My heart started to chime like the strike of a clock at midnight when I heard that simple six worded statement my sister yelled as she swung my bedroom door open. There was no possible way that they could be here for me. Things like this didn't happen to me. I was the good kid. Immediately, I started to think about what my parents were thinking at the moment. My headed started to spin as I realized that I would have to face a big mistake I made just a couple of hours before. I'd have to face the music in a few minutes, just as I was about to head out to my front door. Even though I had run the first time from my mistake, I was going to face my mistake head on and do the right thing. It was the week of my senior homecoming, and the school was busy with the preparations of spirit week and the big game against our number one rival on Friday. It was a Wednesday morning, and I was starting off my day at my grandma's house. Normally, I would be at my own house getting rea

Vocabulary 1. vicissitude: This means to have a change in life. The vicissitude affected her so greatly; she could not proceed to press on any longer. 2. uncouth: This means to have a poor behavior. He acted with an uncouth behavior toward the people. 3. obeisance: This means the opposite of uncouth. The people treated Hayden with obeisance. 4. gratuitous: This means something is done for a stupid reason. Amelia bought the diamond necklace gratuitously. 5. pathos: An attribute of someone that makes them have pity for someone else. Karmin looked at poor Alex sitting there all alone, and pathos filled her. 6. indefatigable: This means your are not tired whatsoever. I feel indefatigable! 7. apotheosized: This mea

The advertisement that I chose to analyze is a Dimetapp cold and allergy medicine for children. The main picture is a child lying in bed with Kleenex everywhere. The background of my advertisement is the bed that the child is laying on. Under the main picture there is also a picture of what the box looks like if you decide to buy it. The main figure and the background relate because it's trying to cause the viewer to conclude that this medicine will make the children in good health and that they will not be up all night blowing their nose. The child's face is missing from the photo because it is covered in a tissue, which conveys that the child is ill. This image is created for parents to see that there is a medicine for your children that tastes great and will fix an

In the story, "An Upheaval," written by Anton Chekov, the protagonist, Mashenka Pavletsky, is a governess working in the house of the Kushkins. One day, the madam of the Kushkins, Fedosya Vassilyevna, has lost her brooch worth two thousand dollars; therefore, she has been searching every employee's room thoroughly. Mashenka, who regards herself as a superior, educated person, finds the searching very insulting and then decides to quit her job and leave. In order to prevent Mashenka from leaving, the master of the house, Nikolay Sergetich, confesses the stealing of the brooch; however, "this candid avowal" (Chekov 102) strengthens Mashenka's leaving decision. Although it seems like Mashenka is the victim of this story, her reactions after the search reveal her impulsive and arrogant characters. Mashenka is unique in the house of the Kushkins due to her education; as a governess, she cannot bear the fact that Fedosya treats her the same way as other maidservants. Mashenka clearly holds contradictory beliefs to Liza's (one of the maidservants) towards Fedosya's behaviour; throughout her convers

In this experimental design, I would get fully grown adults of 30 nutcracker species and 30 scrub jay species from the wild. I will also get naive 30 nutcracker species and naive 30 scrub jays that were just born in the wild and have not had much chance to practice caching in the wild and bring it into captivity in the laboratory. There would be total of four chambers, one for fully grown nutcracker species, one for naive nutcracker species, one for fully grown scrub jay species, and last one for naive scrub jay species. The naive nutcrackers and scrub jays would stay in these chambers in laboratory for about 3 months before I would actually run the experiments, and the wild nutcrackers and scrub jays would stay in these chambers for only three days before the experiment. The main experiment of this design would be to measure the total number of seeds that nutcrackers and scrub jays of both adult and naive are able to retrieve over a certain limited amount of time (control) and over a

What is Internet Addiction? How long have you been sitting there in front of your screen? Are you spending more and more time clicking and typing? Is there nothing else you would rather do? It is not surprising that many people find it hard to believe that using a computer can be a problem for them. It helps you be productive, it is entertaining, it is interesting, and it is addictive. Over the years, internet addiction has emerged as a serious disorder affecting thousands of people worldwide. From emails to web pages and videos, there is an endless amount of information at ones fingertips. Through chatting and online gaming a person can be anyone that his or her imagination allows, while interacting with any number of people around the world. With this comes the possibility of sociological effects, such as abuse and addiction. Like any other addiction, pathological internet use is a very destructive force in today's society. The Internet is one of the most universal me

