...The Wanderer is in a constant state of longing and sadness, while Sir Gawain is determined and optimistic. The Wanderer spends much of his time in self-pity, lamenting his exiled state and finding everything that is wrong with the world. On the other hand, Sir Gawain is resolved to positivity despite his dire straits. Although Sir Gawain remains motivated, he experiences many of the same feelings as the wanderer when he is on his journey. “He had no friend but his horse in the forests and hills, no man on his march to commune with but God,” (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 38, lines 695-696). Sir Gawain tends to see his situation as a glass half full, while the Wanderer sees it as half empty. “Time and again at the day’s dawning I must...
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...“The Wanderer”, written and composed by anonymous, is an old poem in English poetry. The date that this poem was written in is still unknown, along with the original composer. The sorrowful mood of the story attracts the reader’s attention. This Anglo-Saxon poem has been passed down generations, originating from an Exeter book. The anonymous author used the right setting for imagery to help readers visualize what they are reading. The anonymous author of “The Wanderer” divides the poem into two distinct parts, considering the poem transitions from personal experience to providing a lesson, giving this story multiple narrators. The central perseverance of this Anglo-Saxon poem is to communicate a message about morality- Christian...
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...called--"The Wanderer," "The Seafarer," "The Wife's Lament," "The Husband's Message," and "The Ruin"--are found here. These are secular poems evoking a poignant sense of desolation and loneliness in their descriptions of the separation of lovers, the sorrows of exile, or the terrors and attractions of the sea, although some of them--e.g., "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer"--also carry the weight of religious allegory. In addition, the Exeter Book preserves 95 riddles, a genre that would otherwise have been represented by a solitary example. The remaining part of the Exeter Book includes "The Rhyming Poem," which is the only example of its kind; the gnomic verses; "Widsith," the heroic narrative of a fictitious bard; and the two refrain poems, "Deor" and "Wulf and Eadwacer." The arrangement of the poems appears to be haphazard, and the book is believed to be copied from an earlier collection. Copied upon the following web pages are those riddles translated from the Anglo Saxon language to modern day English. After a thousand years of wear and tear (at one point the books front cover was used as a cutting board and coaster for beer) some of the pages have been damaged. Some to the point of not being able to be...
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...When a migrant leaves their homeland, in search of a better life, physical hardship and emotional turmoil may ensue. This is expressed in Peter Skrzynecki’s poem, ‘Crossing the Red Sea,’ when Peter himself was a migrant who travelled to Australia. The poem portrays the physical distress and the emotional disturbance experienced by the Skrynecki family, as they journey to pursue a better quality of life. This is depicted in the line “stretched out on blankets and pillows against cabins and rails.” The author has conveyed the physical distress in the poem through the use of vivid imagery. As a result, this line describes the physical hardships experienced by the composer and conveys to the audience how the migrant experience is seen as uneasy and uncomfortable. “Against cabins and rails” suggest the conditions in which the migrants are experiencing is very congested and restricted, emphasising the challenges and hardships encountered by migrants choosing to leave their homeland. Furthermore, Skrynecki describes the emotional turmoil experienced by the migrants, by signifying how the consequences of war has affected the refugees. The poet has accomplished this through the use of juxtaposition and the colour red as a motif. This is addressed in the third stanza of the poem as it states, “I remember a field of red poppies, once behind the forest. Blood leaves similar dark stains- when it runs for a long time on stones or rusted iron.” This citation acknowledges how the trauma of war...
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...Challenging Exile 'Exile' comes from the Old French word 'essil', meaning "state of banishment, also devastation, destruction" (OED). In William Shakespeare's late dramas, especially Pericles and Cymbeline, exile and banishment are not presented exclusively as punishments. Exile and banishment are presented as separations from society that allow characters to be renewed and transformed. This is a new type of exile, one which values reform and renewal over punishment. This remarkable difference is caused by nature. Characters in these plays are set on new courses by storms, and educated by woods and beasts. Yet this change in the causes and functions of exile are not merely artistic expressions of Renaissance banishment customs. Banishment was a common punishment in Shakespeare's Britain, and these plays especially may have been subtle responses to the overwhelming power of monarchs, or symbolic of Shakespeare's estrangement from his own theatrical work. They are empowering commentaries on the dominion of rulers over their subjects, and humbling accounts of nature's dominion over all humanity. The manifestations of exile and banishment in William Shakespeare’s plays have changed throughout his career. Banishment in the late Shakespeare plays finds the exiled people banished to very distant places, across seas and in other countries. However, the causes and functions of banishment are not always the same throughout the late plays. Pericles leaves Tyre on Helicanus’s advice. The...
