...The ORIGINAL ARTICLE Heart the MVand Short StaturePolicy implications CASE REPORT Sinking of Failure Doña Paz – II. in a 43 year-old male Table 1. Initial Laboratory Results Heart Failure recommendations to address these to hypothyroidism. with cardiomyopathy secondary factors. The patient had been born full term to a then 31-yearMethod. ReviewPara 3 (G4P3), the 4th of preparedness in the old Gravida 4 of the state of maritime 9 siblings, with an pre-disaster setting and the post-disaster responsefacilitated the apparently unremarkable delivery at home following by Table 2. Thyroid Doña Paz by the sinking of the MV Function Tests government and responsible a traditional birth attendant. He was noted to be normal agencies. A scrutiny Reference Value preparedness of concerned of the state of Result at birth. and subsequent response to thewith age was agencies The patient was allegedly at par0.02 disaster both Free T4 (0.8-2.0) ng/dL physically and mentally until formulating 24.75 Uiu/ml conducted with the objective of eight years old when he was recommendations TSH (0.4-6.0) said to have stopped growing in height. He was brought to which may lead to prevention and mitigate loss of lives. a private doctor, whose diagnosis was undisclosed, and he Results. Multiple factors to increase for the occurrence patient was given medications accounted height, which the of this tragedy. only one month with no improvement. Through the took for These factors include an inherent risk due...
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...Katie, the five-year-old in her family's tomb, is one of the most complex characters in Mexican playwright Elena Garro's 1957 short piece A Solid Home (Un Hogar Solido). Katie seems torn between longing for the living world she left so young and being confident that her future "solid home" is the mixing of her elements into other forms – Garro's theory of the afterlife. Although scholar James Mandrell states flatly, "Garro makes obvious the impossibility of escape from the determinants of existence in the time that is history" (233), Katie struggles against her history and future home. Garro may have had similar concerns. In 1937, she went with her new husband, Octavio Paz, to the Spanish Revolution, then returned to Mexico, moved to Berkeley, then San Francisco, New York City, Paris, and Tokyo before returning to Mexico, where the government forced her to undergo naturalization (Greenwald, Schultz, & Pomo, "Elena" 773). Following all these moves, while talking to her cousin at a bar in Mexico City, Garro noted, "What I need is a solid home" (qtd. in Greenwald, Schultz, & Pomo, "A Solid" 774). After so few solid homes, Garro wrote a play exploring that topic for her famous husband in a mere half hour (Greenwald, Schultz, & Pomo, "A Solid" 774). Like Garro, Katie had perhaps more homes than she wanted. Katie's contradictory, childlike character is both sadly angry about missing life by dying young and cynically amused by realities about death that she has learned. ...
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...What you do today improves all of your tomorrows – Ralph Marston The secret to getting ahead is getting started – Mark Twain “If you’re going through hell, keep going” – Winston Churchill “Quality is not an act, it is a habit” – Aristotle “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up” – Babe Ruth “Deserve your dream” – Octavio Paz "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." --Mark Caine "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." --Bruce Lee "You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." --George Lorimer “There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.” – Derek Jeter “It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” – Bear Bryant “You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave–win or lose.” – Gordie Howe “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar ...
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...Michael Poteet Poteet 1 Professor Lesser English 116 December 8, 2011 Comparisons and Dissimilarity of Love Octavio Paz, Franz Kafka, and Anton Chekhov, despite living in different eras and locations had similar sentience while going through many different experiences in life. This fact demonstrates the value of comparison but also the ability to contrast to understand life. Through “The Lady With the Dog”, “The Hunger Artist”, and “My Life With the Wave”, the reader is able to conclude: The stories while being decidedly different in diegesis’s also contain similarities in the symbolic contrivances used throughout all three stories Upon reading “The Lady with the Dog” by Chekhov the reader cannot help but sympathize with Anna and Dmitri. Sadly the timing of the relationship is unfortunate. The characters ultimately act in ignorance, because they do not find satisfaction in the relationships with their spouses so they choose to find it somewhere else. This is where are the pain the characters are feeling is coming from. Because sexual intimacy is so powerful and brings couples together into one “person” it causes so much pain for the couple because they have felt that feeling and cannot have it. They both meet their fate in love by finding their true match in one another, but very rarely do fate and timing coincide with one another, so they are forced to continually meet in secrecy through out the story. Poteet 2 Throughout...
