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Elaine Lobl Konigsburg is an American writer known by her children’s books and fiction stories. Konigsburg is the only author who won the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in one and the same year. In her works, she describes teenagers’ problems and their struggles. Usually, the characters of her works try to find the answers to the questions that are beyond someone’s understanding, make decisions that are crucially important, etc. For example, in her work About the B’nai Bagels written in 1969, Konigsburg presents a story about the Little League baseball team and a twelve-year-old Jewish boy, Mark Seltzer who has really a lot on his mind. The boy prepares for his Bar Mitzvah (in Judaism, it is coming of age). This period is too significant for any person. For Mark, such times are not that easy. He loses his best friend who moves to the rich district of the town. His mother becomes a manager of the baseball team where Mark plays. And his elder brother is his coach now. The situation becomes worse when Mark’s team starts winning all the games and is going to participate in the championship and even heads it. At the beginning of the story, it was an ordinary baseball team B’nai B’rith. After Bessie Seltzer, Mark’s mother, becomes its manager, lots of people begin to notice the team. Everyone call the team not B’nai B’rith, but B’nai Bagels. And now, Bessie is Mother Bagel. “… We won our first game. Dad’s strategy paid off, Mom’s nagging paid of, Spencer helped; …” ( About the B’nai Bagels 97) The players of the team adore her. Everyone adores her, except her own son, Mark. It makes too many problems for him. He cannot make a single mistake. Now, he has no right to lose and let down a team. This is why he gets to plenty of difficult and sticky situations. In addition, his social position makes him bother as well. Is it possible that a 12-year old boy can cope with all this? Hardy! On my opinion, the most difficult for Mark situation is when he gets to know some unpleasant information that may change a lot of things and become troublesome both for his team and for his family. He does not know what he has to do with these facts. He is at loss. It is high time to take the most important step and decide what to do in order to stay a good friend, successful team player, and loving son and brother. To my mind, the way out chosen by the boy is good indeed. Taking into consideration all the circumstances and hardships he faces with, the end of the story impressed me a lot. He chooses the way in order to be true with himself. And it is really worthy of respect. The story is full of real life examples, the situations, everyone may face any time. Mark should make significant decisions, pass through life challenges, and do not disappoint people whom he cares a lot. Such challenges help the boy to learn more his own soul and his own mind. The language and style the author used in this book is rather clear and simple. This is why, as for me, this story can be interesting either for children or grown ups. Works Cited Konigsburg, Elaine Lobl. About the B’nai Bagels. USA: Aladdin, 2008.
Nursing is not just another career where one can have the freedom to act in anyway and then defend his or her stand later. It is a career that deals with human life as the main subject and thus requires dexterity and caution in their strict sense. Contrary to other careers where money is the driving force, the inner desire to achieve results drives nursing (Ellis & Hartley, 2004). Nurses will conveniently achieve the goals of their profession if they enjoy doing their daily duties, rather than coming to work because they have no any other option. Consequently, nursing need to be more than just a profession and become a lifestyle for the nurses. It is important to note that besides the demand for nursing increasing, the profession is experiencing shifts both in technicality and role. The number of aging population is expected to increase in the future and this people will require enhanced medical care. On the same note, the cost of quality healthcare is increasingly becoming expensive. Similarly, technological advancement has led to the ability of many problems receiving medical treatment (Callara, 2008). Therefore, demand for nurses majorly those with advanced education is on the rise. There has been an increase in the number of nurses graduating from various colleges in the recent past. Unfortunately, a junk of currently employed nurses are aging meaning they will be out of work sooner or later. This is expected to compound the current problem of nurse shortage and increase the opportunities for nurses. In the past, nurses used to majorly work in clinics and hospitals. Nowadays, nurses can work in schools, physicians’ offices, private duty and health homes. It has also been noted that physicians are spending lesser and lesser hours with patients (Ellis & Hartley, 2008). This is shifting the role of nurses to being health educators thus providing
