...1. Why does the author begin the story in media res? What antecedent action does Valgardson provide? An in media res opening wrenches the reader into the heart of the action and encourages dramatization. By beginning a story in media res, the author adds interest to the story. As the reader does not know what events lead up to the start of the narrative, it raises many questions- hooking the reader. In “Saturday Climbing”, Valgardson opens the plot in media res, with the narrator hanging off of a cliff. By choosing to enter the narrative in the heart of the action, the author bypasses the antecedent action and launches right into the action. However, antecedent action is provided throughout the story with flashbacks. For example, the father in the story remembers when his daughter would come home smelling of marijuana and how helpless he felt in that situation. By choosing specific points in the past, the author provides information that adds to the story, clarifies conflicts, and provides...
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...high up against a feint crack system through a massive overhang with not a whole lot of psyche! The weeks leading up to the Rally one has to say, is often slightly stressful for us. There are logistical nightmares of getting people, food and music to the sleepy railway town of Waterval Boven on the edge of the Mpumalanga escarpment. Without going into the boring details of the comedies of errors that struck on the last hour, you know things are not going to plan when the tick list starts growing onto the next page instead of slowly diminishing as the master plan is supposed to unfold. Why on earth did I ever utter the thought: “Hey, let's pull a generator across the top of Baboon Buttress, light up the crags below and have some night climbing on the Friday!”? By mid Friday afternoon nothing more could go wrong. Some friends and volunteers were still out at the crags putting up the last fixed top anchors on routes for us. Everything was roughly in place and there was a distinct calmness over me and the atmosphere around Tranquiltas Adventure Farm. The quiet before the storm. The camp site had steadily filled up from early in the week but during the day most climbers bailed from work and were now milling about, pitching...
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...motivation for carrying out an expedition is to achieve something different individually, The general age range for the people who take part in this form of expedition are between 18-45 and provide learning in different aspects as well as allowing the person to gain experience. The time for an expedition of this type is usually around a couple of days up to a week in length. An individual expedition can take many forms in their activity such as climbing, trekking and caving. This involves going to an appropriate place where such an activity can be completed, for example mountaineering would need you to go to a place such as the Alps or the Himalayas. If you are going mountaineering then you are expected to be within a mountainous region with the possible inclusion of snow and low cloud covering. The aims of this type of expedition are for personal development as a person with increased experience within a skill such as climbing and navigating. The objectives of this type of expeditions are that for them to increase their experience in climbing they would need to be able to complete the climb. There can be a range of methods of funding such as sponsors, grants and self-paid. The planning...
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...The Animal School: A Fable by George Reavis Once upon a time the animals decided they must do something heroic to meet the problems of a “new world” so they organized a school. They had adopted an activity curriculum consisting of running, climbing, swimming and flying. To make it easier to administer the curriculum, all the animals took all the subjects. The duck was excellent in swimming. In fact, better than his instructor. But he made only passing grades in flying and was very poor in running. Since he was slow in running, he had to stay after school and also drop swimming in order to practice running. This was kept up until his webbed feet were badly worn and he was only average in swimming. But average was acceptable in school so nobody worried about that, except the duck. The rabbit started at the top of the class in running but had a nervous breakdown because of so much makeup work in swimming. The squirrel was excellent in climbing until he developed frustration in the flying class where his teacher made him start from the ground up instead of the treetop down. He also developed a “charlie horse” from overexertion and then got a C in climbing and D in running. The eagle was a problem child and was disciplined severely. In the climbing class, he beat all the others to the top of the tree but insisted on using his own way to get there. At the end of the year, an abnormal eel that could swim exceeding well and also run, climb and fly a little had the highest average and was...
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...team bonding, communication, leadership, problem solving, motivation, decision Soon after the students’ briefing, the whole crowd was divided into teams of 10-11 on making, and many other skills. an average, for easy control and access by A similar expedition for a day and a half was the authorities, and also to foster group conducted by the authorities of Christ dynamics from the very beginning. The University for students of ‘Section A’ from individual Team Leaders were then shown the Kengeri Campus and ‘Section H’ from and explained the directions and rules of the Main Campus. The objectives set by the the forthcoming activities. The first task at Management from this expedition were to this expedition was the “Rock climbing”. break all sorts of barriers to inter-personal interactions among the students, and thus build a sense of trust, belongingness, and commitment for and towards fellow students and peers. Not that distant from the city of Kengeri and thus the Kengeri Campus, the location was a proper set-off from the busy lives of the city. It propelled visiting such sites and locations which one would typically view only from the skies....
