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Leadership, Teamwork, and Sportsmanship***Sports teach important lessons in leadership, teamwork, and sportsmanship. How have you embodied these qualities on your team AND in your community? I have learned some of the greatest, life long lessons through volleyball and basketball. Throughout my career I have developed skills on how to get along and work with many different types of people and personalities. Each new person provides an opportunity to demonstrate sportsmanship, teamwork, and leadership. I have always thought of sportsmanship as one of the most important characteristics for a teammate to have. Sportsmanship is not just showing respect for your opponent, but also showing respect and appreciation for your teammates. One way that I demonstrate this is by cheering on and supporting my teammates. Saying "Nice pass Amber!", "Great set!" during a play, after a they make a mistake, or after a big win. No matter what the circumstance, I am always there to reinforce my support for them. With sportsmanship comes leadership. Leadership does not have to come from a captain, it comes from anyone who |
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Psychiatric Disorders in The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockWhen the author of the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T.S. Eliot published the poem in 1915, the British society has turned into the modern society for around a hundred years. On account of the Industrial Revolution in 1800s, the society has dramatically changed in working and living conditions, urbanization, public health and life expectancy, child labor, working class families and the role of women, wealth and income. The cities turned into urban areas and crowded or congested areas. The social values have changed from internal values to materialistic values. Because of these changes, many people seek to escape from their unsatisfied reality, which is usually a normal behavior for people to deal with their stress (Freud). However, if people excessively escape their real lives for pleasure, the result can be worse as a dependence on pleasure they gain can leads to the addiction which will be able to ruin them later (Riley). In this poem, the author presents Prufrock as a middle-aged |
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Achievement of Desire by Richard RodriguezThis is an academic summary of an essay by Richard Rodriguez, "Achievement of Desire". We are to summarize Rodriguez's essay and then expand on it using a recent personal experience. I am looking for help with proofreading and any ideas you may have on how to expand this essay further. Thanks. In the essay "Achievement of Desire," author Richard Rodriguez, describes the difficulties balancing life in the academic world and the life of a working class family. As a child, Rodriguez was the exception to the stereotypical student coming from a working class family. He was always top of his class, and rather than spending his time out with friends or with his family he spent his time with books and notes. Initially, this approach makes Rodriguez stand out as an exceptional student, but as time goes on, he becomes an outsider both at home and in school. "Achievement of Desire" chronicles the not-so-typical education of a young boy from a working-class family. Richard Hoggart, |
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Animal Farm - Power and CorruptionPower and corruption is one of most important themes of the Animal Farm by George Orwell. One who has power can lose the sense of right and wrong, and it was shown in the novel Animal Farm through the character Napoleon. "Absolute power corrupts those who possess it," was one the most famous quotes of John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (Lord Acton). This quote can be proven by the events throughout history, World War II, literature, "The Hobbit: There and Back Again" and "The Lord of the Rings," and it is also proven by the actions of Napoleon in the allegory Animal Farm. A good example of the power corruption would be when Napoleon, who is the leader of Animal/Manor Farm, used his absolute power to break the Seven Commandments in order to justify his wrong actions. Not only did he break the Seven Commandments but he also changed the last four Commandments. One o |
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To Kill a Mockingbird - The First ChapterHarper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" opens with a short chapter where the narrator, whom we later come to know as Scout, takes the reader back to her childhood spent in a small town called Maycomb. She mentions the accident where 'Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow' and uses it as a device to set the plot in motion. In her conversational, familiar tone, Scout introduces the main characters, establishes the themes and the setting, and creates a hook for the reader, with extreme ease and subtlety. The novel begins with the voice of the adult version Scout but throughout the rest of the story we are shown the perspective of the younger girl that the present Scout once was. Thus, the reader views the events of the novel through an unbiased and innocent lens, and perceives the transition of the two children – Jem and Scout – from innocence to maturity, making the novel a bildungsroman. The first chapter of the novel weaves into the plot the background o |
