...The Third Dumpster The Third Dumpster by Gish Jen is the story of chinese brothers; Goodwin Lee and Morehouse, relocating their parents to a new home. Jen writes the story in a comical contrasting way. The language and ideals of the brothers contrasts that of their parents. Jen uses many constrasting sentences throughout his story in the conversations of Goodwin and Morehouse. The language used by Morehouse and Goodwin’s parents, is funny and prejudice. Jen begins the story by telling us that the brothers have bought a house for their parents because they couldn’t climb the stairs in their apartment anymore. ’’..they had been Americans for fifty years and could no longer belay themselves hand over hand up their apartment stair rail to get to their bedroom..’’ here Jen uses some contrast that isn’t out in the open, he states that even though they had been americans for fifty years they couldn’t bring themselves up the stairs. The contrats can be found in their age saying that ’’they had been americans for fifty years’’ before they were able to climb the stairs now they can’t. Jen continues the story with the brothers as they are fixing the house and now need a place to dump their garbage. Here Jen shows a contrast in society and how it affects some people, ”Goodwin was out scouting for dumpster. Becuase this was what the recession meant in their neck of the woods…” ’’He (Goodwin) did not, of course, like the idea of illicit trash disposal; he would have perferred to do this...
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...that two individuals from Lofa and Nimba County grew sick with symptoms of the virus. However, there was no confirmation. Some people said it was a government scam to attract Western aid; others said it was a deadly virus. Whichever it was, the only thing that mattered was that it was present in Liberia, near my home, Gbarpolu. My name is Juliet and at just 19 years old, I experienced the most devastating epidemic my country has ever faced. I’m a very curious person, so this became a journey to finding myself and helping others. However, my mother, father and younger sister of 9 years old were struck with terror when they gained knowledge of Ebola. They all relied on me to keep them safe since I was the only one who’s made it so far in school. We were a middle class family living in Gbarpolu and although we weren’t poor, we couldn’t afford to flee the country as a family. Actually, we could’ve but my father refused to use the money I had saved up for college to flee. So typical of him. Despite staying in Liberia during an intense epidemic, we dealt with it as knowledgeably as possible. This was only because we had the help of the internet – we are one out of 10 homes in the County who had access to modern technology. Here in Liberia, we're very limited in communication. There's barely any advanced phones, internet, radio nor television. Most of the citizens from Liberia get their information from each other. Rumors are their number one source. However, since I had a laptop...
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...NOTHING GONNA CHANGE MY LOVE FOR YOU Lim Siao Hui: Queen Elsa and May Tan Wei Hooi: Narrator 1 and Priest Boo JiaQuan: King Stefan and April Chong Yi Ting: Aurora and 2nd Fairy Yong Lie Jen: Prime Minister and Beast Low Ee Vior: Narrator 2, and 3rd Fairy and June Ng Sin Yee: Scientist, Physician, Teacher, 1st Fairy, Paramour and Woman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Narrator 1: Back in those days when legends were live and fairy folk wandered round free. There lives a king named Stefan and his beautiful queen, Elsa, and a frog in the pond called Jordan. I mean, the frog was called Jordan. Not the pond, it would be silly. The pond was called Samantha. Anyway, King Stefan and Queen Elsa were in their fairy tale home up on a hill. Their days were peaceful and quiet, all sweetness and light, all gentle and tranquil. Their days were a long horribly dull holidays. SCENE 1 - THE PALACE King Stefan: I’m bored, bored and bored. (Dozes off, reawakens) [SE: SNORING SOUND] I'm bored! Queen Elsa: I know dear, you just said that. King Stefan: I know but I’ll be bored to death soon. Queen Elsa: For God’s sake, don't start that again. There are lots of interesting stuff to do such as taking an PHD degree in University Tunku Abdul Rahman, participate in Chelsea Football Club or you can also command your warriors to have a battle. King Stefan: [SE: GROANING SOUND] No, I want something...
