Practical Demonkeeping Chapter 26

26 TRAVIS'S STORY Augustus Brine sat in one of the large calfskin seats before his chimney, drinking red wine from an inflatable flagon and puffing endlessly on his meerschaum. He had guaranteed himself that he would have just one glass of wine, just to offer some relief from the adrenaline and caffeine clatter he had worked himself into during the grabbing. Presently he was on his third glass and the wine had imbued him with a warm, sloppy inclination; he let his psyche float in a marvelous vertigo before assaulting the main job: cross examining the demonkeeper. The individual looked innocuous enough, propped up and attached to the next wing seat. Be that as it may, if Gian Hen Gian was to be accepted, this dim youngster was the most risky human on Earth. Salt water considered cleaning up before waking the demonkeeper. He had gotten a brief look at himself in the washroom reflect †his facial hair and dressing secured with flour and sediment, his skin built up with sweat-streaked goo †and concluded that he would establish an all the more scary connection in his present condition. He had discovered the smelling salts in the medication bureau and sent Gian Hen Gian to the washroom to wash while he rested. In reality he needed the Djinn out of the room while he scrutinized the demonkeeper. The Djinn's condemnations and ravings would just muddle an effectively troublesome errand. Saline solution set his wineglass and his channel on the end table and got a cotton-wrapped smelling-salt case. He hung over to the demonkeeper and snapped the case right in front of him. For a second nothing occurred, and Brine expected that he had hit him excessively hard, at that point the demonkeeper began hacking, took a gander at Brine, and shouted. â€Å"Calm down †you're all right,† Brine said. â€Å"Catch, help me!† The demonkeeper battled against his bonds. Saline solution got his funnel and lit it, influencing an exhausted unresponsiveness. After a second the demonkeeper settled down. Brackish water blew a flimsy stream of smoke into the air between them. â€Å"Catch isn't here. You're on your own.† Travis appeared to overlook that he had been beaten, seized, and tied up. His fixation was centered around Brine's last explanation. â€Å"What do you mean, Catch isn't here? You think about Catch?† Salt water considered giving him the I'm-posing the-inquiries here line that he had heard so often in investigator motion pictures, however upon reflection, it appeared to be senseless. He wasn't a hardass; why assume the job? â€Å"Yes, I think about the devil. I realize that he eats individuals, and I realize you are his master.† â€Å"How do you know all that?† â€Å"It doesn't matter,† Brine said. â€Å"I likewise realize that you've lost control of Catch.† â€Å"I have?† Travis appeared to be truly shaken by this. â€Å"Look, I don't have the foggiest idea what your identity is, however you can't keep me here. On the off chance that Catch is crazy once more, I'm the one in particular that can stop him. I'm truly near consummation this; you can't stop me now.† â€Å"Why should you care?† â€Å"What do you mean, for what reason would it be a good idea for me to mind? You may think about Catch, yet you can't envision what he resembles when he's out of control.† â€Å"What I mean,† Brine stated, â€Å"is for what reason would it be a good idea for you to think about the harm he causes? You rang him, isn't that right? You send him out to slaughter, don't you?† Travis shook his head fiercely. â€Å"You don't comprehend. I'm not what you think. I never needed this, and now I get an opportunity to stop it. Release me. I can end it.† â€Å"Why would it be advisable for me to confide in you? You're a murderer.† â€Å"No. Catch is.† â€Å"What's the distinction? In the event that I do release you, it will be on the grounds that you will have mentioned to me what I need to know, and how I can utilize that data. Presently I'll tune in and you'll talk.† â€Å"I can't reveal to you anything. Also, you would prefer not to know in any case, I guarantee you.† â€Å"I need to know where the Seal of Solomon is. Furthermore, I need to know the chant that sends Catch back. Until I know, you're not going anywhere.† â€Å"Seal of Solomon? I don't have the foggiest idea what you're talking about.† â€Å"Look †what is your name, anyway?† â€Å"Travis.† â€Å"Look, Travis,† Brine stated, â€Å"my partner needs to utilize torment. I don't care for the thought, however in the event that you jolt me around, torment may be the best way to go.† â€Å"Don't you must have two folks to play great cop, terrible cop?† â€Å"My partner is cleaning up. I needed to check whether I could prevail upon you before I let him close to you. I truly don't have a clue what he's able of†¦ I'm not even sure what he is. So in the event that we could continue ahead with this, it would be better for the both of us.† â€Å"Where's Jenny?† Travis inquired. â€Å"She's fine. She's at work.† â€Å"You won't hurt her?† â€Å"I'm not a fear monger, Travis. I didn't request to be engaged with this, yet I am. I would prefer not to hurt you, and I could never hurt Jenny. She's a companion of mine.† â€Å"So on the off chance that I mention to you what I know, you'll let me go?† â€Å"That's the arrangement. Yet, I'll need to ensure that what you let me know is true.† Brine loose. This youngster didn't appear to have any of the characteristics of a mass killer. On the off chance that anything, he appeared to be somewhat gullible. â€Å"Okay, I'll reveal to you all that I think about Catch and the mantras, yet I pledge to you, I know nothing about any Seal of Solomon. It's a really abnormal story.† â€Å"I speculated that,† Brine said. â€Å"Shoot.† He presented himself with a glass of wine, relit his channel, and sat back, propping his feet up on the hearth. â€Å"Like I stated, it's a really weird story.† â€Å"Strange is my center name,† Brine said. â€Å"That probably been hard for you as a child,† Travis said. â€Å"Would you continue ahead with it.† â€Å"You requested it.† Travis took a full breath. â€Å"I was conceived in Clarion, Pennsylvania, in the year nineteen hundred.† â€Å"Bullshit,† Brine intruded. â€Å"You're not a day more than twenty-five.† â€Å"This is going to take significantly additional time on the off chance that I need to continue halting. Simply listen †it'll all fall into place.† Salt water protested and gestured for Travis to proceed. â€Å"I was conceived on a ranch. My folks were Irish outsiders, dark Irish. I was the most seasoned of six kids, two young men and four young ladies. My folks were steadfast Catholics. My mom needed me to be a cleric. She pushed me to concentrate so I could get into theological school. She was taking a shot at the nearby see to suggest me while I was still in the belly. At the point when World War I broke out, she asked the religious administrator to get me into theological college early. Everyone realized it was simply an issue of time before America entered the war. My mom needed me in theological college before the Army could draft me. Young men from common schools were at that point in Europe, driving ambulances, and some of them had been slaughtered. My mom wasn't going to lose her opportunity to have a child become a cleric to something as inconsequential as a universal war. My younger sibling was somewhat moderate †intellectually, I mean. I was my mom's just chance.â₠¬  â€Å"So you went to seminary,† Brine contributed. He was getting restless with the advancement of the story. â€Å"I went in at sixteen, which made me in any event four years more youthful than different young men. My mom pressed me a few sandwiches, and I stuffed myself into a ragged dark suit that was three sizes unreasonably little for me and I was on the train to Illinois. â€Å"You need to comprehend, I didn't need any piece of this stuff with the devil; I truly needed to be a minister. Of the considerable number of individuals I had known as a youngster, the minister appeared as though the one in particular who had any command over things. The harvests could fizzle, banks could close, individuals could become ill amazing, the minister and the congregation were consistently there, quiet and unflinching. And all that mystery was really clever, too.† â€Å"What about women?† Brine inquired. He had settled himself to hearing an epic, and it appeared as though Travis expected to tell it. Brackish water discovered he loved the odd youngster, notwithstanding himself. â€Å"You don't miss what you've never known. I mean I had these inclinations, however they were evil, correct? I simply needed to state, ‘Get thee behind me Satan', and continue ahead with it.† â€Å"That's the most staggering thing you've let me know so far,† Brine said. â€Å"When I was sixteen, sex appeared the main motivation to go on living.† â€Å"That's what they thought at theological college, as well. Since I was more youthful than the others, the consul of control, Father Jasper, took me on as his exceptional task. To keep me from tainted contemplations, he made me work continually. In the nights, when the others were given time for petition and contemplation, I was sent to the house of prayer to clean the silver. While the others ate, I worked in the kitchen, serving and washing dishes. For a long time the main rest I had from sunrise until late was during classes and mass. At the point when I fell behind in my examinations, Father Jasper rode me considerably harder. â€Å"The Vatican had given the theological school a lot of silver candles for the special stepped area. As far as anyone knows they had been authorized by one of the early popes and were more than 600 years of age. The candles were the most valued ownership of the theological college and it was my business to clean them. Father Jasper remained over me, evening in the wake of night, reprimanding me and scolding me for being tainted in thought. I cleaned the silver until my hands were dark from the compound, and still Father Jasper criticized me. On the off chance that I had polluted contemplations it was on the grounds that he continued reminding me to have them. â€Å"I had no companions in theological school. Father Jasper had put his imprint on me, and different understudies evaded me inspired by a paranoid fear of summoning the regent of order's fury. I kept in touch with home whenever I got an opportunity, however for reasons unknown my letters were never replied. I started to speculate that Father Jasper was shielding my letters from getting to me. �

