...disappointment? (A) Super Eagles (B) PHCN(NEPA) (C) MTN (D) Nigeria Police Force (E) Our Leaders 3. Okon : I saw a strap of yOur bra Teacher : Okon qet out! No class fOr yOu fOr a week (Another Boy Lauqhs) Teacher : Why did yOu Laugh? Boy : I saw both straps of yOur bra. Teacher : Get out! No class fOr yOu fOr 1 mOnth. (Teacher bends down to pick chalk's Akpos started walking out) Teacher : Akpos, why are yOu gOing out? Akpos : With what I just saw now, I think my schOOl days are Over! 3 What shall it profit a man if he slaps Usain Bolt and runs away?? 4. Akpors got a message from his girl friend on his birthday ''Message Reads ''HBD Boo....LLNP, LYSM TTYL'' Akpors provoked and called her phone ''Kate what is the meaning of HBD LLNP and Those rubbish.... Kate replied Haaa Akpors don't tell me you are this dumb.....and local Oh My Gooosh,you don't even know the meaning of HBD and all that Mtchwwwwww . Well, HBD means ''Happy Birthday'',LLNP means ''LongIife Nd prosperity'' LYSM means "Love You so much" and TTYL means "Talk to you later" dumbass. Akpors (angrily ends the call and sent her a text message 2mins later, Message reads,TFY Kate called immediately,...
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...At first she is disturbed and angry from what she sees at the store. While her friends Sugar, Big Butt and Rossie are walking around having fun, Sylvia is having a hard time trying to figure out why toys cost so much. Just like the prisoner who got released she cannot understand if what she sees is real. For example, when she looks at the paperweight she says; "My eyes tell me it's a chunk of glass cracked with something heavy, and different-colored inks dripped into the splits, then the whole thing put in an oven or something. But for $480 it don't make sense". When she compares things she sees in her community with the new fancy toys at the toy story it just “don't make sense” for her. Although she is mad and frustrated, a positive change happens. She is now curious and forgets about this experience being a “boring ass game”. She asks herself questions: “Who are these people that spend that much for performing clowns and $1000 for toy sailboats? What kinda work they do and how they live and how come we ain't in on it?” Sylvia’s curiosity is stimulated. She wants to learn more about these people, about their jobs and...
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...Eating Sugar It has always been easy to judge other people before you know them – much easier than it is to open up to a complete stranger. Every day we judge other people by the way they look, and especially people with different backgrounds than ourselves. But isn’t it wrong to make first-hand impressions before you know the person? It might turn out that it is a nice person with a great personality hidden under a different appearance. The short story Eating Sugar, written by Catherine Merriman,_ _describes the meeting between two different cultures; how their first-hand-impressions on each other are and how this impression develops over time. The story takes place in Thailand in the month of April. We are in the deserted rainforest where an English family, consisting of Alex, Eileen and their twenty-one-year old daughter Suzanne, have been on a trip with other tourists and guides. But they decide to stay a little longer than the other, so they can enjoy the waterfall alone and end up getting lost. After a while - and many thoughts about the situation, they meet a group of Thai men. Suzanne and her parents have very different views on strangers. Alex and Eileen are very suspicious about the Thais, and they do not feel safe among them. They do not trust them, and especially Alex is sure that they have met someone who might be dangerous as he states: “...Christ, they could be up to anything” (_page 5, line 125)_ Unlike her parents, Suzanne is very cool about...
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...Smelly-One, but I wish to inform you that, as a princess, it would be rather inappropriate for me to associate myself with you. I understand that - at some point - you were my best friend, but due to a magical grey-face, I find that my status finds you rather..." She crinkled her nose, "...disgusting, really. Horribly disgusting. I thought I would at least do you the pleasure of seeing me one last time." Ralph: “… That’s not funny, kid.” Usually, he would have humored her little quips with a hot-tempered rebuttal. It wasn’t anything he hadn’t heard before; however, the words stung a lot more than they should have, and Ralph swallowed a lump that formed in his throat. “‘Status’? You gave that up. You’re a president, not a princess. So drop the fru-fru act, Vanellope.” Vanellope: Vanellope tittered. Yes, tittered. "Oh, you really are an oaf, aren't you? This isn't an act, I assure you. In fact, to make sure that I am not seen with you in the future, you are banned from ever entering Sugar Rush. I will have my Oreo guards keep watch. Step one fungus-coated toe into my game, and you will regret it." Her stare up at him was hard and unforgiving. "Am I understood?" Ralph: “Forget that!” Ralph shot back defiantly, swiping his hand through the air to dismiss her words. “You’re not bein’ serious, kid—and I’ll come n’ go as I please.” The greys couldn’t have hacked her coding that badly, could they? The harshness of her gaze was enough to make the wrecker flinch, and he returned...
