...Time is a Healer In Katherine Mansfield’s short story “The Fly”, she tells of a man and his struggle with the loss of his son. The setting starts out in the boss’s office, where he is talking to a man we know as Mr. Woodifield. Mr. Woodifield is an older gentleman whom since he had a stroke his family keeps him boxed up in his home every day of the week, expect for Tuesdays. Mr. Woodifield and the boss talk about the new decorations of the boss’s office, there is something though that Mr. Woodifield struggles to remember that he wanted to tell the boss. He remembers that is was his daughters had ran across the boss’s son grave while looking at Reggie’s, his son whom he had lost in World War One, grave. He goes on to tell the boss of how well the place is kept, and how his son and Reggie were quite close to one another. After Mr. Woodifield leaves the boss tells his office messenger that “I’ll see nobody for half an hour.” He begins to attempt to grieve over the loss of his son the way he used to be able to. He finds himself unable to weep and he finds himself easily distracted by a simple fly. The fly falls into the ink pot and the boss watches him struggle over and over until he is finally unable to overcome and dies. The moral of this story seems to be that time can heal all grief. Mr. Woodifield is a gentleman whom was a former employee of the boss. He has retired after the stroke he had and comes to visit the boss on Tuesdays, when his wife and girls let him...
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... Elise Ashley Leyva I have chosen the article “A Normative Theory of Forgetting: Lessons from the Fruit Fly” I chose this article because the name was very interested to me, and I thought it would be very interesting. I also chose this article because it consisted of theories and experimental conditionings of why we forget thing. This caught my attention because for many, many years I have always wondered why I would forget things. This raised a concern and the urgency to learn this within this lesson because it would occur very frequently to me. As I was growing up, and even throughout my adult hood people close to me also noticed this, and I never know why, until reading more about this issue and how it affect other people as well and why it happens. This article conducted of a conditioning experience that featured a Drosophila melanogaster also known as a fruit flies. Conducting this experience it revealed that the cause underlying forgetting is an active process which is modulate by the learning task and not by internal constraints of memory system. This fly has been the favorite organism for biological research, initially in the field of genetics and now for the fundamental problems in biology freedom the fields of ecology and neurobiology. This was done by taking a group of fruit flies and placing them into a tube for conditioning, of course. This group was exposed to a specific odor and the exposer was paired with an reinforcer...
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...single black fly sat on the label of his greasy jacket. A short time later, there were already two. They ran up to him and crawled into his face, but he did not seem to notice. More flies were added, crawled over his nose, his cheeks, his lips, but he showed no reaction. It was not long, and they crept into his nostrils, in his eye and in his ears. They crawled out purely and again and showed it in no hurry. They inspected it really thoroughly, and he let it happen impassively. After some time had gathered two dozen flies on him, they now crawled into his sleeves and into the gaps between the neck and shirt collar. Walker came along the road and went between us through. They took no notice of him. As it dawned, the number of flies had grown to several hundred. I stood up and went home. When I again the next day I approached my place on the bench, hit me in the smell of vinegar from afar contrary. The man in the hat was already sitting opposite on the bench. The flies had almost completely taken possession of him. They ran all over him around, sometimes flew in small groups and then sat down again. He just sat there and looked like the day before indifferent through me. The fly took the occasion to be a little bolder. Increasingly, they were crawling now in his ears and in his nose. His face betrayed not even a twitch, as tentatively crawled the first maggots on his forehead. Dense clouds of flies buzzed around him now. His clothes were completely covered with flies. Constantly...
