...David Ochoa September 16, 2009 English-Mr. Harrison Summer Reading In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas is taught that his world is perfect, but finds out that society is controlled. Jonas was one of the main characters of this novel. Throughout reading The Giver Jonas seems to always be seeking more warmth and human contact then what the society he lives in already allows. The character Jonas portrayed various characteristics. Three of those characteristics that he portrayed were intelligence, curiosity, and kindness. The first characteristic that Jonas portrayed was his curiosity. While he was at school he was playing catch with a friend he had noticed the apple change in a way. “ Does anything seem strange to you? About the apple?” ( Pg 24, Lowry) Jonas kept looking at the apple all types of ways trying to figure out what was it about the apple that would catch his eye and make him to wonder such things. Disobeying recreation area rules he decided to take the apple home so he can do further analysis on the apple. After trying to find a flaw in the apple all types of ways he somehow had to convince himself that the apple was perfectly fine, and he had curiosity get the best of him. One of the other characteristics that Jonas had was his Intelligence. His intelligence was considered to be one of his unusual characteristics traits, but was to his advantage. Only twelve years of his age but his decision making was good and would catch on to things quickly...
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...Pain is something that we need to help us learn from our decisions. In the book The Giver it shows that very well. The Giver by Lois is a book about a futuristic world in which there exists no pain, no war, and very little emotion. In this utopia, everything is as nice as possible. When people become too old or brake rules, they are “released". Although they do not realize it, those who are released are actually killed. A boy named Jonas who is turning twelve and that’s when the citizens get a job but Jonas gets chosen to be the receiver of memories who holds all the memories of the world before along with all the pain so no one else has to. When he starts his training he meets the Giver who is the previous receiver who the gives him the...
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...well-being and satisfaction that comes from a higher purpose pursued over time. Opinion has differed as to how happy we can expect to become in this mixed up world, and as to what goals and purposes in life really deliver on happiness. I wish to say that I have not always been a happy person, despite my ability to seem to make those around me happy. The key spiritual secret of any happier and healthier life is the deeper kindness that can be captured with the term "Gift-love," a term borrowed from C.S. Lewis. We are all too often obsessed in life with what Lewis termed "Need-love," loving and seeking the things we need, from good food to a decent coat for the winter. We certainly all need and seek to be loved, for if we do not receive love we will not be able to give it away. Yet even when we pursue the things we need, it is often not just for ourselves, but for the nearest and dearest who depend on us. This points to the other side of life, to “Gift-love”, a sincere love of others that is commonly taught by exhortation but is really transmitted by example. My thesis, more clearly stated, is that as a side-effect or by-product of Gift-love we generally feel happier and are healthier over the whole of a life. This thesis is old, but it can be forgotten, so it bears repeating from time to time. Indeed,...
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...Women in Beowulf Beowulf shows the importance of male heroism and the significance of women is minimized. Even though it is true that their appearance is limited and brief, they do play fundamental roles in it. The women in Beowulf could themselves be considered showing heroism, just in different ways. There are two queens in the poem: Wealhtheow and Hygd. They are both queens by marriage to the king, and they are hostesses in that they receive people in the hall and make sure that everyone is drinking and having a good time. Noble women played an important role in heroic Anglo-Saxon society and had an essential influence in the hall, especially in hall ceremonies, though they also played an active role in peacekeeping. The hall is presented as the central social element in the poem, where people gathered together to talk about the major events of the court and to socialize. The poet always makes use of positive words to describe them: Wealhtheow, “she graciously saluted the men” (614), “queenly and dignified” (621). Her role as hostesses has to do with the duty of carrying the mead cup and pass it to the king and warriors. This apparently unimportant task is more revealing than we may think; it establishes a hierarchy in the hall. The first time Wealhtheow makes her appearance in the poem (612-641), she offers the cup to Hrothgar first, making clear that he is the most powerful figure in the hall, the king: “handed the cup first to Hrothgar, their homeland’s...
