...difficult road. For that reason, books create role models that inspired us. By looking at individuals who rise up against injustice or refuses to follow society, we learn to be brave and courageous. Julia Alvarez’s In the time of the Butterflies, portrays a beautiful story about four young women who are not stereotypical wives and mothers. They do what many men did not have the courage to do which is to stand up to Trujillo, and make a difference. Through their stories, we see individuals who in spite of danger are able to continue to preserve through their hardships in order to stand up for what they believe in. Not only are headstrong individuals presented in Alvarez’s novel, but also in Isabel...
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...The Dominican Republic’s history is very unique, because of the many different rulers and several different countries ruling it. The constant change of rule and the political unrest is shown throughout the Julia Alvarez's In the Time of Butterflies. There are 3 major time periods of Dominican history are The colonial era, the Trujillo era, and the modern era. The colonial era is what defined what the Dominican Republic is today. It was first found in 1492 by Christopher Columbus under the flag of Spain. Spain, then took over the land with no permission from the natives. When the Spanish took over there was no actual economy so they made one this economy flourished. They increased agriculture and mining, crafting cash crop plantations mainly sugar. However they later lost interest and moved to the Americas, for the silver and other valuable resources. Then France took over the eastern part of Hispaniola which is now modern day Haiti. With the Spanish gone and French in charge Hispaniola fell into a terrible poverty...
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...Life Cycle of a Butterfly Bamba, Phamella F. Name BEED 2-D Year and Section Second Semester S.Y 2013-2014 MRS. REMELIE R. ROBLES Instructor I. Objectives * Students will learn about the life cycle of a butterfly. * Identify the four different stages of a butterfly life cycle (from egg, caterpillar, pupa or cocoon, to a butterfly). II. Subject Matter Topic: Life Cycle of a Butterfly Materials: Real eggs of a butterfly, caterpillar, cocoon, a butterfly, pictures III. Procedure A. Motivation I’m a Hungry Caterpillar (tune of I’m a Little teapot) I’m hungry caterpillar Walking slowly Looking for something To fill my belly When I go to sleep I’ll make a little cocoon Pop! I’ll be a butterfly soon. B. Discussion I will show to the class the four different stages of a butterfly life cycle one by one, which are the eggs, caterpillar, cocoon and a butterfly and explain to them each stage. * The first stage is the eggs. This is where a girl butterfly lays eggs. She lays them on a leaf. * The second stage is the caterpillar. At this stage, the caterpillar eats all the time. It also grows really fast. * The third stage is the cocoon. The caterpillar makes a cocoon. It is mostly brown or green. This protects them. * The fourth stage is the butterfly. A butterfly comes out of the cocoon. It can now learn to fly. Butterflies are very colorful. * A butterfly finds a mate. When...
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...men, when they are approaching puberty. From the time Native American children are young and can understand, they are told that someday they will be sent away to live by themselves, away from family, in a state of prayer and humility until they receive a vision. Usually the youth on the vision quest will have to fast and have no clothes or possessions as to be looked upon by the spirits and frail and humble. For some this vision may come quickly (within a few days) and for others it may take a significant amount of time. If the vision does not happen fairly quickly, the youth may become more extreme and cut themselves as to let the spirit know that they are genuine about their quest. Quite often when the vision comes, it comes in the form of some type of animal. The animal in the vision may also be performing an action or have some other object of significance. When the youth return to their family and community, they explain what they see in their vision. The vision is interpreted and the animal and the action or object that appears in the vision is then made a part of the youth’s name. For example, if the youth receives their vision and in that vision they see a bull running through a field, then Running Bull would become part of their name. Once the vision is received, and interpreted the youth are considered to have successfully moved through this rite of passage. The vision quest is often sought at other times in life as well....
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...Time of the Butterflies tells the true story of the oppression from the dictator General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. During Trujillo reign many were prisoned and then tortured eventually the victims were also killed. The movie takes place in the time of 1930 to 1961. The main characters of this movie are the three Mirabel sisters with Minerva Mirabel being the head sister when it comes to the resistance. She is known as “the butterfly” to the rebels that are fighting against the government. Basically, Minerva Mirabel becomes the symbol of the rebellion. Unfortunately, the sisters eventually are killed, but it also what brings the dictator Trujillo to an end. Due to their death many up rise and six months after “the butterflies” death General...
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...Morgan Wolfe BIOL 106-001 ITJ Ch. 3 Summary 2/2/16 Henry Walter Bates began his story much like the famous Charles Dickens. Much like the statement “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”, Bates had his own good and bad experiences while he was in the Amazon. He describes his best time as all of the scenery in the Amazon jungle. While it was a dangerous jungle, he found much comfort in all of the insects, animals, and the water flowing so peacefully in the morning while the sun was rising. While his worst of times were while his companion Alfred Wallace left him in March 1850. He was later stricken with yellow fever. He did not go home though, and he spent eleven years in total in the jungle. The reason for all this time in the jungle was because the butterfly specimens he was sending became very popular. He then proceeded to explore many miles of the Amazon in order to continue looking for specimens. There were many animals in the river throughout his many adventures as he took in the boat from the various tribes around the area. He was fascinated with the butterflies of the Amazon more than anything but he had a lot of trouble telling two of the species apart. Those species were the Leptalidae and Heliconidae while they were in flight. He noticed a lot of the species were difficult to tell apart. After he realized some of them were so similar, he then came up with the theory of “mimicry” or mimetic analogy. Bates had no formal scientific position so he became...
