Indirect Saying

In my country we have a lot of sayings that the people use in their live to tell their opinion in something or to give advice in an indirect way. My father always use two of my country old people saying. The first saying is," the door of the cabinetmaker is broken. The people use this saying to advice or aware others who works in certain industry to let them pay attention of their broking stuffs. For example, if the person is a mechanic, and he has a broken car, his friends or family will tell him this saying to aware him because he is a mechanic and he know how to fix cars. Therefore, he is supposed to fix his car as soon as possible.The second saying is, "nothing can scratch your skin like your nail. This saying means that nobody can do the work that you are responsible to do better than you. The people use this saying to advice the person to do his work by himself and don’t rely on other people. Sometime the person who is responsible to do the work tell this saying to others who he or she asked them to do something and they did it in wrong way, Or they didn’t do it completely.In Saudi Arabia hearing indirect saying is bart of our life. my father always use these two saying. there fore when I here anyone say anyone of these saying that remind me in my father.

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Alone or Lonely

The life today is very fast and complicated. Therefore, a person sometime needs to be alone to think or relax. I spend most of my time with my friends but sometime I prefer being alone than being with them to think or relax, I love my home because it is the place where I can stay by myself without people that could disturb my relaxing or thinking. I think that it is not strange If a person spends only sometime by himself, but it is strange that if the person spend most of the time by himself, Because being alone most of the time is probably reflects a mental problem that the person may have. People are sometime forced by some situations that make them lonely. Fore example, If you went to new place to study or to work you would find yourself alone because of the differences between you and the people who live in new place that you went to. I used to work in the capital city in Saudi Arabia before I came here. I worked 9 month there. The first four months I felt very lonely because I was thinking about my family and my friend, but after the first four months I was very busy with my new life and my new friends. Before 2 weeks I was with my friends in one friend apartment we had a good time but suddenly I felt that I needed to be home, Therefore. I drove to my apartment. After I arrived I felt so happy that I stay by myself with nobody to annoy me.I cant live lonely but sometime I love to be alone.

Be successful Dreamer

Dreams are the first step to succeed. If we seek about the beginning of any successful person, we find out that he was dreaming about success before succeeding, but dreams are not enough to succeed .you should believe in yourself , and fight to bring your dream from the imaginary to the real life. My dream is to have a restaurant chain in Saudi Arabia. I started to think about that when I was in the high school. I decided to study business to accomplish my dream. While I was studding business in Saudi Arabia, I started the first restaurant with my younger brother. In the beginning we worked by ourselves and some workers. We worked hard until our profit became better. I came to U.S to continue my studding in business and my brother now is managing our business. We will start the next restaurant after a month. When I finish my master dgree I well go back to Saudi Arabia to teach business and continue my dreams in having a big restaurant chain. Dreams are your way to succeed, so don’t keep them only in the imaginary.

Halloween For Americans Not For Saudi Stusents

Some people celebrate in Halloween holidays but others do not. In Saudi Arabia we only have two holidays. The first one is al-feter holiday and another one is al-hajj holiday. Both of them are about the happiness. We don’t celebrate in respect of dead people because the celebrations in respect of dead people are forbidden in Islam. We celebrate in al-feter holiday and al-hajj holiday after we finish with our worships in special times in the years. I used to work during these two holidays when I was in Saudi Arabia because their times are the best times in the year for my family trade. The people in Saudi Arabia including my fimily members always have fun in these holidays. They invite each others, eat special food, and prepare special cookies. Halloween is a good holiday for American trade because it refreshes the demands on some products. I have never celebrated in any Halloween holiday, and I will not. Because I think dressing up in costumes is silly and some of my American friends think that, too. I don’t believe in ghost and I think the respect of dead people in the people hearts not by the celebrations. I am not a religious person but I don’t celebrate in Halloween holyday.Although Halloween Is a big holiday In Amirica, the SaudI students who study in U.S do not celebrate it.

Love Enhances Life

I am falling in love. I used to love one girl from Syria when I was 16 years old. She was my way to see life, but we gave up because her Family didn’t want her to be far away with me in Saudi Arabia .After that I tried to forget her by using many different ways to find a new love who can recover her place. I tried online dating sites, chatting rooms, and meeting new girls but I failed. Therefore, I decided to continue my life without love. After I made this decision, my love came back to me. Now we make all the decisions together.And we are on our way to secsess. I hope to finish my studding quickly and go back home to get married with her. I think love happen only one time in the life. Therefore, my advice to who fell in love to maintain their relationship and to not give up.

Mansho's Last Vacation

In my last vacation CESl gave me only five days for rest. In the beginning I thought that the five days were not enough to rest and enjoy, but after I went through this short time vacation I have had a good time. In the first day of my vacation after I finished the TOFAL test I went to my friend Apartment, which I haven’t been in for two months. We drank and spoke about our doing when I used to be his next-door neighbor. He reminded me the first four months, That I have lived in Carbondale, How my language was very poor,and how it has been improved ;Therefore, it was a good day after a long test.The next two days in my vacation were good, too. I cooked, rememorize some wards, listened to some music of my best singer's New CD, and spoke with my family members. Next, in the fourth day in my vacation I invited all my American friends who asked me to cook for them to eat Arabic food. We ate, drank, and spoke. Finally, the last day in my vacation I went to Illinois driver license office, took the test, got my driver license and drove the first time in Carbondale safely without being concerned by the police to not pull me over. It was a short vacation, but I enjoyed it.

