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is an honor to be considered for the residency program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. For the last 24 months, nursing has become the primary focus of my life. My hope, is that I will continue dedicating my life to this profession through a career at Georgetown. Prior to graduating from Northeastern University’s ABSN program, I completed over 600 hours of clinical education at various hospitals in the Boston area. This education included a 150-hour preceptorship on an intermediate…

Ivy Tech University The Boston Tea Party Santeanna Colunga Survey Of American History 101-00F-F1-201620 Mark Myers December 7,2016 The British Parliament was finding many ways to make laws and impose taxes on the American colonies. The British Parliament is the supreme legislative body in the UK. They wanted to have complete control over America. They first started with the Proclamation Act of 1763. This act forbade settlement anywhere that passed a line drawn…

(failing as a brewer and tax collector and wasting an inheritance), Adams displayed true genius in politics. He excelled at political discourse, writing and strategy. In 1765, Adams was elected to the General Court (legislature) of Massachusetts, representing the town of Boston. His abilities were recognized by his fellow legislators and he soon rose to a leadership position. Adams was offered positions by royal officials that would have enriched him, but he refused and remained chronically in…

She was born in 1904 and immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 24. Her name was Martha Raverbee. She was a very mysterious woman, and suffered from severe depression, the reason was unknown. Though she suffered from depression, she attempted to be a requisite parent. She was an incredible…

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1809 and was the son of Elizabeth and David Poe, though, they died when he was only two years old. Poe then became the adopted son of John and Frances Allan in Virginia. He was taught in the finest boarding schools in Richmond and in 1825 went to college in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia. Unfortunately, after only one year, Poe was forced to leave due to inadequate financial support from John Allan, his stepfather, who refused…

He served the Biafran Government from 1967 to 1970. Later on, he and his family relocated temporarily to United States of America where he worked at the University of Massachusetts as a professor in Afro-American Studies. During his time in Massachusetts he was awarded an honorary doctor of Letters degree by Dartmouth College and was jointed the 1972 commonwealth for the Best Book of Poetry with his Beware, Sound Brother and Other Poems. (www.theguardian…

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 which he died on April 17, 1790 place of birth was Boston, Ma, and the place of death was Philadelphia, PA. Benjamin Franklin’s education was the Boston Latin School, his occupations were a Writer, Inventor, and Civil servant. During the American Revolution, he Served in the second Continental Congress and helped the Declaration of Independence in 1776. He also negotiated the 1783 treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War (1775-83). Benjamin…

Chapter III Taboos and Embargoes: Retelling Taboos and Embargoes of Homeland’s Stories in Diaspora Chapter Three: Taboos and Embargoes: Retelling Taboos and Embargoes of Homeland’s Stories in Diaspora Your memories are photographs: black and white on my desk like my stories that I carry with me everyday with the turquoise ring you gave me at birth to ward off evil (Halaby “Handfuls of wind” 46-7) The above quoted poetic extract indicates to the importance of ancestral stories of homeland…

years later, the New York Independent accepted his poem entitled “My Butterfly”. He then received his first paycheck of fifteen dollars. Frost then entered Dartmouth College but remained less than a semester returning to Massachusetts. Later he enrolled at Harvard University in Boston, though he was never able to obtain a college…

academic household in Massachusetts. Her father Otto Plath was a German biology professor at Boston University. Her mom was a masters student at the university. When Plath was eight her dad died of diabetes. This was when she wrote her first poem “ Daddy.” At the age of eight Plath started having an obsession over death, and she started cutting herself. Plath kept a journal at the age of eleven and published her poems in regional magazines and newspapers in Massachusetts. ¨Her poems…