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...Butterfly Beauties, Inc. Group 5 Karey Brown Jeff Fortenberry Suzie Hall Samantha Vazquez International Issues Business BUSI 4703 Dr. Juan Castro December 17, 2002 Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 Introduction 2 Why Butterfly Farming? 2 The History of Butterflies and Butterfly Farming 4 The Business of Butterfly Farming Butterflies 5 A Day in the Life of a Butterfly Farmer 6 Country Analysis: Costa Rica 8 The Land 9 Plant and Animal Life 10 The People 11 Greetings and Courtesies 13 Business Culture 14 The Economy 16 Table 1 17 Graphs 1, 2 18 Finance 18 Table 2 19 Government 19 Education 20 Health and Welfare 20 Resources 21 Agriculture 21 Table of Contents (cont.) Industry 22 Trade 22 Transportation 23 Butterfly Beauties, Inc. Operations Equipment and Supplies 25 Employees 27 Marketing Butterflies 28 Exportation/Shipping 31 Conclusion 32 Works Cited 33 Butterfly Beauties brochure Appendix Butterfly Beauties, Inc. Butterfly Farming in Costa Rica Executive Summary While the name may seem somewhat "flighty," butterfly farming is a serious business opportunity. The...
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...After reading through the poem a few more times I started to make concrete observations about the poem. Such as how the poem makes a full circle, as it starts in the present then regresses through the different stages of Old’s daughters’ school years and then returns to the present (Annotation 1). Next after reading the poem and writing down my observations from before, I paraphrased and deconstructed the poem in some areas with everyday speech in order to better understand the meaning of each singular...
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...We Are What We Eat: A Cause to Label Genetically Modified Foods Kelly Boysiewick ITT Technical Institute EN1420 – Composition II Professor Uddin August 21st, 2014 Table of Contents Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………………3 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………..4 What Are Genetically Modified Foods?.….....................................................................................4 Significant Differences Between Conventional and GM Foods...............................................…...5 Long-Term Studies………………………………………………………………………………..5 Creating a New Species…………...………………………………………………………………7 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………..………….9 References……………………………….……………………………………………………….10 Abstract This paper examines the need for labeling of genetically-modified foods, of GM foods, by researching significant nutritional differences found in conventional and GM foods, long-term studies on the impact on human health, and compounding effects on the environment caused by creating a non-naturally occurring species. In finding no significant nutritional advantages, a lack of evidence to disprove studies on adverse effects on human health, and potentially detrimental effects on the environment, it is believed that the consumer has a right to be informed of the origin or alterations of food made available to them. We Are What We Eat: A Cause to Label Genetically-Modified Foods One of the most dangerous and least understood experiments with...
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..."The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter" (1917) Summary: This poem takes the form of a letter from a lonely wife who has not seen her husband in five months. She begins by reminiscing about meeting him during childhood. She was pulling flowers at the front gate and he came by on stilts, playing horse. The next two lines, "And we went on living in the village of Chokan/Two small people, without dislike or suspicion," imply that the pair did not grow close right away following that encounter; they continued to grow up separately. In the next stanza, the wife describes marrying her husband at age fourteen. After that, she was continuously shy, either out of respect, sub-ordinance, or just because of her introverted personality. According to the next stanza, she became more comfortable with the marriage by age fifteen and "stopped scowling." A year later, her husband (a merchant) departed for another village, which is where he has been for the past five months. The monkeys' sorrowful noise mirrors her loneliness. She writes that her husband "dragged [his] feet" when he left - indicating that he did not want to leave her. She ends her letter by writing that if he comes back along the river, he should send word ahead, and she will come out to meet him. The poem is signed "by Rihaku." Analysis: Pound was not the creator of this poem; he translated it from the original Chinese version by Li Po. The Chinese original likely had a specific form and identifiable meter, but Pound...
