...Suasana kebun anggrek di Kebun Raya Bogor hari ini tampak sepi. Lembab, sejuk, basah, menjadi atmosfer khas yang menyambut Vanilla saat melangkahkan kaki melewati gerbang masuk kebun tersebut. Sembari menyusuri jalan setapak, ia melihat beragam jenis anggrek yang sedang mekar di kanan-kiri. Indah sekali dengan warna-warni semarak, merah, kuning, ungu, putih. Begitu menggoda hati dan ingin memetiknya. Namun, ia tahu hal itu dilarang. Vanilla tersenyum sendiri. Ia menyusuri jembatan kecil yang di bawahnya terdapat kolam dengan air jernih dan air mancur kecil. Gemericik suaranya terdengar menyenangkan dan damai. Di ujung jembatan, Vanilla melihat Mizar berdiri tersenyum dengan sebuket bunga berwarna kuning muda kehijauan. Vanilla beranjak mendekat. Senyumnya mengembang melihat Mizar yang begitu tampan meski berpenampilan kasual mengenakan celana jeans dan kemeja putih. Ah, bukankah pria itu memang selalu terlihat tampan? "Ini bunga vanilla. Ternyata ada banyak ditanam di kebun anggrek ini." Mizar mengulurkan tangan, memberikan buket bunga. Mata Vanilla terbelalak. "Zar, dilarang memetik anggrek di sini!" bisiknya panik. Ia urung menerima. Mizar tertawa kecil. Kerlingan matanya menunjukkan sifat jahil seperti biasa. "Jangan sampai ketahuan penjaga! Khusus untuk kamu hari ini. Happy Birthday, Darling..." Ragu-ragu, Vanilla hendak menerima bunga pemberian Mizar yang memiliki nama yang sama dengan dirinya itu. Tepat saat itu, ia merasakan ponselnya bergetar. Seseorang menelepon...
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...him and a beautiful girl running towards him. Conversation starts, yet his negative attitude remains when he thinks to himself sarcastically “as if dogs routinely piss on my wardrobe” (Boyle 308). The beautiful young girl named Alena invites him over to repay the debt and the adventure begins from there. After quitting his job, Jim finds himself a newly proclaimed animal activist. From screaming murder on the street at those who wear furs, getting cold cocked, and committing crimes including breaking and entering, and theft, Jim has become a completely opposite person from the meat eating, loner he was just days before....
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...this day because it had been raining for two weeks and this was the first sunny day yet. As an average 10 year old, I was thrilled to see what kind of mischief I could get myself into on such a beautiful day. Little did I know what events were about to unfold on this day. I called my next-door neighbor Alena to go play. I quickly grabbed got ready and sprinted across the street to her house. She met me at the front door, beaming with excitement. “You ready?” I asked. “Yeah, but lets go tell Mom.” She replied. So we walked into the kitchen and explained what we had planned for the day to her mother. Alena lives beside a church on a Christmas tree farm that her family owns and operates, so...
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...but she goes out occasionally if it stinks that she actually needs. My mother is a very independent woman she likes to keep to herself and very private. My mother is very organized and focus and determine she never lets anything get in the way of whatever that is and she doesn't go and make sure everything can run is according to plan. I do think that both of them are very different in their ways. #2. If I were to compare two of my closest friends I would have to pick Alena and Afeila. The reason why I think I would pick these two are because they have the most similarities. Alena is the nicest and caring person you will meet you is up front with you with no fake surprises. She is a very determined individual and she is a very good mother and student. She's always working hard trying to reach your goals and accomplishments that she set for herself. Afeila is also the most down-to-earth person that you'll ever meet and she is a wonderful mother and focused individual. She is very spiritual and so is Alena. I feel like anything I say about one of them it goes for both of them in my eyes. They are both mother's, very good listeners and are always there when you...
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...The N Lackawanna Blues deals with chapter 12, The centerpiece of Lackawanna Blues is the character Rachel "Nanny" Crosby, who runs a boardinghouse and provides unflagging support to a young boy, Ruben, who is the narrator of the movie that is based upon the experiences of actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Ruben was born in 1956 to his Puerto Rican father Ruben Santiago and his African-American mother Alena Hudson. This movie is an American play written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson that premiered in 2001 and was later adapted as a television movie that aired in 2005. The movie dramatizes the character of the author's primary caregiver when he was growing up in Lackawanna, New York, during the 1950s and 1960s. Lackawanna Blues movie recreates the upstate New York boardinghouse and evokes the cultural climate of a world in transition in the 1960s. This means that within the segregation-era Lackawanna, NY, Rachel "Nanny" Crosby is being an incredible woman whose...