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The main rule essentially says that the laws of material science apply similarly to everybody in all circumstances. The subsequent rule is the more significant one. It specifies that theâ speed of lightâ in a vacuum is steady. In contrast to every single other type of movement, it isn't estimated distinctively for eyewitnesses in various inertial casings of reference. Laws of Thermodynamics Theâ laws of thermodynamicsâ are really explicit appearances of the law of preservation of mass-vitality as it identifies with thermodynamic procedures. The field was first investigated during the 1650s by Otto von Guerickeâ in Germany and Robert Boyle and Robert Hookeâ in Britain. Every one of the three researchers utilized vacuum siphons, which von Guericke spearheaded, to contemplate the standards ofâ pressure,â temperature, andâ volume. The Zeroeth Law of Thermodynamicsâ makes the thought of temperature possible.The First Law of Thermodynamicsâ demonstrates the connection between inside vitality, included warmth, and work inside a system.The Second Law of Thermodynamicsâ relates to the characteristic progression of warmth inside aâ closed system.The Third Law of Thermodynamicsâ states that it is difficult to make aâ thermodynamic processâ that is consummately productive. Electrostatic Laws Two laws of material science administer the connection between electrically charged particles and their capacity to make electrostatic forceâ and electrostatic fields.â Coulombs Law is named for Charles-Augustin Coulomb, a French specialist working during the 1700s. The power between two point charges is straightforwardly corresponding to the extent of each charge andâ inversely relative to the square of the separation between their focuses. In the event that the articles have a similar charge, positive or negative, they will repulse one another. On the off chance that they have inverse charges, they will pull in each other.Gausss Law is named for Carl Friedrich Gauss, a German mathematicianâ who worked in the mid nineteenth century. This law states thatâ the net progression of an electric field through a shut surface is corresponding to the encased electric charge. Gauss proposed comparable laws identifying with attraction and electromagnetism in general. Past Basic Physics In the domain of relativity and quantum mechanics, researchers have discovered that these laws despite everything apply, in spite of the fact that their translation requires some refinement to be applied, bringing about fields, for example, quantum gadgets and quantum gravity.

