The Flicker

By high school, I had become set on my aspirations to study medicine and become a doctor. My mind became engaged and excited to learn about the human body and all of our systems. I took several science AP classes that allowed me to indulge in captivating information while affirming the ambitions of my future. I also volunteered at the same hospital for three years because I loved the opportunity to help people in a medical setting while working with other teens with similar mindsets. However, it…

amorphous feeling that lies deep inside one’s soul. It lies in its slumber, waiting in the unheard for the flicker of piano keys, or the words of loved ones. Inspiration intently waits for a moment, a moment where everything seems to make sense, a moment where all unknowns can be connected at the precipice of knowledge. Inspiration can occur in anyone at any particular time and for me, it happened when I went to a nursing home for the first time and experienced the moment that made me want to…

country to make a living with my Latin dancing skills. Salsa, mambo, merengue, rumba, tango…I do them all. Imagine my hips shaking to the pulsating beat of a mambo, mesmerizing every eye in the audience with the way the beaded fringe on my tiny skirt flickers with each movement! What?! You don’t know how to dance? Don’t worry, I can certainly teach you, alone in your room, if you’d…

Kelley and his colleagues have found that people are better at identifying change of objects when the objects’ presence is familiar in their context (Kelley, et al., 2003). The researchers tweaked the traditional flicker paradigm experiment, comparing the time needed to detect changes in upright images and inverted images. The result shows that people are significantly faster at detecting changes in upright images than the inverted images (Kelly, et al., 2003). Further…

around the pink- and blue-painted graves. Nobody scolded the children. Life and death did not seem so separate. While I have always felt fearful in cemeteries at home, there I felt excited and hopeful. When a soft breeze made the rows of candles flicker, I wondered if the souls of the children, the angelitos, had come back, laughing and giggling. Or was it the real children I heard laughing? I really didn’t know. But I felt more alive than ever, waiting for the dead to arrive in a dusty…

My endangered species is the Lophodytes Cucullatus. The more common name for this species is Hooded Merganser. You can find the Hooded Merganser in the bay, swamps, and wooded ponds in Maryland and all over North America. They consume many aquatic plants and animals. Some are clams, mud crabs, and tadpoles. The status of the Hooded Merganser is declined. This status means that they lost a lot of habitation but their population is now increasing. In this paper you will learn about why the Hooded…

grabbed and held and the dogs pulled me out of the ice” I find this a quick thinker showing how close an animal can be they would risk their life for yours. “snowball grabbed the snake just in the back of the back of head and with a quick flicker broke its neck (pg 16 Gary paulsen) . In the text it says “snowball grabbed the snake just in the back” this shows the reflexes and how quick an animal can act . We also see on meida most of the time how animals improve our lives by…

As a vocational rehabilitation counselor I believe that Holly’s goals are very realistic and possible. She wants to first seek an appropriate job in her anticipated field of writing. She enjoys writing as a leisure activity and also has a writing background from a high school job, which could count as a transferable skill. She could work for a local newspaper, blog, magazine or even publishing company. She could start in an entry level position or as a paid intern. After saving enough money she…

In the short story “The Devil Comes To Orekhovo”, Benioff is making a point that to survive in the war you have to be strong minded. Benioff uses three different Russian soldiers to present his argument. Leksi who is eighteen and has recently joined the war. Then we have Nikolai and Surkhov who are both older and have experienced a war, once before. Leksi showed multiple times that he wasn’t ready for what the war had to offer, compared to Nikolai and Surkhov. The way Benioff makes this point is…

did not light. Making sure the bulb on the holiday light was not defective, I took another part of the string of lights and disassembled the wires as above. Again, I assured the directions were followed exactly, but the bulb did not illuminate, or flicker. Unfortunately, I do not own or have access to a voltmeter, so I tuned to YouTube to watch a successful video…