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Housing Quality Issues in New ZealandAs New Zealand's history has demonstrated, the current concerns surrounding housing quality is no new phenomena. With the substandard housing in New Zealand at present resulting from poor regulation of housing standards and lack of maintenance, it is prevalent to see how housing is a key material determinant of an individual's health and wellbeing (Gillespie-Bennett, Keall, Howden-Chapman, & Baker, 2013). However, there is an abundant amount of evidence that concludes that the New Zealand housing market has failed to deliver both quantity and quality of housing needs (Howden-Chapman, Baker, & Bierre, 2013, p38). In this essay, I aim to analyse the housing quality issue in New Zealand and explore the implications this has on people's health and wellbeing. In order to address these implications, I will first explore the term 'quality' in terms of housing and what is justified as 'adequate' housing. Succeeding this clarification, I will explore the health implications this im |
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Personal Appearance in Medieval TimesCosmetics were widely used in the medieval world by many cultures. The Middle Ages, also known as the medieval times, was a time of royalty where many women liked using certain products to better their appearance. In most cultures, makeup was expensive, and therefore was only available to royalty. This made every average citizen want to wear makeup because they would strive to look like the most respected people of their culture. Ancient Greece and Rome both used makeup quite heavily in their everyday, but this concept was actually adopted from one of the ancient Egyptian cultures. However, for a long time in Europe, church leaders believed makeup was sinful and immoral. Enhancing a woman's physical appearance did not abide with the church's rules and cosmetics were only used in brothels. Eventually, illness struck and women were supposedly losing their beauty, so the |
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World War II and the Nuremberg Trials"The greatest trial in history," as Sir Norman Birkett referred to the Nuremberg Trials, was an attempt to achieve justice for an unprecedented scale of the crime. Despite the fact that the legitimate legitimations for the trials and their procedural developments were questionable at the time, the Nuremberg trials are currently viewed as a point of reference to the foundation of a changeless worldwide court, and an imperative point of reference for managing later occurrences of genocide and different violations against humankind. As the war achieved its end in 1945, the Allies had gotten to be mindful of shocking monstrosities that had occurred in Eastern Europe. The shock created by these horrifying revelations prompted a noise amongst the Allies that those mindful ought to be conveyed to account alongside those in the Nazi chain of importance who had battled as a rule. Henry L. Stimson, U.S. Secretary of War, was the person who demanded a trial that would uncover the Nazi's wrong do |
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The Defunding of Planned ParenthoodPlanned Parenthood Federation of America, an organization founded by Margaret Sanger in 1916, receives $500 million in federal funding every year. Mission statement: A reason for being. Planned Parenthood is one of the nation's prominent providers of inexpensive health care for women, men, and young people, and the country's biggest provider of sex education ("Planned Parenthood at a Glance," 2014). Half of Planned Parenthood patients depend on federally funded Medicaid in order to have access to affordable, preventive care. The other half of patients rely on the federally funded Title X. Title X is a family development program that is available to those who do not have insurance or are not covered by Medicaid, regardless of their ability to pay. Neither Medicaid nor Title X will cover the costs of abortions due to the Hyde Amendment. The Hyde Amendment, which was enacted in 1976, is a governmental establishment that prevents certain federal funds from going towards a |
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Cathartic Responses in Works of Black ComedyA Cathartic Response is the build-up of emotions that can lead to many physical or emotional responses such as, in this case, laughter. The plays "The Homecoming," by Harold Pinter, and "Lieutenant of Inishmore," by Martin McDonagh, evoke a cathartic response in audiences through portraying the characters and their relationships, which facilitate the levels of the theatrical orgasm embellished in the comedic styles of the plays. Through exploring the juxtaposition of the relationships between men and women, fathers and sons, it explores the characteristics of humour and guiding the audience, which then induces a cathartic experience throughout. The relationship between men and women can be seen throughout both plays, the first example depicted in The Homecoming, when Ruth comes home late to find Lenny on the lounge. This scene can be shown and performed in two different ways. The first way, we can depict Ruth as being sexually predatory and Lenny being uncomfortable because he doe |