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...short story “The Blue Bouquet” by Octavio Paz, there are several different types of imagery. The descriptive detail in the story adds a design of what the scene of the village looked like in Paz’s eyes. Without descriptive detail and imagery, the short story would be hard to understand and follow. With the use of visual imagery, auditory imagery, and kinesthetic imagery, showing more detail and visual imagination, throughout the story, helps the reader see and feel exactly what Paz is feeling throughout the story. Visual imagery is one of the factors Paz uses in his short story to help the reader’s visual and imagine what is going on. For example when he says, “Suddenly the moon appeared from behind a black cloud, lighting a white wall..,” (Paz 3), it is making the reader imagine the moon coming out of the clouds, so the little boy could see where he wanted to go. Another example of Paz’s visual imagery would be when the little boy finally turns around and faces the man who is trying to take his eyes. When Paz says “..He was small and fragile. His palm sombrero covered half his face. ..,” (Paz 12), that helps the reader understand and visualize what the old man looked like and who the little boy was up against. As the reader can conclude that without visual imagery in a story, the story is hard to understand and imagine. Without Paz describing the old man, the readers would have never known who the little boy was up against, and without Paz describing the light of the moon, making...
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...INTRODUCCIÓN Actualmente, Colombia está pasando por un proceso en el cual se están generando diálogos de paz con uno de los grupos insurgentes al margen de la ley, las FARC-EP (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo), para dar una solución al conflicto armado que hoy en día tiene lugar en el país, principalmente causado por grupos subversivos como las FARC y el ELN (Ejército de Liberación Nacional). En el siguiente documento, se contextualizará un poco acerca del comienzo de los conflictos armados en Colombia y una breve descripción de estos dos grupos insurgentes. Después de esta contextualización histórica, se dará paso a desarrollar el tema de los procesos y negociaciones de paz que ha llevado a cabo el Gobierno Colombiano a lo largo de la lidia con estos grupos armados. Para esto, el documento estará basado en escritos, revistas, y libros de algunos autores que han hecho estudios e investigaciones en cuanto a esta temática. EL CONFLICTO ARMADO El conflicto armado en Colombia tiene sus inicios en el siglo XIX, cuando los partidos políticos liberales y conservadores no hallaban otra solución a sus diferencias ideológicas, más que utilizar la violencia. Estos dos partidos políticos limitaban a la política en Colombia, al servicio de los intereses de la elite, y excluían totalmente a la sociedad. Fueron entonces estas situaciones las que llevaron a la conformación de grupos insurgentes al margen de la ley como las FARC y el ELN, ambos...
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...Nombre: __________________ Hora: ______ Es Tema: Saber v conocer; ser v estar A. Instrucciones: Select the answer that is NOT correct. ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form | 1. El camarero sabe cocinar bien. todos los ingredientes. ese restaurante cubano. cuánto cuesta cada plato en el menú. | 4. Tú quieres conocer el Perú. a mis parientes peruanos. las ruinas de Machu Picchu. hablar español. | | | 2. Nosotros conocemos ese museo de arte moderno. pintar. a la artista Frida Kahlo. el arte contemporáneo de México. | 5. No sabemos adónde vas de vacaciones. si vas a visitar las pirámides de Teotihuacan en México. al guía mexicano. la edad exacta de los pirámides. | | 3. Ella no sabe mi ciudad. dónde vivo. mi dirección. usar un mapa. | 6. Quiero saber el río Amazonas. qué tiempo hace en una selva tropical. identificar plantas raras. el número de pájaros exóticos. | | | | | | | Bottom of Form | B. Instrucciones: Complete the sentence with the correct form of SABER or CONOCER. It is possble to use the infinitive. 1. Mis estudiantes hablar español bien. 2. Ellos quieren España algún día. 3. ¿Quién cuánto cuesta viajar a Chile? 4. Me gustaría a Gabriela Sabatini. 5. A veces mi abuelo no dónde vive. C. Instrucciones: Select the correct form of ser or estar 1. El coche nuevo ( es, está ) de Luis. ( Es, Está ) un BMW, ¿verdad? 2. Mi hermana ( es, está ) hipocondriaca...