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...To: Larry Craig From: Student Re: Express Assumption of Risk Question presented 1. Whether the release of liability is enforceable in order to show Adair expressly assumed the risk. Statement of facts William Oldfield got into a habit of meeting on Wednesday night to rock climb. He, and others whom just showed up, would climb Handley rock. Oldfield would supply the ropes and other gear needed for himself and other climbers. After several years of climbers meeting and climbing, Oldfield was approached by a climber who was an attorney. He told Oldfield that he should have any climbers sign a release of liability form. The attorney prepared a release form and brought it to Oldfield and he started having climbers sign the release. Greg Adair was seriously injured in a rock climbing fall at a weekly climbing session that was operated by Oldfield. Adair has sued Oldfield for damages based on a theory of negligence. Adair did sign a release of liability prior to his climb in which he sustained injuries. Summary of arguments Whether our defense of express assumption of risk will prevail against Adair's claim of negligence will turn upon the enforceability of the Release of Liability form signed by Adair. If the release is effective, then Adair will have been deemed to assume the risks set forth in the release. In order to be effective, a release must meet several requirements. I believe the release given to Adair by Oldfield satisfies these requirements, and therefore...
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...her usual voice, he got embarrassed and said "I don't know." "Fine" said Helen. She suddenly left the room and brought all the stuff that he used when he draws. "I'm not going to open the door, until you finish your picture and have courage" She said as she locked the door. He was surprised, and the word "courage" was hanging over his head. He recalled the feeling his wife said "Have courage" to him when he was afraid to climb the mountain years ago. She was also frightened like him when they were climbing the mountain together. But she pretended that everything was okay and smiled at him. He felt thankful and sorry, he started drawing and his wife didn't show her face to him, she just gave him food and water for a few months. But he understood her desire to become a strong man, so he drew a picture harder. Finally, the painting was complete and she knew that he had courage while he was painting. After this, they lived happily ever after. This is the story of a 'Woman mountain climbing' by Philippe Jacques Linder....
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...FTC_booklet_282644.indd 1 12/12/07 2:17:02 pm FTC_booklet_282644.indd 2 12/12/07 2:17:59 pm Contents To the limit? Beyond the mountain Keep hope alive! page 4 page 6 page 8 These texts look at different kinds of challenges, from taking part in extreme sports to experiences that change the way people think. They also explore how facing a challenge can inspire people. Facing the challenge FTC_booklet_282644.indd 3 3 12/12/07 2:18:04 pm In this article, Louise Rogers tries to understand why young people are attracted to extreme sports. You can now go deep sea diving without oxygen and do parachute jumping from space. These activities are apparently some of the latest examples of extreme sports. They certainly sound extremely dangerous, and it’s tempting to call them extremely stupid too. You begin to wonder what people will do next: white water rafting without the raft? Skateboarding down Everest? What exactly are extreme sports anyway? According to sports expert Angie Naidoo, they are action sports usually done by someone on their own rather than in a team. ‘Extreme sports involve more than one of the following: speed, height, danger or spectacular stunts,’ explains Angie. ‘They are also often about challenging some aspect of the natural world, whether it’s defying gravity or scaling a very high mountain. They are not all as extreme as parachuting from space! And extreme sports are not just a recent trend either: skiing, skateboarding, in-line...
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...Too Many Climbers? A lot of people started to visit Yosemite National Park to climb the formidable granite rock formation after the metal cables were installed. And because it’s getting too crowded at the top of the Half Dome summit, Yosemite National Park officials recommended that 300 people a day be allowed to climb it. Some people agree with the park’s official’s suggestion and see that it would be the best thing to do to make it safer for all people at the top. However, this recommendation has disappointed many others, especially nature advocates and hiking enthusiasts. And this suggestion divided people into two groups with different point of views, which created a new challenge of finding a balance and a satisfying decision. There...
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...Is climbing Mt. Everest worth the reward of knowing that you got to do a once-in-a-lifetime experience even though the risks are high? Some people are trying to temporarily close Mt. Everest for 10 years so they can make safer technology. I think they shouldn’t close Mt. Everest down for 10 years just for making safer tech to climb it because we already have a lot of safe tech for climbing and surviving a mountain. The spark that caused most of this concern about climbing Mt. Everest is the avalanche of 2014 that 16 people. Despite the evident risks, I believe that people should still be able to climb Mt. Everest because over the years of people making technology to be able to climb Mt. Everest. “But Anthony, people will still die when climbing...
