...Guiding clients worldwide through the admissions maze to acceptances at 450+ top schools since 1994 Home » Medical School » Medical Sample Essays » Field of Dreams Field of Dreams I heard the familiar sound of the back door closing gently. My father was returning from driving his dirty, green John Deere tractor in one of our fields. Although he begins his day at 5:00 a.m. every morning, he usually returns at around 7:00 p.m. I never really questioned his schedule when I was a child, but as I entered high school I wondered how my dad could work so hard every day of the week and still enjoy what he does. He works long hours, becomes filthy from dirt, oil, and mud, and worst of all, can watch all his hard work go to waste if one day of bad weather wipes out our crop. There have been many years when our raisins were rained on, our cherries were hailed on and our apples were literally baked by the sun. The uncertainties of farming are so great and so challenging. It never ceases to amaze me when my father wakes up every morning to start work, that he does so with gusto. The life of a farmer can be laborious and stressful, yet my father continues to do his work with passionate enthusiasm. His dedication and pride mystified me throughout high school. Only after I entered Big U, did I start to understand how he can persevere and face the challenges of farming. I entered Big U like a small child wandering through a park. Never in my life had I been exposed to anything so grandiose...
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...The Cotton Field Tamia Denise 8B This composition will be about the daily life of a slave. From the time they wake up to the time they go to the field. The piece should last about two to three minutes long. The beats that are going to be included are clapping, stomping and humming and the beats on the cabin. The repetition will be in the beats listed above. Other viewpoints include duration and kinesthetic response. The actions will be the stomping in a single filed line and bending to reach down and get the cotton to then place it into their sacks. There will be no dialogue. This composition will require 24 people. Everything should be pretty much in unison and the mood is a sad one. Before the sun rises, all the overseers on the plantation go to each of the four cabins (there are five people in each) and in unison bang on the side of the cabin. The slaves then all get in a single file line, reach down with their left hand to put their sack onto their right side, and in unison step forward twice and then turn to the left. The line leader will then start with his left foot to begin their march. When he stomps everyone in the line follows to stomp with his or her right foot. Everyone will continue to do this in a straight line until they reach the cotton fields. From this line five people will march into each row. Before this happens, the line leader from the beginning will start a hum, and everyone else will repeat him. They continue this hum and begin to step and clap...
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...Field Of Dreams: Citi Field A road trip to a Mets game is always filled with anticipation of fun. The one and a half hour drive seems to take an eternity. Citi Field can be seen halfway over the Whitestone Bridge. Resembling Ebbets Field, its stunning architecture takes my breath away. In the parking lot, you realize just how enormous the stadium is. It looks so much larger than it is portrayed on television. Right outside the stadium, the song Meet the Mets is usually playing through the speakers. A loop of the PA announcer listing all the things that are not allowed in the stadium is played overtop the song. A security person gently pats your pockets and then signals for you to go through the turnstile. Inside, the Jackie Robinson Rotunda is beautifully designed with staircases and escalators to bring you to field level seats. To the right is the Mets Hall of Fame and team store. The hall of fame is filled with archival pictures and memorabilia. Straight ahead is a sculpture of Jackie Robinson’s number 42. First timers race to the sculpture to take pictures with it. At the top of the escalator, you finally get the sense that you’re at a ballpark. The aromas of hot dogs, burgers, and fresh roasted peanuts fill the air. The field comes into sight after you walk a little bit to the left or right. The scoreboards glisten from the sunlight. The dirt looks as soft as a pillow, and the freshly cut grass smells almost fragrant. The foul lines are pristinely...
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...Magnetic Field & Flux: Ampere’s Law & Faraday’s Law Physics 204, Yaverbaum John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the CUNY (The following consists of 4 problems) I. A long coaxial cable, a section of which is shown above, consists of a solid cylindrical conductor of radius a, surrounded by a hollow coaxial conductor of inner radius b and outer radius c. The two conductors each carry a uniformly distributed current I, but in opposite directions. The current is to the right in the outer cylinder and to the left in the inner cylinder. Assume µ = µo for all materials in this problem. a. Use Ampere's law to determine the magnitude of the magnetic field at a distance r from the axis of the cable in each of the following cases. i. 0 < r < a ii. a < r < b b. What is the magnitude of the magnetic field at a distance r = 2c from the axis of the cable? c. On the axes below, sketch the graph of the magnitude of the magnetic field B as a function of r, for all values of r. You should estimate and draw a reasonable graph for the field between b and c rather than attempting to determine an exact expression for the field in this region. II. The coaxial cable continues to carry currents I as previously described. In the cross section above, current is directed out of the page toward the reader in the inner cylinder and into the page in the outer cylinder. Point P is located between the inner and outer cylinders, a distance r from the center. A small positive charge q is introduced into...