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...Elden Lashley Jill Decker English 101 61213 Lashley1 J.R.R Tolkien J.R.R Tolkien is the writer and creator of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings books. Which are four of my favorite books of all time, especially the Lord of the Rings. His creativity and ability to immerse you in a world is unlike any other I've seen or experienced. "If you really want to know what Middleearth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth." – J.R.R. Tolkien. I love his books and now I'm here to tell you a little about his life. J.R.R Tolkien or John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein South Africa on January 3rd, 1892. To his father and mother Arthur Tolkien and Mabel Tolkien. After his father died when he was just 4 years old, his mother took him and his little brother Hilary to hamlet of Sarehole, in Birmingham, England. His mother then died in 1904 and he and his brother were sent to live with relatives and then in boarding homes. with a catholic priest gaining guardianship in Birmingham. He would go on to get his first class degree at Exeter College, specializing in AngloSaxon and Germanic languages and classic literature. He enlisted as a lieutenant Lancashire Fusiliers and served in World War I, making sure he kept writing though. He fought in the battle of somme in which there were many deaths,“I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.” ―J.R.R. Tolkien. he eventually was released from duty due to illness...
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...American cultural metaphor even after 300 years. Universally, Salem is forever branded as an event in history where accusing and executing a group of accused women because a local trend. Professor Adams earned her PhD from the University of New Hampshire and now teaches courses at Texas Tech University. She delivers lectures on the early national period of U.S. History, topics in History and Memory, and Historical Methods and Historiography. She was tenured and promoted in 2008, and has published several articles and encyclopedia essays correlated to her research. Her most current major publications were The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century...
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...Review your role, responsibilities and boundaries as a teacher in terms of the teaching and training cycle. & Summarise the key aspects of current legislative requirements and codes of practice relevant to your subject and type of organization within which you work. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William A. Ward (www.adprima.com), 2011 Teaching is both an art and science. Science because it is a systematic knowledge gained through observation and experimentation (exploration) and art because it is the craft which uses specific principles and methods (creative).A proficient teacher has to make sure that both aspects are applied while blending in to the environment. Teaching as a profession has changed over a period of time and so has the role of a teacher. The conventional role of a teacher was to just impart information to students and students were expected to learn and understand it. Now, with extensive research done on how student learn, a new insight has developed and hence the role of teacher has changed. Innumerable learning theories, e.g. Sensory, Kolb’s experiential theory, Skinner’s behaviorist’s theory and the learning domains (Cognitive, Psychomotor, Affective) Gravells (2008),(Behavioral, Cognitive and Humanistic) Roger (1996) have been identified and related to diverse strategies to cope with individual learning styles. On the other hand, Reece and Walker (2006)...
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...Beowulf, A History of the English Church and People, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and The Exeter Book. • Important Medieval works include Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Le Morte D’Arthur, Everyman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and ballads (“Get Up and Bar the Door”, “Sir Patrick Spens”, “Bonny Barbara Allan”). What essential question(s) will be considered? • What are the elements of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval literature? What key...
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...A student in Higher Education and a Future Healthcare Practitioner. In this essay I will explore my initial reflections on my role as a student in higher education. There will a discussion on my role as a future healthcare practitioner and the efforts I need to make to achieve the professional status of a nurse. I will discuss my learning styles and identify key developmental needs to be addressed. There will be discussions on the concepts of professionalism and accountability. In the United Kingdom today all newly qualified nurses must have a nursing degree as required by The Nursing and Midwifery Council. This significant overhaul to Florence Nightingale’s eighteenth century era, apprenticeship style learning system (Bradshaw, A. 2001), has led to fundamental changes in nursing education in the twenty first century; both in theory and practice. Today nurses are challenged with up-to date demands, including innovative medical treatments, leading to an aging population, with complex health values (Cherry, B. 2005). In addition, knowledgeable patients, who are averse to being told what to do but expect greater involvement in their own care planning. The need for graduate nurses is supported by the Willis Commission Report (2012) which argues that ‘our future healthcare services will require graduate nurses nursing and leading healthcare teams in a variety of roles, providing care in many settings’. The concept of accountability and professionalism was highlighted at the...
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...is short: an episode, no more. Consequently, since Elias’s focus was upon the changes that have taken place in western Europe since 1350, certain underlying patterns in human history had to remain in the background. Elias himself was aware of this, and in later writings he 1 Journal of World History, Vol. 3, No. 1 © 1992 by University of Hawai‘i Press *This is the slightly abridged text of the first Norbert Elias lecture, delivered at the University of Leicester on 6 March 1991. 1 For further information on the book and its background, see Stephen Mennel, Norbert Elias: Civilization and the Human Self-Image (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989). See also Hermann Korte, Über Norbert Elias: Das Werden eines Menschenwissenschaftlers (Franklurt: Suhrkamp, 1988); Johan Goudsblom, Sociology in the Balance (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1977), pp. 143–50; Goudsblom, “Responses to Norbert Elias’s Work,” in Peter R. Gleichmann et al., eds., Human Figurations: Essays for / Aufsätze für Norbert Elias (Amsterdam: Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift, 1977), pp. 37–98;...