Modern technologies have long become an integral part of people’s lives. The use of computers, mobile phones and the Internet for communication, work, and entertainment has become indispensable and even ordinary. But how does this affect the thinking, memory, and personality of a person? How does the decision-making process change? Can people now do without the modern achievements of science and technology? Indeed, people no longer represent their lives without technologies that have brought many benefits to society, such as the positive achievements in medicine, but the negative impact of technology is also felt by humanity. Modern Technologies and Their Impact on Society The modern world is full of all sorts of novelties in the science, technology, and medicine spheres. People have not possessed such knowledge in different fields before. Today, figuratively speaking, a person can get news from the pocket, connect to a network that exists only in the information field, and send a message to a person who is thousands of miles away. Thanks to information technology, it is possible to get to know people who live far away, in other countries and cities (Yamamoto & Ananou, 2015). Technologies have brought with them a lot of interesting and useful inventions from biomaterials to artificial hands, from an artificial kidney to contact lenses that train eye muscles at night, from high-speed planes to high-speed trains that save time, from electronic libraries, online universities, and courses to advanced deep earth drilling rigs. Modern technologies are called upon to serve humanity, to help it reach even greater heights. However, not all technologies are beneficial to humans. It often happens the benefit turns to negative result. For example, modern weapons can destroy both nature and human lives in frightening proportions. The industry ejects smokes and toxic waste into the water, invades the earth’s interior in search of resources. A plastic waste does not decompose naturally and is stored in nature for a long time. In the Pacific Ocean, a new “continent” of floating garbage has already settled down. Now the modern technologies are faced with the task of finding effective ways of purifying the environment, recycling garbage. Also, it is necessary to develop alternative energy sources, because the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves are exhausted, while the world economy is built on them. Soon, people have to find a replacement for present energy sources (Commoner, 2014). Technologies created by talented people themselves can be useful as well as can do harm depending on how to use them. Using a smartphone, for example, a person can breed gos
The poem talks about how fatal it is to suppress anger as it eventually leads to grudges in a society. As the poem starts, when the person reveals to his friend that he is angry, the anger goes away, but when the persona fails to speak up when angered by the foe, wrath grows. The poet emphasizes that concealing anger rather than openly coming out to speak out is like planting a seed of the same in one’s mind. The poet likens effort to suppress anger through exaggerated smiles and deceitful wiles to watering the tree of anger thus developing the grudge (Hagstrom 1964). As time progresses, the cultivated anger becomes a virtue that won’t be shunned. Finally, every individual in the society becomes aware of the much developed anger. Later the poet talks of “My foe outstretched beneath the tree” to mean the end of the cordial relationship that existed between the persona and other members of society. At the end, the persona in the poem justifies the tittle of the poem that trying to conceal anger is like cultivating a poison tree (Hagstrom 1964). The poet has employed a number of poetic stylistic features to create rhythm in the poem. For instance, there is terminal rhyme in every of the two consecutive lines in each stanza. This creates a rhythm as well as helps build the poem structure. “Friend and end” and also “fore and grow” are the examples in the second stanza. The rhyme scheme of the poem would have each rhyme letter repeated twice hence regularly. For instance, the rhyme scheme for this poem is aa, bb, cc, dd, ff, gg. It finally gives musicality to the poem thus making it easy to recite. Meter in the poem has been achieved through the rhyme and diction. The diction is evident where the poet has chosen on rhyming words to deliver the subject matter (Blake 1994). The poet has successfully managed to employ the use of varied figurative language aspects in the poem. Metaphors have been used to emphasize the subject matter in the poem. For instance, the title of the poem talks of a poison tree to mean anger in real sense. The poet also talks of a fore outstretched beneath the tree to imply broken relations with the friend. Throughout the poem, the persona talks of a foe to mean the whole society’s perception of anger. However, the anger is not directed to any particular individual, the foe in this case stands for everyone who might interact with the persona. There are incidences of personification in the poem. In the first stanza, the persona says “I told my wrath”. The wrath is given human attribute of ability to hear as it is spoken to. This is used to emphasize the need for openness and need to confront anger whenever it occurs. Assonance, the repeat ion of vowel sounds is also evident in every stanza of the poem (Blake 1994). The “o” sounds in told and grow (first stanza), the “I” in “in” and “it” (second stanza) are only but a few of the examples. These further make the poem simpler (Blake 1994). The overall structure of the poem thus can be deduced from the language and poetic stylist