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...Hana Hou logo THE HANA HOU SERIES The Spirit of Aloha © 1999 Kawika Sands In the beginning A (pronounced "ahh"), the eternal light giver, created Namaka O Ka Hai (the great power of the sea). But A saw the seas were alone, so he freed the force Pele. Pele created the lands. To keep them above her jealous sister, she constantly renewed them. The people who found these lands named it Hawai`i hailing it as a place of blessed "alo" or "aloha" meaning "in the presence of A." Life in old Hawai`i was a spiritual experience. There was aloha everywhere; in the people, plants, animals, rocks and reefs. Even in the canoes and paddles and the tools used to make them. But aloha is more than a word, it's a way of life. If there is life, there is mana, goodness, and wisdom. If there is goodness and wisdom in a person, there is a god-quality. One must recognize the "god of life" in another before saying "Aloha." It means mutual regard and affection and extends warmth in caring with no obligation in return. It's the essence of relationships in which each person is important to every other person for collective existence. It's to hear what is not said, to see what cannot be seen and to know the unknowable. To say "Aloha" to another with indifference is blasphemous, just as saying "Mahalo" ungraciously is profane. Therefore, when one says "Aloha" to another, one must mean it sincerely. If you are angry with someone, you must cleanse away all ill feeling before saying...
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...Summary * Individuals must understand the role that social justice has in the implementation of practices such as physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. * Social justice is the primary form of justice, but it encompasses other types of justice such as commutative, restorative, distributive, and contributive. * The four types of social justice are significant as they cover all the human entitlements. The social work department incorporates human rights in the creation and implementation of policies dealing with end of life decisions. * Euthanasia has evolved to become an important ethical concern especially for the elderly. * Many individuals in the recent times have changed their outlook regarding the issue of physically assisted death. Main ethical concerns * Euthanasia is a Greek word, which implies a ‘good death.’ * In the contemporary world, euthanasia is the compassionate activity of ending the life of a terminally ill patient. * Conversely, physician-assisted death occurs when a doctor provides the means of suicide to a patient who has chosen to end their life. * There are two categories of euthanasia, which are active and passive. * Active euthanasia involves the activity by a physician to fasten the death process such as administering of a lethal injection. * Passive euthanasia involves the behavior of withholding the essential care that leads to survival such as refusing to administer the necessary medications...
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...The novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a novella set in California, America, during The Great Depression. The novella explores two itinerants, George Milton and Lennie Small, going after their dream of owning their own piece of land. Throughout the dramatic novella, we discover that sometimes it is necessary to be cruel to be kind. The killing of Candy's old dog, George and Lennie not speaking to Curley's wife, and the final decision George makes to shoot Lennie are all examples of showing some 'tough love'. When difficult choices are to be made, the solution may not always be what we desire. When Candy's “ancient dog” starts to bother the men in the bunkhouse, Carlson suggests to Candy that the dog should be shot. Candy, strongly...
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...1st Critical Reflection (Charlotte’s Web) In the novel, Charlotte’s Web, E.B White uses different communicative models; the main one that is used through the entire book is, animal-to-animal communication. Wilbur the pig, communicates very well as we humans do to the other farm animals around him. We act against that model thinking that it isn’t very logical for animals to communicate in the language we do; but in reality we do know that animals do communicate with each other in their own way. A way we will never actually understand or know. Animals do follow human verbal instructions, but that doesn’t consider it as them communicating in a human way. Their response to us isn’t in a human verbal way at all. “Speaking-meat” is a communicative subject. The pig “Babe” disrupts the assumption that because he is a meat animal he is too stupid to understand what is going on around him. The refusal or denial of communication status to animals is a crucial, formative arena where closure strategies affect many humans. E.B White uses another communicative model, which is Human-to-Animal communication. During the novel, Fern whom is just a normal little girl per se; but has a unique way of communicating with the animals on the farm. Starting with the bond of her and Wilbur. Once she starts to tell her parents about the communication she is experiencing between the animals, they start to worry. Kids their age have a lot of imagination; something that she can soon grow out of is what...