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...WEEK FOUR HW PROBLEMS There are four problems, each of which is worth one point. 1. Five Proteen Bars and 7 Superdrinks total 1915 calories. Four Proteen Bars and 3 Superdrinks total 1155 calories. How many calories does one Proteen Bar have? One Superdrink? One Proteen Bar has 180 calories and one Superdrink has 145 calories. 2. A plane goes from A to B against the wind in 4 hrs and 30 minutes. It goes back again (WITH the wind) in 3 hrs and 40 minutes. It is 400 miles from A to B. How fast does the plane fly in still air, and how fast is the wind? (Round to nearest hundredth.) The plane flies at 99.09 mph in still air and the wind is 10.2 mph. 3. You want 40 liters of 60% solution. How much 80% solution and how much 28% solution must you mix to produce that result? (Round to nearest hundredth.) In order to produce 40 liters of 60% solution I will need 24.62 liters of 80% solution and 15.38 liters of 28% solution. 4. Seven curly fries and four plain fries cost $16.83. Five curlies and 12 plains cost $23.45. How much does one order of curlies cost? One order of plains? One order of curlies costs $1.69 and one order of plains costs $1.25. 5. Solve the following system of equations: 2X + 3Y = 29 X + 1.5Y = 8 The system of equations is inconsistent and has no...
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...such as specimen cups, pharmacy bottles, labels, nets, and dissecting forceps. Included in their array of gear is a “killing jar,” which is a glass jar containing ethyl acetate-soaked cotton balls. There are a number of procedures forensic entomologists must follow when it comes to collecting specimen. They must first collect any live flies using nets, then the largest maggots and egg mounds found on the remains. The bug experts preserve a few of the collected maggots by plunging them into boiling water then storing them in alcohol. This stops any chance of discoloration or decomposition of the maggots. Not only do forensic entomologist need to collect any insects seen with the naked eye, they also check ear canals, nasal openings, other orifices, and any open wounds for the presence of insects....
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...Entomotoxicology The process of decomposition begins immediately after death and the process can be divided into five stages: fresh, bloated, decay, post-decay and skeletal. Therefore, the availability of tissues and blood samples for toxicological analysis is dependent on the state of decomposition. There are cases where blood and tissue samples are not available or suitable for analysis, the fly larvae found on the cadaver can be used as an alternative toxicological specimen. Successful detection of substances has been accomplished by several extraction methods from maggots, pupae and adults of Diptera and even from the feces of beetles (Miller et al. 1994). Bourel et al. (2001) conducted a study which showed that morphine was detected on third larval instar maggots of Calliphora vicina Linnaeus (Diptera: Calliphoridae) fed with an artificial diet mixed with the drug. This shows that morphine was stored inside the cuticle of the maggots during their development. However, the detection of diethylpropion (Inebex) showed negative result in larvae of Chrysomya megacephala and Chrysomya putoria suggesting the rapid excretion of drugs (Alves et al.2008). Insect succession Insect succession is the wave or pattern of insects’ colonization on dead remains and is also affected by the surrounding environment. Invasion of a body by insects and other arthropods occurs soon after death (Anderson and Goff, 2000). They are capable to arrive and colonized within minutes of the death (Wells...
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...our humble beginnings as a single market stall, we've grown to become one of the UK's leading retailers of clothing, food, home products and financial services. We now employ 68,000 employees in 30 countries, have more than 500 stores and serve tens of millions of customers each and every week. Our commitment to provide superior quality products at attractive prices has built us an £8 billion turnover, but more importantly has given us the enviable reputation as the retail store against which all others are measured. To discover more about the core beliefs that have contributed to our success, click on the links below. Our Values Our Diversity Our success has been built on a number of core company values that have remained almost unchanged since our earliest beginnings. They are: Quality - Delivering excellent standards consistently. Value - We need to deliver exceptional value to our customers. Innovation - We need to continue to be at the forefront of innovation in both general merchandising and food. Trust - We are the most trusted retailer. We have a proud heritage of staff welfare, customer care and involvement in the community. We want to continue to build this. Service - is about delivering the highest standard of services to our customers. Service, has perhaps the biggest impact on our people. We want everyone who works for us (no matter what role they're in) to be focused on helping us deliver a service people talk about. This in itself has created a set...
