Trading Places

caregivers by immense amounts. Aging in place is one major way to help prevent these things from happening to the older adult population. Over 95% of older adults agree and would rather stay in their homes then being moved into a nursing home. This is because home is such an importance and special place. Home modifications, new technologies, housing communities, and forms of care are being developed and improved every day to help older adults age while staying in place of…

Journal - Kc Adams 1. Give a full description of where the issue discussed was observed. This is a song that I have listened to for several years. I liked it when I was younger, so I bought it, but I have never looked closely at the lyrics before now. 2. Give a brief statement as to why this issue was chosen. I chose this song because the title of the song itself "Angel With a Shotgun" feels like an issue immediately and because I wanted to look closer to see how the image of an…

SunnySide Assisted Living is a newly opened assisted living facility that offers a wide range of services and activities. SunnySide Assisted Living is designed to allow elderly individuals to enjoy retirement while maintaining their independence. Retirement should be enjoyed, not spent doing household chores. This assisted living facility is designed for elderly individuals who are both completely independent and/or individuals who need personal assistance with daily activities. The physical…

comforts of their own home, and stay safe doing so? There are rarely healthcare aids willing to live with a geriatric patient. After all, aids have families of their own. But what if good-willed, under-employed or unemployed people were given a place to live and work, with the elderly in their houses, in essence, a geriatric au-pair service? A background check could be done on to these people, and these new caregivers would be trained to take care of the elderly, and given a stipend by the…

The store I choose to write my Close-reading on is “ A Small Place” by Jamaica Kincaid. In the beginning of In a Small Place I had some mix feelings about it somewhere good and some bad. As the story starts it her telling use what’s happening and what she seeing for example. She describing her country by telling us how non-locals see the country as beautiful, but the locals who see it as a trashy and a bad corrupt place. I want to know why the author makes this point in the beginning? I can only…

expresses a critical tone towards tourists through the use of imagery, parallel sentence structure, and the connotation of her words. In the opening paragraph of this essay, the author describes a tourist visiting a new place and describing what this tourist is seeing as they visit this place. One usage of imagery would be the authors description of the ocean."...the colour of the water is navy blue; nearer, the water is the colour…

In Jamaica Kincaid’s 1990 novel, her writing created the story of a woman beginning a new phase of her life. The narrator struggles between her sense of self versus the new environment. “I was no longer in a tropical zone and I felt cold inside and out…” (lines 44-45) the narrator shows the obvious signs of fear to the unknown and a sense of homesickness magnifying her struggles to the reader. She was lost and unhappy in her new environment. She appears to be closed off and unwilling to take in…

Diamonds. These small and rare rocks have been considered prized possessions throughout the ages. Diamonds are as old as the earth itself, and ever since their discovery they have captivated humans. Diamonds have come to represent many things, but in this paper, I will focus on power. I will track a certain diamond through its’ dated 350-year period, and use it to understand the individuals who owned it and the power it gave them. The diamond I refer to is the hope diamond. The Hope diamond is…

In Matthew O’Brien’s report, “The Strange Economics of Engagement Rings”, he tightly focuses on the topic of engagement rings. He informs the reader about the original purpose of engagement rings, along with the purpose of them now. He shows the reader information about the significance of engagement rings by including a graph of diamond imports by year in 1930 through 1963. In the graph there is a gradual increase in diamonds around 1935 to 1944, then there is a large increase in the imports of…

Diamond trading Co. is a system put into practice by the De Beers Corporation to give themselves complete control to distribute the majority of the world’s diamonds. According to Paul Zimnisky “only buyers or “Sightholders” authorized by De Beers could participate…