...2003B - Rewritten Jialin Jin (2) While the youthful innocence is usually blissful while it lasts, almost every child comes to a realization that our time on earth in finite and that everyone around us will eventually die. In Oates’s We Were the Mulvaneys, the speaker Judd Mulvaney looks back to a time when he experienced such an epiphany. By utilizing an introspective first person perspective, detailed imagery, and varied syntax, Oates characterizes Judd as a maturing, reflective, yet conflicted child. In the beginning, as Judd stares down at the brook by himself, Oates directly demonstrates Judd’s thoughtful yet disturbed state of mind by first setting the scene with vivid imagery of the environment in his trance. The “fast-flowing” water “full of leaves” draws a parallel with Judd’s clouded thoughts, while the brook’s reflection of only a “dark shape of the head” hints at the subsequent realization that everyone, including himself, will die. Proceeding to reveal Judd’s personal thoughts, Oates then shows Judd’s inner turmoil through the complex syntax and the first person perspective to further illustrate his young, conflicted mind. While Judd’s exclamation of “oh boy! we-ird!” inside his head affirms his relative immaturity, the repetition of the capitalized and italicized thoughts of...
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...Joyce Carol Oates's 'We Were the Mulvaneys', narrates the mentality of a young boy that is transforming into an understanding of the reality of the true meaning of what the end is and having to accept it. Throughout the passage, Oates, digs deeper into detail in Judds' thoughts by making this certain character, value the type of people that is surrounded by him. The author gives the reader an entrée to Judds' way of thinking while having a personal connection towards it. Oates introduces Judd Mulvaney in such a serene scene to balance the mood of his thoughts. The brook in which Judd was in set the tone for the reader in order to use imagery to connect with Judd. In the meantime, while Judd only sees the "dark shape of a head" visually, he...
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...The passage from the novel “We Were the Mulvaneys” by Carol Joyce Oates is a remarkable flashback into Judd Mulvaney’s childhood. Although the speaker of the passage is an older Judd Mulvaney, the use of juvenile diction allows an “eleven, or maybe twelve” (40) year old child’s perspective to tell the story. The struggle Judd Mulvaney faced as a child is his identity in the world. This struggle is emphasized by the dramatic use of repetition, which sets the tone of little Judd Mulvaney to hopeless. The tense of the story, the use of repetition, and the emphasis on the meaning of life creates a young character’s thoughts as he transitions into adulthood. “That time in our driveway, by the brook” (1) immediately sets the time to the present tense and the subject to a memory. Through the use of flashback, Oates is able to show how the character has developed from that point in the past to the present. Also from the first sentence, it is apparent that the speaker, Judd...
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...December 2009. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1. What is the problem in the Koss Corporation case? This case evolves about a wide-ranging fraud committed by senior members of the accounting department of Koss Corporation. Over a period of years, Sachdeva, the Principal Accounting Officer, Secretary and Vice-President of Finance at Koss had stole over $30 million from the Company. Sachdeva used the embezzled funds to finance her extravagant lifestyle and for her personal spendings. Mulvaney, working in concert with Sachdeva, prepared false journal entries to disguise Sachdeva's misappropriation of funds. Sachdeva and Mulvaney attempted to hide the embezzlement in the Company's financial statements by overstating assets, expenses, and cost of sales, and by understating liabilities and sales. Over the last 12 years, Koss never realised the embezzlement made by the culprit. The embezzlement was revealed on December 18, 2009, when American Express (principal bank for Koss Corporation) notified the Company that funds were being wired from a Company bank account to pay for expenses on Sachdeva's personal credit card. Sachdeva was arrested after she admitted to using Company funds to pay for personal expenses, including payments for her personal credit card. 2. Who is or are involved in the...