Lucid dreaming

According to Pamela Hartmann (n.d.) in her article, "Lucid dreaming", lucid dreaming means consciously aware while a person is dreaming. At that time, they can participate in the events and emotions of the dream by character experiencing , observing and watching, directing and creating. Patricia Garfield, who wrote "Creative Dreaming", said that a lucid dreamer would have unbelievable freedom through the lucid dream. Also Stephen LaBerge, at the Standford University Sleep Lab, has developed a method called the MILD technique. MILD technique is waking up from a dream, imaging yourself, seeing yourself, and telling yourself. He claims that by using the MILD technique, he was able to have lucid dream on any night he wished. The way to gain access to your dream is to place a notebook or diary on your nightstand or under your pillow. Secondly, don't open your eyes immediately when you wake up. Third, lie and try to recall any imagery. Next, think about its ABCD order, ABCD means that D is any specific image, C is the event or activity that preceded it, B is what preceded that, and A is what preceded that. Lastly, describe the dream. Pamela Hartmann says that as we begin to experience this, our dream journal will achieve a special place in our life.

Making Dreams Work For Us

In the article "Dreams: making them work for us," the author states how to make dreams work for dreamers. First, Joseph dreams bad dream for a long time. He was exhausted in the morning by this dream. Second, Milton Kramer considers that people should pay attention to their dreams and try to change the bad dreams. Third, changing our dream requires recalling the dream by using several steps. Next, Dr. Rosalind Cartwright has created another approach that can help people to change their dreams. Finally, Joseph could change his bad dream by using dream therapy.

what is a dream

In the article "What is a Dream?" the author mentions what the people think about dreams in the past, and the scientists' attempts to interpret what the dreams are. First, our ancestors didn’t pay attention to what the dreams were, but they thought that they were important to the individual's feeling and bodily contentment. Not only that, but they thought that god had sent to them message by dreams. Second, in the twentieth century was the beginning of dream studies that made people believes that the dreams illustrated something in their personality. Third, Freud was the first person studied dreams by his wish-fulfillment theory and his book The Interpretation of Dreams. He assumed that the person expressed his wishes and frights in dreams because they were improper in actual life. Third, in balance theory" To Become Popular" by Carl Jung's. Jung viewed that the person contacted with his wishes by dreams. Next, William Domhoff assumed that there were relationships between the dreams and the person's age, sex, society, waking activities, and believes, compared the dreams between the adults with the children and the women with the men, and noted the similarity and the difference between people from 11 cultures. Finally, the author mentions that it is very hard to know the meaning of dreams and the agreement between who study.

using computer for shopping is better

The computer makes us do many things more easily. These days, you can buy almost every things by the computer. First, you can buy books from sites like Amazon cheaper than in book stores. Second, if you want to buy clothing you could go shopping in your home without changing your regular day, and without spending a lot of time walking from one store to another store. Also, by the computer you can buy electronic products before they start to be in the electronic stores. Not only that , but you could buy video games from the internet before they would be in video game stores. Finally, you can choose the cheapest travel agency to travel with by the internet. These days the smartest way to buy things is by using computer.    

The Differences between Saudi Society and American Society

There are many differences between the societies all over the world. These differences are consequence of religions, old customs, the value of freedom and development in the societies. Therefore, people's behavior in certain societies is different than other people's behavior in other societies. Saudi people's methods are bonded by Islamic religion instructions and very old customs. Therefore, Saudi people's methods are different than American people methods, which depend completely on development and freedom. These differences contain three results. Saudi society is more collectivist than the American society, Saudi society has higher power distance than American society and the Saudi society has stronger uncertainty avoidance than American society.

Collectivism in Saudi society is more important than it is in the American society. First, Saudi people prefer group activities; they prefer doing work in the companies with a group to doing it alone. In contrast, American people prefer doing their activities alone. For example, they prefer financing a business instead of getting other people to invest in it. Second, Saudi people think of themselves as "members of a group" so that all people in Saudi Arabia work together to make things happen for each other; they wouldn’t be jealous if another person were more successful than them; they help each other even if they are in competition. This is something that you rarely observe in American society. Finally, Saudi people base decisions on the needs of the group. They never have made decisions based on the benefits of only few in the group, but American people base decisions individually. American people are more individual than Saudi people.

