...Megan Wyckoff English 101 Mrs. Sarnoski January 27th 2014 Descriptive Essay Everybody in the world has a place where they can go to relax. Where they can forget about all their worries and just breathe in some fresh air and not have to think about what needs to be done and when. To many, the beach is the ultimate place for relaxation. As you stroll along the beach you can feel the sand in your feet and the waves hitting your legs. Under the surface you can feel your feet step on little seashells as you walk. When building a sandcastle the sand sifts right through your hands. Walking on the boardwalk there are too many smells to remember them all. The smell of the ocean salt is the most prominent. The smell of French fries, and Fresh popped popcorn fill the streets. What you see when your visiting the beach is simply amazing. Watching all the little children run around in the waves and building sandcastles. Adults are rubbing sunscreen all over themselves and their children. The waves crashing down out in the ocean are breathtaking. If you’re lucky you may even be able to see dolphins swimming in and out of the water. The beach is just one of the world most relaxing destinations. Whether you’re in Ocean City, New Jersey or The Dominican Republic. What you see, touch, and feel when you’re at the beach will be forever unforgettable. To me, the beach is the best place on...
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...influences on modern artists were tacitly acknowledged in post-World War II France, which coincided with the discovery of the Lascaux Cave in 1940 and its opening to the public in 1948. Cardinal (2004) makes a case that the French painters and print-makers, Pierre Tal Coat, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, and others were all influenced by the widely circulated popular images of Lascaux reprinted in newspapers and magazines at the time. Prehistoric cave art continues to capture our imagination, and despite its antiquity, reflects a style similar to many in the Western pictorial tradition, which may partially explain the reason we are still fascinated by these cave paintings today (Rosengren 2012). ...
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...Every state on this planet endeavors to develop and make its citizens live a life that is as improved as possible. In order to achieve this endeavor, every state requires some form of guidance. This form of guidance that will lead to an action of improving the lives of people is basically one of the elements contained in a known as public policy. In this vain, this essay is an attempt to define the term policy using examples from education. Furthermore, it will explain why it is necessary that each sphere of public life be enshrined in a public policy. The term Policy is not a precise term. Unfortunately, the term policy is something which takes different forms. There is push to designate policy as the ‘outputs’ of the political system, and in a lesser degree to define public policy as more or less like interdependent policies dealing with many different activities. Studies of public policy areas, on the centrally, have tended to focus on the evaluation of policy decisions in terms of specified values, that is, a rational rather than a political analysis. The magnitude of this problem can be recognized from the other definitions, which have been advanced by scholars in this field. To start with, Policy refers to those plans, positions and guidelines of government which influence decisions by government (e.g., policies in support of sustainable economic development or policies to enhance access to government services by persons with disabilities). In other words, policy is an...
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...they were not entirely happy. So, they said, they would rather go to Normal School and begin teaching as soon as possible, than to plod out to Reserve for another four years of drudgery. This heresy was a shock to Charles. With the greatest delight he had watched his daughters studying at the dining room table under the green-shaded student lamp which he had bought for them. Absorbed in their studies and delighting in the solution of the difficult points in their homework, they had seemed to him a very happy pair; they literally had to be driven to bed if their work was not finished, for there was a rule that by nine-thirty the studying must be over, and by ten o’clock the children must be in bed. During the half hour between, they ate a little lunch, milk with crackers or cookies, and chattered with Susan and Charles about the events of the day. So this attitude on their part was a blow to Charles and Susan. They wanted their children to live wholesome normal lives, and here were their young daughters, suffering disillusion and defeat before they were out of high school. They decided to find out what was wrong, and they very soon did. The girls told them that when the Senior Class was organized, and its activities under way, they realized with shock and confusion that they were considered different from their classmates; they were being gently but firmly set apart, and had become self-conscious about it. They knew that if they went to Reserve this state of affairs would continue...
