...Melissa McCarthy was born on August 26, 1970 in Plainfield, Illinois. She started her career as a standup comedian in New York. Shortly after, she moved to Los Angeles and became a member of the legendary comedy theatre, The Groundlings. Melissa had many television appearances, but the audience was not familiar with her. First, she started as Sookie St. James on the television series Gilmore Girls. Being different, Melissa had a tough time pursuing the job. The creator of Gilmore Girls, Sherman-Palladino, stated, ¨They weren’t sure. It wasn’t that people didn’t like her, but she was a different kind of energy. She was a different kind of chick.¨ But after thinking, she then said, ¨But she is different and different is sometimes not the easiest...
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...For patient Melissa Smith, being at Beaumont hospital was a frequent occurrence for her unfortunately. January 2011, Melissa was diagnosed with a 1. malignant (threatening to life) tumor in her pelvis. Luckily, the doctors knew it was just one and not a 2. sarcoma (a group of tumors from connective tissue). The doctors at first were not sure the plan for which to go about this tumor, because of the size of it. Over time though they eventually had a well thought through plan on how to help Melissa and fight for her life. Mellissa began her treatment by having a few rounds of 3. brachytherapy (treatment method that the radiation source is placed directly into the tumor or close to it). The 4. cm (master in surgery) knew though it was time to take the next step with a surgery in hopes to use the method 5. debulking (removes much as the tumor as possible). The day of the surgery comes, doctors check her blood pressure by a 6.sphygmomanometer (measures the pressure) and Mellissa is given 7. gtt (drops) of 8. anesthesia (class of drugs to render a patient unconscious or semi unconscious). The type of anesthesia she is given in regional so therefore she is still conscious for the procedure. Mellissa is given the anesthesia by a 9. spinal block (anesthesia injected anywhere in the spinal cord, the structures below this point are affected). Mellissa is now on the surgery table in the 10. Trendelenburg position (patient is lying on the back with the pelvis higher than the head with...
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...Nikkole Phillips Type of Resource / Call # | Resource Data | Your Notes | Web site | Web Site: Hero’s JourneyAuthor: Christopher VoglerURL: http://www.thewritersjourney.com/hero's_journey.htmTitle: Hero’s JourneyLast Updated: | Stages: 1. The ordinary world: theHero is introduced to the audience. 2. The call to adventureThe hero must face a change 3. Refusal of the callThe hero tries to get out of the adventure. 4. Meeting with the mentorThe hero finds courage and wisdom within himself, or comes across someone who trains him 5. Crossing the thresholdThe hero makes a commitment to enter a new region with new rules. 6. Tests, allies, and enemiesThe hero is tested. 7. ApproachThe hero prepares for a major challenge. 8. The ordealThe hero confronts death or faces his greatest fear. 9. The rewardThe hero wins a treasure for facing death or his greatest fear. 10. The road backThe hero completes his adventure and heads home. 11. The resurrectionConflicts are resolved, and purified by a last sacrifice. 12. Return with the ElixirThe hero either continues the adventure or returns home. | Web site | Web Site: WikipediaAuthor: URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MonomythTitle: MonomythLast Updated: 2 July 2013 | Departure:The Call to AdventureThe hero begins in a normal situation, some information is received that the hero is needed.Refusal of the CallThe hero often refuses the call at first for various reasons which may be fear.Supernatural AidA magical helper...
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...Managing Operations is Sound Prioritization: The Mexicana Wire Works Case A case report presented to the faculty of the Master of Business Administration Far Eastern University In partial fulfilment of the requirements In Quantitative Analysis Submitted To: Professor Willy Cuason Submitted By: Jeancy Dela Rosa Joan Eclipse Gerra Lanuza Mark Nimeno Timmyleh Pocong Jerome Tumambing June 03, 2014 I. Case Background Mexicana Wire Winding, Inc. is a subsidiary of Westover Wire Works based in Texas which is a medium-sized producer of wire windings of electrical transformers. Ron Garcia is the new management trainee, who studied operations management in his MBA program but lacks any technical knowledge about the manufacturing process. He is tasked to help the company in solving the increase in booking orders for April.There will be new equipments coming in the next several months but these won‘t help them fill the April orders. (Render & Stair, 2012) To better understand the case the group researched on the sequence on how to produce wire windings as discussed in the case: 1. “Wire Winding- the metalworking process used to reduce the cross-section of a wire by pulling the wire through a single, or series of, drawing die(s). There are many applications for wire drawing, including electrical wiring, cables, tension-loaded structural components, springs, paper clips...
