...eventually drafted in the army once WWII had started, since the U.S. was in dire need of more soldiers. In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Louie’s defining traits are rebellious and determined. Louie was determined to stay alive. “Louie, Phil, and Mac clawed for the raft walls and threw themselves overboard. They swam under the rafts and huddled there, wincing, watching bullets cut bright slits in the water around them.”(p.118) Louie, starving and weak, still had it in him to get into the ocean to evade the bullets taking a chance with the sharks. On page 186 it says, “The Bird beat him...
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...STAYING ON COURSE Kendra Harvey Pre 100 sect. 7116 October 12, 2013 Kendra Harvey Pre 100 Sect. 7116 12 October 2013 STAYING ON COURSE Enrolling in college at 26 years old was very intimidating to me. Although I graduated from high school, I have a real problem with self confidence. Keeping up with my classmates from high school on social media sites, I became discouraged and depressed from seeing how successful some of them had become. I often wondered why I haven’t become successful. Why was I made to be a failure? Then it dawned on me that I, myself was my own problem. At different points in my life I’ve often given up when I was faced with a challenge. I always took interest in the healthcare field, and I pursued and completed a certification in nursing. When certain circumstances caused for me to have to go back to school to recertify, instead of pressing on I choose defeat. My greatest obstacles now are my children, for I don’t have a strong support system and because of this I have allowed myself to be defeated by other obstacles in life. When I got into college, my biggest challenge was staying focused and motivated. I continued to stay out late, I would put off assignments until the last minute, I did cram study sessions, I was lazy all the time and couldn’t concentrate, and I missed classes and fell behind on home assignments. This caused a major problem for me like receiving failing grades. I blamed everything and...
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...|Unit Title: |Unit No:1 |Date Issued | |Business Environment | |Week beginning 11/02/13 | |Student Name |Student ID |Due Date – 03/06/13 | |Lecturer Name: Ibrahim kevin, Sujata,& Issac |Internal Verifier Name | | |Mr. M. Azam | Rules and regulations: |Plagiarism is presenting somebody else’s work as your own. It includes: copying information directly from the Web or books without | |referencing the material; submitting joint coursework as an individual effort; copying another student’s coursework; stealing coursework from| |another student and submitting it as your own work. Suspected plagiarism will be investigated and if found to have occurred will be dealt | |with according to the procedures set down by the College. Please see your student handbook for further details of what is / isn’t plagiarism.| Coursework Regulations 1. Submission of coursework must be undertaken according to the relevant procedure – whether online or paper-based. Lecturers will give information as to which procedure must be followed, and details of submission procedures and penalty fees can be obtained...
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...The Writing Center Book Reviews Like 17 people like this. What this handout is about This handout will help you write a book review, a report or essay that offers a critical perspective on a text. It offers a process and suggests some strategies for writing book reviews. What is a review? A review is a critical evaluation of a text, event, object, or phenomenon. Reviews can consider books, articles, entire genres or fields of literature, architecture, art, fashion, restaurants, policies, exhibitions, performances, and many other forms. This handout will focus on book reviews. Above all, a review makes an argument. The most important element of a review is that it is a commentary, not merely a summary. It allows you to enter into dialogue and discussion with the work’s creator and with other audiences. You can offer agreement or disagreement and identify where you find the work exemplary or deficient in its knowledge, judgments, or organization. You should clearly state your opinion of the work in question, and that statement will probably resemble other types of academic writing, with a thesis statement, supporting body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Typically, reviews are brief. In newspapers and academic journals, they rarely exceed 1000 words, although you may encounter lengthier assignments and extended commentaries. In either case, reviews need to be succinct. While they vary in tone, subject, and style, they share some common features: First...
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...be UNDER the desk. Required materials: Charged tablet, charged back-up battery, tablet pen, red pens, pencils, blue or black pens, binder Homework expectations: You will have a variety of different homework assignments. It is imperative that you check RenWeb on a consistent basis, as well as write down the homework from the board every day. Most of the assignments will be completed on your tablet. Many assignments will be graded together in class, and then uploaded to Moodle. Late policy: Daily homework will not be accepted late. If homework is not turned in on the day it is due it will receive a zero. The first zero will result in an email sent to your parents. The second zero will result in a referral to a dean. For projects, book reports, and for the research paper the late policy is a little different than the daily homework policy. The first day that it is late it will get 10% taken off of its overall grade earned. For the second day that it is late it will get 20% taken off of the overall grade earned. On the third day that it is late 30% of the grade will be taken off of its overall grade earned. It will receive a zero if it is not turned in after the third day. Absence policy: You are responsible for completing all work that they have missed. You will have as many days as you have missed to complete the work. Missed quizzes or tests will be made up on the day the you return to school. It is your...