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I work on accepting each person where they are in their life,which takes strength. I may be saying in my mind, Cant you see your way outof the prison youre in?, but then I remember that I used to be in the sameplace, and it took years to find my way out. I still struggle with my addiction,and it still affects me, just not so profoundly.What I would like to do is work with teenagers. As a teenager, I wasbefriended by a Young Life leader. He was a man in his 40s and didnt wantanything from me but to be my friend. When I drank beer at lunch, he didnttell me to not drink. I dont remember his words so much as the feeling I gotwhen we were together. He was like a father/friend to me. He seemed to careabout me unconditionally. He looked at me like a real human person, which mademe uncomfortable, which now looking back, was probably because I wasnt used tothat. My own father lived in the same house with me, but he was not emotionallyavailable to me. 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I have heard thatthere are work camps where the inmates learn a skill or trade so that when theinmates are released into society, they at least have marketable job skillsworking in their favor. I think community service should be required as an alternative to jailor prison in some cases. Picking up garbage may seem demeaning, but I know of acity employee who makes a good salary picking up garbage around my neighborhood. Maybe if the people who threw the garbage on the ground had to pick it up, theywould care. Taking classes, GED or college, is popular in prison also. I have afriend who learned computer skills in prison and is now working toward a degreein computer engineering. He is grateful he had the opportunity to take collegeclasses in prison, otherwise he may have never found out how much he enjoysprogramming computers. It seems to help his self esteem, because he seemsgifted in this area and people often ask for his help and advice concerningcomputers. I suppose that providing housing for convicted criminals would not costmore than incarceration. It does not seem that imprisonment is much of adeterrent to crime. A Settlement House may seem idealistic, but is morefeasible than some may think. Sex offenders are often released into thecommunity. A new program has been implemented in which parole officers andpolice officers regularly visit released offenders. A step in the rightdirection was made when our community invited a psychologist from a sex offendertreatment facility to educate us about this population, rather than ignoring theproblem and hoping it will go away. The psychologist told us that seriousoffenders are psychopathic; they do not know and do not care what is right andwrong, nor do they care who they hurt. They have no feelings or emotions. Evenso, I do not think that terrorizing or intimidating released sex offenders, as Ihave heard of in some cities, helps anybody. I think many criminals would be better off with the awareness andsupport of the community. It is often difficult for former prison inmates tofind shelter, and a transitional community setting may help resolve manyproblems. I have wondered if support from the community would help someoffenders. Sometimes people fall into addictions because of something missingin his or her life. If we combine resources of therapy, job training,supervision, and community involvement, maybe we would see some positive changes. Arabian Nights EssayMarriage and family counselors are more acceptable now than when I wasgrowing up. It used to be that people would be ashamed to admit they were eventhinking about counseling, where now I here people almost bragging about it learning to communicate with your family, if you did not grow up freelyexpressing your thoughts, feels wonderful. I plan to learn more about my field before I call myself a specialist. Being able to work with teenagers will probably require me to be a specialist inseveral fields, including juvenile, domestic violence and chemical dependency. My goal is to receive a well rounded education. From the creativity and insightof teenagers to the wisdom and insight of senior citizens, my horizons arebroadened when I converse with people from different backgrounds. Whether weare advocates, educators, or directors, we are each trained to use ourindividual talents to create a functional system of human service workers. 7Get a job!Permanent birth control now mandated for every woman on the dole! Iadmit, sometimes these thoughts cross my mind. But I am also one of these women. What began as my American Dream ended as quickly as it began. My husband wasin the Navy. I thought I would live a life of adventure, see new places, meetnew people. What really happened is that I ended up on an isolated militarybase, with a man who didnt really care about me or his child. Being that Ihave felt the need for independence from a man, I do not think there are anysimple solutions such as stay married, or get a job. In my opinion it isunfair to ask a mother of a baby to go to work and put her baby in a daycare. Ithink children should be four or five years of age before put in daycare. Many populations are in need of assistance. Sometimes I envy the womenwho live in ( ). They drive Mazda Minivans, take up hobbies, anddont need to work. Sometimes I wonder how many are unhappily trapped in thatlife. They know they could be one day away from losing their children, theirhome, everything. When I think of drastic welfare reform, what scares me is thecontrol someone can have over you when he knows that without him, you havenothing. I consider myself a capitalist, but I cant but help think about CEOswho make salaries in the millions. And about disabled people who live on a fewhundred a month. I think opportunities for education should be funded. Without education,many people have no marketable skills to earn an adequate living. 10Its not just a job, its an adventure! In a job youll get burned out. If youfind a career you love, you will use a lot of energy, but the rewards will keepyou motivated.At the public library, there are many books to give you ideasand help you decide on a career. I found a group of books in the CommunityCollege Library issued by the US Department of Labor in which the authorsuggests listing a few things you would be interested in doing as a career. Ialso found a set of four books called Encyclopedia of Careers and VocationalGuidance. Then decide which ideas would be a practical for you to earn a living. If you have a gift or ability, it feels good to use it to help people. Volunteering is a good way to find out where your talents lie. I have beenfortunate enough to have had the opportunity to be employed as a work-studystudent by several departments on my college campus. I found out by on the jobexperience what I love to do. Is it possible to go to school or receive on thejob training? Sometimes where there is a will, there is a way. I know somepeople who manage apartments, therefore do not need to pay rent for a place tolive. They receive financial aid and food stamps while they are in school. What some people do is find out which professions are in demand, or willbe in the future. These trends can be found in publications such as governmentstatistical manuals. If there is something you think you would like to explore, maybe you couldtalk to people who are willing to take the time to explain how they carry outtheir responsibilities for their work. Bring a list of questions so the personyou are interviewing has an idea of what specific aspects of their career youare curious about. People who are happy with their careers are usually quitewilling to talk about themselves in this way. I know someone who owns his ownbusiness. He began as a backyard mechanic and now ten years later runs a verysuccessful auto repair shop. For him it means long hours, but he is very proudof his accomplishments. He says there is nothing like being your own boss. Social Issues

