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Valid professional expertise was an integral component of my research, as it provided relevant insight into the nature of the issue and possible solutions. First, my inceptor gave me the motivation to pursue such a challenging program. We devised the plan for the present research, and I received valuable feedback at each stage. Secondly, as I began working on my current project, I requested assistance from a nurse involved in high-morbidity patient care. Our conversations provided me with a new perspective on the issue and motivated further research. Overall, professional mentoring became a crucial component of my DNP program’s development.
Cyperaceae species are mainly found in the regions of south-western Australia where soil phosphorus content is very low. The soils in this region are severely impoverished of nitrogen and phosphorus. It is for this reason that Cyperaceae plants have their roots modified in structure and function. The adaptive response ensures that the external nutrients are acquired maximally while the internal nutrients are maximally allocated. Instead of developing the largely known mycorrhizal and root nodules symbiosis for nutrient-poor soils, the south-western Australia Cyperaceae have a different root adaptation. In specific, these plants produce “cluster and dauciform roots” (Miller, 2005, p. 655) which increase the capability of mobilizing nutrients from the poor nutrient-containing soils. The soils of South Africa also have very low phosphorus levels and hence they are also predominantly inhabited by non-mycorrhizal plants such as Cyperaceae species. The cluster roots that develop on these plants release citrate into the scarcely available particles of phosphorus in the soil, leading to the release of the phosphorus for plant use (White & Hammond, 2008). Cyperaceae species have their dauciform roots mainly composed of carrot-like structures which attain a lateral swelling. These carrot-like modifications are further characterized by “rather ephemeral, dense clusters of long root hairs” (Miller, 2005, p. 655). Dauciform root modifications are known to thrive in soils that have a low supply of phosphorus. In fact, low phosphorus and nitrogen supply in soils initiates the formation of these structures; with increase in supply of phosphorus and nitrogen leading to suppression in dauciform root formation. The Rhynchosporeae tribe of the Cyperaceae is particularly known to adapt to low phosphorus and nitrogen soils by forming dauciform roots. With the long and dense root hairs (which are also fine in nature), these plants are able to scavenge for the scarce soil phosphorus thus suitably adapting Cyperaceae to phosphorus-poor soils. It is important to note that in phosphorus impoverished soils, phosphorus is hidden within the soil particles and hence there is need for a mechanism that can “mine” the scarce phosphorous in an effective way. Cluster roots in Cyperaceae are well suited in their structure for this function as the roots exude enough carboxylates for this function. This act is synonymous to the “scavenging” strategy employed by mycorrhizal plants (Lambers et al. , 2008). It is notable that growth of root clusters of the Cyperaceae become stimulated once these plants sense low phosphorus supply in the soil. The life of these modified roots is very short; nevertheless, they are able to exude carboxylates at a very fast rate (compared to roots that are not specialized for this function) in the root development process. P
Unless a person is living the life of a hermit, hiding in some distant mountaintop, there is always an opportunity to communicate. Even for the loner type who continues to toil all day and work all night and yet find no time to play, they still engage in conversation. One-on-one conversation constantly occurs in the home, in the workplace, office, school, church, and even in places of leisure. Conversations can be between two individuals but most of the time it occurs in a group setting. It can be an all-male group, an all-female group, or a mixed gender group. The proponent of this paper set out to observe the intricacies of conversations in these three groups and it was discovered that there are differences in the way they interact and it can be argued that it has something to do with gender and this influenced how they behave within a group. The best way to understand how all-male, all-female, and mixed-gender groups converse with each other, is advantageous to be part of a group. But there is also an advantage in observing from a distance to understand how homogeneity affects the group. Another technique is to eavesdrop and listen to the conversation occurring nearby. These techniques are best used in a public place like a restaurant or on campus. Based on initial findings it can be said that there are at least three things that can be readily observable in these settings:   * There is a distinct difference in the content of conversation;   * There is a distinct difference in the types of gestures used and the way males and females generally behaved when conversing with each other; and   * It