In his book, “The Signal and the Noise,” Nate Silver discusses many statistical and analytic techniques as they relate to everyday events and phenomenon. For instance Silver writes about topics such as baseball, weather predictions, climate change, the stock market and terrorism to name a few. In each chapter he addresses the issues at hand and describes how statistical analysis can be employed to make the topic easy to understand and often predict certain outcomes. The book is very enjoyable…
Silver nanoparticles have unique antimicrobial properties. They have a variety of applications: diagnostics, wound healing, pharmaceuticals, etc. These nanoparticles destroy bacterial cells walls and interrupt membrane integrity by their electrostatic attraction to the negatively charged bacterial cell walls [10]. Metal nanoparticles are usually synthesized by chemical techniques which is costly and highly toxic. Currently, there is a growing demand for alternative methods that would limit the…
My favorite movie would have to be Silver Linings Playbook, written by Matthew Quick and Directed by David O. Russell. This movie identifies a variety of different genres: comedy and romance-drama are just two of these. This movie can relate to a range of different people; the themes are easily identifiable. Silver Linings Playbook is about a struggling man, Pat Solitano Jr., portrayed by Bradley Cooper. The movie begins with Pat leaving a mental institution with his mother, the movie then…
different coaches. Each coach has their own way of coaching, but they all have three things in common. The stages of personalities they experience throughout a game. These personalities can be classified into three distinct categories: The Joker, The Silver Banshee, and The Encourager. The first personality that a coach experiences during a game, is The Joker. This emotion occurs at the beginning of the game when your coach has not yet encountered a scenario to be mad at. Instead of…
Silver Linings Playbook is a movie based upon mental issues. The fact is none of us are the ideal image of “normal”. We all are fighting battles that are on different levels of importance. We are all a little bit crazy, some are worse than others, but there is something beautiful and unique within all of us. That certain “normal” we all want doesn't really exist. This film is an impressive view of examination into that aspect of our life. The irony in the film is that Pat at times seems to…
such situation, the silver plan is the right choice. Silver Level of Benefits or Silver Plan is a health benefits plan with average of 30% cost-sharing, when accounting for deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance as applied to in-network services (Kongstvedt, 2013). This type of plan allows, the mentioned individual, to…
breakfast and lunch from croissant and company. He told me we were going to Silver Falls, a special place for us. Six months prior at his dental cleaning I informed him that I had never been to Silver Falls. He mentioned that if our circumstances were different he would like to take me. The next day I sent him a message with the two words, Silver Falls. A bold move but one I will never regret. He took me for a hike at Silver Falls the first week we began dating. And on that hike we both knew…
-Discuss the silver vs. gold argument, listing at least one argument for silver and one argument for gold. The issue of silver currency during the late 1800’s became a splitting crisis. To battle against inflation, gold was the best currency to use, and many from the upper class supported this. However, substantial amounts of lower class people supported the use of silver as well as gold to sustain the currency. Silver was being mined in mass amounts, and the working class wanted silver to…
by Spain and the beginning of extensive silver mining in Japan greatly increased silver production. All the same, this development of the amount of silver, while to a few population implied great, global created complications. Despite the boost in silver mining appeared to benefit Japan and Spain they supplied as well as Ming China the receiver overall this increase cause multinational problems. Established on the documents, the goods of the increase of silver production, while being beneficial…
In this world there are soldiers of silver, and those that are of the dark. The silver soldiers travel the Earth in search for people in need. They use their every bone to spread love and optimism throughout the planet. They bury themselves in the blood and tears of those who have fallen, and create something so beautiful, it gives those who have no hope, a shining star to wish upon. They use their arms as crutches for others, and with every finger, they spread dreams. They are inventors,…