...Page 87 Chapter 9 The Seven Deacons [This chapter is based on Acts 6:1-7.] In those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration." The early church was made up of many classes of people, of various nationalities. At the time of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, "there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven." Acts 2:5. Among those of the Hebrew faith who were gathered at Jerusalem were some commonly known as Grecians, between whom and the Jews of Palestine there had long existed distrust and even antagonism. The hearts of those who had been converted under the labors of the apostles, were softened and united by Christian love. Despite former prejudices, all were in harmony with one another. Satan knew that so long as this union continued Page 88 to exist, he would be powerless to check the progress of gospel truth; and he sought to take advantage of former habits of thought, in the hope that thereby he might be able to introduce into the church elements of disunion. Thus it came to pass that as disciples were multiplied, the enemy succeeded in arousing the suspicions of some who had formerly been in the habit of looking with jealousy on their brethren in the faith and of finding fault with their spiritual leaders, and so "there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews...
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...Macroeconomics of Healthcare Richmond A. Ruelos California College Of San Diego Healthcare Economics And Policy HCA432 April 16, 2013 Helen Yoder Abstract In a conceptual analogy of the healthcare economy and of our body system, in order for a human body to function, from the smallest cell down to the largest system of our body, regardless of their size and shape, they must work in perfect harmony, without flaws or any type of interruptions. If problems occur, for example simple wounds, we do our best to fix it, using treatment method as simple as a band-aid, to prevent further infection. Likewise, if that problem does not conform to simple care, we even go as far as utilizing large monetary means to cure the problem. On the same way, but on a larger scale, healthcare composes of different types of functions; it starts from hospitals, outpatient centers, Veterans Affairs (VA), and other clinics, down to ancillary services [ (Johnson, 2009) ]. All of these branches have to function, according to its design, in order to attain the right balance of healthcare. If it requires patching up holes that causes the problem, it must be completed efficiently, to prevent further problem to us, or to the economy. Known for consuming most of its gross domestic product (GDP), the United States (US) healthcare system, while its cost continuous to rise, follows with the negative impact to doctors and patients, it continuously...
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...Mark Koon Professor Paquette English 102 / F / 8:00 AM Friday, October 15, 2015 The Things They Carried In the short story, “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien a Lieutenant by the name of Jimmy Cross and his squad carry a list of many things, some of these things heavy physical loads and some heavy emotional loads composed of grief, terror, love, and guilt. The things each soldier carries depends on the soldier himself including his priorities and his constitutions and also his rank or his specialty for example Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carries maps, compasses, and the heavy burden of the responsibility of his men’s lives. A nervous soldier named Ted Lavender carries marijuana and tranquilizers to calm himself down and the religious soldier Kiowa carries an illustrated New Testament and every single one of these men carry the figurative weight of memory, fear, and hope and the literal weight of one another. In this short story the author uses the title symbolically for both the seen and unseen things that men at war carry and to represent the traumas and hardships they have suffered that they will carry for the rest of their lives. These soldiers know they can die at any moment and so when the inevitable happens and a soldier is actually killed in action extra tension stems from the fact that Lt. Cross knows he is responsible. When Ted Lavender is killed in action one of the soldier’s, Kiowa, cannot stop marveling at how fast and hard Lavender hit the ground. “Boom-Down”...
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... Prepared for: Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas (TMMTX) Prepared by: N. Robertson, Assembly Group Leader TMMTX October 5, 2014 [pic] Modified CommunityLink, Business & Industry Image REDUCING TURNOVER IN PRODUCTION 10/01/2014 Brad Nye, General Manager of Production Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas 1 Lone Star Pass San Antonio, TX 78245 Brad, I am writing to express my concern over the high turnover rate we are experiencing in production, specifically in assembly. With nine years in the company, five years as a group leader, I have seen many good team members choose to leave Toyota and find employment elsewhere. I am confident that I have a solution that will help reduce the amount of voluntary terminations by our full time Toyota employees and our Aerotek variable workforce. My proposal, which I have enclosed for your review, contains research, factual data, statistics, and educated opinions on how to resolve the crisis we face on the floor. I look forward to the opportunity to meet with you to discuss these proposed improvements. N. Robertson Assembly Group Leader, Frame 2/Final 1 Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas 1 Lone Star Pass San Antonio, TX 78245 My safety commitment is to always follow up on team member HYP concerns within 24 hours. TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS……………………………………………………………4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.....................................................................................
