...Aloha my name is Tina Kong. This letter is and has personal and confidential information for your office use only. In life I have encountered numerous of problems. I, myself, was once incarcerated and now I am trying to better myself to make positive changes for me and my family. The past negative criminal, drug abuse and homeless history has taught me many valuable lessons although one is most important family comes first; those other activities only hurt me, my family and my people. When you pursue the path of drugs, you not only hurt yourself but the ones you love the most and that is a pain that is hard to live with, more hard than withdraws. I take pride in my positive path towards further knowledge and education. I would like to further my education by completing and earning my Associates in Business Technology and pursue my dream of having my own business. Education has been my path to self-determination and self worth. As a non-traditional student I preserved to go on to be a productive member of society. I myself went through a residential treatment program that helped me to prioritize my life and goals. Another problem that I have encountered is financial duties that would not allow me to continue my education. It is a challenge being a single parent who is only now returning to school. My focus in life is my children as well as my education. Balancing the two may be difficult at times although it can be done. By the grace of God, I find the strength to make time for...
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...The past and the future; two concepts of time forever intertwined, spiraling around the present. They influence its every decision, sometimes one more than the other. Throughout this braided mass of time, the human species secretly yearns for “Community, Identity, [and] Stability”(1). These basic principles are brought to mankind in Aldous Huxley’s groundbreaking novel, Brave New World. This novel raises the questions; how can people achieve these secret goals of society? And how will we ever get to the point of a worldwide community? A sense of identity? And a stable society? The answer is swirling around the world, every second of every day. Time. In order to achieve these ideals, people must learn from the past and prepare for the future, only when the two elements are combined will “Community, Identity, [and] Stability”(1) be prominent in today’s world. One major lesson adults try to implement into children from birth is that one must learn from prior mistakes. In the novel, the people of the World State prosper because they have learned from their past mistakes. War, famine, morals, and other concepts of the past are eliminated from society to insure stability. When the leaders had to make the choice between “World Control and destruction. Between stability and”(48) chaos. In the past chaos has been proven to live up to its definition. Due to their choice against disorder, the World State proves that people need the past to learn from their mistakes. One...
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...Management theories from past to present The classical approach which began in the late 1800’s has two components they are scientific management and administrative management where Frederick Taylor contributed his theory based on observation from soldering among steel mill workers. Taylor classical theory approach was to 1) Develop the one best way to perform any task. 2) Scientifically select, train, teach and develop each worker. 3) Cooperate with workers and provide an incentive to insure that the work is done according to the one best way. 4) Divide the work and the responsibility equally between management and labor (Evolution Management). Classical management theories are broadly grounded in the assumption that work is a rational undertaking that is done in order to make money and given that, the behavior of people at work will be fairly predictable and easy to understand. The trouble is that isn’t always true. Work often isn’t a rational, logical or reasonable process and to many people, work is more than just a means of making money (Evolution Management). The behavioral approach in the early 1900’s is a view of management that stresses understanding the importance of people’s needs and attitudes within formal organizations. The experiment by Professor Elton Mayo at the Electric’s Hawthorns Plants by changes in lighting, numbers of hours the employee worked, rest periods and incentive pay and hot lunches, workers were feeling more adequate and valued by their...
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...Paige Dispalatro Ms. Lammers English Honors II Period 2 12 April 2016 Possessions from the Past Remember the saying that a picture can tell a thousand words? Well, so can a possession; a possession can describe someone’s life and even what they went through as a child. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer loses his home, his family, even his identity during the Holocaust. He loses almost everything but some possessions that link him to his family and to his life before the war. From having possessions while in the camps, Eliezer was able to hold onto his past and his family, even though he knew he might never see them again because he was able to keep a possession which allowed him to remember who he truly was. During...
