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In the play “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” the main plot of the storyline begins when a young man named Hero falls in love with a courtesan named Philia. The only problem is Philia lives in the house of Lycus; a dealer of courtesans. Soon after Hero entrusts the slave Pseudolus to handle the manner of bringing Philia to him in exchange for Pseudolus’ freedom. This becomes problematic in the play due to the girl being promised to a general, thus unfolding countless of moments…

Discussion Forum 5.1 Applying Nursing Theories As the clinical educator for surgical services; I definitely incorporate two major theories in my daily practice. The first one is Benner’s Novice to Expert; this theory plays a huge role in competency based education and validation of the orientees skill level by an assigned group of preceptors. Our goal in competency based education is to immerse the orientee in perioperative nursing practice; allowing the orientee to move from detached…

Caesar and the Creation of the Forum Lulium” author Roger Ulrich analyzes how the Forum Lulium came to be, and how it relates and changes from Cicero and Caesars early planning. One aspects that Ulrich is trying to get across is that the Forum Lulium is constructed extremely quickly, and this relates to the rapidly changing physical fabric and political state of Rome. Because of this quick construction many things are changed later, and thus the final footprint of the Forum Lulium is different…

Doctrine of Perpetual Growth – Robbin’s presents the idea of perpetual growth, an earmark of capitalism, which is defined just as it sounds: an idea or believe that a society or culture can experience an everlasting growth within their economy. Western culture holds on to this idea of perpetual growth, and through agents such as capitalism, modernism, industrialism, they attempt to make it possible. As such, it is pertinent to understand the belief of perpetual growth because the aforementioned…

Since the beginning of the “working woman,” women everywhere have been earning less than men for equal work. On average, women make only 80% of what men do. This gap in the American workforce is a prevalent issue that has led to the revolution of women everywhere, demanding equal pay. The main issue, however is that many people don’t care enough to actually implement a change. When looking at this topic through the ethical lense, it is easy to see that there are varying viewpoints on the wage…

Fiji, a country and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprises 333 islands and 522 smaller islets (SPC 2008, p.1). Around 106 of these islands are permanently inhabited with the total estimated population of 900,000 (UNDP 2015). An estimate of 49% of the total population live in the rural areas (UNDP 2015), while around 90% of the population in Fiji live in the coastal lowlands area (Nunn et al. 1993). Fiji has a total land area of 18,274 km2, of which 87% is accounted for the two…

spend, and the poor know how to spend what little money they have. Therefore, while the rich provide the means for the poor to improve society, the poor will teach them how they can use their money to do so as well, In Zapiro's cartoon World Economic Forum, the annual meeting of international leaders of industry, government, and academia in Davos, Switzerland to propose solutions to global economic issues is depicted. One might expect these leaders to approach the issues with a significant…

In “Forum Teaching Poetry with a Personal Experience”, Shelia bases her teaching of primary and middle school off of her own childhood memories of a collection of poems, A Child’s Garden of Verses, by Robert Lois Stevenson. She remembered loving poetry at a young age, especially from the book as the poems were often about kids. As Shelia became a teacher, however, she realized that other children would not have the same experience. Other teachers often did not expose children to much poetry. So,…

Reem Alarian October 18, 2015 Marketing - Extra Credit VCU’s 21st Annual Business Forum On October 13, 2015, at the Virginia Commonwealth University, Student Commons Ballroom, a program from Universal Corporation was generously granted to the University, as VCU’s 21st Annual Business Forum. We had the great honor of meeting Arturo Sarukhán, a Mexican diplomat and international strategic consultant. Brandon J. Price, president and co-founder of Biogenin. Gilles Gauthier, minister for…

'Dripping rat blood' closes Roman Forum ticket office Experts say there are 6 million rats in the Eternal City. One of the four ticket offices allowing access to the Roman Forum was closed on Monday when rat's blood started falling on to the counter from the ceiling. The blood was noticed by an employee at the new ticket office, located in the square in front of the Colosseum early Monday morning, and health authorities were called to deal with the problem. “A rodent had died in the ceiling…