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...therefore anxious not to lose the benefit of this favourable association, and to edge in a few words under cover of the attention which Mr. Besant is sure to have excited. There is something very encouraging in his having put into form certain of his ideas on the mystery of story-telling. It is a proof of life and curiosity--curiosity on the part of the brotherhood of novelists, as well as on the part of their readers. Only a short time ago it might have been supposed that the English novel was not what the French call discutable. It had no air of having a theory, a conviction, a consciousness of itself behind it-of being the expression of an artistic faith, the result of choice and comparison. I do not say it was necessarily the worse for that; it would take much more courage than I possess to intimate that the form of the novel, as Dickens and Thackeray (for instance) saw it had any taint of incompleteness. It was, however, naïf (if I may help myself out with another French word); and, evidently, if it is destined to suffer in any way for having lost its naïveté it has now an idea of...
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...XXXX-XXXXX XXXXXXXXX RECOGNIZING AND ACTING ON CLINICAL DETERIORATION Assignment NUR2100 Due date: April 29, 2013 Computer word count: 1,913 XXXX-XXXXX XXXXXXXXX RECOGNIZING AND ACTING ON CLINICAL DETERIORATION Introduction Nursing has always been a profession that embraces diversity towards rendering holistic patient care. However, with the constant changes in nursing practice; patient safety has been at risk due to nurse’s competence towards detecting impending patient deterioration that may lead to further complications or even death. It is said that the most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses, is to teach them what to observe (Nightingale 1969). Having the ability to observe and interpret critical situations are the essential key features applied in clinical practice. Effective observation of ward patients is the first step in identifying the deteriorating patient and effectively managing their care (Odell, Victor & Oliver 2009, p. 1993). Studies have shown that poor vital sign recording, lack of knowledge, failure to respond to abnormal signs, lack of knowledge, lack of supervision and failure to report deterioration or seek advice, have all contributed to the suboptimal care of ward patients (Odell, Victor & Oliver, cited in McGloin et al. 1999; McQuilla et al. 1998; Smith & Wood 1998; Hodgetts et al. 2002, p. 1993). With constant observation established, patient safety is implemented and surveillance is then incorporated to be able to...
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...Read Annie Dillard’s essay “The Wreck of Time.” Study her rhetorical style (diction, sentence structure,rhythm, voice, tone), the ideas she explores, and the way she puts bits of information together for a larger, philosophical purpose. In this digital age, we're confronted with numbers and statistics and information (and lies) on a daily basis. It can seem overwhelming, sometimes deadening. Select some facts/numbers/details about topics or events that reflect the wreck of the time you have inhabited this earth, and with your own purpose, craft a shorter imitation of Dillard's piece in which your attention to particulars brings some larger theme into focus. Due Nov. 8 The Wreck of Time My wrecks in time are all the wars I’ve experience over the years starting with 1961Bay of Pigs and Cuba over nuke missiles being sent to be installed in Cuba. With the cold war scare of a war with Russia and Cuba. Vietnam 1960-1975,Then to not so known Cambodian Laos wars with Pol Pot ( Khmer Rouge) Pol Pot 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998)[1][2] was a Cambodian revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge[3] from 1963 until 1997. Here is a look from 2004 about the pros and cons of war against Iraq from information available at that time. It is included here for historical purposes. The possibility of war with Iraq is a very divisive issue around the world. Turn on any news show and you will see a daily debate on the pros and cons of going to war. The following is a list of the reasons being discussed...
