Shyness

Shyness (also called diffidence) is the feeling of apprehension, lack of comfort, or awkwardness especially when a person is in proximity to other people. This commonly occurs in new situations or with unfamiliar people. Shyness can be a characteristic of people who have low self-esteem. Stronger forms of shyness are usually referred to as social anxiety or social phobia.

The primary defining characteristic of shyness is a largely ego-driven fear of what other people will think of a person's behavior. This results in a person becoming scared of doing or saying what he or she wants to out of fear of negative reactions, being laughed at or humiliated, criticism, and/or rejection. A shy person may simply opt to avoid social situations instead.

One important aspect of shyness is social skills development. Schools and parents may implicitly assume children are fully capable of effective social interaction. Social skills training is not given any priority (unlike reading and writing) and as a result, shy students are not given an opportunity to develop their ability to participate in class and interact with peers. Teachers can model social skills and ask questions in a less direct and intimidating manner in order to gently encourage shy students to speak up in class, and make friends with other children.

Soft hyphen

In computing and typesetting, a soft hyphen (ISO 8859: 0xAD, Unicode U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN, HTML: ­ ­) or syllable hyphen (EBCDIC: 0xCA), abbreviated SHY, is a code point reserved in some coded character sets for the purpose of breaking words across lines by inserting visible hyphens. Two alternative ways of using the soft-hyphen character for this purpose have emerged, depending on whether the encoded text will be broken into lines by its recipient, or has already been preformatted by its originator.

Text to be formatted by the recipient

The use of SHY characters in text that will be broken into lines by the recipient is the application context considered by the post-1999 HTML and Unicode specifications, as well as some word-processing file formats. In this context, the soft hyphen may also be called a discretionary hyphen or optional hyphen. It serves as an invisible marker used to specify a place in text where a hyphenated break is allowed without forcing a line break in an inconvenient place if the text is re-flowed. It becomes visible only after word wrapping at the end of a line. The soft hyphen's Unicode semantics and HTML implementation are in many ways similar to Unicode's zero-width space.

Shy (disambiguation)

Shy is the adjective describing a person who demonstrates shyness.

Shy or SHY may also refer to:

  • IATA airport code for Shinyanga Airport
  • Shy (company), an Italian women's shoe brand
  • Soft hyphen (HTML character entity ­), an indication of an optional hyphenation point in a word
  • iShares Barclays 1-3 Year Treasury Bond, an exchange-traded fund with ticker symbol SHY
  • SHY, an ICAO code for Sky Airlines
  • Christopher Shy, freelance fantasy and science fiction artist
  • Shy, also called a throw-in in association football.
  • Shy Keenan, an author, child sexual abuse survivor, and founder of Phoenix Survivors
  • Shy (band), a British classic rock band
  • SHY, real name Mark Scott, member of the Scottish rapper and songwriter duo SHY & DRS
  • "Shy", a song by Prince from The Gold Experience
  • "Shy", a 2000 song from Sonata Arctica's albums Successor and Takatalvi
  • Elan

    Elan or Élan may refer to:

    Real or fictional people

  • Elan Atias, American singer-songwriter
  • Elán (musician), Mexican singer
  • Elan (Order of the Stick), a character in the webcomic The Order of the Stick
  • The poets of Elan, a group of Ecuadorian poets
  • Elan Morin Tedronai, the true name of Ishamael in Robert Jordan's fictional series The Wheel of Time
  • Places

  • Élan, Ardennes, a commune of the Ardennes département in France
  • Elan Valley, a valley in Wales
  • Élan School, a private boarding school in Poland, Maine
  • Companies and brands

  • Elan (company), a Slovenian sports equipment company
  • Élan, a drug firm based in Athlone, County Roscommon, Ireland
  • Élan Motorsport Technologies, a race car manufacturing consortium based in the United States
  • Elan Group Ltd, a Manpower Inc. company in the UK
  • Elan Financial Services, a credit card issuer owned by U.S. Bancorp
  • ELAN Microelectronics Corp., a Taiwanese manufacturer of microcontrollers
  • Brands