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...Eating Sugar An essay by Nadia Khattab Humans are often afraid of the unknown, whether it is different cultures, challenges, food, etc. In “Eating Sugar” the fear of the unknown is focused on the encounter with a different culture, the Thai. The setting is a Thai jungle where the couple Alex and Eileen are visiting their daughter, who is a 21 year old English teacher. They have been forced to go there in April, when the humidity and heat is at its worst. The parents are uneasy with the situation, as they are suspicious of the Thai’s intentions. They end up in the middle of the jungle, where a marketplace was supposed to be. The place is empty, and no people are to be seen. When the Thais appear, it’s very interesting to interpret the different reactions that the family members have to the Thais. Both parents are extremely nervous, and expect the worst from the Thais. The daughter on the other hand, who knows the Thai because she lives and works in Thailand, is not at all afraid. She is very glad that she has met other people. One of the Thais speak English, and he tells her that a car is going to come by soon. The mother, who constantly shows her anxiety, is worried a car might come by, and that there is no guarantee. The daughter is throughout the whole story very calm, and keeps insuring her parents that it’s going to be all right. The roles have been switched, and the child is now the responsible one, and the parents are panicky. “Suzanne, their brave twenty-one-year...
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...sports. I grew up in a small apartment with my father, mother and sister. Living in a room with my sister was very hard to deal with. I had a Nintendo 64 and she had Barbie dolls. There was nowhere to play sports and no place to keep the equipment. We made do with the things we had; I sometimes enjoyed taking the Barbie dolls clothing off and she would play the Mario Brothers. Eventually moving into a house allowed me to be active in football, soccer and baseball. I believe the child’s surroundings can change their path to adulthood. Theroux expresses many things that I find insulting. According to Theroux, to be a man is to be “stupid, be unfeeling, obedient, soldierly and stop thinking” (233). Although I do not agree with Theroux, the topic is controversial and has left an impression in my mind. In this generation men can get away with many things without being sent into exile. Men’s emotions do not need to be kept in a jar. Theroux is very clear with his explanations, which makes the reading more enjoyable. I think everyone should be free to do...
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...analysis. I chose them for the sole reason that they are the fewest in number here in the U.S. Japan was, in a way, introduced to the U.S. in the 1860’s as that is when shipping opened up for their country to bring over labor workers and immigrants to America. In 1868, an American businessman, Eugene M. Van Reed, shipped a large group of Japanese laborers to Hawaii to work on sugar plantations and a smaller group to Guam for the same reason. This illegal shipment of Japanese laborers, known as the gannenmono, noted the beginning of Japanese labor migration overseas. Luckily the U.S. government began to cease the shipment of Japanese laborers overseas as it was seen to be partnered with...
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...Eating Sugar - by Catherine Merriman (2001) Catherine Merriman has written the story Eating Sugar, which is about the couple Eileen and Alex and their twenty-one-year old daughter, Suzanne. Suzanne works as an English teacher in Thailand, and now her parents have come to visit her and join her in her week off work. It is obvious though, that none of the parents are very happy about Thailand. It says so in line 21, where Alex describes the vacation as ‘forced on them’. The three of them are on a tour in the forest, but instead of keeping up with the other tourists, they deliberately get left behind. This turns out to be a very stupid thing to do; at first they did it, because they wanted the place for themselves. They seek adventures and excitement, but as soon they lose control over things, they get scared and frightened. This is also seen in the flashback Alex has, where he thinks back on old days, where he and Eileen did drugs. They had taken LSD, which is a drug, which makes you hallucinate and see things which aren’t there. This is a parallel to the situation they are in right now; The Thai, Wirut and his friend, are strangers to Alex, Eileen and Suzanne. Wirut is the one doing the talking, he seems to be the only one of them, who knows just a little English, and this is not even very much. Alex is scared of them; he immediately gets suspicious about the whole situation, and in line 71, 74, 111, 125 and 134 he starts imagining what Wirut and the other Thais would do to the...