Was Malvolios Treatment Justified Essay Example For Students

Was Malvolios Treatment Justified Essay Malvolio is a steward (servant) for Olivia. He claims to be a puritan, a sect of Christians who have strict moral principles. They are against drinking, merrymaking, theatre and many other forms of entertainment. He dislikes Sir Toby and Sir Andrew as they are drunkards and go against his puritan beliefs. Malvolio himself is very conceited, he loves himself and believes that everyone else loves him too. A classic example of his conceited behaviour is when he is reading the forged letter and thinking that Olivia loves him. Besides, she uses me with more exalted respect than anyone else that follows here We will write a custom essay on Was Malvolios Treatment Justified specifically for you for only $16.38 $13.9/page Order now Even Olivia thinks he is conceited and shows this when Malvolio is being nasty to Feste because he is a fool. O you are sick of self-love, Malvolio As Sir Toby ( Olivias uncle) and Sir Andrew (his drinking companion) love drinking they often come home drunk. They are fed up of Malvolio stopping them drinking and merrymaking and threatening to tell Olivia about what they are doing. Feste (a fool) who occasionally joins them in their merrymaking also dislikes Malvolio as he refers to Feste as a barren rascal who has no more brains than a stone Maria Olivias lady in waiting (maid) has a fancy for Sir Toby also does not like Malvolio. The four decide to play a trick on him to bring him down a peg or two. Maria invents a trick which could only work on someone as conceited as Malvolio. The trick they decide to play on him is for Maria to imitate Olivias writing and write a fake letter to Malvolio saying how much she loves him. They will then leave it somewhere Malvolio will find it. Maria tells Malvolio that she thinks Olivia loves him then leaves the letter under a chair, on the patio in the garden, and hide behind the hedges to watch. Malvolio already thinking that Olivia loves him sits down, seeing the letter he picks it up the letter and opens it. He quickly realises that they are love letters from Olivia as he recognises the handwriting, and he jumps to the conclusion that they are about him. M- Malvolio! M! Why, that begins my name He reads them out loud and then boasts, out loud, about what life married to Olivia would be like. Imagining about what fun it would be to order Sir Toby around. Meanwhile Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, Feste and Maria watching Malvolio fall for their trick hook line and sinker are roaring with laughter. Sir Toby is also cursing as he is annoyed about Malvolio dreaming about ordering him around. The last letter Malvolio reads contains instructions for Malvolio if he wants to return her love. The instructions were to:- Be opposite with my Kinsman (go against here relatives). Surly with servants (Be nasty to here servants). Let thy tongue twang arguments of state (speak about politics all the time). Remember who commended thy yellow stockings, and wished to see thee cross-gartered. ( wear yellow, cross-gartered stockings). Cast thy humble slough and appear fresh( smile all the time. These instruction are totally the opposite of what Olivia would want Malvolio to be. She is in mourning and will not want someone close to her grinning like a Cheshire cat and yellow stockings is a colour she abhors The next day Olivia was nervous as she was about to meet Cesario, she called Malvolio thinking he would calm her down. 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He keeps hinting about the letter, but Olivia knows nothing about him. Eventually Olivia reaches the conclusion that he is having a bout of midsummer madness and asks Sir Toby to look after him while she meets Cesario. Malvolio still thinking the letter was genuine thinks that Olivia has done this to see whether he will follow the instructions of the letter and be rude to her relatives. Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, Maria and Fabian (another one of Sir Tobys drinking pals) take Malvolio away. They start to tease Malvolio pretending he is possessed by the devil. Malvolio refuses to do what he is told and tells them Go hang yourselves all and that they Shall know more hereafter and storms out. The next thing they decide to do to Malvolio is to tie him up in a dark cell and leave him there till they think that the joke has passed. Olivia will not care as she is in the belief that hes mad. They put Malvolio in the dark cell as planned. Then Feste dressed as Sir Topas (a Spanish priest) torments Malvolio. He tells Malvolio that he must be mad by telling him that the room he is in is light. Eventually Sir Toby decides the joke is over and agrees to take a letter from Malvolio to the Olivia. In the final scene of the play Malvolio exposes the trick in front of assembled company. He still feels bitter and shouts Ill be revengd on the whole pack of you I personally feel that Malvolios treatment was, to a certain extent, justified, but I feel that Sir Toby and Feste went too far. They were right to play a trick on him as he needed being brought down a peg or two. I think they shouldnt have locked him up in the dark cell as that is more like torture than a joke. At the time the play was written I think many people would have thought that Malvolios treatment was justified as many people were against the Puritans. One reason Shakespeare wrote this play is to get at the Puritans as they wanted to stop theatre, the thing that made Shakespeare famous.