This assignment is a reflective account of events that that took place on a shift while I was at work as a health care assistant at my workplace. It is an establishment that has enrollment of thirteen pupils, and they are also boarding at their home near the school. I will call the child X to maintain confidentiality. I was on shift and it was lunch time and there was short shortage so I was assigned to assist with lunch and feeding. I was introduced to child X who I had not looked after the therapeutic relationship which is the care giver and care receiver relationship, there is the therapeutic rapport to establish from a sense of trust and a mutual understanding exists between the two that build in a special link of the relationship according to Harkeruder and Hagan (2004). Peplau cited in Harkreader and Hagan (2004) notes that a good contact in a therapeutic relationship builds trust as well as would the patient's self- esteem which could lead to personal growth for the patient

In "After Life," by Joan Didion, the author documents her experience of grief after losing her husband, John. Didion's purpose in her memoir is to understand her husband's absence and investigate the events that led up to his death. Through careful examination, it is revealed that Didion is able to accept the physical aspect of her husband's death, such as the autopsy, but fails to overcome the intellectual aspect of his death, such as the obituary. More importantly, she is able to accept his physical death, but absolutely cannot live a life without him. "This is my attempt to make sense of the period that followed, weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I had ever had about death, about illness, about probability and luck, about good fortune and bad, about marriage and children and memory, about grief, about the ways in which people do and do not deal with the fact that life ends, about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself (Didion 89)."

Music and books have a strange way of connecting to us emotionally. The reader or listener tends to compare events taking place in the book or song to their own experiences. Based upon this concept, it is also possible to compare the emotions of a character in a book to the lyrics of a song. With a book like, "Lord of the Flies", where so many emotions are there, it is essential to pick a song that relates to the characters and what they are feeling. The song I have chosen, "Wavin' Flag." does just this. For example, the phrase, "Accept no defeat, surrender, retreat"(line 14) can refer to Jacks continuous attempts of becoming the leader or "chief"of the boys. Around the beginning of Chapter 8, Jack states, "I'm not going to play any longer. Not with you. I'm not going to be a part of Ralph's lot"(140). Jack says this after holding a meeting and lies to his hunters saying that Ralph had said they were no good. Accepting no defeat, he then proceeds to ask everyone to vote him the new chief, and when nob

Sam Bass was born on July 21, 1851 near a farm in Indiana. He was one of seven children that included three boys and four girls. His parents, Elizabeth Jane Sheeks Bass and Daniel Bass, had both passed away by the time he was thirteen ("Story of Sam"). This left Sam and his siblings orphans. After the death of their father, the children went to go live with their mother's brother. The uncle was reportedly abusive ("Seduced By History"), and Sam only stayed for five years. At the age of eighteen, Sam decided to go out on his own and ran away from home. The only job he could get at the time, due to lack of any form of education, was a sawmill located in Rosedale, Mississippi. He remained employed at the mill for one year. During that year, Sam not only polished his skills for maneuvering a pistol, he met Scott Mayes who was heading to Denton, Texas as a teamster. Sam decided to follow ("Story of Sam"). Upon arrival in Denton, Sam went to work for Sheriff W. F. Eaga

Bread has ancient roots and is a staple of many diets throughout the world. Bread is one of the oldest prepared food. Part of the manufacture of bread is called leavening, which is the process of adding gas to the dough before baking, to produce a bread that is lighter in texture. Leavening can be done chemically or by yeast. The development of leavened bread possibly began in prehistoric times, however the earliest archaeological evidence is from ancient Egypt, wherescience using scanning electron microcopy have detected yeast cells in some ancient Egyptian loaves. ?The bakery yeast used for leavening bread is Saccharomyces Cerevisiae .Yeast play an important role in achieving the characteristics of the final product and it affect dough in a number of ways. It produce carbon dioxide ,which expand the dough to required volume to give a soft, airy texture in the final bread. Yeast also matures and develops the gluten strands. In no- timedoughs this function of yeast is largely replac

The chicken finger business has boomed in the past decade. Many franchises have started to pop up in many major cities. Chicken fingers are among many classic American foods that date no further than the 1980's where McDonalds started it all with their "Chicken Selects." Since then, franchises and food companies have emerged with the sole task of making chicken tenders. Three chicken based franchises are on the top of the charts while also being on the top of peoples minds when they think of chicken fingers. Raising Cane's, Chick-fil-A, and Otter's Chicken are among the top leading chicken finger franchises in America. All three franchises are in the same field of cooking and competition, which makes these, the most popular chicken fingers around. Todd Graves opened a brand named Raising Cane's in 1996 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on a straightforward pitch, which were chicken fingers. Cane's now has 80 locations in 13 states. Cane's goal is simple