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...Assignment 2: Global Warming: Cause and Mitigation Introduction to Physical Science xxxxxxxxxxxx December 6, 2015 Strayer University Professor xxxx xxxx One of the most all time debated and controversial topics to date in science is global warming. Over the last few decades climate change have lead scientist to develop a theories that human beings are the major contributors to the global warming crisis. Many theories suggest that different types of issues contribute to the warming of the planet but the mitigation strategies to slow this process down vary as well. When speaking of this topic there are two basic types of climate change, natural and anthropogenic. Main contributor in the climate change or global warming can be referred to as greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases are derived from water vapor, Methane, Chlorofluorocarbons, and Carbon dioxide. Anthropogenic theory state that the development and consumption of fossil fuels for human life has generated and released a large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. According to this theory the excess carbon dioxide is the main cause of climate change around the world. This process prevents heat from earth to escape naturally into space and hence cool the earth. The theory known as the natural theory states that the earth is going through one of the many peaks and valleys of changes. This of course being a peak of...
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...1983). For the rationale of this literature review, we uphold Schreurs’ and Syed’s (2011) explanation of RJP seeing that demonstrates the important position of recruitment practices in enhancing to achieve an organisation’s strategic objectives. This literature review aims to address this through the research conducted by various authors. This review will begin with emphasizing on the purposes of all the findings, subsequently, investigating the current theories in the literature on RJPs by communicating how they are conventionally treated as divergent proportions of the recruitment process. Following the methodological study, outcomes will be discussed, with explicit consideration of RJPs limitations and recommendation to expand on a more effective realistic recruitment processes. PURPOSE Considerable amount of research has been performed on the impact RJPs have on job applicants’ expectations, satisfaction and employee turnover. Schreurs and Syed (2011) show the importance of RJPs in the recruitment function. RJPs meet the expectations of job applicants (Breaugh 1983, p. 618) by producing a group of desirable applicants in order to improve their interest in the job and enhance the prospect that they will accept a job offer (Schreurs and Syed 2011). After exploring the perceptions of individuals, Richardson, McBey and McKenna (2008) supported the use of a more ‘holist and integrated’ RJP. Equally, Adeyemi-Bello and Mulvaney (1995) also maintained...
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...dream of becoming a doctor to have a family, but she quickly realized her family was never going to fill the void she felt for not completing medical school. When she began to see that her daughter, Lydia, was so similar to her, she did everything in her power set Lydia on track to becoming a doctor. When Marilyn abruptly left the family to try and go back to school Lydia felt as though it was her fault and as soon as her mother returned she “would do everything her mother told her. Everything her mother wanted”(Ng), even if that meant fulfilling a dream that was not hers. Eventually Lydia’s breaking point came, and she could not handle the idea of becoming the person her mom wanted her to be; she wanted to be her own person. Her feelings were very similar to the author of the poem “Uncharted Waters”, the same sense of longing to get away, “An ocean tumbles through dreams of you (the person Lydia desires to become). In depths unknown,I float above. Oh, how I long to dive beneath your surface(Water- Lydia’s biggest fear) ”.(Johnson- Saunders). Unfortunately in her quest to conquer her fear and rise above her mom’s unreachable goals Lydia end up drowning. Her breaking point should be a wake up call to parents who believe their child will replicate what they could not have. This parenting flaw causes damage that will never be fixed. Additionally. the inevitable pressure that parents place on their children to perform academically and or socially creates a barrier in parent child...
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...4,751 MW of new photovoltaic (PV) capacity was installed representing a 41 percent increase in deployment over installation levels in 2012 (Solar Industry Data, 2014). While this might mean a reduction in non-renewable resources (referred to as NRR’s going forward) burned, it also represents a drastic increase in the use and production of numerous toxic chemicals that result from the PV manufacturing process. According to Dustin Mulvaney, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at San Jose State University, the production of PV panels begins with the creation of Silicon wafers, a process that uses and/or produces sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide both of which are known as caustic chemicals that can be dangerous to the eyes, lungs and skin. As the production process continues corrosive chemicals like hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid and hydrogen fluoride are used along with phosphine or arsine gas in the doping of the semiconductor material. Even after these items are made, the use of toxic products continues. Mulvaney once again points out that lead is often used in solar PV electronic circuits for wiring, solder-coated copper strips, and some...
