...My Grandpa The Selfless Man Having courage, bravery, and diligence all describes a “hero” in my mind. My grandpa, Michael Hipes is my hero because of all these qualities. He was a veteran and served for a long time. He always was willing to help anybody in need. Michael was actually my step Grandpa because my Grandpa died when my dad was eight. He lived a very hard demanding life. That is why Michael Hipes is “My Michigan Hero.” Michael Hipes had quite a rough childhood. He would have to work with his dad all day and get yelled at by his dad when he got home. He could have easily grown up to do the same thing to my dad but instead he made the better decision. Michael decided to care for my dad. That is another reason why he is “My Michigan Hero.”...
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...I am very involved in school, taking part in both sports and many organizations, holding office positions within majority of them. These organizations have taught me many skills that will be beneficial for me in my future career as a pediatric nurse. My plans are to attend Wichita State University for a nursing degree as well as being very involved on campus. My grandpa was an EMT and my mother was a nurse which they have both inspired me to follow in their footsteps of helping others. Pediatric nursing has many high and low points but seeing the children smile every day is what makes it worth it. The topic of my research paper is the highs and lows of being a pediatric nurse. I have always had a passion for helping others and I love children,...
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...and nationality – African American and American. One of the ways in which black children create their self-identity is through the illustrations they see in the literature they are exposed to. We look to African American children’s books to help promote self-esteem, cultural identity, and pride for African American children. As books are read to them, children concentrate on the images, and become subject to the impressions these images create. Children’s books that are authentic to African American culture, physicality and intelligence are few and far between. With consideration to our theme, “Black Literary Contemplations on Thomas Jefferson and Western Enlightenment Ideologies of Race and Humanity” and Thomas Jefferson’s Query XIV, it is my belief that the images in children’s literature are important to development of self- identity and esteem in African American children. In Query XIV, in his comparison of whites and blacks, Thomas Jefferson commented on the beauty of whites and blacks, and critiqued blacks because of their “immovable veil of black” and lack of flowing hair. He then stated that black men favored white women over black women as “uniformly as is the preference of Oran-ootans for the black women over those of their own species…. Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior…. the improvement of the blacks in body and mind, in the first instance...
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...The Internet Generation For most of my life I have been fortunate enough to be able to interact with computers and the internet. Although this is a good thing for me, it doesn’t blind me to the fact that there are some people who just don’t understand the concepts of a computer and the internet. The "computer generation" is not just for one generation. The elderly don't have to sit back and watch while the younger generations have fun banking, playing, shopping and socializing online. But many elderly people shy away from computers out of fear, wondering "What if I break it?" or "What if someone steals all my personal information?" The concern over the growing “digital divide” has led to a number of initiatives being employed to encourage web usage for the older generations, and to ensure they are not excluded from the digital world. Among these is educating the elderly on ways computers may benefit their lives. Some computer manufacturers have designed computers especially for elderly users. The designs acknowledge seniors' limitations on a computer, attempting to make a comfortable user for them. For instance, the designs tend to emphasize simplicity and straightforward commands and prompts. Keyboards are less cluttered with keys, and the software lacks design complications. The computers also make the tasks common to elderly users, such as email or viewing photos, easy to access and operate. These are just a few ways companies as well as new technology make it easier...
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...The Marketer’s Secret Weapon How Social Media Understanding Drives Innovation By Robert V. Kozinets, BBA, MBA. Ph.D. M A R C H 2 01 0 Executive Summary Marketers in today’s competitive world need an edge. This paper offers two of them. First, it tells marketers to consider social media not just as a marketing tool, but as a way to continuously build high-level consumer insight. Second, it offers a rigorous method based in anthropology for building social media data into applied cultural insights. That method is called netnography. In netnography, online interactions are valued as a cultural reflection that yields deep human understanding. Like in person ethnography, netnography is naturalistic, immersive, descriptive, multi-method, adaptable, and focused on context. Used to inform consumer insight, netnography is less intrusive than ethnography or focus groups, and more naturalistic than surveys, quantitative models, and focus groups. Netnography fits well in the front-end stages of innovation, and in the discovery phases of marketing and brand management. Netnography follows six overlapping steps: 1. Research planning 2. Entrée 3. Data collection 4. Interpretation 5. Ensuring ethical standards 6. Research representation A short illustration of a computationally assisted netnographic approach to a brand study of Listerine is provided. It demonstrates how insights can be used to inform marketing activities including brand...