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Language Development in InfantsAround the time a child is 18 months they will start putting together words that form basic sentences in order to communicate their wants and needs. They start to put into use all the language skills they had absorbed up to that point and by the time they are two most children are avid language users. When broken down, there are many different parts of a language. Language, put into categories, has five main aspects; phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Each of these things, as well as visual cues and modeling, play a part in how an infant develops language. Phonology refers to the sounds that a language makes, the sounds individual letters make and the sounds groups of letters make are all part of phonetics. Each language has its own set of phonemes, the smallest sound unit in a language, that an infant will learn to distinguish between. In fact, months before an infant speaks their first words, they acquire an extensive and detailed knowledge about the sound pa |
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The Silk Roads of ChinaIn 138 BCE, Zhang Qian set out through the tall stone doors of Chang'an, the capital of Han tradition China. He rode at the leader of a procession of 100 Han officers, riding into the dusty, obscure grounds toward the west. Zhang Qian was an officer of the Han magnificent gatekeeper and he had volunteered for a basic mission. Right now, while the Roman Empire was simply starting to grow past Italy, the Han Empire controlled China. On their northwest fringe a solid migrant tribe, the Xiung-nu represented a steady danger. The Xiung-nu regularly attacked the wilderness, taking from the border towns every one of the things they couldn't get by trade. The Han sovereigns needed associates who might help them battle the Xiung-nu. The Han had known about a tribe further toward the west called the Yueh-chih ho may be benevolent. Despite the fact that initially populated by military strengths and overseers, these settlements soon pulled in Greed traders and brokers who connected the as of lat |
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The Problem with Minimum WageWorking is supposed to keep people out of poverty. The current federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour and working class households are struggling to live outside of poverty. There is a constant debate about whether the minimum wage should be raised or should remain the same in the United States. Business owners believe that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs and hurt the economy. On the other side of the argument, the workers believe that increasing the minimum wage won't kill jobs and it may even give the economy a boost by presenting more pay to low-income workers who are likely to spend it. The minimum wage is the minimum hourly wage an employee gets paid from her/his employer for the work that has been done. Currently, it is $7.25 per hour in the United States (Mejeur). A worker –who makes minimum wage– who works five hours a day and six times of the week, makes $36.25 each day and $217.5 each week. Some states in the United Stated have their minimum wages set ab |
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A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller'A View from the Bridge' by Arthur Miller is a modern version of a Greek tragedy . Instead of a King or Hero being damaged by their 'fatal flaw', Miller wants us to see that the downfall of an ordinary man is just as painful. Eddie Carbone's journey from 'an angel' to a 'rat' like Vinnie Bolzano is Miller's way of showing how denying your fatal flaw can only lead to one outcome: tragedy. Miller is successful in leading the audience through Eddie's flaw of his rising 'passion' , clearly showing the audience the tragic impact on his wife, his family and ultimately his whole community. He does this through his skillful use of a variety of dramatic techniques, enabling us to reflect on our ourselves and our own relationships. The initial view of Eddie's flaw is from Alfieri – the metaphorical 'Bridge' between the Italian and American community. He reveals that even from the beginning he could see signs of Eddie's fatal flaw that hinted at the tra |
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Networking Security FundamentalsInformation security is vital to all businesses but, it is especially vital to pharmacies and other sensitive fields like it. Being that a lot of personal information is needed from the consumer to fill a prescription there is a wealth of private information that could prove to be a gold mine for any attackers if it is stolen. Therefore security officers are paramount to ensure both a high physical and logical level of security. The information security officer would serve multiple functions such as, managing the information security functions in according to the guidelines set by the managing body. The physical security officer would obviously follow the same guidelines set by the managing body but, would be responsible for any security measures that doesn't fall under the purview of the information security officer. The number one physical threat in my mind is simple theft of the medications stored behind the counter. While this isn't an entirely simple thing for an intruder to pul |