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...Empirical Chemicals, LTD (A): The Merseyside Project Spencer Ely FIN 4422 M/W 8am October 24, 2011 Empirical Chemicals is a worldwide competitor in its industry, but earnings are falling and investors are anxious for improved financial performance. The plant manager of an aging production facility believes it’s the right time for plant modernization in order to make up for deferred maintenance in the past and to increase production efficiency. The Merseyside factory belongs to the Intermediate Chemicals Group and produces polypropylene from propylene, which they receive from four major refineries in England made from crude petroleum. The Merseyside factory has one of the biggest plants and output of polypropylene in the industry, but because the plant was constructed in 1967 the production process is old and operates semi continuously and has higher labor content than its competitors. The plant manager Frances Trelawney and Merseyside’s controller Jim Hawkins has proposed a project that will require a large capital expenditure of $7 million that she believes will help improve the process of production of polypropylene. The project consists of relocating and modernizing tank car unloading areas, refurbishing the polymerization tank to achieve higher pressures and thus greater throughput, and renovating the compounding plant to increase extrusion throughput and obtain energy savings. The project has capital budgeting issues with the focus mainly on the relevant cash...
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...of the fact that so much is being spent on whaling subsidies. Research data by the Nippon Research center (2011-2012) suggests that most Japanese citizens (~88%) do not purchase whale meat (Mulvaney 2013). Moreover, ~47% tend to oppose the use of public money to fund whaling (Mulvaney 2013). Notably, current research polls show that Japanese students are actually in favor of school meat lunches (Bowett 2009). There appears to be a disconnect between the meat market, whaling funding, and the amount the government actually spends to support whaling. If there was a mandatory education class in schools, rather than pushing for whale meat school lunches, we could see a turnaround on the...
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...3: Fraud in the AIS Ditanyan Patterson Jay E. Wright, CPA, CFE Strayer University ACC.564 August 17, 2014 Abstract After researching for a firm that was involved in a fraud and/or embezzlement case I came upon the embezzlement of Koss Corp. Koss Corp was a company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that manufactured stero headphones, speaker phones, computer headsets, wireless headsets, and much more. The case of Koss came about because of inaccurate financial ststements, books and records, and the lack of adequate internal controls from the years of 2005-2009. Two of Koss former employees, Sujata Sachdeva and Julie Mulvaney were the ones to engage in a wide-range of accounting fraud to cover up Sachdeva's embezzlement scam. From the lack and inadequate internal controls and failures in overseeing the accounting and financial reports by the CEO and CFO they were able to embezzle a huge amount of money. Throughout my research I will write a paper in which I must assess the failures of the firms accounting information system to prevent the related fraud/ embezzlement; Also, evaluate the effectiveness of Koss stakeholders in the event that a third-party accounting system suffers a breach. Along with assessing the level of responsibility of the software provider to the business and their clients. This paper will determine what advances in accounting and/or information technology could have done to prevent such acts from occuring, the paper will give changes that should be made...
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...2013B Carefully read the following excerpt from the short story “Mammita’s Garden Cove” by Cyril Dabydeen. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how Dabydeen uses literary techniques to convey Max’s complex attitudes toward place. ‘Where d’you come from?’ Max was used to the question; used to being told no as well. He walked away, feet kicking hard ground, telling himself that Line he must persevere. More than anything else he knew 5 he must find a job before long. In a way being unemployed made him feel prepared for hell itself even though he knew too that somewhere there was a sweet heaven waiting for him. How couldn’t it be? After all he was in Canada. He wanted to laugh all of 10 He continued walking along, thoughts drifting back to the far-gone past. Was it that far-gone? He wasn’t sure . . . yet his thoughts kept going back, to the time he was on the island and how he used to dream about 15 being in Canada, of starting an entirely new life. He remembered those dreams clearly now; remembered too thinking of marrying some sweet island-woman with whom he’d share his life, of having children and later buying a house. Maybe someday he’d even own 20 a cottage on the edge of the city. He wasn’t too sure where one built a cottage, but there had to be a cottage. He’d then be in the middle class; life would be different from the hand-to-mouth existence he was used to. 25 His heels pressed into the asphalt, walking on. And slowly he...
