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online dictionary (2015) were obtained. There was also research performed, looking at nursing and health care research regarding the term alarm fatigue, as I found there was a plethorah of information available regarding patient safety and hospital noise levels. Dictionary Definitions According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary(2015), alarm is defined as “a device that makes a sound to create a warning about something” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2015). The Macmillan dictionary defines

What is beauty? People have always attempted to find, create, and pursue it. A quick checkout at the grocery store will reveal a plethora of magazines devoted purely to what they call beauty and the proper pursuit of it. Most have an idea of what they might personally define as beauty, but not as a general, sweeping definition. That which one might label ugly another might call absolutely stunning. Some find beauty in cats, others in dogs, just as some favor early morning mountain ranges over a sun

dream sounds very stressful. A hate when I dream about work and then have to wake up and go to work. To me it makes me feel like I didn't get any rest. Do you feel as though the dream dictionaries meanings of your dream had truth to them? For my dream that I listed in my forum I did not feel as if the dream dictionaries possible interpretation in my dream matched my interpretation on the dream. You had stated that you felt that your dream fits into, "using dreams as an effort of dealing with problems

Greed is a term that is thrown around a lot in today's society but what is the true meaning of greed? According to the dictionary greed is “intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food”(dictionary). Everyone has their own definition of greed, mine is anyone or anything that puts themselves before others needs. In the short story “Tom walker and the devil” by irving, the article titled “Greed” by Jessica Hawthorn, and the article “what is greed” by Tomas Baus these

Although some words begin with an innocent meaning, the word’s original intentions can be replaced with derogatory implications. This is apparent in the term gay. The words evolution to a negative label can be paralleled with the shift in popular modes of communication.Throughout the lack of empathy built in the growing use of textual articulations, specifically newspaper articles and social media, the term was able to build a hateful connotation enabling our society to have an applied view of the

History, philosophy, genetics and a whole dictionary all contributed to his learning process. But, as he learned more, he found the terrors of slavery and the other atrocities that the white man had brought upon the

on making this a better place for all people”. The Cambridge Dictionary defines a hero as, a person admired for bravery, great achievements, or good qualities. A hero is not a follower of people, does not sit around being lazy, and is not unwise about making decisions. There are three characteristics which I would use to analyze a hero; leadership, passion, and sage. First off, a hero has good leadership skills. Cambridge Dictionary defines leading as, to manage or control a group of people; to

What is a hero? According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, and hero is “ in mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent in Dallas with great strength or ability.” Dictionary.com describes a hero as someone “ noted for courageous acts on nobility of character or someone who in the opinion of others has special achievements, abilities, or personal qualities and is regarded as a role model or Idol.” My personal definition is someone who is seen as sort of a higher up position but has a fatal

Path to Victory “Victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror; victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival” (Churchill qtd. in Oxford Dictionary 67). For Winston Churchill, victory meant surviving other oppositions. For Winston Churchill and others, the word victory has been used since its roots to describe triumph over an opponent in a battle or war (“victory” Dictionary.com). The word victory has a rich history, relates to battle and

is much more than that. According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, “to plagiarize means to to steal and pass off the ideas or words of another as one's own and or to use another's production without crediting the source.” Essentially it's to commit literary theft. Plagiarism can be and is oftentimes considered an act of fraud because it involves both stealing and lying. Fraud according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary means, “intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another