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camper to counselor. I am incredibly proud that my mentors and coaches recruited me to continue the tradition of excellence as a staff member. My leadership skills, organizational abilities and patience are tested through the responsibility of caring daily over eight weeks for 16 young girls. My co-counselors and I are in charge of everything: program development and ideas, midnight flashlight washroom runs (Canada eh!), cheerleading tired athletes, mediating preteen arguments and homesickness.…

able to reach their leader. Honor is one of the biggest and most important of Samurai beliefs. It is more commonly referred to as Bushido. Without the code of bushido, the samurai would have just another one of the many warrior classes in history (Daily History 2017). Samurai would rather commit Seppuku which is a ritual of disembowelment seen as a religious ?? in Samurai culture. If the Samurai…

patient to laugh and clear their throat during therapy in order to redirect their phonation. Fluency disorders, such as stuttering, disrupts the smoothness of speech and communication. Stuttering involves repeating phrases or words, and can affect daily activities such as talking on the phone, presentations, and even in the working environment. Stuttering can be fairly common in young children. In this particular video, the SLP is having the child work on changing bumpy words into smooth…

Playwright Thornton Wilder and poet e. e. cummings are portraying ordinary life in a small town in the play Our Town and in the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town.” Both, the play and poem were written about at the same period. The towns in both the play and poem can be related to any city in the country. The poem and play take the readers through the similar themes of the passage of time, love, and death, which are an ordinary life that is monotonous and ultimately unmemorable. Both…

Throughout my senior year in high school I have read a multitude of books in class and independently. I have read A Brave New World and Streetcar Named Desire in class with my peers. Independently I have read the book Gifted Hands by Ben Carson. Most of these books were related to me directly and others were related to general world and society around me. The book Gifted Hands is a great way for me to gain knowledge about the medical field and how to work hard to gain admission into medical…

tucking in / stray ends of hair” (304). In the woman’s ability to venture outside without looking proper, without her corset to hold her together and in her negligee, she is still a shy and timid creature. While being able to allow herself to go about daily business with unkempt hair and improper dressing, she has not allowed herself to fully embrace it. The woman has yet to revel in her decision. This simple word acts to underline her uncertainty, as well as the uncertainty of the world. The…

his operating station on a nightly basis. On the home front there are only a few physical strains that happen that comes with any occupation such as mental strain and tediously long commute. He comments saying the work structure he finds himself in mirrors that of military institute and since everyone is working for a common goal there are no “competitors”. My father’s professional career is colorful and varied from what he has done over his lifetime. As an intelligence analysis he says that he…

relatively isolated area of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona. Although the modern Anglo-American world has increasingly encroached on the small settlement, much of the ancestral Apache culture, traditions, and beliefs remain a tangible part of daily life in Cibecue. Indeed, as Basso (1979) states, “most Western Apaches remain on the fringe of national American society, maintaining there with full awareness and quiet satisfaction a cultural system and a sense of tribal identity that…

matter how much you hate her face, her voice and her body. You can’t change her; so, you beat her. You must embrace her.” These are quotes from Suzanna’s dairy that summarizes the consistent vigorous battle individual’s with eating disorders fight daily. When hearing Suzanna read excerpts from her dairy, I begin to in vision prisoners. Individuals trapped behind bars and in shackles. They hate the shackles and bars that confide them; yet for some, freedom is not held for long and they…

A nations work is never done. Many minorities grew up with this feeling and saying it daily like a prayer. One female, director Avey DuVernay created a trailer for a Netflix series called the 13th. She argues that while it may seem that America has taken steps to reduce racism, its presence is alive and well. DuVernay starts to build her credibility with a video from the Civil Rights Movement, citing facts, statistics, and appealing to the emotion of the audience. Her video has a strong message,…