...As diversity becomes more ubiquitous, it is imperative to extend understanding to others while honoring one’s own tenets. A happy heart is good medicine, and a joyful mind works healing. Additionally, I find value in the extra four months of education at Mercer. The third spring semester promises to afford more time to glean information from providers at clinical rotations as well as from Mercer faculty and fellow students. Furthermore, I am excited about interprofessional learning with Nursing, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Public Health, and Clinical Medical Psychology students. Finally, I am attracted to Mercer’s Advanced Cardiology Residency. Despite several PAs telling me that residencies are unnecessary, I feel that I would be better prepared to start my career in Primary Care and later possibly transition to Cardiology. Heart disease has been an epidemic in America and recent reports tell us that it is only getting worse. I see this when I work as a paramedic in the field, and when I shadow providers in the Emergency Department and Chest Pain...
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...Stetson School of Business and Economics The Stetson School of Business and Economics (SSBE) promotes the advancement and integration of quality business education and practice. In support of Mercer University’s mission, the School provides undergraduate and graduate programs that are designed to enable, enhance, and expand professional careers, civic responsibility and lifelong learning. ACC 601 A22 Accounting Theory Fall 2012 Session II Tuesdays: 6:00 P.M. to 10:15 P.M. Professor: Julie Petherbridge Office Phone/Voice Mail: 678-547-6010 Office: 205 BE Bldg Email: petherbrid_j@mercer.edu Fax: (678) 547-6160 Office Hours: 3 - 6 pm Tuesdays and Thursdays and by appointment COURSE DESCRIPTION This course focuses on financial accounting theory, current pronouncements, problems of income determination, and accounting research and research methodology applied to accounting issues. COURSE OBJECTIVES This course discusses broader implications of financial accounting and examines critically accounting theories. It provides theoretical base for financial accounting and reporting in business relationships characterized by information asymmetries. Besides its theoretical orientation, the course discusses institutional structure and different reporting environments of financial accounting and standard setting. It also features considerable coverage of financial accounting literature. Students completing this class should be able to: • To understand...
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...Resources ESPN 3820 Sport Road Connecticut, MA 12052 Dear Mr. Rich: Your advertisement for a production assistant, appearing on October 18th in the employment section of your company website, immediately caught my attention because my education and training closely parallel your needs. According to your advertisement, the job includes “assisting in the coordination of a wide range of events, programs, production, and graphics.” Recently, I interned in the ESPN 3 Macon office near the Mercer University campus. The ESPN internship introduced me to similar tasks. I worked with the most prominent producers and directors in television and film industry during this internship. Specifically, I worked under the supervision of producers, in preparation for the football marketing campaigns and promotional videos for the upcoming Superbowl. Furthermore, the internship improved my interviewing, editing, and create development. Intensive course work in the sport business program at Mercer, as well as proficiency in computer spreadsheets, databases, and video editing programs, have given me the kind of training that ESPN demands in production. Moreover, my leadership experiences in campus organizations have helped me develop the kind of interpersonal and technical skills necessary for an effective production assistant. After you have examined the enclosed résumé for details of my qualifications, I would be happy to answer questions. Please call me at (865) 555-5555 to arrange...
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...cups in the classroom setting. Observe the seeds to determine the needs of the seeds so that they grow into a healthy plant. SKCS6. The Nature of Science: Students will understand the important features of the process of scientific inquiry. Students will apply the following to inquiry learning practices: SKCS6.c. Much can be learned about plants and animals by observing them closely, but care must be taken to know the needs of living things and how to provide for them. MATERIALS: Potting soil, 6 oz. plastic cups, seeds from “common” vegetables that the children will recognize, permanent marker to label the cups, scissors, water pitcher, science notebook, crayons. ADVANCED PREPARATION: 1. Bring in the book A Green, Green Garden by Mercer Mayer. 2. Collect all materials and bring to classroom. 3. Punch a few small holes in the bottom of the cups. 4. Set up a station where materials will be kept in the classroom. PROCEDURE: Initiating Activity: (Linguistic/ Verbal) Have the students go to the story area. Once everyone is seated, read “A Green, Green Garden” to the class. Talk to the students about the vegetables in the book. Ask engaging questions about those vegetables and other foods they believe come from plants. Ask: “What did little critter and his family have to do for the seeds and seedlings? What do plants need to grow strong?” After our discussion have the students go back to their table. How to do it: (Bodily-Kinesthetic, Linguistic/ Verbal, Interpersonal)...