  • Kia Elan, car model
  • Lotus Elan, a car model
  • Elan (snowmobile), a model of snowmobile made by Skidoo
  • Elan (Publication)

    Elan the magazine is an online lifestyle publication, focused on global youth culture, sharing the stories of remarkable young professionals empowering their communities, enlightening their peers and inspiring those around them. Covering a variety of topics from business and architecture to fashion and culture, Elan also includes inspiring profiles of prominent voices around the world. Based in New York City, the online publication has more than 50,000 visitors per month and is growing rapidly.

    History

    Founded in 2008 by Moniza Khokhar, Elan first appeared in print and then went online in 2009. Elan’s strives to cover global culture in a way that has not been done before. By highlighting the community in regards to culture, business, travel, humor, high profile people, and mainstream news the publication has succeeded in staying away from stereotypical political issues that tend to drown out these other fascinating stories. Content is youth and forward focused, making it a positive voice about culture and being a modern Muslim in the world today. This unique approach has led the publication to being the dominant voice it is regarded as today.

    Elán (musician)

    Elán DeFan (born March 1, 1983 in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico) is a recording artist, known for being one of the first Latin American female songwriters to begin her career with an English language album written completely on her own and the first independent artist from Latin America to have sold more than 1.7 millions copies of her music with her band which is also named ELAN, made up of Elán, lead vocalist and keyboard player, Jan Carlo DeFan, lead guitarist, co-producer and Elán's brother, childhood friend and bass player Carlos Padilla Maqueo, and younger cousin and drummer Michel "Cheech" Bitar DeFan and Mauricio "The Duck" Lopez.

    Elán reveals an assortment of music that has been influenced by many artists like Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, John Lennon, Melissa Etheridge, and a few other notable influences. Elán had a notable success with albums like Street Child and London Express. So far, she released six albums: five in English and one in Spanish.

    Career

    Early days

    Elán was born March 1, 1983 in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco. Her love for music was noticed by her mother at a very young age. "One day, she just climbed up on the bench and started to play; that was the moment where it all began. She was three..." recalls her mother. At age 4, Elán starts writing her first songs and her father starts to record her songs in their makeshift-home studio. "She was always very determined in her writing even at such young age." Jan Carlo recalls. At age 10 Elán starts to perform at private parties and theatres. At age 13 Elán started recordings with a major record label, Warner Music Group in Mexico.

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    Try To Make It

    by: Sloan

    Got your invitation
    Bless your heart, you're good to call
    Another night on the town
    With everyone around
    Doesn't seem that fun at all
    Since we're very important
    People, we can skip the line
    I can do you one better
    We'll skip it all together
    And the pleasure will be mine
    But I'll try to make it
    Hope I can make it
    Try to make it now
    Hope I can make it
    You said you would meet me
    If I'm halfway interested
    I'd be upset if you waited
    Frankly, stunned if I made it
    I insist you go ahead
    I mean to be gracious
    But I feel put on the spot
    If I'm not acting excited
    That I was invited
    It's because I'm kinda not
    But I'll try to make
    Hope I can make it
    Try to make it now
    Hope I can make it
    Notice I'm under
    House arrest that's self-imposed
    Started to wonder
    What we do behind doors when they're closed
    Try to make it now
    Hope you can make it
    Sent an invitation
    I left it stuck up on your door
    Cause when I need you, you're there
    If you come over, I swear
    I won't be stuck up anymore
    I've come to my senses
    I was blind, but now I see
    Down go my defenses
    I'm begging you to spend your time with me
    Try to make it now
    Hope you can make it
    Try to make it now
    Hope you can make it
    Try to make it now
    Hope you can make it
    Try to make it now
    Hope you can make it




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