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...Conflict Management Plan Doug Rose MGT311 Organization Development 3 July 2012 Eve Barnett University of Phoenix Material Conflict Management Plan 1. Identify the available conflict management strategies and their strengths and weaknesses. |Strategy |Strengths |Weaknesses | |Competing |High degree of assertiveness |Win at all costs | | |Used in emergency situations |Hurts others feelings | | |Good for unpopular decisions |Viewed as abusive | | | |If used in less than urgent situations could| | | |cause resentment | | |Parties show respect to each other |Takes longer to resolve | |Collaborating |Works well in team setting |Both parties may not be open to | | |Resolving previously unresolved conflicts |collaboration | | ...
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...Case Study Elder Abuse (outside of the nursing home): A 72 year old gentleman who lives with his daughter and needs a significant amount of care. His daughter however has to go out of town for the weekend for work. She arranges for her brother to take care of her father. On Friday morning she gets her dad dressed and assists him into his recliner in the living room. Her brother arrives to take care of their father and she leaves for the weekend. On Sunday evening she arrives back home to find her father in his recliner, still in the same clothes that she placed him in on Friday. He has water and a sandwich sitting next to him. She also notices that there is a strong odor of urine and feces in the room. She asks her father if her brother had been there to take care of him. Her father states that he was there and had fed him. She attempts to get her father up out of the chair and discovers that her father is covered in dried urine and feces. When she asks her father about the use of the bathroom, he states that he has not moved from that chair since she helped him into it (2 days prior). She immediately calls 911. This patient is taken to the hospital where he is discovered to have 2 stage III Pressure ulcers on his buttocks, as well as the skin in his inguinal area has been eaten away by maggots. The patient is severely dehydrated and very...
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...1. Describe the culture at Best Buy Traditionally corporate culture in Best Buy embraced long hours and personal sacrifice. (Hellriegel, D., & Slocum, J. W., Jr., 2011). Employees were often recognized not based on their actual performance, but on how much time they spend at their work. This lead to overstressing among employees, fear of judgement if they did have to leave the work to take care of some personal problems. Employees would often choose to be employed part-time because they knew that this is the only way that can get flexibility necessary to take care of their families and personal life. Employees were left overworked physically, overstressed emotionally because of the constant work vs. personal life conflict that a lot of them had to face, and as well because of the pressure to perform at the level higher than their capacity. Best Buy is not the only company that was witnessing this trend in their corporate culture. Unfortunately as the economic situation in the country worsened, and the competition increased, a lot of companies had to strive to meet the demands of the business. Every company was trying and is trying to produce the goods or services faster than the others and at the lower cost. This enormous stress is falling on the workforce. As the result, “the number of people in the United States who say they are overworked has been rising from 28% in 2001 to 44% in 2009”, according to the Families and Work Institute (Hellriegel, D., & Slocum, J. W., Jr....
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...“Does this Milkshake Taste Funny?” Major Issues and Players The major players in this case study are George Stein and Paul Burnham with regards to their employment at Eastern Dairy. The major issues at play relate to poor business planning, improper management, lack of ethics (decisions made by George and Paul) and social responsibility (the possible health issues of related to the contaminated products). Analysis of the Issues and Players In this case, there are several instances of poor management including but not limited to: lack of proper training, accountability and adherence to manufacturing industry standards, etc. A company as large as Eastern dairy should have a manager on site and more than 4 employees for the night shift, especially given how critical the night shift is in meeting production needs. The so‐called “leader” of the group, Paul is worried about going home early and the cost impact to the company if product needs are not met for one night. Paul’s decision to ignore the issue puts George in an extremely difficult situation. Another problem to note is the management in many corporations today. All too often, employees have self‐serving motives and conflicts of interest that essentially stems from culture of the organization and how it operates. When George initially brings the issue to Paul, we learn quickly from Paul’s demeanor that he had encountered the problem in the past and had seen the maggots several...
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...During the investigation of this new community, there are multiple sources that should be taken into consideration. We will have to question members of the community to see if they have important information to consider for the investigation. We will also need to speak to the developers to answer any questions we have about the land the community was developed on. There should be documentation available through courts regarding the property that we should be able to access as well. During this investigation, we should attempt to acquire as much information as possible regarding the community and its residents, which may have important information about this situation. Types of questions I would ask would include, what was this land used for prior to the community development? Have you experienced any unusual symptoms since moving in to the community? Have you noticed any other community members contracting the same illnesses? What types of environmental hazards have you ran across, such as strange smell or color coming from your water? First, I would speak to community members to see if they have any concerns or issues about the welfare of their health. When did your symptoms begin? What do you think contributed to your illness? Have any other community members voiced their concerns about health issues in the community? Land developers would need to be questioned to find out about the property the community was developed on. What was the property previously used for? Are there...
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