...tree gathering information about it and soon find out that the tree was real, he also find out that there was a second part to what he had heard, if one eats from the tree he will be gained a wish but all of mankind will be curse ,but that didn't mean any thing to him , he just wanted his family back and he would stop at nothing even if it meant to drag the world with him, people try to stop him but no one could he was a very skilled fighter. Two years later he found a map to the tree. The tree was located in center of the world, the man travelled through different season and was finally there the fruit from the tree were golden and shiny he pulled the fruit from the tree and eat it, and it turn him to a monster he was never the same till to day no one has ever seen the man people tell stories about him but don't know if he's real. 5 years later a group of teenagers decided to spend the day in the center of the tree.they though it was joke, there was an old man, the man had been in the village for a long time, he told them not to go there, it's dangerous, it's dangerous they old man keep saying , the teenager laughed at him as the kept ,the man said no one has ever made it back from that...
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...NEW YORK: What if the touchscreen of your smartphone or tablet could touch you back? It does happen, researchers report. In a study of people drawing their fingers over a flat surface that has two "virtual bumps", the team from Northwestern University and Carnegie Mellon University found that, under certain circumstances, the subjects feel only one bump when there really are two. Forces felt by the fingers as they travel along a flat surface can lead to the illusion that the surface actually contains bumps. This so-called "virtual bump illusion" is well known in the haptics field. Touch is so important in our real world, but it is neglected in the digital world. "We want to create something that will make touch a reality for people interacting with their screens, and this work is a step in that direction," said J Edward Colgate, an expert in touch-based (haptic) systems from Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. The team's experiment presented two "virtual bumps" to subjects participating in the study. When bump and finger spacing were identical, subjects reported feeling two bumps as one. In this case, the brain thinks it is too coincidental that there should be two bumps at the same time so it registers the bumps as one. The new model could one day lead to flat-screen displays featuring active touch-back technology such as making your touchscreen's keyboard actually feel like a keyboard. Tactile information also could benefit...
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...Growth with Recovery: Coming Back from Company Restructuring Changes From Recovery When economic times are tough the company has to look at measures to conserve costs. Over the years, a firm’s standard response to finding itself in financial difficulty was to reduce its workforce (Gandolfi, 2008). The effects of the worst recession since the Great Depression, hurt both big and small corporations, new and old, and in many different types of industries. Major industry sector that has been hit hard are corporations that deal with consumer durables. Companies like General Motors, Johnson Controls, Ford, and Harley-Davidson. The effects of layoffs will be felt on at the companies especially General Motors who is still partially owned by the U.S. Government. Recovery is a long road for some companies that are unable to pickup and improve especially when the company cannot relinquish those ties. Responsible downsizing can benefit company in making needed changes to keep up with the economy and upturns and downturns that come with it. Restructuring must be thought out properly, “A downsizing plan should be included in the strategic management plan of all organizations, regardless of whether they plan to downsize or not. By including such a plan, the organization will be better prepared to begin the staff-reduction process should it be forced to do so in response to environmental changes” (Davis, 2003). The short-term affects involves some initial costs like severances...
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...miniature jeans, the sweatshirt bunched beneath the seat belt’s strap, the hiking boots dangling off the floor like weights. “You OK?” he said. “You have to pee?” He slowed and drove the car onto the shoulder and the boy got out to pee. He looked at him standing on that rise in the brome and the bunchgrass, his little hips pushed forward. When the boy walked back to the car he swung the door open for him, then reached over and pulled the door shut and bumped out on the empty road. Not much had changed, really. A half hour out of Hoquiam he began to see the clear-cuts through the firs: a strange, white light, as if the world dropped away fifty feet out from the pavement. He hoped the boy wouldn’t notice. The two of them had been talking about what to do if you saw a mountain lion (don’t run, never run), and what they’d have for lunch. Twenty minutes later they were past it, and the light behind the trees had disappeared. He’d been at the house by dawn, as he’d promised. He sat in the driveway for a while looking at the yard, the azaleas he’d planted, the grass in the yard beaten flat by the rain. For a long time he hadn’t wanted her back, hadn’t wanted much of anything, really. He went inside, wiping his shoes and ducking his head like a visitor, and when the boy came running into the living room he threw him over his shoulder, careful not to hit his head on...
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...in his home because when he found that puppy there are no identification or location where the dog should be delivered. At that night the man watching television with his new pet. afterwards, he go upstairs and sleep with his wife. Suddenly, the puppy realize that he was already alone in the room. So, he push the door and try to find the man...while looking around he found stairs and decided to go up there. He saw someone sleeping on the bed...so he move closer and he tounged the feet that he saw at the bottom of the bed. Then, a women shouted and so frightened that makes her husband awake. The man explained to his wife about that puppy. Because of the disturbance that causes by that dog the man lazily raise in bed and decided to bring back the puppy in the room where in left it. But the problem is the puppy follow him again and again for that he decided there to stay for a while He gets a bowl of popcorn and share it with that naughty puppy. Yet, the man fall asleep with that puppy:) The next day they are waiting if someone will claim the puppy. Few days had passed but nobody's looking for that puppy so the couple decided to sell it. The man and the puppy oftenly plays together. He try to train that puppy..,he throws ball but the puppy don't get the ball..(naughty pet!) The treats that puppy like their family. Then, one day someone calls asking...
