...“‘Guess I’ll have to come back and try again,’ Roy thought.” Roy discovers that this is the attitude he and his friends must have to save the burrowing owls that live in a soon to be construction site. Roy Eberhardt is the main character of the realistic fiction novel Hoot, written by Carl Hiaasen. Roy’s persistence and stubbornly strong attitude taught me what true strength and perseverance was. He never gave up, on his friends, on the owls, but most of all, he never gave up on the hope that things will turn out alright. I believe that true perseverance is to fight for what you believe is right and never give up, no matter what obstacles stand in your way. Florida is one giant tourist attraction, full of crowds, people, and...
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...out of all his friends there was this one that Mr. Jack would always turn to for help or questions that he wanted answers to. This friend live in the upper part of the tree, he was an owl named Hoot. So one night he just got back and he saw Hoot in the tree and he looked at him and said “ Hoot, why is it so hard for me to get around and so hard for me to hear I don’t get it; I know you can hear really well, and you get around great because you have wings”. Hoot was thinking and said “I don’t know how that works but that’s the way life goes, now get some sleep.” “Ok I will good night Hoot.” Later that night Jack was having dreams about actually having long legs and ears, he was so happy and excited that in the morning he woke up and had to tell Hoot. He was very happy for Jack, then it hit him what if I try to tug on Jacks ears and legs. Hoot thought it over very carefully and was thinking maybe that will really work. At least Jack would be happy if that really did happen because he never stops talking about his ears and legs getting longer. The next day he was tell Jack about his great plan, Jack got excited and said “let’s do it, I don’t care how bad it hurts.” Hoot said “alright”, he started tugging and tugging nothing was changing when Hoot got done they still looked the same. So Hoot said “let...
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...A little boy in Japan will hear a bee go bonbon while a South African girl will hear it go zoem-zoem. In the Netherlands, an owl's hoot will be heard as oehoe, while elsewhere, say in Thailand, its hoot will be interpreted as hook hook. A little boy in Japan will hear a bee go bonbon while a South African girl will hear it go zoem-zoem. In the Netherlands, an owl's hoot will be heard as oehoe, while elsewhere, say in Thailand, its hoot will be interpreted as hook hook. In Indonesia, a dog is known to bark guk guk, in Catalan it barks bup bup, while in Albania it barks ham ham. A Japanese dog, in turn, barks wanwan, while its counterpart in England barks bow-wow or woof. Pigs also have different sounds depending on where you are in the world. A Mandarin Chinese pig goes hu-lu hu-lu, while further up north in Finland it goes roh roh. Next door in Sweden, a pig goes noff noff, while in Wales it goes soch soch. In the English world, a pig goes oink oink. Bird sounds also vary around the world. In English, a small bird chirps while a medium-sized bird tweets. A larger bird, however, squawks. In Spanish, a bird goes pio pio, while in Korea it will be heard going jek jek. In French? Pit pit. Although animals sound the same the world over, humans, with our many languages, do not. Different human societies simply have different ways of describing similar sounds. Part of it is explained by the speech sounds used in a particular language. Another part by random choice – how...
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... She did express worry that that people would take The Mount to be about race relations and mounts would be thought of as blacks. She went on the tell Wexler that she wanted to try to undercut that idea as she wanted the mounts to stand for any oppressed group and for readers to look at oppression as broader that. As a reader of The Mount, I was unaware of these feeling she had about this perception. But, as I read the book, I repeatedly felt that the author had used the reflection of the period in United States history when the institution of slavery was a dominate part of life. Emshwiller's novel is fairly straightforward science fiction. In simplest terms, it tells of a revolution against alien invaders. These invaders, called "Hoots", are physically weak and small, but over generations they have bred humans to serve them as "Mounts". The humans, then, become essentially pets to the aliens, treated a great deal like horses are treated by present-day humans. Even though the novel appears to explore human/pet relationship, the master/slave relationships and the question of freedom versus comfort is very evident. As the novel opens, we are introduced to our protagonist, Charley, a runner for the aliens. Not a runner as in messenger, a runner as in a “Mount”. The aliens crashed, they conquered, and now they ride humans as show horses and as transportation. Humans...