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...and Randy Fields successfully built their business from a single cookie shop to over 400 individual store locations by combining their individual strengths. From the very beginning, Debbi’s focus has been to provide a “feel good product” and sell it “in a feel good way”. Randy clearly understood the value of Debbi’s commitment to quality products and the customer experience. He turned his vision of an MIS that “put as much decision making and intelligence into the store level PC as necessary to free the manager to do those things that uniquely people do” into a powerful strategic advantage for Mrs. Fields Cookies. The successful alignment of Mrs. Fields’ Cookies business and information systems strategies resulted in strong revenue growth and bottom line profits. The company developed an information technology platform that was more than just a business support tool. By collecting data, performing analysis and tracking results, Randy and the MIS Department created an expert system that routinely made day to day decisions for store managers. Suggestions related to daily production scheduling, sales strategies, labor demand and even hiring decisions were routinely generated by the company’s management information system. The sophistication of this tool allowed Debbi to maintain a strong influence on day to day store operations even as the number of locations exploded. From the beginning, Debbi committed herself to a strategy that would ensure each Mrs. Fields’ Cookies...
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...During World War One, poet John McCrae wrote many pieces of literature. He published many short stories but was most famous for his poem In Flanders Fields. This poem uses many instances of symbolism and imagery to convey the main idea to the reader. In the first line it says "In Flanders Fields the poppies blow". The poppy is known as a symbol of sleep. The last line "We shall not sleep, though poppies grow / In Flanders Fields" point to this fact. Some kinds of poppies can be used to derive opium, from which morphine can be made. Morphine is one of the strongest painkillers and was often used to put a wounded soldier to sleep. Sometimes medical doctors used it in a higher dose to put the incurably wounded out of their misery. Poppies were also the only plant that grew in the western front during the war, and during that time poppies were constantly being blown into the author's face, which gave him reason enough and the inspiration to include them in the poem. Other symbols in this poem include the larks, sited in lines four and five. The idea McCrae conveys in this stanza is the fragility of human life "The larks, still bravely singing, fly / Scarce heard amid the guns below." The lark (bird) is known for its careless free spirit that symbolizes the oblivious people living in areas free from war. Meaning while life is being snatched away from the soldiers, people like us are carrying on with our carefree lives oblivious to the horrors of the battlefield. The last stanza...
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...Overview Mrs. Fields Cookies was founded by Debbi Fields in the late 1970s. She and her husband Randy Fields opened their first store in 1977 in Palo Alto, California, selling homemade-style cookies which quickly grew in popularity. Products Mrs. Fields Cookies came in 14 varieties. All baked products were made on premises in the individual stores and the company especially focused on the fresh cookies. If the cookies are not sold within two hours, they were given away and discarded. Competitors Mrs. Fields competitors included New York’s David’s Cookies, Atlanta’s Original Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Company, and the Nestle Company’s Original Cookie Co. Challenges 1. Low barriers to entry and mall locations competition In the early 1980s, cookies were cheap to make and the barriers of sweet snack industry to entry were low. There were many cookies producers and many consumers in the market, and no business had total control over the market price. Because some 80% of Mrs. Fields outlets were in shopping malls, so the competition for the most favorable mall locations was fierce. 2. Franchising Financing and performance of exchange market Mrs. Fields had consistently refused to franchise their stores, because “she viewed franchising as a loss of control over the end product and loss of touch with the customers”. To find bank financing and additional capital for expansion, Mrs. Fields tried to go public and made initial public offering on the London exchange...