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...Response Paper # 2 Many families who are living in the United States today have come here because they wanted to be in a country where they can have a safer and stable life. Through all the good and bad that many cultures have faced, as they have come into the United States, they have seen better improvement in their positionality. My family went through a major cultural change when they moved to Los Angeles in 1989. The main reason why they moved to Los Angeles was the fact that the Soviet Union was in control of Armenia, which made their lives even harder by not having a say in many things and no independence. They were living in a household with about eight people and it was just so hard to find any kind of stable job to maintain a family. Many of my father’s cousins were moving to Los Angeles at the time and they would all tell him that it was the place of opportunities and that living in the United States would make life easier. My family moved to Hollywood, Ca in 1989 because during this time all of our family members were living in this city and we all wanted to live near each other, thus Hollywood became our segregated cultural space. I am so privileged that my family decided to move to California many years ago because I have many cousins in Armenia who are living a hard life in Armenia, since there is no work. On Armenian channel, I always see many poor people who live in broken down homes and when I look back at the life I am living today, I couldn’t be any more...
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...Family Cultural Research Paper Ashley Ziemann WITC New Richmond Family Cultural Research Paper In Switzerland, there were very wealthy land owners. They were known as the Wipfli family. I did not realize that they were from royalty, I had always just known them as the Wipfli’s. They lived in the Wipfli castle containing 30 rooms, which was wsurrounded by a wall and a moat, which is still owned and occupied by present members of the family. Inside the castle at each of the four corners of the castle, there was a large dungeon. All the walls were covered by murals. There was a circular marble stairway that wound its way up in the middle of the building. On the stairs were the Stations of the Cross. The castle is noted for its one-half mile tunnel which leads from the castle, under the river and comes out to the next village where there was a lake. The purpose of the tunnel was to provide an escape during World War 2. It also has a summer house way up in the mountains where the family lived during long hot summers. My cousin, Kathi, has a painting of the summer house over her dining room fireplace. One of the original family’s sons fell in love with Josephine Van Albert, of the family of Prince Albert (on the tobacco can). They married against her families objections which was possible because the Wipfli’s were wealthier than the Van Albert’s, and they moved from England to Switzerland. Charlotte’s father promptly disowned her, thereby cutting her off all claim our family...
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...price. In D.C there is a monument that represents all people that fought or joined the military, and have died or gone missing but not found or identified. With that monument there is a wreath that you can lay down to respect them, that would be a big honor to lay it because you are chosen out of all of the 8th grade along with three others. You would be respecting all those heroes who died for us. I think it would be a big challenge to join the military because your mindset is on dying because they don't know if they are coming back. And neither does there family, I think that would be so hard. Their job is saving us and the U.S, so in a way they are heroes. I really respect all those that serve for this nation, especially because my grandpa served like most grandparents. And I'm glad he came back because I wouldn't be here if he didn't....
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...Alzheimer's Disease Research Paper Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive, degenerating disorder that affects the brain cells. It is NOT a normal part of aging and it is also not something that happens inevitably in later life. The disease was named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German physician in 1906, after he had performed an autopsy on the brain of a dead woman who had experienced severe memory loss, confusion and difficulty understanding questions and found dense deposits around her nerve cells. It is the most common type of dementia, which is a progressive dysfunction of the brain which results in a restriction of daily activities. A lot of kids grow up being first introduced to this disease in their grandparents or older people in their...
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...Taylor Dittamore 1/10/12 Hour 7 At age 4 I began playing cards with my grandfather. We played a game called memory and my grandpa didn’t seem to have a very good one. I will never forget the way he laughed when he told the story of how I beat him at the card game every time. Liver cancer took my gramps from me on October 29th, 2011. Dealing with his death was and still is the hardest thing I have had to deal with in my life. Cancer also took my other three grandparents from me, unfortunately I was too young to gratefully remember them. I come from a wonderful family of six and I wouldn’t want it any other way. I enjoy having a big family, it gives me more people to love and look up to, I am never bored, and I know if I ever need a friend, I will have five. My mom and my two sisters are my best friends and my role models. They are all strong, opinionated women and I adore them. I have three amazing best friends that I consider to be more as family than friends. I work at a boutique in Glen Carbon called Unique Boutique and Gifts and have been employed there for about four months. Art relaxes me. My dad gave me his artistic gene and I am so lucky for that. I don’t like to miss school, even though I hate doing schoolwork, I love to see people I normally do not get to see on a regular day. I am an outgoing, sociable person that loves to meet new people and make new friends. I like a challenge, achieving a goal after working hard to get there is the best feeling...
