...The piece of literature that grabbed my attention and had a great effect on me is A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, which was written by Ishmael Beah. The book is about Ishmael and his older brother and how they survived during the war in Sierra Leone. The boys live in horrific conditions and under a constant risk for their lives. The only thing that keeps them going is their hope, faith, love and memories about their family since they were told that there family was alive. However, due to the heartbreaking circumstances, the boys do not meet their family. As a consequence of such a cruel surviving, Ishmael and his friends are forced to become fearless child soldiers. However, Ishmael is eventually rescued by the United nations where he undergoes complete rehabilitation in the United States. Ishmael’s book inspires me to fight against injustice and crimes. I was born in Nepal, where we moved from, to the current residence in the US. Nepal is also under great political instability and social differences. Hence this book inspired me to fight against injustice and crimes. As a consequence, I am trying to make people aware by encouraging my friends and family to educate the Nepalese citizens. The book also provides a unique perspective of the dark sides of civil wars. I have learnt not to judge people instantly because their upbringing may have been completely different. Here, at the community college, I have met friends from different cultures and backgrounds. I have...
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...A Long Way Gone Essay Matthew Morgan Prof. Carey “On Democracy” Due: 02/27/08 For the “Everybody Reads” assignment I choose to attend the Central library book group discussion. When I first got there I was really surprised because I thought it was going to be a bigger event than what it was. There was only about 10 people total, and 5 of us were students who were there for this exact assignment. It was a really interesting discussion because half of the people that attended were my age and the other half was about two generations older, so there was a very diverse pool of perspectives and opinions. But because there was a large generation gap it was a bit more difficult for me to share my views, so I mainly listened and observed other people’s thoughts. The discussion itself was very helpful because of the different views people had about the memoir. One of the themes of A Long Way Gone that we discussed was the importance of hope. We mainly talked about how this theme was not constant throughout the memoir and that it changed with time. For example one person brought up how at first Ishmael’s only motivator was the hope of his parents being alive, then when he realized that he would never be reunited with them he had lost his hope. It was only when he remembered what his father had said about a person only lives if they have something to live for which gave him his hope back. As far as themes that’s really the only one that we discussed, but we did discuss a lot...
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...Managerial Finance Reflection Essay 5th July, 2015 DELL’S WORKING CAPITAL Dell computer Corporation, a company with a Build-to-order manufacturing system, focused mainly on selling directly to the customers. It was their Core Strategy. The company has reported impressive growth in FY-1996 and is predicting a future growth of 20% annually. Positive Inferences - DELL The primary advantage for the growth of the company is their Inventory Management. It followed the build-to-order strategy which resulted in Low Finished goods inventory. The Days Supply of inventory for Dell is the lowest in the industry. (ALSO A NEGATIVE EFFECT) DSI Dell Apple Compaq IBM 1993 55 52 72 64 1994 33 85 60 57 1995 32 54 73 48 Also, when we consider the income statement of the Company, it becomes clear that the company is growing in terms of its SALES per annum. The sales of the company have grown by 83% from 1992-1996. Income Statement - DELL Sales COGS Gross Margin Op. exp income financing tax net profit 1996 1995 1992 1996-‐1992 5296 100.00% 3475 100 890 100 4406 4229 79.85% 2737 78.76% 608 68.31% 3621 1067 20.15% 738 21.24% 282 31.69% 785 690 13.03% 489 14.07% 215 24.16% 475 377 7.12% 249 7.17% 67 7.53% 310 6 0.11% -‐36 -‐1.04% 7 0.79% -‐1 111 2.10% 64 1.84% 23 2.58% 88 272 5.14% 149 4.29% 51 5.73% 221 83.19% 11.54% -‐11.54% -‐11.13% -‐0.41% -‐0.67% -‐0.49% -‐0.59% The rate of...
