...Globalization and Its Discontents 2 July 2002 At the outset, I would like to stress that it has been a pleasure working closely with my World Bank colleagues—particularly my counterpart, Chief Economist Nick Stern—during my first year at the IMF. We regularly cross 19th Street to exchange ideas on research, policy, and life. The relations between our two institutions are excellent—this is not at issue. Of course, to that effect, I think it is also important, before I begin, for me to quash rumors about the demolition of the former PEPCO building that stood right next to the IMF until a few days ago. No, it's absolutely not true that this was caused by a loose cannon planted within the World Bank. Dear Joe: Like you, I came to my position in Washington from the cloisters of a tenured position at a topranking American University. Like you, I came because I care. Unlike you, I am humbled by the World Bank and IMF staff I meet each day. I meet people who are deeply committed to bringing growth to the developing world and to alleviating poverty. I meet superb professionals who regularly work 80-hour weeks, who endure long separations from their families. Fund staff have been shot at in Bosnia, slaved for weeks without heat in the brutal Tajikistan winter, and have contracted deadly tropical diseases in Africa. These people are bright, energetic, and imaginative. Their dedication humbles me, but in your speeches, in your book, you feel free to carelessly slander them. Joe, you may not remember...
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...Keller With Her Letters (1887-1901) And Supplementary Account of Her Education, Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of her Teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, By John Albert Macy Special Edition CONTAINING ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS BY HELEN KELLER To ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Who has taught the deaf to speak and enabled the listening ear to hear speech from the Atlantic to the Rockies, I dedicate this Story of My Life. CONTENTS Editor's Preface I. THE STORY OF MY LIFE CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII II. LETTERS(1887-1901) INTRODUCTION III: A SUPPLEMENTARY ACCOUNT OF HELEN KELLER'S LIFE AND EDUCATION CHAPTER I. The Writing of the Book CHAPTER II. PERSONALITY CHAPTER III. EDUCATION CHAPTER IV. SPEECH CHAPTER V. LITERARY STYLE Editor's Preface This book is in three parts. The first two, Miss Keller's story and the extracts from her letters, form a complete account of her life as far as she can give it. Much of her education she cannot explain herself, and since a knowledge of that is necessary to an understanding of what she has written, it was thought best to supplement her autobiography with the reports and letters of her teacher, Miss Anne Mansfield Sullivan. The addition of a further account of Miss Keller's...
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... My interest for Defoe comes from his well-known novel, Robinson Crusoe which is a book read by most people and even has a TV-program inspired by the book. My curiosity for the background of the novel was the main reason why I chose to work with Defoe. Daniel Defoe, born Daniel Foe, was born in London somewhere between 1659 and 1661 and was the son of the butcher, James Foe. In his early years Defoe had a great desire to travel. In order to satisfy this desire he has to devote 35 years of his life to a business in socks. He travelled a lot and took part of many great adventures. But then his life turned, a difficult bankruptcy led him to start writing. At the same time he changed his name to Defoe. In 1697 he released An Essay upon Projects, a work that showed Defoe's practical orientation and his belief that Englishmen living conditions could be improved by such as better roads, health care and child care. Defoe became involved in political debate and got the opportunity to show his great talent as a journalist, satirist and poet. During the years 1704-13 Defoe worked as an editor of the political magazine The Review and practically continued the remaining of his life in journalism. When Defoe was around 60 years old he began to write the work that made him into a portal figure in the realist novel's history. In 1719-22 he published Robinson Crusoe, a fictional story inspired by reports of the Scottish sailor, Alexander Selkirk's five-year stay on the uninhabited island...