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...Such a weird thing, this life, she thought. She took a bite of the delicious French toast in front of her, this diner makes the best French Toast in the world. She drifted back to her thoughts, the way her life went, and how it turned out. It's full of events that she would describe as... Exciting. No, not exciting, she wasn't Excited when her friend died right in front of her eyes, they're just... Significant. yeah, that's it, each event carried a different meaning and feeling, but they were all important, they made her the woman she is. She took a deep breath in, looked at the beauty around her, and exhaled slowly. This world seems so happy, it IS so happy. Happy and beautiful. This beauty around her never fails to make her think about her life. She laid her head back, letting her eyes gaze at the blue sky, and like an old movie, her whole life flashed in front of her eyes. She misses her dad. her mom died when she was a little kid, so her dad was the only family she ever knew. SHe remembers how every Saturday they did something together, it was their day, they would go swimming, play football, or when it was way too cold outside, they would just stay home and read a book together next to the fire place. Her childhood was magical. Well, half of her childhood was magical. When she was ten, or was it eleven? the age doesn't matter. What matters is, that her dad fell madly in love. She didn't like the woman, but she was happy that her dad stopped spending hours staring at his...
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...E L James Fifty Shades Freed First published by The Writer’s Coffee Shop, 2012 Copyright © E L James, 2012 The right of E L James to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him under the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000 This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced, copied, scanned, stored in a retrieval system, recorded or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual people living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental. The Writer’s Coffee Shop (Australia) PO Box 2013 Hornsby Westfield NSW 1635 (USA) PO Box 2116 Waxahachie TX 75168 Craig, W.J., ed. “King Lear.” The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Scene 1, Act 1. New York: Random House Value Publishing: 1997. www.thewriterscoffeeshop.com/publishinghouse About the Author E L James is a TV executive, wife, and mother of two, based in West London. Since early childhood, she dreamt of writing stories that readers would fall in love with, but put those dreams on hold to focus on her family and her career. She finally plucked up the courage to put pen to paper with her first novel, Fifty Shades of Grey. E L James is currently working on a new romantic thriller with...
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...Biology Topic A: Science and fiction 9Aa Genetic information The features of an organism are called its characteristics. Our characteristics are controlled by genetic information. This information Organisms can be classified in to different species. A species contains individuals with the same physical characteristics and common ancestors. It’s a group of organisms that can reproduce with each other and produce an offspring that will also be able to reproduce. Organisms of the same species are similar but not identical. The differences that occur both between different species and within the same species are called variation. An animal that is the offspring of parents from two different species is called a hybrid, and it is unable to reproduce. When genetic information are passed on to an organism from its parents the information are said to be inherited. Most cells have a nucleus, which is a part of the cell that controls it. The nucleus contains chromosomes which are huge molecules of DNA found inside the nucleus of the cells. A chromosome consists of a string of genes. A gene carries an instruction. It’s the section of a chromosome that controls inherited characteristics of an organism and carries genetic information. Each gene is a length of DNA. DNA is a long coiled molecule which can unzip and copy itself when a cell divides. It also carries the genetic code and makes up the chromosomes. Sex cells-egg: In female the sex cells are called eggs. Eggs...
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...forgetting and Jews were abandoning their roots, the time had come to testify and justify to the world that Hitler had not succeeded. Biographical Information about the author: Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet Romania, where his memoir Night begins. In his childhood (up to the Nazi occupation of Romania) his father encouraged his study of the Torah, other Judaic texts and other literary works. As described in the beginning of Night, Elie was also curious about the realm of Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. From 1944 to 1945, Elie and his family were subjected to the Nazi terror (will be described in the plot summary section). Elie and two of his sisters, Beatrice and Hilda, survived the war and were reunited in a French orphanage after the war; the rest of his family did not survive. After the war Elie taught Hebrew before becoming a journalist and then an author. He is the...
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...E L James Fifty Shades Freed First published by The Writer’s Coffee Shop, 2012 Copyright © E L James, 2012 The right of E L James to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him under the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000 This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced, copied, scanned, stored in a retrieval system, recorded or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual people living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental. The Writer’s Coffee Shop (Australia) PO Box 2013 Hornsby Westfield NSW 1635 (USA) PO Box 2116 Waxahachie TX 75168 Craig, W.J., ed. “King Lear.” The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Scene 1, Act 1. New York: Random House Value Publishing: 1997. www.thewriterscoffeeshop.com/publishinghouse About the Author E L James is a TV executive, wife, and mother of two, based in West London. Since early childhood, she dreamt of writing stories that readers would fall in love with, but put those dreams on hold to focus on her family and her career. She finally plucked up the courage to put pen to paper with her first novel, Fifty Shades of Grey. E L James is currently working on a new romantic thriller with a supernatural twist...
