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- 10491: Body Art In The Extreme
- Tattoos are becoming a popular phenomenon that is seen everywhere. Today’s youth are getting permanent tattoos to be cool and trendy, but are not considering the long-term effects. Teenagers should be aware of all that body modification may include, it is not just a pretty ... old ones. Also, tattoos can get easily infected and leave a scar if not properly taken care of. Sometimes, people die from ink poisoning if too much ink gets into the blood stream. I haven’t even touched on how painful it is to get a tattoo and how painful it will be to obtain a disease. Young adults do not consider the dangers of a tattoo until it is too late. Another problem with getting a tattoo is being underage. Teenagers have to convince their parents that a tattoo isn’t a foolish decision and they really want one. Some parents are intensely against tattoos and see them as something “bad.” Certain parents are narrow minded, because they view them as gang related, devilish behavior ...
- 10492: Peplau and Campbell's "The Balance of Power in Dating"
- Peplau and Campbell's "The Balance of Power in Dating" There will come a time in our lives when the decision of birth control will have to be made. Kurt and Lisa, his girlfriend, came to this decision about ... is using it and who is not, then look at a different aspect. Look at the sharing of money, time, and effort. I think birth control can be c onsidered an equal responsibility in today's society. Letitia Anne Peplau and Susan Miller Campbell's story, The Balance of Power in Dating, defines what the word power means. They say that the definition of power is "One person's ability to influence the behavior of another to achieve personal ...
- 10493: Strategies Of Containment A Cr
- ... free man, and secondly, such measures were not necessary for the simple task of freeing Jim. Accordingly, they actually allowed Jim out to help them push the grindstone towards the shed: "We see it warn't no use; we got to go and fetch Jim. So he raised up his bed and slid the chain of the bed-leg" (196). Furthermore, after they placed the grindstone where it needed to be ... where Huck is trying to conjure up a plausible story about his background in England: How is servants treated in England? Do they treat 'em better 'n we treat our niggers? No! A servant ain't nobody there. They treat them worse than dogs (131). One must realize that slaves in the United States were also treated worse than dogs; another social criticism Mark Twain illusively placed without losing fluidity. Mark ... that whites adhered to: superiority over blacks. The prime example of this kind of irony would be the comment Aunt Polly made when Huck had fabricated the story about the cylinder-head accident: It warn't the grounding -- that didn't keep us back but a little. We blowed out a cylinder-head. [Huck said] Good gracious! anybody hurt? [asked Aunt Polly]. No'm. Killed a nigger. Well, it's ...
- 10494: How Toxic Waste Affects Canada’s Natural Environment
- How Toxic Waste Affects Canada’s Natural Environment Canada and all of the developed countries in the world produce some form of toxic waste. It doesn't matter whether it's a chocolate bar wrapper or a canister of highly radioactive plutonium; they're potentially dangerous to us and/or our natural environment unless properly disposed of. Toxic waste is any waste that could be ...
- 10495: Nursing Homes and The Lutheran Home for the Aging
- ... to promote residential care for his fellow aging Lutheran constituents. Along with the supportive interests of other Lutherans, he purchased approximately eight acres of land. A large house on the property served as the Home's first building and within a year of its founding, it had reached a capacity of twenty members. Today the same desire and motivation has increased the residential population to 313 members, age 65 and over ... daily for entertainment purposes and is found also to be a good source of rehabilitation for those who have slower motor skills, the easily confused (cognitively deficient), and people that have trouble remembering things (Alzheimer's patients). Art therapy gives the elderly a chance to paint, do craft work, woodworking, and explore dance and drama if interested. Pet therapy consists of either "live- in" pets or a hired person that brings animals in to enhance the feeling of companionship among the residents. The Lutheran Home for the Aging has a cat, iguana, several parakeets, and a Golden Retriever named Pawlet that s hare the home with the residents. There is also an Intergenerational Program that involves the Child Day Care facility located within the Home for the Aging. The child day care was built in 1991 ...