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... Submitted to:Mr. Leo C. Pepito Research Professor Before the tragedy… After the tragedy… MV Doña Paz Origin of the Vessel: The MV Doña Paz was a Philippine-registered passenger ferry that sank after colliding with the MT Vector on December 20, 1987. With a possible death toll of 4,375 people, the collision resulted in the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history. Doña Paz was traveling from Leyte Island to Manila, the country's capital. Passenger ferries like the Doña Paz are widely used in the Philippines, an archipelago in Southeast Asia comprising over 7,000 islands. They are among the cheapest and most popular ways to travel. The Doña Paz was built in 1963 by Onomichi Zosen of Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan, and was originally named Himeyuri Maru. During the time it plied Japanese waters, it had a passenger capacity of 608 people. In 1975, it was sold to Sulpicio Lines, a Filipino operator of a fleet of passenger ferries. It was renamed by Sulpicio Lines as the Don Sulpicio, and later, the Doña Paz. One month before the accident, the vessel had undergone dry docking. At the time of its sinking, the Doña Paz was plying the route of : Manila → Tacloban → Catbalogan → Manila → Catbalogan → Tacloban → Manila. History and Background: The Doña Paz had an official passenger list of 1,493 with a crew of 59 on board. But later media investigations showed that the list did not include as many as 1,000 children...
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...part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to (Albom).” In this essay I will take a look at O Henry’s background, his life experiences and how it reflects in his work, “The Gift of the Magi”. As I travel through O Henry’s life you will see how there was no life event he regretted. Nor did he allow his life’s challenges to overtake him. If anything he used those challenges as opportunities to excel in his writing career. In his writings he is able to take all that he had experienced and learned by showing people in their ordinary form, just as he sketched the customers at his uncle’s drugstore. William Sydney Porter, an American writer from North Carolina is better known as O Henry (Langford). He is known to have changed his name twice. The first time he changed the spelling of his middle name from Sidney to Sydney (Langford). The second was after trying several pen names, he settled on O Henry. The final name changed occurred after he had gone to jail for robbery, though he persisted he was innocent (Langford). It was his hope, once he changed his name, he would be able to forget the embarrassing ordeal he had faced. O Henry was not immune to suffering. “At age three he lost his mother to tuberculosis” (Langford). Growing up he was an avid reader, reading everything from the classics to comics. O Henry several early years of career accomplishments. He worked for his uncle at his drugstore, where he later became a druggist (Langford)...
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...Challenger Video - Lessons Learned As seen in the video there were a lot of issues with how the o-ring issue was handled. Roger clearly knew there was a possible issue with the o-ring, but was bad about handling this with regards to resolving the issue. He was very vocal about it, but this was to the point where it more aggressive than influential among his colleagues to help with resolving the issue at hand. This was not beneficial in building support behind his concerns with the o-rings so that the issues with them would be addressed before the Challenger’s launch. He had multiple opportunities to address this and failed to do so as a result of his brash attitude to those with whom he brought it to their attention including with one of the V.P.’s, Joe Kilminster, in his company. Joe was willing to listen and investigate Roger’s concern, but when Roger became abrasive with how the issue had been neglected by the company this eventually led to losing any type of support from Joe. Roger also had another opportunity to continue to push the o-ring issue to further attention of this issue meeting the evening before the launch, but failed to get his point across again and this lead to the discussion to proceed with the launch as scheduled. This example from the video showed how without proper support and guidance of employees within the workplace that some problems will eventually get ahead of some companies. Most management decisions don’t always take into consideration the information...
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...In the first source, “The Gift of the Magi Historical Context” the writing sheds some light on the details of the story. In the Gift of the Magi, the reader assumes that the city they live in is New York and the assumption is probably correct based on clothes and descriptions. It also supports that they were poor and Delia couldn’t afford wigs but instead had to use gas to heat the curlers for her hair. The reading just reemphasized what Henry wrote about and how the act of giving was something they wanted to do for each other. The second source from Online Literature was just biographical information about O. Henry who was really named William Sydney Porter. Mr. Porter was born to a mother who had a talent for writing poetry and the ability to paint, but unfortunately she died when he was three years old. This may have led to him moving with his father to his relative’s farm. He eventually left the farm and married and had a child. He developed a magazine but he also spent time in prison for embezzlement. He eventually moved to New York City, which is the background for the Gift of the Magi. As a result of Porters problems with the law and drinking habits, I think that might be were the story line came from. He grew up poor and struggled and giving to others was probably not really something he could do. The third source from the author from the Columbia encyclopedia helps to understand what he may have been thinking about when he wrote the story. There...
