Middle Passage

the best of the situation you are in or seeing the good in everything around you. The March family in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott had to do their best to stay optimistic. They were originally rich, but had fallen into the middle class because of the war. The middle class life changed the way that the March sisters looked at life overall. They each change their lives according to their new perspective of life. However, each sister changed their lives’ differently. Meg became another mother…

On September 30, 2015, me and five of my other fellow students that are in the generic nursing program at CUNY York college, were given the opportunity to do a presentation at Selfhelp center located in Bayside, New York. We arrived at Selfhelp at 8:45am with our Health Assessment Professor Dr. Amicucci accompanying us and began our presentation around 9:00am, on hypertension. I remember that a total of 15 people showed interest in attending our presentation and wanted to learn new information…

Imagine you’re a high school student a few weeks away from graduation day. You walk into the guidance office and talk to the counselors about your path to graduate. They say you have completed and have credits in all the specific areas that you’re required to. Although, it looks as if you hadn’t completed your twenty hours of community service that you must to also graduate. You start to panic, twenty hours, is that even possible to do in a few weeks? Community service is voluntary work intended…

I’m short. This isn’t really a shocking statement. There are many characteristics that I have, but being tall… Well that’s not one of them. I’m not a great guesser, but if I were to ask you three things that you first noticed about me, there’s probably a good chance that being short was one of them. That’s alright, no problem, Being a sophomore boy in high school who is a mere 5’3” has its advantages…I’m great at limbo, I can reach the low cabinets, I save money on clothes and shoes because I…

This is a real-life reference question. Our last unit of LAB21 is a Project-Based Learning unit. The essential question is: What will you need to do to achieve your career goals? The scenario is that you are at your ten-year high school reunion and all of your old high school friends want to know what you have been doing over the past ten years and how you got that dream job of yours. Problem: Our students have a very difficult time finding reliable and understandable sources. We use a database…

In terms of healthy aging, as a nurse, I think there must be equal opportunities for immigrant as well as the natives to grow with the concept of age-friendly communities by enhancing the abilities and independence. Nurses should advocate for equal accessibility of health care services and support system for all elderly. Approach to aging people should be always positive without any prejudices and biases. After changing the mindset and perceive aging as a stage in our lives that can be as…

typically used to denote membership to certain groups, but looks can be misleading. Michael Harrington interestingly points out in Gregory Mantsios’s that “America has the best dressed poverty the world had ever known” which “may explain, in part, its middle-class image” (152). He explains that the “increased mass marketing of ‘designer’ clothing and shifts in the nation’s economy” make it more and more difficult to use appearance as a tell-all for class (Mantsios 152). Classism also hides in…

Willy Loman: A Martyr of the Middle Class For many decades now, the American middle class has been subject to great self-delusion and failure. Stuck in a social construct not quite poor but far from wealthy, the suburban class tends to search for high risks with high rewards. Furthermore, it is constantly pressured by the materialistic extravagance of the affluent class, tempted to don superficial luxuries to disguise its lack of prosperity. This yearning to bridge the gap between lavishness…

are not afraid of the risks because they cannot see a long-term future for themselves. Public education is offered and required in all 50 states; placing good teachers who can also be a mentor to students may be a good place to start. Electives in middle school and high school are a place where adolescents can find something they are not only interested in, but something they may also find they are passionate about. Music education can be an important intervention in the lives of at risk…

1A) There are multiple ways in which the health of older adults is different from other age groups. First, they often have multiple health problems at once, which can be difficult to diagnose the actual conditions and provide the proper care. Next, especially since many doctors are not specialists in geriatrics, it may be hard to determine if a symptom is related to a disease or normal aging of the body and overdiagnosis often occurs. Thirdly, because of how the body changes as one ages,…