- 10496: Elizabeth Bishop S Poem The Fi
- ... As the narrator caught the fish only to observe and then release the creature, the reader develops a desire to discover exactly what is being observed. Upon analysis of the work, the poem represents Bishop s personal life, historical events of importance to her, and her views on American society. First of all, as the fish is held beside the boat, Bishop sees elements of her own personal existence in the ... represents previously repressed inner thoughts, and its advancement into the conscious environment creates extreme pain. Like the fish, most creatures can exist only in an aquatic condition, or a terrestrial condition, just as an individual's thoughts can occupy either a cognizant or a subliminal setting. Next, as the speaker attempts to look into the fish s eyes, the vision is seen through the lenses of old scratched isinglass (Bishop 1211). Isinglass, a product from the internal organs of fish used to produce windows, creates a paradoxical statement, showing that one ...
- 10497: Meaning Of Illusions
- ... all over the world. If our illusions express important wishes, fears and concerns of a particular person, the studies and the analysis of these false visions can help reveal previously unknown aspects of a person’s mental functioning. It seems that they have so many meanings that we can’t described them but most of the time we tend to follow or believe the better interpretation that we find. They have been long exercised as a fascination over the human imagination: Many illusions are generated ... or forget. Sometimes, even without knowing for sure the message or the meaning of these images that are constantly present in our daily life. When we visualized something that makes us very happy, we don’t think that it is unreal and this is not what we encountered in an every day situation and the majority of them only depend on the expression of the determined illusion. They are unavoidable, ...
- 10498: The Color Purple: Conflict Between Fonso and Celie
- The Color Purple: Conflict Between Fonso and Celie At the tender age of fifteen, Celie, the main character in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple is raped by whom she knows as her Pa. Pa forces himself upon Celie and she gets “big” or pregnant, not once, but twice. When Pa takes the children away, the first ... or fully understand the idea of her children being taken away from her, but knows that there is nothing she can do about it. This realization is a crucial point in the development of Celie’s character. She seems to understand that her life will always be rough, and adapts to it by learning to ignore things she doesn’t like. She slips into her own world, a happy place, where no harm can enter and she is safe. This adaptation will help her to get through life, since it turns out to be ...
- 10499: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- ... are said to increase with age. 30-50% of children with ADHD may display symptoms, although often times less severe, into adulthood. ADHD may be observed in children before the age of four, but it’s signs are often missed until the child begins school. ADHD is often accompanied by learning difficulties, excessive physical activity, impulsive actions, inattention and social inappropriateness. Many of the children affected by ADHD exhibit a low ... ADHD must last more than six months to be diagnosed as an attention disorder, although, it is not uncommon for medical doctors promote the idea of office diagnosis. Diagnosis of ADHD syndrome in a doctor’s office however, presents an evaluation in a controlled environment, which are subject to error. Office diagnosis entails a child being put in a observation room, usually alone, which enable the doctor to observe their behavior ... to complete a task, especially if additional distractions are present. More frequently, children suspected of having ADHD are evaluated by their intellectual, academic, social and emotional functioning. The evaluation often includes input from the child’s teacher(s), parent(s), and others adults that frequently interact with the child. There are questionnaires that will rate the child behavior that are often used by the parents and teacher of the child. ( ...
- 10500: Poem #640: Interpretation
- ... Our life—His Porcelain— Like a Cup— Discarded of the Housewife— Quaint—or Broke— A newer Sevres pleases— Old Ones crack— I could not die—with You— For One must wait To shut the Other’s Gaze down— You—could not— And I—Could I stand by And see You—freeze— Without my Right of Frost— Death’s privilege? Nor could I rise—with You— Because Your Face Would put out Jesus’— That New Grace Glow plain—and foreign On my homesick Eye— Except that You than He Shone closer by— They’d ... her lover because their life together is an object that can only be opened with a key. The Sexton, or church officer in charge of the maintenance of church property, keeps the key. The reverend’s involvement with God and with a woman at the same time is like a porcelain cup that is easily broken. This is an example of Personification. Life is personified as this old cup which ...
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