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...Identify at least three different articles from the ProQuest Historical Newspapers (New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor) written between 1947 and 1954 to see how these events were covered by the media. Write a 750- to 1,050-word paper about anticommunism and McCarthyism during this period, including examples or quotes from each of the three articles you located. You should also take any course readings into account. You _must_ use APA citations to cite any _ideas_ or quotes that aren't yours. Address the following: *The differences between anticommunism and McCarthyism *The perspective from which the media covered anticommunism and McCarthyism *American foreign policy decisions impacted by anticommunists *How Americans’ lives changed because of the Red Scare *Format your paper according to APA standards. **You must find one overall theme that ties anticommunism to all of these things--this theme should be defined in terms of a _single word_; that word, obviously, cannot be "anticommunism." Point out your theme in the first sentence with a statement similar to (or exactly to) "The overall theme that describes anticommunism during this period is [theme]." If you don't point out this one theme and argue how this theme ties all of these things together, you cannot receive an A on this paper. You will summarize your theme and explain how your theme ties all of these together in your intro paragraph. Your intro...
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...McCarthy was elected to the Senate in 1946 and rose to prominence in 1950 when he claimed in a speech that 205 communists had infiltrated the State Department. McCarthy’s subsequent search for communists in the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and elsewhere made him an incredibly polarizing figure. After McCarthy’s reelection in 1952, he obtained the chairmanship of the Committee on Government Operations of the Senate and of its Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. For the next two years he was constantly in the spotlight, investigating various government departments and questioning innumerable witnesses about their suspected communist affiliations. Although he failed to make a plausible case against anyone, his colourful...
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...The book “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy is a post-apocalyptic fiction book. It’s a story about a man with a young boy walking south to find there way to the coast for a presumed better life through a nuclear winter. Although the book doesn’t state where it’s taking place, one can infer that it’s somewhere in the United States. The major characters of this book are the man and the young boy. The man is the opposite of an open book, personality wise. He has no one to talk to about his thoughts because him and his son are alone. His words are plain and simple, yet interesting. All he does is care for the boy the best way he can. Whenever they encounter strangers he is stern because he wants to keep his son safe. The boy on the other hand voices his thoughts. If he has a question, he will ask it. The boy as well cares about his father. The boy is strong when need to be, but is also compassionate towards strangers. The whole book is based on the journey of both the father and child. The whole conflict of the book is that the boy and the father are trying to get to the coast by surviving the horror of storms, winter, cannibalism, and most of all, the...
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...Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, the narrator tells of an experience of a boy burying a wolf in the mountains, but there is some sort of unwritten connection between him and the wolf. The author uses imagery and syntax to illustrate the complex feelings of sadness that the boy experiences. Elaborate diction is combined to suggest a somber, grieving setting while allusions within the text indicate a reverence the boy has developed toward the wolf and the event. Personification of the wolf and the fire indicate a deeper assimilation to nature felt by the boy. The poem's syntax is fairly regular up until the second paragraph, where the first sentence is connected by “and” eight times. This technique tends to draw in a sense of thoughtless routine. Typically when a death occurs, there is that beginning grief stage of denial where all senses are numbed by the force of the reality, and the layout of the sentence only seems to add to that sense of restlessness the narrator felt was necessary to illustrate the boy's consciousness. “Tall escarpments” and “grassy swale” are used to indicate how small the boy and his wolf are and the insignificance of the death. Essentially, it is saying that it is nature for things like this to happen and the fact that it is uncommon for anyone to take note of something so small in the world. This only amplifies the feelings the boy has toward the death, and causes him more grief. Choice vocabulary is the main technique used by McCarthy to convey the...
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...display similar characteristics to that of those in the Red Scare. Abigail Williams is directly parallel to Joseph Mccarthy. Both of these people use sly trickery to create mass chaos and fear. McCarthy built himself upon a false pillar of lies and deception similar to Abigail who created false stories of witchcraft to save herself. Throughout the actions, she would always provide false reassurance to those who doubted her, “I never sold myself! I’m a good girl! I'm a proper girl!” (Miller pg 40). As Abby moved forward she began to manipulate the fear that was created similar to McCarthy. McCarthy used the fear to gain power, often in fear there is chaos and in chaos people become blind to the truth and therefore they believed McCarthy. When Abby began the tale of witchcraft, she created both fear and chaos that would blind Salem from seeing that it was all a lie. For both, as the lies continued they would create larger lies and accusations, similar to the mass arrests main in the Palmer Raids. At one point McCarthy claimed that he held a list of 250 names (Malaspina pg14). In the Crucible, Abby created a false scene of a figure in the courthouse coming to attack her, “Look out! She’s coming down!” (Miller pg.109). Once their plans took action the fear engulfed their place of residents. In both cases, once fear took control, there was chaos and disbelief. McCarthy turned neighbors on neighbors, families on families. During the Red Scare everyone was scared and paranoid of communism...