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...Case study 3 Procurement is a part of supply chain management. The main duty of procurement can include managing resources in productive firms which might be complexity. It is not all about purchasing, but also ordering and storage (Tumuhairwe and Ahimbisibwe 2016). However, it may not possible if the companies have no customers or partners to do a business with. The key factor that can keep the business to be insistent is to make contract to customers or business partners. The essay will analysis the case study and provide suitable solutions to solve all issues. Contract in business may be significant to keep relationship between firms and partners to the position that it should be. Contract management can be defined as the control of contracts which involved a company and its customers or partners (Lee, Lin and Pasari 2014). In order to create the business contract, all participants might be considering some relevant factors such as creation, negotiation, adherence, service level agreement, managing changes, documenting and analysing (Tumuhairwe and Ahimbisibwe 2016). According to the case study, there are two contractors such as police and Maybury Security Ltd (MSL) as well as there are serval sub-contractors in different part including facilities management, building construction, software development, data Centre management and systems integration. The issue was occurred by a failure of MSL’ s contract, the reason is because contractual performance was not attained which...
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...fired for complaining about a bikini contest that she believed was rigged. Additionally, the judge ruled that Hooters handbook rules prohibiting behavior, such as insubordination and disrespect to guests, was unruly and prohibited Hooters nondisclosure agreement and an arbitration agreement. Hanson allegedly cursed Pamela Noble, Hooters marketing coordinator, for winning the April 2013 bikini contest and $300 prize money that she believe was fixed, by sarcastically congratulating her online. Subsequently, Hanson received a phone call from Hoot Winc’s vice president of human resources saying she was being fired for “negative social media posts.” NLRB Judge Cates wrote, “The evidence indicates the company knew it could rid itself of Panitch and simply sought to lump Hansons’s discharge in the mix and rid itself of both complaining employees. I find it clear Hanson’s discharge was motivated by her protected concerted activity.” NLRB Judge deemed Hoot Wine LLC and Hooters of Ontario Mills to rehire Alexis Hanson and supplement lost wages due to her dismissal. Ethical Decision-Making The decision ruled for Alexis Hanson was a fair judgement. Hanson’s post online was her personal opinion on how she felt about the contest. Hanson expressed that the contest was unfair because Noble was friends with Krystle Line, one of the contest judges, and her boyfriend who Noble allegedly stated was her best friend, serving as another judge. Hanson raised concerns about the fairness of the contest...
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...Megan Hoot Is global climate change man-made? General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform fellow students that the cause of global climate changes is man-made. Thesis Statement: Humans expansion and use of non-renewable energy sources are the primary causes of global climate change. One Point * Humans contribute to the global climate change with carbon emissions and expansion Outline Intro – What is global climate change? Body – Climate change is caused by humans & supporting facts Conclusion – Restate thesis (climate change is caused by humans) & renewable energy is the only way to stop it Preview (Intro & intro to the intro)My name is Megan Hoot and I am going to explain the effect of humans on our global climate. What is global climate change? Climate change is the overall change in climate around the world to a warmer average temperature. According to NASA, the ten years with the warmest average temperatures since 1880 have occurred in the last 12 years. (Body)How could humans cause such a significant impact to the weather around the world? It is a combination of a few things. First, humans burn coal and fossil fuels for most of our energy. In the U.S. alone there were nearly 256 millions cars registered in 2013; that’s almost 63 million more than in 1990. This influx in individuals releasing greenhouse gases such as CO2 on a daily basis is a significant contributor to the climate change. In addition, clearing...
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...he thinks back on the day and thinks, “[my Jewishness] had come to a kind of question twice that day, and both times I’d chosen to deny it” (Wolff 23). He does not let anyone know that he is Jewish because he does not want to stand out from the rest of the students, he wants to blend in. His need to blend in is why he said that “[he] love[s] this too”; everyone else in the school loved it so he thought that he should too (Wolff 144). While the narrator also says that he hears a “promise” that he will be woken up from his “worst dreams” from the “hoots and bellows of the boys outside” he would be lost without the school, he just says that because he has no other place to go (Wolff 146). The author’s choice of the words “hoots” and “bellows” to describe the narrator’s peers shows another layer of disconnection between the narrator and the rest of the school. Throughout the book the narrator is quiet and reserved but the other boys are “hoot[ing]” and “bellow[ing]” which shows how the narrator, although he is able to find some comfort in the sounds, does not fit in or truly like the other students at the school. The narrator does not deserve forgiveness because he felt neither sad nor guilty after he was expelled. Right after he hears that he is to leave the school immediately, he thinks about “pack[ing] [his] first edition of In Our Time” a book that was given to him because of his plagiarized story (Wolff 146). It is clear that he feels no remorse over his actions because if he...
