Net present value

Throughout the years’ time has changed for the children in society and what was done before is no longer done or rarely done now. In the past, children would cherish life, have such an open mind or creativity, and were very intellectual. However, with so much going on here with the media and technology, our children today are really dumbing down. In the year 1990’s is where technology was being born but, not so highly developed as it is now. As a result, children would still go outside to play…

When I first heard about History Day, I was reading a lot of nonfiction, and one of my books was about Phineas Gage. The book had a lot of information about things that neurologists had learned about the brain from his accident. I thought that he sounded interesting, and wanted to learn more. I thought that maybe I could do my History Day project on early neuroscience. Later, my mom was talking to a neuroscientist friend about how I was reading about Gage. He brought up H.M. I read a Washington…

In “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, the main character Eckels was a big game hunter. Eckels is cocky about hunting all kinds of animals in the world, except for a dinosaur. For that reason he decides to sign up for an expedition that travels back in time with a time machine and hunts the most deadliest dinosaurs in the past. Eckels is sure of himself and thinks there is nothing that could scare him. They finally arrived in the past and went over the rules. The dinosaur with red marked over…

This chapter of the Lipsky book truly brings together the purpose and goals of trauma stewardship. The responsibility to we have as social workers in the field and that in which our clients entrust us to maintain to provide the best practice with sound mind. The concept that each of the four directions described in the previous chapters are linked and that link is the central system. Without maintaining our center it becomes difficult to encompass the other four, inquiry, focus, compassion and…

American History: Our Hope for the Future “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it” this is a famous quote by Edmund Burke that is still very relevant today. America is a relatively new country but we still can learn from it’s past in order to create a better future. I once heard that you will never make the same mistake twice, because you learn from your past .This is why we have to learn history, because if we don’t we cannot improve our future. America’s hope for the future is…

Deisy Molina Salgado https://www.hbu.edu/the-honors-college/honors-college/application-part-b/ The Honors College at HBU Application: Part B How do you think the study of history could improve your friendships? We have all in one form or another, heard that history repeats itself. Philosopher George Santayana once wrote, “Those who cannot learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” Knowing history does not mean that I will have the answers to everything, but observing the…

Do you ever wonder how much times have changed? How everyone seems to be too busy in their day-to-day activities. They don’t seem to have time for much else? In Rick Bass’s “The Fish Story”, the evaluation of the character’s thoughts demonstrates how the narrator of the story covets the good ole days when he was a young boy and questions himself wondering why everything has changed now and simplicity seems to be gone now that he is an adult. On page 2 of the story, the narrator mentions, “Do…

A time that in Danticat story, that the past played a big part towards the future is in the story “ Between the Pool and Gardenias”. This story past played a significant role in the present because Marie finds a dead baby and starts to talk to the dead baby named Rose. Marie named the dead baby Rose. Marie then takes the dead baby home and talk to the baby.After Marie talks to Rose about her problem in life, Marie decides to bury Rose because she thought that the flies were trapping Rose’s…

Midlife crisis according to Daniel Levinson season of life theory suggest that men are going into transition stages, starting their 20’s through midlife. The study centers on men and how they leave home into the adult world. Then the men go through a midlife crisis as they are not satisfied with their accomplishments in life and are experiencing a period of turmoil. The study was done on men who were 40 and later on women, although in a small scale compare to men. In modern times critics…

The song ‘Ahead by a Century’ by the band The Tragically Hip is said to be about reflecting on the past; going over memories. On the contrary though, the meaning and the theme of a song are completely different, leaving one question; what is the theme? Firstly, I strongly believe the song is about someone unconsciously stuck on their past mistakes, leading them to regret and a deep depression. To support the theory let’s start with the beginning of the song, where the individual seems to be…