...Ian Dahlroth Contemporary lit Mrs. Kinkella May 10 2013 Jesus Land Jesus Land is a memoir authored by Julia Scheeres that shows a glimpse into an atypical family living in rural Indiana in the 1970’s. The riveting book presents broad ideas that are found in everyday life. The memoir is primarily focused on her relationship with her close-in-age brother David, who was adopted by the Scheeres family in 1970 when he was 3 years old. Although not related or the fact David is a few months younger than her, Julia expresses feelings as if David is her twin brother. When the Scheeres family moved to Lafayette; Julia, David and her other African-American brother Jerome are forced to cope with the hardships a teen faces when moving to a new town and from a small christian school to a large public school where David and Jerome are the only minorities. In the new setting, the Scheeres brothers experience prejudice and racial intolerance in the mostly white community of Lafayette, Indiana. This change in schools is just the beginning of a disconnected family and inner strength brought out in Jesus Land. Julia writes about her rebellious and problematic upbringing in a strict christian home. She struggles to connect with her adopted african-american brother in adolescence even though they were inseparable during childhood. She is also distant from her morally defixed mother that cares more about making God proud than raising...
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...23 January 2005 Article 92 The text definition of Art. 92 is: “Any person subject to this chapter who— (1) violates or fails to obey any lawful general order or regulation; (2) having knowledge of any other lawful order issued by a member of the armed forces, which it is his duty to obey, fails to obey the order; or (3) is derelict in the performance of his duties; shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.” In a legal sense, this translates in meaning to having been given an order, or knowing that an order has been given in regards to a situation or job role, an individual has a) disregarded those instructions or b) has gone about their job in a fashion that disregards the normal standards to which they are accountable. So in this an Article 92 offense can be either a case of a deliberate action or a case of negligence (which is often defined as actions taken without intention to commit a crime, but in disregard of standards and their legal consequences which one can reasonably be expected to know and understand). For a willful disobedience of an order, this would mean deliberately ignoring or disregarding issued orders from NCOs, Warrant, or Commissioned officers in regards to lawful duty, both in specific and general authority roles. For Neglect, this would mean a soldier knows current standards and expectations that are a part of their job, and for whatever reason, disregards them. This correlates with my conduct, in that I...
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...Home-Style Cookies Ashford University BUS 644 Professor Michael Snell August 29, 2011 Briefly describe the cookie production process. Everything starts when management gets the orders from the distributors, which are then scheduled and put onto a list. The list for the day is then given at the beginning of the shift to the person in charge of mixing. The person then checks the master list for the ingredients needed for each type of cookie. The person in charge if mixing then puts the information into the computer and the computer figures out what is exactly needed according to the quantity and the type of cookies needed. The computer then sends the information it configures to the storage silos that are located outside of the plant where the main ingredients are located. All of the ingredients needed are automatically sent to the giant mixing machines where everything is mixed together into a batter. The batter is then put into cutting machines that cut the batter into individual diagonal cookies. The cut cookies are then put onto a conveyer belt that will send them through one of the two ovens. There are some cookies that have filling and those cookies are first filled and folded before they are sent into the oven. Once the cookies come out of the oven they are then sent onto spiral cooling racks 20 feet high and three feet wide. As the cookies are finished with the cooling process workers manually put the cookies into boxes and while they are doing this they remove...
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...at the significant age or maturity factors. Looking back at two faced best friends, lying boyfriends or girlfriends or jealous co-workers reminds us how desperately we looked for solutions that would work in the interest of helping us win. Oscar Wild once said: “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them more”. Although forgiveness is a beautiful act of kindness, being annoying towards enemies is the perfect tool to achieve ones goal, which is winning. It creates distraction, provides with an invincible armor, and most importantly no one wants to be around an annoying person, which will keep the enemy distant. Primarily, annoying the opponents by forgiving them creates a distraction and will confuse them. Forgiveness is the last thing they would have expected from someone whom they are bullying. Enemies usually are prepared to fight, physically or verbally, and they are pumped up with anger and frustration. Forgiving defuses the situation, and in some way takes “fuel” out of the opponent. That also gives people a reason to start a dialog and resolve their conflict. Distraction takes the attention away from someone, and what’s most important is that it helps achieve peace, which is our main goal. For instance, we see this in children’s interactions, when several kids are playing together. There is often a child that wants to cause trouble. If all other kids “feel into it” and fight or get upset, the troublemaker will continue his/her behavior. However, if all other children...