Prime Ministers of Canada Since 1867

Prime Ministers of Canada Since 1867 The prime minister of Canada heads the government of Canada and serves as the primary  minister of the sovereign, in this case, the monarch of the United Kingdom.  Sir  John A. Macdonald  was  the first prime minister since Canadian Confederation  and assumed office on July 1,  1867. Chronology of the Canadian Prime Ministers The following list chronicles the Canadian prime ministers and their dates in office since 1867. Prime Minister Dates in Office Justin Trudeau 2015 to Present Stephen Harper 2006 to 2015 Paul Martin 2003 to 2006 Jean Chretien 1993 to 2003 Kim Campbell 1993 Brian Mulroney 1984 to 1993 John Turner 1984 Pierre Trudeau 1980 to 1984 Joe Clark 1979 to 1980 Pierre Trudeau 1968 to 1979 Lester Pearson 1963 to 1968 John Diefenbaker 1957 to 1963 Louis St Laurent 1948 to 1957 William Lyon Mackenzie King 1935 to 1948 Richard B Bennett 1930 to 1935 William Lyon Mackenzie King 1926 to 1930 Arthur Meighen 1926 William Lyon Mackenzie King 1921 to 1926 Arthur Meighen 1920 to 1921 Sir Robert Borden 1911 to 1920 Sir Wilfrid Laurier 1896 to 1911 Sir Charles Tupper 1896 Sir Mackenzie Bowell 1894 to 1896 Sir John Thompson 1892 to 1894 Sir John Abbott 1891 to 1892 Sir John A Macdonald 1878 to 1891 Alexander Mackenzie 1873 to 1878 Sir John A Macdonald 1867 to 1873 More About the Prime Minister Officially, the prime minister is appointed by the  governor general of Canada, but by constitutional convention, the prime minister must have the  confidence  of the elected  House of Commons. Normally, this is the leader of the party caucus with the greatest number of seats in the house. But, if that leader lacks the support  of the majority, the governor general can appoint another leader who has that support or may dissolve parliament and call a new election. By  constitutional convention, a prime minister holds a seat in parliament and, since the early 20th century, this has more specifically meant the House of Commons.

Mandatin Nurse-Patient Ratios Essay Example | Topics and Well Written Essays - 750 words

Mandatin Nurse-Patient Ratios - Essay Example It is where people converge with their lawmakers and meet with the team of legislators and the different committees. This is aslo where they give their testimonies and hearings. Getting the legislative place comes prior to providing change in policy (Abood, 2007 p.21). The nurses should understand the arena for legislation of the state and the federal levels to make their issues get known. 2) Understanding the legislative process steps This is the procedure that creates recommendations, makes and finally sources programs of health, and stages out other strategy and policy domains with healthy policy (Abood, 2007). After a problem becomes an agenda of the public, a bill should be provided, allocated to a panel, strategies organized, and activity of the panel takes the bill to the management before it is taken to any sitting. Each scenario has a similar legal procedure to authoritatively make policy options (Abood, 2007 p.21). Using the strategy, the nurses by understanding the legisla tive process steps can formulate bills that can be presented to their legislatures at the state and the federal levels for their agenda to be forwarded. ... As part of the profession, nurses possess significant influence to change the legislation particularly when proper healthcare has an organization, common choice on a problem. 4) Understanding Committees The committees can be the facilities of education and policy making. This comprise of state and federal levels. The proposed legislation is granted the extreme concern in the panel level. This is during situations when conflicting points of view are analyzed and hammering of the legislation is done. Nurses are going to affect the procedure at this juncture by asking a chance to give a testimony. 5) Communicating with Legislators Law makers at the federal and state levels go through thousands of expenses that encompass wide problems annually. Therefore, it is difficult for the lawmakers to be experienced on every problem and to know every bill. Writing a well-designed correspondence, providing e-mails, making a written summary of the problem with team, and pleasant the legislator to vi sit the office are all methods to get someone's law makers to consider one as an professional on healthcare proper care and to get in touch with when they need details appropriate to nursing and healthcare (Abood, 2007p.24). Increasing My Power to have an influence in votes The ability to efficiently have influence in the various places where the future health care policies are made, and to take advantage of possibilities to present nursing’s viewpoint on the healthcare problems is based upon having a power platform and knowing where and when to apply that effect (Aiken et al, 2010). Power is the ability to show some influence. Furthermore, power is a factor that is inevitable in human relationships, and those people such as nurses who

The Cold War and it's Aftermath Term Paper Example | Topics and Well Written Essays - 1750 words

The Cold War and it's Aftermath - Term Paper Example Instead, political, economical, and ideological differences among the world nations eventually led to the formation of two distinct blocs, the Western and the Eastern. Eventually, the whole world became under the threat of an imminent war between these blocs. But both the Western and Eastern blocs did not try to indulge in a direct fight. Instead, global arm race and ideological conflict became the focal point of the Cold War. Thesis statement: The Cold War resulted in political conflict, military conflict, ideological conflict and global arms race, and eventually led to the decline of communism, growth of capitalism, growth of the U.S. as a global superpower, and the rapid spread of democracy. One can easily identify the fact that the political ideologies of the Western and Eastern blocs were entirely different. To be specific, the political ideology of the Western bloc was democracy. On the other side, the Eastern bloc was deeply influenced by Communist ideology. This fundamental d ifference eventually led to political propaganda and political conflict. Richard Saull states that â€Å"The Cold War, then, was not a genuine international conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, but primarily a relationship that facilitated each side in its attempts to realize its goals within its own sphere of influence.; for the United States, this was the dominance of the postwar capitalist order and for the USSR the internal security of the rule of the CPSU.†1 To be specific, both the blocs considered that political propaganda is an easy way to influence nonaligned nations. The Eastern bloc under USSR began to influence the neighboring nations and considered that the Western bloc is an imminent threat to their political interest. On the other side, the Western bloc under the U.S. began to influence the European nations. This initiative to divide the whole world nations into two blocs resulted in long lasting political conflict in America, Europe, and As ia. Military conflict The military conflict within the context of Cold War was limited to the context of threatening each other by exhibiting military superiority because both the sides possessed nuclear arms. Besides, both the sides were aware of the possibility of large scale destruction and its economic burden. So, the Western and the Eastern blocs strengthened their military forces, but did not try to attack each other. But the Suez Crisis (say, in the year 1956) the Cuban Missile Crisis (say, in the year 1962) and the â€Å"Able Archer† NATO military exercises (say, in the year 1983) led the whole world to suspect the possibility of military conflict during the Cold War. In short, military coalition and deployment of military forces was common during the Cold War era. Ideological conflict As pointed out, ideological difference was one among the grass root level reasons behind the Cold War. To be specific, the ideological conflict during the Cold War era was between commu nism and capitalism. Raymond P. Ojserkis makes clear that â€Å"A wide variety of other disagreements existed as well, many stemming from the Soviet distaste for the American vision of a postwar world dominated by relatively free trade (with currencies pegged to dollar) and elected governments.†2 One can see that the communist nations under the leadership of USSR tried to install the spirit of communism among their allies. This eventually led to the global propaganda against capitalism. On the other side, the Western bloc under the leaders