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...noticed that everyday life is filled with small acts of altruism, from the person who greets me going into Wal-Mart to the person who gives a generous donation to the march of dimes. Although news stories often focus on a greater scale of altruism, such as a person risking their life to save a child from a burning building that they don’t even know. To giving a generous donation to a local charity. Social Psychologists are interested in understanding why it occurs. Really, what does inspire these acts of kindness? What motivates people to risk their own lives to save a complete stranger? Altruism is one aspect of what Social Psychologists refer to Pro Social behavior. Pro Social behavior refers to any action that benefits other people, no matter what the motive or how the giver benefits from the action. While all altruistic acts are Pro Social, not all Pro Social behaviors completely altruistic. Remember, that pure altruism involves true selflessness. For example, many people help others for a variety of reasons such as rewards, guilt, obligation, even duties. Psychologist have suggested a number of different explanations for why altruism exists, including Biological Reasons: Kinship – we might do more altruistic towards...
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...HOW TO CLOSE A SALE POLICY: After conducting a tour with a new prospect, how to close the sale is the most critical aspect of moving a new resident into our communities. If you believe in your community, demonstrate the value of your services, and appeal to the emotion (heart) of the prospect, rather than the facts…you will sell your community. PROCEDURE: 1. The Administrator, Executive Director or Manager on Duty needs to be able to close a sale during the prospective tour. Each staff member who is responsible for conducting tours must know the following: • What makes the community different or better than your competitors? • Resident profile: age, care or dementia needs, • Why would seniors enjoy living in our community? • Why would families feel good about their relatives living in our community? 2. At the conclusion of the tour the Administrator or Staff member conducting the tour needs to take the lead; the prospect is counting on it. Remember the worst possible scenario is for them to leave our community and go onto tour the next community, down the road, only to find out they have moved in the other facility because they asked for the processing fee. 3. During the closing possess it is important to ask the following questions: “Can you see yourself/mother/father living here with use? Which apartment did you like best today on our tour? Do you have any questions that have not been answered? What do you like...
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...THE GIVER Lois Lowry ← Plot Overview → The giver is written from the point of view of Jonas, an eleven-year-old boy living in a futuristic society that has eliminated all pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is no prejudice, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, and there is very little competition. Everyone is unfailingly polite. The society has also eliminated choice: at age twelve every member of the community is assigned a job based on his or her abilities and interests. Citizens can apply for and be assigned compatible spouses, and each couple is assigned exactly two children each. The children are born to Birthmothers, who never see them, and spend their first year in a Nurturing Center with other babies, or “newchildren,” born that year. When their children are grown, family units dissolve and adults live together with Childless Adults until they are too old to function in the society. Then they spend their last years being cared for in the House of the Old until they are finally “released” from the society. In the community, release is death, but it is never described that way; most people think that after release, flawed newchildren and joyful elderly people are welcomed into the vast expanse of Elsewhere that surrounds the communities. Citizens who break rules or fail to adapt properly to the society’s codes of behavior are also released, though in their cases it is an occasion of great shame. Everything is planned and organized so that life is as convenient...
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...Table of contents 1.0 Introduction………………………………………………………………………..1 2.0 Main body 1 2.1 The definition of Marketing 1 2.2 The introduction of consumer behavior 2 2.3 Culture 4 2.3.1 Aspects of culture 5 2.3.2 Myths and Rituals 6 2.3.3Sacred and Profane Consumption 9 2.3.4 Religion subcultures 11 3.0 Conclusion 12 4.0 References 13 1.0 Introduction With over 6.3 billion people, the world is a marketing oyster. The trouble or the task that most marketers face is identifying how to sell their product to those people. There are many ways to sell a product, but identifying the buying behavior of the target market and catering to those behaviors is integral in today's complex society (East, R., Wright. M, & Vanhuele, M, 2008). Culture is the patterns of behavior and thinking that people living in social groups learn, create, and share. The purpose of this report is to mainly introduce several important aspects of culture and then make some general comments on how culture has an impact on decision making of consumers. 2.0 Main body 2.1 The definition of Marketing Marketing consists of activities which lead to a situation where both the organization and the customer get what they want. It involves the creation, distribution, promotion and pricing of the organizations output. In other words it involves almost everything done within business. Marketing might sometimes be interpreted as the art of selling products, but selling is only a small fraction...