Introduction Human behaviors are greatly influenced by five general perspectives namely biological, social and cultural cognitive, learning and psychodynamic influences. A person’s behavior is a joint function of previous life experiences and immediate environment. Experiences contribute greatly to success of any relationships (Kalat, 2002). In a marriage relationship the general perspectives play an important role to its beginning, development and success. Both men and women look for biological aspects such as intelligence, beauty, kindness and sexual behaviors before committing themselves to a marriage relationship. Romantic love which often leads to marriage is considered as part of leaning perspective of human behavior. This is because it involves serious emotions that need to be nurtured over time (Kalat, 2002). Social and cultural aspects also contribute to behavior of a person which is important in success of love marriage relationships. This paper will focus on how five general perspectives contribute to the beginning, development and success of a marriage relationship. Biological perspective Behavior is prompted by forces or factors that may have a biological base. Some structures, body mechanisms and behavior play an important role on how behavior arises. Biological factors such as brain are believed to influence human behavior and experiences thus affecting marriage relationships (Kalat, 2002). For instance, through sensory processes, the brain is able to receive information through the neurons and dendrites. This information is analyzed, interpreted and decisions made. The brain then commands the muscles to take action. Human behavior is directed by the brain which happens to be endowed with the capacity to carry out multifaceted functions with various parts playing specific roles (Kalat, 2002). The autonomic nervous system is composed of all the neurons that carry messages between the central nervous system and internal organs of the body. This system is necessary for such body functions as breathing, flow of blood and experiencing of various emotions. This greatly affects human relationships and how these relationships begins and develop (Kalat, 2002). The nerve fibers direct a person on how to react in various situations. The sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system like parasympathetic division is involved in controlling and integrating the actions of the gland and the smooth muscles within the body. The parasympathetic division compensates for the sympathetic division and lets the body rest after a stressful moment. This is important in relationships especially in marriage when there is stressful moment. Hormones affect person behavior which in turn affects relationships. This is because they affect an individual’s alertness, excitability, sexual behavior, aggressiveness, reactions to stress and ability to concentrate (Kalat, 2002). All this behaviors play an important role in a marriage relationship. Radical changes in hormones can contribute to psychological disorders like depre
Abstract The United Arab Emirates pay much attention to its foreign policy because it provides the country with the opportunity to develop and maintain the positive relationship with other countries. The humanitarian assistance plays a vital role in this perspective, as its allocation ensures that the United Arab Emirates is ready to support the vulnerable representatives of the general public regardless of their location. The leaders of the country conduct such actions because they want to emphasize the culture and ideological values, ensure security and enhance interactions with the rest of the world for business purposes. Introduction The United Arabian Emirates (UAE) developed its foreign policy in order to follow a particular guideline when interacting with other countries and improve its position in the global perspective. Its purpose is to reach enhancement for the UAE with the help of proper utilization of governmental, organizational and individual resources. Of course, the majority of the countries all over the world have the same objectives. Still, the UAE policy is influenced greatly by the size of the territory, its location, available resources, and population. In the last several decades, the leadership of the UAE implemented a lot of changes connected with its foreign policy in order to meet country’s and people’s interests. In this way, the defense received more funding, economy streamlined its development, and new approaches to dispute resolution were undertaken. In the framework of the UAE foreign policy, the country is willing to ensure its security and stability. The tension that exists between Iraq and Iran that are rather close makes the UAE focus on the neighborhood. The UAE provides humanitarian assistance to these countries because it is likely to ensure safety. Except for that, the UAE wants to have close ties with other regions. Thus, it can be able to cope with occurred challenges in different spheres with the help from the outside. The Arab and Muslim identity, in its turn, focuses on the assistance and protection of human rights, which motivates the country to support others and allocate aid, especially humanitarian one (Abed & Hellyer, 2001, p. 163). Even though some scientists and researchers still argue whether moral or materialistic considerations made the UAE focus on the provision of humanitarian assistance to other countries in the framework of its foreign policy, some conclusions can be made on the basis of the available information. Thus, this paper will try to prove that the humanitarian assistance is emphasized in the foreign policy of the UAE because it reveals the culture and ideological values, provides an opportunity to ensure security and enhance interactions with the rest of the world for business purposes. The UAE as a Donor The UAE is a country which recently became widely known due to its enormous development in various spheres. Even today it does not stop and is targeted at becoming a world leader in various