Applications of Technology in Education

Applications of Technology in Education TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION Lahore: There is an increasing demand in the country for people who corner the market of sound knowledge of technology to solve the critical problems of technical sphere. This fast growing demand has led to the creation of a number of colleges, departments and universities’ catering in this discipline by providing a specialized and structured degree program of technology based studies as this technical education is indispensable in the presence of current wake of revolutions being made up in the technical world, said by Ajmal Hussain Shah, Principal of Government College Technology, here on Saturday. He further elaborated that the future career of students after ten years of schooling mainly depends upon the marks obtained by them in the matriculation examination. Fifty to sixty percent of the top merit students prefer to get admission in FSc to start their career as engineer and doctor. Among them hardly ten percent of students can get admission in professional studies i.e. engineering universities due to limited number of seats. The rest of eager students go for admission in private sector universities which mainly depends upon their affordability as the education in private sector universities is very expensive. But the percentage is changed in the last two years as now the students prefer to be technology specialist and so they want to get admission in information technology and other degrees related to this field. The present conditions of Pakistan when its ideological and territorial boundaries are at harm, demanded some progress in agriculture and industrial areas but the recent years and revolutions have proved that the more a country is strong in technology the more it has chance to flourish. The need of the hour is to develop technical mind and skills so we can keep pace with the modern world. He argued that the students of Pakistan need to study technology because the world if moving fast is this aspect as now the US is trying to develop hypersonic aircraft and is funding Defense Advanced Research Project Agency. These aircrafts are so fast that they can reach any location on earth within an hour and circle the earth at the equator within two hours. Moreover, the US (NASA) has also launched spacecraft Juno to probe Jupiter and in 2016 it will spend one year in a polar orbit around Jupiter and will send back the information about Jupiter’s magnetic and gravitational field. It will then sort out the valuable information about the planets formed from a molecular cloud about 4.6 billion years ago. Although the Principal didn’t elaborate on â€Å"Government’s effort in the field of technology† but he shed light on the government that it has made amendments in the education system and they are worthy but still the country and its technology need much more attention. In situations where the world has made flying robots and K computers, Pakistan has yet to do a lot in the technology field for which the growing technical institutions and education system play a vital role. It does need high capital, skilled technicians and professional people to teach and perform experiments to enhance this field. Taking the challenge to make Pakistan a technically establish country is big but it will lead this country to an established economy. The information technology instructor Nazrul Islam, Government College Technology, touched upon the importance of IT in education by saying that the computer world is ready to engulf us in software heaven. Some are eager to be dependent upon anything and everything while a few remain hesitant. They are afraid of this cyber world with its new, virtual reality and take it to be the faint and fleeting colours of man’s imagination. Who knows one of these days a solution will be found to all our socio-economic problems. May be we would take heed and save mankind from annihilation. It is this that encourages us at the threshold of our new lives. He further explained that with the digital computer at the crux of these technical revolutions, the internet and the World Wide Web are among the primary drivers and the present youth is in the aura of these advancements. â€Å"what has made the big difference in recent years is not the fact that individuals computers have dramatically improved in their capabilities, but that all those information islands are being connected by digital highways made possible through the use of telecommunications infrastructure by computers, which largely explains why the internet and the WWW have begun to play such a significant role in our use of computers†. He argued that information technology is affecting us as teachers, as individuals and as a society. Our options for education, entertainment, working and a variety of things that we do in our daily lives relating to government and society are radically changing due to developments in information technology. Today, when watching TV or reading a newspaper or magazine, it is impossible to miss coverage on seemingly diverse topics related to information technology- internet, World Wide Web, digital TV, online learning, corporate restructuring, wireless communication, tele-medicine and so on. All these innovation and changes may seem disconnected, yet they all share a common denominator, computers and information technology. The adjustments that we are observing and also experiencing are neither irrelevant nor insignificant. They may be as large as those due to the industrial revolution of the 1800’s, when changes in industrial operations moved people away from agriculture and vill age life onto cities and urban life. This is the information revolution. He justified his argument about technical education by saying that Fujitsu has scored first place in International Supercomputing Conference by achieving a stunning speed of 8.162 petaflops, leaving others lying in dust. The system employed 68,544 CPUs to achieve an incredible 93% computer efficiency. So if we want to be apparent in the modern world we need to have the knowledge of every kind of technology and its possible only when we are educated in this field so which these days the colleges and universities are playing the major role. An educated person knows that in coming years the person with knowledge of technology will be successful because it’s the skill that enables one to understand the present world revolutions. He concluded the discussion by explaining that But one cannot underestimate the fact that new millennium may not be all glory and greatness. In the past, man has developed, progressed and triumphed. But to some extent this has gone to his head, and he is blinded by the luster of success and power. It’s like taking one step forward and one backward. At one moment we hail the victories of man, at another, we wail the same achievements, crippling nature and his own survival. The future, with its surprises and mysteries is opening new doors for us. In the coming years, we may look for untouched frontiers. This technological era may try to plunder other planets far off galaxies. This technology is something quaint and who knows canoeing on the crests and troughs of time, it might find the light, the knowledge and the sense of balance. Then it might transform this world into a safe, glorious place with a bright, singing reign of peace and happiness.