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...Innocent people die everyday. Some may have died because of violent actions, but some are killed because of a much more frightening reason: A corrupt court system. Courts are put in place to protect us, and when their justice has rotted from the inside, it leads to chaotic and brutal societies. One of these societies, Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, is described in the play, “The Crucible.” Written in the McCarthy era, this play highlights the injustices during the Red Scare in America. As history continues to unfold, more links can be drawn between the message of “The Crucible” and today’s discrimination. The allegorical qualities of Arthur Miller’s, “The Crucible,” relate strongly to McCarthyism, but still have relevant connections to...
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...A River Runs through It, by Norman Maclean, is the coming-of-age story of the author and his brother, Paul. Sons of a Scottish Presbyterian minister and his wife, the two boys grow up in a small town in western Montana at the turn of the last century. Born in 1902, Maclean wrote this story as part memoir, partly for his brother and a beautiful way of life in Montana, both of which are now lost. Written when Maclean was in his seventies, the novel attempts to immortalize a time, place, and people, now lost to the author: a more brutal yet innocent time, an unspoiled landscape, a brother’s uncanny talents for fishing and trouble, and a father’s love, support, and guidance. Norman speaks nostalgically, but not sentimentally, of the events that...
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...The 1950’s were a time of fear and paranoia within the United States. During this time Cold War tensions were beginning to intensify giving way to the infamous Red Scare and the communist allegations of Joseph McCarthy. In the late 1940’s and early 1950’s, the communal American fear of communist subversion reached its peak, colloquially known as the Red Scare. At this time, fewer than 50,000 out of the 150 million people, less than 1%, living in the United States belonged to the communist party, however the country remained in a state of panic. As a result of this hysteria, a senator named Joseph McCarthy began making accusations against alleged communist infiltration of government agencies. Therefore, the term McCarthyism, coined by political cartoonist Herbert Block, came to mean the movement to expose Communist subversives in the government and other important public institutions from the late 1940s to the mid 1950s. A...
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...Survival Why do you think McCarthy has chosen not to give his characters names? How do fake names generate character of the man and the boy. In Cormac McCarthy the Road, the man and his son face infinite amount of obstacles throughout the novel in order to keep themselves alive. While reading the road, McCarthy wanted the figures in this book to be universal, so that the reader could imagine him or herself as the boy or man. Doing so allowed reader to have different perspective of being one of the characters. To do this McCarthy did not designate the characters in his book with names, and because of that i was able to connect with the man and the boy more closely on a personal level and have a good idea putting myself in their journey....
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...Having dirt on anyone can scare even the cleanest people because people in general are scared of what they don't know. That is exactly what Joseph McCarthy did to so many people. As a result McCarthyism created the Red Scare by making accusations against people for being Communist. McCarthy claimed to have 57 cases of individuals who could have been members of the Communist Party. In (Document 1) he says “I have in my hand 57 cases of individuals who would appear to be either card carrying members or certainly loyal to the Communist Party, but who nevertheless are still helping to shape our foreign policy.” Even though he said he had proof, he would never show anyone that proof which would have justified the accused of being scared. This occurred during times when the US and Soviet Union were teasing each other with nuclear war, also known as The Cold War. After McCarthy accused everyone of these charges things starts to get out of control. The HUAC gets established to investigate un-american activities going on, and their first investigation was on the movie industry. This led to the creation of which became to be known as the “Hollywood Ten”. They...
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...Throughout the entire novel, The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, the father and son are on a physical journey, which aids in their mental integration of the post-apocalyptic society they are faced with. The father and son take a physical journey across the states in search of a better life, but the constant reinforcement that there is not many better options enforces the fact that humanity and the world they once knew has transformed forever. As the ambiguous characters traverse through the roads of the states they slowly realize that humanity is transforming, and their journey helps to portray the comparisons of the life they were leaving behind to the new issues they will have to endure, along with their longing for the old life they had lurking...
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