principle, applied linguistics is any application of linguistic methods or results to solve problems related to language, but in practice it tends to be restricted to second-language instruction.