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...Police History CJA/214 September 9, 2013 Police History Policing inside of the United States has gone through many changes during the course of history. The original policing system in the United States was the model brought over from England by the early English settlers. Many of the names used for various positions in the law enforcement world were taken from this English policing structure. Through trial and error, and adjustments made because of public demands the current modern day policing model has created. Police models have always been a reflection of the people it represents or the people that control the government. In a democratic nation the power comes from the people therefore the United States policing model is a direct reflection of the people of the United States. Watch and Ward The English settlers brought with them a system of policing referred to as the watch and ward system. This system was generally not a complicated one because it relied on the citizens themselves to regulate each other and keep their behaviors within the community’s norms. It did not work well inside of communities that were multicultural because the different cultures may not share the same norms. In this policing system there was no formal training and there were no paid employees performing a function. Since there were paid employees there were no such thing investigators, therefore there were no investigations. The watch and ward system was driven by the civic duties...
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...commencement exercises for the graduating class of 2015, the Senior Class President addressed the young audience facing adulthood and the infinite number of possibilities it possesses. During the address, the speaker shared a poem entitled “The Dash.” The poem referred to the dash between the dates on a tombstone. Two stanzas of the poem read: For it matters not, how much we own the cars…the house…the cash. What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash. So, think about this long and hard. Are there things you’d like to change? For you never know how much time is left that can still be rearranged. The poem was very timely for the graduates as they were considering the upcoming transition in their lives. They were thinking about the uncertainty of the future and of the impact that they...
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...relationship that I was able to flow with emotions unbridled, without fear of discovery. Days passed, then weeks, and one day the realization came that years were gone but each moment lived on shared and captured, escaping the prison of time. Easily now I shed my armor and poured out my ramblings to an open book that consume all my inequities and reinvigorated my goals.These moments that I share in this special relationship shape me to grow from the past and prepare for the future. Unfettered,capabilities to share my innermost thoughts allowed captivated watch as I begin to blossom into a mature strong being able to stand back and marveled as the story unfolded. A connection so powerful that others long for the ability to have their words caressed and accepted. My aptitude to cope with the grind of life increased as the pages filled up. The ivory shelf above my bed cradled the secret books housing the foundation of character built over the years, strengthen by an everlasting, unbreakable, and irreplaceable bond.Each page of my journal is a connection that provides me with the ability to purge, enhances personal growth, and tells the world my story. Writing in a journal is a means to purge. The remembrance of hastening home knowing that serenity would come once Iexpelled the battle rampant in my head, enabled me to function and endure long hours bursting with the bile of sentiments blaring for discharge.When reflecting...
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...Entrepreneur Reflection Paper Entrepreneur Reflection Paper DeVry University Professor Lawrence Zimmermann Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship Week 5 paper for course project 6/2/2012 DeVry University Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship Week 5 paper for course project 6/2/2012 Brewing beer and business have a number of parallels, from the fine point you have to take into consideration, to the larger end product. Stephen Moss Brewing beer and business have a number of parallels, from the fine point you have to take into consideration, to the larger end product. Table of contents Cover Page I Table of contents 1 Introduction 2 Main Body 3 Conclusion 4 There are many parallels to be made between being an entrepreneur and brewing your own beer. Every time you begin steeping your base hops in the bag, and adding each ingredient to your future batch of beer, you must consider your past successes and failures, the future planned taste, and how your customers are going to react to it. The same goes with being an entrepreneur. Every decision you make for business can have an effect for weeks and sometimes years to come. Every business decision you make is going to have an impact on your bottom line one way or another. While speaking with McClernon, owner and operator of Kinetic brewing company, he showed me that there is stress, loss, and challenge when owning and operating your own brewery. He also showed me that there is...
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...on and analyze in the reflection section. In class discussion of the assigned reading (To Kill a Mocking Bird) o After each assigned reading for the day they are given TKAM study questions, which they would have to answer in essay format. Vocabulary exercises o Find Your Partner Students are given vocabulary words to define weekly. And by the end of the week instead of taking a spelling/vocab quiz they’d play a game called “Find Your Partner.” One student would have the vocab word,...