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...One way Paul and his friends keep their minds off the war is to scour the area for food and supplies. On the way to set up barbed wire around the trenches, Kat and Paul notice a couple of geese off the side of the road. Kat swears that they will return to cook the geese as soon as they can (52). When they return, they nab the geese and prepare a delicious feast to share with each other. As Paul sits with his best friend by the fire, he realizes that they “have a more complete communion with one another than even lovers have” (93). They have such a deep bond they need not even speak to understand each other. Just being together brings Paul back to...
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...A&P by john updike In walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits. I'm in the third check-out slot, with my back to the door, so I don't see them until they're over by the bread. The one that caught my eye first was the one in the plaid green two-piece. She was a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just under it, where the sun never seems to hit, at the top of the backs of her legs. I stood there with my hand on a box of HiHo crackers trying to remember if I rang it up or not. I ring it up again and the customer starts giving me hell. She's one of these cash-register-watchers, a witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows, and I knowit made her day to trip me up. She'd been watching cash registers forty years and probably never seen a mistake before. By the time I got her feathers smoothed and her goodies into a bag -- she gives me alittle snort in passing, if she'd been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem -- by the time I get her on her way the girls had circled around the bread and were coming back, without a pushcart, back my way along the counters, in the aisle between the check-outs and the Special bins. They didn't even have shoes on. There was this chunky one, with the two-piece -- it was bright green and the seams on the bra were still sharp and her belly was still pretty pale so I guessed she just got it (the suit) -- there was this one, with one of...
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...Coming out of the closet involves risks, it's like a game of Russian roulette, pull a trigger and hope to survive, the game seems simple, but it’s not, peers, family, and strangers become chambers and their reactions are the bullets ready to be launched, the game becomes a matter of life and death. The process of coming out involves strategy and planning, there are risks, however, the risks are premeditated and calculated; this game of Russian roulette slowly turns into a game of chess. Family, strangers, and peers morph into pawns, the chamber becomes a chessboard and the individual becomes a player; the individual swiftly and deliberately formulates their next move. The individual’s movements are composed of a series of stages: 1). The Opening/Development stage, 2). The Promotion/Under-promotion stage, 3). The Gambit/Middlegame stage, and 4). The Endgame stage. These stages become the catalyst for how an individual will reveal their identity to the mainstream world. The initial phase of the individuals “coming out” process refers to the Opening/Development stage, this is the discovery of the individual’s sexual identity and the process of obtaining additional information in order to grasp a better comprehension of the identity in question. The initial...
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..."Jack, I’m cold” said Rose. Jack said, “It’s ok Rose just hold on just a bit longer, a boat is bound to come back.” Ok Jack I trust you” said Rose. Just then Jack thought of an idea. He said “Rose, stay here I’ll be right back,” and he started swimming to dead bodies, and every time he got to a dead body he took the life jacket from them. He also took an oar that someone had abandoned. Pretty soon Jack had five life jackets and an oar and he swam back to Rose. He gave Rose the oar and said, “Okay Rose, “I have some life jackets, I’m going to put them under the door so we can both get on but I’m going to need a part of your dress.” Okay, Jack,” said Rose, and she tore off a piece of her dress and gave it to Jack. He took the dress and started to tie the life jackets together. He put them underneath the door and secured them to the handles of the door. He said, “Rose, the door should be stable. I need you to hang on to the door while I get on.” “Okay,” said Rose.” Rose grabbed the handles on both sides of the door and Jack got on. Jack started to push the door with the oar. He saw a dead man and took his life jacket. He put the life jacket on and started to push the door away from the wreckage to try to get to a boat. “Rose,” he exclaimed! “I see two boats; they are coming back!” He started to yell trying to call the boats over. Someone in the boat shouted “Survivors, on that door!” Rose had fainted, so Jack rigorously shook her to try and wake her, but it was no use. He took...
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...Coming of age is a life-long process all humans inevitably go through. This process of maturity can often be examined from fictional characters, such as Scout and Jem from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, and Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsb by Scott Fitzgerald. Each of these characters encounters different processes of coming of age. When these characters process of maturation and coming of age are compared, the most relevant coming of age best exhibited by Holden from The Catcher in the Rye, following with Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird and Mr. Gatsby from The Great Gatsby; however, differences in coming of age are apparent in the different time periods of each novel setting, practicality, and present social issues. Holden Caulfield, the main character in The Catcher in the...
