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    Werner Herzog wrote, “Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.” Lord of the Flies shows this point well, when the kids turn from civilized youngster to animals. A good leader is many things decisive and aware and confident to name a few. The scene when Jack and his group kill Simon emphasizes the need for even more. Without a good leader chaos consumes. So,who was the better leader? “Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager”, Lee Iacocca.…

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    the narrator of the story, is a 19-year-old cashier in a local grocery store, A&P. He develops a certain interest in a group of girls who have entered the grocery story. The group of girls had just come from the beach and entered the store in their bathing suits. As the girls start shopping, Sammy notices the responses of the other customers in the store. Sammy watches their every move right until they start checking out. At that time, the manager of the store confronts the girls and rebukes the…

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    how people can envision the story as a sexist writing. In paragraph 13 Lengel comes out and says “Girls, this isn’t the beach.” showing that it is inappropriate to be in a bathing suit in a store. Some people can perceive this as an act of sexism because it makes the reader think that if a man came into the store in his bathing…

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    Wire coated breeds such as Border Terriers and West Highland Terriers have a coarse water resistant coat that can become easily matted and dirty. Their wire coats are made up of a combination of a short, soft dense undercoat and a layer of long wiry guard hairs on top. The top coat and undercoat grow at different rates and do not shed very much but they should be brushed regularly to remove any dead hair, loose undercoat, dry dirt and tangles. When the top coat has stopped growing and died it…

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    A&P Short Story Essay "In walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits" (Updike 430). The first sentence in John Updike's "A&P" introduces the three girls that will affect the main character, Sammy. The three girls play a big part in Sammy's final decision at the end of the story. Updike puts the three girls in bathing suits instead of regular attire to draw everyone's attention towards the girls, especially in a sexual way for Sammy. Sammy wouldn't have made the final…

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    artistic value comes from its plot, characters, theme, and style. In the plot of the story, the protagonist, Sammy, starts by describing three girls who have walked into the A & P grocery store where he works. The three girls are wearing nothing but bathing suits. Sammy is so distracted by the three girls that he cannot recall if he rang up a box of crackers or not. He thinks to himself, “I stood there with a box of HiHo crackers trying to remember if I rang it up or not” (Updike 163). After…

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    different because of the way that Updike is able to write in present and past tense from the perspective of a teenager thinking back to his days working in a grocery store. The story is about some girls who walk into the store wearing nothing but their bathing suits. These girls draw everybody’s attention away from their work and onto them simply because of the way that they’re dressed. Besides the distraction, most of the conflict does not occur until the store manager notices the girls and…

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    bath salts in the water, such as bathing in the sea | You are probably unaware of its advantages in bars so we're telling you about it so you can take full advantage of it | What's Bath Salts What Is Salt Bath? Do you remember that song "saltwater bath and went to be too salty bath", this song is not just for fun but also benefits the Salt Sea Salt has been told about - if you are one of them arrive comfortable and relaxing bath if you prefer to take your bathing Experience alone does not make…

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    unaffected extremities. 2. Encourage the patient to involve in self-care activities (i.e., eating, bathing, dressing, reposition, and transfer). 3. Monitor patient vital signs (B/P, P, R, T, & SaO2) 4. Teach patient how to use mobility aid (i.e., walker, cane, & crutch) 1. patient states "I able to bare lightweight in the affected extremities." 2. The patient states "I am able to complete self-bathing activities with a minimal assistant." 3. Patient’s vitals are at the baseline data which is…

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    interesting in "A&P": he gives us a lusty 19-year old guy for a narrator and has him perform what Updike calls "an act of feminist protest. "This story is about three girls who walk into an A&P supermarket on a Thursday afternoon, wearing just their bathing suits. The girls know that others are watching them, however they act careless, and this dynamic appears to loan the girls a sort of implicit power. In any case, this power ends up being something of a dream, since the girls can't generally…

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