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On the surface, Cheryl Strayed seems like your typical introvert—abstaining from prolonged human interaction. In her memoir Wild, Strayed recounts the demise of her cancer-laden mother and its effect on her. In order to heal, she treks 1,100 miles across the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) for three months. With no hiking experience, she spends weeks alone with her hiking companion “Monster”—Strayed’s pack. She even hikes ahead or behind hikers she meets. However, when her emotions are heightened,…

Cultural values of a community reflects the protagonists of literary works through their actions and beliefs. From the Early to the Late Middle Ages, some deplorable and splendid features persist throughout this era. Moreover, Sir Gawain and Beowulf, embark on quests that illustrate their era’s ideals. More specifically, both protagonists demonstrate honorable qualities as well as fraudulent characteristics in accordance with the paradigms of the peoples they represent. Although the quests in…

A light drizzle tapped the roofs of houses, and the heads of people. A large storm came in a few days ago from the east and the remnants are still lingering throughout the air. Cold, and muggy, the air clings to the faces of bystanders. The paper white breath of people stay in the air for a split second and disappear after only a few milliseconds. Wind dashes throughout the town. Weaving in and out of alleyways, through the streets, and over the top of buildings. Smoke billows from chimneys.…

This causes conflict on occasions as line manager’s work towards judging cases on merit and HR work towards consistency in procedures. HR constrain the autonomy of managers to make decisions as HR feel the decisions they make are in the best interests of the business but this may not always be the case. The line manager may sometimes not want to impose procedures if it is to the detriment of the business. For example, a new staff member in the call centre during peak periods of business can…

The United States is a country founded on ideals and unfulfilled aspirations of a perfect nation in which all are equal and no one group of people has too much power. Our history is filled with the constant struggle between fulfilling those ideals and maintaining status quo and allowing the nation to stagnate or regress allowing inequality to reign and certain groups to control the country. While our nation has struggled on this point it bears to ask whether real political and social change is…

William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream can be said to be one of his most light hearted and comical plays. This is because at some point multiple characters, whether they be human or fairy, fall in love with the wrong person. The play takes place in Athens, where the duke will have his wedding in four days. Most of the play, however, takes place in the forest where two lovers named Hermia and Lysander run to elope, but they followed by Demetrius, who wants to win the heart of Hermia, and…

Rose smiled 'Yes' while thinking 'You made it' a mite obvious, following into a small hallway at stairs bottom. A door to the right led into the living room. ‘Set yourselves down gal, I bet you could do with a cup of tea after such a long trip’. Going into adjacent kitchen, which led onto the back yard where an out barn housed a few chickens, calling back ‘That will be the young girl I take it then’! ‘Yes this is Natalie, my youngest' replied Rose, smiling to herself 'How observant you are'…

I almost didn’t go on Kairos. I signed up because I felt like I should, but my heart wasn’t in it. It’s hard for me to describe was was going through my head last year, much less the last week of the year. When I reflect on those difficult times and consider who I am today, I think I would be most qualified to speak on Holiness because since Kairos I have learned that I am a valuable human being worthy of God’s love and capable of passing that love on. I had been thinking about throwing up for…

Milaya Ruffin Mr. Simmons Biology October 14, 2016 Research Many people have gone on roller coasters, but have they really thought about how they work? All of the tosses and turns. How does it stay on the track? How does it slow down? How does it speed up? Slow and clanking, the string of cars is pulled up to the highest point of a roller coaster. One by one, the cars start going downhill on the other side, until gravity kicks into action and the full weight of the train is going down into…

According to (Maslow, 1943) theory, there are four typed of need that has to be satisfied in a person before ones act selflessly. Figure 1 shows, the needs that has been arranged in a pyramid direction. This hierarchical order ascend as from the bottom to the top one step at a time. This is because an individual need to be on the lower level in order to be motivate to rise to the next level. The first basic needs are the physiological, continue ascend to the need for safety, longing for love…