...begins with college graduation and not one moment should be wasted with the excuse, “Oh, as long as I figure things out by the time im thirty”. Resumes don’t get any better, your memory doesn’t get any sharper, and you don’t get any younger. When looking for a job later in life, your employer will know these things. Meg describes her personal “Ah ha!” moment, when finally comprehending that no relationship, no bar tending job with the plan to “do better next year” will actually go anywhere. As Meg draws attention to, in her opinion, the benign neglect that so many twenty-somethings struggle with, she suggests what the consequences for such could be. Job rates decreasing and unhealthy marriages being the most prominent. Psychologists, Sociologists, Neurologists, and Fertility specialists all have evidence to back up the theory that these years mark the pivotal movement of one’s life, and the key developmental stages of their body. “You’re not getting any younger!” Starts to become a joke among friends, while its seriousness is often overlooked. Fertility, being a prime example, becomes increasingly more difficult with age, and a lot more complicated. On another note, Meg mentions, “Eighty percent of your greatest life achievements happen by the age of 35”. In other words, 8 out of 10 “decisions, experiences, and “Ah Ha! Moments” that define a person will have happened by your early thirties. This proves that your lives most pivotal moments are based off of the path you choose as...
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...Pivotal Moments Amy Conlin Phoenix Community College April 20, 2015 1 What makes us leaders as we enter the working force? Many of our leadership traits are already innately instilled it is now up to ourselves to expose, grow, and maintain nursing. Many leadership styles are outlined this does not mean we can not brake the mold. This simply means for us to be a leader to our peers, new upcoming nurses and help grow for the better of our patients. Our patients is and will remain the number one reason all of us indulged into the nursing profession. Leadership style that is most appealing is that of authoritarian. This does not mean any superiority but for the greater good in our patients. It is important that we put our patients before social status. We must maintain health satisfaction to those we serve daily. Authoritarian leaders uphold stringent control over our patients by directly regulating rules, methodologies, and actions. Nursing leaves little room for error and we must lead by example. We make goals and see to it that these goals are made. Whether this be interdependent our as a group. Rheba de Tornyay was a very successful leader. She grew up on a small chicken farm in northern California, during the depression. She knew from a young tinder age that she must make something of herself. She grew up in a low to medium class so she knew she had little room for error. She attended college prematurely and with failing...
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...What struck me most in Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis was the idea of childhood innocence being lost and the emotional change that occurs when becoming an adult. I will analyse the emotional transformation of Marji during the time of rebellion in Iran. Specifically, there is a pivotal moment in the book when Marji finds one of her uncle’s cigarettes and smokes it as an act of rebellion against her mother and this is the scene I will be focusing on. The whole story leading up to this moment has been Marji hearing societal views from her family and her peers rather than developing them on her own. Through the rebellion against her mother, she is paving a path for her independence and individual views towards conflict. This shows the pivotal transition from a once innocent and clueless child a much more mature and grown independent woman forming opinions and views for herself. The first image of the scene shows Marji with a lit cigarette in her mouth. She says, “As for me, I sealed my act of rebellion against my mother’s dictatorship by smoking the cigarette.” (117) This image marks the beginning of her innocence being lost as she turns into a woman who is able to form her own views and commits acts of resistance against values she does not agree with. This small act of rebellion with the cigarette is a direct correlation with Marji’s desire to grow up in society and become independent. The expression on her face shows not only her rebellion towards a dictator that...
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...to its culture? How do the actions of Apple apply to the TCOs? The best way I can most effetely answer these questions is to start with the second question, How much of Apple's success can be linked directly back to its culture? I think that a Apples success can be significantly linked directly back to its culture. This question is easily supported by what happened when Apple hired John Sculley as their President and CEO in 1983 and pressured Steve Jobs to resign in 1985. During this period of time Sculley brought a corporate culture from Pepsi into Apple which was a significant change from what the company had been used to with Jobs leading the company. During the time that Sculley was at the realm Apple saw significant failures in which I will outline when answering the next question and he changed business models which adversely affected Apple to the extent that some say he almost drove Apple into the ground for good. After Jobs return in 1997 he immediately started driving the businesses culture in a completely different direction in which he focused on the experience his products gave the user and went on to inspire others in the company to be creative and come up with innovations that changed the world forever. I’ve taken events from an article I found called, “30 pivotal moments in Apple’s history” (Linzmayer, 2006) and segmented what they feel to be the 30 most pivotal moments in Apples history into what I feel to be successes or failures. So lets start with...
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...Victorian Era. Some of the most common diseases of the Victorian Era include smallpox, tuberculosis, typhoid, dysentery, and cholera (Lawrence). During this time, the smallpox vaccination was introduced which prevented the disease from even occurring and the vaccination was made mandatory in many countries (Porter 130) While during the Victorian Era many pivotal discoveries were made such as the hypodermic syringe, antiseptics, pasteurization, and the sources of cholera and tuberculosis, two of the most pivotal changes were the rabies vaccine and anesthesia (Victorian Era Medicines). The creation of all of these new medicines was in large part due to the rise in the study...