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...English assignment ’Section A’ 1. Write a summary of "Bad stress, good stress" in about 150 words. Text two. Bad stress, good stress by Sacha Bonsor is an article that deals with the issue of coping with stress. Stress is your body's way of responding to any kind of demand, it can be caused by both good and bad experiences. Sacha Bonsor starts off be saying that stress has become a too common word and an overrated term in modern language which she highlights with the growing statistics over stress from the UK economy. The article also mentions ‘psychological flexibility’. This is a term increasingly used by academics and psychologists, to describe people who use their fearful situations for a constructive end. Some people tries to avoid stress in their lives, in some situations its damaging but it’s also vital to our health and well being. 2. Outline of the various stress-related problems. Stress is your body's way of responding to any kind of demand; it can be caused by both good and bad experiences. The least stressful jobs could be dinner ladies, unlike teachers who experience it daily in the class. “Mind and body this week”: Danger: “Stress at work” by Eilish O’Reagan. Eilish O’Reagan tells us about which jobs have the biggest stress hold and the lowest. The least stressful job could be dinner ladies, because they don’t interact with children the whole day, only during break times. One of the most stressful jobs is being a teacher, because they unlike the...
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...stages of ‘life,’ beginning with pre-natal development, and moving through infancy, the toddler state, early childhood, childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age, and finally moving though observations in old age to gain a holistic scope of the human experience. Instead of approaching each topic in blind succession, this paper will demonstrate human development in a streaming, dynamic, more lifelike manner. ! Super-analytical research type folk start picking apart and studying, like lab-rats, human beings before they are even born. These pre-natal findings are compared along side average results to let the parenting humans know if their child to be will be ‘disabled’, ‘challenged’, a ‘failure to thrive’, or just ‘normal.’ Is it a good thing that we can look a wee bit into the future? Ever seen the movie GATTICA? If you have seen the movie, you’ll probably have a slight headache and swear never to watch it again, but you may also understand that a perverted future of scientifically/sociologically altered humans is to come. Not so much superhumans that can fly, etc. but a society that has weeded out the week, and is composed of only those who will positively succeed. Another video, THX: 1138 may also be of interest. In our society today, we are already effecting the overall composition of our population with our medical decisions. We decide to keep the old around for a long time and draw out their decline, we decide to give kids a better chance of...
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...Blistered Home When I hear the word “home”, the first thing that comes into my mind is a quiet, cozy place where I feel content. Although if someone were to ask me where my hometown is, I would say, “Angeles City,” because that is the only logical answer. I know and feel that this lively city with a hodgepodge of colorful people does not feel anything like my idea of home, but it is where I’ve lived for the entirety of my life and I will acknowledge that. Angeles City, commonly known as the “Entertainment Capital of the Philippines”, is not exactly that but it sure is close. If you know where to go and what to do, there’s never a dull moment when you’re here. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a more peculiar place. If you’ve ever been to Angeles City, the first thing you’ll most likely notice is the haphazard smorgasbord of eatery scattered everywhere. This is because according to most people, this city serves only the best food. Growing up, I have been able to experience the cultural taste of Angeles and without realizing it, I inevitably became used to the overload of flavor present in our food; so much that whenever we eat someplace when we go on vacations, everything just seems bland in comparison. It is not only our food that is queer, but the residents are as well. Because our food is well known, some people judge our way of living based on that but while our food is traditional, us residents are anything but. In fact, I would say we’re the opposite...