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...Confucian Humanism Magdalena A. Villaba If one word could characterize Chinese civilization, it would be Humanisn. Humanism is taken to generally mean- that man and his activities are given great importance. Thus, it is said that one of the characteristics of Chinese thought is this- worldliness- in other words, greater attention to life in this world. Humanism’s emphasis is on man’s self- dependence rather than dependence in heaven or the ancestors. In fact, it was a humanism that professes the utility of man and heaven. It is in this sense that humanism has dominated Chinese thought from the dawn of history. Humanism is an outgrowth of historical and social change. To understand Confucius, it is necessary to realize what sort of a world he lived in. He is criticized as having been too much interested in the orderly arrangement of affairs, but it must be remembered that he was trying to bring order out of something close to chaos. To hold his revolutionary ideas and to talk to them as he freely did in a world where these were extremely dangerous gave life adventure enough. Chinese history starts with the Shang dynasty. This civilization suffered a setback when in 1122 B.C., according to traditional chronology, the Shang were conquered by a coalition of relatively rude tribesmen. The conquerors were led by the Chou people who established the Chou dynasty. The invaders pushed their conquest to cover a considerable portion of North China, but it was impossible for them to administer...
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...WORKING WITH ABUSED CHILDREN 1 / CHAPTER ONE The Abuse of Filipino Childr en Filipino families consider children as gifts from God (Bulatao 1975). They are persons who inspire love and affection and bring happiness and security in the twilight years of parents. Interestingly, children are seen as links to immortality because children pass on from one generation to another the family’s name, history, and heritage. Often, children are portrayed as being nurtured and properly attended to in their homes; however, Filipino children are not as secure and protected as they are ideally portrayed. The increasing number of street children who work on the streets or beg for alms from pedestrians and motorists belie such an idealized portrayal. Street children, among other things, are the most palpable reminder that all is not well with Filipino children. Reality reveals the many children who are denied even the most minimum of needs like food, love, nurturance, stability, security, and stimulating learning environment that will allow for their healthy development. Many Filipino children are rushed into maturity because early on in their lives, they are forced to contend with difficult problems and to take on adult roles and responsibilities. Media and popular and academic literature, more than any other time, has brought to our attention the plight of children, be they street children or not, who perform adult roles and who are in need of the basic components ...
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...Android (2005) – The Android name might be well-known now, but in 2005 it was a 22-month-old startup that nobody knew anything about. Part of that was intentional, as co-founder Andy Rubin kept a tight lid on the company's mission. Today, it's the core of Google's mobile operating system, powering over 300 million smart phones and tablets. Not bad for a deal that was estimated to cost Google just $50 million. Applied Semantics (2003) – While the purchase of this then- 45-person large business didn't sound sexy at the time (face it, whose socks are knocked off by a company known for its semantic text processing technology?), it's arguably the best purchase Google ever made. The $102 million price tag might have seemed steep at the time, but it proved to be a drop in the bucket once the Applied Semantics team built AdSense — the paid search advertising platform that today makes up the majority of Google's revenues. "Next step in the evolution of the Internet" YouTube (2006) – The $1.65 billion dollar purchase of YouTube in 2006 caught the world's eye, but the company employed just 67 people at the time. YouTube was an up and coming star in those days, but a lot of critics had questioned its staying power, noting looming copyright infringement suits. Then-CEO Eric Schmidt was so bullish on the company that he called it "the next step in the evolution of the Internet" — and fought off competing bids from Microsoft, Yahoo and News Corp. to lure the company into the fold. Samantha...
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...scared shitless thinking something was wrong. She sarcastically said “I doubt you’re ready to push because first time moms are usually in labor for at least 12 hours.” Raising the sheet she check me for dilation. “Don’t push! He’s starting crown!” her voice raised calmly as she hit the red button on the wall. Moments later, the room was flooded with what seemed to be the entire hospital staff. A freshly warm towel was placed over my abdomen and chest. On my right was my sister, holding my leg and trying her best to keep me calm. My husband was on the other side to my left nervously patting my head and hair like you would a puppy watching a horror film. “This isn’t standard for first timers so I really need you to follow my precise instructions Jen” said the doctor. “We are going to continuously count to ten and every time I say ten you push” The first two sets came and went and I did exactly what was asked of me. I pushed hard on ten. On the third set when the number ten was reached my husband cried “His head is out Jenn! He has so much hair!” That’s when I learned the umbilical cord was wrapped several times around his neck. At this moment I remember wondering why I didn’t hear my son crying. “One more big push Jennifer, we just need to get past his shoulders” the doctor said. Soon after they placed him onto the towel, but I still hadn’t heard him cry. Our special moment had abruptly come to an end when they carried him away to his own table followed by suction sounds. What seemed...
