...external narrator (Shakel and Ridl 146-147). This is a high-level explanation of point of view, but gives a base...
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...Halloween Party. She got a terrible headache and told her husband to go to the party alone. He, being a devoted husband, protested, but she argued and said she was going to take some aspirin and go to bed and there was no need of his good time being spoiled by not going. So he took his costume and away he went. The wife, after sleeping soundly for one hour, awakened without pain, and as it was still early, she decided to go to the party. In as much as her husband did not know what her costume was, she thought she would have some fun by watching her husband to see how he acted when she was not with him. She joined the party and soon spotted her husband cavorting around on the dance floor, dancing with every nice chick he could and copping a little feel here and a little kiss there. His wife went up to him and being a rather seductive babe herself, he left his partner high and dry and devoted his time to the new stuff that had just arrived. She let him go as far as he wished; naturally, since he was her husband. Finally he whispered a little proposition in her ear and she agreed, so off they went to one of the cars and had a little bang. Just before unmasking at midnight, she slipped away and went home and put the costume away and got into bed, wondering what kind of explanation he would make for his behavior. She was sitting up reading when he came in and asked what kind of a time he had had. He said, "Oh the same old thing. You know I never have a good time when you're...
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...UW Essay #1 Rough Draft – “Blog Critique” of a Wordless Graphic Novel One important concept that Scott McCloud discusses in his book, Understanding Comics, is the fascinating idea of closure. This idea essentially refers to filling in the gaps of a certain part of the story based on some, but not all of the information. Closure then becomes more or less complex, depending on what the author says. This is an important concept that is utilized in Passionate Journey by Frans Masereel because a great deal of the book relies heavily on the interpretation of the reader. With this in mind, the reader is able to gain an understanding of the book using the information that is given and filling in the gaps based on what he or she knows. In the book Passionate Journey, Frans Masereel uses the concept of closure in order to express the relationship that the main character develops with the young girl that he ends up falling in love with. The first image depicts the main character with a young girl. In the book, it appears that he somewhat raises this girl and takes care of her. They clearly have some type of bond because he is joyfully carrying her on his shoulders as they take a walk through the park. I feel that initially the reader is confused because he or she is wondering where this girl came into play in the first place and why the main character is taking care of her. It seems a bit random. Although it seems this way, it does appear to be harmless. Nothing seems odd about a man...
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...pressure room) | | Mrs. Flanco (S/P Colectomy day 2)Mr. Reddington (GSW) | Mike LPN #2 | Pod 3 | | Mr. Smith (Atrial Fib) | | Ms. Harper (s/p breast mastectomy) | | Ms. Levin (s/p attempted suicide) | | Mrs. Walnut (aspiration pneumonia)Mrs. Stewart (Diabetic Ketoacidosis) | | | Gilda CNA | Pods 1-3 | | | Explanation The following is a detailed explanation of the assignments made for this shift: Macy LPN: Macy was given her patients based of her skill and scope. She always volunteers to take on the Spanish speaking patients since she is more comfortable speaking in Spanish. The RN, after moving patients to different pods, she gave Macy one possible discharge today and what would be consider by some a difficult patient that can be abusive and refuses to be take care of be the other LPN on shift today. Macy also had to take on a total of 6 patients instead of six, the RN will cosign her notes at of shift. The patients given to Macy also had the least amount of IV medications to be given and this would be beneficial to the RN, since Macy is not certified to give any IV medications and the RN would then have to make herself responsible for those patients IV meds too. Mike LPN: Mike is IV certified and therefore can manage patients that have IV medication that need to be given. However, he is a smoker...
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...Ghosts have always been with me. Not by choice. At least not on my part. It just happens. I don’t want to believe… but they’ve forced themselves on me. (Thoughtful) Perhaps the old Indian woman did it to me. I lived in her house too long as a child. (Looks at ceiling) At night, footsteps paced the ceiling. Over and over, an impatient march, forever in step to the silent drum. If only this had been my only encounter, I could dismiss it. “The house is settling,” my mother said… but this wasn’t all the house did. (Lights slightly flicker) Lights dimmed and glowed. Her ghostly will stronger than the new world magic conjured by GE. Sometimes she preferred a blackout. She didn’t care for my brother’s taste in music. Blackout! (Blackout) My brother was scared turdless. (Lights come up dimly again. She smiles at the memory of her brother. She is thoughtful a moment and her expression darkens) These spirits are on me like dogs on turds. Always sniffing around. Marking me. (Goes to sofa. Sits and slowly makes her way under the quilt and lays her head sleepily against the back of the sofa during the following) I slept in my room. Well, not really slept. Sleep was never something I did much of, especially early on. My worries at seven far outweighed my need for sleep. Awake. Forever awake. My father had left me. My mother… (Sits up. Then gets up and crosses to coffin) I was always worried mother would leave me too. (She touches the coffin lovingly. Then stops looking very...