The lack of the development which Saudi Arabia has, and the consideration to keep the old customs has made Saudi society have higher power distance than American society. First, in the Saudi house the man has the first and the final words. The woman cannot make any decision without the approval from the man, and the man always makes the important decisions without sharing them with the women. On the other hand, the man and the woman share with each other to make the important decisions in the American house. Second, at work, Saudi people expect the boss to make all the decisions, and all they do is the achieving. In contrast, at work in American companies there is not as much difference between people of high and low status. The boss listens to people at all levels in the company too. Finally, in the Saudi society the relationship between the old generation and the new generation is strong, so if you were 40 years old and your father asked you to do something you would do it, even if it were without benefit. On the other hand, the relationship between the old generation and the new generation is weak; therefore, the people in the new generation make their decision without taking advice from the old generation. American society eliminates the buffer of the hierarchy, but Saudi society still has it.

Saudi society is close minded; therefore, their uncertainty avoidance is stronger than American society which is open minded. First, Saudi people try to avoid the unknown. For example, the employees in the company are always against any change in the company procedures which they work in, while American company employees are more open to changes. Second, Saudi people are more emotional than American people. For example, the emotions are the most important things at work in Saudi society, so Saudi people never work devotedly without having good relations exist between them and the mangers in their work. However, in American society the most important thing at work is the work itself. They never let the relationship between them and their mangers affect strongly on their work. Finally, Saudi people tend to like having many rules. For example, at work if there were not many rules, they would not achieve, come to work on time and leave on time, so the employer could put a lot of rules to actualizing his work. In the other hand, American employees prefer less rules and more freedom in their work to achieve efficiently. American people have weaker uncertainty avoidance than Saudi people do.

Collectivism, power distance and uncertainty avoidance are higher in Saudi society than they are in American society. That exhibits the disadvantages which Saudi organizations should start to get rid of, and exhibits the advantages which Saudi organizations should keep and develop. With The development of the global economy and the advances in the technology Saudi Arabia cannot afford to resist change and America must come together and work as one. If there were more collaboration and understanding between the societies of the world, and there were even plans for countries throughout the world to share their experiences, the people would be much happier.

Bargain before buying

In my country people always negotiate. Houses, cars, and lands are the first things we negotiate for. Food and clothes are the second thing we negotiate for. In my country I used to bargain to buy some land for may father, and buy some used cars for my family's restaurant chain. Not only that, but when I was working in my family's restaurant chain, I have faced many customers bargaining with me. Therefore, I am good in bargaining because of my special strategies. Frst, do not show your craving or desiring of the products. second, before deciding to buy any products go around and observe the costs of the similar products. third, decide how much you want to pay. Next, offer a price which is as much below what you have decided to pay, as the seller's price is above it. Finally, go back and forth with the sellers until they accept your price. you should bargain in my country to have a good price.

some time business is a gamble

People always try to start in business to increase their incomes; some of them take loans to start, and others spend all the money which they have saved through of their live. Therefore, they should choose good cities to start a strong business in. Carbondale is one of the cities which some people have started a small business in. They may forget that starting business in Carbondale contains three dangers. The number of Carbondale people is not comforting; the geographic location of Carbondale is not strategic, and the competition with the big store in Carbondale would be difficult.

The people who live in Carbondale are about 40,000, and this number of people is not encouraging at all. First of all, this number of people in Carbondale makes the people close to each other. Therefore, if you make mistake with one customer, a lot of people in Carbondale would likely know about it; therefore, this would negatively affect you in your trade by losing more than one customer. Second, 20,000 of Carbondale people are students, and the students never have much money to buy from the stores. Finally, the people who are not students in Carbondale have simple jobs, so they have small mount incomes which they use some of them for the important products. The number of people in Carbondale is not enough to start your business in it.

Carbondale, which is located in southern Illinois, has a bad geographic location to start a new business in. First, it is not a tourist city, so your dependence would be on local people. Therefore, you could lose the opportunity of tourist customers. Second, the weather in Carbondale is bad for business. The winter in Carbondale is seven months, so the sky is still snowing for five months, which could have negative effects on your trade. Not only that, but in the summer, which is three months in Carbondale, all the students could leave because of the high temperature, so almost half of your customers would have left during these three summer months. Finally, Carbondale is next to big cities like Chicago, St.Louis and Memphis. Therefore, your potential customers would prefer traveling to them one or two times a year to buy long term products for the year instead of buying from your store. Carbondale's geographic location makes it bad for starting a business in it.

Starting business in Carbondale requires strong competition. First, big stores like Wal-Mart and Kroger will be your competitors. The big stores like them have more ability in the product discounts than small stores, by using their big warehouses to store plenty of products after buying them with cheaper prices because of the big amount. Second, Carbondale is very small so the good business would be noticed; therefore, you would have many potential competitors with a small number of people. Finally, people always trust big stores more than small stores. They sometimes prefer buying products, which the small stores have, from big stores at same price than buying them from small stores next to them because they think they are cheaper. The competition in Carbondale would put you in a critical position.

Business in Carbondale is not a good idea, because of the number of the people, the geographic location and the strong competition. If you want to take a gamble do it. Some people in the world love the adventures, but they try to study them well before will have started, so if they are would be unsuccessful they, avoid them. And business in Carbondale is an unsuccessful adventure; so think about your luck.