cannot be said with certainty if it is the male or the female who has the propensity to dominate the conversation. Before going any further it must be pointed out that the proponent of this paper was never able to fully understand what was being said in the group conversations. This is especially true when the mode of gathering data was “eavesdropping” on nearby groups. Most of the time the proponent was only able to get bits and pieces of the messages and has to make assumptions regarding what was said (Bortfeld, 2001). But during the time when the proponent is part of the group it is easy to understand why sometimes messages seem to be broken and not coherent. The person in a group does not have to say everything plainly because he or she can substitute words with gestures and they also are knowledgeable about the background information needed to understand what the other person said. All Male Group One of the most striking features of all-male group conversation is that there are periods when they are not talking. They are content to simply look at their mobile phones, doing something with a gadget that they brought along. It is even perfectly acceptable if someone from the group ignores the whole conversation
The means through which individuals interact with computational technologies define human-computer interface (HCI) (Bologva et al., 2016). Different types of software and hardware play an instrumental role in facilitating and supporting the interaction. Examples of HCI include Electronic Health Records (EHR), drug administration system, electronic thermometers, and defibrillator. HCI in the healthcare impacts the quality of the care and patients’ safety since it influences communication among care providers and between the latter and their clients. HCI improves accessibility for patients’ health information and delivery of care services. For instance, nurses use EHR to faster get such information as lab data, care providers, progress notes, problems, and medications related to their clients. EHR enhances the care given by healthcare professionals since it facilitates recording of accurate and clear medical information (Schenk et al., 2018). Equally, telehealth allows nurses to frequently and effectively communicate with patients when at home to monitor their progress and vital signs or supervise wound care. Indeed, telehealth and EHR reduce the pressure experienced by nurses when more patients visit a hospital and manual searching of health records. HCI minimizes the chances of making errors when providing care to the patients. Nurses who work in understaffed healthcare facilities or for long hours have greater risks of making mistakes. However, new technologies installed in hospitals simplify routine procedures, decreasing possibility of human inaccuracies. For example, drug administration systems can automatically measure patient’s medication dosage. Also, EHR lessens possible faults at the bedside since patient’s information is readily available (Schenk et al., 2018). Nevertheless, HCI can negatively impact nursing practice, risking patients’ safety. For instance, the suggestive feature in the EHR systems can lead to wrong entry of patient’s information or prescription of wrong medication and dosage.
The author discusses the topic of the absurdity of lives; this debatable topic has been worrying many people, and Thomas Nagel takes responsibility to express his opinion about it. He states that the reasons in defense of the statement that life is absurd do not explain and support this claim; therefore, he wants to prove a controversial statement – life is not absurd. The author asks the audience an interesting question: “If their mattering now is not enough to accomplish that, how would it help if they mattered a million years from now?” (Nagel, 1971, p.716). Indeed, people tend to search for a more significant meaning in their actions; they want the activity to be mattering after a long time; otherwise, it is not worthy. The writer says that people simply cannot know what will matter in a million years. (Nagel, 1971, p.717). He does not understand why they need to know the mattering of something later if mattering in the present moment is enough. When digging deeper into this discussion, I suppose that Nagel wanted to present the importance of living in the present moment rather than thinking about what particular action might matter in the future. I agree with the writer’s point of view because any action completely matters in the present, but no one knows about its matter a few years later. Any action done in the present affects the future. However, there is no need to anticipate; knowing about certain consequences is enough. This theme has been discussed many times in different books, academic works, and plays; I would like to provide a quote from the book that echoes Nagel’s work: “Don’t be the one who wakes up the next day regretting having not taken that last dance with a loved one or even with yourself.” (Edwards, 2018, p.215). In this way, I think that Nagel wanted to present his readers with the idea that if every action they do matters in the present, life cannot be absurd.