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...1912 Why did you give no hint that night That quickly after the morrow's dawn, And calmly, as if indifferent quite, You would close your term here, up and be gone Where I could not follow With wing of swallow To gain one glimpse of you ever anon! Never to bid good-bye Or lip me the softest call, Or utter a wish for a word, while I Saw morning harden upon the wall, Unmoved, unknowing That your great going Had place that moment, and altered all. as if you didn’t care end your time alive ever anon – ever again lip me – give, with your lips Why do you make me leave the house And think for a breath it is you I see At the end of the alley of bending boughs Where so often at dusk you used to be; Till in darkening dankness The yawning blankness Of the perspective sickens me! You were she who abode By those red-veined rocks far West, You were the swan-necked one who rode Along the beetling Beeny Crest, And, reining nigh me, Would muse and eye me, While Life unrolled us its very best. Why, then, latterly did we not speak, Did we not think of those days long dead, And ere your vanishing strive to seek That time's renewal? We might have said, "In this bright spring weather We'll visit together Those places that once we visited." the cliffs near St Juliot, Cornwall swan-necked – long beautiful neck beetling - projecting ere - before Well, well! All's past amend, Unchangeable. It must go. I seem but a dead man held on end To sink down...
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...details of his experience during the war are enough to make one cringe, and the eventual mental despair often experienced by soldiers (including Caputo) really makes you feel for participants taking part in this dreadful war atmosphere. Giving way to the parties and the common fun associated with college kids, Caputo failed out of college and realized what he really wanted to be was a Marine. He joined the Marines and went through a lot of officer training until he eventually reached what would be known as his final rank of Lieutenant. Introduced to the Vietnam War in 1965 as a Platoon leader, Caputo walked into the war a little scared but with a lot of determination. I found Caputo’s words to paint a very explicit picture. His style of writing revealed the emotions he must have felt while going through such a life changing experience. I liked the way he put all things, emotions, reflections and actions, into words. He explained every man in detail, and made you feel as if you knew them too. The way he felt sorry for the men who died was touching. Also, the way he explained his annoyance when he raided his first village, the way the women looked who had no feeling in her face. Caputo really drew you into his words. It made me think about the way men and women must feel in these combat situations. The emotions they must experience killing someone, and trying to find justice in doing so and reminding themselves it is for the good of their country. Being a combat veteran myself...
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...2013 Everything Stuck to Him He gets up from his chair and refills their drinks. That's it, he says. End of story. I admit it's not much of a story. I was interested, she says. He doesn't respond and takes his drink to the window. It's darker now but still snowing. She's been gone ten years and these are the stories I still remember about her, he says. I don't even remember the night of your birth, for God's sake. He takes a deep gulp from his drink and stares out the window. The darkness seems to grow with each minute. That's okay, it was so long ago, I – But she stops herself from saying more. She sits quietly and reflects upon her nails. He watches her in the window's reflection. He sighs heavily. She lifts her head. She looks out past him into the darkness. Then she asks if she is going to get to see the city, after all. He says, not tonight, how about tomorrow? She does not reply. I'm going to bed, she says. He continues to stare out the window and does not even seem to hear her. She gets up and goes to her room. He looks out into the cold darkness, remembering the times they used to have together as a family. He sighs and reaches for the bottle. It was going to be a long night after all. Part 2 I decided to change the ending of “Everything Stuck to Him.” Instead of having a sad ending where the man clearly left his wife and moved to Milan for an unknown reason, I decided to make it slightly more happy in that the couple stayed together up until the...