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...AO1 PART A In this assignment I will be looking at the different types of communication which are used in care settings and the factors that support and inhibit communication. Communication in my opinion means interaction with others, gaining information and retaining that information. It is very important because we use it in our everyday lives to talk to people either orally or written. If there is a lack of communication then it will be hard for people to listen or to get the information they need. Firstly I will be researching the different forms of communication used in health and social care settings. In care settings, communication is especially important because it helps maintain a good relationship between individuals, for example a patient and their carer. There are four ways to communicate and these are oral, written, computerised and specialised methods. In a care setting it would be impossible without communication as the patient needs to fully understand their carer and a child needs to also understand their teacher. (http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080708062459AAdF3IB) ORAL Oral communication is the ability to talk with others to give and exchange information and ideas; it can also be used to explain thoughts and feelings. Some of the most common methods of oral communication are face to face conversations or speaking on the phone to another individual. Some of the advantages of oral communication it gives opportunity for immediate...
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...the trash trailer, I could have sworn I heard a cat meow. I thought, “I must be crazy!” I hadn’t seen a cat since I left the United States, but sure enough when I bent down to look under the trailer, there he was. Staring back at me was a cat that could have passed for my childhood cat. I doubted that he would come to me if I called him, but I decided to give it a try anyway, and to my surprise he came! This was the beginning of a three month relationship. I started calling him Marvin since he reminded me so much of the cat I had when I was young. For the three months I spent about 30 minutes a day with Marvin. He would usually show up right around dinner time. He always knew where he could find me, and when he did, he would come over and jump into my lap and lay down. He would sit with me for a while and I would pet him and talk to him about my day. Some of the people I worked with would come by and tell me that I was crazy for touching a stray cat in the middle of Iraq. “He might have a disease,” they would say. I didn’t care what they said, Marvin was important to me. There I was in the middle of the desert in Iraq, half a world away from my family and everything familiar to me. For half an hour a day, sometimes more, that little cat allowed me to forget where I was for a while. There...
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...speak out. I think some of this has to do with how we are more accepting of certain behaviors we used to not tolerate and honestly families used to be embarrassed if their kids acted out. In this report I plan to talk about why bullying is such an important issue in human development and describe the three components of behavior in bullying that have been observed by researchers. I will also try to explain how sexual and gender orientation influence the styles of bullying and how it can affect their self esteem and what it can do to affect their family dynamic. I am hopeful there can be a better understanding on the reasoning behind bullying and maybe even a better solution to help us get a handle on the situation at large. From what I have been learning there has to be three elements to be considered bullying. First off there has to be intent to harm another and it must be repetitive. There must also be a difference of power, physical, social or other must exist between the bully and the victim. Now we can break this down further to say that bullying is a division of aggression that is typically broken down as physical, verbal, or relational. (Jacobsen & Bauman, 2007). We have seen more physical bullying accompanied by social media by means of many social media sites such as face book, twitter, snap chat and several others that people use today. There is also a growing trend in...
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...brute force to pull it back just far enough to slide a wire into the gap, slip a latch and pop the door open. The next day, Stones noticed something shiny sticking out of Fu's mouth. It was the wire lock pick, bent to fit between his lip and gum and stowed there between escapes. Fu Manchu's jailbreaks made headlines in 1968, but his clever tricks didn't make a big impression on the scientists who specialize in looking for signs of higher mental processes in animals. At the time, much of the action in animal intelligence was focused on efforts to teach apes to use human languages. No researcher cared much about ape escape artists. And neither did I. In 1970, I began following studies of animal intelligence, particularly the early reports of chimpanzees who learned how to use human words. The big breakthrough in these experiments came when two psychologists, R. Allen and Beatrice Gardner, realized their chimps were having trouble forming wordlike sounds and decided to teach a young female named Washoe...