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... * Had similar reasons * Stevens in sympathetic to those that are oppressed ; steps up and opposes lincoln’s plan; doesn’t think the oppressed have been helped enough through concrete measures. Big supporter of freedman’s. * Sumner was beaten by canes in the senate chamber – personal animosity toward slavery and democracy in the south * almost like restarting over; a do-over * idealism and political motive * wanted to create a republican party in the south * Wanted to * Punish southerners * Protect freedmen * Strengthen republican party * 14th amendment * granting citizenship to African americans; can vote and hold office * outlawed black codes * righting wrongs that had popped up * some African americans were actually elected to senate; although this doesn’t last * 15th amendment * can’t deny someone the right to vote based on race * designed to reinforce democratic party taking over the south; new political role in the south * “Redemption “ * Around 1870, things look like they’re making progress * Grant elected president in 68, steps out of the way and let’s congress do what it wants * General amnesty act (1872) * Granted...
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...I love You 1. I love the way you keep your cool whenever I do stupid things 2. I love the fact that I've met you during the craziest time of my life and you changed it all in just a mili-second. 3. You're so adorable. 4. I haven't met your mom but I know we'd get along JUST FINE. 5. You memorized my phone number. I don't even remember it. 6. Thank you for being stupid enough to not leave me when all I do is hurt you. 7. I love your smile…. I seriously, seriously do. 8. I know you like it when I sweet talk. Ha! 9. Because you're never mad at me. 10. The tattoo? Rockin'! 11. The way you lose your accent when you sing. 12. You're cuddlesome. 13. You make me worry. 14. You make me jealous. 15. Because you never gave up. 16. You're the first and last person I think about. 17. You keep me sane. 18. I love your accent. 19. I love your asian accent, haha if you know what I mean. 20. Your lips are enough to make me melt. 21. How you listen to me talk nonsense for hours. 22. Made my summer unforgettable. 23. Sorry if I told you "tennis" is stupid. I just didn't want you to leave. 24. I seriously still don't see why you liked me. 25. Thank you for waking up 4 or 5 in the morning just to talk to me. I'm so sorry. 26. For making me smile. 27. I love how you'd call me just to say you love me. 28. You never played games with me. 29. I like how a hug from you would drown the frustrations from a bad grade. 30. I'm sorry I have corny jokes. 31. I know I'm annoying but I never heard you say it...
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...one nobody uses. It’ll rattle the hinges a bit when it lands, because it’s so weighty and important, a little jangle along with the thunk, and Joan will look up from whatever she’s cooking. She will look down in her saucepan, worried that if she goes to see what it is it’ll boil over. I can see her frown in the reflection of the bubbly sauce or whatnot. But she’ll go, she’ll go and see. You won’t, Ed. You wouldn’t. You’re upstairs probably, sweaty and alone. You should be taking a shower, but you’re heartbroken on the bed, I hope, so it’s your sister, Joan, who will open the door even though the thunk’s for you. You won’t even know or hear what’s being dumped at your door. You won’t even know why it even happened. It’s a beautiful day, sunny and whatnot. The sort of day when you think everything will be all right, etc. Not the right day for this, not for us, who went out when it rains, from October 5 until November 12. But it’s December now, and the sky is bright, and it’s clear to me. I’m telling you why we broke up, Ed. I’m writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much. The thunk is the box, Ed. This is what I am leaving you. I found it down in the basement, just grabbed the box when all of our things were too much for my bed stand drawer. Plus I thought my mom would find some of the things, because she’s a snoop for my secrets. So it all went into the box and the box went into my closet with some shoes on...