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...Portland, Oregon. The conference creator, Chris Guillebeau asked attendees that wanted to share their work from the main stage to submit their stories in advance to be considered. Out of over 300 submissions, the story of Kids of the Gulf was chosen to be featured in an attendee stories forum on the last day of the conference. The Kansas Graziers Association (KGA) Winter Conference will be held Saturday, January 19, 2013, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Courtyard Mariott Hotel in Salina, Ks. “Back to the Basics of Grazing Management” is the theme for this year’s conference. Expressive Crowd (PETERBOROUGH) The PCVS auditorium was overflowing with Raider spirit Wednesday morning (March 21 2014) as students welcomed Canadian comedian Rick Mercer to their school. Mr. Mercer’s visit allowed him to get to know the students of the school that raised the most money towards his Spread the Net campaign. Other nonhuman actors play no small role in manifesting the crowd-as-crowd — and by (intensive) extension, the expressive potential of the athletes on the basketball court. The public address announcer, cheerleaders, jumbotron, canned sound effects, in-house music: all of these purportedly exist to "enhance the game experience" for paying consumers. At Angel Stadium of Anaheim in Anaheim, California on April 29 2012 Acting Crowd A....
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...The Borough of Grove City in Mercer County Pennsylvania is a typical western Pennsylvania town with its bucolic setting. Grove City College overshadows its neighborhoods with a large campus in its center. However, if you look closely, there is another equally unique attraction. It appears to your left as you cross the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad tracks going north on Center Street. One can make out an older castellated building that looks shopworn from decades of use. The makeup of the building at 317 Erie Street has the appearance of a military structure, which, for many years, it wa In soldierly use for more than 70 years, the Grove City Armory was a hub for National Guard operations in northwestern Pennsylvania. As a military headquarters, it lodged units of the 28th Infantry Division. When the resident unit moved its operations...
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...In the poem Harlem, the author Langston Hughes discusses the idea of unfulfilled dreams and their plausible outcomes using symbolism and imagery. He initially describes a “deferred” dream as a sun-dried raisin, depicting the dream originally as a fresh grape that had dried up and now turned black. As the poem goes on, Hughes illustrates the idea of a deferred dream as something rotten or gone bad. This idea provides the play A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry with its basic foundation, for it is a play about a house full of unfulfilled dreams. The major conflict in this play results from a main characters deferred dream to be a businessman. Walter Lee Younger, dreams of using his deceased father's insurance money to buy a liquor store with a couple of his friends. At First, Walters mother Ruth, abstains to help pursue this dream. The $10,000 from the insurance company was not to be used in vain; Mrs.Younger does not want her husband's memory tainted with something such as this. With the already tense environment created between Mrs.Younger and her son, she decides to put a downpayment on a house that she has dreamed of having since she was little. The house was consequently located in Clybourne park: a part of Chicago where only white families lived. Mrs.Younger notices how her decision to neglect her sons dream causes him downheartedness: “ MAMA I’ve helped do it to you, haven’t I, son? Walter I been wrong”(106). In her attempt to help her son cheer up, she lets him...
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...Poetry Analysis “The Armful” by Robert Frost This poem written by Robert Frost is a very interesting piece that each and every one of us can connect to. Frost talks about problems and how it overwhelms him. This poem clearly states that he is struggling but then soon focuses on trying to better himself to achieve his goals and fix his problems. All in all, using the techniques or imagery, word choice, and tone in the poem "The armful", Robert Frost successfully composes a wonderful poem which readers can connect to their own lives. We all have problems and sometimes is can feel overwhelming. Sometimes a person feels like giving up and running away from their troubles. Using Frost's poem as a guide that everyone has all sorts of problems and we can all get through it with help from friends, figuring out an alternative, and sheer force of will. “Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes A dream is a goal in life, not just dreams experienced during sleep. Most people use their dreams as a way of setting future goals for themselves. Dreams can help to assist people in getting further in life because it becomes a personal accomplishment. Langston Hughes's poem "Dream Deferred" is speaks about what happens to dreams when they are put on hold. The poem leaves it up to the reader to decide what dream is being questioned. In the opening of the poem the speaker uses a visual image that is also a simile to compare a dream deferred to a raisin. "Does it dry up/ like a raisin...