Introduction It is quite interesting to note that while divorce has been a topic that has been extensively covered and reviewed by family law, in terms of guardianship, visitation rights, as well as the responsibility of the mother/father; very little has been done to encompass aspects related to the choice of the child when it comes to the terms agreed upon by both parents during the divorce proceedings. In the case of two individuals having a child together then subsequently having a divorce, it is usually the prerogative of the court to ensure that a child is placed in the best possible environment for growth and development or with the parent that has shown to have the best possible intentions of the child at heart and has the means of ensuring that they are given a proper home. Yet, it has been increasingly prevalent within the past few years that children involved in divorce proceedings are of advanced ages (10 to 12) with some even in their teen years (14 – 17). The capability of Making a Decision Children of advanced ages are usually in possession of a more mature way of thinking and, as such, can be thought to have the capability to make sound and rational decisions. However, despite them being capable of making such types of decisions, family law fails to properly encompass their thoughts on the divorce of their parents and where they stand on the matter in terms of which parent they should go to, the terms of their other parent’s visitation rights based on their affection for that individual as well as other such factors that they are directly involved in. Since they are impacted by divorce and are usually one of the most important factors in it, their opinions should count and should not be unilaterally set aside based on what either parent has decided or what the courts have decided based on their review of the case. Reform It is based on this that a proper reform of this area of family law involves a court-mandated examination of the child of the various terms of the divorce that is directly applicable to them. This should only be done based on a child being within a particular age range and possessing a mental capacity capable of understanding the terms as they are being presented. The child in question will then examine and determine whether such terms are acceptable or in need of revision based on how they apply to his/her present case. Such revisions can apply to which parent he/she goes to, the visitation rights of the other parent, as well as other such matters as deemed applicable by the court. By enacting this particular type of reform into family law, not only does this result in a better application of the law but it also ensures that the rights of a child to decide how his/her future is impacted by the divorce are taken into consideration. Conclusion Based on my experience with family law, I have to state that while the rights of children are often emphasized in various applications of the law, they are strangely limited when
L. S., a 75-year-old man, presents to a holistic care specialist for evaluation of his worsening health state. L. S., who is a retired employee, was diagnosed with hypertension 2 years ago. Following a course of treatment with antihypertensive medications, he felt better and did not make any attempts to continue treatment. He does not have any chronic disease and has not experienced any severe infections recently. He has been noticing worsening headaches over the past few weeks. At first, he only noticed them in the morning, after doing his everyday routine in the garden. Now he has worsening symptoms of a headache in the second part of the day. The patient tried to spend more time sleeping and taking a rest, but the headaches did not disappear. His recent headaches appear to be the same symptoms of hypertension he had in the past. In general, the headache is felt like pressure at the back of the head. The typical pain is described as 6-7/10 on the pain scale and lasts for half an hour. It occurs several times per day. A few days ago, he had a more severe headache after experiencing some stress. The pain went up to 8/10 and lasted for 2 hours. It was accompanied by altered vision and light-headedness. The patient’s concerns, if asked, are worsening hypertension and the possibility of experiencing a stroke. His dad died from a stroke. The patient smokes cigarettes and has a rare glass of wine. He has never used drugs. He drinks four cups of coffee per day (increased over baseline). His eating habits are not healthy. He prefers greasy food and products containing a lot of sugar. He eats fruits and vegetables rarely. He has a hard time following a special diet for people with hypertension and finds it very stressful. He is not doing sports and fails to do regular exercises meant to improve his health status. He is not emotionally stable and finds it difficult to cope with stressful situations. He has a positive environment and has not experienced any serious shock recently. He has never had mental problems. He believes in the long-term efficacy of medications and does not regard a healthy lifestyle as an effective cure. He does not put much trust in his doctor’s advice to increase physical activity in order to reduce the symptoms of hypertension. He tends to take more medications instead of giving up his actual bad habits and changing his everyday routine. He values a good state of health that enables him to live a normal usual life. He focuses on the general feeling of well-being, rather than on analyzing distinct symptoms caused by different health issues. L.S. retired 15 years ago. While working, he was constantly under pressure and had to work overtime. Being on a pension, he does not experience stress often. He is married and has 2 children and 3 grandchildren. He lives with his wife, the younger son, and his family. His family members are concerned about his unhealthy lifestyle and frequent symptoms of hypertension. He has been involved in the local church community for many years. He regularly visits church with his family members and enjoys doing community productions. His personal