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...Writing a Book Report Summary: This resource discusses book reports and how to write them. Contributors: Purdue OWL (owl.English.purdue.edu) Book reports are informative reports that discuss a book from an objective stance. They are similar to book reviews but focus more on a summary of the work than an evaluation of it. Book reports commonly describe what happens in a work; their focus is primarily on giving an account of the major plot, characters, thesis, and/or main idea of the work. Most often, book reports range from 250 to 500 words. Before You Read Before you begin to read, consider what types of things you will need to write your book report. First, you will need to get some basic information from the book: • Author • Title • Publisher location, name of publisher, year published • Number of Pages You can either begin your report with some sort of citation, or you can incorporate some of these items into the report itself. Next, try to answer the following questions to get you started thinking about the book: • Author: Who is the author? Have you read any other works by this author? • Genre: What type of book is this: fiction, nonfiction, biography, etc.? What types of people would like to read this kind of book? Do you typically read these kinds of books? Do you like them? • Title: What does the title do for you? Does it spark your interest? Does it fit well with the text of the book? • Pictures/Book Jacket/Cover/Printing:...
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...Brunel Business School Bachelor of Science TITLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP & MARKETING IN BUSINESS MODULE CODE MG2049 Written Coursework: Deadline (12.00 noon, UK time) on Blackboard Learn. The learning outcomes for this module are as follows: * 1. Critically discuss the theories surrounding entrepreneurship and business ventures and how they relate to the global business environment. 2. Identify the impact that corporate communications have on internal and external audiences and their role in the development of integrated marketing communications. 3. Critically analyse issues around new business formation and growth of national and multinational enterprises. 4. Evaluate the application of theories in entrepreneurship and marketing communications ------------------------------------------------- The coursework comprises two elements which include the groupwork and individual essay (100%). The groupwork element attracts formative assessment while the individual element attracts summative assessment (3000 words). The individual element poses questions on your experience as regards the groupwork element and the ‘entrepreneurial journey’ of well-known enterprises. In order to benefit from the experiential learning inherent in the groupwork, it is important that you set about forming groups as early...
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...Thing(ness) 1. Read this (this thing 1 cm. below) P. J. O’Rourke, the political satirist, reviews in this issue a new book about Starbucks. He told us, in an e-mail exchange, how he brews his own reviews: “I read something I’m reviewing the same way I read other things except more so. That is, I already keep a commonplace book (a file folder, really) for quotations, ideas, information, etc. If I’m going to write a review I mark the work for myself, but besides underlining what interests me I also underline what — as far as I can tell — interested the author. By the time I’m done I have an outline for the review. All I have to do is figure out a smart-aleck lead sentence and a wiseacre ending.”[1] 2. Then read the “How to write a Book Review” article on the very next page. Yes, it is a bit long but the information is really quite good. 3. Over the week go to www.salon.com or to http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books read at least five reviews and then divide them into good and bad reviews. Think about the specific qualities that define the better ones. The article from step two of this process will be helpful at this point. At the end of the day a good book review sees an interesting pattern or spins your understanding of the book in a new and delightful way…and importantly is enjoyable to read (as a writer you need to have fun savaging the book, exploring it, dwelling on it, falling in love with it, etc.). Finally remember that your job is to convince a reader of the...
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...The thought of being made invisible, and being isolated and dehumanized is absurd. In Unbroken by Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini is treated as if he is invisible. During WWII Louie is taken as a POW and is humbled, tortured, starved, and beaten daily. He is being dehumanized and isolated from the outside world. In The Life of Miné Okubo Miné is a Japanese-American living in America during WWII. During this time she is informed that she must move out of her apartment and be sent to a relocation camp as a result of the war against the Japanese and the fear that the Japanese-Americans living in the Americas will attempt to sabotage the United States. Louie and Miné are treated as if they are invisible. There are many pieces of evidence to illustrate...
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...Historical Report on Race Chris Caputi ETH 125 April 6, 2014 Eleanor Branch Historical Report on Race Throughout United States history, the Native Americans have been the victims of racism since the day Christopher Columbus landed on North America. It is important for all people to understand that the Native American Indian was well established in North America for thousands of years. The nomadic ancestors, scientists believe, that modern day Native Americans migrated over a “land bridge” from Asia into what is now Alaska (Native American History, 2014). It is believed that when Christopher Columbus arrived, there were about 50 million Indians already living in North America and 10 million living in the area now known as the United States. This information is important because it shows that the Native American Indian was well established ling before Europeans arrived and that technically this was their land and homes. “From the west coast to what we now know as New England, tribes built their own societies and sustained themselves through agriculture, trade and hunting,” (Native American History, Native American History Facts, 2014). The Native American history has been somewhat “clouded”, as much of the history was written by the viewpoints of whites or Europeans. With the Native American Indian being illiterate, much of their history was passed on through stories or verbally rather than written documents. As a result, much of their true history was lost, altered...