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...“We Are Marshall” Reason for Choice of Movie The selection of film, I have chosen, is based upon my infatuation with the very intriguing storyline it offers. At first, one may believe that the storyline is nothing more than another movie concerning football. However, the storyline offers a combination of a beloved American sport, along with touching accounts of the lives of each main character, as they dealt with grief and despair independently. Most importantly, the storyline depicts the perseverance of one man who strived for perfection, even when everyone else neither believed in him nor shared his vision. “We are Marshall” correlates with the textbook as, the manner in which individuals adapt to difficult challenges vary from person to person. However, in order to achieve a true state of resiliency, one must allow the stages of grieving to be a fluid process. Finally, “We are Marshall” shows the actions of one, can lead to changes which positively impinge upon many. Summary of Movie “We are Marshall” is based upon a true story that occurred on November 14, 1970. “We are Marshall” begins with a plane crash that kills 75 members of the football team, including players, coaches, and fans. One can imagine how such a devastating event would impact the Marshall University community. Therefore, university President Donald Demond along with influential community members, decided in the best interest of the university, to discontinue the football program...
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...you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw some and paint and sing and dance and play and work everyday. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out in the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why. We are like that. And then remember that book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK! Everything you need to know is there somewhere: The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation, ecology, and politics and the sane living. Think of what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together....
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...Kyle Lorenzetti 4/18/2015 Professor Chevan MUS George Benson George Benson is one of the most popular male jazz guitarists in the United States. In his lifetime, he has received 20 Grammy nominations and has won 10 Grammy awards. George Benson is known for playing his Ibanez guitar and his method of playing, which uses a rest-stroke picking technique, is similar to players of gypsy jazz. His style of playing, tone and melody is incredible. He worked with many of the jazz greats, from Wes Montgomery, Jack McDuff, Miles David, Count Basie Orchestra, Lonnie Smith and Ronnie Cuber. He performed at top places all over the world, and packed them all. His audiences were rich and poor, made up of all races, all religions and all nationalities. In fact, many of them had just one factor in common – they all loved him. George Benson is truly one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. George Benson was born on March 22, 1943, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was raised in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, the eldest son of a family of six children. His mother was an aid at the nearby hospital and the family was very poor. George lived in a house without electricity until he was seven. The Hill District of Pittsburg was filled with jazz talent at the time. There were numerous jazz clubs all over the city and little George was surrounded by the sound. He showed talent at an early age. His parents taught him to sing and at the age of 4, he won a singing contest at a local 4th of July concert...
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...Venice Jiezzelle C. Nesperos D-3R Sailing Nature Have you tried sailing? Going with the wind, being dependent with just one factor for you to have direction in the middle of the sea and have no powers to fight for yourself against the strong current of water. Imagine that you are the nature that is going to save by selling it. Selling nature to save it is like risking the nature to the effects of human activities, allow capitalists to dominate with the business and the nature has no powers to act what its feeling when we are disturbing it. Not only the effect of these activities to nature is going to be factor to disagree with selling nature to save it but also the effect of this activities to the nature surroundings. For example, the effects of the modification of the nature to be able to transform it to a nice place are: some species may be disturbed in their habitat when doing the modification or when people are visiting resulting to the decrease of species in that area or occupying other habitat; some people are undisciplined disobeying the signs in the area resulting in damage nature; people living nearby the nature to be modify would likely to be remove in their places making them to live in an area such as urban. Lastly, anything you do has its corresponding karma in the future so, what you will do right now in our nature can result into a degrading nature and if you will invest money for something your mindset will be return that money with interest....
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...young people must be taught to read and write. How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery; others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way. We have discovered that every child who learns, and every man who finds work, and every sick body that is made whole – like a candle added to an altar – brightens the hope of all the faithful. So let us reject any among us, who seek to reopen old wounds, and rekindle old hatreds. They stand in the way of a seeking nation. Let us join reason to faith and action to experience, to transform our unity of interest into a unity of purpose. To achieve change without hatred; not without difference of opinion but without the deep and abiding divisions which scar the union for generations. Under the covenant of justice, liberty and union, we have become a nation. And we have kept our freedom. It is the excitement of becoming – always becoming, trying, probing, resting, and trying again but always gaining. If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship; that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more that it gives. If we succeeded, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but rather...
