Contentment

The importance of community service has been interlaced into the majority of the nursing classes I have had at the bachelor’s level and the master’s level of education. Being active in community service has been presented as a cornerstone of my nursing career in the work place as a leader within my organization. I am learning now that being involved in community service holds true for the nurse educator as well. Dawson & Freed (2008), state that “professional nurses have a commitment to…

Lincoln Electric Company, an Ohio-based company is well known for its people-oriented culture. Its people-oriented culture originated from James Lincoln’s Christian upbringing. The son of a church preacher believed in the principle of service. A service-oriented demeanor stresses on the betterment of society before profit. Money just follows when service is rendered to others, particularly to customers. The well being of customers comes first before the well being of employees and stockholders.…

Essay #4 In 20th century, I grew up in a family with my mom was the household keeper while my dad was the main income of the household. However, my dad share some house cleaning with my mom. At the meantime, my mom had a part time job while my mom taking care of our family. The values were a huge difference in the 17th century. In the article, “I Want A Wife” written by Judy Brady in 1791, it explained the similarities between what men and women wanted. The similarities of Brady and her husband…

For many people, reading is a form of escapism. The appeal of books, especially works of fiction, is that they let us see into another life. In many cases, the lives we read about are more exciting or extraordinary then our own. But in the case of Stephen Crane’s Maggie, A Girl of the Streets, the life we are being shown is less than extraordinary. He brings us into the grim, merciless world of New York City’s Bowery neighborhood in the late 19th century. Although it is a disheartening view of…

Stephenie Meyer, author of The Twilight Series, once said “the right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else.” The play Medea, written by Euripides, is about a heartbroken woman who decides the best way to make her ex-husband feel the pain he caused inside her, is to kill his newlywed wife, his new father-in-law, and the children they both raised. In the play Medea, the author uses Medea’s twisted sense of justice to…

Every summer I stayed with my grandmother until school began because my parents traveled for work every summer and since I was an only child, my parents felt it was best that I stay with my grandmother. My grandmother’s name was Shirley Dixon, she was your everyday typical grandmother; she could cook very well, made the best cookies, always had a smile, gave the best hugs and always gave the best advice. Spending my summers with her was always a joy, but one of my favorite things was riding my…

In Wide Sargasso Sea, the main protagonist, Antoinette, is portrayed as weak and dependent on men, causing her to lose all financial stability and independence eventually leading to her downfall. Throughout the course of the novel, Antoinette is unable to overcome the oppression of her gender and marriage with Rochester, leaving her powerless. Upon looking through a feminist lens, author Jean Rhys condemns the text by emphasizing the difficulties women faced when attempting to attain success in…

majority of the night on the sofa in front of the television. Regardless, he drove me to every single competition and sat through two hour recitals just to hear me play. When I was onstage performing on the piano bench, he never failed to smile with contentment and…

pleased. Try to ask many people as possible and it would be hard to find one exact definition for happiness. According to unric.org, happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. However, happiness has many definitions depends on who are going to define it, so happiness might be that feeling when you smile without a reason when you can walk without pain. Happiness might be related to health and to…

Erik Larson’s “The Devil in the White City…,” focuses on the life of Herman Mudgett who went by the alias H. H. Holmes. Holmes enters the plot fresh off the train “…dressed well, conjuring an impression of wealth and achievement.” The city of Chicago, at the time, was perceived to be the land for those eager and hungry for wealth. To Holmes, Chicago not only presented the opportunity to make money, but it also presented the opportunity to commit murder. Chicago was such an advantageous place…