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...affecting their children, they forgot that it is their responsibility to guide their children and control what they are watching. Therefore, Advertisements do not affect children in a negative way as most people think. Janice & Ania said, “… Advertisements of junk food should be banned to help fight child obesity.”(N.d, para9). It is widely believed by people that the main reason for obesity. Additionally, people think that advertisements are meant to corrupt child and make then unethical. All these thoughts and confusions are based on inadequate reasoning, which makes their argument invalid in most of the time. For instance, children feel that whenever that the advertisement is colorful and full of cartoon characters, children will be fascinated with the advertisement so that they will be begging to get that product, which it rarely happens. On the other hand, there are plenty of evidences that prove that advertising affect children in a positive way. First, many of the advertisements motivate children to make them improve their abilities. A psychologist said “between ages three and five it slightly helped reading scores.” (Kyla Boyse, RN, August 2010, para.6). As implied...
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...summertime in New York, where the children are out of school, playing and having fun; but when a new neighbor Miss Moore move in, things change. Miss Moore is an educated African American woman, who embarks on an educational journey with the children. She realizes that the children lack experience and knowledge of a world outside of poverty, so she takes them on a trip outside their element. According to Marchino’s critical analysis, the goal is that they “realize wealth is unfairly and unequally distributed (2)”. In doing so, Miss Moore have the children figuring cab fare, tips, prices of toys, evaluating unnecessary spending, and diversity. Sylvia recalls her youth by stating “‘back in the days when everyone was old and stupid or young and foolish and me and Sugar were the only ones just right’” (Bambara 385). According to Sylvia, community elders did not know anything, but that she had all the answers. She appears to be an intelligent, smart mouth and disrespectful youth because of her tone throughout the story. Her foul language throughout the story appears distasteful and unwarranted. However, to someone who understands where she come from and shares similar experiences this maybe normal. Most children who live in the ghetto are rude, sassy, disrespectful, and they lack the proper resources for an education. The children’s parents trust Miss Moore to care for them because they dress and groom them every weekend before sending them off with her. “Our parents would yank our heads...
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...RUP 1 Project The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) and the American Nurses Association (ANA) shall be utilized for this paper in describing their differences in function. Two examples from the NCSBN code of ethics will be provided and how they have influenced my practice. I will choose four traits from the ANA and discuss them in reference to an interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals. A Nursing Theory will be discussed as well as a nursing figure that is important me. Two safeguards will be presented in a scenario from my nursing experiences. The American Nursing Association (ANA) was originally founded and named the Nursing Association Alumnae in 1896; it became the ANA in 1911. It is a professional organization devoted to the advancement and protection of the nursing profession. The ANA establishes standards of nursing practice, promotes rights of registered nurses (RN) in the workplace and advances the economic health and general welfare of RNs. According to the ANA, nursing is the protection, promotion and optimization of heath and abilities, it prevents illness, injury and alleviates suffering through diagnosis and treatment of human response and advocates the care not only of the individual but the whole family, community and populations. The ANA has three sub organizations: 1. American Academy of Nursing-it serves the public and nursing profession by the advancement of health policies and practices through generation, synthesis...
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...down by plantation owners. The idea was to put off future rebels by showing them how any rebellion would be punished. Participants of rebellions were often publicly killed ‘by progressive mutilation, slow burnings, breaking on the wheel. * Lead to suppression of abolitionist expression in the Caribbean and dissuaded some against abolition. * The Abolitionist movement in the Caribbean really didn't grow until the 1840s and 50s, so from the Berbice/Coffy Revolt (1763) to the uprisings in Haiti (1791), there was relatively little abolitionist sentiment in the Caribbean. * Some would argue what the rebellions actually did was scare slave owners in the Caribbean, and lead to a series of legal reforms and slave codes designed to make revolts more difficult. * Slave owners through-out the region suffered massive destruction of property and loss of lives. Positive Effects of slave revolts in the Caribbean * Antislavery movements grew stronger and bolder, especially in Great Britain, and the colonial slaves themselves became increasingly more restless. * The impact of the Haitian Revolution (1791) was both immediate and widespread. The antislavery fighting immediately spawned unrest throughout the region, especially in communities of Maroons in Jamaica, and among slaves in St. Kitts. * Most important, in the Caribbean, whites lost the confidence that they had before 1789 to maintain the slave system indefinitely. In 1808, the British abolished their...
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