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My Family - Gaining from BelongingThroughout my life, I have belonged to many different groups. These have included my family group, as a member of a dancing school, as a student during my academic education, and as a member of a workplace. Within these groups I have held different roles as a member of a team. At school, I was a Community Service Leader, and member of the Year 12 vocal group. In my workplace I co-ordinate the Year 9 English team and manage the Debating program. These groups are made up of a variety of people. I have belonged to some groups through obligation, and others by choice. Over time, my personal experience of belonging has changed constantly. I have moved away from some areas I used to belong, for example, I am no longer a school student. Other places where I belong have been a constant feature of my life, such as my place within my family. In most cases, I have been able to join groups and feel like I belong without any trouble. I try to listen and show kindness to others, so perhaps that is w |
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Quantitative Research and AnalysisPart 1: Quantitative Research In helping Nurses elucidate the process of reading a research critically, and decode terminologies analytically in a Quantitative research. It is important to consider various measures while analyzing a particular research. The author of the research must be scrutinized. Their Job qualification must be examined comprehensively. Evaluation of research must be based on its merits rather than its authors. The report title of a quantitative research must be between 10 and 15 words in length with clarified identity of the study purpose. Also, the Abstract of the research study has to be a succinct overview including the information on method, sample selection, size and additionally main findings, conclusions, and recommendations (Valencia, 2016). The research problem must broadly indicate what is to be studied. In the analysis, a logical consi |
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Loyalty in LiteratureA loyal person is worth trusting. Loyalty is a characteristic of being devoted to a person, place, or a thing that requires patience and faith. An example of loyalty is towards another to form a non-waivered allegiance. In the medieval legends Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Morte d'Arthur, heroic figures prove their loyalty through memorable deeds, quests, and contests. In Beowulf, the idea of loyalty is to honor your word and your duty to your family, friends, and the Anglo- Saxons. "A soldier should know the difference betweens words and deeds, and to keep that knowledge clear in his brain. I believe your words, I trust in your friendship" (46). The code of chivalry shows the loyalty of the knights towards keeping their word and being able to trust on |
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The Most Influential Man in My LifeThere are a multitude of influential males within my life that I greatly appreciate and look up to. However, there is only one who has truly made me the young man I am today. The greatest influence toward my life and goals would be my father. A man I hold to a higher standard than most and greatly appreciate. One of my father's dreams or rather goals was to become a mechanical engineer. He has always been the most intellectual person I know. In high school, my dad had the third highest in SAT scores for his school. He became a national merit scholar and had several colleges looking at him sending out scholarship offers. My dad had many great qualities and was very smart but he had a 2.0 GPA. This was due to him having a zero homework average and an A test average. When the colleges saw this they revoked their offers concluding that he lacked the discipline and work ethic to succeed. Two years later or so, my dad found himself in college not as a student, but as a janitor. I'm sure many people can understand the struggle. This is sadly a common theme amongst many high school students. I know, so much poten |
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Successful Slogan: Just Do It"Just Do It" has become one of the most popular slogans in today's society. These three words alone bring both credibility and motivation to simplistic advertisements. Nike creatively exercises their usage of logos, pathos, ethos and other forms of rhetoric, making Nike a company that excels in the area of advertising. I have chosen a very basic Nike advertisement as an example. The background is all in black. A large, white Nike "swoosh" is placed on the upper-middle portion of the photo. Below the famous symbol is Nike's slogan "Just Do It" in bold, capitalized, white letters. While this advertisement was plain and simple, it left me with a feeling of inspiration and incentive to well, "Just Do Something". The black color gives a sense of strength, power, and authority. Th |