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...English 178 - poetry | Donne’s “Language of Love” in Elegy XIX: “To His Mistress Going To Bed”. | Poetry Semester Essay | | Telan Hamer | 18184626Tutor : Tamsyn Allies | | The poetic works of John Donne has been afforded high acclaim when it comes to his use of language in the dominion of love. In his elegy “To His Mistress Going To Bed”, he beckons for his lover to be bedded with him, describing her beauty as he tries to influence her to disrobe. Donne, in this poem, makes visible the way in which love and desire can be expressed in language attiring his poems with extended metaphor, metaphysical conceit and masterful wit, to the extent to which one may re-read the poem simply to savour the way in which Donne has sculpted his imagery. “To His Mistress Going To Bed” is seen to fall under the poetic genre known as ‘the blazon’, a genre of poetry that glorifies a woman by focusing on certain desirable body parts whilst using appropriate metaphor. Hence, the main focus of this essay will be to provide a commentary on the use of “the language of love” with reference to Donne’s blazon, by highlighting a series of appropriate examples that will provide a platform to analyse what it is that Donne is trying to convey in his poem, and how he accomplishes its conveyance. The examples will be analysed with reference to how the poet incorporates certain aspects of language such as diction, form, style, tone, rhetoric, and his use of figures of speech. The opening lines...
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...hand hygiene before and after the visit, client assessment, teaching and education. Proper documentation of the visit was written in detail and a copy provided to the client. The following factors may be considered in all areas of nursing care in any setting: level of self-care, ability for activities of daily living; level of nursing care needed; prognosis; education needs; mental status; level of compliance with instructions from healthcare professionals. Ways in which the nurse adapted care to the home setting are briefly stated in the following: Changing a Foley catheter on a male client, setting up a sterile field while kneeling on the floor as the client was sitting at the edge of the bed; setting up an IV without an IV pole or pump using a clothes hangar and a curtain rod over the bed to attain the necessary gravity flow; writing out new requests for doctor to write orders for special procedures such as toenail trimming to be performed by a podiatrist and requiring a...
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...limited to being this monstrous image since she also had a more angelic and dispassionate side after Lowood. As a result, similar to what Gilbert and Gubar had discovered, Bronte did not blend in with the male literature dichotomy (what is the male literature dichotomy?), but rather decided to merge the two traits in her protagonist Jane Eyre and showed that Bertha was her dark double (Hart 77). Therefore, by providing personal perspectives from Jane Eyre and relating them to Gilbert and Gubar’s theory, this paper will try to prove that indeed Bertha Mason was the ultimate madwoman figure that Bronte had illustrated in a methodical and deliberate manner: by first developing the character and second by creating a dark double which Bronte herself and Jane could relate to. Initially, as a reader I wondered, why would even the character of Bertha Mason be so important? Irrationally, it was not just because Bertha’s situation provided the title to Gilbert and Gubar’s famous book, The Madwoman in the Attic. However,...
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...Daystar In response to the daily struggle of a mother in the pursuit to find time of her own, Rita Dove, twentieth century poetry, wrote the poem “Daystar.” As a mother you not only struggle to find quiet time, but you also struggle to find personal redemption for all the daily tasks we complete for our families. In the tittle alone “Daystar” we find ourselves invisible to those we take care of regularly. Just like stars during the day, invisible to us due to the sun, our actions are invisible to others because many feel that it is not only our job but our obligation to take care of others. Dove uses descriptive words to allow us to sympathize with the character, also taking us visually through her words of a typical afternoon of a busy mother. Dove starts the poem with the number one struggle for all mothers, quiet time. “She wanted a little room for thinking” (1) searching for a quiet place to melt into your surroundings is all anyone needs to recharge, get your head straight. “But saw the diapers steaming on the line” (2) while attempting to find personal serenity, the first sight was one of her daily chores looking back at her. “A doll slumped behind the door” (3) this is yet another reminder of something she has to pick up and put away. She decides to find a place where there is no reminder of what her days consist of. “So she lugged a chair behind the garage” (4) “to sit out the children’s naps.” (5) Her lugging the chair is an example of the exhaustion she...
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...Massachusetts. She died in the same place on May 15, 1886. Today people know her as a fascinating, talented writer. Most of the pieces Emily wrote were poems. Emily was a very isolated individual. She rarely ever got out or had any contact with anybody outside of her home. Along with writing her poems she wrote letters to the people that she did have contact with. In the letters that she would write there would be poems somewhere within them. Emily wrote a total of 1,775 poems in her lifetime. Even though she wrote these poems she never let it be known that she had the capability to write poems with such elegance. All of the poems that she would write she kept hidden somewhere in her room. She would hide the poems in places like her window, under her bed, in corners of the room, and lots of other places. After Emily’s death the truth would be told about her secret talent. Emily’s sister, Lavinia Dickinson found around 900 of the poems Emily had hidden in her room. Her sister decided that the poems were good enough to be published. She went to a friend of the family where she would get help in editing and publishing the poems. Lavinia’s friend, Mabel Loomis Todd and a friend of hers, Thomas Wentworth Higginson began to put a lot of Said 2 effort of getting the poems published. In the year 1890 they accomplished in getting 115 of Emily’s poems published. After their first success of publishing the poems they began to get more involved with Emily’s poems...