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...beneficial in many ways if we have a stronger voice. The perceptions and opinions are summarized from the third edition of the book, From Silence to Voice, and provide the resources for nurses to consider in getting their voice heard. The authors of this book describe the history of how nursing has allowed the profession to be overlooked and prevented our profession to be understood by allowing others to speak for us, and over us (Buresh & Gordon, 2013). Opportunities to overcome this perception will be discussed in detail and two supporting articles that address public opinion of nurses and how it relates to our status will be summarized to give opposing perspectives. The conclusion is an example of a letter to legislators that can help to have our voice heard in a persuasive manner addressing the effect technology has on the nursing profession. I urge you to consider issues in nursing that you are passionate about and get your voice heard. Nursing is a misunderstood profession. If you were to randomly ask anyone in the public what a nurse does you would likely get answers that deal with either, carrying out physicians orders, or dealing with emotional aspects of care, like comforting and consoling. In the book, From Silence to Voice, it is reported that nurses are still largely seen as physicians “handmaidens” (Buresh & Gordon, 2013, p. 15). The book outlines a number of reasons for this, and ways nurses can overcome and use our voice to change the perception of nurses around...
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...You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day. (pg.54) ~ an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit (n.) 9. I knew id smoke maybe five of them, but as long as I subsidized the Colonel’s smoking, he couldn’t really attack me for being another rich kid, a Weekday Warrior who just didn’t happen to live in Birmingham. (pg.55) ~ to purchase the assistance of by the payment (v.) 10. You live for pretentious metaphors. (pg.59) ~ characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: (adj.) 11. And I vaguely remember Lara smiling at me in the doorway, the glittering ambiguities of a girl’s smile, which seems to promise an answer to the question but never gives it. (pg.64) ~ doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention: (n.) 12. You can check if you’d like, and Sara thought I was being too glib. (pg. 65) ~ readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely (adj.) 13. You’ve violated the sacred covenant between women! (pg.65) ~ an agreement, usually formal, between two or more persons to do or not do something specified....
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...Springboard Activity One Quote from book and Warm-Up Students will read this quote on the smart board and answer the following questions: How do you feel about the nurse being a wolf? What do you think about people being wolfs in everyday life? "This world ... belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf as the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides when the wolf is about. And he endures, he goes on. He knows his place. He most certainly doesn't challenge the wolf to combat. Now, would that be wise? Would it?" He [Harding] lets go McMurphy's hand and leans back and crosses his legs, takes another long pull off the cigarette. He pulls the cigarette from his thin crack of a smile, and the laugh starts up again-eee-eee-eee, like a nail coming out of a plank. "Mr. McMurphy ... my friend ... I'm not a chicken, I'm a rabbit. The doctor is a rabbit. Cheswick there is a rabbit. Billy Bibbit is a rabbit. All of us in here are rabbits of varying ages and degrees, hippity-hopping through our Walt Disney world. Oh, don't misunderstand me, we're not in here because we are rabbits-we'd be rabbits wherever we were-we're all in here because we can't adjust...
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...in even just 5 years. Research, studying, student testing, disabled education, hybrid classes and the changing roles of teachers in today's digital age are some of the main topics I will be talking about. Textbooks are not only very important for a students education but also puts a hole in their wallet. On average a student spends roughly $1,200 a year on textbooks whether you are renting them or buying them. That is a staggering number for a book that sometimes doesn't even help you too much in class. A single sheet of paper to make costs just 5 cents, but that adds up with how many pages are in a book overall. Some of the jobs that textbooks make were more than I expected. You can have jobs such as authors, illustrators, publishers, editors, lumbar people, paper mill workers and shippers. The authors are the people who write the text in the book, the illustrators can print in the pictures into the book, the editors look for any misspelling or misprint that the author or illustrator may have done and the publishers get the book published and ready to sell. The lumbar people and paper mill people work in the lumber yard and have the jobs such as cutting the trees down and cutting them in a certain very thin way to create paper. Some interesting facts about textbooks are that it takes 5 years to create one! Yes, that's right, 5 years of creating the...
