The Rude Awakening

Western Imperialism. Some countries had fought tooth and nail, weakening their own country, trying to throw off the, at the time, far more superior West. China, a country that had once believed itself to be the cornerstone of civilization had a rude awakening when the West had decided to come knocking on her door. The country reacted awfully and had been forced into several wars and uprisings that it had quickly lost. Europe had undergone an industrial revolution, making it significantly more powerful

Being diagnosed with diabetes is devastating. But I tell you, having a doctor run through a long list of inevitable health concerns that you’re likely to face as a result of this disease is sobering. Walking out of the clinic with a comprehensive list of medications in my hand soon drove home the seriousness of the disease. I needed to find a better option, and to take back control of my health. Diabetes Destroyer helped me to do just that. The doctor had told me that while not everyone with type

Life as I know it is coming to an end. For the majority of my life my parents were generous and payed for my needs and wants, but now that they opened my eyes about paying for for my own needs and wants. This topic about finance is giving me a rude of awakening about how to budget our annual salary or yearly salary with paying for our wants and taking care of our needs. When we were little we thought that money grew on trees or came from magical wishing weld, but facing the truth where money really

As Finkelman (2006) stated, “Mentoring, and important career development to that can be used by nurses any type of set or specialty, can be used to develop the critical leadership skills needed by nurses. All successful leaders have had mentors are our mentors” (Finkelman,2006, p. 390). Currently my facility has a six to months mentoring program for new graduates. This program is in addition to the current preceptor program that orients the new graduates to the unit they will be assigned. Most

Gruwell was the teacher of classroom 203. She had just begun her tenure at the school when the movie had started. She was excited about her career as a teacher; however, she was in for a rude awakening as none of her students cared about education. It was only through perseverance and dedication that she was able to change her students’ mind about education. For example, in the movie Gruwell had to buy books for her students, for the books in

Ten years ago I was celebrating my 49th birthday and on the verge of a life changing decade. After months of mammograms, tests, and biopsies, I heard the dreaded three words "you have cancer". You know that cliché movie scene where the character is sucked to the ceiling and watches the doctor from above and all she hears is a muted "blah, blah, blah"? That was my reality. I lived in what felt like a dream state for several years after hearing those words. One cannot be and will not ever be the same

Emergency physician, Dr. Louis M Profeta MD, in his article, “A Sunday talk on sex, drugs, drinking and dying with the frat boys”, illustrates a talk he gave to a fraternity at Indiana University-Bloomington. Profeta’s purpose is to present, and hopefully change the “frat boy’s” choices involving the grave risks of being associated with narcotics. He skillfully gives us a glimpse into Using his upfront diction and syntax, Profeta concludes that there is no good outcome when it comes to the usage

end of the story seems to come to a tragic ending, it really does not; it is the “sweet sorrow” Juliet referred to. When Juliet “dies”, Romeo sacrifices himself to be with his love again. As Juliet wakes, she found Romeo to be dead. With this rude awakening, the scene became intense. Because Romeo parted, Juliet parted as well in order to give her words more meaning. When their parting from this world took place, it was disguised as “such sweet

Imagine all the beautiful creatures happily living their days in the forest , resting in the sun and just enjoying their time on Earth. Well ... these peacful animals just got a very rude awakening because someone decide to deforest their area. Deforestation is the process of converting forest lands into non-forested areas. It is estimated that between 50-100 species are lost each day as a reasult of forestry . Deforestation should be stopped , there is no reason to destroy our forest . It is a heartless

examples would be the different depiction of the Devil and the similarities of the role of religion. Some points may be larger than others, but one can see the relationship between both of the books in many different aspects of he was dressed in a “rude, half Indian garb, and had a red belt or sash swathed round his body, but his face was neither black nor copper color, but swarthy and dingy and begrimed with soot, as if he had been accustomed to toil among fires and forges.” (Irving, p. 2-3) The