A Conversation Overheard
Laughing and crying. Like salt and pepper, peanut butter and jelly, they go together. Yeah, they do. Think about it. People laugh until they cry, some people laugh through their tears. And, after you finish either process, you usually feel better, am I right? Also, both laughing and crying are essential to survival in life. No one can successfully thrive and function without doing either of these things, laughing and crying. All that emotion kept inside, with no means of escape? Imagine a person who doesn't laugh or cry as a bottle of soda. Shake that person/bottle up and down, shake, shake, shake. What'll happen? Pressure will be building up every time the bottle is shaken and the person holds in laughter or tears.
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How many times has laughter turned to tears, and vice versa? Many a time in my life, kiddo, and I'm sure in yours as well. In movies, it happens like that! (Insert finger snapping noise here.) You see the heroine, or whoever, looking in a mirror, laughing gaily, and then suddenly, those laughs dissolve into tears. Why is that? I'll tell. I'll tell you right now. It's because, like I told you before, laughing and crying are the ultimate pair. They are like yin and yang, fric and frac, salt and pepper, peanut butter and. . .oh, sorry, I was starting to repeat myself there. Anyway, people cry. And just like there's a bunch of different types of laughter (we'll talk more about that later, I'm on a roll now), people cry at all different kinds of stuff. Obviously, there's the sad crying, which I won't get into at length. I mean it's depressing to talk about crying associated with deaths of loved ones, break-ups with your "significant others" (insert that annoying quote thing that people make with their hands here), witnessing hardship like the starvation in Somalia or that ethnic fighting in Bosnia. It makes me sad, so I won't mention it. Believe you me, there is good crying. Did you ever have a day where everything has gone down the toilet, to put it bluntly? Well, when that happens to me, and it happens enough, I just sit in front of the t.v. and something the network geniuses have scheduled is bound to get me sniffling. How they manage to do it, I have no …show more content…
You're thinking I skimped on the crying bit. Hey, it's my prerogative. Crying is not a thing I like to discuss at length. Should I be chastised because I'd rather talk about laughter? So sue me. Well, what else can I tell you about laughter? Oh, yeah, okay, the different types. Well, there's the funny "ha ha" laughter, the most obvious kind. We pretty much covered that, but I didn't say really what made people laugh, besides that Three Stooges bit. So, what makes me laugh? Just about anything. I have a very broad and well-developed sense of humor if I do say so myself. I especially like "Saturday Night Live." You know Dana Carvey, right? He just makes the whole show. His Ross Perot impersonation is un-be-liev-able, I am not kidding! If you have not seen it, I suggest you do so right away. You are missing some great, I mean great, comedy. It's mostly spoof comedy, something that is hilarious if done properly. It irks me when people imitate President Bush, or should I say the former President Bush, and can't do it for beans, you know? So that's what I laugh at in a nutshell. I can't really articulate what else makes me laugh. Funny faces, funny noises, funny gestures, funny observations, notice a pattern developing here? But what I think is funny is not what you might crack up over, correct? It's that Three Stooges thing again. Some jerky people laugh at other people. You know, like in a mean way. That's rude, so don't do it. Some people laugh when
Welfare can be defined as “systems by which government agencies provide economic assistance, goods, and services to persons who are unable to care for themselves” (Issitt). The United States welfare system is an extremely complex and unique entity that encompasses ideas and concepts from an abundance of different places. Many people believe the current system is an excellent resource for the population, while others believe the current welfare system requires reform and budget cuts to become effective.
Operational leaders appreciate that SC is a critical element to achieving victory in current and future conflicts, but continue to struggle with how to employ SC given the lack of doctrine. A view across the combatant commands illustrates that “many different approaches to SC are being utilized, with uneven results. Processes are often quite different and integration into the planning process is not consistent.” Operational planners recognize SC is a necessary element of planning but are unsure how to plan for it.
Patient Health Records are one of the most protected and needed pieces of information in healthcare. Patient Health records (PHR’s) are becoming electronic to become more easily available to health care providers. There are some drawback that have emerged such as the competency of the security of these Electronic Health Records (EMR’s). Growing concern from the baby booming generation over their privacy and security. HER work to give medical information to healthcare providers across many forms of data. This is to ensure less errors and overlooked symptoms that can cause an impediment in a patient quality
In today’s America, there are many people who would either be disgusted at the very mention of Welfare or be highly grateful for its existence. I believe that in order for welfare to be more effective in America, there must be reform. From the time of its inceptions in 1935, welfare has lent a helping hand to many in crisis (Constitution Rights Foundation). However, at present many programs within the system are being abused and the people who are in real need are being cheated out of assistance. The year after the creation of welfare unemployment was just about twenty percent (Unemployment Statistics). The need for basic resources to survive was unparallel. Today, many people face the same needs as many did during the 30s. Some issues with
Physicalism is the theory that the universe contains nothing other than the physical. Therefore, the universe can be fully explained in physical terms. In terms of the mind, mental states globally supervene on physical states, meaning that there are no changes in the mental without changes in the physical. Identity theory is a type of physicalism, which posits that brain states are identical to mental states. They may not have exactly the same meanings, but the refer to the same thing. This is opposed to Dualism, which contends that mental states are non-physical and therefore different than brain states.