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...‘The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance’.-Socrates .Management and organization is changing. Knowledge in management is very important. Good managers are becoming leaders not bosses, they are using knowledge to build learning organization and stimulates cultural change and innovation. The world is changing, what has been taught in business schools could become no longer relevant in future business word. In the traditional world of work the job of the manager was to control and limit people, seek for stability and productivity, but the way we work is overdue for change. Businesses wants to increase productivity and efficiency, attract the best people with specific skills for the job. Using the new technology companies wants to cut cost and create a greater freedom for their employees. Today, the need to encourage innovation and achieve high productivity, which has different skills, we need to engage employees hearts and minds as well as their work - the need to build trust, inspire commitment, lead changes, harness human creativity and enthusiasm, seek common visions and values sharing information and power. Teamwork, cooperation, participation and learning as guiding principles. Managers need to focus on developing, rather than control. Management is very complex job and requires a whole range of skills. Young people are most innovative and creative and the most suitable to bring new ideas. This is why education is very important...
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...be hard, but he could handle it. Jurgis was given the job of a gut shoveler. He would clean the guts off the killing floor, all day long. Earning a whole 17 and a half cents an hour. He was just glad he was earning money at first. Soon he would realized this amount is barely enough to get buy on alone but he had a family to provide for. The wages he earned for all this hard work was not enough. Everything in America is for sale, or everything cost something. The things they had to purchase were very high priced. Having a plumber fix a few pipes would cost more than a whole weeks pay for Jurgis. “There seemed to never be an end to the things they had to buy” (124). He was told in America everyone as wealthy. That all his troubles would be gone. The only wealthy men where the ones who ran the packing plants. This was the land of dreams and riches, why was he only earning this small sum? Jurgis began to see the social hierarchy. He saw he was on the bottom. The men who worked hard, with their hands, would not be more than just part of the machine. He realized “nobody rose in Packingtown by doing good work” (75). In Packingtown, nobody honest will rise to the top. You have to be a snake in the grass. This is was not Jurgis, he felt that hard work would make him become successful, the ways of capitalism kept him on the bottom. He was going to stay on the bottom until he was used up, then he would be tossed aside. “The people who worked with their hands were a class apart” (127)...
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...Water, The Finite Resources Outline I. Introduction A. Opener: What is water scarcity? B. Thesis statement: One of the crises that our environment is facing is fresh water scarcity which is a very serious issue and it affects our global environmental. II. Water shortage effects on environment and human beings. A. Causes disease B. Agricultural fields C. Poverty group D. Aquatic Ecosystems III. Water scarcity is causes by different factors. A. Global warming B. Changes of climate C. Decreasing ground water level D. Population growth and the increased consumption of water IV. Solution for water scarcity is a necessity. A. Water Sharing Treaty B. Environmentalists Oppose Desalination Solution C. Government’s rules, regulations and plan V. Conclusion: People should use water wisely to prepare a better future for our next generation. Water, Our Finite Resources One of the crises that our environment is facing is fresh water scarcity which is a very serious issue and it affects our global environment. In the boundless black desert of space, the Earth which is always a blue-green oasis has a finite stock of fresh water (Lean, 2009). Water is the principal element for all socio-economic growth and for sustaining healthy ecosystems (“Water scarcity: The”, n.d.). Water scarcity is the product of an inequity between the supply of and demand for water supplies in a geographical area. Plainly put, water...