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...Knowledge in Action exercise 7, page 48: Computers are almost everywhere, and they affect most walks of life-business, education, government, the military, hobbies, shopping, research, and so on. What aspects of your life can you think of that still seem relatively unaffected by computers and technology? Is this a good thing or a bad thing, and is it likely to last? What aspects of your life have been the most conspicuously affected by technology? Has anything been made worse or harder in your life by the advance of computers? What about things that have been made better or easier? As an active duty sailor in the United States Navy, I can honestly say that technology is apart of my everyday life. Every morning I wake up to a digital alarm that rings on my phone. I schedule my appointments on a calendar on my laptop. I even plan my outings and trips all while using an application on my I Pad. All in all technology is very convenient, exciting, and it enhances the tasks that I need to accomplish everyday. There are however, aspects of my life that are not controlled or altered by computers or technology. A simple face-to-face conversation is something that cannot be replaced by technology. Sure there are applications like Skype and Face Time, that allow us to communicate over distances, both which I use daily. But the simple idea of a conversation between two people together is still rewarding. Another area of my life that remains relatively unaffected by technology...
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...changes should be made to reflect a more rounded feedback loop. Performance Review Session with James McGaran James is going to receive an overall Par rating for his performance review based on the criteria set out in the Citibank review procedure. The procedure lays out that if you have any area in the review that is below par the highest overall score can be only Par. (Harvard, 1999) Approach to the feedback session with James The approach to give James feedback on his performance for 1996 would be to follow the performance review form. And go over the criterion that was used to select each rating in the performance review section. In James’ review, his performance and selected ratings setup a good news start and low point in the middle, followed by good news. Then leaves with what will be a disappointing overall review rating to a leader like James, with a Par rating. In...
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...most obsurd thing they had ever heard of, injecting deadly toxins into your body. According to Brown, Botox has now become the “number-one most-performed nonsurgical dermatologic procedure” (240). One of the first wrinkle fillers to be introduced to the U.S., a “toxin” made from the same protein that causes botulism created quite a stir. Wunder stated “Botox injections are no longer limited to Hollywood types and the super rich” (62) anymore it has taken the stay at home moms to the working class mothers and fathers to a whole new beauty regiem. With the economy being at the lowest, women and men are still having their faces refreshed on a routine scheduled visit at their favorite dermatologist or plastic surgeons office. Picking a trained physicihian is one of the most critical parts of using the neurotoxin. Botox is not only for beauty anymore, now uses for the toxin is helping other areas of health issues in men and women. As negative issues reached the news about the use of Botox, one of the scariest was when Begley stated “one of the deadliest posions in nature and a possible bioterroism agent, this neurotoxin reached the market, in very dilute doses”. Many factors must be taken in to consideration when a person is going to try the injectable neurotoxin Botox. There is always the possibility of those “potential pitfalls in untrained hands or if overused, injecting this toxin could lead to a frozen face or a drooping effect” according to Janes (65). Other things to consider...
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...August 2013 When people hurt themselves lifting heavy things, it's usually because they try to lift with their back. The right way to lift heavy things is to let your legs do the work. Inexperienced founders make the same mistake when trying to convince investors. They try to convince with their pitch. Most would be better off if they let their startup do the work—if they started by understanding why their startup is worth investing in, then simply explained this well to investors. Investors are looking for startups that will be very successful. But that test is not as simple as it sounds. In startups, as in a lot of other domains, the distribution of outcomes follows a power law, but in startups the curve is startlingly steep. The big successes are so big they dwarf the rest. And since there are only a handful each year (the conventional wisdom is 15), investors treat "big success" as if it were binary. Most are interested in you if you seem like you have a chance, however small, of being one of the 15 big successes, and otherwise not. [1] (There are a handful of angels who'd be interested in a company with a high probability of being moderately successful. But angel investors like big successes too.) How do you seem like you'll be one of the big successes? You need three things: formidable founders, a promising market, and (usually) some evidence of success so far. Formidable The most important ingredient is formidable founders. Most investors decide in the...
