Percival

She had done pretty well with the book-lessons. It turns out that she had checked out a history book and has been reading it between classes, so she was already catching up with other students, faster than I had expected. She seems to enjoy that subject. And her knowledge of herbs and their uses was more extensive than I had believed--the main problem was translation. I would ask her about an herb, and she would say she’s never heard of it, but when I started to describe what it looked like,…

Frankenstein and the Medical World: The Ethics of Stem Cells After a long day of annoying people, stressful work assignments, and in general, an atrocious day, you sit on your most comfortable couch or sprawl out on your bed and go on the Internet. Travelling on the wave of craziness that is the Internet, you check all of your social media: Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Searching through the cat videos, memes, and weird random advertisements, you see it, the random post…

arbara Percival In Preparation of an AFL-CIO Exhibit This past semester, I conducted my field study within the setting of an academic library working with the university archivists at the Hornbake Library at the University of Maryland (UMD). Due to unforeseen circumstances, my field study had to be cobbled together rather quickly and therefore consists of a patchwork. For example, there have been two projects in my field study with two different supervisors in two different departments.…

“Amari lifted her head to the night sky. Bright stars decorated the darkness above, and she wondered if they were the same stars the had winked at her so far away in her homeland,” (Draper 211). In the book, prior to the quotation, Amari, Polly, and Tidbit had just wandered into the woods after being freed by the doctor. Ameri was looking into the night sky wondering if everything in her life had changed or if parts of her old life were still with her. Sharon Draper, as the author of the Copper…

The importance of knowledge in the Islamic world was intrinsic to its culture. For, the Prophet Muhammad had repeatedly stressed on the importance of knowledge and learning: “Acquire knowledge, it enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to heaven. It is our friend in the desert, our company in solitude and companion when friendless. It guides us to happiness, it sustains us in misery, it is an ornament amongst friends and an armour against enemies.” Several…

1. INTRODUCTION Figure: Wi-Fi logo Wi-Fi stands for wireless fidelity. Wi-Fi is the wireless network that used to connect the internet without wires. It’s based upon the radio technology. Many computers can be connected to each other through Wi-Fi and we can share files data and many of the other things through Wi-Fi. A Wi-Fi network operated just like a wired network, but without the restriction of wires, it not only enable user to share the data but it also provide easy connection to the…

Introduction “Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body” 1 Cardozo J in Schloendorff v Society of New York Hospital “It would be unrealistic to suppose the principle here affirmed will not over time be the subject of incremental and analogical development. At the very least this case shows that where justice and policy demand it a modification of causation principles is not beyond the wit of a modern court.…