The Great Wall of America between Mexico and the United States should not become built. I support this statement for several reasons. First, building such a wall will cost the United States vast amounts of money. Rogers explains that the wall will cost America over $40 billion (100). Rather than spending all this money in building the wall, the government should consider hiring extra security people and obtaining more security systems in efforts to enhance defense. Second, building such a wall will imply that persons crossing into the United States illegally will have to use other routes that could be physically inhospitable. I argue that unless persons crossing the border seem to show a threat of force, they should not become allowed to risk their lives by entering the country from dangerous locations such as mountains and hills that near the border. Third, America should make use of its National Guard unit in efforts to defend the country and not building the wall. This unit can defend the country and offer reinforcement to the Border Patrol unit at a reduced incremental cost. The American government already pays for services offered by these units and only slight increments would be required to enhance training and buying of more equipment. Lastly, building this wall will destroy nature reserves, protected land and endanger species that live along the border. Besides, the border will separate Native Americans into two parts. I think that building this wall will interfere with the personal rights of Native Americans. Although I support that this wall should not become built, I feel that some of my colleagues use misleading assertions to substantiate their arguments. First, they claim that creating such a wall will promote racism. However, it is obvious that erecting a wall that separates two states can only promote national sovereignty and not racism. For instance, Saudi Arabia has plans to erect a wall that separates its border from Iraq, and no one has associated this act with racism (Huband 134). The truth is that the Southern border creates room for illegal entry into the United States, and thus, it is obvious that this region requires more security than other areas. Second, I oppose the idea of my colleagues that this wall will resemble the Berlin w
Global literature is a general term referring to the world’s national literary texts. This term includes works, which have become famous within and outside countries of their origin. It is worth mentioning that most books, which are identified as the part of global literature, were written in Europe. These works have several distinguishing features. Usually, such books contain descriptions of habits, traditions, mentality, nature, geography, history and other characteristics by which certain nations are specified. For example, the author of The perforated sheet refers many times to different geographical objects, historical facts and local habits, like the city of Bombay, Kashmir, Mughal Empire, a prayer mat (Rushdie, 2002). Although, the main reason why a book gets global recognition is its main idea, which raises relevant to the global community problems. In this case, Rushdie (2002) discusses the question of losing the faith and replacing it with love. Regarding the question of the blurring of national boundaries, it is necessary to note that it is not a typical attribute for global literature. The blurring of national boundaries implies removing the cultural specificity from the book in order to make it more understandable for readers from all over the world. Authors may refer to a lot of different geographical locations and facts to distract the attention from the scene of the main action like it is done in Wedding at the cross : “He fought in Egypt”, “hawk market at Bahati” (Thiong’o, 2002, pp. 1042-1043). The same method is detected in Omeros (Walcott, 2002). The story described in The perforated sheet mainly takes place in a specific location, Kashmir, but the author mentions some other places as well (Rushdie, 2002). Finally, the fourth novel, Girl, obviously has only a few details, which may help to identify the location and the ethnicity of the main character (Kincaid, 2002). However, it is less likely to do that. Also, the main character does not even have a name. The author discusses problems common to people of any social group living in any place in the world. Education and discipline problems described in Girl deserve to be discussed in detail. Every phrase from this work contains a message of enormous size and importance. All these recommendations might seem to be controversial. However, they present a clear perception of a confident person. It is highly important to demonstrate these views to high school students who very soon will have to begin their own lives, full of responsibilities and problems, like the main character of this novel. Providing examples cited in Girl , teachers need to raise a dialogue among students addressing mentioned above issues as these themes closely correspond to students’ main interests. The practical nature of questions described in this work relates to every individual. Hence, forcing students to make concise conclusions based on this discussion will help them to comprehend the main principles which guide people throug
Introduction Listening to Gustav Holtz’s The Planets is a deeply moving experience. The music seems to be programmatic, but even if the listener did not know the titles of the movements, there are strong and instantly recognizable elements that seem to ‘mean’ something. Holtz has used a variety of effects to create a varied set of movements that nonetheless tie together well overall. Main Body Gustav Holst’s The Planets section entitled Mars, the Bringer of War, begins with a military sounding, march-like beat. It has been copied so often that it seems familiar even if one has never heard it before. The militarism of it is not upbeat, at least at the beginning, but quite frightening. It evokes the clash of war rather than any glory of war. Venus, the Bringer of Peace opens with a meltingly tender phrase, and keeps up the gentle lyricism from there on. It could not be more at odds with the previous movement. However, it does not have an easily recalled melodic line, perhaps evoking the ephemeral nature of peace and love. The section entitled Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, has been used so often for everything from commercials to radio theme music that it could be predictable. However, it is such a lilting, almost melodic piece, with it sounds like a traditional dance tune that has been fractured somehow. The movement devoted to Uranus gives the impression of a person jumping from place to place. IT touches down nowhere long enough to create a melody. Mercury’s movement is likewise hard to pin down. This is in stark contrast to Saturn’s movement. This is a frightening beginning, with an extended note, held for what seems like an impossibly long time. However, it resolves gently, much as a natural death resolves life. All of this music has a certain danceable quality and the listener wonders whether it could be good ballet music. It is moving and inspiring to hear. The video presentation of Beyond the Score is exceedingly helpful. Although it is not always crystal clear whether certain words are attributable to Holtz or to later writers or modern ones, the information is of profound assistance in listening to the piece The Planets. This is the only criticism of an otherwise magnificent analysis and explication of a complex and many-faceted piece of mu