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How Great Was Jay Gatsby?The greatness of a being is not to be determined by themselves, but by others who experience their greatness through actions and words. The greatness of Jay Gatsby was evident to others in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. The novel tells a tale of upper-class members of society, of which Gatsby is, and their flaws in their character. This tightly woven tale of love and the American dream all ends poorly for most, all of whom have major flaws in their nature. The greatness of Gatsby might have been questioned by many, but his greatness was evident, especially to Daisy Buchanan, the one he truly loves, to others throughout the novel. Gatsby's greatness emits from the tremendousness of the parties he holds, the immensity of his dreams, in the grandeur and size of his language, but mainly, the deep love he has for Daisy. The immense size of the parties that Gatsby regularly throws and all the fanatical activities that occur during these parties help lead to the greatness of |
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Themes of Evil in Shirley Jackson's The LotteryEvery now and then, evil comes to light from the most ordinary and unpredictable situations and everyday surroundings. ''The Lottery," a short story of threatening evilness written by Shirley Jackson, is an allegory of village itself. At first, the story seems completely harmless and the readers might think the lottery is a good idea, not knowing what the 'prize' at the end of the story is. This village lottery ends up in a brutal murder each year, an absurd and bizarre ritual that suggests how dangerous tradition may be when people follow it without questioning why. In the beginning of the story, the lottery event is described as a normal and ordinary tradition that occurs every year on the assigned date, but very soon, in the second paragraph, the suspicions begin to rise and the tension begins to increase. We start to wonder why are the boys piling stones up in the village square, and finally, we can guess that something terrible is about to happen and that this event is not at al |
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The Life and Times of MeMy name is Kudakwashe Solomon Mavuru and I was born on the second of April 1998 in Gweru. I am the first born in a family of three boys. I grew up in Mkoba, Gweru and by then my father was an ordinary primary school teacher and my mother was an ordinary house wife. At this tender age ,my parents usually left me at my grandparents ' house and I really liked the regular visits .My grandfather used to tell me interesting stories about war, our family roots, his life and many other stories which covered interesting aspects of life. At the age of three, I started to go to an early learning center in Mkoba five. I really disliked going to school and my parents had to force me to attend each and every day. My father was transferred to go and work at Mberengwa Primary School, when I was still five years old. By that time my relationship with schoolwork was now climax and I really enjoyed reading short stories and other books way ahead above my level. In Mberengwa , there was no early |
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Organizational Management: Vestas Wind SystemsBrielle Eddy "Wind. It means the world to us." Currently the market leader within the wind industry, primarily in wind turbines, Vestas Wind Systems is a Danish organization with one hundred ten years of expertise and experiences that is continuing to evolve through the twenty- first century in the modern energy industry. Vestas is the only global energy company exclusively dedicated to wind energy and innovation. They strive to improve business case certainty and reduce customers' cost of energy. Developing close partnerships with customers is vital to offering the most effective solutions toward energy independence. Vestas Wind Systems' core business is the development, manufacturing, sales and maintenance of wind power plants, covering every aspect of the value chain from site studies to service and maintenance. The Vestas mission statement captures their business commitment to customers' objective and the well being of our planet. It reflects the high quality of their |
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Pride and Honor in Romeo and JulietRomeo and Juliet is a play about the death-marked love of two young lovers from rival families, riddled with violence and tragedy. Upon seeing the tragic nature of the play, people often ponder a question about the tragedy: "How did this happen?" Often, people lay the blame with fate, or the violent nature of the feud the Capulets and the Montagues were engaged in, or the character flaws of Romeo and Juliet, or even the wrath of other characters, such as the temper of Lord Capulet or the bloodthirsty brutality of Tybalt. However, a closer inspection reveals a common trait found within the vast majority of the conflicts that led to the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet - honor. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, much of the conflict within the story was motivated by a sense of pride or honor by the characters, as shown through the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues, the proud familial ties that characters are bound to, the forced marriage between Juliet and Paris, and the conflict b |
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