The Unexpected

other gifts they really wanted. In the story The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers, Lemon teaches Greg that treasure isn’t always worth a lot of money, sometimes it just has to have personal value to that person. Finally, in the story The Unexpected Guest by Donna Scales, Joe teaches main character Donna to not judge a person by their looks or by their possessions. The authors O. Henry(The…

project was exciting yet very challenging. The exciting part of DAT650 and DAT690 is the ability to connect the dots, to piece together everything that is learned throughout this Data Analytics Program. While it extremely disappointing to deliver unexpected failed results, the process of the whole capstone itself was fruitful though challenging. The element of surprise The format and the settings of the capstone remain consistent with all the previous courses, which is great! The workload, on…

Social workers are skilled in performing therapeutic interventions intended to help people handle different life situations, such as trauma, stress, and depression tested by a scope of conditions. However, they are human and can face the same unexpected situations, relational conflict, and profession issues. The former worker in “The Squeaky Wheel” video left abruptly with no explanation and may have been struggling with career pressure, morals, values, and feelings of anxiety. A client with…

I chose to do an advertisement from the Allstate Insurance Company. This humorous ad presents equal parts of pathos, ethos, and logos from Aristotle’s Theory of Persuasion. It contains a curious blend of emotion, ranging from excitement to fear, all while keeping the viewer entertained. The company is one of the nation’s leading insurers, in addition to donating over $34 million to local communities. With its specific advertising style, the ad makes a good point: when the viewer is faced with…

disjointed collection of running gags; if it weren 't for a calendar that marks the approach of Christmas Day," she overlooks that the hilarious unexpected scenes could make up for the film not having any structure. Christmas Vacation could cut out the calendar countdown and still have the same funny effect due to the great way the film uses humor in the unexpected scenes, slapstick comedy, and characters to connect to each other in an unorthodox way. In LeDonne 's article, Lewis states, "It…

Technology has helped human beings to achieve unexpected things. In the story: “To Siri....”, Judith Newman describes how technology has changed her family. Siri, Apple’s intelligent personal assistant on the iPhone, helps Gus and Judith in unexpected ways. The changes in Newman’s family can only be attributed to the presence of technology in their lives. Siri helps Gus to improve on his communication…

discovery could defined as manifold notion, which comprises exploring something for the first time or rediscovering something that has been faded, forgotten or concealed. People may experience different types of discovery which could be sudden and unexpected. However it may affect them physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually. This response will focus on the idea of discovery that relates to the themes of Aboriginal connections to their family and culture and the discrimination…

The call to adventure for Bilbo Baggins is very clear to me. He's enjoying his life as a hobbit, they all do. He's living in this hole, eating his food and living his life. When all the sudden, many many people arrive unexpectedly after an unexpected visitor earlier in the day. 2 Refusal Shortly after the huge group of dwarves beat the pulp out of Bilbo's pantry, he realizes that they are in his hobbit hole after a huge defeat. Shortly after all the food is done the dwarf leader…

competition. In order to combat such a trend in the future, organizations will find an increased benefit to brand themselves differently from their competition. Negative Consequences. Unfortunately, the use of health care branding may result in unexpected negative outcomes if not properly administered. One such negative consequence transpires from changes in health care reform, as shown with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Part of this law demands the mandatory…

actions also are not normative. Almost all of Americans have sex with the opposite gender that is around their same age and this is considered a cultural norm. Therefore, NAMBLA’s actions go against the norm and are abnormal. NAMBLA’s actions are unexpected as well. It is not often you hear a story about a secret underground group that has sex with boys. When you think about a sex scandal story you probably think of an affair, not men using boys for sex. NAMBLA’s members are abnormal…