Foreign language study is a long-term and challenging process that demands many skills from both educators and learners to succeed and achieve appropriate results. At the same time, there are numerous aspects impacting all participants and showing the emergence of particular outcomes. That is why much attention is devoted to the development of tools, models, and methods of language teaching that are used in modern educational establishments to achieve success and ensure a high level of language skills. The assigned reading also delves into this aspect and revolves around the nature of approaches and methods that can be used by skilled specialists depending on the situation and current needs of learners. Understanding this area is critical for the appropriate selection of models and their implementation into practice. Describing the methods, the chapter assumes that the difference between a philosophy of language teaching regarding theory and principles becomes critical. That is why there are the three suggested levels of conceptualization which are defined as approach, method, and technique. They form a particular bond and remain in hierarchical relations that determine their further use and implementation. Thus, an approach is described as a set of assumptions describing the nature of language teaching and learning. The method is outlined as the plan needed to present the language material in terms of the selected approach. One approach might include many methods used by educators to achieve their goals. Finally, the technique is a set of actions that take place in classrooms and are used to accomplish the objective. These three terms become central while speaking about language teaching and final success. Continuing cogitation about the outlined basic elements, the reading delves into the critical peculiarities of the approach, design, and techniques to avoid misunderstandings and reveal essential features. For instance, the existence of multiple theoretical concepts of language is emphasized as they impact teaching and results significantly. That is why there is a detailed description of models influencing the effectiveness of methods and tools such as the cognitive, structural, functional, interactional, sociocultural, genre, and lexical ones. The necessity of their detailed discussion comes from the idea that language is an extremely complex phenomenon that can be studied using various perspectives determining its understanding. For instance, the cognitive model presupposes that the way a person speaks reflects the central properties of his/her mind. In accordance with this theory, our mind contains specific grammar and principles universal to all languages, which is critical for learning. For this reason, it is fundamental to take into account all
In Chapter One of the book Grapes of Wrath , John Steinbeck describes the erosion that happened in Oklahoma and the impact that it had on local people. Steinbeck (1992) talks about how the last light rains in the state came in May, after which the sun started scorching the area. What follows is the illustration of fields and plants that had barely come to life dying – slowly and painfully – from the heat of the impending summer. The roads became dusty, the wind grew stronger, the sun was hardly visible. Men tried to put on a brave face while attempting to measure the damage, so that their wives and kids knew that not all was lost. The author’s purpose in writing this chapter was to set the scene for the narration by illustrating how severe the drought that had occurred was, using various stylistic devices and expressive means. First of all, Steinbeck uses personification when describing the forces of nature (The last rains lifted the corn quickly; the rain-heads […] hurried on ; the wind […] dug cunningly). In doing that, he draws attention to how powerful it was in that particular context, as if had will of its own. Alliteration is another stylistic device used extensively by the author in Chapter One. Its’ purpose is to impart a certain emotional tone to the sentence with the help of repeated consonants. This sequence focuses on fragility of the land and its people before the oncoming drought, so it is only fair that there are examples of phrases featurin
In The Snuff Bottle, acts of theft result into levels of unavoidable revenge with several themes being illustrated by the author. The Setting of the story is in a village where poverty and crime seem to thrive. The struggles of survival are depicted as different family members strain to make ends meet. This analysis gives a detailed coverage of the themes portrayed by the writer which include poverty, crime, violence and revenge. After the boy has recovered, he looks around and realizes that he is in hermit’s house. He does a through search of the house, from bookcases to bundles of medicinal herbs. After a moment, the boy discovers bottles which draw his attention, spotting a unique two-inch-high bottle, covered with mud. His curiosity to know the content of the bottle overrules him and decides to hide as he makes his way after of the house. This marks the start of crime and violence in the story. He stills the bottle from hermit’s house. The author also introduces Liu Yun whom he says that though he looked innocent, he was behind all forms of mischief in the village (Ying 49). This shows how young people get introduced to criminal behavior like stealing of books. Although Yun is only three years than the boy, he extremely likes girls in the village. His mischievous behavior had ruined his dream and failed to finish school. As a result, he spends most of his time drinking, smoking, singing dirty songs and hanging in the streets (Ying 49). As the story progresses, we learn about the disappearance of cigarettes from the f