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...Journey from My Past to My Future Alicia Gomez PSY 202 Kendra Nicole Hope-Moore July 29, 2013 I. Where are you from? A. From the South B. Laredo, Texas II. What was your family like? A. I am the fourth of the family B. Strong Catholic family C. Had our ups and downs III. Who were the important people in your life? A. My parents B. My older sister C. My uncle IV. What things do I remember about my childhood? A. Hearing my parents fight B. Holidays C. Going to the lake D. Being sick V. What are your Personal, Professional, and academic goals? A. Academic goals are to gain my Associates and Bachelor’s B. Professional goal is to have my own day care Journey from My Past to My Future I had dreams of going to college right after high school, but for whatever reason it didn’t happen. In this paper, you will know some of my experience in life that I had to go thru to get where I am at this time in life. Reading the adult development theories in this class made me learned more in life. There is a goal that I want to accomplish in the future. I grew up in Laredo, Texas south of the border. When I say south of the border is because there is a bridge that separates Mexico and the United States. The city of Laredo, Texas and the surroundings areas have seen their population jump almost a third, to 172,000, between 1990and 1995. Much of this is tied to Laredo’s position...
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...Ravneet Kaur Development of Human Rights: From Past to Present The word human right is derived from Latin word “Homo” meaning man and homonus mean belonging to man. Human rights are right to which every person is entitled by virtue of being human living in society of other human. According to Thomas Paine, In rights of man is 1721 about French revolution that the representation of people of France feels that ignorance of human right are the main curse of public misfortune. Cicero the statesman the orator of ancient Rome, produced the work that the reflected the principle of Roman public and rights rights of citizen. Human rights are mainly social, economic and political rights. The doctrine of human rights has been highly influential within international law, global and regional institutions. Actions by states and non-governmental organizations form a basis of public policy worldwide. The idea of human right suggests that "if the public discourse of peacetime global society can be said to have a common moral language, it is that of human rights. (Kaur) The strong claims made by the doctrine of human rights continue to provoke considerable skepticism and debates about the content, nature and justifications of human rights to this day....
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...Box? Today's Passing Fancy - Tomorrow's Message from the Past What’s in your jewelry box? The answer to that question says a lot about you, your personality, the life you’ve lived and possibly even the lives of your parents and grandparents. Whether it’s fine gold or diamond jewelry, the latest fashion jewelry, your grandmother’s pearls, a ring with birthstones for each of your children, the necklace received from your husband on a wedding anniversary or a combination of these things, the contents of your jewelry box communicates visual messages about you to others. As an avid collector and seller of vintage jewelry, researching the items I collect is part of the process and often provides education regarding various periods in history. When researching a specific item of jewelry; the style, when it was made, and of what material, it also gives me impressions about the life of the person who wore the item being researched. Over several years, I’ve learned that jewelry has played an important economic, societal and emotional role in human lives throughout history. Jewelry is a wearable art form that can communicate emotion and information to others, even after the wearer is gone. A news article written by Kate Ravilious for National Geographic News online entitled Oldest Jewelry Found in Morocco Cave, described a cache of 82,000 year-old shells found by a team of archaeologists. The shells or “beads” were decorated with a dye from red clay and Quick 2 pierced so they could...
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...“The Blacklist” In season full of mediocre (or worse) new shows, NBC's The Blacklist has been a nice surprise. When I saw the pilot, I thought it had no business being as rock-solid as it was, but I wrote off the show's long-term prospects because I didn't think James Spader was enough to carry the show on a weekly basis, and the ongoing story about Red and Elizabeth seemed pretty obvious. However, after catching up on the series this past weekend and watching Monday's "General Ludd," I realized that I was only partially correct. Spader is mostly up to the challenge as The Blacklist's centerpiece, and the ongoing story is pretty obvious, but the show has done quite a bit of legwork to keep it compelling in the first eight weeks. Although it's likely that the plum post-Voice time period gives The Blacklist most of its ratings juice, I'm no longer shocked that it's the season's biggest hit. Here's why. 1. A good balance of procedural stories and ongoing mysteries I've had a few discussions with friends lately about what it means to be a broadcast drama in 2013. One of the takeaways has been that, more often than not, when people think of a broadcast drama, they tend to focus on shows that are almost exclusively procedural, relegating the obviously "great" examples like The Good Wife or Scandal to a small group of outliers that are more often compared to "great" cable shows. And while I love the kind of intense serialized stories those series can tell, shows like The Blacklist prove...