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...Organism Physiology Paper Sarah Szafranski BIO / 101 6/26/2013 Alena Aviles There are many organisms that have survived throughout the history of the earth by adapting to ever-changing environments. One of these, dating back over 220 million years, is the turtle. With over 250 different species still around, this reptile has established a legacy of perseverance and resiliency. They have overcome numerous adversities such as earthquakes, floods, fire, droughts, predators, disease, and urban sprawl. Turtles can be found in every ecosystem spanning the globe from the tropics, the desert, to the ocean. While turtles have been known to predominantly live in the water, they have adapted to conditions on land. Their species have evolved over the years through breeding and acclimation to their environment. This evolution includes changes to their physical characteristics such as shells, shapes, and color, but also incorporates psychological changes such as breeding habits, defensive tactics and migration patterns. My favorite of these would be the majestic sea turtle. Sea turtles can be found in just about every sea throughout the world regardless of fresh water, salt water, light water, or brackish water. As seaworthy as they are, sea turtles still have a strong tie to land and coastal habitats. As seen in the diagram below, the sea turtle has many of the same organs and functions of other mammals however; their bodies are shaped hydrodynamic, meaning...
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...“JOB”? There are many people out there who have worked at McDonald’s, Burger King, or in the oil field. These jobs aren’t careers to most of these fellow workers. Then there are some people out there who have had more than one career. This pretty girl right here is one of those people. B. Adriella Ramirez is far away from her home, she enjoys time with her family, and is a hard working woman. II. Body A. Adriella is far away from home 1. She is originally from San Antonio, Texas. 2. She moved to West Texas because her fiancé is an oilfield electrician. Body B. She enjoys spending time with her family 1. She has three kids , two boys and one girl. Mika is ten years old, Mathew is seven years old, and Alena is five years old. 2. Adriella enjoys barbecuing, going to the movies to watch comedies, and shopping with her family. Body C. She is a hard working woman 1. Adriella graduated in 2002 as a Medical Assistant from Texas Careers in San Antonio 2. She has worked with a cardiologist, a pediatric gastroenterologist, and at a chiropractic clinic. She is now majoring in physical therapy. III. Conclusion A. Adriella is pursuing her dreams even though she is far away from home, she enjoys quality time with her family, and loves working hard. B. Adriella is someone who has had more than one career and it just wasn’t enough for her. People go through many different jobs trying to figure out what they want to...
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...My first visit to Columbus was one summer while I was in still in high school. My brother Ernest Williams made arrangements for me to stay in the home of Bro. Marvin and Sis. Essie Thompson. They were affectionately called Mama and Pawpaw. I was not saved at the time, but those two saints impacted my life for eternity. Mama and Pawpaw treated me like a daughter, and all of their children treated me like family. Mama taught me how to cook and she molded the traits of a good wife and mother. Being in their home helped me understand what to expect in marriage. After high school, I returned to Columbus and 1403 Eastwood Avenue where the Thompsons lived. Many young people who came to Columbus for school, and servicemen stationed at Rickenbacker...
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...Potential Investor /Business Summary (American Project Management/APM) Alena Savoy Bus/211 Mark Hardee July, 13 2015 1.0 Executive Summary By focusing on its strengths, its key customers, and the underlying values they need, American Project Management will produce sales to more than $1million in three years, while also improving the gross margin on sales and cash management and working capital. This business plan leads the way. It creates our vision and strategic focus: displays value to our target market, the small business and high-end home office customers, in our local market. It also provides the step-by-step plan for providing sales, gross margin, and profitability. This plan includes this summary, and chapters on the company, products and services, market focus, action plans and forecasts, management team, and financial plan. 1.1 Objectives 1. Sales more than $1 million by the third year. 2. Sell $1 million of project planning and project implementation service, support, and training by 2019. 3. Sell service, project maintenance tools and outsource contracted staff to support plans based on customer needs and custom plan offers. 1.2 Mission APM is built on the assumption that the management of large and small projects for business is like legal advice, accounting, graphic arts, and other bodies of knowledge, in that it is not inherently a do-it-yourself prospect. Smart business people who aren't project specialist need to find quality vendors of reliable...
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...I saw Natalie, Sam, Ann, Alena, and many other friendly faces right away. I surprisingly found my way to the bathroom and changed into my bright orange shirt. We practiced in the gym and cafeteria a little bit until the parents arrived. My anxiety was almost too much to handle. My hands sweating, my eyes swiveled from left to right. We started playing and I had gone through the songs so many times it was easy. As loud cheers erupted a sense of pride washed over me. Like magic, the happy feelings inside me disappeared. We still had one more song left, and it was the hardest of them all. Cotton eyed Joe. The middle school/high schoolers were amazing! I watched in awe as they flawlessly made their way through difficult songs. I searched their faces. “What! They look...
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...It seems like everyone you see nowadays is playing on their smartphone or laptop, no matter where they are. They are not working 24/7, they are playing on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, and all of their other social media websites. Because so many people are using social media today, marketers and advertisers would be smart to understand social media and how it works. Technology has been growing and changing drastically over the past decade, a shocking 94 percent of marketing executives said that they are likely to spend more on social media over the next 3 years (Burton, 2011, p. 491). This shows that many marketers agree that social media is important for their business, but it is important to understand why. Some people might think you can still depend on television commercials or magazine pages for advertisements, but the truth is that the internet is a huge part of our lives now and it deals with everything we do every day. Also in the past decade, the old version of the internet has completely transformed due to the introduction of social media. The internet has turned into “an interactive and multidimensional Web”; now instead of just being for information, it is also used for influence the costumer (Simula, 2013, p. 124). The reason this is important is because it shows why the internet is so influential on our daily lives and why marketing executives should remember that. A lot of the research shows that social media is becoming more and more popular, and...