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...Running head: WORLD RELIGIONS REPORT World Religions Report University of Phoenix World Religions Hum 130 July 30, 20XX World Religions Report The Church. There is only one faith that is so recognizable that no other description is required. Movies have been made with The Church as the villain behind massive conspiracies. Stories have been told of Cardinals and Bishops that were the real power behind Kings. The Church owns what amounts to a sovereign country as its headquarters. The leader of The Church is treated, world wide, in the same manner as a Head of State, even enjoying Diplomatic Immunity in foreign countries. The Church owns one of the largest and most valuable private art collections in the world. The Church owns one of the largest and most valuable private libraries in the world. The Church owns one of the largest and most valuable collections of ancient writings and texts in the world. The Church has, through the centuries, been rocked by persecution, wars, and scandal, but has survived and thrived. To its members, The Church is a living, breathing line, unbroken, from today back through the decades and centuries to Jesus Christ. The Church is a symbol of traditional faith, an icon of traditional values, and a sanctuary from the evils of the world. To outsiders, looking in, The Church is a dichotomy of imagined and real legends and myths. But to the members, it is their faith and their anchor. The Catholic Church. I was fortunate to visit...
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...the year are 1945, America dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. As the years and decades have passed, the controversy has only grown. Millions of people both American and foreigners have questioned America’s choice and have even condemned both America and President Truman for making a decision that killed tens of thousand. Many claim that the use of the Bomb was mainly to scare Russia and to get ahead on the already developing Cold War. However, I believe that the dropping of the atomic bomb was the course of action that would have caused the least amount of bloodshed for both the Allies and the Japanese. There are several arguments that justify the dropping of the atomic bomb. For example, the bomb ironically saved Japanese lives. Casualty reports claim that 80,000 Japanese people died in the bombing of Nagasaki. Strategists predicted that 5-10 million Japanese people would've died in America’s initial invasion of Japan. They also predicted that the U.S. would've fought until 80 million Japanese people were killed. According to the Seattle Times, “Military planners included Japanese casualties in their estimates. The study done for Secretary of War Stimson predicted five to ten million Japanese fatalities… we would have fought until all 80 million Japanese were dead.” The bomb also saved American lives. If America didn't drop the bomb, we would've lost many soldiers in two battles similar to D-day. Operation Downfall was a plan hatched by the United States military to invade Japan...
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...INTRODUCTION The health care environment is constantly changing and producing new challenges that the competent nurse manager must work within (Jooste, 2004). Powerful leadership skills are needed by all nurses – those providing direct care to those in management positions. Anyone who is looked to as an authority or who is responsible for giving assistance to others is considered a leader (Mahoney, 2001). This assignment provides an avenue for competent nurse managers who also must have the necessary leadership skills to inspire and empower followers and team members. Concepts such as management and leadership will be defined as well as the differentiation between them. We are not all born leaders – leadership skills are developed and the principles are described by self-examination(Jooste, 2011: 31-32). Competent nurse managers are not merely those who control others, but they act as visionaries who help followers and the team to plan, organize, lead and control their activities. These four management process activities will be discussed ( Jooste, 2004). 1 MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP AS CONSEPTS Management and leadership are not synonymous terms. Leaders are not automatically good managers, and managers are often not effective leaders(Jooste, 2010:26-27). 1.1. MANAGEMENT The main aim of a manager is to maximize the output of the organization through administrative implementation. According to Blagg and Youngh (2002:1), managers are thought to be the budgeters,...
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...Political Carrer Winston Churchill | | | 11/22/2011 11/22/2011 The Life and Career of Sir Winston Churchill Churchill was involved in every important event of England’s from the Boer War to World War II. He served six British monarchs, from Queen Victoria to Elizabeth II. Through his life he was a statesman, soldier, author, journalist and twice prime minister, Churchill’s career has no parallel in modern history. The Early Years Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, on November 30, 1874. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a brilliant politician, even though he was one of the most hated. His mother was the American Jennie Jerome. One of his ancestors was John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, a great military hero. Winston Churchill himself showed no early signs of greatness. He was in fact a stubborn, unruly, manipulative, and often difficult red-haired boy and a poor student. He was also given to unpredictable behavior. Before he was even seven years old, it was already clear that he was headstrong, highly opinionated, and virtually impossible to control. He spent four years at Harrow School at the very bottom of his class. However during this time he showed that he had a remarkable memory similar to his father's. He particularly enjoyed English. From early childhood soldiers and warfare fascinated Churchill and he often played with a large collection of lead soldiers in his nursery. His later years at...
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...“The media are more of a hindrance than a help to the police in combating crime”. Discuss. The relationship between the police and the mass media have long been the subject of intense debate. The mass media and the police have different roles in the public eye causing the media to be of concern to the police. Historically and in the contemporary era the police have had to meet high expectations of being the public’s crime-fighter. It is the police’s role to prevent crime, maintain order and protect the public (Carrabine, 2009) whilst, the media fulfil a role that is supposed to challenge the state institutions on behalf of the public. Media handling in serious crime investigations is a complex issue. On the one hand, they provide the public with access to information and help generate important information for an enquiry. For example, since its first broadcast in 1984, Crimewatch UK has sought help and information from the public in order to solve crime (Carter and Branston et al., 2002). On the other hand, the media can mislead the public and interfere with the investigative legal processes. As a whole the media plays a critical role in shaping the public’s views by exposing corruption and the activities of the powerful and of agencies of control such as the police (Croall, 2005). More to the point the media are there to maximise audience revenue to get money and to entertain via means of print, audio, visual and social media. Whereas, the police are the primary protection...
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