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...Epiphany at Death and the Road to Salvation In Everyman and Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, the protagonists are faced with their judgment day and presented with an account of their lives. Everyman is a man wealthy materialistically, while Faustus is wealthy in arts such as logic, medicine, law, and divinity. Everyman represents the men in society who are fixed in their material lives and lose sight of Christ. He befriends men who abandon him while on a pilgrimage to Christ, learning that what he once valued, his wealth, is useless to him when he has to account for his lack of good deeds. Faustus unlimited intelligence, yet he is dissatisfied with his gift; he would prefer experiment with black magic. Faustus gives his soul to the devil in exchange for the power to perform black magic, but he is ultimately damned to hell because of his decision and failure to recognize his fault. Faustus and Everyman fail to recognize Christ and their afterlife is left at stake. On the road to salvation, death serves as a groundbreaking event in the life of mortal men. Throughout their quest, Everyman and Faustus struggle to prove themselves worthy of greater afterlife through misusage of their mortal lives. Everyman is approached by the devil with a pilgrimage which he must partake, one where he will not come back alive. He seeks help in that those who befriend and abandon him during his lifetime such as: beauty, goods, and knowledge cannot help him on his journey. Good Deeds is the only...
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...dramatic ending of the film, just as Henry, who himself was suffering from depression comes to finally be happy. The films many side characters, which include Lucy Lu, Christina Hendricks, Marcia Gay Harden, Tim Blake Nelson, and James Caan, star as the struggling inner-city teachers bombarded with pressure from the state to raise standardized test scores. These teachers each have their own moments to shine with pivotal moments in their lives that correspond to the overlying theme of detachment. Mr. Wiatt, who is played by Tim Blake Nelson, is feeling detached from his home life, personal life, and professional life. His big moment comes in when Henry spots him standing against a fence crying. Henry asks him what is wrong only to be met with surprise that someone can see him. Lucy Lu plays the counselor who feels too much and cares too much for children who could care less about themselves. Her climax comes when she snaps at a student. Theses teachers and actors, show the real and raw images of what it is like to be a teacher trying to teach children who do not care. The small but most impactful role is played by Sami Gayle. She stars as a teenage runaway turned prostitute who befriends Henry. Henry takes her in and gives her shelter, food, and takes her to get tested for HIV in hopes of getting her off the streets. While her real age is never revealed it is known that she is significantly younger than Henry, but falls in love with him just the same. Because of this age difference...
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...as a pivotal figure, contributing profoundly to the nation’s quest for independence. Transitioning from a humble immigrant’s early challenges in the Caribbean to the strategic battlegrounds of the Continental Army, Alexander Hamilton’s journey encapsulates the essence of the American narrative. This evolution lays the groundwork for comprehending the diverse contributions of a man whose impact reverberates in the foundation of the United States. Alexander Hamilton, a pivotal figure in the American struggle for independence, not only navigated significant challenges but also served as a compelling exemplar, inspiring others to join the movement for freedom. Alexander Hamilton, a central figure...
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...Lincoln vs Jefferson Davis Battle of the Speeches Essay. The Battle of Speeches between Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis was a pivotal moment in American history. These two leaders, representing the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War, delivered powerful speeches that rallied their respective supporters and shaped the course of the war. Abraham Lincoln, as the President of the United States, delivered several important speeches during his time in office. His most famous speech, the Gettysburg Address, is a powerful testament to the ideals of freedom and equality that the Union was fighting to preserve. In this speech, Lincoln emphasized the importance of preserving the Union and honoring the sacrifices of those who had given...
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...The deeper I get into this historical fiction novel by Markus Zusak, the more interesting and captivating it gets. As the plot and characters develop, I get a deeper understanding of the characters and this makes me connect with them even more. The character I most admire and, in a way, look up to is the main character, Liesel Meminger. I really admire Liesel because when she starts something, she finishes, no matter the circumstances; for example when she was learning how to read, “There were, of course, some problems as well… Just when progress seemed to be flowing well, somehow things would become lodged… but she had neither the selflessness to allow him to sleep… She was a girl with a mountain to climb” (Zusak 71 & 86). Acquiring a new...