The Altarpiece of Saint Peter :: essays papers

The Altarpiece of Saint Peter Art is a window to the past and there is no place other than the many museums of the world where this is more strongly felt. More specifically, it is also seen through Martin de Soria's work, The Altarpiece of Saint Peter, which was completed around 1480. According to the panel near the altarpiece in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the piece is an enormous work of tempera on panel with parchment ground; it is a typical Spanish altarpiece of the medieval period and is comprised of a complex arrangement of twenty-six paintings. This piece was chosen as a representative of the medieval period because its emphasis is placed entirely on religion, the style with which it was painted and decorated is hugely characteristic of the medieval period, and finally the painting depicts the economic state of Europe as far as the church was concerned during that time. The piece was chosen primarily because of the magnificent presence that is felt as one enters the room, or cathedral, where the piece may be located. The viewer's eye is drawn immediately to the central figure of Saint Peter who was seated as pope at the time. Giving the main focus of the work to the pope is representative of the importance that was placed on the papal seat. This importance was exemplified, during the time of this altarpiece's creation, by the crisis of the Great Schism. Furthermore, a scene of Christ's crucifixion can be seen directly above the panel of Saint Peter further emphasizing the importance of Christ in the painting, and in the medieval time period as well. Overall, the piece depicts four images from the life of Saint Peter, which surround the center panel on the left and the right sides. In addition, scenes from the lives of the Virgin Mary and St. Blaise, a fourth century martyr, are also present. All the characters in the panels more or less have halos a nd therefore are holy figures. The twelve apostles line the bottom of the panels, perhaps suggesting that they were the foundation of the Catholic religion. Basically, the painting is designed for a church altar, it has religious figures in it, and it is filled with Bibles and images of Christ's crucifixion. All of this relays a strong message to the viewer that this is what is important in life; one should pay close attention to religion and have respect for it.