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...poets make poems on how they feel and what their passionate about. Langston Hughes is a great example of a writer who not only overcame his fears, but also learned how to express them through poetry. People who want to study the underlining meaning in Hughes work should first analyze what caused him to write his poems, by researching his early childhood development and his overall environmental surroundings. “Children should be born without parents-if born they must be” is the theory that Langston Hughes created and also strongly believed. Hughes believed this because of the rough childhood that he had gone through and the ultimate loneliness it scarred him with. On February 1st in 1902, Caroline Mercer Langston and James Nathaniel Hughes gave birth to a son they would name James Mercer Langston Hughes. Right off from the start Hughes’ life was spiraling down with his father (Nathaniel) abandoning him at birth. Nathaniel fled to Mexico, until finally settling down in Cuba, to escape his own ethnicity. Nathaniel despised being an African American as well as other African Americans themselves, referring to them as “niggers”. Leaving behind his wife, soon later whom he divorced, and child left Hughes upset and his mother filled with hate. After his fathers leaving Hughes lived with his mother until he was eight, and even though he was happy to be with his mom, she was not always happy to be with him. On the bad days of her remembering Nathaniel, she would lash out at Hughes saying...
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...Reaction Paper - Nonfiction ENG 125 September 25, 2012 Reaction Paper - Nonfiction “Who Will Light the Incense When Mother’s Gone” by Andrew Lam and “Salvation” by Langston Hughes are the two nonfiction stories featured in this reaction paper. Although, the time period in which each story was written is not the same, both of these nonfiction stories share a common theme. The subject of that theme is one where an elder teaches a person younger than themselves, the ways of their ancestors through religion or culture. Misunderstandings bought forth by failed communication is another theme that these two stories have in common. Both themes explain that a profound gap exists between the older and newer generation of people, regardless of the time period each one is in. For instance, in the story, “Who Will Light the Incense When Mother’s Gone“, the author writes about a Vietnamese teenager who has to learn the ways of his newfound American culture due to the pressure of his current times. While in the story, “Salvation”, the black American was pressured to follow and believe in Christianity in order to display obedience within his community. Both stories portray different cultural perspectives but they both provide a similar theme when it comes to values that are instilled into the younger generation through the methods used by the older generation. In each of these stories, the author provides a main character as the narrator, who also portrays the author himself...
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...Academic essay on Annie Proulx's "Job Story" Choices are something we all make. Not necessarily important choices, but there will always be a time to make them. It's not always good choices, but they have to be made. There will always be consequences, whether it's bad or good. Throughout the story, Leeland Lee has to make a lot of choices. Where to live, where to work and when to work. All the different choices he made, put him in the position he is now. Leeland Lee is an awkward-looking young boy. His face is heavily boned, which he has gotten from his mom, his neck is quite thick and he has red-gold hair. His eyes are as pouchy as a middle-aged alcoholic. His nose is broad and lays close to his face. Lori Bovee is Leeland Lee's wife. She has an undistinguished oval face, and hair of medium length. Leeland Lee is the protagonist of the story, because he is the main character. I would say Leeland is a flat and static character as he is an endless optimist. He doesn't give up when it comes to finding a new job, and despite his wife dying he still gets a job at Unique Eats. The reason he is a static character is because he doesn't change at all. After getting several different jobs he doesn't change anything, after his mom and wife dies he doesn't change one single thing except the fact he isn't listening to the radio anymore, but since that have been an important factor of the story all along, it can also show a lot about how he has changed. The story starts November...