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...IS IT A GOOD TIME TO TALK? - Yashaswi ( meyashaswi@gmail.com ) “Hello Sir, this is Sandy. Is it a good time to talk?” “Well sure it is, but I won’t waste this time talking to a hopeless call centre agent. Please leave me alone and don’t bother calling again.” Sandeep hated his job. He hated his new name Sandy. He had even started loathing himself. Everything about his life was so predictable that he sometimes wondered if it was worth waking up to that mundane routine everyday. He was an employee of a reputed call-center in Bangalore – the IT capital of India. A member of the ‘outbound’ team, he was required to make calls for ‘inquiring’ on behalf of an insurance company. An inquiry would mean politely asking the irate obnoxious customer if he was interested in insuring all the trivial things he had collected in his life, or even the most futile of them all – his life. He was so used to being badmouthed by the clients that if someone did not do so he suspected him of homosexuality. He had been trained to receive such bad-mouthing sportingly. The counselors had told him, “Be kind, for you never know, they might be fighting a tougher battle. Actually they are not angry on Sandeep the person. They are irritated by Sandy the tele-caller.” They told him that in his job, more than in any other, it was indispensable to follow the tenets of Gita, the holy book. He was supposed to detach himself from the results of his action to rise above all self-condemnation...
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...Hello Jazlynne, Provided that, systematic desensitization is a therapy that is a process of a therapist would ease a patient into relaxing one’s muscles in order to allow the progressing of constructing an anxiety hierarchy relaxing state in which one is desensitized to each imagines phobias (Meyers, 2012, pp. 551-552), I find this therapy to be less effective in assisting one in overcoming anxiety. I say this due to, the length in which one has to undergo therapy to obtain some sort of relief from an anxiety attack. To illustrate, my cousin who lives in Detroit, Michigan had a phobia of guns due to, the fact one was pulled on her in a bank robbery in 2012. Since the robbery she cannot stand to see a gun on television as well as, in reality....
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...Executive summary The purpose of this report is to designing a new boutique hotel’s club floor. The structures of this report are as follows. First, we will discuss the background information and state the objective of the report. Second, we will focus on South Korea IT Professionals and analysis their demographic and socioeconomic profile by relevant articles and literatures. Also, the purchasing power and arrival number of South Korean business traveler will be forecasted. Third, we will conduct a service analysis of South Korea IT professionals by Hofstede’s Cultural Dimension. Fourth, Hotel ICON and Butterfly on Prat are selected as our major competitor; therefore we will conduct a competitor analysis to find out their strengths and weaknesses by various kinds of methods. Based on these findings, we will then design the features and services of a new hotel’s club floor in order to compete with our competitors, also we will clarify how these features and service can satisfy our target market, South Korea. Lastly, End with making a short conclusion to see if our works can meet this report’s objectives. Introduction Retain competitiveness is one of the biggest challenge for the hotel. We, consultants of lodging and accommodation management, is always helping hotel to retain its competiveness. Recently, I-Hotel hire us to design the feature and service for their club floor in order to compete with their competitors. The objective of this report is to make a deep analysis...
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...television show that contains a medical ethics dilemma. Book Examples: Jodi Picoult’s Handle with Care, Change of Heart, and My Sister’s Keeper; The Adoration of Jenna Fox; http://www.librarything.com/subject/Medical+ethics%09Fiction http://www.allbookstores.com/Fiction_Themes/Medicine_and_Health/Medical_Ethics.html Movie Examples (many are also books): Outbreak, Steel Magnolias, Philadelphia, Patch Adams, The Rainmaker, Seven Pounds, One True Thing, Just Like Heaven, First Do No Harm, The Insider, Lorenzo’s Oil, The Island, Coma, The English Surgeon, Gattaca, John Q, My Sister’s Keeper, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Sea Inside TV show Examples: Grey’s Anatomy, House, Private Practice, ER, Chicago Hope, Scrubs, Nurse Jackie, HawthoRNe, Law and Order Area of Evaluation | Full Points Description | Points Possible | Points Earned | Issue Summary/Description | Student clearly, accurately and completely describes- the medical ethics dilemma,- all stakeholders and how they relate to the dilemma,- both/all sides of the dilemma as it relates to the source. | 30 | | Critical Thinking | 1) Student clearly, accurately and completely describes the single best outcome considering all stakeholders involved in the dilemma using ethical theories (T), principles (P), and concepts (C). Student explains...
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...E-Business Marketing Project Name: chun ting, Chen ID: 42749409 Mail: ting19890129@gmail.com Date: 26/01/2013 Table of Contents Executive Summary 1. Background 2. Business concept 3. Analysis 3.1 Industry Analysis 3.1.1 SWOT Analysis HTC 3.2 Competitor Analysis 3.2.1 SWOT Analysis Apple 4. Business model 5. Strategy Plan 5.1 Strategy 5.2 Products 6. Recommendation References Executive Summary Nowadays, there are numerous companies established and raised in two decades. To give some examples, Apple, Samsung and HTC and so on are well-known companies. Following by the internet, these companies not only reinforce its service and sell in real stores but focus the online marketing. The project aims at analyzing the high tech company of HTC and advising the company to solve problems of online marketing. This project focuses on exploring its disadvantages by comparing with other competitors. The result indicates that HTC should improve its delivery service and online service so that it can attract more consumers. 1. Background This project was prepared for HTC to make online marketing better. The definition of online marketing can be defined as decisions of investment which investors made depend on whether behaviors of the company are ethical (Hudson 2005, p. 641). The company, HTC is a high technology...
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