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...Dream, a thing that people should own Sometimes dreams are like a compass, which can give people the right direction. Sometimes dreams are like an engine, which can give people endless power. Sometimes dreams are like a friend as well, which will let people never feel lonely and meaningless. In the story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the dreams of characters motivate them to move forward, eliminate their loneliness and give them hope. Old Candy is lonely but he gets a dream and that brings him back to life. Before George and Lennie come to the ranch, Candy’s only mate is his old dog but it gets killed later. What is more, he is old and he lost his hand. However, the quote “I’ll be on our own place, an’ I’ll be let to work on our own place. You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn’t no good to himself nor nobody else. When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me. But they won’t do nothing like that. I won’t have no place to go, an’ I can’t get no more jobs.”(Steinbeck pg60)shows that George and Lennie tell him about their dream which gives him the hope for keeping living and enjoy his rest of life. It seems Old Candy’s world is crashing because he is old, he lost his hand and his dog is died. Although he suffers so many things, after he gets a dream, he is recovered with a new attitude towards the world and tries his best to achieve it. George is lonely and helpless but he gets a dream and that gives him the power to work out all the difficulties...
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...Shortening the Wait: A Strategy to Reduce Waiting Times in the Emergency Department Introduction Emergency Department (ED) nursing is fast paced and complex in nature. Their goal is to assess quickly and prioritize the patient needs so that those with emergent needs are seen before those with urgent or non-urgent needs. Causes of ED overcrowding and lengthening wait time include, influenza season, inadequate staffing, inpatient boarding due to inadequate hospital beds and patient population larger than hospital capacity (Hoot and Aronsky, 2008). The length of stay in the ED has a correlation with the quality of care a patient receives. Many EDs struggle with patient overcrowding and there appears to be no silver bullet to adequately address this challenge. It will be in the best interest of all involved to effectively address this issue. Different institutions have tried various solutions to their ED overcrowding including a program to shorten the wait times leading to reduced crowding and increased patient satisfaction. Background of the Study ED overcrowding is a complicated problem that affects virtually every institution that offers emergency services. Contributing factors include the intake, processing and discharge aspects of emergency service. The phenomenon of ED overcrowding takes a toll on both patients and ED nursing staff and addressing it will reduce stress on the nursing staff, improve the quality of care and increase the satisfaction of all involved. This...
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...On a long, tiring and gruesome day during World War I, one soldiers recalls one bad day he personally experienced. Long tiring day during World War I. Gruesome death of a soldier. Don’t come home and praise about the war Bent double like old beggars under sacks. Knock-kneed coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge – Marched through wet sloppy mud with cold like symptoms while using foul language. Men marched asleep, many had lost their boots – So exhausted they kept walking like zombies back through the wet sloppy mud were some lost their boots. drunk with fatigue, deaf even from the hoots - So tired that they had the feeling of being drunk, tone deaf to the sounds of the artillery sounds flying above their heads. With the battle for survival continues even with their retreat back to safety, they are surprised with a silent and deadly attack. Gas, Gas quick boys, an ecstasy of fumbling. Fitting the clumsy helmet just in time – Soldiers put on their protective gas masks just in time. But someone still was yelling out and stumbling through the misty panes and thick green light – A soldier was yelling, screaming and stumbling to put on his protective mask and was reacting to the pain of the gas getting into his body. His hanging face, like a devils sick of sin – The soldiers face was pale and stiff from the gases inhaled, soldiers face looking like he saw the devil himself and it scared him stiff (like in horror movies). From the horrifying scenes from War to the life...