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...“Field of Bull” Realism is all about showing the truth. A realist will try to defend the assumptions that their film ideas are not influenced, but are a true mirror of the actual world. We rarely notice the style in a realistic movie; they often aim for a gritty look, with the idea that if it’s too pretty, it’s false. Their films are about everyday people and everyday situations. At the opposite side of realism, we have Formalism. Formalist directors have no desire to show reality. They want to show their personal vision of the world and how they want their audience to view it. They are concerned with mythical and spiritual truths that can best be represented by distorting the image of reality. Classicism to bring in a third theory is all about ideal storytelling, it lies somewhere in between realism and formalism. (Understanding Movies 5) The goal of a classicist is to tell a story in the best way possible. They want you to get caught up in the characters and their problems, to feel what they feel, but not be distracted by the filmmaking techniques. The two films we screened in class Bull Durham directed by Ron Shelton, and Field of Dreams based on the novel Shoeless Joe directed by Phil Alden Robinson both demonstrate these film theories throughout their movies but in a very different matter. Bull Durham is a great realistic example of what the sport of baseball means to the men who play it. It's all about the dreams, the desire to compete, and the ultimate goal to one day...
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...Thomas Sammartino Professor Hargraves College Writing 1005-004 16 February 2015 Lambeau Field Lambeau Field is one of the most iconic and historic football stadiums in America. Only few have had the opportunity to visit the “frozen tundra” first hand and experience the greatest football city in the United States. Being a lifelong Packers fan, it has been something out of my wildest dreams to go to Lambeau Field and experience a Packers game in person. Experiencing the Packer fans, the different kinds of foods and aromas, and seeing the players perform right in front of my eyes is what made this experience so memorable. Watching the Green Bay Packers play live at Lambeau Field was one of the most memorable moments of my life. The most passionate fans I have ever seen are the Green Bay Packers fans. Ever since I stepped off the plane in Green Bay, the only colors I saw were green and gold. The Green Bay local supported their Packers to the point where it looked like people were from a different planet if they were not wearing the teams colors. Game day for the Green Bay fans is like Christmas in other cities. Not one person is working and everyone is either at home preparing for the game or at Lambeau tailgating at the crack of dawn. There is one Packer fan who takes it up a notch for his passion for the packers and that is St. Vincent Lombardi. Dressed in a green robe with gold accents and packer logo on his hat, this fan dresses as a bishop with the name of one of the...
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...“There's another law stronger than the common law. The law of the land.” Two short sentences sum up what The Field is all about. A dark metaphor of gritty life on the land, set on the Irish countryside. The Field succeeds in being dark, very dark. Adapted to the screen from the John B. Keene play of the same name much of the symbolism translates, however most of the character development fails to make the journey. The Field centers on “Bull” McCabe (Richard Harris), a man whose family has farmed a field for generations and intends to do the same for generations to come. This bearded and battered old man has little else to show for his efforts than the fertile soil he rents from a local, mysterious, widow. He continually offers her what little he has for the land to no avail and carries on tending to this land that isn’t his. Here the story could end - Bull would persist on and be happy, though his gruff exterior wouldn’t let on - and no play or movie would be required. But when a smooth American played by Tom Berenger comes on the scene with money to spend and intentions do so McCabe’s simple plans go enormously awry. The field goes on the market for public auction as the widow changes her tune from ‘I won’t sell’, to ‘I’ll sell to whomever, whenever as long as the price is right’. The combination of the auction and the American trigger turmoil and all the formerly contented townsfolk can’t keep to themselves. Meanwhile Bull and his son Tadgh (Sean Bean) decide to...
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... Section: ___________________ Electric Fields In step 9 you are asked to draw the conductors’ locations on the graph paper and label them with the voltage readings of your voltmeter. In step 10 you are asked “How far does this path go? Sketch this pattern on your graph paper and label the line with the voltage you chose” In step 12 you are asked to predict the path it would take by drawing a line with your colored pen or pencil. Questions: A. What generalizations can you make from this exploration? B. Where would a positive test charge have the least potential energy? A positive test charge would have the least potential energy next to the conductor at 0 volts. C. How much energy must you add to the system to move 1 electron 1 m in a direction along one of the equal potential lines? No work is needed to move 1 electron 1m in a direction along one of the equal potential lines D. If lightning strikes a tree 20 m away would it be better to stand facing the tree, your back to the tree, or your side to the tree? Assume your feet are a comfortable shoulder width apart. Explain your answer. If the person stood with the side facing the tree, the feet would be at different potentials and a dangerous shock could occur. If the field around the tree is uniform, facng back against the tree would place both feet I equal potential and no shock would occur. Facing...