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...Capitalization Rules Capitalization is the writing of a word with its first letter in uppercase and the remaining letters in lowercase. Experienced writers are stingy with capitals. It is best not to use them if there is any doubt. Rule 1. Capitalize the first word of a document and the first word after a period. Rule 2. Capitalize proper nouns—and adjectives derived from proper nouns. Examples: the Golden Gate Bridge the Grand Canyon a Russian song a Shakespearean sonnet a Freudian slip With the passage of time, some words originally derived from proper nouns have taken on a life, and authority, of their own and no longer require capitalization. Examples: herculean (from the ancient-Greek hero Hercules) quixotic (from the hero of the classic novel Don Quixote) draconian (from ancient-Athenian lawgiver Draco) The main function of capitals is to focus attention on particular elements within any group of people, places, or things. We can speak of a lake in the middle of the country, or we can be more specific and say Lake Michigan, which distinguishes it from every other lake on earth. Capitalization Reference List * Brand names * Companies * Days of the week and months of the year * Governmental matters Congress (but congressional), the U.S. Constitution (but constitutional), the Electoral College, Department of Agriculture. Note: Many authorities do not capitalize federal orstate unless it is part of the official title: State Water Resources Control...
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...an education but to have a safe place. Like Malala because she gave kids education. That's when it touch my heart and I saw that she really did care for the kids in orphanages. And then she says “Find a cause that touches your heart, convert your empathy into actions, then let those actions ripple...
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...Thomas 0. Schlesinger Walking out of Rounds Hall with me after class, Benny, a sophomore in one of my international relations courses, asked for, and received, some pointers on the required paper. “You’ve just told me to write exactly as I’ve been taught not to write,” said he. “And who, pray tell, taught you?” asked I. He gave an over-the-shouldernod across the street, toward Ellen Reed House--the English Department. "Hmmm. . . fine--I'mnot surprised to hear they tell you something different,” I told him. “The English profs teach you to write in a generic way, say, fiction, or generically expository stuff. I want you to write a social science paper.” With some ”Hmmm-ing” of his own, Benny shuffled off, wearing a mildly annoyed and not altogether convinced frown. How dare they teach different ways to write in different departments at the same college! Benny did make an effort to heed my suggestions, but it took persistence. For example, the introduction to his first draft, included a vague Writing Across the Curriculum, Vol. 11, August 1990 35 36 Writing Across The Curriculum (August 1990) statement like: ”Conflict between Arabs and Black Africans in the Sudan is a serious problem and should be examined in greater detail. . . including its history, causes, and future.” The purpose statement I eventually settled for read more like this: ”This paper will examine social, economic, and political aspects of the Sudanese civil war. The geography and...
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...Psychologist more understanding of human nature and the human condition, and provides many methods in to the study of human behavior. Humanistic psychology appeared in the 1950s in retort to both behaviorism and psychoanalysis. It is concerned with the specific understanding of human beings, and views using measureable approaches in the study of the human mind and behavior as erroneous. This is in direct contrast to cognitive psychology, which aims to apply the scientific method to the study, an approach of which humanistic psychology has been intensely critical. As an alternative, the discipline stresses a phenomenological outlook of the human experience, looking to figure out human beings and their behavior by conducting qualitative research (Wikipedia). The humanistic approach comes from existentialist thought, a philosophy that stresses human self-determination and accountability. The founding philosophers behind this institute of thought are Abraham Maslow, who presented a “hierarchy of needs”; Carl Rogers, who shaped and developed ‘client centered therapy’ and Fritz and Laura Perls who aided in the creation and development of Gestalt therapy. Gestalt psychologists claim to consider behavior holistically, believing that the whole is greater than the...
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...My family history is rather colorful on both sides of my family. Both my Mother and Father’s side of the family have a rich history that has been fairly documented through physical and oral tradition. In this paper, I hope to fit in what I can about both sides of my family. Starting with my Father’s side of the family, the Bloomberg’s come from Stockholm, Sweden. My Great-Great-Great Grandfather John Bloomberg immigrated to the United States in the late 1890’s and had their name changed to Blomberg; oddly enough most other Bloomberg's who immigrated to the United States kept their last name the same. He also immigrated with his brother, although not much is known about him. After his brother moved to America, he made his way down to Brazil...
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