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...One of the most pivotal moments of my life is when I got hired for my first job. I got hired in the summer of 2012 at the Pleasant Valley country club, trying to start at the bottom to work up to my dream of being a golf pro. Ever since I was six years old i knew i wanted to play golf for the rest of my life. I went throughout high school playing golf every year, making all county and all section honors, and lettering all 4 years. Since I was familiar with the country club my family was members at I figured it would be a great place to be my first job and i knew i would love working there. Like everyone else when they go for a job I had to get ready for my first interview in my life. I was nervous and terrified all at the same time. Even though i was friends with the pro at Pleasant Valley and my family had been members there for years I was still scared of failure of not getting the job. The only advice i got for this interview was make sure you shake his hand and look at him when you are talking to him and that was coming from my grandpa. My family raised me by trying to teach me responsibility at the youngest age possible so I applied for this job right when i turned 16 years old. I remember walking in to my boss' s office and him telling me to wait there for a minute because he had to go pick up papers. I had to sit in his office for about ten minutes and it was the longest ten minutes of my life because of all of the tension building up inside of me. He finally came back...
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...Riley only with Disgust, Fear and Anger to guide her, eventually allowing her to slowly fall into depression. The film is quite the whirlwind of emotions, allowing the viewer smile and laugh but also to cry and grief. I myself shed a few tears after watching the movie. Inside Out also differentiates itself from most children movies in which it contains no traditional villains, but the story line surrounds the internal struggle of Riley aging from a young girl to a teenager. The film is fundamentally something we all know and share which are the emotions inside our brains, but is executed so uniquely and is yet again another Disney Pixar animated masterpiece. The animated film follows the dramatic progression of exposition, complication, and denouement. Although, the film is significantly comprised of mostly complications as it is essential that Joy and Sadness return to Headquarters. For example, complications arise, such as Joy and Sadness getting stuck in abstract thought, Joy and Sadness having to force Riley to wake up, and Anger implementing the idea of Riley running away back to Minnesota to recreate more core memories. Possibly one of the most climactic moments of the film was towards the end where we see the control console disabled, turning dark, and Riley on the bus heading back to Minnesota almost on the freeway. The control console being disabled and turning dark can be seen as a metaphorical example of someone becoming depressed, in which Riley was numb unable to...
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...This is surely worthy of note. This piano interjection is extremely rare within Ireland’s song compositions. One may argue that Ireland, finally reaching the last song in his cycle, fought to keep the lyrical nature at bay, however, escaped into a realm of a Debussy style romantic idealism. However, this is far from the most unusual of Ireland’s characteristic music expressions within this setting. In the piano interlude at bar 10-11 (see Fig.3), the interjection in fact splits a line of the poem in half. This interjection is a pivotal moment in understanding the contrasting aesthetics of Ireland’s compositional voice. In this moment, the music temporarily usurps the text, a trait which goes strictly against Ireland’s distinctive style of declamation. The music’s function is no longer just to support the vocal melodic line harmonically, yet to create its own musical images and symbolic alliteration from the emotional and conceptual entities of the...
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...adoption and implementation of technology also directly shapes the policies and practices of the justice system. For example, the development of modern communications and transportation technologies in the early 1900s increased the response capability of police and changed citizen calls for service. Computers and cellular technologies have increased the capacity of data processing, information sharing, and communications within and across agencies. The increasing societal dependence on the Internet and computer-mediated communications have led law enforcement to develop tools to investigate offenses online. Thus, technology plays a pivotal role in the justice system, though a majority of researchers focus on the implementation and effect of technologies in law enforcement agencies. Over the last several decades’ technology has evolved in ways that most would never have imagined. Technology used to be something only seen in movies or The Jetson’s. Today, technology is used to operate in nearly everything we do throughout the day. The increased use of technology offers many pros and cons, when it comes to the criminal justice system, it can greatly impact and/or seriously hinder all in one scenario. New technology can drastically improve and expand our current limitations within law enforcement. Technology has the ability to offer broader searches for criminals, look deeper at the molecular levels of DNA, and provide hard evidence of a crime or even help prove the innocence of...
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...wife studied the impact of racism on African American children. They used black and white dolls as the basis of their study by asking children between ages 3 to 7 to choose which doll resembles their uniqueness. The findings were disheartening and caused the Clark’s to hesitate publication. However, providence led that Clarks’ work had a pivotal role in correcting racial inequities in America’s education system and placing psychology in the spotlight as a legitimate science. Fascinated by what appears to be two birds playing or making love, Kenneth Clark was motivated to adjust his attitude. For the first time, he disengaged from, what he considered, to be dullness in the delivery of his instructor’s presentations and began to listen to the content of what Professor Francis Sumner was teaching. It was his sophomore year in college when he became spellbound by Sumner’s description of psychology as it related to life. In an interview with Lawrence Nyman, Clark stated that “I started listening to him that day and I listened to him until the day of his death. I caught on fire” (Nyman 2005). Clark recounted, that was the defining moment that shaped his decision to become a psychologist. Clark’s choice was the beginning of a bitter, yet exciting journey that documents him in history as one of the leading figures in the civil rights movement in the United States (Nyman 2005), and the legacy of his work that brought about monumental change in the United States Justice System...
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