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...Dekada 70 : Reaction Paper The movie “Dekada 70” was a reflection of the Philippine situation way back the said decade and there were various cases with regards to human rights violations. The oppressive administration of the then president marked tremendous ordeals to people borne the said time. Some of the most notable human rights violations that I have observed while watching the film was the oppression of the lead actress in the person of Ms. Vilma Santos. She was confined in the limitations of her home and for caring for her husband and children. She was forbidden to have a career of her own and was most of the time disregarded when she aired out reflections of her own opinion on things. Another thing that caught my attention was the strict adherence to marriage. Men seemed to think that time that they were God’s gift to women and by so saying, it showed how little women’s voice are given importance when talking about their consent on whether or not they want to be married. It was also an open knowledge to us who were not even borne during the said decade that the freedom of speech was not all free. Many of the press were forbidden to freely write and broadcast about the situation faced during the then administration. Education was also manipulated and many people had to keep themselves on their toes. The student activists and the street rallies were so brutal and many feared for their lives or for the lives of their loved...
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...Stanza 1 Summary Get out the microscope, because we’re going through this poem line-by-line. Line 1 I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. While "Sylvia" might sound a little bit like silver, we're pretty sure from this first-person declaration that Plath isn't the speaker in this poem. Instead, we have to think back to the title: what is silver and exact? Well, a mirror! We know mirrors don't talk – but that just makes us more curious about what this mirror is going to say. We know from looking at them that mirrors are silver and give an exact reflection of what is in front of them. The second part of the line is not so simple. This mirror is telling us it has no preconceptions. The mirror doesn't change what it shows you based on it's understanding of who you are, or whether you're having a bad day or a good day – it just shows what it sees. So, while this mirror may be personified in the poem, it doesn't, like most people, let what it has seen before affect what it does in the present. Line 2 Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Now the personification becomes a little weirder. We can imagine a person who is exact, who has no preconceptions, but a person who swallows everything he sees – now that's a stretch. To figure out this line, it helps to think of what mirrors do to everything they see – they reflect it. Swallowing everything, then, is a metaphor for reflecting everything. The substitution of "swallowing" for "reflecting" makes this...
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...services that are produced in a given year used a lot of the time to as a constant price because of inflation. To me it also has to do with the nation’s output of goods and services that are fixed to cohere to price changes. It is what the nation is paying for out of pocket each year in cash. Nominal GDP is a gross domestic product that has not been adjusted yet for inflation. If there are any GDP that does not account for inflation can in some aspect become misleading because the GDP will reflect as being higher than it actually is. So there could look as if there is more money then there is and could then result in a big mess. As I discussed in the team reflection paper, the unemployment rate is at an all time high because of the economy downfall that happened a few years ago. There are a number of reasons that it is the way it is, ranging from layoffs to not enough money to pay the employees. Unemployment rate is calculated as a percentage by dividing the number of unemployed people by all individuals that are in the labor force. Inflation rate is the next term I will discuss, which is an increase of price like for example the consumer price index. It’s...
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... In spite of all the faults the person had, you know you miss them. They as a result, were like a best friend to you, and now they are gone you feel all alone. It is human nature to feel a great lost when a friend leaves you. When you have that friend, you feel safe, and comforted but when they leave you feel isolated from the world itself. In a way, they were your only means of companionship, and since you lost them, you conclude that you yourself are now in seclusion from the outside world; hence, this world is no longer a concern to you. As you are now alone, there is nothing to go back to in the world. This effect is initiated by the sensation of longing for them. You intensely miss them, and the cause of them being gone makes you feel abandoned because you are not with them. The loneliness effect is an expression that is felt through your heart, which is where your emotions lie; therefore, you know the significance of the person and what bond you have developed with them. My friend Dave, for example, broke up with his girlfriend afterwards; he felt tremendous agony when she left for Seneca in the fall because he still had feelings for her. As a result, to the break up he never really valued what he had with her until she left. He realized that he loved her and he felt as if he had lost a part of himself. He had a reflection on their relationship and realized that he broke up with her because she seemed too perfect and he was scared of commitment. He now felt...
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