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...Mrs. Fields’ Cookies Case Study Assignment 1. Would you describe Mrs. Fields’ Cookies as more of a functional hierarchy structured along traditional functional lines or more of an IT-enabled network consisting of tailored business processes? I would describe the organizational structure of Mrs. Fields’ Cookies as being an IT-enabled network consisting of tailored business processes. Throughout the different sections of the case study, several examples support the notion that Mrs. Fields’ organizational structure aligns with the descriptions and characteristics of a networked structure. The importance that the organization places on Information Strategy and the innovative control processes in place also support this claim. In order to prove this, I’ll start by discussing the basic descriptions and characteristics of a networked organizational structure. Then, I’ll demonstrate through examples how Mrs. Fields’ is a proper fit to these descriptions and characteristics. Pearlson and Saunders describe a networked organizational structure as formal and informal communication networks that connect all parts of the company, as opposed to the bureaucratic form with defined levels of management in a hierarchal structure. Randy and Debbi Fields did not like the idea of a hierarchy because they believed it leads to a focus on managing people instead of business processes. At Mrs. Fields’ Cookies, there was no official organizational chart. Although there were job titles and responsibilities...
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...On this day, Artillery as a whole was born. Even though Field Artillery and Air Defense Artillery are two separate branches now, both inherit Artillery traditions.The roots of the Artillery branch insignia goes as far back as 1834 in which the insignia that we have now was just two gold cannons were crossed over each other and worn on artillery officer’s caps. In this time, Artillery was just starting out as a branch of the Army. The equipment that they had was in a more temporary state, for the reason that the fundings for Artillery as a branch...
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...EM Fields and Waves Assignment 1 Energy and Potential In Electric Field it solution Contents Introduction: 3 Electric Field Intensity: 3 Electric Field Strength (First Formula): 3 Electric Field Strength (Second Formula): 4 Energy: 5 Potential Difference and Potential: 5 Electric Potential at a point due to Point charge: 6 Potential Gradient: 8 Conclusion: 10 Table of Figures: Figure 1: Field is radial 8 Introduction: As we know that every electrically charged particle exerts an equal and opposite force on other charged particle/object. These electrically charged particles are surrounded by a field known as electric field. Electric field helps in depicting the force which these particles exert on each other. It is a vector field and its SI unit is NC-1. We use coulombs’ law to find electric field of different charged particles. But as it is quite complicated because of its vector analysis and integration for each component, we try to find a much simple way to find it, in which single integration can give us the required scalar quantity, which can be used to find electric field. This scalar quantity is known as potential or potential field. Electric Field Intensity: The electric field of a charged particle explains the strength of a charged particle depending on its distance from that specific point. The charge also tends to change that field accordingly when any other particle tries to enter...
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...P7/P8 Magnetic Field Characteristics report. Magnetic Flux and Flux Density- The magnetic flux of a material is the amount of magnetic field or magnetic flux density passing through a surface. You can calculate this by finding the average magnetic field times the perpendicular area. Magnetic flux is given the symbol Φ and is measured in units called Webers (Wb). For a closed surface, the sum of magnetic flux is always equal to zero. The magnetic flux density can also be known as the density of magnetic lines of force that pass through specific area. The flux density is measured in the units of ‘tesla’. 1 T is equal to 1 Wbm -2 . After analysing the B/H graph below you can see that the more magnetic field strength the greater flux density, if we look at the steel, when it reaches a flux density value of 1.5 then it reaches its magnetic saturation this is when it can’t increase the magnetization of the material further, this means that the flux density will more then likely level off. The flux density increases highly as the field strength increases than when it reaches the magnetic saturation point then it won't increase much more. The magnetic saturation point puts a limit on the maximum effective strength to drive your coil. There will be no benefit at all if you exceed this, only wasted heat. Excess heat on the coil can also cause it to fail. The material permeability maximum point is when the graph starts to curve and go away from the straight positive correlation line...
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