Ellen McCormick
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Discover Your Personality: Sanguine
Are you fun and adventure loving? Do you like new things, new ideas, new experiences? Do you love telling stories about last night's party? Do your friends and family sometimes tell you to stop exaggerating, or that you don't follow through enough? If you have said yes to two or more of these questions, it is very likely that you are a sanguine personality. Overview The sanguine personality, like the choleric... (posted by Ellen 2 years 115 days ago.)
Are you fun and adventure loving? Do you like new things, new ideas, new experiences? Do you love telling stories about last night's party? Do your friends and family sometimes tell you to stop exaggerating, or that you don't follow through enough? If you have said yes to two or more of these questions, it is very likely that you are a sanguine personality. Overview The sanguine personality, like the choleric... (posted by Ellen 2 years 115 days ago.)
Discover Your Personality: Choleric
Are you a good business person, good sportsman, good planner? Do you like doing things efficiently? When you are sitting down or lying down, are you planning what you will be doing when you get up? Do some of your friends call you stubborn? Do some of your underlings say you drive them too hard? If you have said yes to two or more of these questions, it is very likely that you are a choleric personality. Overview... (posted by Ellen 2 years 115 days ago.)
Are you a good business person, good sportsman, good planner? Do you like doing things efficiently? When you are sitting down or lying down, are you planning what you will be doing when you get up? Do some of your friends call you stubborn? Do some of your underlings say you drive them too hard? If you have said yes to two or more of these questions, it is very likely that you are a choleric personality. Overview... (posted by Ellen 2 years 115 days ago.)
Helen Keller: A Story of Vision
Helen reached out for another piece of cake. Anne grasped her outstretched hand, spread it flat, and began tracing letters on her palm: C-A-. Helen jerked her hand away and groped around for the platter, but Anne had moved it out of her immediate reach. Unable to find it, Helen sat back down; her arms crossed, her eyes brimming with angry tears. Frustration at not being able to ask for what she wanted filled her:... (posted by Ellen 2 years 121 days ago.)
Helen reached out for another piece of cake. Anne grasped her outstretched hand, spread it flat, and began tracing letters on her palm: C-A-. Helen jerked her hand away and groped around for the platter, but Anne had moved it out of her immediate reach. Unable to find it, Helen sat back down; her arms crossed, her eyes brimming with angry tears. Frustration at not being able to ask for what she wanted filled her:... (posted by Ellen 2 years 121 days ago.)
Good Sportsmanship Before All Else
"Out!" the referee shouted. My team threw their gloves up in the air. Our coach was smiling it was a double play that would win the game. I was the only one who knew that Number 8 was safe: no one had seen me fumble that catch. I wanted to please my coach; I wanted to make my team proud and to win the game. But I knew that wasn't enough. "Fair play and good sportsmanship before all else. That's where a sports true... (posted by Ellen 2 years 121 days ago.)
"Out!" the referee shouted. My team threw their gloves up in the air. Our coach was smiling it was a double play that would win the game. I was the only one who knew that Number 8 was safe: no one had seen me fumble that catch. I wanted to please my coach; I wanted to make my team proud and to win the game. But I knew that wasn't enough. "Fair play and good sportsmanship before all else. That's where a sports true... (posted by Ellen 2 years 121 days ago.)
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