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...Dictator? David Williamson examines two seemingly irreconcilable schools of though Perhaps of all the exam questions set on the Third Reich, `Was Hitler a Weak Dictator?' is the most difficult. It leads to the heart of the complex Intentionalist-Structuralist debate. On the one hand, there are the Intentionalist historians who argue forcefully in the words of Norman Rich that `Hitler was master in the Third Reich', while the Structuralists stress the many constraints on Hitler's power which range from his own personal inadequacies to the limits imposed upon him by the structure of the Nazi party and state. Mommsen, for instance, argues that he was `in many ways a weak dictator', (1) and David Irving in one of his earlier and less outrageous books even goes so far as to describe him as `probably the weakest leader Germany has known this century'. (2) The weak dictator/leader argument is paradoxical and is bitterly contested by a formidable array of historians who include, amongst many others, Bullock, Bracher, Dawidowicz, Hildebrand, and Jackel, who argue that Hitler had a programme and possessed the necessary powers to implement it. Bracher and Bullock, for instance, see Hitler as an immensely cunning politician who would use any tactic to further his aims. Bullock stresses that his foreign policy is only explicable if seen as a combination of `consistency of aim with complete opportunism in method and tactics'. (3) It is certainly hard to make out a case for Hitler being a weak...
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...2012 Scholarships for International Students to Study in USA and Abroad The Scholarship-Positions.com is the premier financial aid, college scholarship and international scholarship resource for students wishing to study abroad. Here you will find the most comprehensive listing of grants, scholarships, loan programs, and other information to assist college and university students. There are billions of dollars available for scholarships around the world, but you can’t win them if you don’t apply. This scholarships catalog includes some of the most prestigious scholarships which can also be applied by Non-U.S. Citizens [International Students]. Fulbright Scholarships http://www.iie.org/ Educational exchanges that strengthen understanding and communication between the United States and over students from 140 countries. Students interested in applying for the Fulbright Student Program must apply through the Fulbright Program Office in their home country. Gates Cambridge Scholarships http://www.gatescambridge.org/apply/ One to three years of study in any discipline at Cambridge University. Candidates apply directly through Cambridge. Canon Collins Educational Trust http://www.canoncollins.org.uk/ Full scholarship for nationals from Southern African countries South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Angola and Mozambique) who wish to pursue a postgraduate degree (normally a one year Master’s degree) in either the United Kingdom or southern Africa...
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...rationale behind nursing practice and allows for the delivery of optimal nursing care. Evidence-Based Nursing (EBN) involves the process of researching and implementing proven evidence in providing better patient care and is crucial as the role of the nurse is ever expanding (Banning, 2005). This essay will demonstrate that as a student nurse, the author has gained the necessary skills to conduct an evidence-based literature search and review and implement that knowledge into practice. Starting with a brief discussion on EBN it will go on to identify a suitable research question. During a placement on a medical ward the author noticed that nurses experienced many interruptions whilst conducting medication rounds and this review will consider ways to minimise interruptions and thus improve patient safety. Using the PICO acronym a suitable research question was formulated, ‘do interruptions during medication rounds increase the drugs administration errors made by nurses?’ A short description of the literature search is given and a summary of findings is presented in tabular form. Five original articles were selected and one chosen to critically appraise (see appendix 2). The rest of the essay will focus on reviewing the five articles. It will furthermore demonstrate the link between interruptions during drug rounds and patient and nurse safety, consider the implications of the studies for nursing practice and include the nurse’s perspective of these interruptions. Dale (2005) defines...
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...3000 word essay on patient with left sided stroke with one identified health need/problem: Dysphagia Student Name: Dashante` Burgess Green Cohort- Group 1 Module: NIP 1000 Word count: 3,010 A stroke is a life changing disease and sudden attack of weakness to one side of the body resulting from a interruption to the flow of blood going to the brain that can be a minor attack and resolved in a few days or major attack leaving the person with physical disabilities and cognitive deficit (McFerran 2008). Therefore, stroke can affect the quality of life of an individual from the lack of communication, mobility and independence and intern can cause one to become depressed. This essay is concerning the case of Mr. Alfred Smith who was admitted to hospital with muscle and facial weakness with asymmetry and no movement to the left side of his body. He was eventually diagnosed with left-sided stroke resulting in right-sided hemiplegia affecting his balance and mobility. With the many health problems associated with stroke this essay will focus more on the problem of dysphagia and the patient’s needs related to this particular problem. Dysphagia is a condition in which the action of swallowing is either difficult or where the swallowed material seems to be held in its passage (McFerren 2008). The assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation (A.P.I.E) of the patient on admission and discharge will be discussed in further and more precise detail throughout the essay while maintaining...
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