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...None of the much flaunted appeals of cigarette advertisers, such as superior taste and mildness, induces us to become smokers or to choose one brand in preference to another. Despite the emphasis put on such qualities by advertisers, they are minor considerations. This is one of the first facts we discovered when we asked several hundred people, from all walks of life, why they liked to smoke cigarettes. Smoking is as much a psychological pleasure as it is a physiological satisfaction. As one of our respondents explained: "It is not the taste that counts. It's that sense of satisfaction you get from a cigarette that you can't get from anything else." Smoking is Fun What is the nature of this psychological pleasure? It can be traced to the universal desire for self-expression. None of us ever completely outgrows his childhood. We are constantly hunting for the carefree enjoyment we knew as children. As we grew older, we had to subordinate our pleasures to work and to the necessity for unceasing effort. Smoking, for many of us, then, became a substitute for our early habit of following the whims of the moment; it becomes a legitimate excuse for interrupting work and snatching a moment of pleasure. "You sometimes get tired of working intensely," said an accountant whom we interviewed, "and if you sit back for the length of a cigarette, you feel much fresher afterwards. It's a peculiar thing, but I wouldn't think of just sitting back without a cigarette. I guess a cigarette...
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...National Humanities Center Resource Toolbox Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690-1763 “You know, we are different Nations and have different Ways.” European Americans and Native Americans View Each Other, 1700-1775 In British America, there was no greater sense of Otherness than between Europeans and Native Americans. Both Indians and Africans represented the "other" to white colonists, but the Indians held one card denied to the enslaved Africans— autonomy. As sovereign entities, the Indian nations and the European colonies (and countries) often dealt as peers. In trade, war, land deals, and treaty negotiations, Indians held power and used it. As late as 1755, an English trader asserted that "the prosperity of our Colonies on the Continent will stand 1 or fall with our Interest and favour among them." Here we canvas the many descriptions of Indians by white colonists and Europeans, and sample the sparse but telling record of the Native American perspective on Europeans and their culture in pre-revolutionary eighteenth-century British America. All come to us, of course, through the white man's eye, ear, and pen. Were it not for white missionaries, explorers, and frontier negotiators (the go-betweens known as "wood's men"), we would have a much sparser record of the Indian response to colonists and their "civilizing" campaigns. . * Royal Library of Denmark “The natives, the so-called savages” Francis Daniel Pastorius, Pennsylvania, 1700 Pastorius...
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...clouds down the avenue. Clattering trucks moved with indistinctness through it. The child stood dreamily gazing. After a time, a little dark-brown dog came trotting with an intent air down the sidewalk. A short rope was dragging from his neck. Occasionally he trod upon the end of it and stumbled. He stopped opposite the child, and the two regarded each other. The dog hesitated for a moment, but presently he made some little advances with his tail. The child put out his hand and called him. In an apologetic manner the dog came close, and the two had an interchange of friendly pattings and waggles. The dog became more enthusiastic with each moment of the interview, until with his gleeful caperings he threatened to overturn the child. Whereupon the child lifted his hand and struck the dog a blow upon the head. This thing seemed to overpower and astonish the little dark-brown dog, and wounded him to the heart. He sank down in despair at the child's feet. When the blow was repeated, together with an admonition in childish sentences, he turned over upon his back, and held his paws in a peculiar manner. At the same time with his ears and his eyes he offered a small prayer to the child. He looked so comical on his back, and holding his paws peculiarly, that the child was greatly amused and gave him little taps repeatedly, to keep him so. But the little dark-brown dog took this...
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