The Colonial Experience in West Africa

The Twentieth Century brought with it vast changes for the peoples of West Africa. The yoke of colonialism bound them together into a new political, economic, and social order. It was as if hundreds of years of history had suddenly ended, and begun again anew. In the wake of the Berlin West Africa Conference, in 1885, the great powers of Europe – Britain, France, Germany, and even Portugal and Belgium – had carved up West Africa among themselves. European overlords either completely replaced, or else adopted a â€Å"supervisory† position over the native African authorities. Proud kingdoms, like those of the Asante, Benin, and Dahomey, found themselves forced to adapt or disappear, as West Africans struggled to make sense of a world that had been turned completely upside down and inside out. For â€Å"inside out,† could easily describe the reversal of economic roles that came along with European conquest. Formerly, European traders had stayed close to the coast, allowing the African rulers and merchants to supply Europe and her New World colonies with slaves and other â€Å"merchandise. The British had finally succeeded in ending the slave trade some years before, and many of the coastal kingdoms of West Africa had languished as a result. Some had been almost wholly dependent upon the trade in human beings – now there would have to be new sources of revenue. For the most part, these new sources of income would be developed by Europeans who would exploit West Africa's people and resources for the benefit of their home countries. However, the Africans would also learn from their new masters. Some of them would obtain a Western education, or work to introduce the ideas of the modern industrial world to Africa. European science, technology, education, political, economic, cultural, and religious ideas would all have a profound impact on West Africa. The pre-colonial relationship between Europeans and West Africans was one of mutual trade. In the first half of the Nineteenth Century, Europeans vastly increased their purchases of palm oil, and also continued to buy tropical hardwoods, while Africans received the products of Europe's industrial revolution: cotton and woolen textiles and iron. 1 It was only as direct European influence began to increase that economic conditions were gradually modified. The introduction of cocoa by European missionaries in the 1860s, led to its becoming a major cash crop and primary export by the earliest period of European colonial domination, around 1900. Gold and coca were the mainstays of the economy in the Gold Coast (now Ghana). To keep up with their seemingly insatiable demands for these and other products, the British, French, and other others, introduced more modern techniques of production. In particular, they employed industrial methods of mining, and built railroads and port facilities to enable a vastly increased flow of goods. Yet it would be wrong to think that was no African response to changed economic conditions. Already, in the late 1800s, African merchant families, such as the Sarbahs, began to encourage rubber production: In contrast to the palm oil trade, the rubber trade, because of a greater monetary return per unit of labour input and weight, drew into its orbit thousands of producers from the deep interior, including Sefwi, Kwahu, Asante and the distant states of Brong-Ahafo, all more than 100 miles from the coast. The rubber trade also gave rise to a new group of middle-men or broken from the Fanti states, Asin, Denkyera, and Akim, who carried the trade to the further limits of the forest zone and in so doing accelerated the extension of the cash economy. Rubber became a major export with shipments totalling well over one million pounds volume in 1886; and by 1893, the Gold Coast ranked first among the rubber exporting countries of the British Empire and third in the world. 3 Africans were, therefore, fully able to adapt themselves to European conditions in order to increase the size and extent of their markets, even if this necessitated adopting new techniques, and even entirely new crops, like rubber. On the down side, an economy based on growing and harvesting rubber latex caused significant social upheavals. The influence of the coastal mercantile families and kingdoms waned in favor of inland economic interests. 4 Families like the Sarbahs expanded their trading networks deep into the Interior, opening up branch story, cajoling purchasers, and further turning economic focus toward the one paramount crop. They also became increasingly dependent on fluctuations in the European market. 5 Furthermore, the conflict between European sponsored economic development, and meddlesome European control can be seen in the 1920's Gold Coast, where British Governor Guggisberg pursued a policy that was in many ways detrimental to the future of the African peoples under his control: Anti-modernisation, anti-urban, and anti-development. Regulations and barriers against innovation proliferated†¦. Official policy did nothing to encourage the emergence of a commercial middle class. Its effect instead was to establish a highly formidable machinery of bureaucratic control†¦. The most damaging effect of colonial policy on the ground was the way in which it hindered the emergence of a ‘native modernizing cadre', one result of which ‘was to divert into long and bitter anti-colonial struggles much brilliant talent which could have been used creatively in development sectors'. 6 The subordination of African interests to European profits condemned West Africans to economic backwards through lack of skills and genuine opportunities. The lack of skill and opportunity open to native West Africans leads naturally to a discussion of European education and the new horizons it presented. Prior to the era of colonial domination, West Africa's peoples had had little contact with Western ideas, except for he occasional interactions with Christian missionaries. The states, large and small, of West Africa had been universally pre-industrial, and had possessed nothing in the way of modern communications, transportation, or even the kind of complex educational and political institutions that existed in the Christian and Muslim worlds. Missionaries were the first to introduce Western educational methods into West Africa: For them education took place in schools, where obedient pupils listened to teachers, took examinations, and received diplomas certifying knowledge. Discipline was important, not only to make the children study, but also to mold desirable habits and (that was usually considered to be even more important than learning itself). 7 On the whole, Western education extended only to teaching subjects that Europeans thought would be useful to their â€Å"charges. Vocational training was sufficient for people who would never have to govern themselves. 8 Nevertheless, an exposure to the Western academic tradition inspired many African families to push for a higher level of education for their children. â€Å"Few pupils wanted to undergo the cost and the hardship of study, only to be prepared for a rural life and a low living standard. † 9 In the 1930's, in French West Africa, Colonial Government officials began to formulate a new approach that appeared to look forward to a synthesis of the European and Native traditions. France's redefined mission civilisatrice [civilizing mission] was to be fulfilled†¦ by teaching the subject populations how to live according to â€Å"authentic African traditions,†Ã¢â‚¬ ¦ This vision of France's role overseas as the protector of indigenous cultures in the colonies challenged earlier presentations of the colonial mission that had presented France as the bearer of â€Å"European civilization† and â€Å"French culture† destined to bring Africa out of the â€Å"darkness† in which many late-nineteenth-century colonizers claimed its people lived. 10 The French administrators went so far as to strongly encourage African arts and crafts, sponsor African festivals – even to teach Africans â€Å"how to be African†(! ). In order to avoid contamination by native teachers already trained in the earlier European methods, the French actually brought in teachers from France to lead the Africans in the study of their native West African culture; these teachers being observed leading Natives in local folk dances, etc. 11 Such plans represented an interesting attempt to keep Native elites loyal to France, while at the same time, well-rooted in their Native lands and cultures. Ostensibly, such practices would avoid the â€Å"stateless† quality of Africans educated under the earlier system. Nonetheless, exposure to European educational and economic ideas – even when those ideas were fused with African traditions – could not forestall an African thirst for greater freedom and opportunity along European lines. Colonial rulers often imposed a dual system of justice – a European one for major offenses, and a Native one for those offenses deemed minor by the Colonial Authorities. The French, early on, abolished the Native courts and legal system, except in rare cases, while even under the British, it was quite clear that Native justice was distinctly secondary to the â€Å"real† justice of the Europeans. 12 Dichotomies such as these further entrenched notions of West African inferiority. The French instituted a policy of not interfering in African customs and culture, as long as those customs did not conflict with the French aim of achieving some sort of â€Å"evolution† among Africans. 13 It was taken utterly for granted that African culture was inherently inferior to French civilization. By contrast, the British authorities endeavored to maintain equilibrium by combining traditional African smallholder society with the demands of the British Cocoa Board. Rural West African society was to be maintained at all costs to prevent a breakdown of the social order, such as occurred when jobs were scarce and peasants left for the cities in the hope of finding work. There, oddly enough, the British actually encouraged the growth of an urban petit bourgeoisie in the dream of preventing rebellion. With the collapse of world markets during the Great Depression, urban and peasant unrest increased – with the noticeable difference that now a radicalized bourgeoisie was available to lead that unrest. 14 In short, the European colonial administrations of West Africa both helped and exploited Africans. With their thirst for profits, and a belief in the superiority of their own institutions, technology, and culture, they dreamed of â€Å"advancing† the native population while at the same time keeping that population economically productive, and under firm European control. Yet in so doing, they introduced many attributes of the modern world to the peoples of West Africa. European notions of development, education, and justice split traditional African life into separate public and private spheres – especially for those who embraced European learning and techniques. 15 The divide that grew up between Europeanized Africans, and those who have remained closer to their traditional ways of life remains a problem even today. One of the lasting legacies of European Colonization in West Africa was this impartial transformation; this creation of a society existing in two worlds, trained properly for neither. Once opened to the full force of the industrial (and later post-industrial) economy, the traditional African economy could not compete. At the same time, not enough West Africans were educated, in the European sense, to provide the skills and leadership to easily lead their people into a new era. European rule has left West Africa with many choices, not all of them good.

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