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...show woman empowerment, and promote benefits through worship. (Gupta, 2) mentions this in Kali, the Savior, “ Feminists have realized the overwhelming need for women to identify personally with positive images and role models, models that can reassert the importance of the “feminine” in all religious experience. With this realization has come the recognition of the general lack of such images and stories in most traditions.” Gupta’s argument addresses women’s inability to participate in major religious roles because men limit them to maintain power in their religious practices. Kali, a Hindu culture goddess, is an example of a goddess women can draw from to empower themselves as independent, strong women. When viewing the Hindu scriptures, called the Puranas’, there’s an underlining description of the traditional roles women are expected to play as care givers, mothers, and wives. Women are not meant to be limited to those roles, and excluded from diverse participation in Hinduism. “Hinduism is not inherently patriarchal; the equal importance of the gods and goddesses in the pantheon would seem to support this. But despite the equality and importance of the goddesses found in various scriptures, traditional Hindu life by and large has remained patriarchal (Gupta, 2).” Goddesses like Kali can be used to prove that the patriarchal role Hinduism has taken is meant to benefit men, and to a point, reduce the power...
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...Introduction Because of the severe consequences that can arise in the health care system, being ethical should be greatly. This paper includes an interview conducted on November 1St 2014, over the phone, on a patient’s hospitalization experience, and how it is related to ethics in health care. Description of Patient experience Patient A shared that she was hospitalized at Columbia University to undergo a Thymecthomy in September 2014. The patient was diagnosed in late 2005 with Myasthenia Gravis. This was patient A’s second time being hospitalized. The patient had been hospitalized in 2006 at George Washington University after having a Myasthenia Gravis crisis. However, this was Patient A’s first time having a surgery. She was put on IV for three days and being watched. Patient A has since regularly been a patient at GWU to monitor her disease. Therefore, Patient A is in regular contact with healthcare workers. Patient A tells that she was referred to a surgeon at Columbia University for a thymecthomy (Patient A, personal communication, November 1st 2014). Myasthenia Gravis is a chronic disease, and the chances of remission are rare. Thymecthomy has in certain cases improved the patient’s health after . Patient A was offered two alternatives to the surgery. An invasive one which would require an incision, or a minimally invasive one, where cameras would be inserted on the side of the chest area, leaving very little scars, and allowing for a much faster to recovery time...
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...Introduction Because of the severe consequences that can arise in the health care system, being ethical should be greatly. This paper includes an interview conducted on November 1St 2014, over the phone, on a patient’s hospitalization experience, and how it is related to ethics in health care. Description of Patient experience Patient A shared that she was hospitalized at Columbia University to undergo a Thymecthomy in September 2014. The patient was diagnosed in late 2005 with Myasthenia Gravis. This was patient A’s second time being hospitalized. The patient had been hospitalized in 2006 at George Washington University after having a Myasthenia Gravis crisis. However, this was Patient A’s first time having a surgery. She was put on IV for three days and being watched. Patient A has since regularly been a patient at GWU to monitor her disease. Therefore, Patient A is in regular contact with healthcare workers. Patient A tells that she was referred to a surgeon at Columbia University for a thymecthomy (Patient A, personal communication, November 1st 2014). Myasthenia Gravis is a chronic disease, and the chances of remission are rare. Thymecthomy has in certain cases improved the patient’s health after . Patient A was offered two alternatives to the surgery. An invasive one which would require an incision, or a minimally invasive one, where cameras would be inserted on the side of the chest area, leaving very little scars, and allowing for a much faster to recovery time...
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