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...[pic] Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) Report of the WWDA Telecommunications Survey Contents Page Acknowledgments...... ..........3 Chapter One: Introduction 4 1.1 Preamble 4 1.2 About Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) 6 1.3 Executive Summary 7 1.4 Recommendations 13 1.5 Gender and Disability 17 1.6 The Interaction Between Gender, Disability and Telecommunications 21 1.7 The Context of the Study 23 1.8 Survey Framework and Methodology 25 Chapter Two: Summary of Major Findings of the Telecommunications Survey 26 2.1 Characteristics of Respondents 26 2.2 Use of Telecommunications Equipment 26 2.3 Barriers to Telecommunications 26 2.4 Service Providers 27 2.5 Telecommunications - Assistive Devices and Equipment 28 2.6 Online Communication 29 Chapter Three: WWDA Telecommunications Survey Analysis 30 Appendix 1: Telecommunications Questionnaire Tables 65 Appendix 2: WWDA Telecommunications Questionnaire 84 Acknowledgments Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) wishes to thank all the respondents who contributed their time to complete the survey questionnaires and whose heartfelt, insightful comments gave so much to enhance the interpretation of the statistical results. Our thanks go also to the Blind Citizens Australia Project Telecommunications, Disability and Consumer Representation funded by The Department of Communication, Information Technology and the Arts. This Project provided the funding...
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...Ernest Hemingway has been the most influential writer of the last century. His writings have proved to be jewels in English literature. From 1925 to 1929, Ernest Hemingway produced some of the most important works of 20th century fiction; including the landmark short story collection In Our Time (1925) which contained "The Big Two-Hearted River." In 1926 he came out with his first true novel, The Sun also Rises (after publishing Torrents of Spring, a comic novel parodying Sherwood Anderson in 1925). He followed that book with Men without Women in 1927; it was another book of stories which collected "The Killers" and "In Another Country." In 1929 he published A Farewell to arms , arguably the finest novel to emerge from World War I. Let us consider the following essays for today’s discussion on the topic of Hemingway’s artistry skills. • Sudden Unexpected Interjection by David Gagne 1 • An Essay on In Our Time by Nathan Kotas 2 • Preludes to a Mood in The New York Times October 18, 1925 3 • Love and War in the pages of Ernest Hemingway by Percy Hutchinson 4 Ernest Hemingway had the most unique and colourful style of writing . He used symbolism. His style of writing involved getting right to the core of the scene without spending much time on building of characters. He used simple and declarative language. But this unique style of writing, made many feel that Hemingway was an artist in his essence. Lets find what these four people have to say on this particular aspect of Ernest...
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...3rd State of the Nation Address President Aquino delivered his third annual report to the nation, telling his “bosses” the people that significant changes have been achieved “because in unity nothing is impossible.” In his State of the Nation Address (SONA), delivered in Filipino and which lasted for about one-and-a-half hours, the President also assured the people that the fight against corruption would ensure fair justice and prove that “there are no poor where there are no corrupt in government.” He said the people should not just “forgive and forget” as he recited a list of gains achieved by his administration because of proper allocation of resources. Aquino, who won on a platform of people power and volunteerism in 2010, also took the opportunity to rouse the people from apathy and make them participate more actively in improving their lives. “I stand before you today as the face of a government that knows you as its boss and draws its strength from you. I am only here to narrate the changes that you yourselves have made possible,” he said. “I repeat: what was once thought impossible is now possible. I stand before you today and tell you: This is not my SONA. You made this happen. This is the SONA of the Filipino nation,” he said. The President had been saying he is bent on making growth inclusive – meaning to make every Filipino feel the effects of economic developments brought about by better governance. His campaign two years ago was anchored on this platform...
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...Nearly 40 percent of disabled students didn’t graduate from high school according to one 2013 report, it sounds like an alarming bell about lagging high school graduation rates among students with disabilities.(Michelle Diament, 2015) Disability Discrimination Act defines disability as ‘a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse affect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities’. (Fuller, Healey, Bradley, Hall, 2004)As the definition referred to mental and physical disability, Dyslexia, unseen disabilities, multiple disabilities and other personal care support. Disability as a human right issue, children with disabilities have the right to get education without any discrimination and accordingly...
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