Returning

Returning to work after collecting workers compensation might be very exciting. However, it can also be dangerous depending on the nature of your injury. To ensure that you remain healthy and safe, make sure you follow these three tips: 1. Talk To Your Employer Before you return to work, have a meeting with your employer. Bring a copy of your medical records and have a talk about what you can and cannot do at work. During the meeting, make sure your boss and everyone involved knows your…

Back to School, Really! Returning to school might just be a great place to begin my story. We all know that acquiring an education can be a scary experience, especially if you are approaching 50 years old. Therefore, when I made the decision to return to school, I knew it very well might be the hardest decision that I would ever have to make. I dreamed about this place, about campus life, or if it was too late for me to consider the notion. I can picture the campus with its buzz of activities,…

Soldiers returning home For veterans, the war does not end on the battlefield. Mental illnesses such as PTSD and depression follow men and women into their homes, affecting their daily lives. In the article “Soldiers returning home are faced with a heartbreaking problem most people don’t understand” from Business Insider, Sebastian Junger states his symptoms of short term PTSD. When Junger returned home, he experienced lack of interest in things he once enjoyed. The switch from war to home was…

The most challenging part of returning to college and taking online classes for me is time management. I have to balance a full time military career, remain in shape, and take care of a 13 year old and 3 year old. Trying to find that balance is going to be tough. I understand that we take care of others and also have to take care of ourselves. I found a great blog online that provided 8 tips for adult college students. It actually makes a lot of sense to me. I plan to follow those tips. The 8…

take the marbles from the rightful home in Athens. These important pieces of cultural artifacts should be returned to their country of origin, undoing a wrong done in the past. There is no doubt in my mind that when you evaluate the arguments for returning the marbles to Athens you will see the counter-argument has no substantial facts. The bottom line is it’s the right thing to do! There is no evidence to support Lord Elgin’s claim that he was granted permission to take the marbles in the…

problem on the U of A campus is the growing number of returning students wanting to continue living on campus. This issue is causing some freshman students to fall under the category of Overflow Students and forcing them to live in study rooms, with RA’s and some even in hotels near by. One of the only solutions to accommodate for the increasing number of on-campus residents is to build another residence hall. One of the main reasons returning students choose to stay on campus is the…

Returning Home from War The Best Years of our Lives starts out with three World War II soldiers: Al Stephenson, Fred Derry and Homer Parrish on a plane returning home to Boone City. This movie follows each of the three soldiers separately, because each one is faced with a different challenge upon their arrival. Al is a banker who returns to his former job, however, struggles with the inability to help former soldiers. Fred returns home and struggles to find a job and because of that his wife…

Dilip Chitre creates a stark impression of the isolation of old age in his poem ‘Father Returning Home’ by showing his fathers’ estrangement from society and his own family. Chitre conveys this isolation by using literary devices such as similes and repetition, and addressing themes such as modernity vs tradition. The poem begins when a father is waiting outside for a train which will take him home. We know this as it says ‘My father travels on the late evening train’. Already by labelling the…

My reasons for returning to college are far from few. So let me begin with having a big family of my own, I want all four of my children to know that I am striving to never give up on finishing my degree- no matter how the struggle my look or how matter how long it may take to finish your goal. As long as you finish, is what matters to me right now. I want to show my children to never give up on what may seem impossible to ever accomplish. I know that working full-time and going to school can…

Returning to college has been a long, emotional journey for me. When I was younger I had my life planned out believing it was God’s will also. I married my husband at the age of twenty and together we entered the ministry field. God blessed us with three wonderful kids and laid upon our hearts the notion of homeschooling. Since that time I have been a homeschooling mother and a pastor’s wife. Almost two years ago my husband suddenly passed away, leaving me reeling and trying to figure out why…