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...Exercises 11 and 16 Alena Coleman 11 1) The measured demographic variables would be age, income, length of labor, return to work, and number of hours worked each week. These categories provide defined values that can be used to obtain set intervals. 2) The statistics used to describe the length of labor were the N (number or value), Mean and Standard Deviation. Yes, these are appropriate as hours worked are a defined set value with no obvious margin of error. 3) Another statistic that could have been used is the Median which describes the middle of the ordered value set, however to me this is not the best choice. 4) The score distribution for the experimental and control groups for length of labor are similar. There is not a significant difference in the described hours to change the outcome of the study. 5) Both the experimental and control group were similar for the types of feeding. For both bottle and breast, both had the same value of (2) and the remaining categories were very close in values. 6) In comparing the marital status mode between the experimental and control groups, the majority of women in both groups were married with a frequency of 25 and 78.1 percent in the experimental and frequency of 31 and 86.1 percent in the control. 7) Median values can be obtained from the education categories for both groups. This would be the mid-range value of Some College. The experimental group has a median of 11 and the control group has a median of 15. 8)...
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...Alena Cabeen 11/1/15 CSI Reflection Beginning my college career as a student here at UNOH has been a great experience this far. I chose UNOH with the sole purpose of obtaining two different degrees. I want my associates in travel and hospitality, with a bachelors in marketing. My ultimate goal is to own my own event planning company in Atlanta, Georgia. Completing the coursework and required curriculum will help me to gain the knowledge about my fields and will give me the best chance to obtain the work I want in my career field. A university degree in travel and marketing means that I will have the proper knowledge and training in my area of study to help me excel in my chosen field. I will learn through my years of college about many things that are important. I will gain knowledge about how to properly help plan events such as weddings, and running a business . There are several bonuses to receiving this degree and it will help me to succeed in many ways. It will make me more marketable in my field and more desired by major clients. The overall personal meaning of a degree to me is that I will be able to prove to myself that I worked hard, stayed the course and did the work required to reach my goal of achieving a higher education and to ultimately map out where I want to be in the future. Secondly, earning a degree will have many benefits to me professionally. It means that I will take the material that I have learned and utilize it to transform me into an outstanding...
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...6) How did two major conflicts, the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) and the Russo-Japanese War a decade later, influence Western perceptions of Japan and Asia? The Sino-Japanese War from 1894-1895 and the Russo-Japanese War a decade later were monumental events in the history of Asia and its ripples were felt in the Western world. In the Sino-Japanese War, the Western world witnessed the fruits of Meiji Japan’s modernization program, its modern military, routed the Chinese hitherto the dominant Asian power. Japan’s victory defeat of Russia became a significant milestone in modern history, marking the first major modern conflict where an Asian nation had defeated an European power. As such, this study seeks to present in detail the changes in Western perception towards Japan, as it became a modern military power and its image of the Asian people in the aftermath of both events. Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) The outcome of the Sino-Japanese War meant that Japan had successfully displaced Qing China as the dominant power in East Asia, marking a remarkable shift from millennia old power arrangements in the region centered on China. This turn of events did not escape Western observations and led to Japan being recognized as the dominant Asian power. According to the historian Sarah Paine, ‘Before the war, the most widespread Western image of Japan was undoubtedly provided by William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, the famous operetta duo. The year 1885 marked the premiere of what...
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...Organism Physiology Paper Sarah Szafranski BIO / 101 6/26/2013 Alena Aviles There are many organisms that have survived throughout the history of the earth by adapting to ever-changing environments. One of these, dating back over 220 million years, is the turtle. With over 250 different species still around, this reptile has established a legacy of perseverance and resiliency. They have overcome numerous adversities such as earthquakes, floods, fire, droughts, predators, disease, and urban sprawl. Turtles can be found in every ecosystem spanning the globe from the tropics, the desert, to the ocean. While turtles have been known to predominantly live in the water, they have adapted to conditions on land. Their species have evolved over the years through breeding and acclimation to their environment. This evolution includes changes to their physical characteristics such as shells, shapes, and color, but also incorporates psychological changes such as breeding habits, defensive tactics and migration patterns. My favorite of these would be the majestic sea turtle. Sea turtles can be found in just about every sea throughout the world regardless of fresh water, salt water, light water, or brackish water. As seaworthy as they are, sea turtles still have a strong tie to land and coastal habitats. As seen in the diagram below, the sea turtle has many of the same organs and functions of other mammals however; their bodies are shaped hydrodynamic, meaning that they can...
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