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...Ieesh M. Irving TANTH 365/ Autumn 2014 Film Response Watching Rabbit Proof Fence was not only enlightening but also appalling to have seen. I never heard of the atrocities that the aborigines experienced at the hands of the British government prior to this movie. The British government took oppression to another level. This was the story of how Molly, her sister Daisy, and cousin Gracie were stolen from their family and their dangerous expedition of returning home to their family. It features Mr. A.O. Neville, the Chief Protector of Aborigines, as the evil antagonist who believed that his mission was to protect the aborigines from themselves. This story told of some of the countless people that were part of “The Stolen Generation”, which are the children, which were labeled half-caste, that were taken from their Aborigine parent by the Australian government. This removal occurred between the early 1900’s up until the 1970’s. Not only did the Australian government The story begins in 1931 in west Australia. This is the time the Aborigines Act granted the government the authority to act as a legal guardian of every Aborigine in west Australia. This meant the government had control of who the Aborigines can meet or marry and where they work and lived. This gave Mr. Neville the power to remove half-caste children from their families. As a mother, I think that would be the cruelest thing you can do to a person; take their baby away from them. It would be easier to die rather...
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...The Gift of Magi and Necklace Comparative Essay March 5, 2015 When you compare and contrast it can lead up to having antonyms or synonyms. Two characters and two short stories that have their similarities and differences is Della in The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry and Mathilde in The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant. It is said that all women like to shop and look fabulous and with Della and Mathilde they both want an accessory they cannot afford, but Della wants to use her possession in a thoughtful way and Mathilde wants to use her possession in a selfish way. Also Mathilde makes everyone sacrifice but in the end she has to sacrifice while with Della, she sacrifices to show her companion how much he is loved. ”She was ransacking the stores for Jim’s present.” (Henry 352). Mathilde in order to get one of the many necessities she wants, she makes her husband sacrifice the money that he wants to save up for himself on her. “ Finally she answered,’ I’m not sure exactly, but I think with four hundred francs I could manage it.’ He turned a bit pale, he had set aside just that amount to buy a rifle so that the following summer, he could join some friends who were getting up a group to shoot larks on the plain near Nanterre.” (Guy De Maupassant 200). Whereas Della sacrifices her most prized item, her hair, to raise money to purchase a gold watch chain for her lover, which he had been wanting for a long time. “She got out her curling irons and lighted the...
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...Without the land to keep Wang Lung hard at work, Wang Lung becomes lazy, cruel, and obsessed with using his wealth to advance his social status. These circumstances cause Wang Lung to lose his sense of morality and make poor decisions, as is shown with how he treats O-lan and his marriage of Lotus Flower. In chapter 18, Wang Lung admonishes O-lan by saying "Now anyone looking at you would say you were the wife of a common fellow" (Buck 121). Without his land, Wang Lung is like a fish out of water, dazed and...
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...Study Memorandum Subject: Roger Boisjoly and the Challenger Disaster: Disloyal Employee or Courageous Whistle-Blower? Facts: The focus of this case study is on Roger Boisjoly's attempt to avert the launch of the Challenger and his act of employee loyalty to set the record straight despite the negative outcome. Boisjoly was employed with Morton Thiokol Inc. as an engineer and an expert in rockets. During an examination of the Challenger (STS 61-C), Biosjoly and the Seal Erosion Task Force discovered a problem with the hot-gas blowby or ignited fuel which came from joint leaks and the O-ring convincing the team that it was not safe to launch until the problem was fixed. Boisjoly notified his boss in writing of what was found. Despite what Boisjoly informed his boss, NASA went ahead and did the launch. Predictions came true when a catastrophic explosion resulted from the failed O-ring seals and the Challenger and the crew was lost. President Reagan appointed a commission to look into the devastation and found that the interviews given by senior management of Morton Thiokol and Boisjoly and a fellow engineer contradicted eachother which lead Boisjoly to believe that senior management was trying to cover up what had happened. Boisjoly and his fellow coworker were reprimanded for telling the truth about what really happened. Eventually, Boisjoly resigned from his position due to psychological strain and a hostile working environment. Ethical Issues: Disloyal Whistle...
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