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...------------------------------------------------- Hindus celebrate the Indian festival on the tenth month of their calendar. It coincides with the full moon at the end of January and the beginning of February 'Thai'. "Thai" is the Hindu month which falls on 15th of January till 15th of February. 'Pusam' refers to a star which is at its brightest during the period of this festival. Celebrated in all parts of the world where there is a concentration of South Indians. Thaipusam is one of the most important festivals dedicated to Lord Muruga. Thaipusam is celebrated for the birth of Lord Murugam, which belongs to Lord Shiva and his wife Parvati. Lord Shiva, who was told by the gods that only his son would be able to destroy the manifestation of evil that terrorized the world at the time, namely the demon Soorapadman (also known as Padmasura). Lord Muruga was then given a “shakti vel” (blessed spear) by his mother Parvati to accomplish this goal. The “vel” is always present in Thaipusam celebrations and is regarded as a symbol of spiritual power. Lord Murugam’s vanquishing of the demon Soorapadman symbolizes the release of the soul from ignorance, ego and spiritual enlightenment, a release from earthly sufferings that hinder man from truly knowing God. This is why in the weeks preceding Thaipusam, his devotees practice fasting, eat vegetarian only meals and carry kavadis, which are viewed as ‘burdens’ Kavadi (offering) carriers are devotees, who have requested favours from the deities, either have had the favour...
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...shame. They do not look into the cracks in which different flowers grow. This readings calls for “a place where pride can exist in togetherness with shame rather than in its abandonment; a space necessary for the release of stories, like these, which do not constitute wavering bodies of pride as "excludable types". Throughout history, individuals with disabilities have struggled to live full and productive lives as independently as possible in a society burdened with stigma, discrimination, and attitudinal and environmental barriers. Most legislation,...
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...Emotional and Physical Burdens In The Things They Carried the characters face many physical and emotional stresses which test their ability to remain strong individuals. O’Brien gives clear example to the emotional burdens the characters are faced with throughout their durations in the war as well as at home. Each story reflects a characters emotional and physical well being. Memories cascade their ways onto the shoulders of the character’s who seem to find emotional support by ignoring or just plain mocking the unpleasant. Subsequently, a few of the stories they tell seem to be in disarray but give the illusion of actuality. The responsibilities to their communities as well as their memories weigh the characters down causing catastrophic damage not only to their personal lives, but their physical well beings as a whole. Norman Bowker silently suffers throughout his duration in the war. Watching silently as his fellow comrade’s fall both emotionally and physically, Bowker never seems to show his emotions to the reader. In essence he has bottled up perceptions about his experience in the war and the death of his comrade Kiowa. In “Notes”, the letter received by O’Brien gives way to a different Bowker, full of emotional agony from deep within. Bowker’s death was one of the most catastrophic events throughout the book. The emotions seemed to pour out as he writes in his letter to O’Brien the effects of the community and the sudden thrust back into the civilian world, in ...
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...Methodological differences between questionnaire & interviews are seen as having differing & possibility complementary strengths & weaknesses. While questionnaires are usually views as a more objective research tool that can produce generalizable results because of large sample sizes, results can be threatened by many factors including: faulty questionnaire design; sampling and non – responses errors; biased, questionnaire design & wording; respondent unreliability; ignorance, misunderstanding, or bias, errors in coding, processing & statistical analysis; and faulty interpretation of results. Questionnaire research can be seen as over-reliant on instruments & thus, disconnected from everyday life, with measurement processes creating a spurious /artificial sense of accuracy. Neither are interviews neutral tools; here data are based on personal interactions which lead to negotiated & contextually based results. While interviews provide context where participants can ask for clarification, elaborate in ideas, & explain perspectives in their own words, the interview can use questioning to lead or manipulate, interviewee responses. Due to the interpersonal nature of the interview context, participants may be more likely to respond in ways they deem socially desirable. Since most qualitative studies name relatively sample size, the results can be difficult to replicate or generalize. Further differences between the two methods can occur through the coding...