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...Reconstructing the Past to Change the Future: An Analysis of Character Development in When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Journey From the Fall While the characters from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Journey From the Fall move on to a life of "comfort and safety" in the US, unsettling memories of the war resurface that force them to revisit their pasts. In order to reconcile their regrets, they must reconstruct memories from their past and address their guilt. This essay follows the journey that the characters Le Ly Hayslip and Mai take from Vietnam to the US and provides examples of how the two women attempt to forget their previous existences, create new ones, and reevaluate their pasts in the context of the present. By “comfort and safety,” I mean that Le Ly and Mai are not worrying about survival and safety as much anymore in the US as compared to in Vietnam. The two characters escape Vietnam because the livelihoods of their families are at stake. Le Ly escapes Vietnam for reasons relating to physical as well as emotional well-being. When Le Ly talks about the story of a woman watching her son get shot and then the woman herself getting shot as well, Le Ly realizes that the only chance for survival for her and her son is by leaving Vietnam. In addition, not only is Le Ly in physical danger, she is also in a hostile environment in terms of her relationships with the people around her. Her family relations are extremely volatile, since her family is very...
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...e:Module 1 DQ 2 I look forward to completing my BSN in due time with great motivation and good organizational skills that will enable me to excel in the program as a nurse. My greatest fear is failure. I know with proper planning and good time management, these fears can be overcome. Starting the BSN program was like a joke to me. I had wanted to do it a while ago but was not sure whether I was ready physical and emotionally for it. When my friend told me about the program, she had started in November 2013 at GCU that is not as bad as I think. I became very interested right away in the program. Here I am working towards the BSN. In my final year in the ADN program, I was scared to death. That if anything go wrong and I don't graduate what I will do. With these fear in my head, I Had to rearrange everything around me. My busy Family, work schedules and personal activities to be able to accommodate my success. I had to come out of my beautiful shell now by asking questions in class, and also realize that my professor and I make a team. They are there to help me succeed in the program. I did engaged myself in discussions sessions with my peer groups, meet with my instructors one on one after lectures regarding topics that were not cleared to me and assignments. They were very helpful in all areas, like how to study for exams, websites for nxclex practice questions, and how to use rationales to study for exams. They saw that I was ready to learn and don't want to fail...
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...culture from the list provided for Part I. Be sure to review the relevant sections of the textbook for each topic. Once you've made your selection, please delete all other options. Race Education Communication Gender Childrearing Courtship and Marriage Rites of passage Religion Politics Economics 2) Select a source to use for Part I of the paper. You will be using your textbook and the article by Miner for this section as well, but for this assignment, include the source you found on your own. Review the tutorial on Evaluating sources and enter the reference in the space below. Reference entry in APA format: 3) Select one article from the list for Part II. Once you've made your selection, please delete all other options. Atran, S. (2003). Genesis of suicide terrorism. Science, 299(5612), 1534-1539. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database. Becker. A. E. (2004). Television, disordered eating, and young women in Fiji: Negotiating body image and identity during rapid social change. Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, 28(4), 533-559. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database. Grey, S. (2008). Historical roots, contemporary relevance: Explaining the persistence of polygyny in Sub- Saharan Africa. Undercurrent Journal, 5(3), 6-19. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database. Hoodfar, H. (1993). The veil in their minds and on our heads: The persistence of colonial images of Muslim women. Resources for Feminist Researchers, 22, 5-18. Retrieved from http://www...