According to The American Art Therapy Association, "Art therapy is a mental health profession that uses the creative process of art making to improve and enhance the physical, mental and emotional well-being of individuals of all ages. Through creating art and reflecting on the art products and processes, people can increase awareness of self and others cope with symptoms, stress, and traumatic experiences; enhance cognitive abilities; and enjoy the life-affirming pleasures of making art" (2012). Throughout history, the arts have been used as a form of self expression. Different forms of the arts have been used to bring people together in celebration on important occasions. Dying is an important time of transition for every human being and the arts have been used to ease the pain of loss and to help the dying make peace with their impending death (The Continuum Center for Health & Healing, 2011). Johnson (1987) noted that "art originally developed as a means of expre

In Gerald Miller's "On Being Persuaded" he talks about the definition of being persuaded. He talks about how persuasion is coercive, and how a lot of times coercive acts are usually followed after all the persuading. Coercive acts are acts that are military force, the use of guns, any economic sanctions, or any force that could be used to threatened a person's social or well being. In this paper I will be trying to compare the different techniques and assertions used in Gerald Miller's "On Being Persuaded" to my own experience dealing with the idea of homosexuality. Out of the three techniques I will only be talking about two, and that will be response-changing. This is the process that helps reinforce convictions and the other is the changing process which is like the attitude change. In an earlier paper that I had to write I had to write about what big thing in my life that I had to change my mind or opinion about. In that paper I wrote about my vi

"The Lady with the Pet Dog" A story of lost and born again love: both Anton Chekhov's 1899 original as well as Joyce Carol Oates' version of "The Lady with the Pet Dog" deal with the love lives and the unhappiness of two individuals. Anton Chekhov tells the story of Gurov – a well-to- do man from Moscow who is disillusioned by his unfulfilling marriage. During a vacation in Yalta, Gurov is acquainted with Anna, a young, upper-class lady who, as it turns out, is similarly disappointed with her love-life and husband. What starts out as a simple affair between Gurov and the Anna turns into a relationship which neither want to give up. Both eventually arrange to see each other regularly and discover, that they want to continue their affair despite being aware that this is not accepted by the society within which they live. Staying together is the only thing that gives them the feeling of being safe and happy. Joyce Carol Oates borrows this original plot and creates a new sto

Throughout the civil rights movement, there were multiple approaches to bringing equality and integration to many southern states. Some approaches were non-violent while others had violent endings. An event in the civil rights movement that signifies how the Supreme Court has an impact on the nation and how the time period impacts decisions made is the brown vs. board of education. Another event that shows how time period influences decisions is the Korematsu vs. the United States. The Brown vs. Board of Education was a Supreme Court case in 1954 which decided that states that had laws that separated public schools for black and white students were denying black children equal educational opportunities. The case was made after a child was denied acceptance to an elementary school only a few minutes away from her house which forced her to go to an elementary school over a mile away because the school was segregated. Once the case became a Supreme Court case the decision made was

In the early decades of the twentieth century, the world was shocked by the progression of warfare in ways that were previously unthinkable. The First World War, or The Great War, as it was called during that time, was the result of political tension between established governments of the Balkan Peninsula and the Black Hand, a group seeking the independence of Kosovo. World War II, however, resulted from the clash of two opposing ideologies: fascism and capitalism. The entirety of Europe at the outset of the 1930's, was reeling from the effects of the 'Great War.' It had ravaged not only the physical landscape, but also the economic status of the region. During the wartime years, the young and aggressive nation of Germany violently pushed through Europe in an attempt to assert itself into a position of continental dominance. However, the overly optimistic Shlieffen Plan, as modified by Von Moltke the Younger, failed and the Germans faced defeat without ever physi

Critically discuss the following statement: Future exploration of leadership and entrepreneurship should move away from a position of 'being' to a position of 'doing'. Introduction The simple statement above is actually more nuanced than it first appears. Firstly, leadership and entrepreneurship are both separate fields of research, although they sometimes intersect. Secondly, there is the issue of how to define 'being' and 'doing.' This essay will discuss how the definition of 'being,' in particular, has changed over time. It helps to look at theories of leadership and entrepreneurship from a historical perspective. The Reichers and Schneider (1990) model is a useful model by which to frame a study of this type. Their model uses three stages of indeterminate length to illustrate predictable historical sequences for the development of scientific constructs (Hunt, 1999). The Reichers and Schneider model highlights the fact that leadership and entre

When it comes to trying to define our own "character," usually we attempt to define it based upon our own experiences and thoughts. But just as we all carry with us different experiences and ways of thinking, we all can derive slightly or sometimes even vastly different understandings of what character is and is not. Malcolm Gladwell proposes that we can begin to understand character by looking at at three key sources of influence that help to form our character. In "The Power of Context," he notes that our environment, people on the outside, and in-the-moment decisions all play a role in developing our character. Environment is one of the largest influences on a person when it comes to character. Different environments will produce differing arrays of personalities, habits, and tendencies. Even those who seem destructive and troubled in our world, according to Gladwell, are mainly that way because of the environment around them. "Broken Windows" and "The Power