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...In the case study of “Power Play for Howard,” Juwan Howard, a free agent basketball player is looking to begin negotiations to obtain at least a $100 million dollar contract for his services. As a Washington Bullets team current player, his manager extends an invitation to this team first. He receives an offer from their organization; it is far below what he is looking to obtain. He decides to look elsewhere. Miami Heat offers him a deal that was too good to be true. They offered $100.8 million, seven-year contract with nice incentives; Juwan Howard agrees to their terms and signs their contract. Prematurely, there is excitement by the new agreement that he thinks is binding (Asher & Brubaker, 2007). The Bullets’ General Manager, Wes Unseld would soon hear back that the contract was invalidated by the basketball league in which they were governed by. The forward, Howard would continue with the Washington Bullets although arbitration takes place. In the end, the decision is made in favor of the Washington Bullets. In this paper, Learning Team B will take the reader through the tangible and intangible benefits, costs, and risks that took place for Juwan Howard, the Miami Heat, and the Washington Bullets- who would later to be known as the Washington Wizards (Asher & Brubaker, 2007). Benefits: Tangibles and Intangibles Evaluating the Power Play for Howard case study from the perspective of stakeholder benefits enables one to understand easily why the stakes were so...
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...Hey friends, We know there is a lot of excitement in the community surrounding the Lollipop updates for the One, and for good reason. We are just as excited as you are. We never intended to keep you waiting. Unfortunately, we ran into some unexpected roadblocks. First, there was an unforeseen OS signing issue, which has recently been resolved. Our camera module had stability issues on Lollipop, and we had to rebuild it for compatibility. Several other crucial drivers, including our Wi-Fi drivers, also needed to be updated to work flawlessly with the upgrade. Admittedly, it took a little more time than we had planned, but we only release updates that we are proud of; that means refusing to take shortcuts or deliver sub-par experiences. With all of that in mind, here are the official release dates for Android Lollipop on the OnePlus One: CM 12S: The official OTA update for the OnePlus One will be released on or before March 30, 2015 OxygenOS: The official release of our own Lollipop-based ROM will be available for download on or before March 27, 2015 To show you how serious we are about this commitment to our community, we are prepared to put our money where our mouth is. If we miss either one of these deadlines, we will give away five (5) 64GB OnePlus One devices to our fans. Reply to this thread to be eligible. It’s our little way of saying thank you for being patient and for joining us on our journey to create amazing, user-driven experiences. Never...
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...Courteney Lodato McKenzie Wohlfarth Famine in Africa English 102 Baker College Famine in Africa Does music have the ability to impact listeners socially? Yes, music impacts listeners socially by adding meaning and themes to their lyrics. Artists can write music about anything that they want, which can include social issues around the world. Music that includes social issues can inspire people and give them the motivation to try and do something about the issue. “We Are The World”, by Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie, impacted listeners because it addressed very real issues that the African continent was experiencing. Specifically, the lyrics bring awareness of hunger and poverty as results of the drought. In the 1980’s the continent of Africa was going through troubling times. The continents population was projecting at shocking numbers, degrading ecologically, and plummeting into debt. A rapidly growing population is a long term problem that is faced by any continent that can not sustain a good quality of life. The rate of death in Africa slowed, and the fertility rate increased. The average amount of children per mother is estimated at 6.2. Couples are getting married at younger ages which is slowly raising the statistic. The physical resources in Africa in the 1980’s where degrading due to eroding soil, falling water tables, and dying forests. With no land there is no food to grow, starving the population. In order to grow crops however one is required to have money...
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