The song is a powerful cry of self-affirmation in which Jo tells herself that she is going to be, pure and simple, the very best.
In the late 1940s, Hubbard wrote a series of private Affirmations in which he tells himself "your eyes are getting progressively better.
Brokers have been told that they must retain every form for three years, including "affirmation" forms, in which an agent states that although he or she has presented a disclosure form to a client, the client has refused to sign it.
Pressure for a more-independent structure persisted until 2009, when the U.S. government signed the Affirmation of Commitments, in which it relinquished its sole right to annual reviews of ICANN and took only one seat on ICANN's board, along with representatives of 11 other countries.
According to Lev Gudkov, a sociologist and the director of the Levada Center, a polling and research organization in Moscow, Brezhnev introduced a "pompous and ceremonial" official history of the war, as an "affirmation of nationalist values," in which the state was all powerful and victory was "presented as the realization of a single plan of the Communist Party".
So began a brief journey through the Taliban's shifting tactics and the vagaries of war, where an experience at the edge of death became instead an affirmation of friendship, and in which a veteran Marine reluctantly assumed for a morning one of the infantry's most coveted roles: that of the charmed man.
Hell, he even agreed to donate his most cherished Vibraphone to the Smithsonian museum, a meaningful affirmation of the way in which he and his favorite instrument were almost synonymous.
We could quite easily dismiss these thoughts as French bollocks, brush them aside and pen great tales of authenticity and individual affirmation, even as the sands in which we'd need to bury our heads in order to do so are being blown away.
The interpenetration of emptiness and phenomena is an affirmation of the changing world in which we live.
Also in this way, paradoxically (from the critical position of the structure human beings' dignity) we are lead to its affirmation, in a form which partly appears in systems for the protection of human rights – with the system of the Council of Europe at the fore of this – which should represent the aim of Member States (Pinker 2008).