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...political and personnel controls at the national level and a regionally decentralized administrative and economic system.” There are many key features of this RDA system which impacts a lot on China’s reform practices in the past 30 years. First of all, one of the features is that the sub-national governments are more powerful than other sub-national government in the world because they are responsible for deeper and wider regional matters than simply fiscal issues. Another feature is that regional government is encouraged to be economically self-contained in order to develop faster than other region after the reform started. Moreover, another feature is that each regional government, especially those special economic zones are competing with other region by attracting more Foreign Direct Investment in order to get more incentive and promotion from the central government. Without all these above features, China’s reform practices and performance would be substantially different from what has happened in the past 30 years. Although China is highly decentralized economically, it is neither a de jure nor a de facto federal state because of the backbone of China’s RDA regime, the Chinese Communist Party. CCP makes the RDA regime fundamentally different from a federal system by constituting China’s non federal status and. “The Chinese constitution has been amended during the reforms, reflecting the changes of Chinese political and economic institution. However, both the pre-reform...
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...Focusing on just two external environmental areas from the economic, social, political and legal environments, analyse the key forces and trends that have taken place within these two environmental areas over the past decade. Introduction Marketing concept as outlined by Kotler and Levy (1969), is perceived by most as an undertaking to find and stimulate buyers to achieve a firm’s goals. The process entails product development, pricing, distribution, communication as well as continuous attention to the changing needs of the customers, and the development of new products to meet these needs. The implication of this change is that an organization is inevitably influenced by, and has to react to what happens outside the business. There are several external environments that may impact an organization, including economic, social, political and legal factors. Organizations utilize environmental scanning processes to focus on identification of emerging issues, situations and potential pitfalls that may affect an organization’s future (Albright, 2004). Analysis of the economic environment The economic environment is very dynamic and complex in nature and is influenced by the purchasing power and spending patterns of consumers. The economic environment is also shaped by rates of unemployment, inflation, gross national product, trade cycles, economic resources and exchange rates. Information relating to economic trends or forces can enable organizations to prepare for...
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...“Recapturing the Past” Time is complex; once it has passed, it is lost forever. It is human nature to regret that which is lost, therefore, one feels the need to recreate the past and is a common theme in everyday life. These attempts at trying to repeat the past, however, are usually in vain. The novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a great example of this, as the plot focuses on the concept of recapturing the past. The plot of this story revolves around the growth and press of this concept and is told relative to the main character in the story, Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald’s usage of this character effectively conveys this idea throughout the novel. The story about how and why Gatsby is unsuccessful in recapturing his past, how his actions hurt himself and others around him and how he ultimately fails while achieving nothing. Throughout the story, we learn that Jay Gatsby is a man who depends and dwells upon his past to reach his dream. Through the narrator, Nick Carraway, we can see that Gatsby’s bad habit of holding on the past does not help him get anywhere with his goal. He believes that the past could be repeated, “'Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!'” (Fitzgerald, 85). This shows Gatsby’s inability to move on from the past. This obsession with the past inspires Gatsby to do everything he does in order to win back Daisy. He gets into the business of bootleg alcohol selling. To get Daisy’s attention, he throws lavish parties...
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...events being in the past, present and future is only an appearance, but B-theorists disagree with the second part of McTaggart’s argument and claim that the B-series perfectly describes time. In other words, events possess a temporal order in relation to one another but the description of events as being past, present, and future is only an illusion, a result of the way we perceive and experience those events. In this view, the A-series is an inaccurate way to refer to the B-series. The opposing clan embraces the claim that time cannot exist without the A-series because change is essential to time, but denies the affirmation that there is a contradiction within the A-series. Supporters of the A Theory emphasize the importance of “Taking Tense Seriously”. An event is not past, present, and future at the same time. It was future, is present and will be past. Tense makes a big difference in this context and solves the issue of contradiction that McTaggart laid down, according to...
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