Summary Essay

Nightjohn was a very short, but informative and immersive story. It informed us on how hard and terrible being stuck in slavery was. Along with, somehow amazingly doing it using so many small and not very descriptive words or sentences. It did have many different themes, but the ones I chose to write on were: prejudice, freedom, and leadership. No, denying the rights of any people is not okay and I don’t see how anyone ever thought slavery was okay, much less the right thing to do. People…

Metaphor Drucker (1994) defined a metaphor as a method of explaining, thinking or experiencing one thing through another thing. Numerous studies have been shown that preschoolers and early elementary school age children have the ability to understand some verbal metaphors (Vosniadou & Ortony, 1983). Piaget (1962) also believed that young children learn to separate the symptoms from what they represents. Metaphors can be used as a therapeutic tool with children. Children express their views and…

Through weeks of research, I found multiple articles supporting the idea that there are proven methods to improving the lives of LGBTQ youth and preventing bulling. The most useful article of the seven that I am using was written by Byrd and Hays. Their study gave strong indications that interventions with school staff such as teachers and counselors is vital to increased acceptance amongst students, and therefore improved lives within LGBTQ youth. Overall, most of the sources were helpful in my…

Ahmad, J., Ahmad, S. H., & Jones, K. (2017). Treatment of plantar fasciitis with botulinum toxin: a randomized, controlled study. Foot & Ankle International, 38(1), 1-7. The purpose of this randomized control study is to determine the effect of botulinum toxin type A on the effect of pain control in plantar fasciitis. A total of fifty participants were included in the study. Twenty-five people were included in treatment group and the other twenty-five people received saline solution. The…

This article talks about how startups are relying more on saving and credit cards, rather than funding, bank loans, and home equity. According to this article two people started their own company from their own savings and credit cards. Chris Gonzalez and David Comiskey started a dog walking service and app. They both together were able to chip in a total of $5000 in 2015 to launch “Barkly”. A year later they raised a total of $45000. This article very interesting because it provides many…

The video explained what rhetoric is, which is a variety of different components. It points that rhetoric is misconstrued as a form of lies or “bullshit.” This conflicted with my previous thoughts, that rhetoric is just a way to express words deeper than what they seem. My thoughts on rhetoric have now evolved to it now being a form of effective expression or communication of thoughts. It’s how to develop a message so a point is transferred successfully. In other words, everyone is on the same…

From 2011 to 2012 I worked as a content creator for The Examiner, an online news site. This was before it became to bogged down in advertising and became more of an opinion site than an actual news site. I took a factual and practical approach to the writing. I wrote content under three different titles: Liberal Examiner, Green Examiner and Space Examiner. As a Liberal Examiner I covered issues and happenings that related to social liberalism. Social liberalism, is a political ideology that…

Jimmy Gonzalez said that he supervised about 12 maintenance workers during the audit period. Peter Chavez, Jonathan Solorzano, Romar Marty, Robert Sintran and Tamary Daley are some of the workers he supervised during the audit period. He attends phone calls from the maintenance workers. He also visits different school sites. AHRC has four stripping machines, two extractors, one buffing machine and three shop vacuums. He transports these equipment based on the need of school sites. If any of the…

acctUnit6DisForum Merchants explain and clarify cash as immediate and available funds that can be used to take care of the daily needs of the business. Cash can be identified in different forms. Dollar bills and loose change can be readily used to meet company demands. Checking and savings accounts contain ready money that can be used right away. A number of other forms of cash exist as well (Walther, 2012). Merchant businessmen must stay alert and watchful over the ebb and flow of cash within…

Lau et al, (2006), found that the artificial sweetener aspartame and flavour enhancer L-glutamic acid can act as a form of neurotoxin that could potentially destroy central neurons. These two chemicals overstimulate the postsynaptic excitatory membrane receptor, leading to higher level of neurite inhibition, which can be a potential risk factor for ADHD. Also the overstimulation of NMDA receptor is often associated with mood disorder like depression (McCarthy et al., 2012). Lau and colleagues’…