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...Fashion is a popular style or practice, especially in a clothing, footwear, accessories, make up and body piercing, or furniture. Fashion is a distinctive and often habitual trend in style in which a person dresses. It is prevailing styles in a behavior and the newest creations of textile designers. In fashion they have different categories but “Street Fashion or Style” is the most interesting one because it is associated with young generation and the urban stylish clothing that is widely promoted across the world. It would be interesting to talked about the fashion in “Street Style” category because they are a selection of someone’s style and the person chooses and wear the clothes that reflect to their personality or interests. 2. Should students work part time during their university studies? As you enter into adulthood there is a lot to consider and do in order to keep surviving in this world. Many of the student needs to work to pay college tuition to lessen the financial burden of their parents or either just to pay the essential things like the rent, water, electric, phone and internet bills, groceries and even taxes. But at the same time there is also advantages and disadvantages. Most common advantage in working part time during studies you are more exposed to the business world and has more experienced than those who doesn’t work and are a full time student but a full time student can also get experience by doing volunteer work frequently. One of the most common disadvantage...
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...Madisyn Witfield Living with a chronic disease for anyone is a difficult way to live your life. Most of us worry about simple bills like phone, cable, and internet. People living with a chronic disease often have to worry about high health insurance premiums, or take the chance of not having insurance at all. We do not choose to be born with an illness, deformity, or a disease, but there are companies and organizations out there that are willing to help. You do not need to struggle in life with medical bills that burden you from obtaining a higher education. Background Crohn’s Disease (CD) affects around 700,000 Americans (CCFA 2012). It doesn’t discriminate between male or female, and is found evenly in both sexes. It is a chronic inflammatory condition of the digestive tract, and can occur anywhere in the digestive tract, from the mouth on down. It mainly affects the lower part of the small intestine. There is currently no cure for CD, but there are many medical treatments and surgical options available to relieve symptoms. CD can occur at any age, but is most prevalent in adolescent to young adults from age 13-35 (CCFA 2012). General symptoms that are associated with Crohn’s Disease are fever, loss of appetite, weight loss, fatigue, night sweats, and in women, loss of normal menstrual cycle. CD is a chronic disease, which means that people afflicted with this type of disease experience periods of flare-ups followed by periods of remission, where they might not experience...
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...hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.” **Introduces to the unimaginable world of war. He describes dozens of objects that the men carry. TO CREATE THE SENSE OF REALITY. Quintessential war memorial. ***If we believe what he says about the character is true, then his viewpoint is true too! He wants you to see the past the way he saw it. Diabolical (Preference between reality and fantasy is given to whichever one makes one feel more alive.) “The things men carry inside.” Their imaginations! “You’re never more alive than when you’re almost dead.” “Even at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones –that kind of love.” “She died, of course…But in a story I can steal her soul.” (The lives of the dead) – O’Brien’s elementary school sweetheart helps him impose some order and sense onto his own life. To us, Linda is alive, which shows the extent of O’Brien going to making fantasy into reality. (that he made a dead person alive to tell his story.) Tim knows that stories can bring dead people back to life. Even the soldiers do this, and even Tim has been doing this since he was a child, when the first girl he ever loved died of a brain tumor. Hardships and sentiments of soldiers. Love, shown through intimacy, separation, fantasy, and reality, are presented in a very...BLAH. Lt. Cross carries a...