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...Chapter One The paper-thin walls of the tiny examining room seemed to be closing in on Laura, as she sat semi-nude on the cold hard table waiting for the doctor to return. It seemed like hours had passed since the nurse had drawn her blood and sent it to the lab for analysis. She glanced down at her cell phone for what seemed like the millionth time, and took in a loud disgusted breath when she realized that it had only been twenty minutes. Looking anxiously around the room, she wondered precisely what the results would show. Surely, there had to be some reasonable explanation for the way she’d been feeling. But what could it be? The longer she waited, the more these questions seemed to invade her mind. There had to be a logical explanation...
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...One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections. From this height the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely, could hardly stay in place. His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes. “What’s happened to me,” he thought. It was no dream. His room, a proper room for a human being, only somewhat too small, lay quietly between the four well-known walls. Above the table, on which an unpacked collection of sample cloth goods was spread out—Samsa was a travelling salesman—hung the picture which he had cut out of an illustrated magazine a little while ago and set in a pretty gilt frame. It was a picture of a woman with a fur hat and a fur boa. She sat erect there, lifting up in the direction of the viewer a solid fur muff into which her entire forearm had disappeared. Gregor’s glance then turned to the window. The dreary weather—the rain drops were falling audibly down on the metal window ledge—made him quite melancholy. “Why don’t I keep sleeping for a little while longer and forget all this foolishness,” he thought. But this was entirely impractical, for he was used to sleeping on his right side, but in his present state he could not get himself into this position...
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...contrasting meanings of heritage through characterization and symbolism of her two daughters, walker highlights the difference between two interpretations of African American culture and heritage. The gist of the story in “Everyday Use” is how mama bit by bit rejects the superficial beliefs of Dee, her older and extraordinary daughter in admiration of the values about heritage from her less fortunate daughter Maggie. With a more profound thought walker is going into the contrasting culture and heritage of African Americans and superficial African Americans. Mama narrates the story, Ms. Johnson or “Mama” is a woman whose everyday life is part of her culture and heritage. Mama describes herself as, “a large, big-boned woman with rough, man working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day. I can kill a hog as mercilessly as a man”(155). With knowing that only has a second grade education we can say that she has no choice but to follow tradition and heritage, and stay in the home like she grew up in and work the field as other before her did. Even as mama is more or less forced to do so, still she has a great understanding and value of the concept of heritage and culture. In knowing Mama’s love and compassion for her heritage she gives the quilts to Maggie, because Dee wants the quilts to preserve and display her heritage of her ancestors. Mama gives the quilts to Maggie because Mama knows that Maggie will use them for their real purpose, everyday...
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...William Faulkner was a great short story writer whose literature has withstood the test of time. “A Rose for Emily” is one of his better know pieces that can be interpreted in many different ways. The theme one connects with after reading the story depends on the reader’s view of the writer and the writing itself. Many people look at the story as a love story in which a woman is unable to let go of her lover and only wants to preserve him like a rose. Letting go was difficult for the women and holding on was easier. She did what she had to do to preserve her love for her lover even if it was against the town’s laws. The time period in which this short story was written is also important when critically analyzing the writing and the writer’s purpose and theme. During the time that Faulkner wrote this story, he was greatly in debt and seeking ways to become financially stable. He wrote this story not knowing that it would be his first published work and bring him wealth and recognition. It was first published in 1930 but covers the time periods of 1861-1933. This was a very critical time in American history. During this time period, the South was fighting for their livelihood, slavery against the North. They were trying so desperate to hold on to what had held their southern cotton economy together. They felt that the federal government had no power over the states especially their slavery supported economy. They did everything to hold on to their culture but eventually war was...
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...Watson’s Theory of Caring Paper Stacimay NUR/403 January 24, 2011 Nita In this paper the subject to discuss is Watson’s Theory of Caring, a description of her key concepts and include the application of Watson’s theory in a nurse-patient relationship. It will identify the carative factors pertinent in the patient-nurse relationship and attempt to provide an explanation of how Watson’s portrayal of person, health, and environment are important facets of her theory. Watson earned her doctoral degree in educational psychology and counseling and a published author of works in psychology and the theory of caring (Cara, 2003). She studied the art of caring throughout the world and her research focused on the art of human caring and loss. Watson’s theory of nursing, “The Philosophy and Science of Nursing” was published in 1979 that began the process identifying the 10 caritive factors (Current Nursing, 2010). According to McCance, McKenna, and Boore, (1999) Watson’s theory of nursing is grounded in the “philosophy of being and knowing (p.1389). Watson (2003) asks that nurses “reexamine our own meaning of life and death” and from this come to understand the art of caring and healing not only of others but also ourselves (p. 197). Watson encourages nurses to return to the basics that beckoned them to become a nurse in the first place and the practice of the art of caring for another human being (Alligood, 2010). The American Nurses Association concurred with Watson...
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