Barbara Walters

Executive Summary Dershane’s Assisted Living Center, Inc • Established in 2010 by Dershane Alexandro, President and Danika Elizabeth, Vice President • An assisted living community for the mature population Mission Statement • We take a robust posture in commitment to our mission, value, and goals of our residents • We are an active assisted living center, determined to meet the needs of each and every one of our residents while providing a valuable service and promoting integrity To uphold our mission, values, and goals, of providing the best quality services and activities for the well-being of our residents. Dershane’s Assisted Living is submitting a capital investment proposal for the establishment of state of the art assisted…

Barbara Walter in her Introduction to her book she cowrote states that fear is a major factor in civil war and the choices the parties in war may make. “Security fears might play a far greater role in certain situations than policy makers or social scientists have thus far recognized” (Walter 3). These “security fears” that Walter cites in her introduction she later cites as having various situations that provoke these fears to come about, including “(1) the government breaks down or collapses,…

Objects have persuaded the hearts of many people and to an understanding these possessions ultimately decide ones happiness. This is far from the truth and this can be seen when one who has it all cannot hold the heart of another through the persuasion of their possessions. Best said by Alain de Botton “The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the world “luxury.” (465 Quotes). What Botton is saying is that the world looks at what you own and that…

of thought and developing the various tools under his belt. It wasn’t until 1921, when he was accepted into the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, that he was able to resume his education. At the time he enrolled, they did not offer any workshops concerned with typography or advertising which were his two significant interests, so instead he studied mural painting under Wassily Kandinsky. By receiving guidance from some of the most prominent designers of the time, such as Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and…

“If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality”-Roopleen. This quote relates to both Ben Carson and Taylor Greene from The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver during their journey on accomplishing their goals. Gifted hands by Ben Carson is an aspiring story of how he started from Detroit and made his way to be an astounding pediatric neurosurgeon at John Hopkins by the age of thirty-three and never seemed…

In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521 is a young man who struggles to find ways to show his true self because he lives in a society based on conformity. Ayn Rand uses the symbols of the light bulb, the Uncharted Forest, and his new name to demonstrate the conflict of individuality versus conformity in order to demonstrate the importance of individuality and self-discovery. Thus, through the use of these symbols, Ayn Rand is able to integrate the theme of individuality versus conformity…

Amy Nguyen ENGL 1002 Paper #1 As humans, we grow up in a community of family and friends. They provide the learned values and direction that allows us to become functioning members of society who are able to help others and ourselves. It is the basis of society. Community presents itself as an interwoven network of various part and sub-parts, and every small action can create a ripple effect that may go unnoticed by those immediately surrounding it, but more clearly seen as the waves spread. In…

Orleanna’s House of Guilt In Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Poisonwood Bible, Nathan Price, the father to four daughters and husband to Orleanna Price, brings his family on a missionary trip to the Congo. Their daily routines of residing in the Congo require hard work for survival, whereas in Georgia, life necessities like water and food are easily given. Although the Price family has left their home in Georgia, it is Orleanna who believes that as long as she is able to care for her family, she…

The Construction and Meaning of “Home” in Nadine Gordimer’s Tale of Postcolonial Africa, “The Ultimate Safari” Nadine Gordimer’s “The Ultimate Safari” takes the reader on a journey as the main character, a little girl, flees from Mozambique with her brothers and grandparents. Throughout the short story, the girl describes her trek out of Mozambique and through Kruger Park into South Africa, and details the hunger, loss, and overall feeling of deprivation that came with the unavoidable…

Throughout history, many cultures have seen women’s primary role as the reproducer and caregiver. What happens when a woman doesn’t fit this mold of dutiful wife and mother? Barbara Kingsolver analyzes this circumstance in her novel Animal Dreams through her childless and unwed protagonist in the fictional town of Grace. Kingsolver’s works tend to critique the accepted and expected roles of women in society and evaluates the previously endorsed notion that women’s worth lies in their fertility…