American-born writer T.S. Eliot became famous in 1922 for his poem The Waste Land. The poem was highly regarded for its “poignant expressions of the alienation and despair” of the time (224). Eliot is viewed as a master of portraying “stagnation and estrangement” (225). In his early masterpiece “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” composed around 1911, Eliot “addresses a middle-aged man’s anxiety over the passing of time and his own aging” while pondering the meaning of human existence (Longman Anthology 225). The main character of Prufrock is critical of his own society and focuses on the passage of time in his own life. Prufrock examines the passage of time in lines 23-34, in a way that is similar to Ecclesiastes 3:1-8:
Being raised in a single-parent lower class home, I realize first-hand the need for welfare and government assistance programs. I also realize that the system is very complex and can become a crutch to people who become dependent and complacent. As a liberal American I do believe that the government should provide services to the less fortunate and resources to find work. However, as able-bodied citizens we should not become complacent with collecting benefits and it is the government’s job to identify people who take advantage of the system and strip benefits from people who are not making efforts to support themselves independently. I will identify errors that exist within the welfare system and several policy recommendations to implement a change that will counteract the negative conditions that currently exist.
Leaders today need to have an appreciation for the operation process, understand a situation, envision a desired future, and to lay out an approach that will achieve that future (Flynn & Schrankel, 2013). Plans need to be created that can be modified to changes in any factors considered. However, plans should not be dependent on specific information being precise or that require things to go exactly according to schedule. Instead, the staff NCO should be flexible where they can and always be prepared for the unexpected. Today’s military members are fighting an unconventional war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The enemy constantly changes their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP’s) to counter the United States technological advances, making planning very difficult for leaders. There are multiple tools at a staff NCO’s disposal to try to anticipate an outcome of a current operation, but also assist with the development of concepts in follow-on missions. The Military Decision Making Process (MDMP) is just one tool a staff NCO can utilize. In order to stay ahead of the enemy, create effective plans and orders, it is critical for a staff NCO to assist the commander, and understand that the MDMP and planning are essential in defeating the enemy and conserving the fighting force.
Privacy concerns medical healthcare professionals and patients themselves have a lot of concerns on people finding out their information by breaking into the computers. “According to the HHS, in 2012, about 125 large breaches affected about 2.2 million people. Most health data breaches result from stolen computers, but hackers caused the largest breach last year, stealing 780,000 patients’ information. (http://www.justice.org)”.
Many of us have heard cases of welfare recipients who have taken advantage of the welfare state system. As a result many of us believe welfare is a bad thing in our society. Like I previously stated welfare is more than just receiving free money, welfare was created to level the playing field for those who have had disadvantages in life. The traditional welfare as we know is cash-aid and this affects recipients in our community because it provides job programs for those who have previously lost their jobs. If approved, the fifteen page application provides recipients with more or less of three hundred dollars a month to pay for rent. Not only ...
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Welfare dependency here in America is an issue that numerous communities across the Nation are faced with and from my point of view it is one of the leading attributes to poverty here in America. My community has continuously lacked consistent income levels to sufficiently live above the poverty line and it has been a never ending cycle. How did so many communities succumb to such harsh living conditions in the most powerful country in the World? This is a question that is asked by many and the other would be how do we break the cycle? There are many attributing factors to this unforgiving reality for countless such as crime, drugs, lower educational outcomes, welfare dependency and the list goes on and on. I would like to zone in and analyze how welfare dependency plays a major role in the never ending cycle of poverty within my community.
Lean manufacturing and just-in-time processing are great business strategies that can severely stress a supply chain. The supply chain and supply chain management is a critical operations management element for any major company to succeed and remain competitive in the global market. The supply chain is one of many pieces critical to maximizing value to the end customer and requires close management to minimize external impacts. If a company is relying on another company to supply the raw materials needed for their production line, then impacts to this other company could impact their supply chain. Careful risk management is needed to optimize performance. As a company expands into global markets and global suppliers, this risk and management challenge is multiplied. The global nature of the company could impact important activities such as transportation, funds transfers, suppliers, distributors, accounting and information sharing. Disruption to the supply chain can significantly reduce revenue, cut market share, inflate costs and threaten production. A major disruption would have obvious impacts to profit, but could have additional intangible impacts to the credibility of the company if products are not delivered on time.
Feste, the amusing clown, plays a most important part in the play. He is able to take on several roles, and is indeed "for all waters"; from serious to comic, learned to nonsensical, the wit or the practical joker; just as the occasion seems to suggest. Because he is a part of both the main and sub plot, Feste is the character, who links both parts of the play together, making Twelfth Night a whole.
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