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...Essay on “Job History” written by Annie Proulx In the short story “Job History” written by Annie Proulx, we follow Leeland Lee from the time of his birth, until he is about fifty years old. In the short story we follow Leeland through his harsh life, with ups and downs, in the form of thoughts, feelings, incidents, etc. Leeland is born in a ranch in Wyoming, and lives there with his wife Lori. Leeland does not look particularly good, in fact he is a very unattractive man; (page 91, line 12)“Leeland’s face shows heavy bones from his mother’s side. His neck is thick and his red-gold hair plastered down in bangs. Even as a child his eyes are as pouchy as those of a middle-age alcoholic, the brows rod-straight above wandering out-of-line eyes. His nose lies broad and close to his face, his mouth seems to have been cut with a single chisel blow into easy flesh” And in the top of that, we see how Leeland through his life, tries to find a successful career, but fails consistently. He moves various times from place to place, too seek occupation and good business. But it is hard when you’re a high school dropout, without a career. Leeland have to changes his job constantly, because of his lack of luck, and since he can’t get along white his bosses. He is never able to stay at one job or place for long, which lead to problems in the family. He has a hard time supporting his wife, and their children financially. Throughout the story the author, Annie Proulx manages...
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...An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal[->0] point of view[->1]. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism[->2], political manifestos[->3], learned arguments[->4], observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition of an essay is vague, overlapping with those of an article[->5] and a short story[->6]. Almost all modern essays are written in prose[->7], but works in verse[->8] have been dubbed essays (e.g. Alexander Pope[->9]'s An Essay on Criticism[->10] and An Essay on Man[->11]). While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like John Locke[->12]'s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding[->13] and Thomas Malthus[->14]'s An Essay on the Principle of Population[->15] are counterexamples. In some countries (e.g., the United States and Canada), essays have become a major part of formal education[->16]. Secondary students are taught structured essay formats to improve their writing skills, and admission essays[->17] are often used by universities[->18] in selecting applicants and, in the humanities and social sciences, as a way of assessing the performance of students during final exams. The concept of an "essay" has been extended to other mediums beyond writing. A film essay is a movie that often incorporates documentary film making styles and which focuses more on the evolution of a theme or an idea. A photographic essay[->19] is an attempt to cover a topic...
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...We all know love. We have all loved in some kind of way. We love our parents, significant others and even our friends. But we can also love other things like animals or material things. But what is the difference between loving and liking? And is it better not to love and feel pain or to love and be hurt in the progress? Jonathan Franzen seeks to answer these questions in his essay “Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts”. The essay “Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts” is, as mentioned, written by Jonathan Franzen and published in The New York Times, May 28, 2011. Jonathan Franzen is born in 1959, and he is an acclaimed American novelist and essayist. The essay is based on the commencement speech he delivered at Kenyon College in Ohio, USA. “Our technology has become extremely adept in creating products that correspond to our fantasy ideal of an erotic relationship, in which the beloved object asks for nothing and gives everything, instantly. (…)” As Franzen claims in his essay, many people can feel like they love their technological object. It gives them a satisfaction, which human interaction maybe wouldn’t. Franzen however thinks, that people in general don’t love material things: they like them. There is a major difference between loving and liking – even though it might appear small. “Liking, in general, is commercial culture’s substitute for loving.” Products are made to be likeable, but if that concept in transferred to a person, you would instantly see...
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...Reaction – “Salvation” The nonfiction short essay “Salvation” written by Langston Hughes in 1940, presents a theme on the literal and often manipulated perception of children. Hughes narrates the essay as he recounts his disappointing attempt at salvation. Hughes aunt told him that when she was saved by Jesus she saw a light, and felt something happen within herself. As children will do, Hughes took her story literally and was heartbroken as he sat in front of the church and watched other children “saved” while he was not. He believed that Jesus must not want him because he did not see or feel anything. In the end, Hughes is forced to lie about accepting Jesus and in turn rejects the Christian faith all together. I related to Hughes story on many accounts. I am a mother of three young children who perceive everything in life literally, and as a young girl I was raised in a very religious environment. I could visualize and almost feel Hughes devastation as he sat at the front of the church crushed by the thoughts of God not wanting him. “Still I kept waiting to see Jesus” (Barnet, Cain, & Burto, 2011, pp. 351). One of the churches that my family attended for a short time during my childhood practiced speaking in tongs. I specifically remember feeling just like Hughes during a service when other children were speaking in unnatural languages perceived to be sent from God himself. I could not understand why I was not chosen to talk for God and intern was hurt and...
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