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...considered hyper-masculine and barbaric. Even women who participated in sports were often viewed as “manly”. However, the ever changing social climate and the sharp awareness of gay rights and same-sex couples, almost assures us that there will be a cultural shift in the sports world as we know it. The younger generation proves to be more accepting and laidback of homosexuality; thus, it will only be a matter of time until professional sports teams find a gay athlete on their roster. I ask you this, if gay tolerance is to be expected in the workplace, in the halls of our educational centers, in the United States Congress, and in the United States Armed Forces, then why should professional sports teams be excused? It’s the year 2014 and looking back, we have seen our country undergo many civil movements and pass many civil laws eliminating discrimination. Our country is viewed as one of tolerance and fairness. We live in a...
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...In “All Quiet on the Western Front,” Erich Maria Remarque illustrates scenes of death to demonstrate how war has no place for young men. Most war novels try to convey, war to be a glorious, honorable, and patriotic duty. However this book is different, it portrays war how it is actually experienced; fear, brutality, and the tragedy of death. Death in this novel, specifically Paul killing a french soldier, Gerard Duval, and when Stanislaus Katczinsky is shot in the head and killed, shows us important themes in the book. Paul volunteers to go to No man's land and collect enemy intel. On his way back to his camp, he notices a attacking is coming and decides to take cover and act dead in a shell hole. A French soldier falls into the hole with him. Instinctively, Paul stabs the french soldier, Gerard Duval, fatally wounding him, this is his first time killing someone...
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...Tiffany Barickman Sharing Information with the Patient’s Relatives 09/26/2015 For this scenario, Lisa role is that she has to see the patient and ask the questions that go with what the possible problems are with the reasoning he was coming into the doctor’s office is. Asking the questions she is asking Mr. Frances is only to be able to tell the doctor exactly what he is having as symptoms or something along those lines. If you do not have the right information to be able to give the doctor when you give him the short reason or write in the chart why the patient is there. You can’t sit there not ask certain questions to the patients and think that they won’t give the answers. Yes, some of the questions are a little stupid, but if it get you better and makes everything easier for you and your doctor to be able to diagnose what is wrong with the patient then you should be able to know your job well. Lisa has to keep in mind that she has to keep calm and not give into what they are trying to say between themselves. If she does that then she will have issues herself trying to write the information down that they did to be able to chart on. When there is a conversation that goes on between patients weather its family or friends you do not want to interfere with it. It could be able to job you’re doing it could be able the doctor or how the staff is treating you when you aren’t in there or someone else in the room. Maybe when your off they are talking about you because there...
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...After years of practice it took only a second to realize his mistake. He shift his weight just a bit to far off the center of the board again. There was no mistaking it, he was going under whether he tried to stop it or not. He only had a second to fix it, or two if he was lucky. Dane tried to adjust just a little back toward the center of the board. Too much and he would throw his balance off the other direction. It was difficult to judge how far to move when you are ducked down low inside the swell of a wave. He tried to concentrate on enjoying the moment of riding inside a great wave like this, while still adjusting. For a moment it was perfect, then he felt the board fish-tail as he overshot his adjustment. The world flipped upside down and took a quick breath before going under the wave. The strength of the wave was much greater than his, and it rolled him under the water for a few seconds as the full wave passed him. He couldn't tell which direction to swim for a moment, but he quickly noticed the feel of the line attached to his ankle pulling telling him where his board was floating on the surface. Coming to the surface, he shook the water from his face and grabbed his board for support. Damn, he thought, I nearly had that one perfect. Shaking his head again, he climbed onto his board and started to paddle in. He could see his younger brother on shore waving him in; probably to tell him he was late for dinner again. As he reached shore, he stood and held his board...
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...Side 9 af 12 sider B Skye Brannon Fireweed I t was a remembering day for Baluta. I t began w it h laughter, or a dream o f laughter. I t was Alanso's laugh, flowing like doves out o f her bright smiling mouth. I t was Alanso's laugh, out f ro m between those cheeks that caught the sun and held i t i n a warm glow the rest o f the day. I t was Alanso's laugh, stirred f ro m the dead to wake Baluta. Sometimes remem5 bering began later i n the day, but not today. Baluta had to l if t f ro m beneath a stone o f g rief , so heavy w it h his sister's memory, to get out o f his cot. He had work today, after a ll . Baluta washed i n the shower, cold after his brother and sister-in-law had had theirs. Cold like Kpatawee Falls back home, Baluta thought. Yes. Today would be a remembering io day. He pulled a work shirt over his head. The name ' Joel ' was simply embroidered over the heart. The name had been his brother's idea. "Dese Americans," Jato said, " i f you tel l dem your Mandika name, dey look like you've given dem a riddle. You tell dem your name is Bob, and dey are all smiles." Jato grinned at his younger brother. " Bu t you can't have Bob, dat is mine" is Jato and his w ife , Sama, had already gone. Since Baluta had to have the car to go where the bus route didn't, i t was Jato and Sama who had to wake at f iv e a.m. to catch buses to work. Baluta f el t awfu l f o r this, but he had to work to get a car, and needed a car to get to work. So, here he was...
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