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Bryce Alcala 2/25/17 1st period VanDuyn I read The Lockdown, by Walter Dean Myers. Mr. Vanduyn made us read a book of our own choice and I had read the book within six hours. This book is not that catchy but it makes a lot more sense if I continue to read it more. It is a beautiful and a sad story of a fourteen-year-old boy. His name is Reese and he’s African American. His father is not always there for him and his mother is a drug addict. Reese is in the second year of his sentence at the

During every presidential term, the standing president is confronted with a tough speech that he must learn to relate to, even if it is impossible too. On December 14, 2012, twenty-six lives, twenty preschool students, and six adults were taken away from their loved ones in Newtown, Connecticut. Within two days, President Obama presented his interfaith prayer vigil speech to those attending at Newtown High School. Obama gave his condolence to those affected by the tragedy. Obama could have easily

Storytelling is said to be one of the most powerful tools available to leaders. From Martin Luther King Jr. to Sheryl Sandberg, great leaders have always used stories to connect people with ideas, to each other and to a vision of the future they want to be a part of and make real. (Baker, 2017) Leaders must engage others to join in a cause and to want to move decisively forward. (Kouzes & Posner, 2012) This article provides its reader with the five elements of a strong story that leaders need to

In Salem, Massachusetts 1692, Betty the daughter of Revered Parris lies unconscious in bed. The night before she was discovered by Parris dancing in the woods along with Abigail his niece, and Tituba , his slave. After the local physician cannot determine her illness, Mr. and Mrs. Putnam appear and say that their daughter Ruth is also unconscious. The Town stirs up with talk of unnatural causes for the sick girls. Later Abigail warns the others involved not to reveal that they were actually with

“Awakening” by Joshua Lang is about patients waking up during surgery due to the anesthesia wearing off. Thus, the patients are aware during their surgery, and symptoms may appear in the future due to this awakening during surgery. The main theme of “Awakening" is to explain the concept of “anesthesia awareness” which is patients becoming aware and awake during surgery. When patients wake up during surgery, they feel paralyzed, the doctors touching their organs, and they smell burnt hair. Joshua

Who faces more struggle? “There isn’t any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.”, said ,S.E.Hinton, The Outsiders. The quote means that there is no use of fighting except saving our-self from other people. The Outsiders is about two groups, the Socs and the Greasers. The Greasers are poor kids and the Socs are rich. It is mostly about how their life is like that who have most struggles. “Things are rough all over” that no matter what people have

In the Koh reading, one of the main points of emphasis was parental role expectations placed on children. More specifically, how in refugee families’ parental role expectations are higher than the expectations in non-migrant families. The authors explored this by looking at Burmese families and their daughters after they migrated to Australia. Detailing the familial expectations pre and post migration. The findings the reading presented was how pre-migration many of the girls were expected to perform

On Monday, SuperCareHealth organized an opportunity for me to visit a Barlow Respiratory Hospital located in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Echo Park. A respiratory therapist, Kassandra, and I provided information to the current patients that were occupants of the facility. The hospital is a long-term acute care facility that serves an older patient population. The hospital included patients with conditions associated with respiratory disease along with wound care and chronic conditions. As a

The reading and lecture both discuss about an ancient animal, Agnostids, that its behavior and the organisms that fed on is not very obvious today. Accordingly, there are some presumption in this regard by scientist. The reading contends that three main likely theory are exists for the explanation of Agnostids manner of living. However, the lecturer casts doubt on the claims made by the article, and provides some evidence to refute them all. First, the author holds the view that this animal was a

Pariser clearly explains how numerous source outlets, including books, newspapers, and possibly television, are quickly becoming outdated and obsolete as a result of the growing personalized web and the expansion of other companies by utilizing the internet, and he supports this claim with several examples of this phenomenon that already occurred or are currently occurring. The best example of the latter is when Amazon launched and used its “personalization code” (29), which allowed customers to