International Mother Language Day

Analysis of the Concept of Comfort The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of the concept of comfort using content delineated by Chinn and Kramer (2015, pp. 158-178). In doing so, I will provide a context for the concept of comfort, including how my nursing worldview shapes my view of comfort; examine how technology has impacted comfort, and explain the need to understand the concept of comfort in greater detail as it relates to nursing. Further, I will examine the use of terms…

Jhumpa Lahiri’s book The Namesake, whose central theme is the immigrant experience, is a beautifully written novel. One may certainly expect this from Lahiri. She is highly educated, possessing three Master’s degrees in English, Creative Writing, and Comparative Studies between Literature and the Arts ( Britannica 2017). She has a deep personal connection with the recurring themes and topics of migration, identity, and immigration that permeate her books. While being interviewed for the April…

documentary film that is a flashback that serves two purposes, set the setting or create the framework of the overwatch world, which used to have conflicts and wars, and give an overview or background information of what Overwatch is, “an elite international task force of soldiers, scientists, adventurers, oddities, and guardians.” The documentary film also act as a transition from the overview to the current timeframe of the trailer in which a nameless kid whom appeared to be an 10 years old…

“You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it 's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late” (Lahiri). Were the final words that marked the beginning of Ashoke’s future in the film “The Namesake”. Ashoke a young Indian revaluates his life after he is part of a tragic train wreck. He realizes that life is too short so he moves to America. After a few…

Rambunctious Garden Critical Book Review Emma Marris opens Rambunctious Garden by dedicating the book to her mother for sending her to Audubon Day Camp. Though her statement is unexplained, Marris seems to reference how she began to care about nature. In his A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold wrote about how direct interactions with nature can lead one to care about the land, to develop a land ethic (Leopold 223-225). Audubon Camp was how Marris developed her land ethic. Though this…

In the 1970s, interracial adoption was approved by the supreme court, but was not common. It did not start becoming popular till more recent years because of views on same race families and society. Interracial adoption is the process of placing a child of different ethnicity or race with parents with different ethnic or race. In the world today, some people believe in keeping the race the same when it comes to adoption. They think this is the best option because of their strong belief in…

up to bigotry. Without courage, Maya learned as a child, life's other virtues are meaningless. Johnson would need all the courage she could muster to deal with a tragic event that occurred when she was seven-and-a-half years old. While visiting her mother, Vivian Baxter Johnson, in St. Louis, she was brutally raped by Vivian's boyfriend. Confused, terrified, and guilt-ridden, she retreated into silence, refusing to speak to anyone, except her brother, for five years. When Johnson did speak…

completed the pregnancy phase of the study. Mothers and children were followed up during the child’s infancy and childhood. Data were collected at 16 and 32 weeks gestation, birth, at ages 3, 6, 9 and 12 months, and at 2, 3½, 5 and 9 years. Measurements of body size were taken at birth, 6, 9 and 12 months, and 2, 3½ and 9 years using protocols based on World Health Organization guidelines. “BMI at age 9 was also categorized using the IOTF (International Obesity Task Force) cutoffs based on the…

many factors we encounter in day to day life that affects what type of food we choice to eat. Situations relating to work, school, and stress are a few of the countless reasons that steer people away from healthy foods and right into the arms of artery clogging goodness. For example, there is a student is running late for class, but is also in desperately need of some lunch. It is much easier go around the drive through at checkers, then it is to stop by…

Empire (modern-day Croatia). He was the seventh of fifteen children in a large peasant family, with a Croat father and a Slovene mother. At the early age of seven, he began working on his family’s farm. He entered primary school in Kumrovec at eight years old but quit school when he was twelve after failing the first grade. At age fifteen, he moved out of his rural hometown in order to apprentice for a locksmith and machinist in the more industrialized city of Sisak (in modern-day Croatia).…