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...The Chinese church in North America is an anomaly. In the last twenty years, more than three hundred new churches were started. There are three hundred student Bible study groups in Canada and the United States, almost every one of them started by the students themselves. Very evidently God has caused the Chinese in North America to be very responsive to the gospel. The Chinese church is educated, affluent and filled with talent.1 As Two-Third World missions come into prominence in mission circles, the church in the West is looking to the Chinese church to "pick up the baton" and carry out the Great Commission across cultural barriers. Yet with all seven hundred congregations the Chinese church is reaching only five percent of the Chinese community with the gospel.2 She is a small minority. And although endowed with a rich tradition of spirituality and evangelistic zeal, she is weak in two crucial areas: doctrinal maturity 3 and church consciousness.4 She is a young church. Jesus calls the church to disciple the nations (Matthew 28:19-20). Jesus calls us to seek His Kingdom and righteousness in all that we do (Matthew 6:33). Paul tells us that if any human being is in Christ, everything – including his or her whole life -- is made new. The individual is new, or more precisely, there is a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17), a new world. This means that the Lordship of Christ includes His lordship over our work, our careers, our families, and our ambitions. We are to live as...
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...Table of contents 1. Executive Summary .................................................................................................. 3 2. Service Policy and Disclaimers ................................................................................ 4 3. Family Profile ................................................................................................................. 6 4. Goals and Objectives .................................................................................................... 8 4.1. Short-‐term Goals ................................................................................................................ 9 4.2. Mid-‐term Goals .................................................................................................................... 9 4.3. Long-‐term Goals .................................................................................................................. 9 5. Risk Profile ................................................................................................................... 10 5.1. Risk Profile Conclusion .................................................................................................. 12 5.2. Risk Recommendation ......................................................
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...and find nearby ATMs and banking centers through a mobile application on their smartphones, and through mobile web on their phone browser. Main Challenge WHAT: Increasing overall growth in mobile banking in the financial services industry. Douglas Brown Senior Vice President of Mobile Product Development was quoted, “In less than 3 years we have four million mobile banking customers. That’s an adoption rate almost five to eight times that of our online banking several years ago.” Line-of-business managers are looking for leveraged mobile platforms to meet the needs of their specific businesses. The capabilities of mobile banking through the use of your smartphones or mobile web have become popular with today’s bank customers. WHO: • Jen McDonald, SVP of Bank of America (Digital Marketing Group) • Douglas Brown, SVP of Bank of America (Mobile Product Development) • David Carrel, SVP of Starcom Agency (Strategy and Analysis) WHEN: January 2010 WHERE: Bank of America Headquarters; Charlotte, NC WHY: Functionality of apps to meet different needs and specific businesses. By providing apps to the different target groups such as: Merrill Lynch brokerage, mortgages,...
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...find nearby ATMs and banking centers through a mobile application on their smartphones, and through mobile web on their phone browser. Main Challenge WHAT: Increasing overall growth in mobile banking in the financial services industry. Douglas Brown Senior Vice President of Mobile Product Development was quoted, “In less than 3 years we have four million mobile banking customers. That’s an adoption rate almost five to eight times that of our online banking several years ago.” Line-of-business managers are looking for leveraged mobile platforms to meet the needs of their specific businesses. The capabilities of mobile banking through the use of your smartphones or mobile web have become popular with today’s bank customers. WHO: * Jen McDonald, SVP of Bank of America (Digital Marketing Group) * Douglas Brown, SVP of Bank of America (Mobile Product Development) * David Carrel, SVP of Starcom Agency (Strategy and Analysis) WHEN: January 2010 WHERE: Bank of America Headquarters; Charlotte, NC WHY: Functionality of apps to meet different needs and specific businesses. By providing apps to the different target groups such as:...
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...find nearby ATMs and banking centers through a mobile application on their smartphones, and through mobile web on their phone browser. Main Challenge WHAT: Increasing overall growth in mobile banking in the financial services industry. Douglas Brown Senior Vice President of Mobile Product Development was quoted, “In less than 3 years we have four million mobile banking customers. That’s an adoption rate almost five to eight times that of our online banking several years ago.” Line-of-business managers are looking for leveraged mobile platforms to meet the needs of their specific businesses. The capabilities of mobile banking through the use of your smartphones or mobile web have become popular with today’s bank customers. WHO: * Jen McDonald, SVP of Bank of America (Digital Marketing Group) * Douglas Brown, SVP of Bank of America (Mobile Product Development) * David Carrel, SVP of Starcom Agency (Strategy and Analysis) WHEN: January 2010 WHERE: Bank of America Headquarters; Charlotte, NC WHY: Functionality of apps to meet different needs and specific businesses. By providing apps to the different target groups such as:...
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