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...2014 to Present Career Advisor Hoot Call, Inc. * Top ten performer while handling large call volume. * Assisting clients with employment/educational goals. * Maintaining client database ensuring 100% accuracy. * Handling customer inquires/complaints and processing customer requests. 2011 to 2014 Office Manager Cantu Construction * Preparing expense reports and maintaining an accounting system to process A/P & A/R using monthly financial reports and performing audits and bank reconciliations. * Monitoring and recording hours worked, overtime, vacation time and sick leave to calculate, write and distribute payrolls checks. * Maintaining calendars and schedules organizing appointments and meetings to manage travel arrangements for client jobs and dispatching employees where needed. 2008 to 2011 Bookkeeper Motley Menagerie. * Printing payroll checks or issuing pay electronically accounting for pay deductions and tax payments. * Entering in accounting data making sure to checking counts and balances to accurately reflect income and outgo. * Preparing financial, auditing, accounting and tax reports on a monthly basis. * Meeting with managers to discuss budget needs and inventory demands. 2005 to 2008 Accounts Payable Viking Fence * Updating/maintaining records of expenditures & preparing reports on delinquent customer accounts. * Responding to vendor invoices sending out payments on time & according...
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...10 Qualities of a Good Leader 1 of 3 http://penfieldrobotics.com/forum/index.php?topic=1750.0 Welcome, Guest April 14, 2010, 05:30:52 AM Please login or register. Login with username, password and session length News: 1511 will be hosting the 6th Annual Rochester Rally on Sunday February 21st!! HOME HELP SEARCH CALENDAR LOGIN REGISTER Team 1511- Rolling Thunder » Subteams » Team Leadership » 10 Qualities of a Good Leader « previous next » Pages: [1] Author Kims Robot Let's Go Thunder! Administrator Hero Member Posts: 2329 PRINT Topic: 10 Qualities of a Good Leader (Read 30251 times) 10 Qualities of a Good Leader « on: January 15, 2008, 11:28:50 AM » I was searching for some stuff today and ran across this list. Its a pretty honest and downright straightforward discussion, so dont read it if you arent ready for it In this generation of entitlement, some of it may not make sense, but I guarantee its all true. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What follows is a list of the 10 qualities of a good leader. 1. Honesty Do or Do Not, there is no Try! Leaders have to be honest. If those under your charge do not trust you, then they won’t follow you. Common sense, if you ask me. 2. Responsibility If you are going to make decisions, then you should take responsibility for the decisions that you make. Good leaders don’t pass the buck or blame other people – they deal with situations that arise and take responsibility...
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...Poems for literature The Dead-Beat/ Worn-out/ He dropped, - more sullenly than wearily, Lay stupid like a cod, heavy like meat, And none of us could kick him to his feet; Just blinked at my revolver, blearily; - Didn't appear to know a war was on, Or see the blasted trench at which he stared. "I'll do 'em in," he whined, "If this hand's spared, I'll murder them, I will." A low voice said, "It's Blighty, p'raps, he sees; his pluck's all gone, Dreaming of all the valiant, that AREN'T dead: Bold uncles, smiling ministerially; Maybe his brave young wife, getting her fun In some new home, improved materially. It's not these stiffs have crazed him; nor the Hun." We sent him down at last, out of the way. Unwounded; - stout lad, too, before that strafe. Malingering? Stretcher-bearers winked, "Not half!" Next day I heard the Doc.'s well-whiskied laugh: "That scum you sent last night soon died. Hooray!" The Send-off Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way To the siding-shed, And lined the train with faces grimly gay. Their breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray As men's are, dead. Dull porters watched them, and a casual tramp Stood staring hard, Sorry to miss them from the upland camp. Then, unmoved, signals nodded, and a lamp Winked to the guard. So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went. They were not ours: We never heard to which front these were sent. Nor there if they yet mock what women...
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...upstairs. Why not do something that I’ve always wanted to do? An overnight canoe trip would be perfect, but it was not that simple. How could I gain something from a canoe trip? After some thought I realized that I knew nothing about the world known river that flows right through my town. So, why not educate myself and other people at the same time. I picked my best friend John Miller to be my partner in crime on this adventure. We took a two day canoe trip to the Mio Dam. Along the way we met a lot of different people and saw a lot of different things. We visited the chapel and the castle, but my favorite thing was the Mason Tract. It is nothing but wilderness and we did not see one person on it the whole time. We camped out which was a hoot. The next day we reached our destination and were relieved. I never realized how exhausting two days of paddling is. We researched a lot and have created a PowerPoint about the history of the Ausable River. I am very satisfied with my choice of senior project. I got to hang out with my best bud, learn...
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