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...2013B Carefully read the following excerpt from the short story “Mammita’s Garden Cove” by Cyril Dabydeen. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how Dabydeen uses literary techniques to convey Max’s complex attitudes toward place. ‘Where d’you come from?’ Max was used to the question; used to being told no as well. He walked away, feet kicking hard ground, telling himself that Line he must persevere. More than anything else he knew 5 he must find a job before long. In a way being unemployed made him feel prepared for hell itself even though he knew too that somewhere there was a sweet heaven waiting for him. How couldn’t it be? After all he was in Canada. He wanted to laugh all of 10 He continued walking along, thoughts drifting back to the far-gone past. Was it that far-gone? He wasn’t sure . . . yet his thoughts kept going back, to the time he was on the island and how he used to dream about 15 being in Canada, of starting an entirely new life. He remembered those dreams clearly now; remembered too thinking of marrying some sweet island-woman with whom he’d share his life, of having children and later buying a house. Maybe someday he’d even own 20 a cottage on the edge of the city. He wasn’t too sure where one built a cottage, but there had to be a cottage. He’d then be in the middle class; life would be different from the hand-to-mouth existence he was used to. 25 His heels pressed into the asphalt, walking on. And slowly he...
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...Guidelines for the Use of Platelet Rich Plasma The International Cellular Medical Society Presented by DRAFT Version 1.0 Committee Members Kim Harmon, MD Ron Hanson, MD Jay Bowen, MD Scott Greenberg, MD Ed Magaziner, MD James Vandenbosch David Harshfield, MD Brian Shiple, MD David Audley The International Cellular Medical Society (ICMS) asserts that a need exists to create standards for platelet rich plasma (PRP) protocols, preparations, techniques and tracking. We believe that physicianled organizations will serve the needs and interests of both patients and physicians toward achieving the best outcomes. In order to advance PRP in particular (and autologous cellular medicine therapies in general), we have developed these guidelines to assist physicians in performing safe therapies, promote patient education, encourage robust clinical research and begin to define the scope and anticipated effects of these procedures. Platelet Rich Plasma: Historical Perspective The application of PRP has been documented in many fields. First promoted by M. Ferrari in 1987 (1) as an autologous transfusion component after an open heart operation to avoid homologous blood product transfusion, there are now over 5200 entries in the NCBI for PRP ranging in fields from orthopedics, sports medicine, dentistry, otolaryngology, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, urology, wound healing, cosmetic, cardiothoracic and maxillofacial surgery. The initial popularity of PRP grew from its promise as a safe...
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...Counseling Ethics Christin M. Jungers, PhD, LPCC, NCC is an Associate Professor of Counselor Education at Franciscan University of Steubenville. She obtained her doctoral degree in Counselor Education and Supervision from Duquesne University and has worked in the field as a counselor since 2000. Christin is a licensed professional clinical counselor, as well as a National Certified Counselor. Her clinical work spans a variety of issues and includes counseling with individuals, couples, and families. Currently, she offers pro-bono counseling services in Steubenville and Wintersville, Ohio through the Catholic Diocese of Steubenville. She is the editor of The Counselor’s Companion: What Every Beginning Counselor Needs to Know (co-written with Jocelyn Gregoire), as well as numerous articles. Christin also has conducted trainings abroad in the Seychelles Islands and in Mauritius, which have been aimed at providing consultation to emerging counseling programs. Jocelyn Gregoire, CSSp, EdD, LPC, NCC, ACS has been a Roman Catholic priest for 25 years and has been involved in the counseling field for many years. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling, Psychology, and Special Education at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In addition to his doctorate in Education, he holds two other graduate degrees. Through his expertise as a professional counselor, Dr. Gregoire has helped thousands of people across the world in their journeys toward...
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