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...Daniel Sweeten 9/24/14 Wednesday Night Would Cybersecurity Professionalization Help Address the Cybersecurity Crisis? Professionalization over cybersecurity is an issue that has been debated by professionals and governments ever since cyber-attacks started to become a threat to the security of nations, governments and business alike. However some of the issues are that the field moves too fluid for a set of standards to be put in place to govern the field as a whole, and that in a realistic real world approach that is not feasible. However ever since agencies started trying to professionalize the cybersecurity field it has drawn in new, fresh potential employees to the industry which is always a good thing. However with trying to put too many strict policies in place to weed out these new candidates it is reducing the possibility of a more qualified person even attempting due to overreaching pre requirements. The Department of Homeland Security sponsored a national research project that found realistically such professionalization can only be undertaken for specific occupations within the field, but not for the field as a whole. Depending on who you seem to ask depends on if you are told that drawing in every applicable candidate and then attempting to weed them out, or by over filtering the entrance requirements so that only the most ethical and moral are accepted into the cybersecurity field. We have found out in the past that most of the more successful individuals...
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...Michaels Custom Woodworking Ltd. Additional Information Company Update Although 2001 was a good year financially for MCW, the implemented changes put a lot of pressure on Brook, David, and Lynn. Both David and Lynn experienced a great deal of stress from all of the driving, and the considerable amount of time that David spent in Louisiana added to the strain on him. When the production lines were first implemented, Brook had to spend much more time involved with day-to-day production than he had planned. As a result, although he built a few made-to-order cabinets, he was unable to test the custom market properly. 2002 In early 2002, Brook extended the contract with BKP for a further 12 months, agreeing to provide quarterly shipments of 1,800 boxes (7,200 annually). At the same time, Brook decided to hire a local assembler in order to resolve the assembly issue, and to invest in a second trailer in order to facilitate the delivery process. He was able to acquire a previously owned trailer in good condition for $25,000. The plan was for Lynn and David to drive the boxes to Louisiana non-stop, drop off a full trailer, and bring back an empty one. If it was convenient, they would pick up a load to bring back, but they were not to spend a lot of time trying to find one. Quality control would have to be performed on the assembled product. This arrangement worked as well as could be expected in spite of its limitations. During 2002, Brook was able to produce and market 10...
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...Should youth 11 years old and younger be exposed to competition, i,e, scoring? Competition can be good for children. It can help children develop healthy attitudes about winning and losing. Children are not born with the natural urge to compete. This is a learned skill and behavior. Competition usually starts at about five years old. Competition can encourage growth and push a child to excel. Competition can also be very rough for a young child. There must always be a winner and a loser, but young children sometimes just can’t deal with losing. The question is, can a young child handle defeat and at what point do you no how much a child can take? Losing is a serious business, especially for a child who really wants to win. Winning, losing, or playing against others has little or no meaning for children under the age of seven. They are more concerned about the rules of the game and how the games are played. They often break the rules, because they can’t remember .By the age of eight, children can follow rules and understand what it really means to win or lose. In 2001, a survey was conducted by Sports Illustrated for kids. The survey found that seventy percent of children quit organized sports by the tender age of thirteen. They said that they were no longer having fun. Often this happens because referees, coaches, and parents are continued more caught up in the competition than the children. The focus should not primarily be on winning or...
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...defence. How could it make our lives better? It can kill and destroy diseases and viruses meaning that we wont get ill and that will increase out life spam slightly. What is wrong with using nanotechnology? There is a risk of using nanotechnology, we could get nanotechnology in the air and that could cause damage to our body and effect us. It may cause • Cancer • Death • breathing problems and more what are the problems associated with nanotechnology? The more and more we use nanotechnology we use the higher the risk we could be effected and that out health and safety could be on the line and we will lose many life if we don’t look at the problems as soon as possible. My opinion I think that nanotechnology is a good...
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