Researching the area where James plans to hold his tennis events will give him an idea of what his target market will be. This research will show him the different age groups in that area that participate in tennis on a regular basis. The research also will offer him a chance to review previously conducted studies. Past research states that, "Participation in sport facilitates strong emotional value to consumers and therefore plays a significant role in their lives. If sport participation is a positive experience, individuals will continue to play and become more committed to maintaining their involvement. This continued participation is vital to many sports that depend on frequent participants to sustain the industry (Mullin, Hardy, & Sutton, 2000). "In order to maintain its market share, the sport industry considers retention of current participants to be of great concern since future participation will likely result in future direct and indirect consumption of goods and services" (Deaton, 1992). Looking back at the early 1990's, when I was coaching tennis, partici

In chapter three of "Their Magistrates and Officials," by R.J Rockefeller, the reader perceives that, in order to completely understand eighteenth-century, colonial Maryland's executive government, one first should note the symbolism residing in the homes, art, and furniture of the governors and his councils during this period. Members of the social elite council and colonial government emphasized their stately position with metaphorical items. We also discover, in Rockefeller's work, that the basic legal and political processes of the day had to include routine practices and behaviors such as ceremonies, noticeable feasting, a demeanor of likability, an enjoyment of amusement, as well as properly appointed governors' homes and government buildings. Material things were used as tools to create meaning and stability in their colonial world. Their governmental methods indicated that freq

"The Portrait of a Farmer's Wife," the work of artist Robert Gwathmey, has been housed at the Dallas Museum of Art since around 1951. The overall size of the painting is 23 x 19 3/8 inches, composed on canvas with oil paints. Gwathmey's painting depicts an old black woman sitting on a chair. She looks tired, which I could determine by noting her timeworn face and her old hands which are resting upon her knees. At her right side, a humble pot of yellow wildflowers sits on a twig table, which expresses the search for small beauties in a lifetime of hard work. The two figures of the old woman and the table are placed against an empty orange background. This painting was created in a unique style that combined a two-dimensional flatness with deep and vivid colors. "The Portrait of a Farmer's Wife" is one of Gwathmey's most famous paintings. The mood this painting sends to the audience is that of simplicity, and the content of the piece can be clearly understood. Gwathmey created t

I.INTRODUCTION A precipitation reaction involves two aqueous solutions of soluble salts mixed together to yield an aqueous solution of a soluble salt and a solid compound. The solid is called a precipitant, and its formation is a result of precipitation. Precipitation is a result of aqueous cations and anions forming Coulombic interactions stronger than that of the water molecules and the ions in solution. A precipitation reaction requires two solutions containing soluble ionic salts to be mixed. A precipitant is yielded if some of the ions from the solutions mixed interact and form insoluble salts. In this experiment, we prepared mixtures of all possible pairs of these solutions to attempt to turn into salts. We worked to determine whether or not there would be a precipitant and wrote formulas respectively: Copper (II) sulfate, sodium chloride, lead nitrate, barium nitrate, silver nitrate, and sodium sulfate. II. EXPERIMENT Before beginning the experiment, we predicted with mixture

Gangs are virtually everywhere in today's world. It is estimated that the number of gang members in our country equals over a quarter million of our nation's total population. Originally young people, most often teenagers, join a gang because they are lacking positive influences at home and/or at school. They also might be dealing with personal issues that they feel that they can't resolve without the help of someone whom they believe that they can confide in due to the bond of a common belief and loyalty that they share. The first publicly known street gang in Chicago was the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (ALKQN). The ALKQN came together around the early 1940's. The Kings originally consisted of predominantly Puerto Ricans males whose philosophy was to overcome the racial prejudices brought onto them by the Caucasians and African Americans who were already living in Chicago. The area where many Puerto Ricans located themselves within the city was called the Humboldt Pa

Rudolfo Anaya created the captivating novel, "Bless Me, Ultima." As a young boy living in Guadalupe, New Mexico during the period of World War II, Antonio Marez struggles to find himself as an individual. New discoveries mystify Tony, and conflict makes the path unclear for his future. His father, Gabriel, and mother, Maria, intensify the argument regarding Antonio's future. Anaya develops his characters to show the responsibility and sacrifices for family made frequently in this culture and during this period of history. It is important to consider the significance of Gabriel Marez's character traits in this novel. Anaya exposes Gabriel's character traits to illustrate his prioritizing of responsibility and sacrifice for family. His personality is that of a round and dynamic character because throughout the course of the story, he develops and has to change his ways in order to stay close to the ones he lo