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...Attaining a college athletic scholarship is not an easy goal to achieve. Not only is athleticism required, but so is a good grade point average. I had to work hard in both the classroom, and the gymnasium to receive a full athletic scholarship. Basketball had always been my favorite sport growing up. I knew that if I could become an exceptional ball player, I could get my academics after high school paid for. It also meant that the financial burden of putting a child through college, would be taken off my parents shoulders. Physically, God gave me good materials to build with. I put my 6'7" body through rigorous drills, training, and conditioning to become the best basketball player I could be. My peers recognized my hard work, and made me their team captain for both my junior and senior seasons. I always seemed to be my own worst critic, which was both a blessing and a curse. At times it would push me harder, to a higher level of competition. There were other times however, that I would get to hard on myself and not be able to overcome the frustration of performing well. That may have been my largest hurdle in achieving success in basketball, but gradually I learned to channel the majority of my self criticism into positive energy. In the classroom, I studied hard and often. I graduated high school with a GPA of 3.8. I knew that to be offered an athletic scholarship, my grades would have to be just as good as my abilities on the basketball court. Keeping the end goal in the back...
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...Ethics and Opposition Ethics and Opposition of Stem Cell Research Biology 103 E803 Ethics and Opposition of Stem Cell Research The world of stem cell research can offer an immeasurable amount of possible medical marvels. It also comes with a myriad of controversies. Like where would we get embryonic stem cells, what would be done with it, and when are they considered human? The battle lines are drawn but the war is far from over. Backers for the research are starting to grow. I would like to delve into the ethics that should be in place if this research becomes a stable infrastructure of medical practice. Also, I will go into handling opposition concerning this research potential. First let us see what ethical issues that would arise in this probable world or research. In an article by Anne McLaren, she stated that there would be three different ethical issues that would arise: personal ethics, research ethics, and social ethics. In the realm of personal ethics it would deal with personal morality, dishonesty, irresponsibility, and failure to observe good practice (McLaren, 2007). Meaning there are two very important things that have to be considered by the person before continuing with the research. Is it for personal gain either financially or professionally or is it for the patient’s needs. Both of which are very important for every doctor around the world, and which some lost sight of. The second ethical problem is research ethics, which deals with the...
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...carried were both literal and figurative. The soldiers carry out of necessity for survival, such as guns, helmets, and other forms of weaponry, as well as things they carry more out of habit. First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from Martha, a girl that he loved. “Henry Dobbins, who was a big man, carried extra rations, Dave Jensen, who practiced field hygiene, carried a toothbrush, dental floss, and several hotel-sized bars of soap. Ted Lavender, who was scared, carried tranquilizers”(2). O’Brien also describes specifically the weight of the item that they carry, “The weapon weighed 7.5 pounds unloaded, 8.2 pounds with its full 20-round magazine. The riflemen carried everywhere from 12 to 20 magazines, usually cloth bandoliers, adding on another 8.4 pounds at minimum, 14 pounds at maximum….”(5). This gives the reader a sense of the physical burden that the American soldiers have to carry. He makes us pay more attention to the weight and...
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...Biotechnology Incorporated: Is expansion to Germany a good or bad ideal? At Biotechnology Incorporated we are looking towards globalizing our organization into other parts of the world. One of the countries that our organization Biotechnology Incorporated are considering expanding to is Germany. In this report I will go over the different factors such as the economy, political influences, language, culture, and cost of doing business in Germany. From the research I will gather I will give my opinion on wither Biotechnology will benefit from opening an office in Germany and the type of operation we will chose to do business in Germany. Germany and the Economy The Federal Republic of Germany is the European Union’s most populous country, the EU’s largest economy and the world’s fourth largest economy.8 According to the IMF, Germany has achieved a GDP of $US3.4 trillion in 2011, and enjoys a relatively low unemployment rate of 5.7% which is significantly lower than most EU countries.8 Germany’s economy remains strong, focusing on service sectors, science, technology, and specialized manufacturing and engineering. Germany is also a global leader in the development of environmental technologies, with a focus on energy efficiency and sustainability of resources. In Germany the biotechnology sector is growing at a steady pace. The reason for this growth is because biotechnology has become the basis and driving factor behind many applications in medicine, the food and feed...
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